| # | Date | Enhancement | Description |
| 1 | 11/17/09 | Portal - Enhanced | Several new settings have been added to the "Settings" section of the portal. 1. You now have the ability to prevent users from registering for classes if they are set to "Inactive". 2. You now have the ability to customize a login page message 3. You now can control the text on the Registration tab popup. |
| 2 | 11/16/09 | Web Registration - Enhanced | You now have the ability to prevent new customers from enrolling in a class via the web registration form. Some clients want to use the Web Registration form to simply gather customer information and not allow them to actually enroll in a class. You can control this option from Tools-> Web Registration - Openings-> Settings. |
| 3 | 11/13/09 | Post Group Transactions | You can now override the Category1 and Session values for any transactions created with this function. By default, transactions recorded will have the Category1 and Session values of the selected Class. |
| 4 | 11/12/09 | Source Report - Enhanced | You now have the ability to see source info on all families. |
| 5 | 11/06/09 | Family Page - Medical & Birthdays | Now on the family page is a student has a birthday in the current or next month the birthdate field will be highlighted in yellow. If a student has any information on the student medical tab, the student will have a small red cross next to their name on the family page. |
| 6 | 11/05/09 | Costume/Apparel Module - Enhanced | You now have the ability to add an "existing" item to a class. This prevents having to duplicate the item details across multiple classes. |
| 7 | 11/05/09 | Registration Form Archival | A new feature has been added to the Family page - Misc. tab called "View Registrations" that gives you the ability to view registrations (Web Reg or Quick Reg) and portal enrollments including legal text (for portal enrollments - depends on portal setting). You can view and reprint. |
| 8 | 11/04/09 | Email Statements - Enhanced | When emailing statements and searching by Session or Category1, you can now specifiy current or past enrollments. |
| 9 | 11/04/09 | Class Enroll - Student Searching Enhanced | You can now search on both Student\'s first and last name when enrolling from a Class page or Class list. |
| 10 | 11/04/09 | Global Search - Enhanced | Global Search has been enhanced to automatically land on the family page if your search returns a single family. It is still a single click to navigate to the student or contact. |
| 11 | 11/03/09 | Quick-Registration Email Confirmation | A new setting has been added (Email Confirmation Checkbox) that will allow you to select whether or not a family/account will receive a confirmation email if created through Quick Registration. You may get to this new setting under the "Tools->Website Registration - Openings" menu option. The new setting also gives you the ability to hide the confirmation checkbox when viewing the Quick Registration form. |
| 12 | 10/30/09 | Copy Class - Enhanced | You now have the ability to copy enrollments when copying a class from the Class Page. |
| 13 | 10/30/09 | Families Advanced Search - Enhanced | You now have the ability to search on Past Enrollments if filtering on a particular class session or category. |
| 14 | 10/29/09 | Instructor List - Enhanced | 1. Family summary page - The primary instructor is now listed as part of the Enrolled Classes field when viewing students. 2. Primary Instructor added to the Family Page - Past Enrollments. 3. Changed the list of instructors from First Name only to First Name + Last Name initial to help better identify instructors with the same first name. 4. Added instructor list to Student->Classes Tab in both the Current and Past enrollment areas. |
| 15 | 10/28/09 | Email Family - New | You now have the ability to email students and/or contacts from the family page. If you have the "Email Families" permission you will now see an "Email" button at the top of the family page. Also, the buttons on the family page have been rearranged according to use. |
| 16 | 10/28/09 | Costume/Apparel Module - Post Fees Added | You now have the ability to post a Deposit/Balance transaction to a group of families for a particular class item or group of items. This new feature is under the Costume/Apparel navigation under "Post Fees". |
| 17 | 10/27/09 | Post Tuition - New Global Misc. Discount | There is a new option allowing you to apply a miscellaneous discount across the board after any other multi-class or multi-student discounts. This can be used to provide a partial month discount to everyone. You can label the discount which will appear in the transaction note. |
