Every fix, improvement and new feature we ship, as it happens. Debbie is under active, weekly development, this is the transparent record of it, the same list our own users see inside the app.
The Accountant Pack could carry a payments on account line that no longer applied to you.
Saving your tax settings could quietly flip the PAYE toggle back, and a pension tax figure on its own was being treated as a full PAYE deduction. Both fixed.
The profit by business card on the dashboard ignored which business you had selected. It now shows the one you picked.
On a phone the tax year picker could open off the edge of the screen. It now opens where you can reach it.
Changing tab or tax year now takes you back to the top of the page instead of leaving you halfway down the last one.
A sticky header could shave a sliver off the rounded top of the card beneath it, and a total row could paint over that corner when it was the only row on the card. Both fixed.
Opening the calendar from a link could blank the screen. Fixed, and the same fault is now impossible on every other screen too.
If HMRC refuses a connection you now get HMRC's own words, instead of a bare error code that told you nothing.
Payments are grouped by the date they are due, so you can see what leaves your account and when at a glance.
A PDF is read from its text layer first, which is far more accurate than reading a picture of it, and Debbie asks for the document wherever your PAYE figures are still a guess.
Debbie now rounds exactly the way HMRC's own calculator rounds, so the bill you see is the bill HMRC works out. Your profit and loss and your transactions still show real pounds and pence.
Debbie follows HMRC's own rule rather than halving your bill. Each payment is half of last year's liability, they are skipped where HMRC skips them, and every one is dated and named.
Employment and pension income is now charged its own income tax inside the Self Assessment estimate, and the tax your employer already took is credited against it. Tax over-deducted shows up as a refund.
Tax dates are named by purpose and tax year, so a January date that is really last year's balancing payment can never be mistaken for this year's.
Give a job a finish date and it blocks out every day it runs, drawn as one bar across the calendar.
The transactions screen now has a tax year selector, a sort order and its filters on the screen itself, plus a Load more button instead of an endless list.
One card per business, so a second trade never hides inside a single total, and the estimate says plainly whether you owe or are owed.
If you made a loss and had tax taken off at source, Debbie now tells you what is coming back, and what claiming the loss against your other income is worth on top of that.
Rental profit and the tax charged on it now have their own lines, alongside your trade. Section 24 relief, CIS taken at source and Marriage Allowance show as well, and anything sitting at zero is left off.
The estimate opens with the sum: total income from every source, less your personal allowance, giving your taxable income, then every rate band underneath it. No more wondering where the figure came from.
Turn reminders on in Settings and Debbie will buzz your phone before a tax date lands and when a job is coming up. Nothing is ever sent unless you ask for it.
On a laptop the month fills the screen in landscape day boxes, with hover cards, outlines by job state, and a job that runs for several days drawn as one bar across them. Weekends, UK and world holidays and an on this day fact are in there too.
The calendar is here. Jobs, invoices falling due, quotes running out, rent, certificates and your tax dates, all on one month view. Tap anything to go straight to it, and it sits on the Work tab for everybody, whatever you do.
debbieapp.co.uk/status says whether Debbie is working right now: the servers, the database, files, email, payments, HMRC and the app itself, each with a plain sentence. It is hosted away from the app on purpose, so it stays up when the app does not. When something in the app fails on a connection problem, the message offers you a link straight to it.
The link between a business and its HMRC record is verified before anything is sent, so a figure can never reach the wrong record.
The VAT return counts every sale now. There is one route to connecting HMRC rather than several.
Accepting the Terms records the version you actually read, so the notice does not return the next time you sign in.
There is a changelog for the legal documents now, with an entry for every version of every document. When you are asked to accept an update you can read what actually changed.
Both documents now say who you are contracting with, that Stripe is the merchant of record, what happens to a failed payment, that messages are sent on your behalf, what HMRC data is held and how landlords are covered.
Paying a helper has its own rung on the ladder now. A repair and workshop business gets wording that fits it rather than wording meant for site work.
The vehicle claim folds by quarter the way the year does. The summary gathers the year once rather than four times over.
A full read of a real account turned up small errors in invoice numbering, payment reminders, cash basis reporting, quote and job rules and the address your email comes from. All of them are fixed.
Long quotes no longer hide their last line behind the bottom of the screen. No screen guesses its own padding any more.
A job that took a deposit can be invoiced for the balance, with the deposit shown on the invoice and credited against the total.
When a job mixes VAT rates and takes a payment, the payment carries the right VAT rather than one rate for the lot.
A quote's VAT rate now follows through to the job and onto the invoice. Before today a job made from a quote could end up as a gross total at zero percent.
An invoice is only counted as your first payment when money was really taken.
Closing an account now cancels the subscription with it. Changing your mind inside the grace period puts it back.
Adding a card in the final two days of the free month no longer fails at checkout.
A subscription that had ended left no way back on screen. You can start a plan again from the same place now.
Changing the email on your account now emails the old address to say so, updates your billing details and signs the old sessions out.
If you have left support access on and Debbie support opens your account, an amber bar sits on every screen saying so and when the session ends. Nothing happens in your account without you being able to see it happening.
The profile endpoint no longer accepts billing fields, so no account can grant itself a plan.
Repeated sign-in attempts are limited per email address as well as per connection, so rotating addresses no longer resets the count.
Every email Debbie sends now includes a plain text version. Replies go to the right person.
The help bubble shows help for the screen you are actually on rather than the last one that registered itself.
Year pickers used to open wherever they felt like. They all open on the current tax year now. No screen flashes an empty state while it is still loading.
Deleting a job or quote photo asks first. The delete button is visible on a phone.
The dashboard says your name again rather than your business name.
The X on the feedback card and every other icon-only dismiss button is a proper tap target on a phone now.
Losing signal now says so plainly instead of failing quietly. A request that does not go through is never silent.
A half-written invoice, quote or job is kept as you type it. Close the app or take a call and it comes back exactly as you left it. Money fields now behave the same on every phone. A brand new account shows clean zeros rather than blanks.
Job and receipt galleries send small previews instead of full photographs, so a gallery opens in a moment on one bar of signal.
