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Instantly access your client ledger reports with our auto-import
FYI’s automation engine allows you to automatically import batches of reports from your client’s Xero Ledger, into FYI.
- Automatic naming and filing of trial balance, profit & loss, bank summary and balance sheet reports
- If the amounts in the ledger change, simply re-run the batch to create a new version of the reports in FYI.
- Set up to run on demand, so only run when a user requests it
Create complete client files with auto-import of tax returns
This new automation provides a complete picture of a client in a single, searchable view.
- Saves time by avoiding the need to manually open and locate returns within Xero Tax
- Auto-creates and maintains weblinks to Xero Tax Returns from your client file in FYI.
- Daily updates with Xero Tax to retrieve all newly issued returns
Generate a seamless approval process with DocuSign
We’re thrilled to announce that FYI now integrates with the market-leading app DocuSign, making all your client approvals seamless.
- Documents signed by clients are automatically imported into FYI
- Updates the original with the signed copy and updates the workflow status
- Further integration with DocuSign and Adobe Sign on the way
Collaborate with your clients securely – even on the most sensitive documents
Rather than attaching sensitive documents to emails, you can now share information with your clients securely, via OneDrive.
- OneDrive access available with every Office 365 subscription
- Similar integration with other client-friendly platforms such as DropBox to come
Efficiently manage all your jobs with our new job workspace
Navigating FYI is now even more intuitive with the addition of a new dedicated workspace for jobs.
- File your documents to an XPM job
- Makes search and retrieval of relevant information even faster
- Each job includes a summary of key data from XPM and a list of relevant documents and tasks
- Easily track the status of your jobs
Keep track of all your automated processes with new notifications
Easily track documents that have been imported, filed or changed in FYI with automation notifications.
- Get alerted when process automations have occurred
- Create comments that can be defined and triggered as part of the automated process
- One or many users can be set up to be notified
Find information even faster with custom views and sticky views
Our new custom views allow administrators to save any preferred layout as a list, and then make it available for all users across the practice.
- Manipulate lists of documents, tasks and jobs
- Save any search criteria as well as column order and filters
- Activate sticky views to ensure that list views selected by users are applied by default across all lists in the session
- Makes accessing information even faster
Effortlessly track all your XPM jobs with our enhanced integration
Our new jobs list displays all the jobs synched with Xero Practice Manager, which means you can easily track progress at a group, client and job level.
- View the state of a job (as recorded in XPM)
- View estimated, actual and variance time allocations
- Maintain the XPM job status from within FYI
- Add commentary for your team, as required
Take task management to the next level with these powerful upgrades
Your tasks can now be categorised to the job they relate to, which is great for those practices wanting to be job-centric.
- Use bulk updates to change the due date and/or status of multiple tasks in a list
- Customise your task lists by adding or removing columns
- Change which details display and save them as a custom view
These new document automation features make team collaboration so easy
View Sent Documents
- Sent filter – displays the date and time documents were sent to or received from clients
- Acts as a mail register – records delivery method such as postal service, courier or email, and important details like reference ID
View documents as ‘read only’
- Open one or more documents as ‘read only’ without locking them from edit access by other users
- Select a document and click the read button in the tool bar
- Or use the preview tab in the drawer
Staple documents
- Staple documents together to create a record of them being sent together
- Or collate a group of documents for internal review
- ‘Stapled’ link in the FYI drawer opens a dynamic filter of the documents that have been stapled together
Share Your In Tray
- Delegate un-filed documents in your in tray to another user using the share tab in ’My Settings’
- Nominate someone else to check, file and/or delete documents in your in tray on your behalf