Online Accounting Blog

Yesterday I was trying to think of a name for a min-release with lots of little goodies in it. As it happened, I caught up with Peter one of our main investors from CooperSydney. It reminded me of an expression he had for those little things a application development company can do that make a web application like Saasu pleasing to use. He calls them "tidbits"

Tidbit
Noun
1. Delicate morsel or bit of food.
2. Pleasing bit of anything, as in news or gossip.

Gary Barber (a customer, AWIA colleague and an all round web nice-guy) is a web usability expert from Radharc. Gary reminded me late last year about the importance of the little things in customer experience. Quite often we have to get major features out and we can’t attend to every single customer experience detail perfectly due to time and resource constraints. Our usual approach is to come back in a second and sometimes third time to change our approach for the better. We also have the advantage of good customer feedback to work with. In our business how we build things, even small differences, can mean a lot to our customers. So here’s a few new "tidbits"

Tidbit features released

1. The Bank Reconciliation now recalls your last reconciled date for you when you load it.
2. You can now print Activities. Note you need to save it before the print option becomes available.
3. The Dashboard refreshes automatically when you sign-in each day.
4. Duplicate Purchase invoice number warnings. To help prevent accidental double capture of transactions.
5. Improvements to the General Ledger and Tax Report performance. Some customers were getting a timeout error when running it during our busy periods. There are more performance enhancements coming for these reports.
6. API users can now recall Last Modified and Deleted for period to assist in syncing tasks with other systems. See our SaaSbay for a list of other web applications and software connected to Saasu.
7. API users can now assign a shipping contact via the API to an invoice.
8. Iceland consumption tax rates are now supported.