| 18 | 10/27/09 | Student Info Sheet | This new report (under the Reports main menu) is an ideal for field trips and emergencies. This is a one page sheet per student that shows all contact information and medical information. It can be used if you are taking a group of students off-site and need all their information. It is also ideal for an emergency situation when you need to print off all information for one student. |
| 19 | 10/20/09 | Costume Module | Jackrabbit now allows you to assign items (costumes, uniforms, shoes, etc) to a class in addition to creating vendor orders. Please check out the "Getting Started" section under Tools->Costume/Apparel Management to help you get started\! |
| 20 | 10/10/09 | Email Listing Rpt - Updated | You can now search by Room, Instructor and/or Family Membership Type. |
| 21 | 10/10/09 | Post Annual Fees - By Membership Type | We added Membership Type as a search criteria field for this function. |
| 22 | 10/08/09 | Costume Module - Beta Update | The "Beta" has begun and several customers are deligently checking out this new area, setting up preferred vendors, size charts and student measurements. We are getting some awesome feedback which will make this a powerful and easy-to-use new feature - Thank you\! We have a few more features for this module coming very soon. |
| 23 | 10/07/09 | Old Batch e-Payment replaced with new Batch e-Payment | The newer screen gives you: 1) the ability to get a batch total amount before processing; 2) the ability to preview family accounts and amounts before processing; 3) the ability to search a subset of unpaid transactions instead of the full outstanding balance; 4) Line-item "veto" power to include or exclude individual family accounts from the batch; 5) the ability to view unpaid transactions per family account before processing. |
| 24 | 09/18/09 | Class Summary - Enhanced | You now have the ability to "Restore" a class from the Class Summary page. Also added a "Date Archived" at the bottom of the page that will display for "Archived" classes. |
| 25 | 09/11/09 | Future Drops - Enhanced | You can now "Cancel" a Future Drop from the Family and Student tabs. |
| 26 | 09/11/09 | Portal Password Resets | These emails now include a convenient link back to your Customer Portal Login saving the customer time and effort. We also added the text "(passwords are case-sensitive)". This applies to both administrator resets as well as customer resets from the portal login. |
| 27 | 09/10/09 | HTML Email Templates | We have enhanced our Email features with the ability to send mass HTML emails and save email templates. Please click Tools -> Edit Email Templates to manage your templates. You also have the ability to select a template or send out a HTML email from the various mass email screens. |
| 28 | 09/09/09 | Student Skills Search - Search By Location | You can now search by Location. |
| 29 | 09/09/09 | Transaction Summary Rpt - Enhanced | You can now search by Transaction Type. |
| 30 | 09/05/09 | New Class Report Sign In / Out Sheet | There is a new report under the Classes Menu - Sign In / Out Sheet. This report allows you to select multiple classes and combine students on to one report in last name order and track the time in / out and authorization for drop-off and pick-up. This can also serve multiple purposes such as a master student list (without any sensitive information), a multi-class sign-off sheet for parents or teachers, when you need to get a written authorization (signature), etc . |
| 31 | 09/04/09 | Event - Sign In / Out Sheet | There is a new report under the Events Menu - Sign In / Out Sheet. This can serve as a master attendee list (without any sensitive information) or as a sign-in sheet for parents or staff, when you need to get a written authorization (signature), etc . |
| 32 | 09/03/09 | Executive Dashboard | Due to customer feedback, we rolled back the previous enhancement. The Executive Dashboard now links to the Aged Accounts Report rather than the Aged Fees Report. |
| 33 | 08/29/09 | Executive Dashboard - Enhanced | Updated the Aged Account links on the dashboard to point to the Aged Fees Report. This report provides more detail then the previous Aged Accounts Report. |
| 34 | 08/24/09 | NEW Batch e-Payment with Preview | We have built a new Batch e-Payment screen allowing you to Preview the accounts and amounts to process, and view the unpaid fees per account. You can now choose which accounts to process and remove individual accounts from a batch prior to processing. Also, if you do not want to process the full outstanding balance and only want to process a smaller set of unpaid fees, you can do that too\! The default behavior is to process the full account balance. But if you search on specific transaction details such as by date or transaction type, you can process a portion of the account balance. |
