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4.4 - Scheduled for May 2012

Major updates (Follow the links to review description and screenshots of these changes/enhancements):

Plus:

  • Another set of new website themes (templates)
  • Date fields (see forum thread)
  • Field explanations (see forum thread)
  • Navigate to next/previous member/contact in the current list when viewing a particular record details
  • Ability to force sending scheduled event reminders right now
  • Route event emails for a given event to a particular person ('event manager') 
  • Add/remove email blast recipients individually

4.3 - Released on December 14, 2011

  • Redesign of the invoicing/payment workflow, including the following:
    • Any contact (e.g. not only members) can log in, view and pay invoices from their profile, as well as view an archived list of invoices and payments
    • Ability to complete one or several transactions (e.g. membership application and event registration, or registrations to two different events) and pay them individually or at the same time
    • Each self-service transaction will generate an invoice (except for donations) which can be paid online at any time (e.g. retrying failed payments)
    • Ad-hoc invoices (e.g. manually recorded invoices) can be paid online by contacts - like any other invoice - using a link which is emailed to them (see View account history and pay invoices)
    • Overpayments, partial payments, and other credits are displayed in every contact's profile - e.g. user would only have to pay net outstanding balance. For example, once invoice is created, administrator can apply discounts/credits to it and then online payment can be done for the outstanding balance only
    • New 'Public memo' field for invoices (shown to buyers)
    • Passwords are now generated automatically for new members/contacts and emailed to them - previously members set their passwords on sign-up during membership application
    • There is no longer a concept of 'In progress' or 'Abandoned' transactions - except for donations.  As soon as a transaction is confirmed, an invoice is generated and stays 'open' until a payment is either received via online payment or recorded manually by the administrator
    • Reduced the number of email templates for event and membership workflows, see: Default membership emails and Default Event Emails
    • For more details see Getting ready for new version 4.3 and Key Payment Changes from version 4.2 to 4.3
  • Automatic tracking of email bounces (i.e. undeliverable email)
    • Email delivery status added to email log
    • If a contact has persistent email delivery problems (e.g. email no longer valid), system will automatically disable emails delivery to contact 
    • Individual email bounces are no longer forwarded to administrators
  • Ability for administrators to process credit card charges manually - see Processing credit card option for administrator
  • New 'flexible' layout theme 'Granite' which automatically expands/shrinks to the visitor screen resolution
  • Other notable changes
    • Membership-related macros are now available in email templates: Member_Renewal_Date, Member_Next_Renewal_Date, Member_Since, Member_Status, Member_Level_Fee, Member_Level, Member_Level_Full
    • Enabled macro EventField_... in invoice emails
    • Members in Pending status can now use member-only event registration types. This enables a scenario where people can register for an event and apply for membership at the same time - and then pay once.
    • Advanced search to find contacts with open balance
    • Improvements to automatic recurring payments interface:
      • "Invoices and Payments" tab in contact profile shows next recurring payment with next charge date and amount. There is also a Cancel button to cancel the recurring payment.
      • Invoice for recurring payments are automatically generated as soon as charge is processed successfully. If charge fails, "Recurring renewal failed" email is sent to a member.
    • When registering for an event, system suggests appropriate actions: "Login", "Renew membership", and "Apply for membership".
    • Invoice for any transaction can now be billed to another person, i.e. event registration of "Mary Smith" can be billed to "John Smith". For self-service transactions, billing person is determined automatically and cannot be changed. Administrator can change invoice's billing contact in the administration backend.
    • New button to generate and email new password to the contact. This email uses new customizable template: Settings / Contact settings / Password email
    • Logged-in users will see a special warning message at the bottom right corner of the screen if they have 1) open balance 2) incomplete transactions 3) lapsed/overdue/upcoming membership renewal
    • Redesigned credit-card entry screen and moved all of the payment processing code into a separate application as we go through the formal PCI compliance certification
    • Theme override failsafes implemented to reduce the chances of site malfunctions when Theme Overrides are used - and make troubleshooting easier
    • Member ID renamed to User ID (long overdue since this field has always applied to all contacts, not just members)
    • WebDAV: '%' or '&' in file names are automatically changed to '_' when file is uploaded (Before this change, trying to upload files with those characters led to upload failure)
    • Forgot password will now say if email entered is not found in the database
    • Dozens of small bugs exterminated (we do not publish the full list as each one typically applies just to one or two clients, so such a list would be useless to most others)

4.2 - Released on May 18 2011

Main enhancements include:

  • Email enhancements

Email log - both email blasts and automatic system emails (i.e. reminders, announcements, etc.) are now logged, and you can review the email text, recipients, record of opens and clicks, or re-send emails. See Log of Sent E-mails

  • New CMS architecture brings new customization capabilities

Changes in this release are 'under the hood' - we hope web designers will appreciate new customization capabilities, see Theme Overrides. Also, these changes will drive a redesign of user interface of our website management interface in the next version.

