The Actionstep Bulk Updates Tool Your Firm’s Been Wishing for Has Arrived.

It’s the end of the month. Your paralegals are buried in spreadsheets, manually updating dozens of matters one by one. Attorneys are recalculating overdue interest in Excel, double-checking numbers late into the night. Partners are frustrated because it feels like the firm spends more time patching up admin tasks than serving clients. 

Everyday tasks in Actionstep, e.g., updating matter rates, recalculating overdue interest, or fixing reports, can eat up hours your team doesn’t have. Our Multi-Tool was built to close those gaps. With a few clicks, it handles the tedious work that Actionstep doesn’t automate, so your staff can focus on client work instead of spreadsheets.

Now imagine the same scene with the Multi-Tool: 

Rates updated across your matters in seconds, interest calculated automatically and added in a click, helpful reports generated on demand. Instead of chasing errors, your team leaves on time and your firm gets the work done right.

Let’s explore the Actionstep gaps the Multi-Tool fills and how it can integrate into your law firm's workflows.

What Everyday Tasks Waste the Most Time in Actionstep?

It’s not the big, strategic projects that eat away at your firm’s productivity, but the dozens of small, repetitive tasks that pile up week after week. While Actionstep can automate many things, it can’t automate everything. Trying to piece together several disparate systems to pull through those last few tasks Actionstep is unable to automate can be an exercise in frustration.

Manual interest calculations

Without automation, staff spend hours recalculating overdue interest or late fees. Many firms give up altogether, leaving thousands of dollars on the table every month.

One partner we worked with put it plainly: “We made about $8,000 in interest last year, but it wasn’t worth jumping through all the hoops.” The math was right there, but the process was so clunky the firm chose to skip it entirely. We get it, but that decision cost them far more in unrealized revenue than the time they “saved” avoiding the hassle and may even lead clients to deprioritize paying your bills.

Updating matter rates one-by-one

Need to adjust hourly rates across dozens of open matters to reflect new rates? In native Actionstep, it’s a slog — click into each matter, update the rate, and repeat.

Rebuilding reports by hand

Whether it’s financial snapshots or operational metrics, staff waste time exporting, reformatting, and rechecking data that should already be at their fingertips.

Individually, these tasks may feel like “just a few minutes.” But across an entire firm, the costs add up quickly: dozens of hours lost, billable time wasted, and in some cases, $10,000+ a month in unrealized revenue.

How Do Law Firms Handle Billing Without Automation in Actionstep?

When Actionstep doesn’t make a task easy, most firms take one of two paths:

1. The manual workaround.
Staff soldier through, spending hours on spreadsheets, double-checking entries, and re-entering data across multiple systems. These workarounds get the job done, but at a steep cost: billable time lost, higher error rates, and team morale eroded by repetitive busywork.

2. The “good enough” trap.
Other firms decide the hassle isn’t worth it and stop doing the task altogether. One director of operations told us their firm simply abandoned interest billing: “We knew we were leaving money on the table, but the manual process was such a pain that we couldn’t justify the time.”

Both approaches have the same outcome: wasted resources and missed opportunities. What starts as a small annoyance quietly compounds into thousands of dollars in unrealized revenue every month.

What Does the Multi-Tool for Actionstep Actually Do?

The Multi-Tool was designed to handle the small but critical jobs that Actionstep don’t have easy answers in Actionstep but we can program externally. Instead of hours wasted on repetitive admin, firms can complete these tasks in just a few clicks:

• Batch updates: Adjust billing rates across dozens of matters at the same time in a few clicks.

• Interest calculations: Automate what used to take hours in spreadsheets.

• Reporting tweaks: Generate the information you need without reformatting data by hand.

One firm we worked with needed to calculate billing interest, but their accounting team did it in phases, alphabetizing clients into weekly billing cycles. Actionstep couldn’t support that level of nuance. With the Multi-Tool, we added a simple filter: billing sorted by A–F in week one, G–L in week two, and so on. What used to be a frustrating, error-prone workaround became a smooth process tailored to how the firm already operated.

Features are one thing. But what makes the Multi-tool for Actionstep so powerful is how simple it is to use. One client described the experience this way: “I clicked a couple of boxes and it was done. That’s it? I thought it would be way worse.”

And because the Multi-Tool was built with lawyers (not IT teams) in mind, there’s no steep learning curve. The interface is straightforward, and for firms that want more advanced tweaks, it’s fully customizable by our team.

How Can Automation Tools Improve Law Firm Productivity?

When the busywork disappears, the difference across the firm is immediate and tangible:

• Staff frustration drops. Paralegals and administrators no longer feel buried under spreadsheets or endless repetitive tasks. Morale improves, and turnover risk decreases.

• Attorneys reclaim billable hours. Instead of losing time to manual fixes, lawyers can focus on client work and case strategy — the high-value activities that drive the firm forward.

• Partners see measurable ROI. What once felt like “just admin” translates into real financial gains. Capturing interest billing, streamlining updates, and eliminating errors adds up to thousands in revenue every month.

For firms under pressure to do more with leaner teams, these changes are transformative. The Multi-Tool saves time, reduces stress, and ensures the work that matters most gets the attention it deserves.

From Headaches to ROI

One managing partner told us the difference was night and day: “Before, we were chasing errors and skipping interest billing because it was too much hassle. Now, everything runs in minutes and we’re finally collecting the revenue we used to leave on the table.”

That’s the real impact of removing those everyday annoyances: more time for client work, a calmer team, and five-figure revenue gains every month.

And this is just the beginning. In the next part of this series, we’ll dig deeper into the numbers, showing exactly how firms are turning lost revenue into recovered profit with the Multi-Tool.

See how it works first-hand 

Schedule a consultation and we’ll show you how easy it is to reclaim time for your firm’s most important work with Mauve Morpho’s Multi-Tool for Actionstep.

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