Changing tax year no longer blanks the screen. The figures you were reading stay put until the new ones arrive.
The database is kept warm during working hours, so the first screen of the morning opens without waiting for it to wake up.
The dashboard asks the server once instead of four times. The server works your figures out once per request instead of once per asker. Reports, bank lines and your business list are each read once and shared.
Rows you can tap are the full width they appear to be. The NOT FILED card lands on the filing card rather than the top of the tab.
Every figure sits on one line and stacks on its decimal point, so a column of money reads as a column.
A driver is no longer offered jobs and quotes, a landlord is no longer offered materials. What you see follows what you told Debbie you do.
Settings lists only the tax years you were trading and only the claims you can actually use, so there is less to read past.
The headline figure on the Tax Return tab now uses exactly the same numbers as your dashboard and your Tax Pack.
The Tax Return, P&L and Quarters tabs, the dashboard cards, Settings and Cut My Tax Bill each say it in one sentence now. Box numbers and form names moved to the Tax Pack, where they belong.
The combined card now says it includes mileage and equipment, with how much of each.
Each row on the tax return now takes you to the screen you actually logged it on. The transaction filters show only what they say they show.
The figures sit at the top now and the filing guide at the foot, so the numbers you came for are the first thing you see.
The Accountant Pack's Box 30 now includes the working from home allowance it always said it included.
Tools and equipment you use across more than one business are now claimed in shares everywhere, so your reports, your profit cards and the Capital Allowances screen all agree.
A saved split reopens exactly as you typed it. Save only offers itself once the money has actually changed.
Switching a split between percentages and pounds now converts the amounts you already entered instead of scrambling them.
Splitting a transaction used to change only the label. Each part now lands in its own category and your figures follow, so a shop run split between materials and personal spending is taxed the way you split it.
The dashboard estimate, the tax return and the Accountant Pack now all read from one assembled set of inputs, so a figure you see in one place is exactly the figure you see in another.
In the All businesses view the quick actions now follow the businesses you actually run, so Add a job and Quotes only appear when one of them does jobs and quotes.
When a customer's bank payment matches an invoice you have already marked paid, Debbie shows it once, not twice, so your income figure and your bank list agree.
The warning that your statements leave a gap now checks the running balance before speaking, so an unbroken chain of statements never raises a false alarm and a real hole is still caught.
Monzo and Starling statements now keep the time on each transaction, so on a busy day Debbie anchors your balance on the true last line and Safe to draw agrees with your banking app to the penny. Re-upload your latest statement and it repairs itself.
Debbie now checks for a new version every time you come back to the app and shows a one-tap Update banner. No force-closing, no reinstalling.
The help bubble and the dashboard tips now know what kind of business you are running as well as which tab is open, so a landlord is never told to start a job and a driver is never told to send a quote.
Business cards and forms now show any detail you have already filled in, whatever kind of business it is, and only hide the empty fields that do not apply. Nothing you saved is ever out of sight.
Give a business an end date and money from your bank is never routed to it after that date. Past years still show it in full, and if you pick the trade back up you reopen it rather than starting again.
Fuel, parking, tolls, EV charging, energy, insurance, trade memberships, software and storage are recognised straight from the bank description and given the right category. Supermarkets, takeaways and streaming lean personal unless you say otherwise, and a business row is never flipped to personal by a guess.
On the review sheet each imported line now shows which business Debbie gave it to and the reason, whether that was a hashtag, a name in the description, a pattern you taught it, a known merchant or the AI. Change it once and Debbie remembers.
Scan a receipt and every line on it is remembered. Start typing a material on a quote or a job and your unused receipt lines appear first with the merchant and the price you paid. Put one on a job and it links to the receipt, so the cost is counted once and never twice.
Pick a past year on the dashboard and it stays useful: filed or not filed with the date and amount paid, a countdown to the deadline if it is still open, that year's profit, the calculator and your quick actions. Only years you could actually have traded in are offered.
Every HMRC submission is written down as sending before it goes, then marked submitted or failed only when HMRC has actually answered. A dropped connection can never send twice or lose your place, and a Check button settles any submission left in doubt.
Filing a quarterly update is now two taps. The first shows the exact figures Debbie will send, period dates, income and costs, cumulative from 6 April as HMRC requires. The second sends them. If your data changes between the two taps Debbie stops and asks you to look again.
Money owed and active jobs only appear for businesses that bill customers, CIS only shows for construction trades and dormant tax claims fold into one line. Everything you use is still exactly where it was.
If Debbie thinks a statement gap is missing data and it was just a quiet month, you can now dismiss it and it stays dismissed.
Safe to draw now shows your real balance figures to the penny, so the number agrees exactly with what your bank shows you.
Transfers to or from your own accounts are now treated as drawings out or capital in, never as a business cost or business income, even if a remembered pattern says otherwise. First sight always asks you to glance at it, then Debbie remembers that account as yours.
The three cramped icons are replaced by one Add button with plain choices, bank statement, receipt or expense. Bank income now shows in Transactions, not just Overview, and receipts live in Documents.
Amazon Flex pays out under the name Amazon UK Services Ltd, and Debbie now spots it and books it as driver income. A messy personal account now defaults to personal instead of guessing at a business reason.
Debbie guesses your country from your phone and lets you change it with a quick type-to-search. Your address is only asked for when you first want it on an invoice or quote, and only once.
Tap any line on the Tax Return tab and you land on exactly the transactions that make it up. Filters show a clear chip you can dismiss in one tap, lines that are zero for the year are hidden and the box numbers now live in your Tax Pack only.
Every quote has a Duplicate action that opens a fresh quote with the same job cost and materials, customer cleared for re-picking. Your repeat jobs are now a two-tap quote.
Pricing a job? Snap a receipt from the quote screen and the items land as lines on the estimate, without saving anything as an expense. And Debbie now remembers your materials and last prices as you type.
A quote is a customer and one job cost. Add materials only if you want to itemise. When the customer accepts, the job is created with the price and the lines carried over, so the job can never disagree with the quote.
After a scan you get two clear buttons, save it to a job or save it to your finances, with a reminder to only save real business costs. Discarding stays effortless.
