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Weekly · Finance · Week of October 19, 2026

GOAT.tax adds R&D credit Section G reporting while Stigg widens billing beyond Stripe

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The week in finance

Finance tooling this week was about reporting depth and billing breadth. GOAT.tax added Form 6765 Section G reporting for large R&D credit filers, and Stigg deepened credit analytics while widening billing beyond Stripe. Both are adding the detail that finance and compliance teams ask for, in narrow, specific domains.

Leaders

GOAT.tax shipped a Qualified Activity Type breakdown for direct research, supervision and support, for studies above the $1.5M QRE and $50M gross-receipts thresholds, and captures EIN and NAICS codes for the report. It also extended bulk handling for multi-company filers, and earlier added saved table column views across Wages, Expenses and BC Allocation.

Stigg lets customers group credit usage by feature ID and several custom dimensions at once, giving finance and product teams a finer view of consumption. The release lands days after a beta Airwallex integration and follows its Stripe Projects listing, faster Plans and Add-ons, and sub-10ms entitlement checks.

Shift4 ran several release clocks in parallel: Venue Q3-R3 completed its canary-to-global path across Menu Manager, Quick Service POS and Ordering, and Customer Hub week 41 extended Payment Links to Opera. Gift Card and Loyalty 26.2.1 notes were posted ahead of an October 21 release.

Wildcards

Firefly III shipped six develop builds in two days with the same boilerplate and no changelog, so no user-facing progress can be read from the feed.

Themes that compounded

  • Compliance detail for narrow regimes: Section G thresholds and NAICS capture at GOAT.tax.
  • Billing neutrality: Stigg supports Airwallex alongside Stripe.
  • Multiple parallel release clocks at Shift4.

Watch this week

Watch for Shift4's Gift Card and Loyalty 26.2.1 on October 21, the one dated release in the sector's data. Stigg's Airwallex integration is in beta and could graduate, and Firefly III's develop builds may produce a tagged release with notes.