Changelog

What we have built, and when

Every release since we started publishing them, with real dates. The same notes our own users see when they log in.

v2.19.0
New
  • DoulaFlow now opens on Home — one screen that tells you what needs you today, in order of urgency. A client in labor sits above an overdue invoice, which sits above a visit that still needs booking. When there is nothing outstanding, it says so.
  • Home is new, and it will keep changing as doulas use it. If something on it looks wrong, there is a link on the screen to tell us.
  • Handled something already? Dismiss it. It comes back on its own if the situation changes — an invoice that gets paid and then falls overdue again will reappear.
  • Choose which reminders Home raises. If you take intake on paper, or bill outside DoulaFlow, turn those off and Home stops mentioning them.
  • Each client now carries her own one-line status wherever she appears, so her card and Home never tell you two different things.
  • Set how long after a birth a postpartum visit counts as due. Yours may not be three weeks, so it is your number, not ours.
  • Tag an appointment type by phase of care — prenatal, postpartum, or either — so DoulaFlow knows which visits belong to which part of your work.
  • Delete a client you created by mistake, and restore her if you change your mind. Setting someone to Inactive never did this, and now the difference is spelled out.
  • Add your Venmo alongside PayPal, and pick which one your clients see. You can save both; only your default appears on an invoice.
  • Book a visit past what a package includes, and bill it as an extra. The price you set per extra visit is finally used — it is offered on the invoice, and you can change or remove it there.
  • Changing a client’s package now asks what to do about visits she has already used — carry them over, or start the new package fresh. It used to decide for you, silently.
Improved
  • Your backup doula now gets the client’s contact details as a savable contact card — her number, her partner’s, and where the birth is planned. A backup called at 2am can actually reach someone.
  • The two “New Appointment Type” forms were quietly different from each other. There is one now, it asks for hours rather than minutes, and it no longer loses the price you set for an extra visit.
  • Building a package nudges you when an included visit type has no phase of care set — a reminder, never a blocker.
  • Your clients list loads faster, and it shows current work by default instead of everyone you have ever worked with.
  • Your Board or Table choice on the clients list is remembered between visits.
  • Your first-steps checklist and the “worth exploring” suggestions have moved to Home, where you will actually see them.
  • Every tab on a client’s page now has its own web address, so “Record birth” lands on Birth Details instead of dropping you on Appointments — and a refresh keeps you where you were.
  • DoulaFlow now refuses to send to an address that cannot receive mail — example.com and the like — and tells you which one to fix, instead of failing quietly.
Fixed
  • Your client’s portal shows the real name of each visit — “Prenatal Visit” rather than just “Appointment”.
  • Package visit counts are right again. “Remaining” was double-counting on some packages, so it could tell you a client had used more visits than she had.
  • A second invoice no longer re-offers add-ons the client has already been billed for.
  • Editing an invoice’s line items is safe now — a failure part-way through can no longer leave the invoice with some rows missing.
  • If saving an intake form fails, your client’s answers are no longer lost. Her link keeps working and she can submit again.
  • Re-inviting a client to her portal after a loss no longer sends her a note about her pregnancy.
  • A colleague you hand a client to can now see that client’s package and add-ons, instead of blanks.
  • Two small panels that were rendering with no background at all now look the way they should.
v2.18.0
New
  • Bring your clients over from eDoula. Export from eDoula, upload the file, match up the columns, and your whole client book comes across — names, contact details, due dates, addresses and birth records.
  • Bring your invoices across too. A second file lands as real invoices with their payment history, so your books come with you rather than starting from scratch.
  • Record how a pregnancy ended — live birth, stillbirth, miscarriage, or pregnancy ended. DoulaFlow no longer assumes every pregnancy finishes the same way.
  • Insights reports birth outcomes instead of counting every birth as a live birth.
Improved
  • The import shows you every column it is not bringing across, before you commit to it, so nothing disappears quietly. Keep your original export until you have had a look at what came over.
  • The import tells you which eDoula export to download. There are two, and the smaller one quietly leaves most of your data behind.
  • Give each client a package as you import her, with a “set all” option for when they are mostly the same.
  • Decide where your own status names land — whatever eDoula called them, including your leads.
  • The column-matching screen is readable now. Labels no longer sit on top of the boxes underneath them.
  • Your client’s email address is matched up automatically instead of by hand.
  • The birth-date field now says plainly that it means the baby’s birth date — an eDoula export carries two, and they are easy to mix up.
  • An imported payment shows its date as approximate — “on or around 19 Aug” — because the export does not record exactly when she paid. Your client is no longer shown a date that was never true.
Fixed
  • When a pregnancy ends in loss, her portal and her emails stop showing pregnancy milestones and congratulations.
  • Invoice numbering keeps working past your 999th invoice.
  • Invoice numbering no longer breaks if you have ever used a numbering format of your own.
  • Only an admin can start, change or cancel your practice’s subscription.
  • Connecting Google Calendar tells you honestly when it did not work, instead of reporting success.
  • A doula removed from your practice loses access to your clients straight away.
v2.17.0
New
  • See your whole practice on one calendar. If you work with other doulas, flip on “Whole practice” to see everyone’s appointments and due dates at once, color-coded by doula.
  • Pick a teammate as your backup. Another doula in your practice now shows up right in the list when you set a backup — no more typing her name and email in by hand.
  • Clients can tell you where they plan to give birth. The intake form now asks for the kind of place and the address, and if it’s home she can simply tick “same as my home address”.
Improved
  • A backup doula’s access now follows the pregnancy instead of running out on a fixed timer — so the link still works when labor actually starts, however far ahead you arranged the cover. You’ll see the exact date her access lasts until.