  • Timezone and time/date format customization

Setting a time zone for your account - set a organization wide timezone or set event specific timezones to time the sending of email, and the display of various date sensitive information (i.e. Events). See Organization Timezone
Customizable time/date format - set the format of how dates are displayed in your emails, events, blogs, forums, and more. See Organization details

  • QuickBooks export

Quickbooks export - you can now export your contacts and financial transactions into Quickbooks. See Quickbooks

  • Events announcements to contacts

Send Event Announcement to Contacts - Added the ability to send automatic event announcements to contacts as well as past event attendees, members, and donors. See Customizing event emails

  • Merge Contacts

Merge contact records - Combine the data of two records into a single record, while archiving the discarded record. See Merging Records

  • Tweaks to Member/Contact fields
    • Mandatory Fields are no longer enforced for Administrators - Administrators will no longer be required to fill all mandatory fields when editing records in the backend
    • First and Last name Fields no longer mandatory - which makes it easier to store records for organizations
    • Improvements in viewing/searching organization records -  the Organization field is now displayed on various views and is included in search (see Individual vs. Organization record)
  • Membership Renewal calculation changes - We have changed renewal date calculation for lapsed members to be calculated from actual renewal date instead of past renewal date, see Renewal date calculation
  • Switching between Administrator and Member views - Now Administrators who also have a membership are able to switch between Admin view and Member view at any time, see Administrative and Member Views

4.1 - Released on January 12, 2011

  • E-mail Subscription Form
    Email Subscription Form page can be used by people who are not yet in your database - in this case they will be added to your database as a new contact - or by existing members and other contacts, to indicate their interest in a particular topic. Once the form is submitted, you can send a customizable confirmation email to the subscriber and/or a copy to the administrator.
    You can find all contact records marked with a particular subscription source via Advanced search under Contacts - and then use Email blasts function to send appropriate emails to this group.
  • You can now add contact and member records with empty email
  • Event emails (e.g. automatic event announcements) can now be customized separately for each event (vs. one common template for all events)
  • It is now possible to define default membership emails (used for new levels) and change any membership email for all membership levels at once (vs. current functionality where it has to be edited in each level separately)
  • Confirmation fields for password entry on all forms and hiding entered password characters
  • Many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes

4.0 - Released on September 26th, 2010

  • New Finances module - to manage accounts receivable
  • [Import wizard redesign]
  • Photo albums page
    Create photo album pages for your site - you can even allow members to contribute their pictures, for example to collect pictures from a recent event. Pictures can be uploaded through a web form or via WebDAV (administrators only).

This new admin role lets you give someone access to the administrative view of the site. They can view records and settings, but not change anything.

  • New website theme Nature - plus two new variations of existing themes: Dark Prime and Basic Green Pastel

  • Forum stickies
    Lets you identify forum posts with important information (such as rules and regulations) that you want to have stay on the top of list of forums topics.

These let you create anchors so that you can link to a specific part of your page. This also lets you quickly create a table of contents for long pages.

Easily add the HTML for any form you may have created on an external site (like WuFoo) to your Wild Apricot web page.

Add a link to an event as easily as you add any other link on your website.

Simplifies the creation of Web pages on your Wild Apricot site. If you have a page that you want to re-use for a new page or want to use as a starting off point, you can do so with a click of the mouse.

If you know the hex code for the specific color that you want to use on your webpage you can enter it directly to make sure you have an exact match.

  • Search help directly from the administrator view

Get help when and where you need it in the Administrator view by clicking on the Question Mark button and entering your search terms. You'll also see a list of help pages that discuss the screen.

  • Edit Registration types on existing registrations

  • Ability to sort event attendees list by name, registration date or registration type
  • Cancel event registrations and track canceled registrations
  • Automatic clean-up of HTML
    We have implemented a new process to clean-up content pasted from other places. Wild Apricot will try to automatically clean up any invisible HTML that might interfere with your content being properly displayed or edited
  • Change in how extra cost fields are displayed on applications/registrations: If extra costs are used to determine event registrations or membership level fees, the levels displayed as 'Variable' instead of as Free
  • Special macro to send members a link to reset their password - Especially handy after import, this macro adds a link to emails for members to reset their passwords.

3.4 - Released on March 29th, 2010

3.3 - Released on December 14th, 2009

3.2 - Released on October 1st, 2009

3.1 - Released on July 29th, 2009

3.0 - Released on May 20th, 2009

  • Major change: New 'Contact database' functionality unifies and replaces separate databases previously used for members, donors and event attendees. See [Transition FAQ]
  • Redesign of look and feel customization - new setup wizard to select theme & color variation, header background, logo, header title.
  • New theme Keynote (in 7 variations)
  • Over 150 new header backgrounds
  • Anti-spam protection for online forms (a.k.a. Captcha)
  • Ability to change page layouts of existing web pages at any time
  • Change in how Pending Renewal members are treated - will now keep full access
  • Beta-release of integration with PayPal Pro Canada

2.39 - Released on February 26th, 2009

This is a smaller intermediate release - 2.39 - our last update of version 2. Our subsequent update will be a major version upgrade 3.00.

  • Adding dynamic ("fly-out") menus to most themes
  • Customization of invoice/receipt template text
  • New option for 'insert picture' - thumbnail hyperlinked original
  • PayPal Fraud tools support
  • Options 'Begins with' and 'Ends with' added to Advanced search - Members
  • Account ID display in the backend (please provide it with all future support/billing requests)
  • Ability to update billing details online for all monthly paid Wild Apricot accounts
  • Membership levels are now sorted alphabetically on the member application form (so you can change the sorting by tweaking level names)
  • Event registration types are now sorted alphabetically on the event registration form (so you can change the sorting by tweaking their names)
  • Minor ongoing improvements and bug fixes, including
    • In Member renewal workflow, option to change status to 'Pending Renewal' has been removed since it did not make any sense with the current workflow functionality and was leading to problems for people who chose that option by mistake
    • Ability to change start date for past events
    • Restricted and hidden web pages are no longer shown to admins without web admin role (see access rights table on Managing site administrators page)
    • Reply-to name is displayed in outgoing emails (instead of only displaying reply-to email address)
    • Partial refunds processed in your Google Checkout or PayPal account are now properly picked up by Wild Apricot and linked with the original transaction
    • EventID added to Event registration page HTML - so that different CSS customization can be applied to different events if desired

