Finance teams managing multi-entity group structures often need to plan each entity along a dimension – whether that's department, region, or product line. Until now, this required building separate structures for each entity and manually consolidating them to produce a group-wide view.

Nested breakdowns eliminate this overhead. Define a single structure that breaks down by entity, then by dimension, with consolidation handled automatically across your entire group.

The feature integrates fully with rollups, enabling sub-groupings at any level of the hierarchy: group entities by region, or aggregate dimension values like general and admin into a combined “General & admin” view.

One unified structure, automatic consolidation, significantly reduced model maintenance.

Nested breakdowns

Rollups let you create meaningful sub-consolidations within a breakdown. If your Francis model contains multiple entities or uses dimensions for planning, you can now group sub-sheets into rollups. In the image above, 

 is a rollup that contains the sub-sheets 

Rollups

Our Visma e-conomic integration now supports draft entries, also known as 

. Previously, the integration only supported finalized entries and ignored draft entries entirely.

With draft entries enabled, Francis becomes more integrated into your controlling workflows. You can analyze the effects of draft entries on financial reports before finalizing and closing the books for a specific month.

To enable draft entries for Visma e-conomic connections, navigate to 

Settings > Active integrations > Visma e-conomic

. Select an active connection, then enable 

Visma e-conomic draft entries (kassekladder)

With the introduction of comments, we're making it easier to collaborate with your team on financial plans. Leverage input from stakeholders across your organization to fine-tune budgets and ensure greater accuracy. To leave a comment, simply right-click on a cell and choose 

Francis comments include a built-in mention feature, enabling you to tag team members and direct their attention to specific sections of your model. When you mention someone, they’ll be notified via email about your comment, encouraging them to reply promptly.﻿

We want to keep you informed, so we've introduced email notifications as a built-in feature for comments. This means you'll receive email updates whenever someone mentions you directly or posts a reply in a thread where you're the original author or have previously contributed.

Comments are fully compatible with Francis' confidentiality features. More specifically, users with 

 will be able to leave comments, making it easier to include these stakeholders in the planning process and eliminating the need for parallel emailing.

Comments

We’re excited to introduce dark mode, a new interface theme specifically designed for nighttime modeling. Switch between Light or Dark mode under personal preferences in settings, or select System to have Francis dynamically change between Light and Dark mode based on your system settings.

Dark mode

Francis now fully supports live collaboration, allowing teams to work simultaneously without interrupting each other's work. This update includes features such as avatars to indicate other live collaborators, as well as cell selection highlighting to show where team members are actively working and help reduce conflicts.

Live collaboration

The expand/collapse state of groups and sections is now stored for each user individually, instead of being shared across your team. As a result, multiple users can view the same model at once without forcing refreshes for others. This change reduces interruptions and makes collaboration smoother, especially for those with view-only access.

Improved collaboration with personal views

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new learning center, complete with updated documentation, integration setup guides, and masterclasses. To help you find the information you need more easily, we’ve improved navigation throughout our documentation, which has grown to accommodate new features in Francis.

We’ve also introduced support for AI responses – allowing you to ask questions directly from the documentation. Simply use the search console at the top of the documentation page and type in any questions you may have about Francis.

Francis changelog