  • Archived clients no longer clutter the Team page when you’re assigning clients to doulas. They’re still counted if you remove a doula, so no one’s client is ever left without someone looking after her.
  • Reassigning a client now tells you first if she has an unpaid invoice or an active backup, so nothing gets lost in the handover.
Fixed
  • Add-ons are billed at the quantity you actually set. If a client has three of something, her invoice now says three — not one.
  • A backup doula’s birth notes merge with yours instead of replacing them. Anything she left blank keeps what you had already recorded.
  • Editing a client no longer disturbs her add-ons.
  • Archived clients no longer receive automated payment reminders.
  • Insights leaves archived clients out of your package and revenue figures, so the numbers reflect the clients you’re actually working with.
  • Onboarding a lead who already had a package no longer leaves her holding two.
  • The Team page quotes the seat price you’ll actually be charged when you add a doula.
v2.16.0
New
  • Send a client a payment reminder yourself, right from an unpaid invoice — any time you like. DoulaFlow keeps a sensible gap between reminders so no one ever feels nagged.
Improved
  • Birth Details now handles twins and multiples: note how many babies arrived, each baby’s gender, and which birth this was for mom.
  • Record baby’s weight in pounds and ounces, with weight and length grouped together at the top of Birth Details — and gestational age now fills in for you.
  • Send a document you’ve already uploaded for a client’s signature — no need to upload it a second time.
  • Insights has a clearer “Getting paid” view: see what you’ve collected, what’s still owed, and what you haven’t invoiced yet — all in one glance.
  • When you add a seat for another doula, you’ll see the exact prorated charge before you confirm.
Fixed
  • Fixed a rare hiccup that could stop a subscription from going through — starting and changing your plan is more reliable now.
v2.14.0
New
  • A client’s full street address now lives on her profile — not just her city — and shows in her header, pulled right from her intake form, along with her birth location.
  • The Board view shows each client’s gestational age right on her card, so you can see how far along everyone is at a glance.
  • This “What’s New” popup now catches you up on every update since you last looked — not just the newest — and you can browse previous updates anytime.
Improved
  • A client’s Appointments tab is tidier: her package usage sits up top, past visits tuck away, and each visit reads at a glance.
  • The client portal has a warmer, more cohesive look — its icons now pick up the color theme your client chose.
  • Sort your client list by stage (Onboarding → Active → On Call, and so on), and flip the sort direction with one tap.
  • Gestational age is smarter — it caps at 43 weeks, freezes once you record a birth, and steps aside for postpartum and completed clients.
  • Appointment lengths now show in hours (like “1.5 hrs”) instead of minutes.
  • Your invoice and intake emails now carry your logo, and the invoice PDF uses your brand colors.
  • The intake form groups “Birth experiences” into clear sections, and each step starts at the top.
  • You now get a clear “Email sent” confirmation when you email an invoice or send an intake form.
  • The Insights page explains it fills in as you record Birth Details — so an empty view reads as “nothing entered yet,” not “broken.”
  • On your client’s portal home, her next appointment now sits right under the baby-size tracker, front and center.
Fixed
  • The “Set a backup doula” tip now points you to the right place instead of dropping you on the client list with nowhere to go.
  • In your client’s portal, a past appointment now reads “Past” instead of still showing as “Scheduled.”
v2.13.0
New
  • Automations — set them once and DoulaFlow handles the busywork: automatically move a client to On Call as her due date nears, suggest a due date on new invoices, and email a payment reminder when an invoice goes unpaid. Each is optional, on its own toggle in Settings → Automations.
  • Line up a backup doula for a birth in a couple of taps — send her a packet (upcoming appointments, the documents you choose, and a form to record birth details) with no account needed on her end, and her notes come back to you to review and accept.
  • See at a glance which clients have a backup arranged — a life-ring icon shows on the client card, the client list, and her profile.
  • A friendly “Worth exploring” panel once you’re set up, pointing you to features you might have missed — dismiss anything that’s not for you.
Improved
  • Clearer empty screens that explain what to do next, and in-app help topics now match the exact page you’re on.
  • New help articles for sending a document for signature and setting up a backup doula.
Fixed
  • The New Invoice screen now works properly on a phone — no more cut-off buttons or totals.
  • A suggested invoice due date never lands in the past, even for a client you take on late in her pregnancy.
  • Fixed a rare billing hiccup that could leave a paid account temporarily locked out.
v2.12.0
New
  • Set your practice timezone so appointment times and emails always show in your local time.
  • Set your working hours, and optionally turn on a gentle reminder when you book outside them (off by default — it never blocks you).
  • Import your existing clients from a spreadsheet, with a downloadable template to fill in.
  • Email an invoice to a client as a PDF — with a “Pay with PayPal” button when you've connected PayPal — and your clients can now see their invoices in the portal.
  • Share a document with all your clients at once, or attach a document you already uploaded to another client — no re-uploading.
  • See at a glance how many e-signature sends you've used this year.
  • Preview the intake form before you send it, so you always know exactly what your clients will see.
  • Save a client to your phone's contacts in one tap — it downloads a contact card you can open on your phone.
  • Your clients can personalize their portal with a blue, pink, or yellow color theme — a warm, personal touch.
  • This “What's New” spot (right here!) so you never miss an update.
Improved
  • Settings is reorganized into four clear areas — Account, Practice, Billing, and Integrations.
  • Tidier action menus on your Clients list and invoices: one main button plus a compact “⋯” menu.
  • The setup checklist now walks you through your practice basics first and checks off each step the moment you finish it.
  • When a client fills out their intake form, their answers now update their profile automatically.
  • New in-app help articles covering the new settings, sending an intake form, and inviting a client to the portal.
Fixed
  • The baby-size tracker in the client portal now shows accurate, cuter week-by-week comparisons.
  • The password-reset link now reliably prompts you to set a new password instead of just signing you in.

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