Updates

Add stops to your trips, use more than one mileage rate in a year, remove several categorising rules at once, and Brick Books can now close itself when you close its tabs. Plus Square sync fixed and a batch of fixes.

• New Add stops to your trips and type any address for places you haven’t saved. In Record a Trip, press + Add a Stop for each place along the way. The distance is worked out leg by leg and shown before you save.
• New Use different mileage rates during the same year, based on the trip date or chosen manually for each trip. In the Travel Log, under More Than One Rate, press + Add Another Mileage Rate.
• New Remove several categorising rules at once without being sent back to the top of the page. Tick the rules, then press Remove Selected.
• New Brick Books can close itself automatically 5 minutes after you close its browser tabs. Turn it off in Licence & Help, under When You Close the Tabs, if you use Brick Books from a phone or tablet while the computer is left running.
• Improved Stripe setup now explains the one permission your key needs, so you know exactly what to select.
• Improved Moving your Documents folder now moves everything together, keeping all your Brick Books Documents in one place.
• Improved Mileage rates can now include part cents, such as 72.5c.
• Improved Set Up name fields now start empty.
• Fixed Square orders can now be saved when you sync. An issue was stopping them before.
• Fixed Renamed accounts stay renamed instead of reappearing as duplicate accounts.
• Fixed The Travel Log step in Set Up now ticks off when you press Save.
• Fixed Update buttons now line up properly.
• Fixed Changing only a trip’s purpose no longer replaces a distance you entered yourself.

Split one receipt across several categories, type your own distance for a saved route, select and delete many entries at once, and a small taskbar window instead of the black one. Plus a batch of fixes.

• New Split one receipt across several categories. In Money In & Out, open a purchase and press Split This Purchase. Give each part its own category, including Personal spending for anything that was not for the business. The parts must add up to the receipt, and they all keep the receipt attached.
• New Enter your own distance for a saved route. In the Travel Log, under Distances Already Worked Out, press Change. New trips between those places use your figure, and you can set the trip back to match.
• New Select All and Deselect All in Money In & Out tick or untick every entry shown, and Delete Selected deletes the ticked entries after taking a full backup first.
• New Brick Books now runs from a small window on your taskbar, with the brick logo, instead of a black console window. Use its buttons to open Brick Books in your browser or to quit.
• New Import layouts are remembered. Match a file’s columns once, and the next file with the same columns is matched for you.
• New Check My Books: genuine double-ups can be ticked and marked as reviewed, so they stop being listed. Nothing in your books changes.
• New Stocktake prices to three decimal places, like BrickLink. Switch it on in Set Up, beside Currency.
• Improved A clearer update screen, showing what is new in each update.
• Improved Set Up suggests a January business year for sellers in the United States, until the year has been confirmed.
• Improved Licence & Help has a See All Updates link, and Questions and Answers is now Frequently Asked Questions.
• Improved Buttons and headings use Title Case throughout.
• Fixed Stripe: a fee Stripe gave back on a refund was recorded as a second fee, and money returned after a dispute was recorded as a cost. Both are now recorded the right way round from your next sync.
• Fixed PayPal: the fee PayPal gives back on a refund was charged again. It now reduces your fees.
• Fixed Imported dates written out in full, such as 15 September 2026, were skipped. They are now read.
• Fixed A cancelled marketplace order was flagged for review again on every sync, even after you had confirmed it. It is now flagged once.
• Fixed Brick Owl orders marked Payment Submitted were recorded as paid before the payment cleared. They now come in once the payment is received.
• Fixed Choosing a later year in the year menu could change which year your books start from. The two are now kept apart.
• Fixed Receipt reading now fills in the tax from the receipt.
• Fixed The Dashboard no longer counts receipts you have already recorded by hand as unread, and its stocktake and Back Up Now links open the right screens.
• Fixed Brick Owl orders from earlier versions that were still flagged for review are now split into goods and postage on your next sync, as long as you have not edited them.
• Fixed The end of financial year pack shows the travel rate in dollars and cents instead of cents.

Connect more than one Stripe account, record free orders, choose your date format, and Brick Owl orders now split into goods and postage properly.

• New More than one Stripe account. On the Stripe card under API Keys, press Add Another Stripe Account to connect up to six. Sync Now brings in every account, and each one keeps its own place in your books.
• New A Date Format setting in Set Up, under Your Business: Day/Month/Year or Month/Day/Year. Dates throughout Brick Books are shown that way, and it is used when reading dates in files you import.
• New Change Who Was It? on many entries at once. In Money In & Out, tick the entries, type the name in the bar that appears, and press Set Who Was It?.
• Fixed Brick Owl orders were recorded as one lump of goods income and flagged for review whenever they had postage. They now split into goods and postage. Orders brought in earlier are split on your next sync, as long as you have not edited them.
• Fixed Brick Owl coupons are now taken off the order correctly, and tax that Brick Owl collects is kept out of your income.
• Fixed Free orders, such as LEGO® orders paid entirely with points, can now be recorded with an amount of 0.
• Fixed For a business year that starts in a month other than July, the Dashboard’s Spending Throughout the Year calendar and the Monthly Checklist now follow your own year.
• Fixed Dates in imported files that include a time, such as shipping label exports, are now read correctly, and Brick Books asks which way round they are written when the file does not make it clear.
• Fixed Confirming an imported entry, or changing its supplier, no longer lets the same entry come in again from a later file that overlaps.
• Improved The daily update check now also says whether this copy is on the free trial or licensed. No licence key, licence ID or name is sent.

