Applying payments appropriately is so important. It is also becoming more complicated and error-prone with several different allocation types and remembering the right order to apply them every time. Do you want to be sure to pay off interest first? Or make sure your matter costs are covered before any time entry billings?

Now you can configure how you want payments to be applied, and then have them automatically allocated that way consistently and confidently every time. 

A thorough guide on how to configure everything and start auto-allocating your payments is found here. 

Sometimes you get an overpayment from a client, or you have other revenue come in that you don't have an invoice to directly tie it to. Others just find different needs and do different things where a simple IOLTA account isn't enough to get things as accurate as you need.

An "Operating Overage Account" per Matter was designed to meet these kinds of needs and others we might not have seen yet.

A thorough guide on how to configure everything and start using the Operating Overage Account feature is here. 

We are introducing this new feature to "Complete" a Flat Fee Service to help you answer the big question of, "Is this Flat Fee Service" priced right?"

Once all work has been completed and entered into Curo365, you can now mark the Flat Fee Service as "Complete". When you do this, all those who worked the flat fee service will proportionately have their Billings marked up, or marked down, from their normal rate to whatever is needed to match the flat fee service amount. 

With this adjustment done automatically for you, it will be easy to see how efficient you were with that flat fee service, and over time you'll be able to identify trends and adjust amounts appropriately to reach desired margins or know to increase the marketing on those services where you are able to deliver best.

A thorough guide on how to use and more fully understand "Completing a Flat Fee Service" is here.

Money gets moved around a lot between accounts when working lots of Matters for a lot of Clients. Curo365 makes that easy and keeps track of it all. With Business Central integration, all those transactions can then be posted and easily create your General Journals within Business Central that are needed for accounting and reconciliation.

Keeping everything in sync and making life easier for a firm is what Curo365 does.

We have introduced a setting in the Configuration entity where you decide if you want to "Automatically Post Retainer Bank Deposits" or not. It looks like this:

Part 1 of "Send Bill to Multiple People" allowed you to specify additional Contacts to send a Bill to. Now in Part 2, those additional bill recipients can also be a Business. Furthermore, all additional recipients are now CC'd on the Bill email instead of receiving a separate email.

Adding recipients as a Contact or a Business is done the same way using the specific "Matter - Additional Bill Recipient" Connection Role from a Matter.

Click "Generate Bill" and come back later to see how it all went. We've created a new page that brings a lot more visibility into the status of creating each Bill, and we even made the processing more bulletproof by automatically retrying if there was any hiccup like a temporary environment lag. No more crossing your fingers or wondering what happened during Bill Generation, it's all there to see now.

On the left navigation bar, you will now see a "Bulk Processes" entity that will list the processes you have initiated. The type "Generate Bills" is the first example of this bulk processing where you will get to see the details and status very easily. The page even automatically refreshes during processing to give you current status.

If you want to start showing the Fees Breakdown on your Bills by line item you can. If you like it the way it has been, you can keep it that way still. 

You now have the option to show a Fee Breakdown on your Bills, and that setting is found on your Business Center. This is not turned on by default, but if you want to turn it on you can, and it looks like this:

Now you can have additional recipients of a bill being sent via email by adding each additional recipient as a Connection to the respective matter with the Connection Role of "Matter - Additional Bill Recipient". Those Contacts with this specific Connection Role will also receive a bill email like the Billing Contact for the Matter does.

*Note: This will not add recipients to Split Bills

Now you can set a minimum retainer balance threshold per matter so that you can easily keep money in retainer, mitigating the risk of doing work you won't see the money for.

Once you have this set, the retainer replenishment request will be automatically added to the next bill (matter invoice), whenever a matter is below the specified minimum amount you set for the matter.

Here is a guide to help you use this new feature.