We've just released a small update for church treasurers. We've added the ability to sort contributions by data in both ascending and descending directions. This applies to all the sort options — name, giving number, entry date, fund, amount, etc. You'll find these new options on the deposit page as well as the contribution search page.

Have you ever wanted to send a message to multiple groups? Or maybe to a group plus a couple other people? You now can!

When sending a new message you can now choose multiple recipients. This can include segments like "All members" or "All women", groups like shepherding groups or Bible studies, or even just individual members. You can mix and match recipients however you want.

And there's more! Have you ever wanted to send a message to everyone, but exclude one or two people? Maybe you're arranging a surprise birthday party for your pastor and don't want him or his wife to see the message. Well you can now add message "exclusions".

To do this first select the segment or group you want to send the message to, like "Everyone". Next, click the people count beside the "Send to" label and you'll see a list of everyone who is going to be included on the message. Beside each person you'll see an "Exclude" button. Click that button to make sure those members aren't included on the message you send out.

We're really excited about this feature and believe it makes the messaging feature in Church Social even more powerful. Enjoy!

We've just pushed out a little improvement for church treasurers. Now when you're creating new contributions on a deposit page you can quickly create new donors and funds without leaving the page.

To do this, simply click the "add donor" button beside the "Contributed by" input to create a new donor and click the "add new" button beside the "Fund" input to create a new fund.

After creating the new donor or fund it will automatically be selected and you can continuing entering the rest of the contribution details.

A nice little productivity improvement!

We've updated the country field when editing addresses to now include support for every country in the world. So if you happen to have a member with a Nauru mailing address, you can now properly set it, although I suspect postage will be expensive.

Folders in the files section can now be "pinned to the top" of the list of folders and files. This feature is perfect for drawing extra attention to certain folders, such as something that's time-sensitive for your congregation right now.

To pin a folder, click on the three-dot actions menu located to the right of the folder, and select the "Pin to Top" option.

Now you can stop prefixing these folders with an underscore! 😊

We've just added a new "Families not in a shepherding group" report to the reports section to help you catch any families in your church that haven't been assigned to a ward, district, or whatever it is that you call shepherding groups in your church.

We just updated the still relatively new "Email parents as well?" schedule setting to now include an "Only when children are not notified" option. This is useful for situations where parents only want to be notified about their children's schedule entries when the children themselves aren't being notified.

The My Contributions page now includes a new "Show fund totals" toggle to optionally show your fund specific giving totals. This allows you to quickly see how your donations have been distributed across your church's different causes and initiatives.

Today we released another small improvement to the create sermon page.

This page now automatically sets the date field to the latest Sunday, since nine times out of ten this is what you want, and if you don't you can still easily change it.

We also automatically set the time to "Morning" if it's the first sermon you're creating for that Sunday, and "Afternoon" if it's the second.

Two small improvements that should hopefully save our sermon editors a couple steps each week.

We've just deployed a small enhancement to the create and edit sermon pages. Now, when you're selecting the author for a sermon, the minister input will intelligently sort pastors who have preached recently (within the last couple of months) at the top of the list. This improvement is designed to make it easier for you to find your own pastor when creating new sermons instead of having to scroll through a long list of ministers or typing in a search.

We're excited to announce a new enhancement to the schedules feature in Church Social: email reminders for parents when their children are scheduled for a specific task or event.

This update not only helps parents stay informed and engaged, but is particularly useful in scenarios where a child doesn't have an email address set in Church Social. For example, a nursery schedule that includes younger members of the congregation.

To take advantage of this feature, simply visit the "Edit schedule" page and set the Email parents as well? option to Yes. Once enabled, automatic email reminders will be sent to the parents of any children included in the schedule, following the same cadence as regular schedule email reminders.

Today we added an additional option to the "Who can send messages?" dropdown on the message settings page. This new option is helpful if you'd like to restrict guests from being able to send messages while still allowing regular members to send them.

We've made managing your library books a little easier and safer for your librarians. We added a Settings link to the Library page menu and moved the Delete Library option to the settings page, where it is less likely to be triggered by accident.

We've made a small update to the library section today. Previously you could only export your library to CSV. We've now added the ability to export to Excel as well.

Today's update is for our friends in New Zealand. We just added first-class support for donation receipts that follow the Charities Services' requirements.

From the giving settings page you can now add an IRD number in addition to your Charities Services registration number. You can also add a church logo to include in the letterhead at the top of the donation receipts.

In addition we have updated the tax fiscal year for New Zealand churches to be from April 1st to March 31st.