Business and customer forms now hide the fields your kind of business never needs, like markup and hourly rate for a driver. Nothing is deleted, it is just out of the way.
Will you bill customers with quotes, jobs or invoices? Answer once and Debbie shows the right tools, then opens straight onto the feature that will impress you most, the receipt scanner or the bank statement upload.
A plumber sees quotes, jobs and invoices. A delivery driver sees mileage and documents. A landlord sees tenants, maintenance and properties. Switch business and the app changes with it. You can override it any time in Settings, Businesses.
Customers, Quotes, Jobs and Invoices now live under a single Work tab with a menu that stays put on every screen. Documents joins every trade there too.
For a limited time, add a card before your free month ends and your second month is on us. The offer applies itself at checkout, there is no code to remember.
Finish setup and your free month begins on the spot. No card, no checkout, nothing to type. Add a card only if you decide to stay, and you will not pay a penny before the month is up.
If you are not filing UK tax, every bit of UK tax wording is gone. You get invoices, jobs, banking and reports in your own currency, nothing else.
Screens now lead with the one figure that matters and plain sentences instead of info circles. Reports and Settings both lost tabs you never needed.
The tab now leads with what Debbie applied for you, then the things only you can tell it each year, like pension and Gift Aid. Anything you are not using folds into one line at the bottom.
Mileage, Working From Home, Tools and Refunds now open by themselves when you have records for the year, and offer gently when you do not. No blank toggles to babysit.
No more Save button to remember in Settings. Changes save as you make them. Your password still has its own button.
The trading allowance and the property allowance are now applied automatically whenever they save you money. If you have made your own choice, your choice always wins.
The one-off facts about your tax (Scottish taxpayer, student loan, Child Benefit and the like) now live in a single card in Settings. Set them once, change them any time, no more wall of fields.
Debbie now assumes the usual answers when you set up, so you only tap what is different for you. VAT, CIS, Scottish tax, student loan and Child Benefit all sit on one screen, then you go straight to your first receipt.
Your tax-saving toggles now save themselves the moment you change them. Each tax year keeps its own separate figures. You can also add the State Pension straight from the pension list now.
A broken HMRC connection could log you out of Debbie on the Reports tab. It now simply shows as not connected so you stay signed in.
When a business stops trading Debbie now warns you clearly before you set its end date. Once its final tax year is filed you can close it tidily. It stays fully viewable with every record kept safe.
We now explain exactly how Debbie's AI reading features use your data (and enforce in the software that it is never used to train anyone's models), put the referral rewards and pause option in writing, and made the international position clear.
The VAT Return screen now reminds you that VAT on sales comes from your invoices, so VATable cash jobs or bank-only income need adding to Box 1 by hand before filing.
Debbie's built-in HMRC rates go back to 2024/25. Pick an older year and it now says plainly that the figures are an estimate using the oldest rates on file, rather than quietly using this year's rules.
If two or more £10 rewards arrive before your next bill, they all count now, each one becomes account credit that adds up rather than replacing the last.
Switching between your businesses no longer changes the safe to draw figure. There is one bank account truth, so there is one number, whichever business you are looking at.
Personal transactions in your statement are now saved so your history in Debbie matches your bank to the penny, but they never touch your tax return, your profit or your MTD figures.
One shared account for all your businesses, one account each, or a personal account alongside, every statement is now filed against the right account and a personal account is never counted as business money.
Subscriptions, rent and mortgage-style payments that repeat in your account are recognised automatically, and anything due in the next month is reserved before Debbie calls a penny safe to draw.
Debbie now takes the closing balance straight off your uploaded statement, adds what you have taken in since, takes off what you have spent, reserves your tax and tells you what is genuinely safe to take out. Money owed on unpaid invoices shows separately and counts the moment your customer pays.
We found and fixed a bug where your mileage deduction was missing from your tax estimate, reports and totals. If you log business miles, your taxable profit is now lower and right. Your trips were always saved correctly, only the adding-up was wrong.
We found and fixed a bug where your mileage deduction was missing from your tax estimate, reports and totals. If you log business miles, your taxable profit is now lower and right. Your trips were always saved correctly, only the adding-up was wrong.
The top bar now stays pinned on every tab and pull-to-refresh works the same way across Home, Finances, Customers, Jobs and Payments, and Debbie remembers your place when you come back to a list.
If you drive for apps like Uber, Just Eat, Amazon Flex, Deliveroo or DoorDash, Debbie now spots those payments on your bank import and files them as your driver income automatically, all under one business, because every driving app is a single trade for tax.
Fixed the Download button doing nothing on some devices, and added Save to device so you can drop the PDF straight into Files or Photos, or share it on, on iPhone and Android as well as desktop.
Each business can now hold two logos: a square icon for the app and a wide banner letterhead for your paperwork, so your invoices carry a proper header without squashing your logo.
You can now style your paperwork per business: choose a colour scheme, portrait or landscape, which logo to show, where the header sits and which details to include, with a live preview. The default looks great, so you only change what you want.
Fixed the mileage counter and start reading appearing to reset to zero when you switched business for the same car. It now always shows that car's real running total.
If you use the same vehicle for more than one of your businesses, its mileage and its 10,000 mile 55p band now roll across all of them, matching the HMRC rule of one band per vehicle, and you can say which businesses use each vehicle.
Mileage now suggests places you have driven before, and when you use the odometer it takes your private miles off the business total for you, so a shift takes seconds to log.
A Record mileage shortcut on your dashboard takes you straight to the mileage recorder, so logging a trip is one tap away.
Your reliefs and pension figures are now set per tax year with a sticky year selector, and the settings are split so your situation lives on the Account tab while only the things that cut your bill live under Cut My Tax Bill. Every field has a tap-for-more explanation.
Before you download your Accountant Pack, Debbie now runs a quick check for anything missing, like a pension, PAYE, property or a gap in your bank records, so you do not file with a hole in your figures.
The Accountant Pack now includes a plain guide to filing the return yourself, ordered exactly like the HMRC online form, so you can copy each figure into the right box if you are not using an accountant.
