Tillhouse v0.16.0

Tillhouse v0.16.0: local-first, double-entry accounting.

What's new

• LocalBooks is now Tillhouse. Same app, new name, new icon and new colors. Another accounting
  program already used the LocalBooks name, so we changed ours while the group of testers is small.
  Nothing moves: your company files (still .localbooks files), settings, backups, saved passwords
  and bank connections stay where they are, and updates keep arriving as before. On Windows the
  update replaces the LocalBooks shortcut and its entry in Installed apps with Tillhouse ones. On a
  Mac an updated copy keeps the name LocalBooks.app in the Applications folder until you replace it
  with a fresh download; it is the same app either way. On Linux, the Tillhouse .deb and .rpm
  packages replace the LocalBooks package. If you set up Export from QuickBooks on Windows,
  QuickBooks still lists the app as LocalBooks, which is fine.
• Clearer colors. A deep spruce green and dark sidebar replace the old bright green, and every
  label and button meets the WCAG AA contrast guideline. Invoice and estimate designs you already
  made keep their colors; new ones start in spruce.
• Create Bill on a purchase order works with approval rules. When an approval rule holds the
  bill, Create Bill now sends it for approval instead of asking you to re-enter it in Enter Bills.
  The order shows "bill awaiting approval"; approving posts the bill and marks the order billed with
  it, and rejecting leaves the order open.
• Pay Bills checks take the print date. With Change the check date when a check is printed
  on in Preferences › Checking, a check from Pay Bills waiting in File › Print Forms › Checks is now
  re-dated to the day it prints, as checks from Write Checks already were. Each bill payment on it
  is voided and paid again on that date, and both stay in the audit log.
• Backup safety knows where your copies are. A copy off this computer now counts only when it
  is really on another drive, a network share or a synced folder: an offsite backup whose folder
  is on the same disk as your books no longer silences the reminder, and Backup safety tells you
  so. The screen shows where the last copy went and which backup was last tested. Test restore
  also upgrades a throwaway copy of a backup from an older version, so you know a restore of it
  would work. The reminder still comes after 30 days, which you can change in Preferences ›
  Reminders.
• Keyboard and contrast fixes across Tillhouse. F6 now moves between the sidebar, the
  toolbar and the window you are working in (Shift+F6 goes back), so you can always get back to
  the sidebar without a mouse, and a list or panel that scrolls with nothing in it to Tab to now
  takes focus itself, so the arrow keys can scroll it. Pale grey, blue, orange and red text is a little darker so it's
  easier to read, and the Preferences categories, the Custom Forms preview and the Import steps
  work better with screen readers. Every page, form and Help is now checked automatically for
  accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), and Help has a new guide, Use Tillhouse from the keyboard.
• Touch ID and Windows Hello for two-step sign-in. If you use two-step sign-in with an
  authenticator app, you can now add your Mac or Windows computer in Settings › Users & Passwords:
  signing in there then asks for Touch ID or Windows Hello instead of the code. The app still works
  everywhere else, and nothing changes unless you add a computer. Not available on Linux.
• More accurate company-file imports. Memorized transactions (templates) are no longer
  imported as real ones, which doubled some balances. Files whose description of a line table is
  missing several columns now read those lines, and a payment and deposit that a file keeps as two
  halves of one movement come in as one. Every sample company in the test kit was checked; what
  still differs is listed in the import, for entry by hand.
• Inventory quantities come in from QuickBooks Desktop. A full import of a company file now
  tracks each inventory part and assembly with the quantity on hand and value its purchases,
  sales, inventory adjustments and assembly builds gave it, so stock starts where the original
  program's stock status report left it, instead of at zero. Each change is a stock movement on
  the transaction that made it, so voiding an imported invoice or bill puts its stock back. Step 2
  of the import lists any item whose quantity or value doesn't match the file, and why.

Downloads

• macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel): .dmg
• Windows: .msi or -setup.exe
• Linux: .deb, .rpm or .AppImage

Installation guide: https://tillhouse.app

Already installed? Tillhouse offers this update on its own (or Settings › Updates ›
Check for updates), and saves a copy of your company file before upgrading it.

These builds are not code-signed yet: macOS may require right-click → Open the first
time, and Windows SmartScreen may ask you to confirm (More info → Run anyway).