Changelog

What's new in Solid Accounting, one entry per month, newest first. In the app, Help → What's New shows the notes for the version you're running.

How version numbers work

The download is named Solid Accounting Desktop 2026. From September 2026, each release is numbered year.month.release: 26.9.6 is 2026, September, release 6. The release number starts again each month, so October's first release is 26.10.0. Help → About Solid Accounting Desktop shows the number as it is (26.9.6).

Releases up to 9.25.1 used an older scheme, and About showed them with the year in front (2026.9.25.1). 26.9.2 and later count as newer than every 9.x release, so updates move forward normally.

Releases arrive through Help → Check for Updates... while you have Updates & Cloud Services.

October 2026 — What's new

Getting around Reports (26.10.4). Every report has the same header: Back (it says where it goes), Reports (all reports) and Switch report. The list down the left side of the Reports window is gone. Summary / Detail on the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, A/R and A/P Aging, Trial Balance and General Ledger Detail, remembered per report for each company. A/R and A/P Aging open inside the Reports window. See Reports.
Income Statement sections (26.10.4). Operating Income, then Other Income and Other Expense when you have accounts of those types, on screen, in the Year-End Package and in the Accountant's Workbook. Net margin is net income over total revenue everywhere.
Update progress (26.10.4). The status bar shows how much of an update has downloaded, with speed and time left. A failed download waits for Try again instead of starting over. See Update issues.
Connect Claude® or ChatGPT™ Desktop (26.10.4). One connect screen with Read only as the default, what the assistant's company receives, and a question to paste to check it works. On Mac and Linux, Claude now stays connected when Solid Accounting is closed, as on Windows. See AI assistants.
New workspace and Business overview (26.10.3). A navy sidebar with every task one click away, a Home page with live counts, Find an action (Ctrl+K), dark mode, and the Business overview: cash, revenue, expenses and net income for the period, with a chart, and what customers and vendors owe. "Profit & Loss" is called Income Statement everywhere.
Connect WooCommerce (26.10.3) on Professional and Accountant: orders, refunds, tax, shipping and discounts import automatically.
Big company files are fast. With years of imported history, the account register, invoice and bill lists, A/R and A/P aging, reconciliation, every Income Statement, Balance Sheet and tax report, bank feed review and the 1099 report open in a fraction of a second instead of up to a minute. Every total is the same.
Updates ask before restarting. When an update is ready, choose Restart now or Later; Later installs it when you quit. Updates install only when their signature names that exact, newer version.
Picks up where you left off. Solid Accounting reopens the company you had open, with every window where you left it. Turn it off in Settings → Appearance → Windows & startup.
Close Company is instant. You go straight to Welcome while the backup finishes in the background.
Your accountant's tax setup comes back with their copy: tax-line mappings, equity roles, beginning balances, depreciation elections and tax flags.
New names and a new icon. The optional yearly plan is now Updates & Cloud Services (same plan, same price), the QuickBooks® Desktop extract tool is the Standalone Importer, and the app has a new icon.
Sharing over your network is part of Professional and Accountant. Standard is for one computer: up to 3 people, each with their own sign-in.

Before you update to 26.10.4: the Reports window opens reports in Detail the first time; pick Summary and the report remembers it. On Mac and Linux, if Claude Desktop is connected, Solid Accounting adds a small background program to the programs that start when you sign in, so Claude keeps working when the app is closed. Turn it off in Settings → AI & Integrations (Keep Claude connected when Solid Accounting is closed).

Before you update to 26.10.3: recurring transactions set to post automatically now post by themselves when the company is opened; overdue ones post the first time you open the company (up to 24 per template), and a notice lists them.

Before you update to 26.10: you'll be asked once to accept the updated terms and privacy policy, and whether to send usage data and error reports (nothing optional is sent until you answer). Offices sharing a company over the network should update every computer together; the pairing code is now 6 digits.

Releases this month

26.10.4 — Getting around Reports, Summary / Detail, Other Income and Expense on the Income Statement, update download progress, new Claude and ChatGPT connect screen; Business overview matches the reports exactly.
26.10.3 — New workspace, Home page, Find an action, Business overview, dark mode, Connect WooCommerce, apportionment schedules, create a bill from a receipt; Linux .deb installs update in place.
26.10.2 — The General Ledger no longer freezes on some display settings; new app icon; new names for the yearly plan and the Standalone Importer.
26.10.1 — Fast on big books; Close Company is instant; Budget vs Actual works again.
26.10.0 — Updates ask before restarting; the app reopens where you left off; 12-word recovery phrase for new cloud backups; processor payouts can be imported as drafts; plus smaller fixes.

