A whole new website

We've been speaking about giving our marketing site a facelift for a while. And it finally made its way into priority. Except it didn't just get a facelift. It got a complete makeover.

You'll see a bunch of new images and some rad accounting puns, if we may say so ourselves ("Nice assets. Mind if we track them?").

If you have something to say about stub, send it through to us, and we'll add it to our wall of stub love 💜

Improvements

Better spaced invoice layouts: We've created a bit more space between cellphone number and email address on your invoice layout. Sometimes it looked like the size of your cellphone numbers was different from the size of your email address letters — we've now fixed that for you. Thanks, Litha!

Categorising transactions: We added keyboard shortcuts for categorising income and expense transactions. You can now use arrows freely up and down the list of categories. To all our keyboard warriors, this one's for you.

Reports: We've added some flair to a few of our reports. You'll now see a mini chart in the top right-hand corner of your sales, expenses, P&L, and cash flow reports.

Cleaning the house: This cycle was about grabbing a broom and sweeping the floors so that everything looks great when the guests(customers) come over.

Network optimising: We all know that mobile data is expensive. And with so many businesses operating from smartphones, it's essential that we use as little data as possible. We've worked on slimming down how much gets served over, as you stub away.

Fixes

Assets: Your assets now sort alphabetically in your asset register. (OCD fist bump).

Inventory: Sometimes, products had incorrect stock balances to begin with. When adding t-shirts for the first time, stub might have told you that you already had some. That would be nice... stub is magical, but, well, not like that. This has been fixed. Thank you, Jodi.

Introducing inventory

Over the last couple of cycles, we’ve been chipping away at a big feature that changes the game. And we can finally share it with you.

If you sell physical products — think candles, kicks, or crafts — you’ve probably been tracking stock in your head (or worse, in a spreadsheet). Now, you don’t have to.

You'll now be able to:

• Track stock levels per variant (e.g., sizes, colors, styles, etc.)
• See how much stock you have left in real time
• Track where your stock is going (sold, received, lost, broken - you tag it, we track it)

It works seamlessly with invoices and your product links in stub, you sell, we decrease that stock level for you.

We’ve kept it simple - because that’s the whole point of stub. (Also, if you’re tracking stock with a scanner in a big warehouse, this one's not for you; you stay where you are).

We’re just getting started: next up, we’ll bring in purchase orders, COGS tracking, and low-stock alerts. But for now, go forth and organise those shelves.

Improvements

Infrastructure improvements: Updates have been made to our infrastructure to handle bigger businesses. This makes our ability to handle big batches of data easier to keep stub its speedy self (500 sales a day, we've got you).

Observability: We keep cleaning our shades, making sure nothing can happen without us being on top of it.

Fixes

Interaccount transfers: No more accounting handstands to make sure your interaccount transfers reconcile correctly. We fixed this by creating a transfer category (easy as pie). This one’s for you, Manon!

Capitec sync: A sneaky bug stopped some bank syncs from triggering correctly. We found the culprit and synced it back up (sprays Doom on bug).

Categorise income & expenses easily

We've added a quick link to all your uncategorised income and expenses so you can find them faster (no more hide and seek to find that one uncategorised expense buried 5 months ago).

Improvements

Loans: You can now add a loan when you are categorising your income and expenses. Easy peasy. No more adding loans and then matching back.

The Auto-Categoriser: A few shoutouts to the customers who helped us improve this feature:

• Once you have categorised 10 transactions, the experience now favours you to keep categorising with the "Review more" button now being green, and the one you want to click. Thank you, Plant The Seed.
• We've surfaced the reviewer on the expense dashboard, so you can get to it at any point in time. Thank you, Inala Software.

Fixes

Retained earnings: We fixed a bug that was impacting retained earnings on future dates (not many entrepreneurs would've spotted this because who looks at retained earnings for the future?).

Insights: We've done a bunch around the speed of insights across stub, they feel a whole lot faster now.

Transactions: The filter was not filtering on filter by bank in the transactions section. This is now fixed, too. Thanks Deon!

The Pricing Insight: When using the pricing insight for 2 products, one after the next, stub seemed to save the text from the first product instead of clearing for the new search. This has been fixed. (Whoop whoop, Nica).

Reviewing the auto-categoriser

This cycle, we took a closer look at how our auto-categoriser works alongside bank sync to sort your income and expenses into the right categories automatically.