Tax taken off your PAYE wages or pension is now credited against your Self Assessment bill, in the estimate, the accountant pack and the final figure, so you are never asked to pay it twice.
You can now add your State Pension and other pensions, and Debbie folds them into your tax estimate so the figure reflects your whole income, not just self-employment.
Storage went up across the board, so there is more room for your receipts and statements: 200MB on Solo, 400MB on Duo and 600MB on Triple.
A new My Uploads area lets you see and open every receipt, statement and document you have added, viewing images and PDFs full screen in place, with a plain guide to what belongs where.
Fixed a case where a newer Monzo export could turn expenses into income. Debbie now trusts the signed amount, so money in and money out are always the right way round.
Money paid in through a card reader or processor like SumUp, Zettle, Square or Stripe is now always treated as your business takings, with the fees kept separate, so your income is never mistaken for a personal transfer.
Debbie now remembers how you have categorised a payment before and applies the same answer next time, so your regular income and costs land in the right place automatically and you correct them less and less.
You can now read, edit and copy the full note and hashtags on each transaction, both on the upload review cards and in the Finances editor, so an unsure row is easy to fix and your changes are saved.
A duplicate scanner spots the same payment imported twice, even across different file formats, and lets you remove it. If two identical payments on the same day are both genuine, you can keep both and Debbie will not flag them again.
You can now upload your bank statement as a PDF, QIF, OFX or QFX file as well as CSV, from Monzo, Starling, Barclays, NatWest and any UK bank. Debbie reads the transactions the same safe way and checks them against your statement balance before saving.
If you are on a Solo plan and switch on rental income, Debbie now explains a property counts as its own paid slot and prompts you to move up to Duo first, so your rental is set up on the right plan from the start.
Onboarding now has options for online content creators, streamers, influencers, video and music editors and artists, alongside delivery and gig drivers. If you earn without an on-site job, Debbie points you to uploading your bank statement and setting your tax, rather than the quoting and job screens you do not need.
Logging a trip is quicker: Debbie remembers places you have driven to and suggests them, subtracts any private miles from your total, adds a shortcut to record mileage straight from your dashboard, and shows a tip on what else you can claim on top of the flat rate.
Your mileage log and the mileage PDF now label every trip and cost with the business it was for, so if you run more than one trade you see the split at a glance and nothing is blended by mistake.
The Accountant Pack now includes a plain-English numbered guide to filing your own return, laid out in the same order as the questions online, so you can hand it to an accountant or do it yourself and keep the fee.
Before you download your Accountant Pack, Debbie now runs a completeness check and flags anything easy to forget, pension income, a PAYE job, landlord certificates or a gap in your bank records, each with a link straight to where to fix it. It is a nudge, not a blocker.
The Cut My Tax Bill screen now works one tax year at a time. Pick a year from the selector pinned at the top and every figure below, pensions, Gift Aid, Rent a Room, property allowance and Marriage Allowance, loads and saves for that year, with a single Save button for the whole tab.
Tax taken off at source, PAYE from a job and tax on a pension, is now credited against your Self Assessment bill automatically, so you are never asked to pay twice on income HMRC has already taxed. If more was taken than due it shows as a refund.
You can now record pension income you receive, the State Pension plus an armed forces, private, workplace or emergency services pension, each in its own box. It is added to your estimate as taxable income with no National Insurance, and kept separate from a pension you pay into which lowers your bill.
If you run more than one business, each business logo now saves in its own place, so uploading a logo for one business never overwrites another.
New members now get a friendly welcome email when they join, and a confirmation when their subscription starts, so it is clear you are all set up.
The My Uploads area is cleaner and easier to follow, and when a section is empty it tells you in plain English exactly where to go to add that kind of file.
You can now pull down to refresh on every screen, and it looks and works the same across the whole app.
The header now stays fixed at the top as you scroll on every screen, and when you nip into Settings and back Debbie remembers exactly where you were, so you never lose your place.
A new setting lets you decide whether Debbie support can securely open your account to help fix an issue. It is on by default so we can help quickly, and you can turn it off any time in Settings.
New to Debbie, your dashboard now shows a few plain-English tips for your first week to help you find your feet, and you can switch them off in Settings whenever you like.
Cancelling your subscription never deletes anything. You keep full access until your paid period ends, then Debbie stays read-only so you can still view and download everything, and you can resubscribe any time and carry on where you left off. We also send a friendly confirmation when you cancel.
If you ever ask to close your Debbie account you now have a full 30 days to change your mind. Just log back in and choose Keep my account, and nothing is lost.
You get a congratulations email every time someone you referred becomes a paying member, showing your progress towards 12 and your ten pound thank you credit. Reach 12 and Debbie is free, and if you ever dip below, the warning email explains exactly how the 14 day grace period gives you time to recover.
The jobs search now matches the customer name as well as the job title and notes, so typing Dave finds all of Daves jobs.
Long lists now load 30 at a time with a Show more button, so every screen stays quick no matter how many customers or jobs you have. Debbie also remembers how far down you were when you hop into a record and back.
Customers, Jobs, Invoices and Quotes now have a sort menu, A to Z, most recent, highest value and more. Debbie remembers your choice for each screen so it is always how you left it.
If your account is free, you can now choose whether it shows as Solo, Duo or Triple in Settings, purely a label for your own reference, it never changes how many businesses you can run.
Your referral list in Settings now shows each person's email address alongside a green or grey dot for whether they are currently an active paying subscriber, so you can see at a glance who counts towards your rewards.
Refer enough people and your own subscription can be free indefinitely. Once you have 12 people who signed up on your link and are still paying, your subscription is cancelled and you stop being charged for as long as you keep 12 or more going. If your count briefly dips below 12, you get a 14-day grace period before anything changes, so one quiet month never costs you your free access.
If you try to claim both the mileage rate and actual running costs for the same vehicle in the same tax year, Debbie now shows a clear warning explaining you can only use one method, rather than letting the figures quietly go wrong.
Your full mileage log for a vehicle and tax year can now be downloaded as a ready-to-file PDF, straight from the Mileage screen.
