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Financial Cents

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Velocity5.0

Accounting practice management software for workflow, client tasks, and deadlines.

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Financial Cents keeps meeting firms where their files already are, and QuickBooks where its data model already is.

quickbooks integrationai document intakefile syncbilling reportsaccounting workflow
◆Current state
The weekly digest divides into three tracks. File storage is being absorbed one provider at a time: Google Drive first, OneDrive in early August, and now SharePoint, all two-way syncs where the folder picker lists a firm's SharePoint sites next to its drives. Billing keeps taking QuickBooks Online's shape — Classes on invoices that carry through to QBO, filterable on the invoice list and revenue and payment reports, plus bulk sync. AI acts on documents at intake, with file renaming generally available since July and an AI File Validator checking uploads against the request, the accounting period and client details.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern is moving work leftward, onto the client and onto software: validation and renaming happen at upload rather than in a preparer's queue, and files live wherever the firm already keeps them instead of in a second system someone has to remember. The billing track points elsewhere — mirroring QuickBooks' own data model rather than proposing an alternative to it, which makes Financial Cents the layer around the ledger rather than a rival to it. The SharePoint release completes the obvious storage set, so the integration surface is closer to done than open.
◆Prediction
With the three major storage providers covered, expect the file work to turn from adding connectors to what happens inside them — retention, permissions or automated filing rules. The QuickBooks mirroring should continue into whatever billing dimension comes next, and the API to keep expanding roughly one resource per digest.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    SharePoint two-way sync for client files

    SharePoint joins Google Drive and OneDrive as a two-way sync target for Client Files, with the folder picker exposing SharePoint sites alongside drives so a client's files can be pinned to the right site. It completes the storage set rather than opening a new one, and needs a SharePoint admin to grant org-wide consent before a firm can turn it on.

  2. 22d ago

    Classes on Invoices, Bulk Sync to QuickBooks Online, and Time Entry API

    Invoices can carry a Class that syncs through to QuickBooks Online, with Class filtering on the invoice list, Revenue Insights and the Payments report, plus bulk sync and a Time Entry API. The billing track continuing to adopt QuickBooks' own dimensions rather than inventing parallel ones.

  3. 1mo ago

    OneDrive Two-Way Sync, Credit Memos Report, and More!

    OneDrive two-way sync arrives three weeks before SharePoint, alongside a Credit Memos report surfacing every client holding unused credit, and status badges with auto-reminders on incomplete client tasks. The storage expansion and the chase-work automation are the same idea from two directions: fewer things a preparer has to go and check.

  4. 1mo ago

    Client Portal Topic Controls, MEC Report Item Counts in Task View, and Attachments API

    Firms can stop clients starting their own chat topics, keeping control of which team member gets assigned, plus item counts on Month End Close report links from the Tasks page and a new attachments API. Administrative tightening around the client portal rather than new capability.

  5. 1mo ago

    AI File Validator, Updates to Sending Client Tasks, and More!

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    The release where AI stopped organizing documents and started judging them, setting up the intake-side posture the storage integrations since have been serving. Renaming had already moved filing to upload time; validation moves the correction loop there too.

  6. 1mo ago

    Firm Placeholders in Automated Emails, One-Click Folder Sync, and Delete Payment Methods

    Firm Representative and Firm Name placeholders extend into Team Task automation emails, a manual Sync Client Folder button forces a Google Drive sync, and saved client payment methods can be deleted. Housekeeping across three existing features, useful but not directional.