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If you've just been upgraded to the new MYOB Essentials, you've now got powerful new features, a cleaner look, more responsive experience on mobile devices and significant workflow improvements. Naturally we've had to change how some things work.

Have you upgraded from MYOB Essentials with payroll? Learn about the changes to payroll and employees.

Here are some of the changes that we know some users get stuck on.

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You sign in to your upgraded software at: app.myob.com

If you've bookmarked essentials.myob.com, you should update your bookmark.

Bank reconciliation has new fields and buttons

To reconcile your accounts go to the Banking menu > Reconcile accounts. Some reconciliation fields, buttons and functions are different in the new MYOB Essentials.

For the differences in fields and buttons, see the following diagram and for information on reconciling in your new software, see Reconciling your bank accounts.

A	Show/Hide reconciled button has been removed. All transactions, reconciled and unreconciled, appear for the reconciliation period. To reduce the number of transactions listed in Reconcile accounts, try reconciling more frequently.
B	New Undo function. Previously, you could undo a bank reconciliation from Bank Reconciliation Reports. Now you can you can undo the last completed reconciliation by clicking Undo on the Reconcile accounts page. For more information, see Undoing a bank reconciliation.
C	Allocation column has been removed. To see how a transaction has been allocated click the down arrow next to it.
D	New Closing bank statement balance ($) field. This is the closing balance that appears on the statement your bank sent you. If you are reconciling as at the end of the week or month, and your statement has transactions dated after that date, type the closing balance for the last day of the period you’re reconciling. Status column and symbols – which indicate, for example, if a transaction has been automatically or manually reconciled – have been removed.
E	Buttons at the bottom of Reconcile accounts have been removed or renamed: Save is now called Save progress and appears at the top right of the Reconcile accounts page. When you click Save progress, changes you make to the Reconcile accounts page, such as selecting transactions, are saved when you go to other pages. Complete reconciliation. Complete reconciliation has been renamed Reconcile and now appears at the top right of the Reconcile accounts page. Update reconciliation. To update a previous reconciliation, you must now undo it and redo it. Print report. You can now run a bank reconciliation report by going to the Reporting menu > Reports > Banking reconciliation report. When you run this report, you need to choose a statement date and/or specific accounts to filter the reconciliation list. See Banking reports.

Bank reconciliation in the new MYOB Essentials is really designed to work with bank feeds. If you've got bank feeds, the Account, Date last reconciled, Closing bank statement balance and Statement date are filled in for you, based on the most recent information received in your bank feed. If you're working off a bank statement, you'll need to enter these yourself.

You no longer enter a discount as an item

Previously, if you wanted to add a discount to a sale or purchase, you could create an item with a negative price and add it to an invoice or bill. This method won't work in the new MYOB.

Now, invoices and bills with a Services and Items layout have a Discount (%) column, where you can add a discount:

Alternatively, you can add a separate line to the invoice or bill with a negative figure in the Amount ($) column. Or, you can apply a discount when you receive a customer payment or pay a bill.

If you have discounts set up as negative price items, deactivate them so they won't be selectable in transactions.

See: Customer discounts or Supplier discounts.

Transaction history is now on one page

The transactions you would search for in the Sales history, Purchases history and Transaction history pages can now be found in one location—the Find transactions page (available from the Banking menu).

Just as with transaction history pages, you use Find transactions to view customer sales, supplier bills and payments or to look for transactions for a particular bank or credit card account over any period. It works a bit differently however.

As it's a combined transaction search page, we've added the ability to narrow down your search for particular types of transactions by filtering by source journals. Source journals are simply a way of organising accounting entries.

There's also 3 tabs in Find transactions:

Debits and credits—a detailed view of transactions including their associated debits and credits and affected accounts
Transactions—a simplified view of transactions including a description, source journal and amount
Find and replace—use this view to replace the account or tax code in one or more transactions.

For more information, see Finding transactions.

New financial year settings

We recommend you check your financial year settings:

If you were working in a previous financial year, the upgraded business will be rolled forward to the current financial year – click the business name > Business settings > Financial year section to check your financial year settings:

You can still enter transactions in prior years. You'll need to unlock the period if you want to enter transactions in a locked period. See Locking transactions.
There's now a Start new financial year option. When you click Start new financial year, account balances will be updated (the current earnings will be moved to retained earnings).
It's now easier to see the journal entries for end-of-year adjustments – you no longer need to run the General Ledger report, you can see them on the Find transactions page (available from the Banking menu):

For more information about EOFY tasks, see these topics: Australia | New Zealand.

New and improved features

Here are some of the main recently-added features.

Sales and purchases	More information
Track income and expenses with jobs	Set up jobs to track the income and expenses related an area or undertaking in the business, like a project, department, division or location and report on their profitability. See Jobs.
Send remittance advice	Let suppliers know you've paid them without leaving your software or using an external email application. See Send remittance advices.
Recurring transactions	Set up transactions that you record regularly—for example, a rent invoice—as recurring transactions so that they're automatically recorded. See Recurring transactions.
(Australia only) Pass online payments surcharging fees on to customers	If the business uses online invoice payments, you can get your customers to pay the surcharging fees by adding them to your invoices. See Customer surcharging for online payments.
User access	More information
Control what users can access	Decide who can access what process in the business – for example, you can ensure that sales staff only access the sales functions and not payroll, banking or other areas. See Users.
Bank transactions	More information
More helpful functions when working with bank transactions	On the Bank transactions page, you can access keyboard shortcuts, use improved filtering and add more information to MYOB transactions created from bank transactions. See Working with bank transactions.
More customisable bank feeds rules	Create Spend money, Receive money or Invoice or Bill rules, pause rules you don't need, apply rules to multiple bank accounts and add more information to rules. See Creating rules.
Time savers	More information
Online activity statements	Lodge activity statements online, using information from MYOB to fill in some of the statement fields, and can get confirmation from the ATO within seconds. See Get ready to lodge activity statements
Shortcut menu	Click the Create new iconto create transactions or contacts from the Dashboard without having to go into menus. See The Dashboard.
Reporting	More information
Consolidate reports	Consolidate financial reporting across multiple businesses.
Better budgeting	Create any number of budgets with a new powerful budgeting module.
More shareable reporting	Bundle up all the reports you regularly run into a single document that you can share with others. See Report packs.
Information where you need it	More information
More insights in the Dashboard	The Dashboard now includes a list of the most overdue invoices and purchases, a snapshot of the bank accounts you've set up bank feeds for and easy access to the In tray. See The Dashboard.
Get help without searching for it	Click the question mark at the top of any page in MYOB Essentials to open the help panel. You'll see info relating to the page you're on, without having to leave your software. See Getting help and support.