If you run more than one business, you can now pick which one a trip belongs to right there in Log a Trip, instead of it always landing against whichever business you currently have open.
Log a trip on the same date as a job you had booked or completed and Debbie now offers to link the two automatically, so a day's mileage and the work it was for stay connected without any extra tapping.
For a shift with lots of stops, read your odometer before setting off and again at the end and Debbie works out your business miles for you, rather than logging every individual trip by hand.
If you log trips on a motorcycle or bicycle, including an e-bike, Debbie now uses the correct flat mileage rate for that vehicle instead of the car and van rate, 24p a mile for a motorcycle and 20p for a bicycle, with no 10,000 mile threshold since that only applies to cars and vans.
Patch notes on the website now collapse into tidy months, with the newest month open and older ones tucked away, so the page stays a manageable length as updates pile up.
A few pages wrongly said no card was needed for the free trial, a card is required to start but you are never charged until the 30 days are up. Also fixed an outdated competitor price on the compare page.
The materials calculator promo shown around the app and website now reads Always free rather than Try it free, since no account is needed to use it at all.
The Dashboard, Features, Compare, What's New, FAQ and Calculator links at the bottom of Settings are now a single tidy row, they used to wrap awkwardly onto three uneven lines on narrower phones.
The What's New page's content is now built directly into the page itself rather than loaded afterwards, so search engines and link previews can actually see and index the updates listed there.
Fixed a security setting on the website that was silently blocking the What's New page from loading the latest updates, it was showing Couldn't load updates right now for everyone.
Add any gates in the run and their width comes off the panels needed, while the post count stays accurate to the full run length.
Same as the bricks calculator, you can now add any doors or windows and their area is deducted from the wall before working out how much paint or how many boards you need.
Changed the paint type picker from a row of buttons to a dropdown list, so all the options are easy to read and tap on a phone screen.
The C button next to Inputs now properly blanks every number box, some fields like coats, coverage and wastage were quietly resetting to their starting number instead of clearing fully.
Choose a paint type, emulsion, new plaster, masonry, primer or gloss, and the coverage rate is filled in automatically instead of you needing to already know it. You can still adjust it if your tin says something different.
Fixed the Everything you need to run your business feature list looking off centre on desktop, the box now hugs its own content and sits properly centred.
Pick a cement to sand mix ratio and the calculator now also tells you how many bags of cement and how much sand you'll need, worked out from the same brick and joint dimensions.
Add any doors or windows in the wall and their area comes off the total automatically, so the bricks needed figure reflects the real wall rather than treating it as one solid rectangle.
The bricks and mortar calculator no longer needs you to already know a bricks per square metre figure. Choose standard, tall or oversized brick, or a block, and it works the number out from the real dimensions and mortar joint, single or double skin.
Added a dedicated calculator page at debbieapp.co.uk/calculator with a real working four function calculator you can type into with your keyboard, plus a scrollable history of your past sums. Each material type links straight to its own calculator in the app rather than the general tool.
Fixed a bug where opening the materials calculator while signed in with an active plan could still show the login and sign up buttons and the promotional slides meant for visitors. It now correctly recognises an active subscription or trial.
Business cards in Settings now show key details (rate, markup, VAT, trading dates, contact and payment info where set) without needing to open Edit. Also fixed the footer links wrapping oddly on some screen widths.
Fixed a few small display issues on the Self-Employment tax summary, box numbers and figures now line up consistently, and added a plain English explainer under the tax adjustments card so it's clearer what that step is doing.
Fixed a case where a bank payment could show as matching a logged job cost that did not actually exist. The tag now only appears when there is a genuine matching cost, so nothing is ever hidden from your figures by mistake.
After you approve a bank CSV, the list of imported files now updates straight away, so you can see it has saved instead of wondering whether it worked and uploading it again.
Fixed a problem where approving transactions from a bank CSV could fail with an error. Imports save reliably again.
If you file your taxes outside the UK, Debbie now shows your own currency throughout instead of pounds, and tucks away the UK-only tax screens that do not apply to you. Picking your country sets the right currency automatically.
If you run more than one business, each one now has its own start and stop trading dates in its own edit panel, instead of a single shared pair that made no sense across several trades. Debbie uses them to mark quarters outside a business's trading window as not required in Reports.
The pension setting now makes clear it is only for a personal pension you pay into yourself, not a workplace pension taken from a PAYE salary, which already gets its relief through payroll. Marriage Allowance now explains the toggle only affects your estimate, and links you to apply on GOV.UK.
Debbie now tells you whether claiming the flat one thousand pound property allowance or your actual expenses saves you more, based on your real figures, and lets you switch with one tap. You can only claim one of the two, never both.
The tax settings are reorganised. The things that just describe your situation, whether you file UK tax, VAT, CIS, Scotland, rental income, student loan and Child Benefit, now live on the Account tab, and Cut My Tax Bill holds only the reliefs that actually lower your bill. Every field now has a tap-for-more info button explaining what it is and when it applies.
If a month's rent arrives as more than one payment, say a thousand pounds and then a hundred, Debbie now adds them together and settles that month as paid, instead of leaving it looking unpaid. Your rental income total was always right, now the rent tracker is too.
When a mortgage payment appears on a bank import, Debbie now offers to set up or update that property's mortgage details for you, filling in the lender and the payment it can see, so you never miss claiming your interest relief. It only ever saves when you tap to confirm, never behind your back.
Every rental property has its own mortgage details and its own annual statement. Upload your yearly mortgage statement and Debbie reads the exact interest straight off it, which is the figure that counts for your final tax bill, and it reminds you each year to upload it. There is a shortcut to it on your dashboard.
If you are a landlord with a repayment mortgage, Debbie can now work out the tax-deductible interest from your rate, remaining balance and monthly payment, covering both fixed and tracker deals, so you no longer have to read it off a statement. When it spots a mortgage payment on a bank import, it fills the figure in for you.
Selecting your landlord business on the Finances screen could fail to load the income and spending totals. Sorted.
Landlords get one-tap shortcuts for recording rent received, uploading a bank statement, scanning a receipt and jumping to properties, straight from the dashboard.
