Smokeball Grow and Prosper+ Releases June 2026

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

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 Cost Recoveries: 
  • The Supplier Paid field is now visible and must be explicitly provided for Cost Recovery entries on the Unbilled Cost Recovery 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 Cost Recovery, 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 Cost Recoveries, 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.
• Fixed a character encoding issue where the £ symbol was displaying as £ in column headers of Excel exports