Changelog
We improve the Smokeball API all the time by releasing new features, fixing bugs and updating the documentation. This changelog accounts for all of the changes as they are released, in chronological order.
April 2025
- Expenses: Return UtbmsTaskCode from GET payloads.
- Fees: Return UtbmsTaskCode from GET payloads.
- Matters: Fix issue where matter type id could be missing from GET payloads.
March 2025
No changes
February 2025
- Matters: Add ability to clear referal type using matter PATCH and PUT endpoints.
- Tasks: Added
IsCompleted
query parameter to GET endpoint.
December 2024
- Performance improvements to all API endpoints.
- Files: Added
IsDuplicate
field to GET endpoints.
October 2024
- Files: Fixed issue where some files with special characters cannot be downloaded.
- MatterTypes: Fixed issue where some matter types cannot be found.
- Webhooks: Added
matter.closed
event type which is triggered when a matter is closed. - Webhooks: Fixed issue causing intermittent timeouts.
September 2024
- FirmUsers: Fixed intermittent issue where staff was not being set to former when FirmUser mapping is removed.
- ReferralTypes: Added ReferralTypes API.
August 2024
- Matters: Added ability to search for matters using the GET endpoint.
- Matters: Lead PATCH endpoint bug fixes.
- Invoices: Added ability to download finalized invoice pdfs.
June 2024
- Matters: Matters v2 API is now standard and the Api-Version header is no longer required.
- Invoices: Added debtors to API payload.
- Webhooks: Added
invoice.updated
event type.
May 2024
- Contacts: UTBMS (US only) and Citizenship details fields added.
- Expenses: Previously invoiced externally expenses can now be unfinalized.
- Firm: Added firm status
- MatterTypes: Categories are now filtered by account white label.
April 2024
- Events: Added
MatterId
to GET endpoint. - Expenses: Auto-assign callng staff if staff id is not provided.
- Fees: Auto-assign callng staff if staff id is not provided.
- Firm: Added AddOns to GET endpoint.
- Matters: Added missing account validation checks.
February 2024
- Fees: Added
CreatedFromActivityId
to GET endpoint. - Fees: Resolved issues where StaffId could cause PATCH failures
- Webhooks: Added
files.updated
event type which is triggered against a matter. Use the cursor returned to rereive the updated files via the files API.
January 2024
- Files: Added
IsCancelled
andIsUploaded
to GET endpoint. - Matters: Resolved issues with incorrect matter access permissions.
November 2023
- Contacts: Added
correctionsReferenceNumber
andcentrelinkReferenceNumber
to AU endpoints. - Expenses: Added PATCH endpoint.
- Fees: Added PATCH endpoint.
- Files: Added
isFavorite
field. - Folders: Added folder
name
to GET endpoint. - Webhooks: Added
matter.converted
event type which is triggered once a lead is converted to a matter.
October 2023
- Fees: Added
isInvoiceExternally
to GET. - Matters: Added additional validation for
ClientIds
andOtherSideIds
. - Matters: Added
referralType
,referrerId
,closedDate
,leadOpenedDate
,leadClosedDate
,leadClosedReason
fields. - Matters: Fixed issue where matters could not be created with more than one client.
- MatterTypes: Added restrictions based on account white label.
- Memos: Fixed data issue using GET endpoint.
- Tasks: Add search by
matterId
.
August 2023
- Expenses: Fix issue where the
Finalized
field was being ignored on POST and PUT endpoints. - Files: Fix issue preventing newly added files from being indexed for search.
- Files: Fix issue where newly added files are being added to deleted folders. A new folder is now added if the file is being added to a deleted folder.
- Firm: Added
productId
field to GET endpoint. - Firm: Added attorney/solicitor licence numbers to GET endpoint.
- Matters: Fix issue preventing matter creation when multiple clients are specified.
- Matters: Several improvements and fixes to the beta PATCH endpoint including:
- Added additional validation to multiple fields.
- Ensured changes made via the PATCH endpoint reflect in the matter history correctly.
- MatterTypes: Fix issue exposing deleted matter types from GET endpoint.