Each property now shows the rent, due day and tenancy start date at a glance, with a nudge if rent tracking is not set up yet.
The transaction review now uses the whole screen, the account box scrolls away once you are done with it, transaction names show in full instead of being cut off, and cards stay where they are while you edit them.
If you file tax outside the UK and picked your currency in Settings, every screen and PDF now shows it. UK users stay in pounds throughout.
The AI now spots tenancy deposits (held money, not income), routes bills mentioning your rental addresses to your landlord business, treats bank interest as personal, and gives identical monthly payments identical answers.
Expenses on your landlord business from a bank statement, repairs, insurance, safety certificates, now file under your property tax pages automatically instead of your trade accounts.
Own a property with a partner? Set your share on the property and your tax figures automatically count only your half of the rent and costs, HMRC style. Couples are usually 50/50 unless HMRC agreed a different split.
Debbie now asks one simple question about your mortgage, if it is interest-only the whole payment counts, if not just tell her the interest part once and she remembers it for that lender. Only the interest earns tax relief, so you will never overclaim.
If you picked the wrong business when adding a customer, job, invoice or quote, the Move and Copy buttons now work properly instead of showing an error.
Picking a single business now works properly across all Reports tabs, including your quarterly figures while direct HMRC sending is switched off. Minus amounts show the right way round, like -£50.00, and a few layout niggles are tidied up.
You'll spot a soft glow on the tab you're on and under the app's main buttons, and the money card on your home screen has a bit more depth. Same Debbie, just dressed up for launch week.
An unusual invisible character could occasionally crash a save if it ended up in a name or note field. Any request containing one is now rejected cleanly instead.
An unrealistically large job value, for example an extra zero typed by mistake, could previously cause a server error. It's now rejected cleanly with a message instead.
Tightened up checks so a credit note, job or quote can only ever be linked to your own invoices and your own businesses, never someone else's.
Deleting a credit note previously removed it permanently with no way to get it back. It now goes to Recently Deleted for 30 days, the same as customers and jobs.
Added extra protection so a retried Stripe notification, such as a subscription payment confirmation, can never be processed twice.
Transactions recorded in the last hour of the old tax year, during British Summer Time, could occasionally be filed under the wrong tax year or MTD quarter. Fixed so the boundary always follows UK clock time, not server time.
A job could previously be saved with a negative total value by mistake. These are now rejected with a clear message instead of being saved.
Recording a payment twice in quick succession, such as a fat fingered double tap on Mark as paid, could occasionally let both go through and show an invoice as overpaid. Now only one is ever accepted.
Raising several invoices at the exact same moment, or on a shaky connection that retries a request, could occasionally give two invoices the same number. Fixed with proper locking so every invoice always gets its own unique number, however quickly you're working.
Take one upfront payment for a fixed set of sessions, such as 10 physio sessions or a month of dog walks, and Debbie books every session in and draws them down as you deliver them. No separate invoice needed per session, it is already paid for.
Tap a recurring job to see the whole series in one animated timeline. Add to Calendar now uses real recurring calendar rules, so it repeats correctly in Google Calendar or Apple Calendar instead of adding one-off events.
Set a job to repeat daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, annually or on a custom schedule. Completing one occurrence automatically books the next as its own separate job, so nothing needs re-entering for your regular customers.
Debbie now automatically uses cash basis accounting and a consolidated expenses view for everyone, rather than asking you to choose an accounting method up front.
Added support for recording pension contributions and Gift Aid donations, which reduce the tax you owe, ready to include in your Final Declaration.
The Home Office and Property reports could show a page-not-found error on certain tax years, caused by how the year was encoded in the link. Fixed.
Mileage, Working From Home, Tools & Equipment and Refunds now sit directly inline in Cut My Tax Bill instead of behind separate shortcut cards, and the Student Loan field only shows once you tell Debbie you have one.
Fixed wording on the Final Declaration checklist that could be misread as more complete than it actually was, and added disclaimers to Cut My Tax Bill and Reports about reliefs that need extra care.
A new section pulling together every tax-saving option in one place: mileage, working from home, tools and equipment, refunds, pension and Gift Aid, so you can see what you are claiming at a glance. It lives inside Settings rather than as a separate page.
Customers, Jobs, Payments, Finances and Reports now all share the same header style, business switcher and layout.
If you also have a PAYE job alongside your self-employment, you can now add that income for the relevant tax year so Debbie's tax estimates account for it properly.
The admin revenue dashboard now shows paying vs trial subscriber counts separately, and plan interval now displays correctly for trialling users too. Internal only.
A new-subscription webhook from Stripe was not always being handled, and failures for an unmatched customer were not logged. Both are fixed.
Behind the scenes, the admin panel gained a full user detail view (businesses, subscription, activity, impersonation), full inline editing, an audit trail, data export, delete confirmations with a 30-day recycle bin, user ban/suspend, and a revenue dashboard. This is internal only, you will not see any of it inside the app.
Fixed a crash caused by old cached data in Settings, it now heals itself automatically instead.
When a new version of Debbie is ready, you will now see a banner prompting you to refresh, instead of carrying on with a stale cached version.
If you log cash income that looks like it matches a bank deposit you have already imported, Debbie now warns you so you do not count it twice.
Vehicle costs are now attributed to the correct business rather than being miscounted when you run more than one.
Refunds & Cancelled Invoices, Cash Jobs, Working From Home, Property income/expenses and VAT Return were all crashing due to a missing address prefix on those routes. All five are fixed.
Landlord businesses now get a void-cost figure alongside void days, a flag for whether a property cost is capital or revenue for tax purposes, and reminders when a compliance certificate such as gas safety or an EICR is due, scanned straight from a photo.
Added dedicated Property and Tenancy records so a landlord business can track void periods, tenancy history and property-specific costs properly, rather than everything living on a generic job.
If one of your businesses is a rental property, Debbie now speaks your language: Customers become Tenants, Jobs become Maintenance, and job costs count towards your property expenses instead of your trade expenses.
Amount columns across the app now line up properly using tabular figures, instead of drifting out of line as the digits changed.