| 35 | 08/23/09 | Transactions - Advanced Search | Enhanced this screen to show a "Total" amount if the results consist of one page or the "Show All" link is clicked. |
| 36 | 08/23/09 | Edit Classes - Enhanced | Added a "Show All" link that will allow a display/edit for the top 300 records. Please note that due to the excessive bandwith required to render this page, if you utilized the "Show All" from this screen you may experience slower run times than normal. |
| 37 | 08/23/09 | Copy Classes - Enhanced | Added "Status" to the search criteria so classes other than "Active" can be copied. |
| 38 | 08/23/09 | Class Rolls - Enhanced | Added the ability to select more than one Category 1 from the search criteria. |
| 39 | 08/20/09 | Viewing Linked Transactions-Updated | When editing a transaction and you click the button to View related transactions (payments applied to a fee or fees paid by a payment), there is now an Edit link allowing you to quickly navigate to the related fee or payment. |
| 40 | 08/16/09 | Unlink / Re-Apply Feature | To make payment/fee changes/adjustments easier, we have enhanced the Edit Transaction screen. While editing a payment from the Family/Account Page / Transactions Tab, you can now Unlink a Payment from all Fees and/or ReApply a Payment to fees. Similarly, when editing a fee, you can unlink the fee from any applied payments which marks the fee unpaid. Previously, you had to delete the payment, re-enter the payment and apply. You no longer need to delete the payment. |
| 41 | 08/11/09 | New Customer Portal Setting | A new setting, "Show Transaction Sub-type", has been added to the Customer Portal Settings tab. This will allow you to show/hide the "Sub-type" in the Portal Transactions grid. |
| 42 | 08/10/09 | Email Families - Enhanced | You can now search by the current Family Balance and only email those with a balance (or credit balance). |
| 43 | 08/09/09 | Web Reg-Confirmation Email - Updated | If you have chosen to hide fields such as "School", "Grade", "Allergies", "Medications", etc on your Web Registration form, these fields are no longer printed in the Confirmation Email. Previously, they printed blank even when set to "hidden". |
| 44 | 08/07/09 | List Families - Enhanced | Page has been enhanced so when you click the "Show All" link, navigate away and return, it will retain the "Show All" results. |
| 45 | 08/05/09 | Weekly Calendar - Enhanced | The weekly calendar has been enhanced to not allow users that do not have valid permissions to see the "Enroll" link or navigate to the Class/Student details. |
| 46 | 08/05/09 | Quick Reg Post Enrollment Fees | A drop-down to capture a Transaction Sub-Type has been added to the Quick Reg Post Fees window. |
| 47 | 08/04/09 | Email Families - Enhanced | Users will now only be able to email based on the category1(s) they have been assigned to. |
| 48 | 07/22/09 | View User Activity | You can view user activity when you edit/view a user. This is accessible from "Manage Users" option under Tools-Edit Settings or Tools-Manage Users and Permissions. |
| 49 | 07/21/09 | Send Idea Page - View History | You can now view all ideas ever sent in from your organization from the Send Idea page. |
| 50 | 07/21/09 | Import Tool - Enhanced | Changed to include exception messages to better identify problematic records. Also updated to display the correct number of imported records for each record type. (Student, Family, etc) |
| 51 | 07/19/09 | Organization Time Zone Setting | We added a new Organization Setting - time zone. Please verify your organization\'s time zone. This new feature will help all clients that are not located in the Eastern US Time Zone - GMT 5. So that now financial transactions and enrollment records will have the correct date. For Example: Prior to this enhancement, California clients had to remember at 9pm their transactions would be stamped with tomorrow\'s date. Once you set your organization\'s time zone, this issue will be fixed for future transactions. |
| 52 | 07/18/09 | Support/Send Idea Screens - Enhanced | A new Support screen is now in place that will allow our team to better assist you. You also have the ability to view all support requests submitted by your organization. |
| 53 | 07/15/09 | Schedules updated for Per-Day Private Classes | The weekly/daily/room schedule screens will now display the Student name instead of the class name for Per-Day private classes (class field Per-Day=Yes and MaxSize=1) . |
| 54 | 07/14/09 | Payment Category Summary - renamed to Paid Fees Summary | The Payment Category Summary report has been renamed to Paid Fees summary to better reflect the nature of the report. |
| 55 | 07/13/09 | Student Skills Search - Updated | Student Skills search now defaults to only searching Active (enrolled) students. You can now search Student Skills by individual class or classes. A new option exists to only show a skill total counts without the individual student names and detail. You can use this option to generate a skill summary of activity for a time period, class, etc. |