2.38 - Released on December 25th, 2008

  • Discount coupons for member applications (Community plans and up)
    Create a discount coupon and give out the secret coupon code to prospective members. Discount by percentage - or specific amount. Restrict maximum number of uses, dates, eligible membership levels. Discount coupons can also help to track affiliate sales — give each affiliate a distinct coupon code, and then track membership applications by code.
  • Google Checkout (BETA)
    One more payment processor option for online payment.
  • Dynamic pricing of new member applications (Community plans and up)
    Up until now, the pricing of each membership application was fixed depending on the selected membership level. With this functionality you can add selections to your membership application which will dynamically adjust the price for each application.
    For example, you can use the same membership level but set different pricing based on company size. Or offer subscriptions and special membership paraphernalia to be purchased together with the application.
    You can also specify whether a particular pricing option applies to new applications only, renewals only - or both
  • Report on selected registration options for events
    In prior versions you had export the attendee list into Excel to view all the registration form selections for all records. This update introduces a new report which lets you access that right within the system:
  • Email drafts
    Now you can stop and resume your work on mass emails/newsletters at any time.
  • Dynamic menu - menus items show child items when you place your mouse over it.
    This is initially released for 2 themes: Transparent and Classic Blue - and will be added to other themes in the future releases.
  • Online self-service for Wild Apricot clients to update credit card details and billing plan
    Now you can update credit card details and billing plan — instead of having to fax it to us or email plan change requests. Note that, initially, this will work only for clients who upgrade after today. We do not have a way to automatically extract and transfer recurring billing already setup through our old payment processor. We are working to add self-service capability for all current clients in future releases.
  • Ability to customize functional pages via point and click interface (prior to this release, this was only available for content pages while functional pages had to be customized only through CSS)
  • Paging on forum pages

2.37 - Released on November 11th, 2008

  • Page Management screen to view all your pages at a glance, move them around and change settings.
  • Ability to customize event announcements and reminder emails
  • Improvement in Advanced search - Members to deal with empty values and unused criteria. This also resolves a problem with using saved searches to predefine a set of criteria in member directory page. Unused criteria will now be ignored (in the past they might have resulted in no records being found).
  • Horizontal menu capability and theme templates which can be used with it. Previous versions of Wild Apricot required the main menu to be placed vertically on the left side and only the most adventurous souls managed to tweak their website CSS code to set up horizontally-placed menus. The new release makes this option available to everyone — and it comes with new theme templates to get you started.

  • Paging of blog posts
  • Macro with a link to member public profile page - which you can insert in emails to point members to their personal profile webpages. *{Member_Profile*} - can be used in all automatic emails related to applications and in email blasts to members.
  • Events now stay in the current list until the end date/time (previously, multi-day events moved into Past events right on the start date)
  • Automatic notifications to administrators about payment system configuration errors. If there is a problem reported by PayPal or Authorize.net with your account configuration (which means that people are unable to pay online), our system will send you an automatic email notice
  • Wild Apricot in widget mode (embedded into other sites) will now only open new window when Paypal payment option is selected (this is required due to Paypal security measures).
  • Wild Apricot terms of use have been removed from new member applications - they will be displayed to members later on, during their next login into the site.
  • HTML code has been tweaked to make it easier to individually customize each event via CSS
  • Our terms of use have been revised, please review the new version.

2.36 - Released on September 23rd, 2008

  • 'Custom URLS' - ability to manually assign specific URLs to your website pages. Instead of a system-generated URL like www.abc.org/Default.aspx?PageID=12345, you can use something like www.abc.org/about_us or www.abc.org/about_us.html to point to a specific page. Custom URLs are helpful for Search Engine Optimization, as well as for transferring your old website to the Wild Apricot platform (so that external links will not break).
  • 'Group management' - ability to organize members into groups - such as 'Board of Directors', 'Volunteer Committee', etc. These groups are independent of membership levels - one group can include members from different levels. These groups can be used to keep track of member participation in committees, restrict access to website pages to a particular group, or for advanced searches and emails.
    • Note: The old functionality 'Group membership levels' has been renamed to 'Bundle memberships' to avoid confusion with the new functionality.
  • Set of new design themes ('Notebook') - in 20 different color variations:
  • Completed the bulk of work to streamline and rationalize CSS for all the functional pages. After each iteration we check Custom CSS for each client and try to update this ourselves - so most of you would not even notice our changes. Still, as you can imagine, understanding somebody else's code is tough and we sometimes miss spots. Whenever this happens, just let our support team know and we will help to fix it A.S.A.P. Our CSS customization pages have been updated with the new instructions. In the subsequent releases we will revise our Point-and-Click customization functionality to properly control all functional pages.
  • We have also continued our work on the invoicing workflow improvements but ended up not including any of the changes we have developed into the current release. These changes affect many aspects of the system, and our Quality Assurance (Testing) team ran out of time to properly and thoroughly test all the details. Since we did not want to delay the release any further, we decided to hide our current work in progress and release everything else. In our next update we will continue our work and release it with all the other updates.
  • Many other speed improvements and bug fixes.

