Envoyce v18.1.1 Summer 2025 Service Pack Released

The Envoyce platform is an ongoing development, primarily focused on improving the existing set of tools already enjoyed by Envoyce users. Additionally, our goal is to implement new features to enhance productivity and allow a wider section of the small business community to enjoy Envoyce.

This service pack has been designed to address three concerns:

1. Fix on-going non-critical bugs & update core libraries.
2. Enhance the workflow or improve the process when creating invoices and quotes.
3. Adding missing functionality from our backlog and feedback from our users.

New Functionality

Shipping

Shipping costs is now directly supported in the product lines grid. Instead of having to manually create an ad-hoc line to handle your shipping costs, you are now able to add a specific shipping line to the product grid.

You can either choose an existing option or add additional shipping options on the fly, and select an alternate delivery address if different from your main customer address.

Shipping can be added to any invoice or quotation by right clicking the product grid item and selecting “Add shipping”.

Invoice Settings

When creating a new invoice or quotation, you can now select a specific customer contact or customer location to assign to the invoice. Whilst the default contact and location are still respected, they can now be overridden during the invoice creation workflow, improving productivity.

If you have multiple users and locations assigned in your profile, you can also override those defaults too.

Product grid context menu

When creating invoices and quotations you can right click on the product grid which will now show additional options dependent on your VAT status. 

The new options enabled are:

• The “Create variant of this product” option will allow you to create a new product based on an existing one. This feature is particularly useful when you have many colourway variants, different sizes or volumes related to the same product.  Selecting this option will bring up the new product dialog pre-populated with name, description and price for easy adjustment.
• The “Show tax rate” option will toggle the showing of the tax percentage in the grid. This is especially useful when you are selling products that have different tax rates in the same invoice. It also acts as a visual check to ensure the correct tax rate has been applied.
• Note this feature is only shown if VAT is enabled in your profile settings.

Product grid sorting

Items added to the product grid can now be sorted to your own preference. Click the grab handle to the left of the grid row and drag to the new location either above or below in the grid as appropriate.

Product Types

Products can now be assigned a type. The types are currently

• Product – to denote tangible object that you may sell.
• Service – to denote a service or function you perform
• Shipping – to denote shipping costs.

Note that during product selection any products assigned the type “Shipping” will not appear in the selection dropdowns. This is to avoid product clutter during the selection process and to avoid multiple shipping lines from being created inadvertently. 

Enhancing the workflow

All aspects of the app workflow and design have been re-evaluated to ensure best practise is achieved. We’ve made some changes to some button wording where its expected function was not implied or anticipated. 

We’ve also changed some of the icons to better reflect the status of objects in the grid. 

As an example, the invoicing workflow has been simplified to:

Create – Build/Edit – Preview – Approve. 

During our testing sessions some users identified not knowing where to go next in the workflow. We think we’ve made good improvement here.

Fixing non-critical bugs 

This service pack addresses a plethora of fixes and changes addressed in our backlog. All have been non-critical so wouldn’t have stopped you working but might have been an annoyance or inappropriate message reporting a non-existent issue. 

Like all software projects, bugs like this do occur and need to be addressed. This is some of what has been fixed in this service pack.

• Enlarged letter spacing to improve readability.
• Box alignment issues
• Consistent action button colours and icons
• Improved error message language to minimise tech gobbledygook
• Reduction of the onboarding required information before creating your first invoice
• Consistent email design and language
• Updated core libraries and associated supporting code to address security advisories
• Fixed task functions to ensure they did what they actually should
• Handled multi-user invoice reference collisions safely
• Fixed the status engine to report correct status of invoices and quotes
• Implemented Addons stub for future addon releases
• Improved sliding panel mobile support
• Improved first invoicing help bubbles language and function

How to install

No install necessary. The latest version (v18.1.1) is downloaded automatically to you computer or phone. You just need to click on the install message when shown. To check you are running the latest code, login to Envoyce and head to "Settings" and click the "About" tab. The software version is shown.

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