| 56 | 06/26/09 | Web Registration Settings - Enhanced | You can now set the font-color of the Legal text for your web registrations. |
| 57 | 06/24/09 | View Future Drop List Added | When viewing classes in Jackrabbit via "List Classes", "Advanced Search", or "Openings", a list of students that are future drops are now visible. |
| 58 | 06/12/09 | Advanced Search - Classes - Enhanced | When searching classes from Advanced Search, you now have the ability to search on multiple Locations and Category 1. |
| 59 | 06/07/09 | Server upgrades | On June 7, we upgraded our servers by doubling the amount of RAM. This helps to ensure Jackrabbit maintains a high performance level during peak times. |
| 60 | 06/04/09 | Student Enroll - Enhanced | When enrolling from a Student page or row, you can now display Full Classes allowing you to quickly wait list a student into one or more classes. You can also search classes by Gender and Instructor. |
| 61 | 06/01/09 | Student Listing Rpt - Updated | You now have the option to show the Student User-defined fields. |
| 62 | 05/24/09 | Post Tuition Fees by Total Hours | Post Tuition Fees by Total Hours Function - by student total hours new discount fields. We have added new discount parameters to this function. When posting tuition fees by total hours (Only by Student Total Hours) you now have the option to discount each student by a percentage. For Example: 2nd Student = 10%, 3rd Student 10%, etc. The 1st student is the student with the highest tuition, the 2nd student has the 2nd highest tuition, etc. |
| 63 | 05/22/09 | Server Upgrades | We are upgrading our Jackrabbit server environment this weekend. Our servers will briefly go off-line starting early Sunday morning May 24 at approx 2am Eastern Standard Time (US-New York) or approx 11pm (US-Pacific). We expect the server upgrades to take 30 min (hopefully no more than 1 hour) and we apologize for any inconvenience during this time. |
| 64 | 05/21/09 | System Update - post upgrade status | Having just completed a major system upgrade on May 1, we have spent the last 14-21 days resolving several minor issues. Jackrabbit support staff will respond back to you (the sender of the support request) if you reported an issue. We have a small handful of items remaining but we are excited to hit a very nice and growing list of ideas and enhancements thoughtfully submitted by you\! |
| 65 | 05/02/09 | Student Transfer-Search Classes Updated | During the system-wide upgrade, we implemented a newer "Transfer-search classes" screen with many more search options (Category2-3, Instructor, etc) but we omitted the class "Description" column, and we did not filter classes to match the student\'s current location. Class "Description" has been added back in and classes are now filtering to match student location and showing only classes with openings. |
| 66 | 05/01/09 | System-wide Upgrade-Completed\! | All screens have now been switched over to our new design and just in time for the summer\! We have a little tidying up to do but we are excited to get this behind us and return to the fun of rolling out new features and functions. |
| 67 | 04/27/09 | System-wide Upgrade: 97% complete | You probably have already noticed, but we\'ve been aggressively updating JR over the past few weeks implementing a "fresher" look to screens as well and enhancing the overall performance of the system. We have received a great deal of unsolicited positive feedback and want to say "thank you". We are approximately 97% complete and we are pleased with the results. |
| 68 | 04/17/09 | Enroll or Add to WaitList from same search screen | From Classes-Advanced Search results, when clicking the "Enroll" link you can now enroll and add to the class waitlist in the same step from the same search screen. This allows you to rapidly add multiple students to a waitlist in one step over the previous one-at-a-time process. |
| 69 | 04/16/09 | Mass Email - Search by Category3 | You can now send out mass emails based on students enrolled in classes using "Category3" as search criteria. |
| 70 | 04/06/09 | Online Registrations Rpt - now has Search Options | You can now search by Location and Date Range. Also, from the Executive Dashboard, the "Web Registrations Last 7 days" link now automatically runs this report for only the last 7 days. |
| 71 | 04/05/09 | List Archived Classes - New Search Options | You can now search on several Class fields such as Location, Session, Cat1-3, as well as the date the classes were archived. |
| 72 | 04/03/09 | Aged Fees Rpt - Search by Transaction Session | You can now search by the Session value on the transaction record. |