Added the fields Debbie needs to reconcile a scanned receipt or a manually added material against a matching bank transaction, so nothing gets counted twice.
The Transactions tab, now renamed Bank, lets you search and browse past months instead of only showing the current one. The Costs tab got the same update.
Fixed several places where saving a change, such as editing a bank transaction or a customer's notes, did not refresh the screen to show it had actually saved.
Software subscriptions, vehicle vs business insurance, and payment processing fees are now categorised correctly when Debbie auto-categorises your bank import.
Fixed duplicate business selectors on Finances, a stale business tag after renaming a business, and a scroll conflict between the filter pills and swiping between tabs.
Each business can have its own invoice bank account, rather than one shared bank account for your whole Debbie account.
Every new customer or job now asks which business it's for, and you can move existing customers, jobs, quotes and invoices to a different business later if you picked wrong.
Fixed a bug where your quarterly submission could silently ignore which business you had selected.
These now match the same style as Privacy Policy and Terms of Service instead of navigating you away from what you were doing.
Fixed the business switcher being inconsistent across screens, business logos not showing on list rows, and header buttons clipping on smaller phones.
If you downgrade below your business count, Debbie locks the extra business read-only and lets you choose which one to keep, then schedules the change for your renewal date rather than cutting you off immediately.
Switching or cancelling your plan now shows a preview of what changes before you confirm, and the cancellation messaging is clearer about what happens to your data.
These areas were not consistently tagging or filtering by your active business. Fixed so every business's figures stay separate and accurate.
Your business profile, trades, logo and address now live together on the Businesses tab instead of being split across two separate places.
The on-screen cash payment receipt was showing a blank business name and address. It now shows correctly.
Your business logo and address now show consistently on every invoice, quote and receipt, whether emailed, viewed as a PDF, or printed. Wide, banner-shaped logos now display properly too, they used to get squashed into a small square.
Every job now has an Email Quote and Print Quote button on its Quoted screen, so you can send it to a customer or print it on a Bluetooth till printer without going into the Quotes tab.
If you're partway through a new job, quote, invoice or customer and accidentally swipe back or hit the nav bar, Debbie now asks whether to discard or keep editing, instead of losing what you typed.
Add site photos to a job, or survey photos to a quote before you send it. Quote photos are included right in the email your customer receives.
Added support for annual submissions, periods of account, and amending a submission after it has been finalised, in line with HMRC's Making Tax Digital requirements.
Added a note on the Reports page explaining which income types are not currently mandated for Making Tax Digital, with a link to the official GOV.UK guidance.
Fixed a bug where your upcoming tax deadlines were not displaying properly due to an incorrect connection to HMRC's systems. Your quarterly and annual deadlines now show accurately, pulled directly from HMRC.
Sold or stopped a business? Record the date it ended for your final tax return, and Debbie nudges you to move to a smaller plan if you are paying for more than you use.
Search on your Customers and Jobs now runs across every record, not just the ones on screen, so it stays quick even with thousands of them.
Without a subscription you can still look around Debbie and see your figures. A banner shows how to start your free month or resubscribe when you are ready.
If you go to cancel we now show your options first, download your data, move to a smaller plan or pause your billing while you are away and pick up where you left off.
Grab a zip of all your data any time, one folder per business with your figures, logo and every receipt. It is yours to keep whether or not you subscribe.
You can now record the hours a week you work in each business. If you work under ten hours a week in one, Debbie applies HMRC's £25,000 cap on setting that loss against your other income.
The Businesses screen now walks you through registering with HMRC, getting your UTR and signing up for Making Tax Digital, with a reminder that each business must be registered before Debbie can file for it.
If you run more than one business, your Accountant Pack gives HMRC a separate SA103F page for each trade with one combined tax calculation. It also shows a capital account summary and your loss relief details.
Share a cost like a phone bill across your businesses by percentage or a set amount. Once a quarter is filed with HMRC it locks, so your figures stay right.
When you import a bank CSV you can name the account and tick which businesses use it, so each account only ever shows its own businesses.
Bought a laptop or van used across more than one business? You can now split what you claim between each business and any personal use, so the tax relief lands in the right place.
When you trade under a business name, invoices and quotes now show it as Your Name trading as Your Business, matching HMRC rules for sole traders.
Upload a different logo for each business, so your invoices and quotes show the right branding for the job.
Choose which business shows first, then switch between them or view them all on any screen. Whatever you pick sticks until you change it.
You can now run up to three separate businesses in one Debbie account, each with its own customers, invoices, figures and tax. Sign-up asks how your work is set up and suggests the right plan for you.
Got more than one trade? Debbie can now run up to three separate businesses in a single account on the new Duo and Triple plans. Each business is filed to HMRC on its own with its own quarterly updates, while your VAT and tax are still worked out across everything together. Switch between them with the new business switcher on Reports, see them side by side in one overview, give each its own name and details on its invoices, then manage them all under Settings, Businesses. If you run just the one business, nothing changes for you.
A few neatening touches: the booked in reminder now sits on its own row on your job cards so nothing gets squashed, the master Delete all option has its own clear heading row, and the header on the materials card no longer wraps awkwardly on smaller phones.
Refreshed the help content on Jobs and Finances and fixed missing help on Settings and VAT Return. Also fixed the text size setting not resizing subtitles and labels, and stopped it silently resetting after a refresh. Names and titles on your Customers, Jobs, Quotes and Property lists no longer get awkwardly cut off, and invoice numbers no longer wrap badly.
Swiping across the the app to navigate left and right now moves in the direction you expect and does not trigger from the edge of the screen to allow gesture control of smart phone as well as swiping through the app at the same time
Moving between tabs now shows a proper page turn animation instead of just appearing, and Debbie now quietly loads your data in the background as soon as you log in, so tabs open instantly instead of showing a loading spinner.
Money across receipts and materials now always rounds properly to the nearest penny, and every amount displays to two decimal places everywhere in the app, so what you see always matches what is saved.
If you scan a receipt for something that also appears in your imported bank statement, Debbie now recognises it as the same purchase instead of counting it twice. Card payments are matched to your bank line and cash purchases stay on the receipt, so your totals and your tax figures stay accurate.