2.35 - Released on August 11th, 2008

  • Authorize.Net payment option. If you have your own merchant account via Authorize.Net payment processor, you can now use it to process credit card payments with Wild Apricot. See Payment settings
  • Invoicing for membership applications. As a first step, we've added the following capabilities:
    • Automatically generate and email an invoice/payment receipt for membership applications. See Invoice and receipt settings
    • Administrators can view/reprint/resend invoices/receipts for membership applications.
      This is just a first step in a large overhaul to implement proper invoicing workflows for all transactions. Over the next few releases you will see more invoicing functionality (and in subsequent releases, invoicing will be extended to other transaction types - event registrations, membership renewals etc).
  • Multiple member application pages. For example, you can now create a separate page for sponsor forms, another one for regular membership applications, one more for special discounted applications for students, and so on. See Online member application form
  • Forum categories. Each forum can now be assigned to a category and you can create Forum summary pages with a list of all or some forums grouped by category.
  • Rich-text formatting of introductory texts on functional pages. These used to be plain-text fields — now you can insert pictures and links, format the text, and add HTML and Javascript code.
  • Search Engine Optimization tools and Advanced Customization (CSS) have been made available for all paid account plans (previously only available for Community plans and up).
  • Wild Apricot support link now goes to our new support portal. Discussion forums are still in place, but should be used for non-urgent matters and general discussion. The new support system will improve request tracking to ensure that nothing ever falls "through the cracks" or into junk filters.
  • Revised large parts of our code and upgraded to a new more powerful database server to maintain and improve system response time as we serve more and more clients.
  • Widget code has been changed to process online payments in certain cases in a separate browser window - because Internet Explorer default security settings were blocking PayPal website from properly displaying within a frame.
  • Member names in blog and forums posts are now linked to member profile pages
  • Websites with custom domains can now choose which mailbox to use (previously it was hard-coded to admin@)

See also: Wild Apricot updates blog post

2.34 - Released on June 26th, 2008

  • New payment option: pay with a credit card right on our servers, without having to redirect to PayPal website. See PayPal Pro User Payment Process
    • Paypal is still the backend payment processor - this option requires WebSitePaymentsPro (US) account.
    • PayPal does not yet properly support recurring payment for this mode.
  • Members can now subscribe to receive daily or weekly email notifications about forum updates. See Forum subscriptions by email. Subscriptions are available for the whole forum (short summary is emailed) or for a particular topic (all updates are emailed)
  • You can now properly print Wild Apricot webpages (administration ones or public/member pages) - see Printing Web Pages
  • Firefox 3 compatibility - we have revised Wild Apricot code to be compatible with the newest Firefox version - 3.0
  • Members can now change from any level to any other level (subject to administrator restrictions - you can specify in each level which one it can be changed to). See Member - renew or change level
  • You can now preset search fields in Member directory page Advanced search mode (uses Saved searches - Members, so it requires Community billing plan and up). See Member directory, Advanced search settings section
  • You can now search by last renewal date and last level changed date
  • You can now add descriptions to each membership level - these are shown on the level selection page
  • For security reasons member password is blanked out when member welcome email is copied to the administrator

2.33 - Released on May 22nd, 2008

  • Ability to set which fields on the member profile page can be viewed by public vs. by members. See online help page and also forum post on how this affects existing accounts
  • New field type for rules / terms of use on events and member applications
  • Option to setup member database fields visible to members but only editable by administrators. See Customizing your member database
  • Additional design customization capabilities: login area settings and ability to specify your custom color code
  • New design theme - Crimson flag
  • Event coupon codes - discounted registration for people who have a 'secret code'
  • Redesign of payment workflows for events, donations and membership payments. Our subsequent release will include the remaining tests and tasks to release integrated credit card payment option (without PayPal website redirect) around end of June.
    • NOTE: As a consequence of this redesign, CSS customization will have to use different set of classes/Ids for online forms and payment workflows after this release. We are reviewing and correcting existing CSS Customization code for all paid accounts to preserve your current look and feel. If you use CSS Customization, please make sure to review these pages after we publish the new release: event registration; member application, renewal and upgrade; donation; member profile view and editing. Our changes to your CSS code (if any) can be found via Settings / Advanced customization (CSS) / text box area at the bottom starting with comment line "SUPPORT". New online help page provides detailed instructions if you need to adjust anything - see [Customizing online form pages via CSS] (and feel free to contact our support team if you have any questions)
  • We have moved Wild Apricot system to new servers. If you used our IP address 216.128.25.34 for custom domain setup, you should change it to 206.196.16.30 in you DNS servers settings via your domain registrar as soon as possible. Old IP address will be still working in the nearest future but it is very important to switch to the new one ASAP.

2.32 - Released on April 10th, 2008

  • Ability to specify for each field which membership level it is used in. See Customizing database fields by level. Available for community plans and up. This also means that membership application form consists of two separate steps (1) select level 2) fill out fields applicable for selected level)
  • Customization of membership renewal emails (including specifying whether emails are to be sent to member, to admin or both). See Automating membership renewals, Renewal notifications section.
  • Display of MemberID on member own profile and ability for administrators to search by MemberID
  • Addressing numerous requests, the system now defaults 'Allow to show my public profile' to 'Yes' for new membership records. In our future updates we plan to make the default customizable by each client.
  • Dynamic preview - now when you customize colors and styles, changes are reflected in preview window on the fly.
  • Three new design themes: Dark Night, Blackout, Grey Owl:
  • We have started working on Integrated payment option (with credit card to be processed on our servers, without redirecting to PayPal). This work continues and will be released once we complete the development and (lots of!) testing, currently targeting mid-June.