Earlier versions

26.9.6 — Tax-ready books, and Claude can add accounts

Tax-ready books, on every paid plan. Set the entity type and EIN in Settings → Tax profile. Map each account to its line on Form 1120-S, 1065, 1120 or Schedule C in Reports → Tax Line Mapping; Solid Accounting suggests the lines. Reports → Tax Trial Balance shows book and tax columns, Schedules L, M-1 and M-2, tax-only adjustments, section 179, bonus depreciation and a Form 4797 worksheet, and exports the figures for your tax software. See Tax-ready books.
The Year-End Package and the Accountant's Workbook include the tax figures.
The 1099 threshold follows the payment year: $600 for 2025 payments, $2,000 from 2026.
Claude and ChatGPT can add an account to the chart of accounts after you confirm its name, type and number. Undo removes it while nothing uses it.
Accountants receiving client copies through Solid Accounting's transfer service need active Updates & Cloud Services. Sending a copy works on every license, and a copy saved as a file always works.
Clicking a demo company while it's still being prepared opens it as soon as it's ready.

26.9.5 — Amounts save what you type, clean printing, Claude across companies

Offices sharing a company file: update every computer to 26.9.5 together. Once a company file opens in 26.9.5, older versions can't open it, and a computer on an older version is asked to update when it connects.

Amounts save exactly what you type, including commas and dollar signs ("1,234.56", "$50"). Text that isn't an amount turns the field red and can't be saved.
Print and Save as PDF print only the report: no extra page of the window behind it, "Page X of Y" on every page, and column headings repeated. Mac printing opens the print sheet again.
Claude and ChatGPT can work across all your companies in one conversation: sync bank feeds, add what Solid Accounting is sure of, ask you about the rest in one list, learn rules from your answers, and finish reconciliations that tie to $0.00.
The Audit Trail is tamper-evident, and Ledger Health checks it and lists older entries that break a double-entry rule.
The trial balance and registers say when an entry was voided or reversed after the report date.
Welcome shows your recent companies on the left and Start fresh on the right. Demo companies are prepared in the background.
Accountant's Copy has its own submenu under File.
The account number is optional when you create an account; one is assigned for you.
AI connections have plain names, and Settings → AI & Integrations shows how to stop Claude asking before each change.
Sign-in slows down after repeated wrong passwords (up to an hour, never permanently).
The General Ledger scrolls smoothly, and General Ledger Detail opens much faster on large books.

26.9.4 — Never locked out, never lose unsaved work

Offices sharing a company file: update every computer to 26.9.4 together. Once a company file opens in 26.9.4, older versions can't open it, its backups or its Accountant's Copies.

Closing a window or quitting with unsaved changes always asks first, however you close it.
An ended trial, a revoked license or a version newer than your license covers never locks you out: you can open your company file and export a copy from that screen.
Rates with three decimals (8.875%) for sales tax, loan interest and declining-balance depreciation.
A reminder before a trial, license or Updates & Cloud Services ends, and a notice with the days left in the 30-day grace period. Settings → License & Updates shows the dates and offers Re-validate, Renew… or a new key.
Claude and ChatGPT Desktop connect on every plan, including Standard and trials. Standard fixes one transaction at a time.
A trial includes every feature of the plan you chose.
Your client gets an email when you send their books back, and their Accountant's Copy screen shows A return is waiting.
Notifications stack in one place; error messages stay until you close them.
A cloud backup the storage service refuses is reported as failed.
Fixed: the Loans balance matches the loan account; totals and Save stay visible in small windows; the update button no longer sticks on "Downloading update…"; other computers can find a company shared on the network.

26.9.3 — Mac updates itself, Claude fixes the original

Mac users on 9.25.1 or 26.9.2: download and install 26.9.3 once from the download page. Those builds can't update themselves. From 26.9.3 on, updates install from inside the app.

When Claude or another AI assistant corrects your books, it changes the original transaction — the bank-feed item, the imported row, or the check, bill or entry you typed — instead of adding reclassification entries. You approve the change in the conversation. The Audit Trail shows each change in one sentence with the before and after, and undoing the session puts it back exactly.
Connect ChatGPT Desktop from Settings → AI & Integrations, like Claude.
AI assistants on every plan can fix a transaction. Standard fixes one at a time; Professional and Accountant can fix many at once.
The Review Queue says what each item is, with account names instead of codes and the original entry beside a correction. Edit Before Approval works again.
On Mac, network sharing and "only one copy open at a time" work.
Windows inside the app resize from every edge and corner.
People who aren't Admins can see AI & Integrations again; only the connect buttons are Admin-only.

26.9.2 — Roles hold, windows fit, one keychain prompt

The first release numbered by year and month.

Accountant's Copy as one encrypted .sacopy file, saved as a file or sent through Solid Accounting, received by the accountant under their own license, and returned for a preview before you import the changes.
Reverse a journal entry on a date you choose, or have it reverse automatically next period.
Accountants and Admins can reopen a closed year, with a reason that is recorded.
Reconciliation History, a report for each completed reconciliation, and an Outstanding Items report under Banking.
Closing and reopening periods is for Accountants and Admins only, on this computer, over multi-user and through the API. Only Admins can create users.
Contact lists and the 1099 Report show only the last four digits of an SSN or EIN. Viewing a full tax ID needs permission to edit contacts and is recorded in the Audit Trail.
Attachments travel inside the company file, so backups, restores and Accountant's Copies carry them.
On Mac, a saved company key is read once per session, and denying a keychain prompt stops the prompts for that session. Cmd+W closes the window in front; Close Company is Shift+Cmd+W.
Reports keep their controls in two fixed rows, with file exports under one Export menu.
The window title shows your license, for example "Solid Accounting Professional".
Pay Bill and Write Check no longer offer Undeposited Funds as the payment account.
Fixed assets show their depreciation schedules, tied to the general ledger.

