Pick light or dark yourself, and wide screens now show more
Under “Account”, the “Appearance” setting lets you pick light, dark or the same as your device. Until you pick one, Bilanzi follows your device. Your choice applies on every device you sign in on, and on bilanzi.ch too. On a wide screen, “Today” now has two columns. What needs doing is on the left, your figures, deadlines and year on the right. The other screens use more of the width as well.
“Sender” now says who may email receipts to Bilanzi
Everyone in your organization who is Owner, Administrator or Accounting can email receipts. Each person sends from the address they sign in with. This is now spelled out under “Sender” and in the help. Bilanzi never files receipts from other senders and passes their email on to your business as a copy.
When you email an invoice, a quote, an order confirmation or a reminder, your customer now replies to your business’s own address. It looks like “[email protected]”, with no plus sign and no string of characters after it. Bilanzi still recognises which document the reply belongs to. As before, the reply shows up with the document, and a copy goes to you.
Under “Provider and processing location” you now see only Infomaniak in Geneva. Infomaniak reads your receipts and answers your questions today. Earlier providers are no longer listed.
A new company now starts on the Free plan. The 30 days of Starter at the start are gone. Free costs nothing and does not expire. You pick a paid plan when you need the VAT return, payroll or the AI. If your trial has already started, it runs until it ends.
“More” now has a “Subscription” row, with your plan shown next to it. If you are still on Free, Bilanzi shows you there and on “Today” what a paid plan adds. The cross hides the card on “Today”. Where something belongs to a paid plan, such as Ask Bilanzi or payroll, “See plans” takes you straight to your subscription.
The bar has a new “CRM” button, right before invoices. There you find your contacts, quotes and jobs side by side. Recurring invoices and your services open from the tiles. Invoices now holds only customers and suppliers. Old bookmarks lead to the new place.
You can now email receipts into your receipt inbox
Your business has its own address at Bilanzi. Send a receipt as an attachment to that address, and it lands in your receipt inbox. Send it from the address you sign in with. This works for everyone on your team who may file receipts. If an attachment can’t be filed, you get a short reply saying why. You find the address in the receipt inbox.
After “Issue invoice”, the sending form now opens right away. You no longer have to find the invoice in the list and open it again. The PDF is created on its own when you send.
Invoices now shows four tiles: quotes, jobs, recurring invoices and your services. Each shows what is open and opens its list with one tap. You also find the same four in “More”, under “Sales”.
When a customer replies to an invoice, a quote, an order confirmation or a reminder, the reply now shows up in Bilanzi. You find it right with the document, under the email they answered. A copy still reaches your own email address, attachments included. You can answer them straight from there.
Invoices, quotes, order confirmations and reminders now come from an address that belongs to your business alone. It is made from the business name and ends in “@post.bilanzi.ch”. You find it in the settings under “Sender”, and you can change it there. The earlier address stays with your business and keeps receiving mail. Your customers’ replies still reach your own email address.
You can now open a dunning letter as a PDF, with the invoice’s payment part. “Send by email” sends it straight to your customer. They see your business as the sender, and their reply comes to you. The payment part shows the open amount and the invoice’s reference, so the payment can be matched.
You can now send a quote to your customer straight from Bilanzi. In the quote, tap “Send by email”. On a job, “Confirmation by email” sends the order confirmation the same way. The PDF is attached, your customer sees your business as the sender, and their reply comes to you. The quote then counts as sent.
The bottom bar no longer slips below the edge on Android
With Chrome on Android, the bottom bar was once again slipping halfway below the edge of the screen. It happened whenever something on the page was slightly wider than the screen. The page now stays exactly as wide as your screen. The bar stays fully visible on every page.
The “Continue with Apple” button is readable again
In dark mode, the Apple button on the sign-in page looked like an empty white bar. Its logo and text were white on a white background. Both are now dark, just like on the Google button. You can see the button again and sign in with Apple as usual.
Recurring invoices that Bilanzi drafts on the due date
For rent, a maintenance contract or a flat fee, you now create a template once. You choose the customer, the services, the rhythm and the day of the first invoice. On the due date, Bilanzi creates the invoice draft itself, with the service period in the payment part. You find it under Today, check it and issue it. You can pause or end the template at any time.
You can now email an issued invoice to your customer straight from Bilanzi. The PDF is attached, and the subject and text are already written in the invoice’s language. Your customer sees your business as the sender, and replies come to you. You get a copy unless you untick it. The invoice then shows when each email went out and to whom.
On a final invoice you now hold back a retention, for example 5 % for two years. The payment part only asks for the rest, and the retention appears on the invoice with its date. Until that day it does not count as overdue and is not dunned. After that, the reminder asks for it, counted from its date.
On the page of a job you now write an advance invoice for the down payment. In the invoice draft you choose the type: invoice, advance invoice, partial invoice or final invoice. The final invoice shows all the work and deducts every issued advance and partial invoice, VAT included. The payment part only asks for what your customer still owes. In your books every franc of the job counts exactly once as revenue.
Cash discounts on invoices, booked out on payment by themselves
When you write an invoice you can now choose a cash discount, for example 2% within 10 days. The invoice states the date and the amount your customer then transfers. If they pay within the period and take the discount, Bilanzi books the rest out as a credit note, with the right VAT. The invoice is then paid and gets no reminder. For a customer who had a discount before, Bilanzi suggests the same one again.
On a job’s page you can now record work reports. A report notes who worked how many hours and which material went in. The customer signs with a finger, right on your phone. After that the report no longer changes, and you open it as a PDF. “Invoice the reports” creates an invoice for the job with the same labour and material already added up. Frag Bilanzi knows which reports are not invoiced yet.
Jobs keep the quote, the confirmation and the invoices together
Jobs are now in the menu, under Invoices. You create a job directly or from a quote. It knows the customer, the site and the period. The order confirmation opens as a PDF. “Write an invoice” creates an invoice for the job, and the first one takes over the lines of its quote. The job’s page shows what was quoted, invoiced and paid.
Under Invoices, the menu now has quotes. A quote has a subject, an introduction, lines like an invoice and a date until which it is valid. You open the PDF straight from the quote and send it to your customer or prospect. When they accept, you turn the quote into a draft invoice. A prospect becomes a customer along the way. A contact’s card lists every quote made out to them.
Someone who got in touch but has not ordered yet can now be added as a prospect. No address is needed, a name and a phone number will do. On their card you keep notes and next steps like for any contact. In the list, prospects appear with your customers, in a group of their own. When the order comes in, “Make a customer” turns them into a customer.
An invoice in euros now shows its amounts in euros on the PDF as well. The payment part with the QR code asks for euros too. Until now the euro amounts appeared there as francs. Invoices in francs stay as they were.
Under More › Help you now find a guide for every area, from the bank and your invoices to payroll. Search for a word at the top, such as “reminder” or “VAT”. When a guide names a screen, one tap opens it. The help on each screen links to the right guide with “More in Help”.
The invoices menu now has “Services and materials”. Keep what you bill often there, with its unit and price. In an invoice draft, pick it with “From the catalogue” and type only the quantity. A new line goes into the catalogue with “Add to catalogue”. Every line now carries a unit such as hour or metre, on the PDF too. Frag Bilanzi takes your catalogue prices when it prepares an invoice.
When you add a contact, you can now look it up in the commercial register. Type the name and pick the right entry. Bilanzi fills in the legal name, the address and the UID. If the contact already exists, Bilanzi tells you while you type the name. One tap then opens the existing page instead of creating a second one.