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What we've been up to recently.
See our changelog for full details of daily improvements.

The Wall

by Wes Hooper

26th August 2010

We start with paper.

Managing your Financial Years

by Wes Hooper

25th August 2010

Moobiz now does the work for you

New mobile Moobiz version available

by Wes Hooper

24th August 2010

Now adapts to the size of your screen

Simplified section dashboards

by Wes Hooper

16th August 2010

Bringing simpler layouts, a little extra useful detail and consistency

Simplified Ledger section

by Wes Hooper

10th August 2010

Showing you just the information you need

Purchase Orders now within Projects

by Wes Hooper

6th August 2010

Instead of Ledger

Updated Moobiz navigation menu

by Wes Hooper

4th August 2010

Along the top as well as down the side!

Simpler header and footers within Moobiz

by Wes Hooper

22nd July 2010

We've moved infrequently used details to the footer, out of the way!

Easy part remittances

by Jamie York

14th July 2010

Moobiz allows you to create part remittances.

Moobiz reviewed by Macworld

by Wes Hooper

24th June 2010

4 out of 5 makes us happy!

Dashboard tidy up

by Will Woodward

24th June 2010

We've tidied up your dashboard for a clearer view

Add anyone to a meeting

by Will Woodward

24th June 2010

Meetings made easier

Simpler reports for website activity

by Wes Hooper

21st June 2010

We've simplified the web visitor reports to focus on just the important details.

Shiny new Dashboard

by Wes Hooper

18th June 2010

Just the start!

Product Catalogue integrated with Invoices & Proposals

by Will Woodward

14th June 2010

You can now add items from your product catalogue to invoices and proposals

Easy international phone calls with Skype and Moobiz

by Jamie York

14th June 2010

We've added the ability to make phone calls from Skype and store international phone codes.

Simpler web site now live!

by Wes Hooper

9th June 2010

We've had a spring clean :-)

Updated Help section

by Wes Hooper

8th June 2010

We've tidied up and added more answers.

Price Lists have been tidied up!

by Will Woodward

7th June 2010

There's no need for all the mess and clutter, so we simplifed!

Payment Gateways breaking out!

by Will Woodward

3rd June 2010

We've simplified the way you use Payment Gateways

Paint the town any colour you want!

by Jamie York

1st June 2010

With the new Moobiz website settings page.

Keep up to date with what we're doing!

by Will Woodward

28th May 2010

We've made it nice and easy to see what we've been working on.

Cleaner Contact Overviews

by Jamie York

28th May 2010

We've tidied up your contact's information.

Release the mobiles!

by Will Woodward

24th May 2010

Mobile support of Moobiz is now live

Behind the scenes: putting a new version of Moobiz live

by Wes Hooper

21st May 2010

How we do it

Simpler Payment Process

by Jamie York

19th May 2010

We've made paying for Moobiz that much simpler.

Keeping Moobiz Speedy

by Wes Hooper

5th May 2010

Yesterday we had an unusual problem with Moobiz.

Resolved: Current speed issue

by Matt Fenn

4th May 2010

We are currently experiencing a speed issue

Simpler App Library

by Wes Hooper

29th April 2010

We've given it a tidy up and removed the confusing bits!

Time off improvements

by Will Woodward

22nd April 2010

We've improved the way you add time off!

Time sheet improvements

by Will Woodward

20th April 2010

We've updated the way time sheets deal with time lengths.

Contacts CSV Export

by Will Woodward

14th April 2010

A much tidier way of exporting your contacts!

Date and time formatting problems

by Jamie York

14th April 2010

Minor issue causing date and time to displaying incorrectly.

Easier User Management

by Will Woodward

13th April 2010

Managing your Moobiz users is now even easier!

4/5 stars for Moobiz in latest MacUser!

by Wes Hooper

9th April 2010

Which we're all really pleased about! :)

Simple editor for all your document Templates

by Wes Hooper

9th April 2010

No more wading around in code

A quicker way to organise your to-dos

by Wes Hooper

8th April 2010

Manage larger to-do lists by working on several at once

Projects no longer mandatory for To-dos and Invoices

by Wes Hooper

30th March 2010

If you don't need a Project, you no longer have to create one

New To-dos overview section

by Wes Hooper

29th March 2010

Much easier to see who's doing what!