9.25.1 — Opens again

9.25.0 opened to a blank window. If you installed 9.25.0, download and install 9.25.1 from solidaccounting.com; 9.25.0 couldn't update itself. Company files were not affected.

9.25.0 — Books that tie out, multi-user, print preview

Multi-user: share a company with other computers on your network, paired with a code and encrypted. See Setting up multi-user.
Print preview for every report: paper size, orientation, fit to page width or one page, and margins. The PDF matches the preview.
Settings reorganized into categories, with Backup & Restore: a backup every hour while the app is open and one when you close it.
Void with a date and a reason. Voiding a paid invoice or bill also removes its payment, and voids return inventory to stock.
Audit Trail shows local time, user, document number and amount, and exports to CSV. Users & Roles has its own screen with a permission table.
Received payments go to Undeposited Funds by default and apply to the oldest invoices first. Pay Bill lists every vendor's open bills.
Balance Sheet shows Retained Earnings and this year's Net Income separately. Closing a year locks it without posting a closing entry.
Cash Flow adds depreciation back under Operating and separates owner draws from contributions.
New accounts' opening balances post against Opening Balance Equity.
A payee on each bank feed row, remembered by rules.
On Mac and Linux, Claude connects through the app while it's open.
QuickBooks® Web Connector: early access by request.

9.23.9 — Bank row types, Claude stays connected

Choose a transaction type on each bank row: expense, bill payment, transfer, credit card payment, loan payment, owner draw, deposit, refund or owner contribution.
Save a bank row for later without adding it.
Edit any bank row in place, change or undo rows you've added, and restore ignored ones.
Loan payments aren't forced into a split; you can split them into principal, interest and any taxes or insurance your lender collects.
Claude stays connected while Solid Accounting is closed or updating (Windows).

9.23.8 — Reports include every transaction again

Reports missed transactions added from Bank Feeds, recurring transactions, estimate conversions, the local API and payroll. The first time you open a company after updating, Solid Accounting repairs them. Nothing you entered changes.
Payroll "post now" posts again.

9.23.7 — Bank memos, Claude can fix mistakes

A memo on each bank transaction, and Memo for all for the selected rows.
Hover to see the whole line on the Bank Feeds screen.
Claude can void a transaction, post a reversing entry, or delete a draft, with the same checks as the app.
Far fewer Claude permission prompts: one "Always allow" covers every lookup. Changes still ask first.
Cancel an AI model download, and Remove model removes only that model.
Reverse on a journal entry works again.

9.23.6 — New bank review screen

New Bank Feeds review screen: connected accounts in a list on the left, each with where it books to, its last sync and how many transactions are waiting. An expired bank sign-in shows in orange.
Every transaction shows its details: payee, the bank's own text, the bank's category, and the reason for each suggestion.
Match, Split and one-tap questions. A transfer that shows up in both accounts is matched instead of booked twice.
On-device AI answers in plain words and checks whether this computer can run a model before you download it.

9.23.5 — Faster bank review

Suggested accounts on every downloaded bank transaction — from a matching entry already in your register, your rules, what that payee was booked to before, or the bank's category. Each suggestion shows how sure it is (High / Likely / Guess) and why.
Review for me, select all, bulk accept, and Undo for a whole batch. Changing a suggestion offers to always use that account for that payee.
Keyboard review: arrow keys move, Enter accepts, Space selects.
QuickBooks imports keep your Cash/Accrual choice.
Popped-out windows such as Bank Feeds close properly again.

9.23.4 — Review bank transactions, grouped accounts

Bank Feeds leads with transactions waiting for you: Add, Match, Ignore, or add several together.
Connecting a bank asks where each account goes — pick an existing account or create one in the same step.
The bank sign-in opens inside the app, with Open in browser instead if you need it.
Credit Card account type, and accounts grouped by type in accounting order everywhere.
On-device AI switch in Settings (now under Settings → AI & Integrations).
Log files for troubleshooting (Help → Open Logs Folder). They never contain bank data, passwords, or keys.

Company files open with your login, not the computer that made them. Copy a company file to another computer, sign in, and it opens. New companies start with an Admin account.
Optional recovery phrase (Settings → Recovery Phrase, or a step when creating a company). It opens the company file and lets you reset a forgotten Admin password.
Bank feeds approve a computer with an emailed code, good for 90 days.
Keyboard menus the Windows way: Alt+letter opens a menu; Alt alone moves to the menu bar.
Bank feeds download from every connected bank, and a pending charge no longer duplicates when it posts.

9.23.0 — AI chat (preview)

In-app AI chat that suggests accounts for transactions against your own chart of accounts, answers accounting questions, and proposes bookkeeping actions you approve or reject. See AI assistants.

Earlier releases

Earlier releases brought the guided journeys on the Welcome screen, bank feeds, and the QuickBooks Desktop migration tool. Ask support@solidaccounting.com if you need notes for an older build.