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Activity log

A permanent audit trail for your Estonian company books: every create, update, post and delete recorded with who, when and field-level from/to detail.

Accounting runs on the question "who changed this, and when?" — and the activity log answers it without anyone having to remember. Every meaningful action in your company's books leaves a permanent entry: entries are written by the system as things happen, and nobody — not even an Owner — can edit or delete them afterwards.

You'll find it under Activity Log in the Settings group of the sidebar.

What gets recorded

Each entry says who did it, what happened, and when. The what is an action on a record — created, updated, deleted, posted, sent, paid, cancelled, reversed, reconciled, imported — across the things you work with: invoices, bank transactions and bank connections, contacts, recurring templates, fixed assets, payroll people and categorisation rules.

Expanding an entry shows the field-level detail: each changed field with its From and To values, so "Updated Invoice" becomes "due date moved from 14 June to 28 June". Sensitive values such as IBANs and personal identification codes are redacted from this detail view.

Finding things

The page shows the most recent 500 entries, newest first, with three ways to narrow them down:

  • Entity filter — only invoices, only bank transactions, and so on.
  • Action filter — only deletions, only updates, whatever you're hunting.
  • Search — free-text across the entries.

A sort toggle flips between newest-first and oldest-first when you're reconstructing a sequence of events.

What it's for

Mostly, answering questions calmly instead of forensically:

  • Your accountant asks why a figure moved. Filter to the entity, find the update, read the from/to values, done.
  • Two people work in the same books. The log shows which of you posted, paid or deleted what — useful information, delivered without an argument.
  • Something looks off. An invoice you don't remember cancelling, a transaction recategorised — the log says who and when, which is usually the whole mystery solved.
  • An audit trail exists by default. Estonian accounting expects records to be traceable; the log is that trace, kept for you automatically.

ℹ️Read-only by design

The log is append-only: Arvello writes it, everyone with access to the company can read it, and no one can rewrite it. That's what makes it worth trusting.

Key Takeaways

  1. 1Every create, update, delete, post, payment and reconciliation is recorded with who and when
  2. 2Expand an entry to see field-level from/to changes
  3. 3Filter by entity or action, search, and flip the sort to reconstruct events
  4. 4Entries are permanent — nobody can edit or remove them