Streamlined process for Remittances

by Wes Hooper

29th March 2010

Marking those invoices as paid becomes simpler

Issue affecting web site analytics

by Wes Hooper

26th March 2010

Where your site domain name contains a hyphen character

Managing credit notes

by Wes Hooper

25th March 2010

Credit notes are now their own thing!

A focus on Quality & Stability

by Wes Hooper

23rd March 2010

Keeping Moobiz working smoothly, so you can too

Re-organised Ledger settings

by Wes Hooper

11th March 2010

Now available in the App Library for VAT rates & Ledger categories

Safe & Secure

by Matt Fenn

11th March 2010

We work hard to make Moobiz safe and secure, here's how..

Behind the scenes

by Wes Hooper

11th March 2010

We've updated our billing & account management systems

Updated 'My Account' section

by Wes Hooper

10th March 2010

Simpler and more consistent

Quicker invoice closing

by Wes Hooper

10th March 2010

You still need to get the money first though!

Automated pricing for your Moobiz account

by Wes Hooper

10th March 2010

We work it out for you and let you know if anything changes

New Buzz Section

by Matt Fenn

9th March 2010

We've added a buzz page to share the love.

Easily identify your Moobiz contacts.

by Jamie York

4th March 2010

Associate an image with your contacts to make them easy to identify.

New Moobiz Review

by Matt Fenn

3rd March 2010

New Moobiz Review

A new feature about new features

by Wes Hooper

3rd March 2010

Our programmers have gone all recursive!

Additional VAT rates added

by Jamie York

3rd March 2010

We've updated VAT rates for supported locales to get you going quicker.

Updated "blank slate" screens

by Matt Fenn

26th February 2010

A friendlier way to get started with your Moobiz!

We've made help more helpful

by Jamie York

24th February 2010

We've redesigned and rewritten Moobiz help to make things much simpler.

Easily manage your Moobiz contacts

by Jamie York

22nd February 2010

Changes to CRM make it easier to manage your contacts

Manage your Cost Proposals from one place

by Wes Hooper

22nd February 2010

Much easier to know what's going on!

Simpler naming for Bank Accounts

by Wes Hooper

22nd February 2010

Making sense of your different account types

Adding bank account Transactions

by Wes Hooper

22nd February 2010

Getting your business bank transactions into Moobiz quickly

Tabbed Search

by Will Woodward

19th February 2010

We've completely rewritten the search results page!

Sign Up Pages Redesign

by Matt Fenn

17th February 2010

We've taken another look at our sign up process and made a range of improvements.

Proposal input form improvements

by Will Woodward

16th February 2010

We've made it easier to create proposals!

Purchase Orders App Improvements

by Will Woodward

12th February 2010

We've improved the way Purchase Orders work!

Simpler project Proposal approvals

by Wes Hooper

9th February 2010

New features and a tidier interface

Mix your own business app with Moobiz!

by Matt Fenn

9th February 2010

What is it that makes Moobiz unique..

Goodbye 'Regular transactions', Hello 'Smart Suggestions'

by Wes Hooper

8th February 2010

A smarter way to reconcile your business bank account transactions

7 Good Reasons to use Moobiz

by Matt Fenn

3rd February 2010

It's good to try and keep a clear view of what makes what you're doing special or unique. I put this list together with the intention of weaving these themes into the website, which I do fully intend to do; but for now I thought I'd just share my list...

Sneak preview: mobile web app on the way!

by Wes Hooper

2nd February 2010

Not just for the iPhone either

New Moobiz Review

by Matt Fenn

18th January 2010

AppVita Moobiz Review

Britain grinds to a halt. Again.

by Matt Fenn

19th December 2009

Don't let the weather slow you down.

A simple change.

by Matt Fenn

18th December 2009

Online business to simple business.

Internationalisation update

by Matt Fenn

16th December 2009

Local currency in final testing.