- Staff: Added attorney/solicitor licence numbers to GET endpoint.
- Tasks: Added missing validation to the
MatterId
andStaffId
fields. These fields must now be valid GUID values, empty strings are no longer permitted. TheStaffId
is mandatory.
July 2023
- Expenses: Added
AssignToFirmOwner
option when creating an expense. - Files: Added
DateModified
field when creating a file. - Files: Added
DateModified
field when bulk creating files. - Firm: Deprecated the
Product
field and introduced theProductId
field. - Firm: Added support for the Boost Product.
- Matters: Fix issue with combining search filters, e.g.
IsLead
andContactId
.
May 2023
- Staff: Added
ColorFill
andColorStroke
fields. - Webhooks: Improvements to
Matter
webhooks, notifications are more accurate as well as more deterministic. - Webhooks: Added
Memo
webhooks. Use thememo.created
,memo.updated
,memo.deleted
,memo.restored
event types to listen to changes made to memos.
March 2023
- Archive: Added Archives API.
- Events: Added Events API.
- Expenses: Deprecated the following fields in the response payloads, this includes the fields in the Webhooks payload:
StaffId
, instead useStaff
.MatterId
, instead useMatter
.
- Fees: Deprecated the following fields in the response payloads, this includes the fields in the Webhooks payload:
StaffId
, instead useStaff
.MatterId
, instead useMatter
.
- Webhooks: Added
Task
webhooks. Use thetask.created
,task.updated
,task.deleted
event types to listen to changes made to tasks. - Webhooks: Added
Event
webhooks. Use theevent.created
,event.updated
,task.deleted
event types to listen to changes made to events. - Webhooks: Added
LayoutDesign
webhooks. Use thelayoutdesign.updated
event type to listen to changes made to layout designs. - Webhooks: Added
Archive
webhooks. Use thearchive.updated
event type to listen to changes made on a matters archive details.
January 2023
- Activities: Fixed issues with activity code(s) not being deleted.
- BillingConfiguration: Added
BillingConfiguration
GET and PUT endpoints. Billing configurations are set on the matter level. - Contacts: Added
Locality
andCounty
fields. - Contacts: GroupOfPeople are no longer permitted in the UK.
- Files: Added
DateModified
field to GET responses. - Firm: Fixed issues updating
Email
field. - Firm: Fixed issues updating
DxAddress
field. - Matters: Added
Supervisor
field. - Matters: Added ability to filter by multiple
status
. Multiple statuses can now be passed in the query parameters. - Roles: Prevent adding roles that are not permitted for the specified matter.
- Staff: Added
UserId
field. - TaskDocuments: Fixed task document(s) not being added to tasks.
- Webhooks: Added
BillingConfiguration
webhooks. Use thebillingconfiguration.updated
event type to listen to changes to billing configurations on a matter level.
November 2022
- Activities: Added additional validation for activity codes. Codes can no longer be more than 20 characters long.
- Contacts: Added
Name
field to GET response forGroupOfPeople
contacts. This returns the combined names of the contacts in the group, saving you needing to retrieve the individual contacts. - Files: Added PATCH endpoint
- Firm: Added
Owner
field to GET responses. This can be used to determine the whitelabel product linked to the firm. - MatterTypes: Added
Type
field to GET responses. This can be used to determine if the type is for a Lead or Matter. - Tasks: Added
Duration
field. This follows theISO 8601
duration format (e.g.PT4H33M
) - Tasks: Fixed categories not saving when adding or updating tasks.
- Webhooks: Added
error
event type. This can be used to listen to errors when your API requests fail, see Error Handling.
September 2022
- Contacts: Added ability to exclude deleted contacts from GET response (see
ExcludeDeletedContacts
query parameter). - Contacts: Added
BirthFirstName
,BirthMiddleName
,BirthLastName
fields. - Contacts: Added
PreviousNames
field. - Contacts: Added
LanguageOfInterpreter
field. - Contacts: Added free text option for
Gender
field. - Contacts: Fixed validation issues when creating new contacts.