| 73 | 03/27/09 | New Instructor Permission | A new permission has been added allowing Instructors to get to Classes (to enter attendance, etc) from their Instructor page "Classes" tab. With this new permission, you no longer need to give Instructors "List Classes" permission. |
| 74 | 03/27/09 | Edit All Classes - Updated | This screen has been updated to allow editing of Instructor4 and Gender. This screen also loads faster. |
| 75 | 03/15/09 | Events - Dates & Times | This search now includes search options and defaults to show recent events (current month and next month). This helps users with lots of event history to more quickly focus on current event registration-booking activity. |
| 76 | 03/14/09 | Aged Fees Rpt - Update | You can now search on aged fees (transactions) for families/accounts that are currently enrolled in a specific session. |
| 77 | 03/13/09 | Portal Enrollment Notifications | When you allow portal users to enroll in classes AND you have checked the setting to display policies upon each enrollment, the email notification sent to the customer and school now includes the policies (legalese) that were displayed.. |
| 78 | 03/05/09 | Receipt Printing | A print payment receipt function has been added to the Payment screen and the Edit Transaction Windows. You can now print a receipt by checking the "Print Receipt" option on the payment window. If you forget to check that option, you can go to the Family screen => Edit Transaction link and click on the Print Receipt button. |
| 79 | 03/04/09 | Student Listing Report - Search by Date Last Enrolled | This report has been enhanced allowing you to search students based on the date they were last enrolled in a class. |
| 80 | 02/27/09 | Find Students with NO enrollment history | The Student Listing report now allows you to search students that have No enrollment history. This can be used along with other criteria to find old data that can be deleted. |
| 81 | 02/26/09 | New Permission for Instructors | We just added a new permission setting for the "Weekly Schedule" link that appears under List Active Instructors. We also have updated the Instructors page "Classes" tab to prevent Instructors from accessing the Class page when the "List Classes" permission is off. |
| 82 | 02/22/09 | Override Tracking of Drops | Jackrabbit has always distinguished an early drop (incomplete) from an end of class drop (complete). Drops at the end of a class are assummed to be completed and are therefore excluded from Drop History. You now have the ability to override this behavior by editing a new "Completed" setting on the Class "Drop List" tab. |
| 83 | 02/12/09 | New Dashboard | Users who currently have permission to see the dashboard, will see a redesigned dashboard containing a revenue bar chart and task list. A user can only view and update their own task list. The new dashboard has 5 different permission settings: alerts, revenue, aged accounts, key metrics and dashboard settings. All users will always see their organization\'s announcements, their own personal task list and recent Jackrabbit software enhancements. |
| 84 | 02/07/09 | Customer Portal Background Color | The new setting for the Weg Registration form background color now also applies to your Customer Portal. This will help you tie all of your customer-facing web features together matching your website-logo colors. |
| 85 | 02/05/09 | Web Registration Form - Custom Colors and Fonts | You can now give your registration form a custom background color and change your field labels font, size and color. Legalese text is not affected. To make these changes, go to menu Tools - Website Registration and click on the "Settings" item. The new fields are at the bottom of the Settings screen. |
| 86 | 02/04/09 | Portal Layout Enhancements | Several minor layout enhancements have been made to portal screens and tabs including: 1) grids are now allowed to grow as wide as your screen reducing scrolling. 2) Notes fields such as Student Skill Notes and Student Absence Notes have been lengthened to show more text (longer notes). |
| 87 | 02/04/09 | Register from Class Openings through Portal Login | When an existing customer clicks the "Register" link for a specific class on your Website Class Openings, the desired class is now retained through Portal Login when they click the link "Already a Customer? Click here to Login". Immediately after logging in to your Portal, they are prompted to enroll into the class they selected from your website. This helps your customers by not having to re-select the class again after portal login. |
| 88 | 01/17/09 | New Multi Recital Report | Many studios have more than one recital and have requested a report that displays the performances of the students by family across multiple recitals.\nThere is a new button labeled Multi Recital Family Detail Report on the recital list screen. You may run this report based on a recital date range. |
