July 12th, 2021

• Reintroduce chat widget
• Add full slack OAuth upfront and onboarding flow for clients

June 18, 2021

• Add full bi-directional slack integration

May 26th, 2021

• Change Conversation Details button to be hamburger icon
• Add Scheduling to services based on personal availability
• Change Upfront Fees to Upfront Holds on the client's credit card to be captured later

May 7th, 2021

• Change registration flow for client to one screen and not require password to begin conversation
• Move onboarding steps to the settings dashboard
• Move stripe integration settings section into onboarding steps

May 3rd, 2021

• Service url can now be set by consultants
• Make Services not require upfront charge or optionally not show ongoing rate
• Update Landing page and move docs link to footer
• Move ongoing rates to services and allow daily and weekly rates displayed
• Allow active consultant accounts without Stripe

April 22nd, 2021

• New landing page
• Add example checkout flow
• New Service Checkout screen that can be linked to directly
• Update Profile Page appearance

April 12th, 2021

• Change onboarding model to Services
• Add Profile Page
• Add Apple and Google OAuth for iOS
• Add Apple and Google OAuth for Android

March 15th, 2021

• Add Require Card Upfront Toggle
• Add Saved Payment methods

February 23rd, 2021

• Move currency selection to add and edit item modal
• Update contact form
• Show chats an account member is not assigned to
• Change email domain to be more recognizable
• Add client onboarding steps
• Edit outbound start conversation form to send email with subject, message and signature to prospective clients
• Fix numerous windows display bugs
• Add message drafts for each conversation

January 25th, 2021

• Add account about field to describe what account does
• Remove logging minutes and conversation hourly rates, the hourly rate is now only for display. Adding invoice items should be used instead.
• Add consultant onboarding steps

January 11th, 2021

• Change /username page and widget to a contact form
• Add ability to change the currency for a conversation
• Add ability to refund invoices

December 30th, 2020

• Enable adding invoice items before Stripe account is attached
• Stripe customers and invoice items are now created when the invoice is sent on Otechie
• Allow disabling of email notifications
• Add new conversation button, enabling consultants to start outbound conversations
• Add ability to mark invoice as paid, void, or uncollectible

December 21th, 2020

• The Otechie iOS app is now live in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/otechie/id1480906962
• The Otechie Android app is now live in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otechie.android

December 7th, 2020

This was a massive update and we hope to release much more often then this in the future. The biggest change is that a credit card is no longer required upfront and invoices are no longer automatically charged (consultants now finalized and send an invoice to be paid).

• A credit card no longer required upfront to start conversations
• Add ability to create, edit, delete invoice items instead of only logging minutes
• Invoice improvements including vatIds, invoice pdfs, and payment links
• UI improvements including the conversations sidebar and chat details
• Added ability to edit and delete messages
• Added ability to mute conversations
• Added ability to assign conversations
• Make hourly rate editable per conversation
• Replaced /charge slash command with /invoice
• Added slash commands for adding item by amount, inviting participants, changing the hourly rate, and assigning the conversation
• Renamed internal invoices to internal balances and transactions