What's New in Release 2013.01

General

User Experience Improvements

Icon Updates

Processing an Order Cancellation, Processing an Invoice Cancellation, and Processing Invoice Write-Offs have all had an Information icon added to their interface to provide you more details on each order and invoice (if needed) before running the actual process itself.

 

View the following help topics for complete updates on how the new icon functions:

Related Topic Search: netFORUM Pro Interface Overview

Accounting Module Updates

Adding a Manual Credit

Tip: The Manual Credit feature will be available in the upcoming netFORUM Pro version 2013.02.

Users can now create a credit for an individual or organization, without going through the process of cancelling an invoice. The Add Manual Credit option is now available in the Actions drop-down menu on Individual and Organization profile pages. Credits created using Add Manual Credit will credit Liability and debit Revenue in the General Ledger. Use this feature whenever you would like to create a credit not associated with an invoice.

A history of overpayment credits and manually created credits is also now listed under the Other child form tab, in the Manual/Overpayment Credits child form.

View the following help topics for complete updates on how to create a manual credit:

Related Topic Search: processing refunds, creating a credit

Creating a Custom Donation Receipt

Users can now create custom donation receipts. This feature is particularly useful for organizations that wish to create custom donation receipts in a format suitable for tax purposes in Canada as the default template is information required by Canada. Customize the top and bottom receipt text and add a signature section. Custom donation receipts are sent for donations made in iWeb and eWeb.

To access the custom donation receipt feature, the EnableCustomDonationReceipt system option must be enabled by your Abila support representative.

In the Image Gallery, a Custom Receipt Images section now allows you to upload images of signatures to appear on your custom donation receipt.

View the following help topics for complete updates:

Related Topic Search: fundraising, donations

Late Fee Updates

Additional search parameters have been added when generating late fees for multiple customers. You may now use a from and through date to search for past due days. This functionality has been added to provide greater flexibility and efficiency in searching for past due orders with less searching involved as well as repeated searching attempts. Further, when the Process button is clicked on the Generate Late Fee form, without scheduling the late fee, an e-mail will be sent to the licensed user generating the late fees. This alerts the person that the late fee generation process has been run.

View the following help topics for complete updates:

Related Topic Search: late fee for a single customer

Administration Module Updates

Address Linking During a Data Import

Enabling the LinkWorkAddressDuringImport system option will automatically check the Link Address check box found on the Individual Profile. This will automatically set the primary organization's business address as the individual's primary address upon data import.

This system option must be set by Abila Support.

For more information, please visit the following help topic:

Related Topic Search:data Import, address

E-Marketing Updates

Template Updates

When a purchase confirmation is sent, the e-mail recipient receives a confirmation message followed by the order confirmation detail. The name of your association now appears under the e-mail confirmation message, above the "purchased by" information.

For more information, please visit the following help topic:

Related Topic Search: shopping, order confirmation, e-mail template

Printer-Friendly Order Confirmation Updates

Custom confirmation headers created in e-Marketing Setup now also appear on the printer-friendly version of the order confirmation. If no custom confirmation headers have been created, a standard message appears: "Thank you for your recent payment/purchase. For your records, here is a summary of your payment from [your association name].”

For more information, please visit the following help topic:

Related Topics: shopping, order confirmation

Demographic Updates

Field Updates

The Title, Nickname, and Designation fields are no longer part of netFORUM demographics. These fields will appear as part of the Personal Information section automatically on the adding an individual form and will not need to be enabled through demographic set up.

For more information on demographics and adding records, please visit the following help topics:

Related Search Keywords: custom profiles

Category Updates

Demographic categories may now be left blank during demographic set up.

 

Note that only demographics assigned to a category will appear when customizing a profile view. So if your demographics do not appear as expected, make sure you have them assigned to the correct category and they have not been left blank. Further all new entities will have categories defaulted to blank upon set up.

For details on this update to demographic categories and custom profiles, view the following topics:

Related Search Keywords: baseline demographics, custom demographics

Report and Query Updates

The following updates and new reports have been added to Build 2013.01:

The following updates and new queries have been added to Build 2013.01:

Issues Addressed