Smokeball Grow and Prosper+ Releases June 2026

View all new features and refinements to Smokeball Grow and Prosper+ for this month.

18th June 2026

The following updates have been made to the Messages tab in Smokeball Desktop and Web App:

• A new look to the Messages tab UI in the Smokeball Desktop and Web App is gradually being rolled out over the next month. 

  

  In addition, the following new features are introduced:

  • A search bar has been added to the top of the Messages tab, allowing you to search for key words in conversations, and staff channels.

    

  • You can now create Public and Private Staff channels. Learn more about setting this up.

    

  • You can mark messages as unread to keep track of conversations that need to be addressed later.

    

  • You can now react to messages with a "Like".

    

17th June 2026

Before sharing an Intake Form to a client, there is now a warning if there's a newer unpublished version of the form. From here, you can select Review Changes to open the Form Builder and see the unpublished edits, or Publish Now to publish the edits.

The prompt to Publish a form also now appears if you do the following actions:

• Toggle the autofill setting on or off in the Form Builder.
• Change the translation languages on an existing form.
• Create a form using AI - the prompt to publish now appears the first time the form is generated.

16th June 2026

The Event List report in the Smokeball Desktop App now has an option to group results by Location.

15th June 2026

A setting to include your operating account's Account Name along with the BSB and Account Number on invoices has been added to the Firm Settings > Accounts > Operating Account Detail tab.

12th June 2026

• Invoice, Trust Account and Disbursement permissions are now available on the Smokeball Web App.

  • For Invoice permissions, the access options are Full Access, Read Only and No Access.
  • For Accounts permissions, the access options are Full Access, Read Only and No Access.
  • For Disbursement permissions, the access options are Full Access and Read Only.

  

  Learn more about what each permission set covers.
   

• The Smokeball add-in is now available for the Outlook iOS App (Android App coming soon).

  

  Learn more about using the Outlook Mobile App to assign emails to matters.

11th June 2026

Archie has been updated with the following refinements:

• We have restored the ability to select the LLM model you wish to use with Archie. It was temporarily unavailable as we worked on bringing Archie's agentic capabilities to other models.

  The following models are available:

  • OpenAI GPT-5.2 (default)
  • OpenAI GPT-5.2 (Thinking)
  • OpenAI GPT-5.3
  • OpenAI GPT-5.4
  • Claude Opus 4.6
  • Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)
  • Claude Opus 4.7
     
• Archie can now read more of the matter, including:
  • Matter stage
  • Matter layouts (e.g. Property Details)
  • Read-only billing data (e.g. activity codes, bank account details, disbursements, fees, invoices). Note that Archie cannot create, modify, or delete billing records.
     
• The Prompt Library now lists your firm's own prompts before Smokeball-published prompts.
• Voice dictation now inserts text at your cursor position in the Archie prompt form, instead of always appending to the end.

4th June 2026

Smokeball Intake has been updated with the following new features:

• Whenever you make changes on an Intake Form, these changes won't be published live to form respondents until you select Publish. Publishing a form also creates a new version of the form in Version History, which you can revert to if needed. Learn more about how Version History and Publishing works for Intake Forms.
• You can now enable Voice Guide, an option for your form respondents to fill in the form using voice. When activated, a voice assistant will dictate questions to the respondent and record answers via speech-to-text. Learn more about turning on Voice Guide for your firm's Intake Forms.

2nd June 2026

The Matter - Full List report in the Smokeball Desktop App has been updated:

• A State filter is now available to sort and view matters by state.

• You can now choose Person Responsible Name, Primary Person Assisting Name and Other Person Assisting Name under the Included Columns drop-down menu, to display the staff member's full name in the report.

  

1st June 2026

The Smokeball Data Import/Export tool has been updated with the following changes:

Data Import Updates

• Supplier Paid & Supplier Date Paid Fields for Disbursements: 
  • The Supplier Paid field is now visible and must be explicitly provided for Disbursement entries on the Unbilled Disbursement and Invoice Items imports. 
  • A new Supplier Date Paid field has been added. 
  • Validation logic for all supplier-related fields has been updated based on the Anticipated and Supplier Paid combination provided.
• UI Wording Refinements
  • The Waived column has been renamed to Write Off across the Unbilled Time & Fees, Unbilled Disbursements, and Invoice Items imports.
  • Activity Types have been renamed to Activity Codes.
  • Opening Balances have been renamed to Account Balances.
  • Invoice Items have been renamed to Billed Invoice Entries.
  • Operating has been updated to Operating Retainer.

Data Export Updates

• A Tags column has been added to the Matter export, containing all tags associated with each matter (semicolon-separated).
• Archive-related columns have been added to the Matter export, including Archived status, Archive/Box Number, Archive Location, Archive Comment, Archived Date, and Destroy Date.
• A new Calendar Events export option has been added.
• The Waived column has been renamed to Write Off across the Unbilled Time & Fees, Unbilled Disbursements, and Invoice Items exports.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where items imported as anticipated were incorrectly being automatically set to supplier paid.
• Fixed an error where importing an Unbilled Time & Fees file containing only fixed fee rows would fail with a Column 'hours' cannot be null error.
• Fixed a floating point precision issue where inclusive tax calculations could incorrectly round down by 1 cent.
• Fixed an issue where source system selection prompt data was not correctly saved for the first import performed for a firm.