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Sharesight release notes - October 2020

by Scott Ryburn, CTO, Sharesight | Nov 9th 2020

September saw us add support for a number of additional brokers and release a preview of a brand new report to beta users. We’re also steadily and incrementally releasing a broad range of usability improvements and optimisations for mobile devices.

Sharesight release notes October 2020

New Functionality / Enhancements

  • Preview release of our new Foreign Currency Valuation report to Expert plan users with beta features enabled.

Usability

  • Improved visibility of the Annual Tax Components Form form on the Taxable Income Report (Australian portfolios)

  • Improved frontend error messaging and included options to try again or contact support

  • Improved performance of the CSV importer to handle large files and various improvements to validation and error messaging

Broker Import Functionality

  • Added support for SelfWealth CSV files (Australia)

  • Added support for TD Ameritrade trade confirmations (US)

  • Added support for Magellan trade confirmations (Australia)

  • Added support for Apex clearing / M1 Finance / Ally Invest trade confirmations (US)

  • Added support for Firstrade trade confirmations (US)

  • Added support for Trading212 trade confirmations (UK)

  • Added support for Merrill trade confirmations (US)

  • Added support for CCZ Statton Equities trade confirmations (Australia)

Sharesight API

  • [V3 API] Added Sector classification, Industry classification and instrument description to the instrument object

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