Click the + in the top bar and choose Add Client or Add Lead. Both open the same full-page intake form. The Lead / Client toggle in the page header switches which type you are creating.
- Fill in the name, plus whatever you have: date of birth, contact details, source, bail status and court monitoring.
- Type notes straight into the large notes area; the form is built for taking a new enquiry over the phone.
- Save. The new record appears in your client list immediately.
As you type the name, Acquit checks it against the court lists and your existing files, and shows what it finds beside the form.
Court history and upcoming dates
Once you have typed two characters of the surname, a Court history card summarises the person’s prior appearances, one row per court. A court with a listing in roughly the last three months is tagged Likely this matter; older history gets a grey Their last court tag. Click Set default to fill the default court and switch on monitoring. If the records belong to a fuller name than you typed, the card says whose they are. When several people share the typed name, it asks which one is this? rather than blending strangers into one record. Future listings appear in the separate Upcoming dates card, date first with a countdown.
Name completion
If the court lists show exactly one fuller name for what you typed, click Use to fill in the missing middle name. A complete name makes future court-list matching far more accurate.
Checking QLD Courts during the call
Once first name, surname and date of birth are entered, the Criminal lookup and Prisoner search buttons unlock. They open the QLD government forms and feed the results straight back into this form. See “What do the Case Lookup and Prisoner Search buttons do?”.
Drafts and duplicates
Save as draft in the page header parks a half-finished form and clears the page for the next call. The Drafts chip lists everything you have parked or been handed, ready to resume or delete, and an accidental tab close offers to restore what you typed. If a client with the same or similarly spelled name already exists, including one shared by a colleague, a duplicate banner warns you and clicks straight through to the existing record.