InvoiceUp shipped with five sidebar entries — Dashboard, Invoices, Clients, Settings, Help. That's enough for an invoicing app. It isn't enough for a financial cockpit, which is what InvoiceUp has been quietly turning into for the last month. Today the sidebar doubles: Reports, Payments, Late fees, Templates, Activity each get their own surface.
Reports is where the cashflow forecast, runway, and concentration cards consolidate into one view — the snapshot you'd take to a financial advisor or paste into a board update. Payments isolates the cobrado side: which invoices got paid, when, and on what cadence per client. Late fees is the EU statutory letter workflow as a queue, not a per-invoice button — see who's due a 40 € statutory letter today, send the batch, watch the timeline pin.
Templates lives next to Settings because that's where the muscle memory already is — invoice templates, reminder copy in EN and ES, the statutory letter language. Activity is the cross-feature audit timeline: who marked what paid, which reminders fired, what the cron sent overnight. Everything that used to live in five different drawers now has its own URL.
An app's information architecture is a promise about how often you'll come back. We made the promise we should have made on day one.
Every one of those tabs surfaces functionality that already shipped — cashflow forecast, runway, late-fee letters, the audit trail. The work was making them findable. A capability you have to remember exists is one you don't use. A capability with its own sidebar entry is one your eyes find without thinking. We doubled the sidebar because the underlying surface area doubled, and pretending it hadn't was costing users access to things they were already paying for.
Functional topbar search across the whole dashboard landed in the same release — type any client name, invoice number, or template title and the search jumps you there. Open InvoiceUp; the new sidebar is already there. No migration, no toggle.