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Recent Update to Services - Not an Improvement

  • August 18, 2026
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Siba Dalati

Hello all,

Not sure if this has been anyone else’s experience or just mine. I’ve been a HoneyBook user for my business for the last 5 years and I have to say thus far, it’s been pretty great. Streamlined and organized, and this is my first post for a reason. But the new update/AI integration with Services on the Smart Files/Invoices has been a nightmare thus far.

I work as an event decorator but a lot of the stuff we do while customized, is of a similar category so it is usually pretty helpful to be able to type “Entry Sign” when creating a new item on the invoice and see all previous kinds of entry signs I’ve created for other clients, how I described them, and how I priced them and just choose from there. Same with “Rentals” or “Candles” for example. 

But when the new update came in, I went in and made sure to migrate everything as the little banners prompted me to do, but still when I search things up, I know so many things are missing from the years I’ve been creating line items. More importantly nowadays, I type in “Rentals” and can’t see anything but entries for “Delivery and Pickup” which drives me insane since there isn’t even anything in the descriptions with that phrase and I can’t find what I’m looking for.

It has made the process of pricing so much more difficult and I wish I could opt out of this update and go back to the way things were.

4 replies

Courtney
  • September 24, 2026

I’m running into the same problem!  I’m wondering if there was some sort of extra step I was supposed to do?  I have a large rental inventory and most of my items seem to be missing.  Oddly enough, the items that do seem to have saved are years old.  And even as I’ve entered new items in the last month, they don’t seem to save.


Alicia Bauer
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  • September 28, 2026

​@Siba Dalati and ​@Courtney - This is definitely frustrating, especially when you've built up years of line items that you were used to being able to quickly search and reuse.

I think there may actually be two things worth separating here. The change to using the new Services system is one piece, but if you completed the migration and you're finding that services are actually missing, newly created items aren't appearing, or searching “Rentals” is returning unrelated results like “Delivery and Pickup,” I would reach out to Support through the ? icon and have them take a look at your specific account.

I wouldn't assume that's simply how the new system is supposed to work, particularly since both of you are describing items that you believe should be there but aren't.

If Support confirms that everything migrated correctly and what you're experiencing is the intended search behavior, then I think there's a really helpful feature request here around improving Services search and making it easier to find and reuse previously created items. But I'd want to rule out a migration/search issue first.

When you contact Support, I'd give them a couple of very specific examples, like the “Rentals” search returning “Delivery and Pickup,” along with the name of an item you know existed previously but can no longer find. That should give them something concrete to investigate.


Courtney
  • September 29, 2026

Thank you Alicia!!  That’s exactly what I needed.  I used the ? icon and it instructed me on how to migrate the rest of my items.  It worked perfectly!


Alicia Bauer
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  • September 29, 2026

​@Courtney - Yes! I am so glad it worked out for you! 💛