See also our recent blog post about our future development plans

2.31 - Released on March 6th, 2008

  • Quite a few improvements to handle manual transactions/exceptions:
  • Other improvements:
    • Custom currency setup (only for manual payments)
    • Increase of upload limits for paid plans - from 2 to 5, 10 and 25 MB. See Pricing plans. Limitation of pixel size (1000 pixels) has been removed as well.
    • Rich-text editor for members (to format blog posts, forum topics and forum replies - previously these were plain text). See Forum Module and Blog module
  • A number of key system procedures were revised to improve speed and prevent loading errors (due to timeout).

2.30 - Released on February 6th, 2008

  • Private website sections with controlled secure access - Adding multiple private website sections, e.g. one section for regular members, another one for premium members, yet another for the board etc. (Community plan and up)
  • Save & rerun searches - Ability to save searches and re-run them with one click.For example, you can create a search to select people who live in Toronto OR Mississauga OR Scarborough OR Richmond Hill, save it as 'Greater Toronto Area' and re-run it instantly later on.  (Community plan and up)
  • Search Engine Optimization Tools - Editing page titles and meta-tags (keywords, description, raw headers). This is helpful for search engine optimization of your Wild Apricot website - and for some special cases like site verification, for example to use Google Apps email or Google Webmaster tools. You can edit meta-tags for the whole site - or adjust them and edit page title for each page individually. (Community plan and up)
  • Function to delete all member records (e.g. to re-import)
  • A number of enhancements to Advanced search , including
    • Search by exclusion 'Is not'. For example, you can search for records where state is anything except California
    • Search date fields by this/last month/year. (For existing date fields like Renewal due. ability to add custom date fields is planned for later).
  • Ability to change group administrator for group membership levels
  • Member profile page customization - ability to select fields which are used as page heading. For example business associations might want to use organization name while clubs and other groups can use persons's name
  • Event start and end times are now actual time fields instead of text fields they were. This ensures that event will be properly sorted in the list, in the RSS feed and when it's imported into desktop calendar like Outlook or iCalendar.
    • Note about your existing events: We have automatically converted the times for your past events from text you have entered and where this was not possible (e.g if you entered something like 'cocktails around 6 and dinners starts at 7 sharp') we have moved these texts to the beginning of event description.
  • New help article how to insert favorites icon
  • And of course many other little fixes and enhancements

One final note: for legal reasons we have to ensure that each website user accepts our terms of use. Site creators do that when the site is created. Any other user (member or administrator) who logs in will be asked to review and accept terms of use. This will happen only once for each user - on the first login after this update. White-labeled accounts are excluded from this for the moment, they will be handled later on.

2.29 - Released on January 16th, 2008

Due to Christmas and New Year holidays this was a minor release focused on bug fixing, speed improvements and small enhancements.
Total number of these changes: almost 50.
Bug fixes to note:

  • Some clients had problems with pages created by copy-pasting from exiting page when it accidentally included administration code. This should be automatically filtered out now.
  • Reliability of 'Add event to calendar' improved
  • Member picture in the forum will be hidden/show according to each member privacy preferences
  • Changing between group and individual membership levels enabled

2.28 - Released on 25th December, 2007

Merry Christmas! Here are our presents for you

2.27 - Released on 6th December, 2007

  • Automatic recurring payments - you can now have members sign up and pay automatically on monthly, quarterly etc. basis
  • Point and click customization - adjusting colors and styles without any technical skills required.
    • Beta-version - now enabled for one particular theme - other themes will be enabled in the near future
  • Customization of emails and workflows for new applications and renewals separately for each membership level. See Membership levels
  • Rewriting big chunks of some old code to speed the system up
  • Ability to sort member directory by fields of drop-down type as well
  • Empty fields are now automatically hidden from member profiles
  • Advanced search now includes field 'Show in member directory'

2.26 - Released on 13th November, 2007

  • Customization of member directory. Now you select fields to be displayed in each column, column widths etc.
  • Calendar view of events - now your events can be displayed and browsed on a monthly, weekly or annual calendar page.
  • Log of all manually sent emails - you can see all the emails sent from the system manually
  • When creating a new mass email, copy from a previous one.
  • Multiple blog pages now possible.
  • More options for membership renewal periods (monthly, quarterly, bi-annual). Automatic recurring payments coming soon !
  • Members can now cancel incomplete (pending) online renewals and upgrades and reprocess it without bugging busy administrators.

Plus numerous other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

2.25 - Released on 29th October, 2007

  • Discussion forum module - create as many discussion forums, topics within each forum so that your members can engage in the dialog.
  • Bundle Membership Level Overview - you can use them for families, corporate members or chapters within your regional or national organization. You can limit how many members are in the group. Each group has a dedicated group administrator who can manage members within his/her own group.
  • You can now change reply email address for each mail blast.
  • Administrator option to switch off all emails to given member (email blasts and all automatic emails)
  • Speed improvements in member directory, page editing and across the board, usability improvements, enhancements and bug fixes.

And as always, many improvements and small bug fixes across the board.

2.24 - Released on 1st October, 2007

(This description will be updated shortly with links to relevant new and updated help pages)

  • Member Pictures - you can add picture fields to member database (photo, logo etc.) and members can edit these in their profiles. Pictures can be shown in member profile pages in member directory
  • Payments report drill down - click on any number in Payments report to see underlying transactions
  • Ability to undo last web page save.
  • Member list (admin view) has been redesigned - now loads much faster
  • Limit number of event registrations
  • Totally redesigned event registration process. Now members can get member-only price by using a registered email, without logging in. Member can now enter multiple registrations.
  • Multiple member directory pages now can be setup - e.g. one with regular members, one with sponsors etc.

And as always, many improvements and small bug fixes across the board.

