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Sharesight release notes - January 2020

by Scott Ryburn, CTO, Sharesight | Feb 16th 2020

The Sharesight development team took advantage of the holiday period to perform a variety of backend maintenance and housekeeping tasks, including a major database upgrade requiring a small amount of scheduled downtime (in all there were only two small windows of downtime totalling less than 15 minutes!). We also managed to ship a few enhancements here and there as detailed below.

Sharesight release notes Januaary 2020

New Functionality / Enhancements

  • Increased file size upload restriction from 1 MB to 10 MB

Sharesight Usability

  • Improved messaging on reports when no data available within a date range
  • Revised design for signing up to Sharesight with Google account
  • Update the settings tab buttons to be more consistent

Broker Transaction Import

  • Migrated all broker imports to use the redesigned bulk trades import UI

Sharesight API

  • Add trading cash account parameter to V2 and V3 portfolio endpoints
  • Added Exchange rates endpoint to API v3 (Beta)
  • Added Xero sync status to API v3 Create Trade, Update Trade, Show Trade, List Trade endpoints (Beta)

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