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September 2026 release notes

Financials, Payroll for South Africa, foreign currency and roles

Ratul Maharaj

Ratul Maharaj

Founder & CEO

Everything we released in September, grouped by app.

At a glance

AppHeadline
AccountingFinancials joins Looped, with foreign currencies
InvoicesForeign currencies, credit notes and write-offs
PayrollA new app for South African companies
TrackDated billing rates and reminder emails
ManageCompany details once, and roles per app
Platform and AIThe MCP server signs in with OAuth

Accounting

New

  • Financials is now part of Looped: a chart of accounts, journals, bank statement import, VAT201, fixed assets and annual financial statements (AFS) for each financial year.
  • A new company starts with a chart of accounts for its country. South Africa keeps its own chart, and the UAE, UK and Ireland get an international one.
  • Foreign currencies: accounts and bank accounts can be kept in another currency, statements import in that currency and post at the day's rate. Exchange rates come from the European Central Bank.
  • Capture an invoice issued elsewhere from its PDF, image or text, and the client, number, dates, lines and tax are filled in for you.
  • Filing deadlines for South African companies (EMP201, EMP501, VAT201, provisional tax, ITR14 and the CIPC annual return) on a new Deadlines page, with reminders through notifications.
  • Loans: set the terms on a liability account and charge interest monthly.

Improved

  • A finalised VAT201 locks the VAT postings dated inside its period until you reopen it.
  • Bank statement uploads can be deleted from their review page, along with the entries they posted.
  • AFS notes can carry text under their table.

Fixed

  • Bank CSV imports now read FNB and Wise date formats.
  • The cash flow statement no longer counts a closed year's profit twice.
  • Depreciation is right for assets brought in mid-life and for disposals.
  • Approving many statement lines at once no longer fails.
  • PDFs no longer drop letters.

Invoices

New

  • Invoices and bills in foreign currencies. Clients have a currency and country, chosen from pickers.
  • Payments, credit notes, write-offs and VAT per line.
  • Choose who hears when an invoice is paid, in the notification bell, by push or by email, under Manage › Settings › Notifications.

Improved

  • The dashboard follows the period you choose instead of always showing this month.

Fixed

  • Stripe and Yoco payments are recorded again when two invoices are paid close together.

Payroll (South Africa)

New

  • Payroll is a new app for South African companies on the Financials plan or trial.
  • Pay runs with PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI, hourly pay and overtime from the hours logged in Track.
  • Monthly EMP201s from finalised runs, and the year end: interim and annual EMP501, the e@syFile file, and IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates.
  • Move across from Sage, with your year to date brought in.
  • Employees can be invited to My pay to see their own payslips, without taking a seat.

Track

New

  • Dated billing rates: each project member has a rate history, and every time entry is valued at the rate in force on its date.
  • Personal reminder emails under Settings › Reminders: a morning digest of todos coming due, and a nudge to log time.

Fixed

  • Chart tooltips on the dashboard are no longer cut off.

Manage

New

  • A Company page holds your company's details and bank accounts once, for every app. A company can have several bank accounts.
  • People and roles: everyone is an Owner, an Admin or a Member, and each app has No access, Read-only or Full. Every company starts with three ready-made roles (Team member, Bookkeeper and Payroll preparer), and you can make your own.
  • A notification bell for the whole suite.
  • A "What's new" tour the first time you open an app after a release.

Improved

  • The members page is now People, with a column per app.
  • Sign-in goes through Manage, and you're brought back to the page you were opening.

Platform and AI

New

  • The Looped MCP server signs in with OAuth and can reach every company you belong to. Connect it from Settings → MCP or "Connect an AI agent (MCP)" in the ⌘K palette.
  • Pinned memories are given to assistants that connect through MCP, so each session starts with what you asked it to remember.
  • A new look across the apps, a keyboard shortcuts sheet (⌘/ or Ctrl+/), and N to create a new item on list pages.
  • The Looped CLI (looped) and the public API, now including Financials access for API keys.

Improved

  • The assistant accepts PDF attachments, reads whole CSV files, can be stopped mid-reply, and lets you queue or steer messages while it works.
  • The assistant reviews a bank statement upload in one pass and proposes every group for a single approval.

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