2.23 - Released on 12 September, 2007

  • New: Event categories (tags, labels) Categorize your events to search through the events in the future and create multiple event list pages filtered by different criteria.
  • Update: Content pages vs. functional pages Adding and deleting functional pages (this means e.g. that you can add several event list pages as per previous point)
  • New: Event Registration Types Redesign of event registration setup - using 'registration types' concept to remove rigid linking to member levels. This provides you with much more flexibility in event registration setup. You can also now use cut-off registration dates and early-bird pricing.
  • Update: Domain name management Self-service custom domain management
    And many small improvements.

2.22 - Released on 17 August, 2007

  • New: 'Payments report' for donations, event registrations, member applications, upgrades and renewals.
  • Update: 'Payment workflow and payment transactions list' redesigned - in addition to visual improvements, you can now mark transactions as confirmed or canceled and view transactions from within the originating record (member, donor, event registration, etc.).
  • New: Show/hide events (similar to making web pages invisible) - now you can work on a draft for an event until it is ready.
  • Update: Blog module - members can now create posts (in addition to replies/comments). This means that blog module can be used as a discussion forum.
  • New: Wild Apricot widgets - so that you can embed our interactive functionality in your existing web site
  • New: Insert table wizard
  • Update: Member directory - select default search mode (advanced or keywords)
  • Update: Simplified registration process for new accounts
  • Update: Members are now automatically redirected to member only section after they have been logged in.
  • New: Unique member id is now shown on member profile for admin and exported to Excel file.
  • New: Documentation published on how to insert custom HTML forms into your Wild Apricot website
  • For those of you who do not use custom domains, all email bounces and replies are now forwarded to organization contact email. For custom domains they go directly to admin@<custom.domain>

Numerous bug fixes, changes and improvements, including:

  • Google maps can now be embedded - code snippets (javascript, iframe, etc) support improved in content editor.
  • Membership renewal date is now calculated based on previous renewal date instead of date of renewal

2.21 - Released on 20 July, 2007

  • Blog module enhancements - comments by members, ability to edit post date/time
  • Allow users to choose between online and manual (offline) payment for each transaction
  • New design themes
  • Intro text messages for member application, online donations, events list
  • Delete uploaded documents from server
  • Log of payment transactions (beta)

2.20 - Released on 28 June, 2007

  • Blog module (First beta release - only administrators can create posts, no comments on posts)
  • Admin roles - now you can differentiate access to each administrator (content/event/membership/donations management)
  • Event end date - events now have an optional end date.
  • You can now change your Wild Apricot URL on the fly (custom domains still require contacting us, this will be done soon too)
  • Create events by copying from another existing event
  • We have enabled adding Javascript code to pages!
  • Page header customization has been much simplified - you can now easily position pictures and text with drag and drop
  • White labeling support
  • Many other small improvements and bug fixes

2.19 - Released on 1 June, 2007

  • Web page editor functions to change text font/color/size
  • Referral program (earn affiliate commissions)
  • WebDAV support for CSS customization (this gives you ability to upload images for your custom css)
  • Instantly see count and list of members with renewal overdue (additional filter added to the members summary list)
  • Administrator can now hide system fields (Name, email) from the member directory
  • Predefined content templates for new Wild Apricot accounts (e.g. tailored for professional associations etc.)
  • To speed up Member directory, it now by default loads in the Advanced search mode
  • Bug fixing

See also our blog post about this release

2.18 - Released on 11 May, 2007

This short release was mostly focused on reviewing and rewriting some key parts of the system to increase performance (response time) - to ensure good user experience for our growing customer base!

  • Performance improvements
    • events list generation (1238)
    • overall database performance tuning(1472)
    • members advanced search - for admin and in Member directory on frontend(1401)
  • Additional field types: Dropdowns and Multi-line textboxes in event registration/member application customization forms (1411, 1412)
  • Display current WA version and link to release log (1660)
  • Filter to view pending registrations only (1454)
  • Bug fixing

See also our blog post about this release

2.17 - Released on 27 April, 2007

  • Ability to change event price based on selected options on the event registration form(1421)
  • Email customization improvements
    • Member renewal emails customization (1338)
    • Customizing Donations confirmation email is now available(1196)
    • Member application workflow customization - you can leave new records as pending, customize emails and change sending options etc.(1407)
      • Note: Make sure to review this feature and change settings as appropriate. As we have changed from hard-coded to settings-driven control of processing member applications, default settings have changed. Go to Settings / Member application workflow and e-mails to review and change settings
    • Customize member directory sorting (1296)
  • Documentation
    • Css customization documentation - extended tutorial on changing theme colors (1654)
    • Import and other help topics
  • Usability improvements
    • Back to list in member lists (1562)
    • Show table borders in editor (1628)
    • Insert HTML snippet (1716)
  • Self-service function to close down a Wild Apricot account (672) (We hope you will never need it! But if you do - you can do it right away now yourself)
  • Bug fixing

2.16 - Released on 6 April, 2007

  • Customization of automatic email confirmations/receipts triggered by certain events:
    • Membership application (1200)
    • Event registration (1450)
  • CSS customization - finally tech-savvy users can directly tweak CSS for their Wild Apricot site template (1518, 1522)
  • 2 new design templates (themes) - without CSS images so very easy to fully customize (1521)
  • Advanced search in Member directory (for public/members) introduced (in addition to simple keyword search) (1436)
  • Advanced search admin interface enhanced - now includes system fields (i.e. membership level, notes, created date, etc.) (1402)
  • Page templates - a mini-wizard to create a page of a desired layout and specify other page settings right away (1194)
  • Date selection widget redesigned - much faster and allows direct typing of date as text (913)
  • Export of event attendees now includes custom event registration fields (1530)
  • Export to now uses MS XML Spreadsheet format everywhere
  • Opening trial account simplified - no plan selection is necessary, plan can be selected when/if user decides to upgrade(1376)
    ...and bug fixing (1534, 1582, 1646, 1658, 1525, 1567, 1570, 1571, 1586, 1589, 1598, 1601, 1602 and much more...)

