diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 0e6854f58efa..01959b109939 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.8.56
\ No newline at end of file
+5.8.57
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/ImportController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/ImportController.php
index b2fa825cf63b..187e4a3ff476 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/ImportController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/ImportController.php
@@ -167,11 +167,11 @@ class ImportController extends Controller
     private function convertEncoding($data)
     {
 
-        $enc = mb_detect_encoding($data, mb_list_encodings(), true);
+        // $enc = mb_detect_encoding($data, mb_list_encodings(), true);
 
-        if($enc !== false) {
-            $data = mb_convert_encoding($data, "UTF-8", $enc);
-        }
+        // if($enc !== false) {
+        //     $data = mb_convert_encoding($data, "UTF-8", $enc);
+        // }
 
         return $data;
     }
@@ -233,8 +233,50 @@ class ImportController extends Controller
             }
         }
 
+        return $this->convertData($data);
+    }
+
+
+
+    private function convertData(array $data): array
+    {
+
+        // List of encodings to check against
+        $encodings = [
+            'UTF-8',
+            'ISO-8859-1',  // Latin-1
+            'ISO-8859-2',  // Latin-2
+            'WINDOWS-1252', // CP1252
+            'SHIFT-JIS',
+            'EUC-JP',
+            'GB2312',
+            'GBK',
+            'BIG5',
+            'ISO-2022-JP',
+            'KOI8-R',
+            'KOI8-U',
+            'WINDOWS-1251', // CP1251
+            'UTF-16',
+            'UTF-32',
+            'ASCII'
+        ];
+
+        foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
+            // Only process strings
+            if (is_string($value)) {
+                // Detect the encoding of the string
+                $detectedEncoding = mb_detect_encoding($value, $encodings, true);
+
+                // If encoding is detected and it's not UTF-8, convert it to UTF-8
+                if ($detectedEncoding && $detectedEncoding !== 'UTF-8') {
+                    $array[$key] = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'UTF-8', $detectedEncoding);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         return $data;
     }
+    
 
     /**
      * Returns the best delimiter
diff --git a/app/Import/Providers/BaseImport.php b/app/Import/Providers/BaseImport.php
index 9411aa79e381..38294e82a6f4 100644
--- a/app/Import/Providers/BaseImport.php
+++ b/app/Import/Providers/BaseImport.php
@@ -937,4 +937,44 @@ class BaseImport
 
         return $data;
     }
+
+    private function convertData(array $data): array
+    {
+
+        // List of encodings to check against
+        $encodings = [
+            'UTF-8',
+            'ISO-8859-1',  // Latin-1
+            'ISO-8859-2',  // Latin-2
+            'WINDOWS-1252', // CP1252
+            'SHIFT-JIS',
+            'EUC-JP',
+            'GB2312',
+            'GBK',
+            'BIG5',
+            'ISO-2022-JP',
+            'KOI8-R',
+            'KOI8-U',
+            'WINDOWS-1251', // CP1251
+            'UTF-16',
+            'UTF-32',
+            'ASCII'
+        ];
+
+        foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
+            // Only process strings
+            if (is_string($value)) {
+                // Detect the encoding of the string
+                $detectedEncoding = mb_detect_encoding($value, $encodings, true);
+
+                // If encoding is detected and it's not UTF-8, convert it to UTF-8
+                if ($detectedEncoding && $detectedEncoding !== 'UTF-8') {
+                    $array[$key] = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'UTF-8', $detectedEncoding);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $data;
+    }
+    
 }
diff --git a/app/Jobs/Mail/NinjaMailerJob.php b/app/Jobs/Mail/NinjaMailerJob.php
index 22a9069c5ac8..7abfdbc29c12 100644
--- a/app/Jobs/Mail/NinjaMailerJob.php
+++ b/app/Jobs/Mail/NinjaMailerJob.php
@@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ class NinjaMailerJob implements ShouldQueue
         /*Set the correct database*/
         MultiDB::setDb($this->nmo->company->db);
 
-nlog("nn");
-
         /* Serializing models from other jobs wipes the primary key */
         $this->company = Company::query()->where('company_key', $this->nmo->company->company_key)->first();
 
diff --git a/app/Services/Template/TemplateService.php b/app/Services/Template/TemplateService.php
index 89482765fade..ac7ecf4e4611 100644
--- a/app/Services/Template/TemplateService.php
+++ b/app/Services/Template/TemplateService.php
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class TemplateService
         $allowedTags = ['if', 'for', 'set', 'filter'];
         $allowedFilters = ['escape', 'e', 'upper', 'lower', 'capitalize', 'filter', 'length', 'merge','format_currency','map', 'join', 'first', 'date','sum'];
         $allowedFunctions = ['range', 'cycle', 'constant', 'date',];
-        $allowedProperties = [];
+        $allowedProperties = ['type_id'];
         $allowedMethods = ['img','t'];
 
         $policy = new \Twig\Sandbox\SecurityPolicy($allowedTags, $allowedFilters, $allowedFunctions, $allowedProperties, $allowedMethods);
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ class TemplateService
             $item->tax_amount = Number::formatMoney($item->tax_amount_raw, $client_or_vendor);
             $item->product_cost = Number::formatMoney($item->product_cost_raw, $client_or_vendor);
 
-            return $item;
+            return (array)$item;
 
         })->toArray();
     }
diff --git a/config/ninja.php b/config/ninja.php
index 94445f5394ed..6e51fe7c3b08 100644
--- a/config/ninja.php
+++ b/config/ninja.php
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ return [
     'require_https' => env('REQUIRE_HTTPS', true),
     'app_url' => rtrim(env('APP_URL', ''), '/'),
     'app_domain' => env('APP_DOMAIN', 'invoicing.co'),
-    'app_version' => env('APP_VERSION', '5.8.56'),
-    'app_tag' => env('APP_TAG', '5.8.56'),
+    'app_version' => env('APP_VERSION', '5.8.57'),
+    'app_tag' => env('APP_TAG', '5.8.57'),
     'minimum_client_version' => '5.0.16',
     'terms_version' => '1.0.1',
     'api_secret' => env('API_SECRET', false),