Legal Billing / Invoicing Software

Create beautiful invoices quickly & easily. See invoices while creating them. Optionally, allow invoices to be paid online.

fastMatter offers the most user-friendly invoicing interface
you see the Bill while creating it
as little as 30 seconds to create a Bill
add billable items, disbursements and discounts while creating the bill
email Bills directly to the client
easily track unpaid Bills
pay the Bill from Client account
optional Bill-Approval workflow: fee-earners can create draft bills, while Cashiers or Practice Managers approve them
Huge time-saving on bill-processing: creation, emailing, approval, tracking, paying, refunding, and cancellation

Features at a glance

Automated Full Legal Accounting

Transactions are created automatically while you deposit money into Client Acc, create Disbursements, create Bills and pay them, enter Expenses, etc
full Chart of Accounts with 86 default accounts
fully separate Trust Accounts (Client account, Deposit account, etc)
you can create as many separate Trust Accounts as you need
Multi-Currency (you can maintain accounts in any currency, and exchange rates are updated hourly)
easy bank reconciliation
Income & Expenditure
Expense tracking
Profit & Loss
Trial Balance
Balance Sheet
Year-End functionality
VAT calculation (Accrual & Cash methods)
Disbursements from Client and Office accounts
Re-chargeables
Client Interest calculation
SRA rules compliance
MTD - file your quarterly VAT return directly to HMRC

Billing / Invoicing

fastMatter offers the most user-friendly invoicing interface
you see the Bill while creating it
just a few seconds to create a beautiful invoice - everything has been thought through for user-friendly experience, to minimize your admin time and admin-related stress
add billable items, disbursements, and discounts while creating the bill
email Bills directly to the client
easily track unpaid Bills
pay the Bill from the Client account
optional Bill-Approval workflow: fee-earners can create draft bills, while Cashiers or Practice Managers approve them
Huge time-saving on bill-processing: creation, emailing, approval, tracking, paying, refunding, and cancellation
Credit Notes

Mass-Billing

Create multiple bills from a single interactive screen
fastMatter calculates which ones are the most billable matters and presents you with an interface where you can create multiple bills at once
All the options available in the standard billing interface are preserved
fastMatter knows in real time what available financial resources each matter has and allows you to pay the invoices while creating them. This saves a tremendous amount of time and avoids the possibility of human error, while creating complex (and compliant) transactions in the background

Accept online payments

Issue Money-Requests and have your clients pay straight into your Client account. You can then use these monies to pay interim bills.
Optionally, create Invoices/Bills that your clients can pay online directly into your Office account
fastMatter will process the payments and automatically record the transactions correctly
No Human-error
It will cost your client 1.95% -- cheaper than any other payment gateway
No more need for bulky payment terminals, or subscriptions

Bank Reconciliation

fastMatter lets you connect your bank accounts to online banking and load your transactions.
Alternatively, you can also upload CSV files from any UK banks, as is - without any special formatting. fastMatter can "read" and make sense of CSV files from any UK bank.
It will then try to match the transactions from your bank with transactions inside fastMatter.
Essentially, this means that 99% of your accounting can be conducted from this bank-reconciliation screen.

SRA Compliance

fastMatter helps you to stay compliant with SRA Accounts Rules. The smart system is aware of SRA rules and will warn and guide you if you try to make a transaction that breaks the rules.

Making Tax Digital READY

Submit your quarterly VAT returns from inside fastMatter
fastMatter does all calculations for you. Both Standard (accrual) and Cash Accounting methods.

True Realtime collaboration

Your coworkers see the changes to matters in real-time (depending on roles and permissions, of course)

Matter Templates

Huge time-saver!
Create matter-templates for recurring types of matters (e.g. Consultation, Litigation, Property Purchase, Divorce)

Cloud based File-manager

Drag&Drop files into your matter
Have constant access to all matter documents wherever you are

Document Automation

Choose from hundreds of tokens which you can insert into a Word document; and then put into your Templates Library

Tasks management & Workflows

Create tasks for each matter
Assign tasks by simply dragging a user onto that task

Calendar & Key Dates

Firm’s calendar of deadlines and Key-Dates
Personal user’s calendar
Easy drag-&-drop functionality

Time recording

You can use the Stopwatch Timer
Or you can add time-recordings manually

Reports & Visualisations

Who's working on what
Billing Targets
Fee-Earner Productivity
Expense tracking
Live Charts

Reminders & Notifications

Whenever changes happen to matters and tasks that a fee-earner is assigned to, he/she will be instantly notified.

Teams & Branches

Create Teams or Branches, and assign users to them.

CRM for Law Firms

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to satisfy the needs of most law firms

Attendance notes

Record at the speed of thought in real-time

Conflict of interests checker

fastMatter has one of the most thorough COI checks. That's because we use "layered-array" search, with 6 layers of searches, each of which runs in combination.

Contacts & Relationships

It may look like just another library of contacts, but it's more nuanced than that and cleverly done.

Privacy & Permissions per matter

You can set up Roles and give permissions to users in that role, which will apply across all matters.

Complex Matters

Some matters can be more complex than the rest. Some matters can have several Clients and several Other-Parties.

Inter-organisational Collaboration

A fastMatter user can be a member of several law firms or organisations simultaneously and have different roles and permissions in each of those organisations.

Security

We host in the UK - in the same space where RCJ and leading multinational banks host.
We ensure that your communications are secure using bank-grade 256-bit SSL encryption.

All Features

Accounting

Automate your bookkeeping with clean automated transactions added while you create your invoices, record expenses, and perform bank-reconciliation (the smart way)

Case Management

Case Management Software that is actually user-friendly, packed with useful features, and surprisingly easy to use

Contacts

Contact library that is integrated with your Accounting, Billing, CRM, Conflict Of Interests check, and so much more

Document Automation

Upload your document templates once, and your team can generate new documents based on those in seconds. Huge saving of billable time, and no human errors.

File Manager

Each matter has its own File Manager built in, just like the desktop file-manager that you're used to.

Invoicing & Billing

Create beautiful invoices quickly & easily. See invoices while creating them. Optionally, allow invoices to be paid online.

Task Management

Increase the productivity and overall performance of your law firm with easy to use task-management and workflow tools designed specifically for law firms.

Time Recording

Increase profitability and accountability by recording every activity. Fee earners can record with an easy timer while working, or manually add time afterwards.

CRM

CRM, Sales pipeline, Campaigns, ROI reports

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