What’s new in SILQ: October 2025

We’ve got a fresh new look with updated icons. But that's not all...

What's been updated?

In this October 2025 release, we made the following improvements as reported by our users:

• Line heights for emails has been updated
• 'Invoice up to date' was invoicing all entries in 'edit time entries' in 'bulk invoicing'  
• Added new 'Passport' and 'Citizen' fields to Contact card
• Editing 'spend money' to 'paid' caused bank account not to drop in
• Active/inactive matter filter in the matter window now filters properly
• Removed birth, death marital status in company contact card
• Tax invoice header on PDF now handles multi-line text
• When duplicating spend money; time entry, sundries, and fixed fee populates with the current date and time
• When saving an appointment, the window now refreshes with the update
• Fixed screen size issue in reconciliation window
• Bank feeds – should stay where you are after receipting or expensing
• Scroll bar hidden when 'Spend money' window was zoomed at 125%
• Timer not correctly saving selections such as 'unit type', 'date', 'time of day' and 'deliverable'
• Deliverables balances displaying incorrectly when duplicated
• Added "New Entry" button to Bulk invoicing
• Column width not being remembered in the Document Register
• Implemented "invoice date" in bulk invoking window
• Creating a contact when creating a matter did not pre-fill salutation, first/surname field
• Editing multi-line item expense account not changing
• Bank feeds – When receipting and 'convert +email' it did not convert to PDF
• Clicking on 'time and billing' inside conflict check window would redirect to an outdated page
• Users can now select the Solicitor on the Matter in contact selection when generating a document
• In Tasks, changed priority default to 'normal'
• Writing off a time entry in bulk invoicing caused it to select the previous highlighted entry
• Timer now saves as the date it started
• 'Estimates' window was not observing the GST set in system settings
• Duplicating a matter caused the roles to drop in incorrectly
• Adding Solicitor name to 'correspondence' or 'role' in the matter was not updating right away
• Issue with clicking on the client's name hyperlink when you first login
• Previously unable to type in a date range in 'receive money'
• If no netdrive was set in system settings, the 3 dots were showing in Template generate window

• Updated the cheque buttons to Payment buttons in Settlement window
• Trust EOM was sending the first/default Trust account instead of the selected trust account
• Double-clicking on 'search fees' in WIP will let you edit the item
• Added 'protected Trust' toggle in the 'bulk invoicing'
• Updated changes on how Protected Trust works when preparing invoices
• New fields added to 'Matter Conveyancing' details section
• Address not sticking/saving in property details in the 'Settlement' window
• In Trust, receipt/withdrawal the amount was not sticking if you changed the payment type
• In Trust, receipt/withdrawal the 'Paid to' field name was not sticking if you removed the matter
• Previously if you edited a 'safe custody' it will highlight another entry
• Duplicating Safe Custody did not copy the owner
• Yearly box figure was not sticking when setting up FE budgets

What's new?

We’ve launched e-Signatures!

Opt-in now for a trial of e-signatures in SILQ. Our latest release includes a trial of our built-in e-signature solution. No more chasing clients or waiting for the post. Talk to us about enabling this feature for your practice. 

We’ve overhauled our Document Register and:

• Implemented version and document history: When clients open a document and edit it, SILQ will make a new saved copy and keep the previous version. 
• Added a ‘Generate documents’ option
• Now you can share large files without the hassle: Upload files over 80MB straight to your document storage system. Whether you use Microsoft SharePoint, Dropbox or Google Docs, watch your SILQ Document Register automatically update.

Exclusively for Solicitors, we’ve added over 80 new fields for Conveyancing matters, including:

1. Property and Business Purchase/Sale:

• Unconditional Date 
• Building Inspection Date 
• Total Funds Required From Purchaser 
• Contract section: Torrens Title and Community Title  

2. Added new group tabs to 'Conveyancing' details including:

• Improvements
• Inclusions/Exclusions
• Off the Plan

3. Added new fields to 'Price' and 'Deposit' tab: 

• Requires Loan Discharge
• Seller's Agent Commission
•  Buyer's Agent Commission
•  Settlement Fee
•  ELNO/PEXA Fee
• Invest Deposit

4. Added new fields to 'concessions' and 'duty tab': 

• Land Tax Adjustable
• Is taxable Supply
• Margin Scheme

5. Added new fields to 'Strata' tab: 

• Annual Strata Levies
• Levies Paid Until
• Strata Title Record Holder

6. Added a new “Connections” tab and new fields  

7. Added new group “Insurance” to Settlement in ‘Matters’  

• Bushfire Prone  
• Flood Prone     
• Cyclone Prone   

8. Added the following new fields to ‘Settlement’ section 

• Total Funds Required By Purchaser  
• Building Inspection Date  

9. Added the following fields to the ‘Identification’ section in Contacts:

• Passport Country   
• Passport Number    
• Citizen Of Another Country  
• Other Citizen Country  
• Other Citizen Passport Number 

Need a Contract of Sale? SILQ can help with the template. Reach out and let us know.

If you have any questions around these updates you are welcome to get in contact with us and we can walk you through those aspects relevant to you.