If you edited a material that came from a scanned receipt, Debbie could accidentally add your markup a second time and push the figure up. That is fixed, so editing an item now keeps the price exactly right.
You no longer have to open a job first. The Finances tab now has the same quick receipt scanner as the job screen, so you can snap a receipt the moment you get it and sort out where it belongs afterwards.
You can now delete a single receipt, and everything it added, with a clear two step confirmation, or bulk delete materials from a receipt or a whole job in one go. Every material now shows its quantity and unit price too, and the AI scanner handles multi buy offers and damaged receipts far better than before.
Typing an amount with a stray comma or an extra decimal point could quietly get recorded as the wrong figure. Every amount field across Debbie, payments, invoices, expenses, jobs and more, now checks what you type and asks you to fix it rather than guessing, so your figures are always accurate.
If you cancel your subscription and come back within 7 days, your loyalty progress picks up right where it left off, no reset. Take longer than a week and the clock starts fresh, same as before.
Reference numbers are now counted per account, so your invoice, quote and job numbers always run in your own tidy sequence and can never clash with another tradesperson's. Your numbering stays neat and predictable.
A rare mix up meant recording a payment on certain jobs could show an error instead of saving. This is now fixed everywhere, invoices, receipts and quotes, so your payment always goes through and saves properly.
The first 100 people to sign up get an extra welcome reward on us. And near the end of your free trial, Debbie now emails you a friendly reminder so there are never any surprises.
You can now subscribe to Debbie right from the app, no more waiting on us. Pick monthly at £10 or annual at £90 (that is two months free), with a 30 day free trial either way. Got a referral code from a mate already using Debbie? Pop it in at checkout and you will both be rewarded. Stick around for a full year and Debbie says thank you with a loyalty reward too.
A round of polish across the app. Delete and cancel buttons are now a clear red and edit pencils a clear green, so the small icons are easy to pick out on the dark screens. And the receipt scanner on your Costs page now clearly says Scan, so there is no guessing what it does.
If you are VAT registered, you can now split the reclaimable VAT as you add a material, with a quick No VAT, 5 percent, or 20 percent pick. Debbie records your net cost and tracks the VAT ready for your VAT Return, so a hand-typed material is every bit as accurate as a scanned one. Not VAT registered? Nothing changes, your figures stay exactly as they were.
Debbie now joins the dots for you. Scan a receipt today, upload your bank statement next month, and if the same purchase shows up on both, Debbie quietly matches them so it is only ever counted once. Your bank statement is treated as the truth for anything paid by card, and cash purchases, which never appear on the bank, keep counting on their own. However you record a cost, by scan, by hand, or by bank import, or all three at once, your figures stay right to the penny with no effort from you.
This is the big one. Point your camera at any receipt and Debbie reads the whole thing in seconds, the shop, the date, and every item and price, then drops them straight onto your job as materials. No keying it in line by line, no shoebox of fading receipts. It crops and cleans up the photo for you, warns you if the numbers do not add up, spots likely duplicates, and remembers your regular suppliers so it gets sharper the more you use it. On a site with no signal? Snap it anyway and it saves itself the moment you are back online. Your original photo is kept safe and private as your proof of purchase. This is your paperwork done at the counter, before you have even put your card away.
New, for VAT-registered users: Debbie now works out your full VAT Return. Pick a period and it shows all nine VAT100 boxes, the VAT you charged on sales less the VAT you can reclaim on purchases, with the net figure you owe HMRC (or they owe you) at the bottom. Scanned receipts now split the VAT out automatically, so your costs go in net and the reclaimable VAT is tracked for you. Download it as a CSV or print it to PDF to check over or hand to your accountant. It is calculated for you to file, Debbie does not send it to HMRC yet. Not VAT registered? Nothing changes, your figures stay exactly as they were.
New: point your camera at any receipt and Debbie reads it for you. Every line item, the supplier, the date and the totals get pulled off automatically, then you just check them and save straight into a job's materials or as a general expense. It spots likely duplicates, remembers your regular suppliers, handles foreign currencies, and on CIS jobs it can count the materials towards your job total so they are left out of the deduction. No signal on site? Snap it anyway and it queues up, then saves itself when you are back online. Your receipt photos are private to you and no one else can see them.
Typing your address and picking it from a list now works for every country, not only the UK, it searches within your own country as you type.
Debbie's country list has grown from a shortlist of major markets to 191 countries, each with the right currency and postcode term, so it works properly as a worldwide admin and invoicing tool, not just a UK one.
If your bank details are an IBAN rather than a UK sort code and account number, your downloaded invoice PDF now shows your payment details properly, it was silently leaving that section blank before.
If you're outside the UK, Debbie now shows your own country's real term for a postcode (PLZ, Código postal, and so on) instead of the generic English word, and your business address has its own proper Country field.
The Jobs, Payments, Customers and Reports labels at the bottom of the app now stay on screen all the time, not just when you tap into that section.
If you switch off UK tax filing in Settings, Debbie now adapts your bank details and address to your country, so IBANs, routing numbers, ZIP codes and the rest all work. UK users see no change.
Your invoices now show who to pay and a payment reference to quote, on the PDF as well as the email and the online invoice, so customers pay you correctly first time. Set the exact name customers should pay in Settings, under Bank Details.
Every update now shows whether it is new, improved or fixed, with the date and time it landed, and you can filter the list by area.
We audited the tax working against HMRC rules for 2025/26 and 2026/27 and fixed several edge cases, so your estimates are more accurate.
New Accountant Pack: a tidy PDF and CSV of your Self Assessment figures you can email straight to your accountant, alongside filing to HMRC yourself.
Uploading bank statements now supports more banks, never duplicates transactions when you re-upload overlapping dates, and categorises your spending more accurately.
You can now book a job in with a date and an optional time, add it to your phone or Google calendar, and get a what is on today email at 6:30am on the day.
The labels under the bottom navigation buttons now always show, so it is easier to see where each one takes you.
Fixed a fault that stopped the Report a bug or issue form in Settings from sending. It now saves and gets through to us properly.
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