March 6th, 2025
🎉 Haletale 1.6.5 Release: Email Customization, Chat & UI Enhancements
✉️ Email Subject Customization
Users can now update the subject of email notifications, giving them more control over communication and making messages clearer.
🔹 Before: Users could modify the email content but had no option to change the subject, limiting customization and clarity in communication.
🔹 How it helps users: Now, users can edit both the subject and content, allowing for clearer, more personalized, and contextually relevant email communication.
💬 Tawk Chat for Web
Implemented Tawk Chat on haletale.tawk.help, providing a unified support experience.
🔹 Before: Users had to navigate two separate links for help and usage guides, causing confusion and extra effort.
🔹 How it helps users: Now, all support resources are consolidated into a single link, making it easier to access assistance and find the information they need in one place.
📊 Transactions Page Enhancement
Added underline for uncategorized transactions, making it easier to identify and categorize expenses.
🔹 Before: Uncategorized transactions blended in with other entries, making them harder to spot and categorize quickly.
🔹 How it helps users: The underline visually differentiates uncategorized transactions, allowing users to identify and categorize them more efficiently.
📝 Expense Management Updates
Updated Payment Date Tooltip in the "Add Expense" form to clarify input expectations.
🔹 Before: The tooltip simply stated, "The date on which the payment is made against the expense bill," which lacked clarity on how an unpaid expense would be handled.
🔹 How it helps users: Now, the updated tooltip explicitly informs users that if the date is left blank, the expense remains unpaid and will appear at the top of the Expenses tab for review. This helps users better track unpaid expenses, such as utility bills, ensuring they can manage pending payments more effectively.
Added missing mandatory markers for better form validation.
🔹 Before: These fields (Type, Type of Date, Payment Account) were mandatory by logic but lacked the mandatory (*) marker. Users often got confused when the form threw errors despite filling in all visible required fields.
🔹 How it helps users: The mandatory markers now clearly indicate required fields, reducing confusion and ensuring a smoother form-filling experience.
📧 Email & Invoice Fix
Resolved issue where logos were not appearing in emails and invoices, ensuring brand consistency in communications.
🔹 Before: The logo URL used a lower resolution (160x64), which sometimes failed to load properly in emails and invoices.
🔹 How it helps users: The updated logo URL (480x192) ensures better resolution and reliability, maintaining a consistent and professional brand image across all communications.
This release focuses on small but impactful UI/UX improvements that improve clarity, usability, and communication for users managing transactions, expenses, and notifications. 🎉