Ahhh, February -- the month of love! This month, our team gave some love to our eSignature features (lots of new stuff there), AdvicePay’s shiny new integration abilities with Quickbooks and other accounting software (boom), and Client Email Control settings -- to name a few.

Here’s a quick review of what’s new!

What we’re most excited about:

• New eSignature Features

• Business Importer Integration

• Client-Side Email Control

Other Features & Bug Fixes

• Only send contract emails from payment request creation if opted to send emails

• More data added to transactions export: advisor email, invoice frequency, if recurring, start date + end date if it has an end date

• Add advisor name to invoice/subscription tables on Enterprise

• Promo code submission area added to Basic/Pro account profiles: read more

• Phone number added to statement descriptor: to help reduce credit card disputes

• Base Next Bill Date off of Stripe for better accuracy

• AWS Auto Scaling groups (behind the scenes - lets us automatically spin up servers depending on load)

• Procedures refactor to make dev testing easier (behind the scenes)

• Add validation for invoice amounts to make sure they are at least 50 cents

• Add validation to prevent duplicate signers on contracts (same email and name)

• Some public API work (behind the scenes right now)

• Handle already completed signature

• Handle HelloSign API downtime

• Fix refund amount being off on old pages

• Fix subscription date range on invoice being off by a day sometimes

• Fix hiding loader when there is an error updating email on client profile page

• Dashboard fix for projected revenue on active but uncharged sub

New eSignature Features!

Fancier than Ever -- Same Great Price!
We’ve added some terrific options and simplified how you can keep track of your documents.
1. Assign Roles for signees, such as “Client,” “Partner,” “Financial Advisor,” “Compliance Officer,” etc.

2. Send agreements to any additional signee via email. This means partners, compliance officers, and other necessary signees can independently sign any AdvicePay contract, and they don’t need an AdvicePay account!

3. Contract, Template, and Signature management is now made via separate pages, making it easier to drill down on precisely what you want to do -- and avoid information overwhelm.

4. Upload multiple documents at once to form a single contract template for signatures.

5. Send out email reminders to everyone who has yet to sign a contract.

6. Cancel a contract completely.

7. Track eSignature activity through your Audit Log.

Read more on the help desk: https://advicepay.helpscoutdocs.com/category/301-esignatures

Business Importer Integration

Hello, weekend! Save time with AdvicePay’s new accounting software integration.

Our new integration with Business Importer is a fantastic way to improve efficiency if you’re a user of Quickbooks Online, Xero, or Sage One. We built it to help you spend less time in bookkeeping tasks and more time in what you love -- helping people with their financial planning!

Blog post: https://blog.advicepay.com/blog/b-importer-integration

Client-Side Email Control

Your clients now decide and control what email they receive -- or not.

Here at AdvicePay we love providing your subscription clients with fee transparency so that they can stay up to date on their billing and always know exactly what + when they'll be charged!

At the request of regulators, by default your client will always get:

• an email notification 7 days before an approved subscription bills

• an email notification when your automatic subscription payment successfully charges your account

However, some clients would prefer a little less in terms of notifications, and want greater control of the emails that they receive. We understand! That's why we've created a new Settings area in client accounts to give them the power to choose.

Because these settings are 100% controlled by the client, regulators everywhere rejoice while you stay compliant. Win-win!

Are your clients asking for less emails? Pass this how-to tutorial on to them!

What to Look Forward to:

• Mobile-optimized payment flows for clients!

• Making a one-time payment without logging in

• Additional clients on a client account

• Advisor + Client in one account 

We'd Love to Hear from You!

Are there features you’d like to see on AdvicePay? We'd love to hear about them! Visit our new idea submission page on our website anytime to share your thoughts with our team! 

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