Enjoy easy legal billing with all of the tools in one place
Data collected from online legal intake forms is instantly stored in Smokeball, reducing errors and manual data entry.
Stay on top of new enquiries with alerts and real time reporting - helping you respond faster and secure more clients.
Leverage a collection of digital intake forms tailored to different practice areas and jurisdictions.
Smokeball is unlike any legal practice management software because of how all your firm’s activity is captured and saved back to the matter. Our automatic time tracking means you’ll never miss another billable minute and can easily send custom invoices and collect payments.
More frequent invoicing means your chances of getting paid go up, so get a handle on your bills with Smokeball Billing. Whether you work for an hourly fee, flat fee, or on contingency, Smokeball Billing is a powerful tool that improves efficiency for all users, billers and bookkeepers alike.
Unlike server-based billing systems, you don’t need a computer science degree to bill accurately and quickly on each file with a secure, cloud based application.
Smokeball Billing’s features, functionality, and integrations are powerful yet simple and easy to use. Because Smokeball Billing is completely integrated and included with your legal and conveyancing software, your business runs completely from one seamless system.
With Smokeball, you can be confident that all your billing activity will be recorded. Our seamless integration with Xero and MYOB* ensures that you can look after your client's money safely.
When an invoice is paid in Smokeball Billing, the receipt of funds into your office bank account in Xero or MYOB is seamless. Smokeball Billing does this by posting journal entries in your Xero or MYOB books.
To get started, all you need to do is switch on the integration in firm settings by authorising Smokeball Billing to connect to your MYOB or Xero account.
* MYOB integration is with MYOB Essentials and AccountRight only.
Smokeball Billing’s direct interaction with automatic time tracking in Smokeball also means that Smokeball can do all your time entries for you.
Smokeball will build daily time entries that you can review and invoice without any manual data entry whatsoever. Your clients have a simple modern option to make their invoice payments with security from a credit card. Smokeball Billing software also includes extensive reporting, so you know the financial state of each of your matters.
If you find yourself creating similar types of time/fee or expenses, activity codes will save you time.
Easily create your own timesheet with customised activity codes and fast data entry, then use Smokeball’s billing software features to take your tracked hours on all activities such as emails read and drafted, document management and events.
You’ll be able to receive daily updates looking at firm profitability and create detailed reports on what you’ve worked on per day, by staff member and matter, all in one system with no need to add additional law office software or portals.
Digital intake forms offer several advantages over paper-based forms or manual intake processes.
Here’s why they are better:
1. Efficiency and time savings
2. Accuracy and reduced errors
3. Better client experience
Clients can submit information from anywhere, anytime, on any device.
For law firms, switching to digital intake forms is a no-brainer— it speeds up client onboarding, reduces administrative work, and delivers a professional, modern experience.
Smokeball Payments is Legal Payment Software that allows your firm to securely accept online credit, debit payments directly from invoices, intake forms, your client portal, or a secure link. It's designed for law firms and fully integrated into your Smokeball workflow.
Smokeball Payments helps your firm get paid faster and spend less time chasing invoices. It reduces admin, simplifies reconciliation, and gives clients more convenient ways to pay- leading to smoother billing and improved cash flow.
There are no monthly fees for Smokeball Payments. You simply pay a transaction percentage and a small per-transaction fee. See full pricing details here.
You can choose to absorb these fees or pass them on to your clients as a surcharge.
Clients can pay using credit or debit cards from Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. Payments can be made through digital invoices, online intake forms, QR codes on printed invoices, or directly via the client portal.
Yes. Payments enables you to collect payments to trust from your clients.
Payments are securely processed by FeeWise, our trusted legal payments partner. Your client's data is encrypted and handled in accordance with PCI DSS standards.
To apply, you must be an authorised principal who owns 25% or more of the firm. You'll need to provide basic firm and identification details, along with your nominated operating and/or trust account details.
Yes. Your firm can choose whether to absorb the transaction fee or pass it on to the client as a surcharge. This gives you flexibility over how payment costs are managed.
Yes. Payments are securely processed through FeeWise, a PCI DSS-compliant provider. Your client's card details are encrypted and never stored in Smokeball, ensuring a secure experience for both your firm and your clients.
Smokeball Payments is currently available to firms in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It's available to firms using eligible Smokeball plans. Access to apply is limited to principals who own at least 25% of the firm.
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