Here’s the gist: stub looks at the reference on your bank transactions and decides which category they belong to. So if you filled up at Sasol, we’ll pop that into "Fuel" for you. But we know you guys are full of surprises; some of you are buying lunch from Checkers, others are picking up printers. That’s where things get tricky.

Previously, stub might’ve seen “Checkers” and assumed it was "Meals & Entertainment", missing that it could’ve been "Office supplies" or "Personal Expenses". It was time to tighten things up.

So we made stub smarter. We’ve introduced what we call the Autocat Reviewer (we haven't been calling it this, but it needed a bold name for its spot on the change log). When stub sees a new transaction, or a batch of similar ones, we’ll ask you to take a quick look, confirm the category, and we’ll remember it for next time.

If we’ve guessed wrong, please correct it. (Seriously. Please).

This makes categorising faster, easier, and more accurate. Exactly what you need.

Improvements

Personal income and expense transactions: We’ve learnt that personal transactions in your business’s financials are a reality. Sometimes we mix and match, and that’s okay. You can now categorize personal transactions, and they will be allocated correctly to your personal drawings account (more on this, coming soon).

Transactions: You can now filter your transactions by bank account in the transaction report, making them a lot easier to sort through.

Apps section: We've improved the way you can manage your connected apps in stub. No biggie, just better.

Insights: We've improved the speed of stub insights, so your insights dashy should feel quicker. Pow pow.

Fixes

Dark Mode: When clicking on links in the stub guide with dark mode enabled, stub changed to light mode (think disco disco). This has now been fixed.

Invoicing:

• Sending invoices to multiple email addresses: You may not have figured out this trick in stub yet, but for those who have, they quickly let us know it no longer works. So we added it back.
• Downloading your invoice as a PDF now reflects all the recent changes that we made to invoices in the last cycle, this includes ordering your products and services the way you’d like (you do you, boo).

Reports: The date filtering in reports has been fixed based on selected timeframes (filter how you’d like).

Making invoicing a whole easier

Invoice updates for the mates. Because we know you spend a lot of time here.

• You can now drag and sort your products and services on your invoices, as you wish. Naturally, this works on quotes, too.
• When you type in an email address that looks a bit off, we’ll spot your typo and flag it, before you hit send. Because chasing payments is hard enough, let’s not add email typos to the mix.

Smarter Auto categorisation

No more Build it expenses going into the "Land and Buildings" category - we've refined the auto-categoriser for better accuracy and performance. But please triple check us, make sure yours are A-okay.

• This will impact all businesses created after June 16, 2025.
• Think about it like refined logic for simple categorisation - we’ll need a bit more of your help on this soon.

Faster, Larger, Smoother Settlements

We’ve made big improvements to how we handle lots of transactions behind the scenes - by lot's we’re talking hundreds and thousands (just like those sprinkles).

• No more long loads for the big guys (we've got your back)
• Say hello to data in widgets on dashboard arrival.

Improvements

Transactions, Invoices, and Quotes: Pagination improvements on all of these features, you'll no longer wait for very long lists to load.

Accounting: Deep links now work within the accounting section - if you find your way there and get lost and scared, you will now find your way out.

Sign up: You can now add your phone number when you first sign up for stub.

Sign up: We check your email address when you sign up, for sneaky typos like hustle@gooogle.com 🤔

Fixes

Transactions: Figured out why transaction names suddenly disappeared (Thank you, Code Carvers)

Categories: Clean up on aisle 5 of categories - please make sure your categories are correct now (Thank you, Tomorrow Labs)

Invoice: When you downloaded an invoice the order of items changed, this has been corrected (Thank you, Saavu)

Safari: Fixed an issue on Safari that was preventing some scripts from loading right.

Search

The global search has been updated so that now it searches across invoices, customers, suppliers, income, expenses, assets, and products. That's basically anything in your business. You're welcome. Oh, and it will handle some basic spelling mistakes. Not that those ever happen.

Trial Balance date range

Select a date range when viewing a Trial Balance report. By default the current month will be selected, but you can select an option from the menu or specify any custom date range that you may need.

Balance those debits and credits to your heart's content. If you must.

Category Summary Report

We've added a new Category Summary Report that you can use to review all the entries in a specific account. It also shows the opening and closing balance of the respective account for the date range selected. This report can be especially useful when you need to export this data to share with someone.

Changelog

We added this changelog. Now, when we add a new feature or make an update to stub, we'll post an update here describing the change.