Smokeball Grow and Prosper+ Releases October 2026

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

30th October 2026

The New Outlook add-in has been updated:

• When composing or replying to an email, you can now quickly add matter parties via the Send to drop-down from the add-in panel. 

  

• You can now add the New Outlook add-in to a secondary email account that has a Microsoft license. Learn more about secondary email accounts and how to add the add-in to them.

  

• You can now mark a new email as non-billable from the add-in panel before sending it.

  

• When creating a task from an email, you can now add a task reminder at point of creation.

  

• When creating a task from an email, the email is now attached to the task by default via a new Attach email to this task checkbox. The email can be found in the Linked Documents section of the task when viewing the task in the Smokeball Desktop App.

  

• The add-in now scrolls as one panel, improving usability. Each section in the add-in no longer has its own scroll bar.

29th October 2026

Smokeball Intake has been updated:

• You can now add signatures to Intake Forms. Choose between a basic Standard Signature or cryptographically verifiable, legally-binding Verifiable Signature using InfoTrack SignIt (powered by Docusign).

  

• You can now schedule reminder messages for pending shared Intake Forms. These reminders are sent via the Client Portal. 

  

23rd October 2026

The Smokeball Web App has been updated:

• You can now turn on an option in Firm Settings > Matter Number to reset your matter numbering to 1 automatically at the start of each new year. This setting is rolling out on the Web App first, and will become available in the Desktop App in the upcoming Version 10.2 release.

  

  Learn more about this setting in our dedicated article: How do I reset my Matter Number for the beginning of a new year?

• Smokeball Payments now support Google Pay and Apple Pay. When making an invoice or trust payment, the payee can now choose between Credit/Debit Card or Google/Apple Pay.

  

  Note: Google/Apple Pay is not supported for Payments via Intake Forms at the moment.

9th October 2026

The ability to generate an ABA payment file for trust payments is now available on the Smokeball Web App (Smokeball Prosper+ plan only).

Learn how to set up ABA file exports for your trust accounts in our dedicated guide. 

8th October 2026

The following Smokeball Desktop App reports have been updated:

• The Matter - Full List with Billing report in Firm Insights has been updated to include a new Written Off field. You can find this field under the Included Columns filter.
• The Matter - Full List and Conveyancing - Settlements reports now contain the following new fields and filters. You can find these fields under the Included Columns filter.
  • Primary Person Assisting
  • Other Person Assisting
  • Supervisor

FamilyProperty has been updated:

• Real estate and mortgage addresses now have expanded address fields.

7th October 2026

Archie has been updated:

• Drafts now keep their formatting in Word and Email. Tables keep their borders, column widths and alignment, and multi-section documents keep their page layout. Letters use the firm's Word template.
• Placeholders in drafts are now highlighted and Archie will prompt you to fill in missing information.
• Fixed a bug where Archie's chat contents were being included in a generated memo's body or title.
• Fixed an issue where files with uppercase extensions (e.g. .PDF instead of .pdf) were being rejected as unsupported. 
• You can now clear a thumbs up/thumbs down reaction in Archie chat.

2nd October 2026

Smokeball Intake has been updated:

You can now create Field Sets, which are groups of contact fields that you can apply to future Intake Forms. This saves time with dragging and dropping each contact field into the form separately. 

Select Add contact details on an empty section or drag the Contact details component in to access them.

We have created some preset contact field sets to get you started - select +Add to add them to the form.

Edit an existing Field Set by selecting the Ellipsis icon next to +Add. In the editor, you can add, reorder and delete fields from the Field Set. 

If you wish to reuse this configuration in a future form, select Save for future use and give it a name.

Learn more about Field Sets in our dedicated article.

The following refinements have also been released for Smokeball Intake:

• The Status filter on the Matter Intake tab now shows the following statuses: Unshared, Prefilled for client, Shared, Completed, Closed and Draft.
• The Activity Status on the Pending Forms tab now shows the following statuses: Unshared, Prefilled for client and Shared.
• Fixed intake forms getting permanently stuck on "Generating questions" when a regeneration with feedback failed.
• Fixed AI form generation mapping more than one question to the same field. 
• Fixed AI-generated forms not tagging every field as Added, and a brief Edited status appearing when you clicked a field.
• Deleting a field, group or section now brings up the unpublished changes prompt straight away. Before, it only appeared after you next edited a field.
• Setup name fields on the Share tab now brings up the unpublished changes prompt.
• Changing the redirect URL in the form builder now brings up the unpublished changes prompt.
• The Share form preview no longer shows an autofill component that has been turned on but not yet published.
• Fixed being unable to change a mapped field from Person to a Company contact person.
• Fixed bold, italic and underline formatting not showing in the client message on the New Lead screen when a form is shared through Client Portal.
• Fixed the Download form link custom field breaking on forms with extra languages turned on.
• The Smokeball Payment component in the form summary now follows the firm's branding style.

1st October 2026

From 1st October 2026, PEXA is introducing a new pricing model that varies by role and jurisdiction.

• The purchaser/transferee will incur the Primary Participant Fee.
• The vendor/transferor will incur the Additional Participant Fee.

• Purchase matters (VIC, QLD, SA): the Primary Participant Fee will be returned.
• Sale matters (VIC, QLD, SA): the Additional Participant Fee will be returned.
• Transfer matters (VIC, QLD):  If acting for Transferee, the Primary Participant Fee will be returned. If acting for Transferor, the Additional Participant Fee will be returned.