View all new features and refinements to Smokeball Bill and Boost for this month.
4th September 2026
The Smokeball Web App has been updated with the following refinements:
- When raising an invoice adjustment, you can now credit or write off the card surcharge. A new Surcharge section (pre-GST total, credit amount, GST, GST credit and write-off) will flow through to the Balance Due and to the Invoice and Adjustment Details PDFs.
- Fixed a bug where the Matter Invoice Title, Subtitle and Notes were reverting to None on the Invoice Settings tab after leaving and re-entering Edit Matter, when those fields use the invoice template's defaults.
[Smokeball Boost] The Messages/Client Portal feature has been updated with the following:
- Fixed a bug where unread notifications were not clearing when a client deleted their message before it was read. The unread counter now disappears when the message is deleted.
- Fixed a delay in sent messages appearing in the conversation. Messages now show immediately on send, and are rolled back if the send fails.
- Fixed a bug where a newly created conversation was not appearing for participants until the page was refreshed.
[Smokeball Boost + Intake] Smokeball Intake has been updated with the following:
- When a form respondent enters payment information in a Payment component, the Submit and process payment button no longer appears. Instead, a message is now shown at the bottom of the component that "Payment will be processed upon submission of this form".
- Fixed a bug where the formatting toolbar was hidden in the Message Templates editor when the message content is too long.
- Fixed a bug where message templates were not pulling through the First Name and Last Name values.
3rd September 2026
[Smokeball Boost + Archie] Archie has been updated with the following refinements and bug fixes:
- ChatGPT 5.5 is now available again after fixing some bugs in the backend.
- Archie now answers from live matter data, instead of cached data up to 6 hours old.
- When creating a task, memo or event in Archie, you can now ask Archie about them in the same conversation.
- You can now link prompts in the Prompt Library to Lead Types.
- Archie no longer silently skips photos and screenshots on a matter.
- Fixed a bug where drafts returned [PLACEHOLDER: address] instead of the firm's own address.
- Fixed a bug where the "Most recent email" was not returning the newest email.
- Fixed a bug where matter chat failed if a firm record could not be found.
- Fixed a bug where agent-mode templates were reporting "No emails found" on matters with emails.
- Fixed a bug where Archie was suggesting chasing payment on voided or deleted invoices.