The Awesome Update

by Matt Fenn

9th December 2009

Wide ranging update laying the foundation for future development.

Beat the postal strike with online invoicing

by Matt Fenn

2nd November 2009

Now is a great time to move to online invoicing!

Moobiz @ Rackspace

by Wes Hooper

29th October 2009

Moobiz is now hosted with Rackspace!

Free Moobiz for a year competition.

by Matt Fenn

19th October 2009

Win a free Moobiz account for a year!

Internationalisation on it's way!

by Matt Fenn

24th September 2009

Features for internationalisation are being added to Moobiz

Moobiz manages your PayPal orders

by Jamie York

1st September 2009

Let Moobiz ensure your business runs smoothly with automatic PayPal order recording

New pricing structure and design

by Matt Fenn

31st July 2009

Update to the Moobiz pricing structure and design

Simplified email marketing

by Wes Hooper

18th June 2009

With our updated Broadcast e-mail marketing product

How to research a potential ecommerce business

by Matt Fenn

18th June 2009

Ecommerce is well known as being a low overhead route to market but that doesn't mean that you can be complacent about your business model. I'm going to give you some ways in which you can test out your ecommerce business idea before you get in too deep.

Organise multiple addresses with new Branches feature

by Wes Hooper

9th June 2009

If your business has multiple offices, you can group the details together

New FAQ's module available

by Wes Hooper

5th June 2009

Content managed FAQ's section for your own Moobiz site

New support ticket system

by Wes Hooper

1st June 2009

Create support tickets from the Help section of your Moobiz account

New web visitor reports by email

by Wes Hooper

28th May 2009

A monthly summary of website visitors - by email

How can on-line invoicing benefit my business?

by Matt Fenn

25th May 2009

A review of business benefits of using on-line invoicing software.

Navigation re-organisation

by Wes Hooper

11th May 2009

Simplified navigation for Moobiz accounts

Updates to web visitor reports

by Wes Hooper

29th April 2009

Now with the search results page number the visitor came from

Building a helpful Content Management System

by Matt Fenn

28th March 2009

Get feedback on the popularity of products and articles with contextual analytics

Clarity of benefits

by Matt Fenn

22nd February 2009

Making the benefits of Moobiz clearer

Spangly new Account Management page

by Wes Hooper

17th February 2009

Add and remove features to / from your account at any time

Send Proposals and Company Statements by email

by Wes Hooper

16th February 2009

Following on from last weeks Sending invoices by email!

So are we in 'stealth mode'?

by Matt Fenn

14th February 2009

Probably not. Although we might be de-cloaking...

Getting to know your web site visitors

by Wes Hooper

13th February 2009

Better visibility on ecommerce baskets and customer feedback

Aged debt analysis

by Wes Hooper

11th February 2009

Living in the (snow) cloud.

by Matt Fenn

10th February 2009

Snow reason not to work!

Manage your business debtors with customer statements

by Wes Hooper

9th February 2009

Keep on top of who owes you for better business cashflow

Sending Invoices by email

by Wes Hooper

3rd February 2009

Send your business invoices directly as HTML formatted emails.

Automated Google Base Products feed

by Wes Hooper

27th January 2009

No more downloading, uploading, just let it happen!

Updated Abbey business banking Statements import

by Wes Hooper

10th December 2008

We've updated Moobiz to allow importing of the new Abbey CSV files.

eCommerce spending predicted to rise

by Matt Fenn

2nd December 2008

eCommerce retailers are bucking the trend as online spending is set to rise according to research.

VAT rate changes to 15%

by Matt Fenn

25th November 2008

eCommerce VAT rate updated to 15% in Moobiz

CRM Contact detail form update

by Matt Fenn

25th November 2008

We've overhauled and streamlined the CRM contact detail form.

Every website has a conversion goal

by Matt Fenn

24th November 2008

Create website conversion goals to measure your websites success and identify areas to improve

Design simplification & cleanup

by Wes Hooper

2nd October 2008

We've just put live a major design update to Moobiz, keeping everything familiar enough so you can login and carry on as normal.

Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

by Wes Hooper

14th August 2008

We've been busy this month making several performance and maintainability improvements to Moobiz.

Search your bank transactions

by Wes Hooper

19th June 2008

Simple search for imported bank transactions

Broadcast simplified

by Jamie York

6th June 2008

We've moved it around a bit and given it a polish.

Welcome to Summertime Online

by Matt Fenn

3rd June 2008

Summertime Online launches on Moobiz

Julian Bowen website launched

by Matt Fenn

3rd June 2008

Julian Bowen launches new website on Moobiz

Mirus moves with Broadcast

by Matt Fenn

2nd June 2008

Following a recent move, Mirus used Broadcast to email their clients an update.

Broadcast CSV upload & import

by Wes Hooper

27th May 2008

When sending a new Broadcast Campaign, you can now upload a CSV file of names and email addresses for your recipients.

Status update: networking issue

by Wes Hooper

22nd May 2008

Phone number standardisation

by Wes Hooper

20th May 2008

Not the most exciting Moobiz update, but as part of our continued efforts to make Moobiz use best practises throughout

Last few email templates moved to new system

by Will Woodward

16th May 2008

All emails now being sent through our new XSL based email templating system

Ledger remittances

by Wes Hooper

7th May 2008

Moobiz would previously let you tick of one or more invoices as paid and store the paid date for your record keeping.

Customer feedback now included in search results

by Wes Hooper

2nd May 2008

Feedback from your web site visitors is now included in search results when logged in to your Moobiz account.

Multiple active payment gateways

by Wes Hooper

1st May 2008

Moobiz now supports having multiple active payment gateways for your e-commerce shop.

eCommerce low stock warning on dashboard

by Wes Hooper

30th April 2008

Moobiz eCommerce now lets you know if any of your products are running low on stock as soon as you login.

Online bank statement listing

by Wes Hooper

25th April 2008

Previously, Moobiz would group your imported bank transactions as statements, with the start and end date as the first and last date from the CSV file.

Stock checking for e-commerce baskets

by Wes Hooper

24th April 2008

Adding items to a basket on your web site now checks stock levels for that product along with the number of items reserved by other active shoppers in their basket.

Contact created & origin

by Wes Hooper

23rd April 2008

When viewing one of your Contacts in Moobiz, you can now see the date & time they were created along with how they got there

New eCommerce 'Go to Payments' checkout footer

by Wes Hooper

21st April 2008

Moobiz eCommerce now has a smart new 'Go to Payments' panel in the footer of the checkout confirmation page featuring the gateway logo.

Bank reconciliation suggestions

by Wes Hooper

16th April 2008

If you're happy with the match, just press the button to have the Ledger item created and reconciled in one go.

E-commerce order confirmation templates

by Wes Hooper

14th April 2008

eCommerce order Confirmation emails and Packing Slips have been updated to be sent using standard XSL - the same as Broadcast emails, Cost Proposal letters and Invoices.

Simplified Moobiz permissions

by Wes Hooper

11th April 2008

We've tidied up the list of permissions you can assign to a Contact who is allowed to login to your Moobiz.

Portfolio & Project categories

by Wes Hooper

10th April 2008

Projects for web site Portfolios can now be categorised should you need to do so!

Improved search engine identification in Web Visits

by Wes Hooper

8th April 2008

More search engine referrers to your web site are now picked up by Moobiz Web Visits after we added a few new variations.

Simplified eCommerce registration process

by Wes Hooper

2nd April 2008

Moobiz lets your Contacts manage an address book once they're logged into your site...

Moobiz monitoring

by Wes Hooper

28th March 2008

Although we put a lot of work into making Moobiz reliable, things can go wrong from time to time!

Contact logins limited to 10 failed attempts

by Wes Hooper

25th March 2008

For improved security, after 10 failed login attempts, Contacts are now prompted to request a new password.

Changing the order in which your products are displayed

by Wes Hooper

17th March 2008

You can now choose the order in which Catalogue products are displayed on your web site.