| 89 | 01/15/09 | Post Fees - Updated | When entering one or more fees and a payment with a payment method, the payment method value is now also written to the fee transactions. |
| 90 | 01/10/09 | New - Edit Settings screen | We have consolidated several "Edit" screens under a new Tools menu option called "Edit Settings". From here, you can edit your Organization Defaults, set your Logo, edit statement preferences, etc from an easier to use and more informative screen. These options are still controlled by user permissions. |
| 91 | 01/08/09 | Web Reg - More Fields Avail. and Legalese Headings in Email | The following fields can now be displayed on your Registration form: Student-Special Needs, Student-Immunization Notes, and Student-Skill Notes. To enable these fields, go to Tools-Website Registration-Openings menu. Also, your Registration form Legalese (Agreement Text) displayed in Email Confirmations now includes the agreement headings (labels). |
| 92 | 01/06/09 | Web Reg - Now supports User-defined Fields | The User-defined fields (5 per family, 5 per student - visible on Misc. tab) can now appear as input fields on your Registration form. They can be made required or optional, and values entered will be recorded and included on Email confirmations. Go to Tools-Website Registration-Openings and click on the link "Field Labels/Hidden/Required" to enable them on your reg form. By default, they are not enabled. |
| 93 | 12/22/08 | Search Contact Cell Phone Number | The Global Search (top-center of screen) now allows you to search both home and cell (mobile) phone numbers. You can search on the last 4 digits, 7 digits (no dash) or 8 digits (with dash). |
| 94 | 12/22/08 | Event Calendar website link filter | Event Calendar website link - You can now have an event calendar link that contains a location and category1 filter. Location example: loc=CMS , Category1 example: cat1=Parties, Link example: \nhttp://app.jackrabbitclass.com/eventcalendar.asp?orgid=12345&loc=CMS&Parties |
| 95 | 12/11/08 | Web Reg Emails - Enhanced | If you have customized your web registration form field labels (under Tools-Website Registration-Openings), these custom labels now appear in the Email alert to your organization and in the Confirmation sent to the parent/customer. |
| 96 | 12/10/08 | Event Detail Report - Updated | This report has been reformatted to reduce page-breaking, use less paper, and allow for more event enrollment notes to display. |
| 97 | 12/10/08 | Payment Screen | 1 - The Apply button now will payoff the Oldest First, rather than the newest first. \n2 - There is a warning on the Save Changes button now, if you perform a credit card payment and do not use the E-Payment button. The message warns that this button does NOT actually electronically charge the credit card. |
| 98 | 12/10/08 | Email Statements - Updated | The maximum amount of transaction history that can be displayed when Emailing Statements has been increased from 180 days (6 months) to 1 year. |
| 99 | 11/05/08 | Class Rolls - 2 New Options | 2 New Display Options on Class Rolls: \n1 - Show absences \n2 - Page Break between each class \n(If you are running rolls for small classes, this can save a lot of paper) |
| 100 | 10/31/08 | Trial Enrollments into Classes | You can now enroll students into classes as an Enroll Type of "Trial". \n1 - Quick Registration - you will see a new field in the student area labeled "Trial". When this option is set to "Yes", each "Enrollment Type" will be set to "Trial" and a "Future Drop Date" (day after the trial) can be assigned also. \n2 - You can change this Enrollment Type at any time on the Student Page => Classes tab. \n3 - If the Enrollment Type is equal to "Trial" and the Drop Date is in the future, then student then is displayed on the class roll with "(Trial)" in front of their name. \n4 - After the trial was completed, you may run any of the three enroll reports to view trials: Drop History, Enroll History and Enrollment Detail. Just make sure you select "Trial" for the Enrollment Type \n5 - If a Trial became a student, then you can erase the "Drop Date" from the Class Page and change the Enrollment Type to "Trial-Enrolled". That way you can track the number of trials that became students. \n6 - If a Trial did not become a student or was a no show, then leave the enrollment type as Trial and put in the Drop Reason as to why they did not sign up. That way you can track the number of trials that did NOT become students. \n7 - There is a new Dashboard Indicator labeled "Schedule Trials" and this displays the number of upcoming trials. This is defined as any trials that have a drop date of today or is blank. |