RELEASE NOTES

RELEASE NOTES



Release Notes:

DATE
FEATURE

DESCRIPTION

December 2024
Comsend Upload Doctor
Custom AI GPT to assist admins with Error and Alerts while updating members.

November 2024

Advanced member filtering and emailing
Advanced member filtering and targeted emailing from Members module + new email management
May 2024
ShulCloud form improvements

April 2024

Surcharge Product

Prompt members to cover surcharge costs (based on a percentage of their order)
March 2024
Auto-Charge Reciprocity for PayPal
PayPal customers can allow auto-charge for member reciprocity fee balances at the click of a button (vs. inviting them to manually pay the balance). 
February 2024
Links on menu to Handy Checklists

February 2024
Auto-Finalize for Manual Processing
When members click on the Manual Processing link their order is automatically finalized.
January 2024
Auto-Charge Reciprocity for Converge

Option for admins to allow auto-charge for member reciprocity fee balances at the click of a button (vs. inviting them to manually pay the balance). 

December 2023
Schedule an email for a future date/time.
Does not refresh filter selections!
November 2023
Admin accounts managed by Head Admin
Head Admins manage all the account's admins. More here.
November 2023
Detailed Email activity
From the email menu there's an option to view detailed email activity (delivered, open, last event)
November 2023
Order confirmation email subject
An option to customize the subject of the Order Confirmation email from within Campaign Settings.
November 2023
Member emails from Member area
A feature was added (envelope icon) in the Member area to enable emailing directly to one (and single) member.
September 2023
Selection details in member Checkout page
On their Checkout page, members can expand a "+" to see who they selected.
July 2023
All reports have Member ID
The Member ID has been added to all reports and is a link to the Member info card.
June 2023
Email Type Product (E-Card)

Introducing a new Product type allowing members to sponsor emails to anyone outside of the community. More here.

June 2023
2 Factor Authentication

Introducing increased security for admins. More here.

June 2023
Member Payment Amount - no longer changes with scroll
When in member payment area, the amount no longer changes with inadvertent mouse scrolling.
June 2023
Survey bug fix
Members must select a value for required questions.
March 2023
New Category for email sending
Under "Participation" Group-by option, there's a new group for "Members who didn't sign in or didn't finalize".
March 2023
Friendly error for Display only or Disabled.
When attempting to edit Selections for Display only or Disabled members, a message appears instructing admin to change the permission first.
March 2023
Search members on External ID
In the member area you can now search on External ID as well.
March 2023
Campaign Clone Improvements
Clear warnings on what needs to be addressed when you clone, choice of new default features, reordering items in the Pricing Settings tab.
March 2023
Auto shutdown and alert
After 5 minutes of inactivity, a 2 minute warning appears and then website shutsdown
January 2023

In Member area, if there's a "Select All (for $x)" it will be highlighted in green.

The button to select an entire category for a special price is highlighted in green so that members won't miss it.
January 2023
Member Edit Greeting Name option

An option in the campaign settings will allow the members to edit the way their own name will appear in others' greeting cards. See Campaigns Overview.

January 2023
Member Export File name

The export file name will be: Member_Export_[Inst Number]--[Month_Day_Year]


January 2023

Allow Member to Edit Greeting Display Name
With this Campaign setting option members can see and edit how their names will appear in the Final Letter greeting cards for the members they select.
December 2022
Option to Suppress Reciprocity details
On choosing the Flat Fee Reciprocity option, admin can choose to suppress the display of number of resulted reciprocity greetings from the members. See more here: Reciprocity Overview

November 2022

Redirect URL
In Campaign settings admins can specify a URL to redirect members to after they make payment.
November 2022
Informational pop-up on the member Additional Options step
The purpose of the pop-up is to avoid confusion when a member logs in a second time after they made an order, whether paid or not, so they don't think they're being charged twice. 

October 2022

Addition of Stripe merchant

September 2022

Fully independent admin accountsFor enhanced security, admins have their fully separate accounts and the Forgot Password email goes to admins individually instead of to the previous Institute email address. 
August 2022
Admin delete manual payments
Admin can now delete any manually entered payments from the member Payment page (but not payments that were made by member via credit card).

August 2022

Auto-Charge Reciprocity

Option for admins to allow auto-charge for member reciprocity fee balances at the click of a button (vs. inviting them to manually pay the balance). Currently available for Authorize.net merchant only.
 
August 2022
Handling Institute email missing
Present a message to user that they need to update the Institute email under Preferences before sending emails.
August 2022
New Finalize process
An option to have member orders auto-finalized with payment only (unless payment isn't expected, e.g. when removing a selection after having paid already). See Finalize Explained.

August 2022

Improved Member Imports

Pre-load audit of data and highlighting errors and warnings in detail. Members Imports
August 2022
Required Survey question option
Option to force members to respond to a Survey question

July 2022
Improved DB backup routine
Transparent to customers
July 2022
Notes on Payments
A notes field for administrators when recording a member payment
June 2022
BCC on emails
New option to add a Bcc to any email sent. This option was removed in Feb 2023 as mail server SPAM algorithms were suppressing all but the first email that was sent in bcc. New solutions are being considered.  
June 2022

Payment Confirmations

Auto or manually send Payment Confirmations & Tax Receipts (including for Tax Receipt purposes)
June 2022
Removed Campaign IDF option
Now customers can create their own option and customize via Working with Products.
May 2022
Display Member ID
In Member Details
May 2022
Payment ID
All payments have unique identifier which can be set by admin in preferences
April 2022
Campaign dates checks
When a new campaign is created or copied, the start date is set by default to TODAY+10 DAYS and the end date to TODAY+60. Where relevant msg: "when trying to save the Campaign: Your Campaign Start Date must be before your Campaign End Date."
February 2022
Zone field expanded to 30 chars
In Member Details
January 24, 2021
Avoid member updates of Display Fields
Member updates of their own personal information will no longer change display fields. Instead Admins will be responsible to view notifications and make changes themselves.

January 15, 2021
Non-Disabled member export only
Depending on admin Preferences, Export Member List will export only non-Disabled members.

January 14, 2021
New email macros
Added email macros for current regular selections, current reciprocity selections and a warning message for admins to confirm their intention is to include these.


* Major Feature (in Bold)

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