Smokeball Release Notes November 2025

Updated 25 November 2025 07:33

View all new features and refinements to Smokeball this month.

November 25, 2025

New Feature

The Audio Transcription Archie App is now available for all firms with the Archie add-on. Learn more about the app in our article.

New Report - Money Received

The Money Received Report allows users to see what invoice payments and deposits are coming into your firm.

Refinement

We have made updates to the Invoice Ledger, accessible from the Ledger tab of a client's contact card on the Smokeball Web App:

Listed payments now follow the debtor of the invoice, making it easier to follow the actual balance of the debtor for split invoices. Prior to this update, payments had followed the "Paid By" of the payment.
You can now filter to show or hide Draft Invoices from the list.

New feature

LawY is now available as a free inclusion with the Archie add-on to assist you with your legal research needs. Learn more about LawY and how to use it.

New features

You can now add multiple Persons Assisting and Introducers to a matter.
You can now enable Split Introducer Credits to divide matter payments equally or by percentage among multiple Introducers.

Refinements and Bug Fixes

The Income Allocation - Summary and Details Reports have been updated for better optimisation and performance.
You can now show or hide the VAT Type on invoices by going to the Invoice Settings in Firm Settings and selecting/deselecting the Show VAT Type option.
You can now specify whether your firm uses Cash or Accrual accounting in Firm Settings > Xero. If Accrual is selected, a new drop-down menu will appear for you to map to an Accounts Receivable (Current Asset) account. Payments without a corresponding invoice in Xero will post as bank transactions being offset by the field mapped to this Accounts Receivable (Current Asset) field.
- Due to Xero limitations, the Xero system account Accounts Receivable (610) cannot be mapped.
Updating a contact’s name will no longer update their name in historical trust or client account records and reports. To correct a typo after processing a transaction, update the name, then reverse and re-process the transaction.
The Payment Amount field in the Payment component of Intake Forms can no longer be editable by the form respondent if a fixed amount was specified.