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PINNED BrightManager Public API — Read-Only (Clients & Tasks)
We're exploring a read-only public API for BrightManager, and want to hear from interested practices. Clients Tasks Custom fields Workflow status Read-only — no write/update actions Who this is for: Practices keeping data current in ...
PINNED Intelligent Email Management
Problem: Emails contain important context for jobs and tasks, but manually linking them (and their attachments) to client records or specific jobs is tedious and prone to being missed. Proposed Solution: We’re considering an AI assistant that pars...

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Time Budgeting And Productivity Reporting

Provide reporting on estimated vs actual time taken on tasks and analysis of averages etc to allow for review and adjustment of fees.
Jon Ellis over 3 years ago in Invoicing & Finance / Reporting 4

Ability to send workflow or task for approval by another use and then to approve or handback with comments

For monthly bookkeeping tasks, the manager might have finished them and now needs partner or user approval. This should be handled through the workflow interface rather than notifications. Imagine 300 clients with staff completing work and manager...
Jay Wilson 4 months ago in Tasks & Workflow 0

Automation of the task updated to "awaiting approval" when a document is uploaded for a client to sign.

Just wondering if I’m missing something in Bright Manager as I’m uploading documents for clients to sign and then manually marking the task as “awaiting for approval”. Is there any way that this can be automated?
Guest 9 months ago in Tasks & Workflow 0

Introduce task start dates, end dates, and capacity‑based scheduling so multi‑day tasks automatically appear across a user’s BrightManager calendar based on working hours and estimated effort.

Detailed idea / proposal for the BrightManager development team At present, BrightManager tasks allow only a single target date, which works well for short, single‑day activities but becomes limiting for larger pieces of work that realistically sp...
Guest 4 months ago in Tasks & Workflow 0

Email Sender Settings

I wanted to raise a broader system improvement suggestion, as the current setup presents some practical challenges for us. At the moment, having emails sent from whoever enables or sends the form does not align with how client relationships are ma...
Guest 4 months ago in Emailing 0

When uploading documents to the portal that it goes to all contacts

When uploading documents to the portal that it goes to all contacts, so all directors etc are notified and then log in to the portal to access the documents. It's annoying that we have to add the second director to the email which has been queued....
Aimee Hargreaves 2 months ago in Client Portal 0

An overview of upcoming deadlines

It would be great to have a feature on the Overview page that allows us to see what is outstanding for a specific type of tax instead of every single tasks within the next 4 weeks. It is currently the beginning of December and we are currently try...
Guest 8 months ago in Dashboard 4

Integration between AM and TaxCalc

Many practices use AM and TaxCalc has to have a large percent of market share for Tax/Accounts prep. Once upon a time, there were plans to integrate the two TaxCalc practice management is terrible, and they would gain from having some integration
Guest about 3 years ago in Integrations 2 Will not implement

Client portal mobile device webpage is displayed differently in portrait and landscape view mode

Make changes to the client portal webpage so when viewing on a mobile device the homepage looks the same in portrait or landscape view. Currently in portrait view there is not account icon and the 3 white line for the menu are not in the header bu...
Guest 2 months ago in Client Portal 0

Automated emails subject line editing - allow using clients & accounts variables

It is great that we can now edit automated emails subject lines. However, I have just found out from the support desk that clients and accounts variables cannot be used when editing automated emails subject lines. It would be useful to be able to ...
David Martinelli over 1 year ago in Emailing 0 Planned