Receipts and syncing behave more reliably, and the Licence card now shows when your licence was activated.

• Fixed Leaving the Connectors screen while a sync was running could make it look as though the sync had stopped, allowing Sync Now to be pressed again. Returning to the screen now shows the sync still running, and the result appears when it finishes.
• Fixed Saving an Anthropic key now updates the Receipts screen immediately. Previously, the screen could still say receipt reading was not set up even though it was working.
• Fixed PDF receipts are now sent to the review panel to be shown by your browser’s PDF viewer, instead of only displaying an Open link. If your browser’s PDF viewer is switched off, the Open link is still there.
• Improved The Licence card now shows Date Activated instead of Runs Until: Never Expires. The reminder that your books always remain accessible now only appears when no licence is active.
• Improved Every main box now has the thin rainbow trim along its top edge, except the Dashboard’s Things Worth a Look section.
• Improved The optional Driving Distances key now sits under an Advanced heading at the bottom of the API Keys screen.
• Improved Notes on BrickLink and Brick Owl orders are clearer. Brick Owl orders with a breakdown that does not match the total now explain that the full amount was recorded as goods income and may need to be split manually.
• Improved Licence labels and buttons now use Title Case: Licence Key, Add Licence and Replace Licence Key.
• Improved The update pop-up, Dashboard help text, and the small note under Use a Backup File From Somewhere Else have all been clarified.

Red messages now stay on screen until you dismiss them.

• Improved Red messages now stay on screen until you dismiss them with the small x, instead of disappearing after a few seconds. Other messages still go by themselves.

Updating from inside Brick Books now installs properly and reopens the program when it is finished.

• Fixed Pressing Update Now could stall during installation and leave an empty Brick Books Software folder, with the previous version moved aside. Updates now install correctly and Brick Books reopens with its usual black window.
• Fixed If Brick Books was started without its black window, it could fail to finish opening and leave the browser stuck on Loading your books. Brick Books now starts correctly either way and opens its own window if one is not already there.
• Improved Update messages are clearer, including You are using 1.0.1, a better explanation of what Update Now does, and a simpler message once the downloaded update has been checked.
• Improved The trial-panel button now reads Enter a Licence Key.

BrickLink now connects properly, syncing several services in a row no longer gets stuck, and you can now buy a licence directly from inside Brick Books.

• Fixed BrickLink could fail to connect with a “parameter absent” error. It now connects correctly, and BrickLink errors are explained in plain English when a request is refused.
• Fixed Starting another service sync while one was already running could cause a “database is locked” error. Syncs now run one at a time. If you press Sync Now on another service, it waits for the current sync to finish and then starts automatically.
• Fixed Foreign-currency PayPal and Stripe entries now explain exactly what to do: check your statement and replace the recorded amount with what actually left your account in your own currency. Stripe fees in another currency are now also added to your review list.
• Fixed The Questions and Answers link under Licence & Help now opens the correct page.
• Fixed Adding or removing a licence key now updates the trial panel immediately.
• New A trial panel now appears at the bottom of the menu when there is no licence, showing the days remaining with Buy a Licence and Enter a Licence Key options.
• New Every connection card under Data & Imports now has its own Save Keys button.
• New Report a Problem now has its own place in the Admin menu. Tick the reply option and enter your email address if you would like a response. Otherwise, the report is sent anonymously.
• Improved Brick Books now offers new versions inside the program. When an update is available, you can choose Update Now or Remind Me Later. Nothing is installed unless you choose Update Now.
• Improved Settings & Data has been renamed Data & Imports.
• Improved Set Up and Tools now sit at the top of the Admin menu. Tools now uses tabs, and Suppliers lives there.
• Improved The documents-folder button is now called Confirm Folder Change, with a clearer explanation of what happens to your files.
• Improved The Receipts screen now has a Receipts Inbox heading with its own Check Inbox button, and shows No receipts pending when there is nothing waiting.
• Improved The READ ME FIRST file included with the download has been rewritten.

The first public release of Brick Books.

• New BrickLink, Brick Owl and Square order syncing, including filed and archived orders that are often missed by other tools.
• New Goods, postage and marketplace fees separated on imported orders so each part is recorded where it belongs.
• New Stripe, PayPal and Square fees matched back to the transactions they belong to.
• New Money In & Out, with detailed categories that also group neatly for your accountant.
• New Receipts automatically filed by date, supplier and amount into the correct financial year and month folder.
• New Optional receipt reading, so a photographed receipt can fill in its own date, supplier, total and tax.
• New Attach receipts and other documents to entries when you record them, then open them again later.
• New Stocktake, so stock still on hand is accounted for separately instead of being treated as stock already sold.
• New Travel Log, with driving distances calculated between saved places and remembered for next time, in kilometres or miles.
• New Sales Tax tracking for businesses that need it, and completely out of the way for those that do not.
• New Check My Books, with eight checks across your records and nothing changed without showing you first.
• New End-of-financial-year pack with profit and loss, trading stock, the full ledger, sales by channel, supporting detail and a ZIP of receipts matched back to their entries.
• New Monthly Checklist, so recurring expenses and missing records are easier to catch before year end.
• New Import from spreadsheets and bank CSV files, with a preview before anything is added and one-click undo for each import.
• New Backups, including complete database snapshots and spreadsheet copies you can store separately from Brick Books.
• New A full 14-day trial with no licence key, card or account required.
• New Optional access from your phone while connected through your own trusted network.
• New Support for nineteen currencies and financial years that can begin in whichever month applies to you.