- Matters: Added ability to filter matters by contact id (see
ContactId
query parameter). - Matters: Matter access can now be restricted by
UserId
when using Client Credentials grant (see Acting on behalf of a user). - Leads: Restricted leads API to Grow and Prosper tiered clients.
- Files: File access can now be restricted by
UserId
when using Client Credentials grant (see Acting on behalf of a user).
July 2022
- Activities: Fix
TaxInclusive
field returning incorrect value. - Files: Added ability to add additional data on creation of a file (see Files).
- Roles: Fix some DELETE endpoint issues.
- Relationships: Added DELETE relationship endpoint.
- Tasks: Added ability to link files and memos to tasks (see TaskDocuments).
- Webhooks: Added
MatterItems
webhooks. - Webhooks: Fixed
MatterTypeId
field missing in somematter.updated
event payloads.
June 2022
- Contacts: Fix webhook events not triggering for deleted contacts from Smokeball native application.
- Matters: Added
Branch
field. - Matters: Added
OtherSideIds
andOtherSideRole
to POST request so matters and leads can be created with clients as well as othersides. - Matters: Fix to paging url losing status on consecutive pages.
- Memos: Added
UserId
to POST and PUT requests to create or update a memo on behalf of a user. - SubTasks: Added SubTasks API.
May 2022
- Stages & StageSets: Added Stages and StagesSets API.
- Contacts: Added ability to restore contacts in PUT endpoint.
- Contacts: Added ability to relate a person to a group of people.
- Contacts: Added ability to add and update trusts.
- Fees: Removed check for existing
Fee
when performing PUT, requests are accepted and queued asynchonously like a POST. - Expenses: Removed check for existing
Expense
when performing PUT, requests are accepted and queued asynchonously like a POST. - Webhooks: Added
MatterStages
webhooks. - Webhooks: Fixed
RequestId
not propogating from some Matter API calls. - Webhooks: Fixed null fields on
Firm
update webhook events.
March 2022
- Firm: Added
Logo
field to GET responses. - Contacts: Added
MaritalStatus
field. - Contacts: Added
SpecialNeeds
field. - Tasks: Added
CompletedDate
field. - Tasks: Added
LastUpdated
field to GET responses.
February 2022
- Firm: Added validation when creating a firm to ensure the user is not associated to another firm.
- FIrm: Added Product when creating a firm with 3 product types
(BillingOnly, SmokeballMid and Smokeball)
. - Firm: Added
IsInternal
field when creating a firm so that a firm can be flagged as an internal firm and skip payment subscription. - Firm: Added
ABN
,ACN
and postal details,CareOf
,PoBoxType
andPoBoxNumber
to firm MailingAddress. - Users: Added functionality to create users with no password, and email is sent out with a temporary password.
- Matters: Deprecated the following fields in the response payloads, this includes the fields in the Webhooks payload:
MatterTypeId
, instead useMatterType
.ClientIds
, instead useClients
.OtherSideIds
, instead useOtherSides
.PersonResponsibleStaffId
, instead usePersonResponsible
.PersonAssistingStaffId
, instead usePersonAssisting
.OriginatingStaffId
, instead useOriginatingStaff
.
- Matters: Added OriginatingStaff to matter.
- Contacts: Deprecated the following fields in the response payloads, this includes the fields in the Webhooks payload:
StaffIds
, instead useStaff
.PersonIds
, instead usePeople
.
- Roles: Deprecated the following fields in the response payloads, this includes the fields in the Webhooks payload:
ContactId
, instead useContact
.RepresentativeIds
, instead useRepresentatives
.RelationshipIds
, instead useRelationships
.
- Roles: Added DELETE role endpoint for removing roles from a matter.
- Roles: Added
IsOtherSide
field to determine if the role is the OtherSide of a matter. - Roles: Fixed issues with Layout subitems not being created.
- Relationships: Deprecated the following fields in the response payloads, this includes the fields in the Webhooks payload:
ContactId
, instead useContact
.RepresentativeIds
, instead useRepresentatives
.
- Files: Added
UserId
to files and folders. - Webhooks: Add
LayoutMatterItem
webhooks.