See also our blog post about this release

2.15 - Released on 19 March, 2007

Key enhancements:

  • Member renewals automation, all actions are logged in member notes (863, 1508)
  • Customization of event registration forms for each event (780, 1307, 1309, 1335)
  • Member list summary table (560)
  • Simplified the upgrade from trial to any plan (1365)
    Bug fixing
    (1533, 1422, 1486, 1511, 1512, 1517, 1557, 1408, 1448, 1456, 1466, 1468, 1490, 1492, 1520, 1529, 1539, 1540)

Read more about release 2.15 on our blog

2.14 - Released on 2 March, 2007

This iteration was focused on cleaning the system up and bug fixing.
But we also managed to add some new useful functionality:

  • Search and filter by custom member fields (1061)
  • Upgrade from trial to any plan (1290)
  • Info re canceling and changing plan (1394)
  • Autofocusing in editor (158)
  • Creating new accounts from a template account (632)
    Bug fixing
    (995, 1425, 738, 1358, 1363, 1374, 1375, 1380, 1381, 1423, 1224, 1311, 1337, 1344, 1351, 1370, 1398, 1399, 1405, 1424, 1232, 1271, 1320, 1339, 1355, 1371)

Read more about release 2.14 on our blog

2.13 - Released on February 9, 2007

  • Customizable behavior of membership levels on different screens
  • Totally redesigned import/export procedure - much faster, more reliable and clear(1025)
  • Changed export format to be the same as import so bulk database updates can be easily done via export/import (465)
  • Admin can now register a member to an event via backend(383)
  • Event payments report (1086)
  • Adjusted sign-up emails (1317)
  • Edited Members-only section and Member Directory initial content to provide a better explanation(1190)
  • Redesigned registration page (1205)
  • Option to automatically email event notices to event attendees and donors (1007)
  • Added a sample nested page into default template (1202)
    Bug fixing
    (1301, 1318, 1319, 1356, 1220, 1259, 1280, 1284, 1300, 1302, 1304, 1361, 1279, 1283, 1289, 1297, 1299, 1331, 721, 1303, 1305, 1312)

Read more on our blog

2.12 - Released on January 25, 2007

  • Introduced Usage tips to the system(748)
  • E-mail blast functionality to event attendees (921)
  • Added a "Clean up formatting" tool to page editor (1097)
  • Added RSS feed to events page(779)
  • Revised our handling of PayPal payment confirmations(883)
  • Simplified way to customize page header introduced (341)
  • Redesigned editor buttons for insert pic/link/document (729)
  • Enabled admins to edit member password (1115)
  • Allowed adding past-dated events (1221)
  • Changed 'show in member directory' to be on by default for new members (1131)
  • Updated MS AJAX framework to latest version (920)
    Bug fixing
    (684, 1105, 1186, 986, 1223, 1230, 1251, 1253, 1270, 1274, 244, 621, 758, 1243, 952, 1252, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1269)

Read more about release 2.12 on our blog

2.11 - Released on December 28, 2006

Short release, focused on performance, stability and scalability improvements

  • ASP.NET batch compilation / pre-compilation
  • Refactored menu rendering algorithm (1065)
  • Refactored member-only check algorithm (1102)
  • Created database data consistency check scripts (1047)
  • Cascade updates and locks (520)
    Bug fixing
    (1096, 1137, 1139, 1159, 1173, 1180, 1181, 1095, 1134, 1138, 1142, 1143, 1144, 1156, 1165, 1166, 1169, 1170, 1171, 1182, 1183, 501, 713, 736, 942, 1000, 1117, 1118, 1121, 1136, 1152, 1155, 1157, 1158, 1175, 421, 422, 541, 584, 644, 832, 840, 906, 987, 1069, 1085, 1091, 1101, 1107, 1140, 1149, 1150, 1151, 1161)

2.10 - Released on December 21, 2006

  • User management (412)
  • Member opt-out from event notices (784)
  • Export event attendees database (922)
  • Member directory access by level (1058)
  • Drag-drop custom fields (1045)
  • Notifications when plan limit is reached (1073)
  • Bugs (1094, 1080, 1110, 1081, 1087, 1077, 1088)

2.09 - Released on December 14, 2006

  • Member Directory introduced (778)
  • Technical improvements (document/images storage redesigned to be faster/scale better)
  • Inserting link (374)
  • New account plans added ($12/month and $25/month) (847)
  • Exporting members with custom fields (1024)
  • Deleting images from image library (652)
  • Visual redesign of event list on events web page (798)
  • Currency format in Member Application (1029)
  • Icons for member directory preferences (983)

Read more about release 2.09 on our blog

2.08 - Released on November 29, 2006

  • Customization of member database (877)
  • Database of all event attendees (390)
  • Added account info to dashboard (935)
  • Delete event attendees enabled(690)
  • Extra event info for registered attendees (511)
  • Currency setup (508)

Read more about release 2.08 on our blog

2.07 - Released on November 2, 2006

  • Member-only private webpages (615)
  • Emailing event attendees (371)
  • Account information page (731)
  • Edit and Delete donors (637)
  • Displaying support questions on Support page (834)
  • New themes (Vacation Blue, Modern Green 2) (878, 879)

