Clarity Accounting update, 2008-09-02

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Two major upgrades last night.

First, we’ve moved Clarity Accounting to new servers at a new hosting provider with the following benefits:

Server “Hot Failover”: If one of the server computers running the software dies for any reason, all the work it was doing is automatically redistributed to other computes while that one is replaced
RAID-1 storage: All data is saved onto multiple hard drives, so that if a hard drive wears out no data is lost.
Isolation of components: The major components of the servers run inside their own virtual machine, so that if one of them is compromised the others are not affected. For example, if someone hacks our blog, he can mess up our blog but he can’t access any financial data.
Intelligent firewall with intrusion and attack detection
Improved security practices, including using non-standard ports and public keys for SSH server access
More powerful servers that can handle more users and virtually unlimited data storage
Learn more about the security of our new hosting service here.

Also, the software itself has been updated:

Entering a payment will now add the payment to existing invoices and bills
You can now choose your annual or monthly from the business profile. However, the merchant account is not fully functional yet; we’ll let you know when we’re ready for you to enter your credit card information. This will happen before Sept 15.
You can now add comments to invoices and bills
You can now press SHIFT+ENTER (as well as CTRL+ENTER) to click the ‘Add’ or ‘Save’ button while working on income and expenses
Add the “included” versions of taxes to the tax drop-down, so you can just click on them. When it says “-GST” that means GST included
Add a link to the online help from inside the application (it’s “Help” in the upper-right area)
When viewing a profit and loss report by customer or vendor, it now includes amounts where no customer was selected. This ensures that the totals balance, and match the “by Account” totals.
The vendor and customer lists can be exported as Excel or CSV, so you can import them into your CRM. Importing contacts from a CSV file into Clarity Accounting would be nice, too, I know - I’m planning on it.
Implemented a workaround for a bug in Excel where CSV files whose first column is called “ID” cause all kinds of errors about “SYLK file formats”, whatever those are, when loaded into Excel.
And more little changes…

Please let us know what you think of the application, we love to hear from people! And to everyone who contributed by emailing us or posting suggestions on uservoice - thank you!

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