Platform Updates

March 2025

9min

Version 3.3.1

Released: March 21, 2025

Improvements

Remove 5 Year Limit on Expense Tracker & T4A Generation

In the past, it was only possible to see paid expenses and T4As for the previous 5 years, for performance and data loading reasons. This limitation has been removed, and it's now possible to see all historical expenses, and generate T4As for any year with commission income.

Version 3.3

Released: March 13, 2025

Improvements

Create QBO Account Mapping for Expense Recoveries

Previously, when expenses were recovered in RealDesk, the payments were mapped to the "Undeposited Funds" asset account in QBO. This was hardcoded and could not be edited.

Now, it is possible to map these recovered expenses to any QBO asset account in Accounting Settings (contact RealDesk Support to edit these). This means that, for instance, you can show these recoveries in the General bank account rather than creating transfers from Undeposited Funds to General.

Remove Blank Lines in Monthly Reconciliation Report

Minor visual enhancement to this report to remove some unnecessary blank lines.

Bug Fixes

Expense Invoices Not Displaying Properly in Accounting Log

Resolved an issue where, in some cases, debits and credits relating to expense invoices did not show in the Accounting Log. This was a display issue only and did not actually affect the treatment of expenses in either RealDesk or QBO.

Version 3.2

Released: March 10, 2025

Improvements

Improve Handling of Uncleared EFT Payments

In some cases, EFTs sent close to the end of a month may not clear the bank in time to appear on the monthly bank account statement. Previously, there was no way to change the deposited date in RealDesk or to account for this scenario in the Monthly Reconciliation Report. To handle this properly, we've made several improvements:

  • It is now possible to manually edit EFT deposit dates for each deal in Send/Receive Payments.
  • The Outstanding Cheques page has been renamed to Outstanding Payments, and now lists all uncleared payments, whether cheque or EFT. Additionally, it is now possible to filter this page by account (e.g. Trust / Commission Trust / General), as well as by payment type.
  • In the Monthly Reconciliation Report, outstanding (uncleared) EFTs will be listed in section 2, along with outstanding cheques. Accordingly, you will no longer need to create additional line items in section 3 to show EFTs that did not clear the bank.
  • Finally, we resolved a bug where for some cheques, it was not possible to select a deposit date from Send/Receive Payments.

These changes should improve and streamline the reconciliation process. Feel free to share any feedback on these improvements!

Version 3.1.1

Released: March 5, 2025

Bug Fixes

Monthly Statement Email Delivery Frequency

Resolved an issue where, in some cases, monthly statements would be sent more than once. Restructuring the statement / invoice configuration to prepare for additional improvements to this feature.