New e-commerce reports

by Wes Hooper

14th March 2008

We've just added a couple of new reports to Commerce - Best customers based on number of orders and amount spent.

Sending Cost Proposals by email

by Wes Hooper

12th March 2008

As well as printing Cost Proposals, another way to get your estimate to a customer has always been to print it to a PDF file

Searching your Moobiz account

by Wes Hooper

11th March 2008

We've just improved the search results so Contacts are displayed first and in a nicer format, similar to a business card.

Faster bank account reconciliation

by Wes Hooper

9th March 2008

We've re-worked this so everything runs a bit faster

Search Engine Optimisation built in

by Wes Hooper

7th March 2008

Moobiz now lets you consistently update the page title and meta tags for all web site content.

Catalogue best sellers

by Wes Hooper

4th March 2008

If you're using Moobiz Catalogue for your online shop, you can now create a list of your best selling products.

Broadcast 2.0 on the way

by Wes Hooper

3rd March 2008

Version 2.0 of our email marketing tool, Moobiz Broadcast is on the way...

Moobiz does the alphabet for you!

by Wes Hooper

28th February 2008

Moobiz used to show A-Z tabs when viewing your list of Contacts so you could browse them by initial letter

Behind the scenes improvements

by Wes Hooper

22nd February 2008

We've spent a few days this week tidying up how Moobiz works and improving maintainability for our developers. Nothing exciting to look at, but makes it easier for us to spot bugs and add new features!

Contact rename / delete improvements

by Wes Hooper

19th February 2008

We've just been going through our own Moobiz Contacts and in the process found a few areas which could be smarter when you're tidying.

Google Maps integration

by Wes Hooper

15th February 2008

Our Moobiz Locations service can now be upgraded to include a Google Map on each location page by ticking the new checkbox when editing an address.

New panel for Orders added to dashboard

by Wes Hooper

14th February 2008

As soon as you login to your Moobiz, you can now instantly see how you're orders are doing.

Additional Web Visits logging

by Wes Hooper

12th February 2008

Moobiz Web Visits now logs whenever a site visitor...

Invoice reconciliation

by Wes Hooper

8th February 2008

The check boxes within your list of open invoices can now be used to close / reconcile multiple invoices in one go.

Ledger dates

by Wes Hooper

8th February 2008

Dates for VAT Periods and Financial years can now be managed from the Ledger settings page.

Recruitment contacts

by Wes Hooper

6th February 2008

Job vacancies can now be linked to one of your Contacts, making it easier to show consistent contact details for the job on your web site.

New design!

by Wes Hooper

6th February 2008

We've given Moobiz a new look. Let us know what you think.

Web Visits performance improvements

by Wes Hooper

6th February 2008

The database, logging and reporting for Web Visits have all been updated today with numerous performance improvements we've been working on over the past couple of months.

Average time spent per page & visit

by Wes Hooper

5th February 2008

We've added the average time spent per page & per visit to the Traffic reports.

Stock management

by Wes Hooper

5th February 2008

Stock level management for Catalogue products has now been built-in to Moobiz.

Active customers on the dashboard

by Wes Hooper

5th February 2008

The dashboard now shows you the percentage of your customers who have logged in (or registered) in the last 90 days.

Improvements to Web Visits

by Wes Hooper

25th January 2008

We've just made some improvements to the visitor reports for your web site.

Updated dashboard

by Wes Hooper

25th January 2008

We've updated the dashboard to better display Web Visits, Registrations and Orders.

Managing recruitment vacancies

by Wes Hooper

18th January 2008

We've updated how recruitment vacancies are listed within Moobiz.

Improved reporting for Contacts

by Wes Hooper

10th January 2008

We've added a chart to the Dashboard showing the number of recent site registrations and listed new registrations in the Contacts section.

Trend lines on charts

by Wes Hooper

7th December 2007

We've just added a trend line to the Web Visits chart so you can see where your visitor numbers are heading.

eCommerce discount vouchers

by Wes Hooper

2nd October 2007

Sites using Moobiz eCommerce can now offer their customers discounts by using voucher codes.