BookBuilder v1.3 — Import pipeline, chart isolation, and PDF reporting

Release Date: 2026-03-26

TLDR: BookBuilder v1.3 makes day-to-day bookkeeping faster and more reliable. Bank statement imports are more accurate thanks to AI-powered reading of PDFs, sign-in keeps you working longer without interruptions, and saving transactions no longer makes the app feel frozen. Reports, the General Ledger, and Adjusting Entries all get useful upgrades too.

Highlights

• AI-powered bank statement reading for more accurate PDF imports, even on complex layouts.
• Stay signed in longer with extended sessions and a smoother experience when your session does expire.
• Saves feel instant — transactions now sync to the cloud quietly in the background.
• Memo column in the General Ledger, visible and editable right alongside your other transaction details.
• Balance Sheet across multiple years with Net Income that always matches the Income Statement.
• Adjusting Entries are easier to read and edit, including a full editable preview for repeating entries.

Detailed changelog

Bank statement imports

• Smarter PDF reading: Bank statement PDFs are now read using AI, which improves accuracy on complex layouts.
• Better handling of difficult statements: When a PDF doesn’t read cleanly the first time, BookBuilder automatically tries again with a second method to recover more transactions.
• Stronger duplicate detection: Imported rows are checked more carefully, so duplicates are caught more reliably.
• Clear messages for unsupported files: If you try to import a picture of a statement (such as a PNG or JPEG photo) or a QuickBooks .iif file, you’ll see a clear explanation instead of a confusing error. QuickBooks .iif files are no longer supported — please use PDF, CSV, or Excel instead.

Sign-in and sessions

• Longer sessions: You can now stay signed in for up to 8 hours, so you’re interrupted less often during a workday.
• Smoother session expiry: When your session does expire, BookBuilder takes you straight to the sign-in screen with a short note explaining why, instead of showing extra pop-ups to dismiss.
• Fewer pop-ups on startup: If you open BookBuilder after a long break and your session has expired, you’ll see one clean prompt to sign in again — not several stacked on top of each other.
• No more unexpected exits: Opening the app with an expired session no longer closes the app with a confusing “Cloud Required” error.

Saving and syncing

• Background saving: When you save transactions, BookBuilder now sends them to the cloud quietly in the background, so the app stays responsive instead of feeling frozen.
• Background setup for new clients: Creating a new client and saving big Chart of Accounts changes happen behind the scenes, so you can keep working.
• Delete Chart of Accounts entries: You can now delete accounts from the Chart of Accounts, with a confirmation step and proper cloud updates.

Reports

• Print to PDF: You can print any financial report to PDF directly from BookBuilder, with optional accounting-style header lines.
• Balance Sheet for any date range: The Balance Sheet now supports custom start and end dates, and the Net Income line always matches the Income Statement for the same period.
• Better fit on wide monitors: The transaction viewer inside Reports no longer looks squished or cuts off buttons on larger displays — a scrollbar keeps every transaction within reach.
• Cleaner editing in Reports: Saving edits in the inline transaction viewer now writes the correct debit, credit, and account values.
• Easier popup handling: Switching between accounts with and without transactions in Trial Balance, P&L, and Balance Sheet no longer leaves the popup stuck open without a close button.
• Memo column: Memo is now visible and editable directly inside the General Ledger and account editing views.

Adjusting Entries

• Easier to scan: The drill-down editor uses color to group lines that belong to the same journal entry, with clear balance summary rows.
• Repeating entries preview: When you set up a repeating adjusting entry, you’ll see a full table preview showing every entry that will be created — including reference ID, date, description, debit, credit, account, and memo.
• Edit before you commit: Double-click any row in that preview to edit dates, amounts, descriptions, accounts, or memos before the entries are created.

Behind the scenes

• Automatic database updates: When you open a client, BookBuilder quietly applies any needed updates to your data behind the scenes — no manual steps required. As part of these updates, certain duplicate transaction records and their related audit entries may be cleaned up automatically.
• Cleaner installer: The Windows installer now shows the license agreement before setup begins, and copies the license and third-party notices into the install folder.
• Packaged app reliability: Fixed missing sidebar icons in the installed version of the app, and improved how the packaged app finds its templates and built-in files.