Latest News and Announcements

06/17/2013 - New Demo Tutorial Videos


We have launched a new online video tutorial series to accompany the full working PowerChurch Plus demo.

Visit http://www.powerchurch.com/demo/video/ for online streaming.



06/03/2013 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 06/03/2013 has been released for Version 11.5.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Accounts Receivable

  • An invoice can show twice on the Open (Unposted) Items report
  • The customer balance shown on the Maintain Customer Records screen might disagree with the balance shown on reports
  • Reports reference "Last Buy Date" instead of "Last Invoice Date"

Backup & Restore

  • Windows XP errors when backing up cdrlog.log file


05/21/2013 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 05/21/2013 has been released for Version 11.5.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Contributions

  • Maintain Pledges - Sort changed to descending date order, showing newest pledges at the top
  • Disabled e-mail button on the Pledge Statement report preview to avoid accidentally e-mailing all statements to a group
  • Import Contributions - The "entrytime" field is not tracked when importing contributions

Accounts Payable

  • Repeating Items - Defaults to last day of month if you leave next release date field blank
  • Release Repeating - Defaults to last day of month if next release date is blank
  • Posting Problems report - Ignores the check vs cheque variable

Accounts Receivable

  • Credit Memo - Can apply a credit memo with zero balance to an invoice
  • Maintain Customer Records - Opens slowly if you have many customers linked to membership
  • Maintain Customer Records - "Balance" field is often incorrect. Update automatically when loading the customer
  • Delete Customer - Now records an accounting audit log entry
  • Selected Items report - New option to include account distributions
  • Selected Items report - Selects data and generates the report much more quickly now
  • Account Statement - Now includes invoice details

Activities & Skills

  • Maintain List of Attenders - It is possible to create duplicate entries if multiple users save changes at the same time

Equipment Inventory

  • Delete Equipment Item - Prompts to save changes and can create a blank entry in the equipment items
  • Delete Item - Should prompt for confirmation before deleting

Miscellaneous

  • Backup - Now include .log files in backups
  • E-mail - Updated error messages to make the explanation of the problem clearer
  • E-mail - Sometimes a successful connection would be made in testing, regardless of incorrect setup values


04/29/2013 - Phone Service Restored


There was a regional phone service outage affecting our office for a few hours today. We are now back up and running and apologize for the inconvenience!



04/11/2013 - Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2013


We have published the Spring 2013 e-mail newsletter. If you are not on the mailing list, you can subscribe at Update Subscriptions or view the full document in the Knowledge Base.



04/10/2013 - Version 11 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 04/10/2013 has been released for Version 11.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Fund Accounting

  • A corrupted data file in Fund Accounting can cause the posting process to fail, leaving transactions from Contributions, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or Payroll in a half-posted state

Payroll

  • Check vs. Cheque terminology is not correct on the Modify Unposted Payroll screen when in Canadian mode.


04/09/2013 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 04/09/2013 has been released for Version 11.5.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Fund Accounting

  • A corrupted data file in Fund Accounting can cause the posting process to fail, leaving transactions from Contributions, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or Payroll in a half-posted state

Accounts Receivable

  • Deleting a customer with no history causes an error message

Payroll

  • Check vs. Cheque terminology is not correct on the Modify Unposted Payroll screen when in Canadian mode.


04/03/2013 - Version 11 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 04/03/2013 has been released for Version 11.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Fund Accounting

  • Specific chain of events allows a duplicate account to be added

Accounts Receivable

  • Line description in the Fund Accounting transaction is not formatted correctly for credit memos vs. payments

Payroll

  • Connecticut tax calculation is incorrect due to rounding issue
  • 941 calculations are not correct after 2013 form added

Events

  • Error message when clicking lookup button on send e-mail event reminders

General

  • Backup & Restore can error with malformed file path (such as an extra colon in the path)


04/02/2013 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 04/02/2013 has been released for Version 11.5.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Fund Accounting

  • Specific chain of events allows a duplicate account to be added

Accounts Payable

  • Add vendor button should be inactive after vendor is assigned on an open invoice

Accounts Receivable

  • Line description in the Fund Accounting transaction is not formatted correctly for credit memos vs. payments

Payroll

  • Connecticut tax calculation is incorrect due to rounding issue
  • 941 calculations are not correct after 2013 form added

Events

  • Error message when clicking lookup button on send e-mail event reminders

General

  • Backup & Restore can error with malformed file path (such as an extra colon in the path)
  • Specific data problem can cause e-mail sending error in Windows 8


03/21/2013 - Version 11 Maintenance Release


A new Maintenance Release dated 03/21/2013 has been released for Version 11.

The program will automatically download and install this update by going to Help > Download Maintenance Release, or you can manually download and install the Maintenance Release installer by visiting http://www.powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

The following changes were made in this Maintenance Release:

Payroll:

  • Updated 941 form for 2013
  • Fixed errors relating to access restrictions

Fund Accounting:

  • Fixed an issue that allowed closing an Income or Expense account to an Equity in a different fund

Accounts Receivable:

  • Fixed several issues relating to reversing entries
  • Fixed issue where an overpayment could be applied to the same invoice
  • Fixed errors relating to access restrictions

Accounts Payable:

  • Fixed add vendor button active after a check is printed
  • Fixed errors relating to access restrictions

Attendance:

  • Fixed issue where previous attendance dates could be replaced with current date


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