Read more on our blog

2.06 - Released on October 18, 2006

  • Subpages (aka nested pages) (381)
  • Dashboard (389)
  • Spellchecker in content editor (533)
  • Email blasts to members (370)
  • Auto login for new accounts (598)

Read more on our blog

2.05 - Released on September 22, 2006

  • Online donations (531)
  • Upgrade from free/trial to payable plan (610, 410)
  • Trial account expiry (409)
  • Limit system functionality per current plan (612, 695, 631)
  • Google AdSense ads for free plans (382)
  • New theme - Bubbles Red (675)
  • Show member application form in admin mode (635)

Read more on our blog

2.03 - Released on August 23, 2006

  • Show or Hide page (432)
  • Export event attendees (372)
  • Simplify account activation (408)
  • Renewal date based on membership level (471)
  • Allow to select "Never" date for member renewal (517)
  • More text styles (401)
  • More themes (413)
  • Incomplete payment emails to be sent to admin (580)
  • Inserting mailto links (526)
  • Make functional page movable in menu (554)
  • Renewal for active members with past renewal date (576)
  • Event payment incomplete notification (579)
  • Already existing e-mail entry in Member application (545)
  • Notification to admin about member's level upgrades (570)
  • Import members (279, 419)

Read more on our blog

2.02 - Released on August 4, 2006

  • Customizing page footer (388)
  • Displaying large number of member records (391)
  • Member Online Application (399)
  • Online payment for event (402)
  • Online payment for membership (403)
  • Member renewals (424)
  • Member level upgrade from free (425)
  • Adding Javascript to public pages (504)
  • Inserting documents (269)
  • Customizing membership levels (367)
  • Customizing existing fields on member application form (387)
  • Configure site to work with own domain (366)
  • Out of service message (522)
  • New theme: Modern Green (463)
  • Confirmation about success for public event registrants (487)
  • Login box location (313)
  • Streamlined payment settings (485)
  • View payment information on event registration (503)
  • Bugs (318, 429, 440, 468, 484, 495, 544, 461, 476, 482, 489, 492, 497, 506, 523, 542, 490, 493, 505, 496, 530)

Read more on our blog

2.01 - Released on July 11, 2006

  • Insert external hyperlink (263)
  • Export members (373)
  • URL and Title autoreplacement during Hyperlink editing(346)
  • E-mail to accounts(427)
  • Setup online payment integration (407)
  • Online payment (3)
  • Research payment systems Paypal and InternetSecure (326)
  • Inserting scripts (280)
  • Layout of event details screen (208)

Read more on our blog

1.09

  • Simplify account activation (267)
  • HTML-view button in toolbar (276, 357)

1.08

  • WA site tracking code (342)
  • Redesigned editor buttons (155)
  • Powered by WildApricot (314)
  • Tags in Title field during Hyperlink editing (347)
  • Support message page (352)
  • Bugs (192, 338, 359, 335, 344, 323, 336)

1.07

  • Insert picture (162)
  • Event reminders (204)
  • Customize visual theme (219)
  • Customize site header (286)
  • Change page position in menu (237)
  • Manual payment for events (264)
  • Basic text styles (223)
  • Deal with forgotten passwords (240)
  • Change password (262)
  • Non-Member Event Registration (265, 271)
  • Select non profit category when registering (266)
  • Regular full backup live DB (260)
  • Email preferences in member profile (300)
  • Images in page header (144)

1.06

  • New design for Admin toolbar (123)
  • Instant support posting (132)
  • Edit event (137)
  • Import members (138)
  • Admin views event registrants (154)
  • Add member (168)
  • Member view and edit own profile (179)
  • Change event date during event editing (167)
  • Setup server errors logging (200)
  • Visual design of member view and edit profile (201)
  • Organize iteration deployment (83)
  • Design of New Account Confirmation (139)

1.05

  • Open free account (119)
  • Delete member (133)
  • Instant support posting (135)
  • Member Event Registration (136)
  • Basic text formatting (75)
  • Role management (159)
  • New account activation (147)

1.04

  • Add Page (111)
  • Edit and Publish page (70)
  • Edit member (80)
  • View events on frontend (121)

First steps

  • View site (30)
  • View Events in Backend (31)

* Site Admin Login (32)

  • Find member and view details (33)
  • Show event list (34)
  • Show member list (36)
  • Attach EntLib features (40)
  • Determine current site state (41)
  • Init current Principal/Identity (44)
  • Determine current content page (46)
  • Initialize web request execution context (66)
  • Show event details (35)
  • Show member details (37)
  • Site menu (42)
  • Display public site pages (43)
  • Login to admin backend (47)
  • Display/Switch admin topbar (48)
  • Prepare HTML for public site (53)
  • Security framework (45)
  • Setup Cruise Control (52)
  • Ajax working pattern (50)
  • Multi-browser editor engine (76)Quickbooks integration (BETA) - export of financial transactions in Quickbooks IIF format
  • Administrators will no longer be required to fill all mandatory fields when editing records in the backend
  • Detailed log of sent emails - both email blasts and automatic system emails, including the capability to view emails sent to a specific contact.
  • Ability to send automatic event announcements to contacts
  • Improvements for storing organizations stored  as Wild Apricot contact records. First and Last name will no longer be mandatory - while Organization field will be added to all key screens alongside name fields
  • Function to merge duplicate contact records
  • Setting a time zone for your account
  • Customizable time/date format
  • Content Management System redesign Phase 1
  • One new theme (Sorry, had to remove this from the scope of this release.)

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