Changes to our invoice processing rules
In order to protect you from accidentally double-collecting any of your customer’s invoices (this can easily happen if a payment is removed from the accounting records and not re-created immediately) we have now implemented two new tests to detect and prevent us from collecting an invoice more than once. If we have previously made a successful collection on the...
Read moreStripe Updates
We recently released an update to our Stripe integration. While the changes are generally invisible to the user they do help improve security and the sign-up process. We are now using Stripe Connect to authenticate your Stripe Account (rather than the old method of having to locate your API keys) as well as stripe.js which is a more secure...
Read more2017 updates
So from our blog posts it looks like we’ve been doing nothing all year. But this is not really true. We have been lots behind the scenes but none of it has been major releases or news worthy, so we haven’t bothered posting about it. In the past year our development team has moved to a new coding platform,...
Read moreNew Direct Debit and CC option for Australia
We are pleased to announce that our newest gateway integration adds another Direct Debit option for Australian users with very affordable rates. Mint Payments is an API-based (no CSV files to upload) gateway through NAB. Their fees are very reasonable. Mint Payments is our recommended Direct Debit provider for Australian users. They also have credit card processing available for...
Read moreInvite Feature
We’re pleased to announce Release 1.5 of uCollect with the new Invitation feature. Now you can send an invitation to a contact to have them sign-up for pre-authorized collection. They can’t just pay one invoice and stop. You can select which gateway(s) you invite them to use (if you have more than one) and you don’t even need an...
Read moreGoogle Chrome Extension Released
Now you can see the uCollect status of your Xero invoices and contacts right from within Xero! You need to be using Google Chrome as your browser for this feature to work. You can install it (at no cost) from the Google Chrome store by searching for “ucollect”. Once installed, the extension will display the invoice or contact status...
Read moreWelcome to uCollect
We are pleased to announce that uCollect is now available for Beta customers. It is by “invitation only” at this stage – so just fillin the contact us form and we will send you an email invite if you are qualified. The Release 1.0 version of uCollect contains most of our core Xero integration that we expect, including all...
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