What's new in Vatrax

Small, regular releases. No marketing fluff, just what changed. Subscribe via the blog RSS for occasional release posts.

2026
14 April 2026

Credit top-ups

Buy extra OCR, translator or AI calls without jumping a whole plan. Packs roll over for 12 months and kick in automatically once your monthly ceiling is hit.

9 April 2026

Dashboard health score hero card

The 0–100 business health score now surfaces right at the top of the dashboard, colour-coded by level with per-pillar bars. Link-through to the full report.

3 April 2026

Expert REST API

Bearer-token endpoints at cp.getvatrax.com/api/v1/ for businesses, transactions, deadlines and VAT returns. Manage tokens inside the app on the new API page.

28 March 2026

Team workspace switcher

Accountants with an accepted team invite now get a "Workspace" dropdown in the sidebar — one click to jump into a client's transactions, Revenue cases and filings.

21 March 2026

Voice explain (TTS)

🔊 Read-aloud buttons on Ask Vatrax answers and Revenue letter translations. Useful for non-native English speakers who prefer to hear the explanation.

14 March 2026

Can I afford this?

Pre-purchase check that shows VAT reclaim, expected tax saving, real out-of-pocket cost and a 30-day cash-flow sanity check before you spend.

7 March 2026

Revenue letter translator

Paste any letter or ROS message and get a plain-English simplification, full translation into 9 languages, extracted action list and deadlines.

2 March 2026

Too-risky sanity check

Blocks implausible claims (100% rent as home office, 100% phone bill, client meals) and warns on borderline ones with the Revenue-safe maximum.

23 February 2026

Life events wizard

Eight Irish life events (moved to Ireland, got married, opened a company, bought a house, …) each with a tracked 30-day action checklist.

16 February 2026

Year-end pack

Printable YTD profit, expense categories, capital items and a "you may still save €X before 31 Dec" action list for the accountant hand-off.

10 February 2026

Pre-submit checklists for Form 11 & CT1

Same readiness check as VAT3 now lives on the Form 11 and CT1 pre-fill pages — categories, receipts, capital items, payroll and outstanding issues.

3 February 2026

Revenue CRM case timeline

Log every email, ROS message, letter, phone call, video meeting, office meeting or on-site visit with contact person, date and file attachments. AI suggest-next-action, case-pack PDF export and 14-day follow-up nag included.

28 January 2026

"You forgot something" detector

Catches home-office claim with no broadband, broadband with no electricity or phone, company without payroll, VAT-registered with no VAT3 this year.

21 January 2026

Deadline heatmap

12-month grid covering VAT3, Form 11, CT1, preliminary tax, CRO B1 (from a new ARD field on businesses) and user-managed renewals. Auto-detects recurring subscriptions from the last 120 days.

15 January 2026

Nordigen consent renewal flow

Amber banner 14 days before bank consent expires, red banner after expiry, one-click re-authorise. Credentials moved into the bank page itself.

8 January 2026

Daily SEO blog

A new Ireland-focused article every morning at getvatrax.com/blog, grounded in the structured KB entries via RAG.

2 January 2026

Peer benchmarks

Pick your profession (developer, designer, agency, consultant, delivery, e-commerce) and see which categories peers routinely claim, plus your own coverage.

2025
23 December 2025

4-tier pricing

Plans renamed to Simple €9 / Smart €29 / Pro €79 / Expert €199 with explicit monthly fair-use ceilings on OCR, translator, AI calls, bank accounts and team seats.

17 December 2025

Business health score

0–100 composite across tax readiness, documents, cash flow and deadlines. Dedicated page with an "fix first" action list.

11 December 2025

Ask Vatrax

In-app Q&A chatbot that searches the structured knowledge base, cites sources and answers in plain English. Public widget on every marketing page for anonymous visitors too.

4 December 2025

Capital allowances wizard

12.5% × 8-year schedule for laptops, phones, vehicles and equipment. Flags BIK for company cars.

27 November 2025

Team seats

Invite your accountant by email. Three roles: accountant, staff, viewer. Seats capped per tier (2 on Pro, 10 on Expert).

19 November 2025

Future-you notes and business diary

Drop context reminders for next-year-you. Keep a day-by-day log of who you met and why. Wins audits two years later.

12 November 2025

VAT3 pre-submit checklist

Six readiness checks (receipts, suppliers, categories, duplicates, VAT sanity, period volume) before filing a VAT3.

5 November 2025

CSV bank import auto-detect

Drop a statement from AIB, BOI, Revolut or Wise and Vatrax maps the columns automatically.

29 October 2025

Home-office profile wizard

eWorker days, dedicated office toggle, 11 sub-category rule engine. Every home-office expense now gets a live verdict.

22 October 2025

Receipt OCR

Upload a photo or PDF and GPT-4o Vision extracts supplier, date, amounts and VAT. Auto-files to the matching transaction.

15 October 2025

Reverse charge for intra-EU services

Self-accounting flow for B2B services received from EU suppliers, with VIES listing on the VAT3 export.

8 October 2025

Tax forecast

Full-year tax estimate with what-if controls. Income tax + USC + PRSI for sole traders, 12.5% corporation tax for limited companies.

1 October 2025

Compliance hub

Every VAT3 / Form 11 / CT1 deadline auto-computed with filing status and how-to cards.

24 September 2025

Audit risk score

Explainable 0–100 heuristic showing what Revenue would flag, with the specific lines that moved the score.

17 September 2025

PSD2 bank sync

Connect 2,000+ Irish, UK and EU banks via GoCardless Bank Account Data. Daily auto-classification of every new line.

10 September 2025

Duplicate transaction detector

Nightly scan catches the same supplier/amount/date imported from multiple sources.

3 September 2025

Safety score

One number summarising how ready you are for an audit, with a "fix next" action list.

27 August 2025

ROS XML export for VAT3

One-click ROS offline upload file so you don't have to copy numbers manually.

20 August 2025

Missing-receipt detector

Nightly scan flags every expense without a linked document.

13 August 2025

Documents store

Every receipt, invoice and Revenue letter kept for the full 6-year retention window with free-text search.

6 August 2025

Multi-tier reminder ladder

Escalating banners and emails at 30 / 15 / 7 / 2 / 1 days and overdue for every filing deadline.

30 July 2025

VAT rate engine

23% / 13.5% / 9% / 0% with auto net ↔ VAT math, reverse charge flag and rate-history for prior periods.

23 July 2025

Sole trader vs limited company modes

First real fork in the rule engine — different tax math for Form 11 vs CT1 flows.

16 July 2025

Transaction CRUD + manual entry

Add, edit, delete transactions. Type, supplier, date, VAT rate, category, subcategory.

9 July 2025

Business profiles

Multi-business support from day one — sole trader and limited company side by side.

2 July 2025

Private beta opens

First invited freelancers onboarded. Focus: Irish sole traders. Feedback queue opens.

25 June 2025

Project Vatrax starts

Decided: Ireland-only tax app, built on top of the mycoaching shared LLM stack, with six years of document retention as a first-class feature. Day zero.