PowerChurch Software - Latest News and Product Announcements

09/10/2012 - Internet outage affects PC Online

PowerChurch Online is currently unavailable due to an internet outage that has caused major disruption today. Fortunately, our site itself is not hosted with GoDaddy, just the domain name. "apps.mypowerchurch.com" is not working, but the address this name points to is. You can use the IP address 72.250.241.12 in place of apps.mypowerchurch.com to connect to the server directly. We apologize for any inconvenience, but unfortunately, this is out of our control, and we hope they get things back up soon.

09/05/2012 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release

A new Maintenance Release dated 09/05/2012 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://powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Contributions

Invalid path or filename error when importing from a hidden folder
Incremental Search in Tax Receipt History log does not work

Membership

Deleting a family with no Personal Profiles returns an error
Class Promotion List report now sorted by Last Name, First Name
Active/Non-Active Profiles reports ignore Fund Type selection

Accounting

Employee lookup lists can return wrong employee or give an error
Maintain Vendor Records warns that 00-0000-000 is not a valid account number (when no account is assigned)

08/15/2012 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release

A new Maintenance Release dated 08/14/2012 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://powerchurch.com/mr

in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Membership

Family Update Form disregards selected sort option
Active/Non-Active Profiles report does not refresh properly
Active/Non-Active Profiles report treats reversed contributions as active
Added age to Selected Dates report if selecting on birthdate
Move profile to new family hangs if already 99 family members
Adding Attendance data from Maintain Personal Profiles will error if date is outside of filtered date range
Lifetouch Church Directory export doesn't include family e-mail address
Error message when click Find button on the Attendance tab of Maintain Personal Profiles
Background Checks controls available for Adult = blank
Intelligent Mail Barcode mailing label - barcode too close to name for USPS specs
Resize picture in HTML e-mail does not work properly

Activities / Attendance

Added Date Joined selections to Activities reports
Incremental search does not work on Fast Data Entry existing attendance data display
Date range selections not working properly on reports (this year, year to date, all dates)

Contributions

Suffix not included on Contribution Statements
E-mail Statement List report does not include family e-mail
Can't select by Fund Type on Contribution Mailing Labels or Graphs
Contribution Range report allows you to delete all ranges, then errors

Fund Accounting

Detail Changes In Equity does not work properly with “Include zero activity accounts” selected in certain circumstances
Added option to include inactive accounts on Check Register By Fund report

Accounts Receivable

Changed functionality on the Maintain Credit Memos screen (see Help file for information)

Payroll

After latest update of Adobe Reader, PowerChurch no longer recognizes a program is registered to open PDF files
SSI wages report above the yearly cap on W2 & 941
Void a check in Payroll uses current account setup instead of original transaction
Added Today button to Time Off Calendar to return to today’s date
Having two state tax types for the same state will combine the amounts on the W2
Added Department & Position to employee Lookup lists
Should not allow duplicate Tax Types
Item Summary and Quarterly report truncate the item name, should show all 25 characters
Payroll Setup Assistant now skips tax table setup steps if user is in Canada
Menu Item renamed from Unposted Payroll to Modify Unposted Payroll
Unposted transactions should not be included in all Payroll reports

Events

Added room number to room list in Add New Event

Custom Reports

Pay Group field added to Payroll custom reports
Directory Sequence field added to custom reports in several places

07/25/2012 - Check In Maintenance Release

A new Maintenance Release for the PowerChurch Check In system has been published, dated 07/24/2012.

There are no longer separate installers for kiosk and server components. The kiosks will update automatically after connecting to the server the first time.

http://www.powerchurch.com/mr

This release contains following fixes:

Built-in web cams don't consistently work
Added a message to inform user when kiosk update fails
Added a message warning that a bar code was already assigned to someone else in the family
Service failed to start for any reason is now tracked in the Application Event Log
PDF manual and CHM help files are now updated on the kiosk after Maintenance Release updates
Express Check Out expects multiple bar codes for a person in multiple activities
Filter characters are not automatically cleared on the Check Out screen
When filtering on the Check Out screen, it is possible for the wrong notes and/or picture to show for the selected person
When adding a new family, the "Mr & Mrs" and "and Family" preferences are not being followed
When adding/updating a family, there is no "Preferred Name" field
On screen keyboard does not appear in the Express Check Out / Reason for missing bar code = Other field
On screen keyboard redesigned for Add New and Update Existing Family screens
On screen keyboard TAB key now skips past buttons and dropdown lists

07/02/2012 - New Data Conversion Policy

As of July 1, 2012, our Data Conversion policies and pricing have changed. Please refer to the Data Conversion products page at www.powerchurch.com/products/conversion/ for more information.

06/06/2012 - Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2012

We have published the Summer 2012 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.

04/16/2012 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release

A new Maintenance Release dated 04/16/2012 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://powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Accounting

Underlines don't print on the Income & Expense By Month report, but show on the screen preview
Modify Unposted Transactions screen errors if no unposted transactions exist

Activities & Skills

In certain circumstance, a person can be added to an activity twice

Events

Google Sync does not update changes to event description

Background Checks

Protect My Ministry https link does not work in PowerChurch Online

04/05/2012 - Version 11 Maintenance Release

A new Maintenance Release dated 04/04/2012 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://powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

The following changes were made in this Maintenance Release:

Accounting

Level 3 should not be an option when adding new accounts through Maintain Donor Restrictions
Field names changed on 2012 941 form (Trade Name, Box 16, Sched B)

04/05/2012 - Version 11.5 Maintenance Release

A new Maintenance Release dated 04/03/2012 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://powerchurch.com/mr in your web browser.

This Maintenance Release resolves the following issues:

Accounting

Modify Unposted Transactions shows blank posting year if outside the range of open months
Level 3 should not be an option when adding new accounts through Maintain Donor Restrictions
Field names changed on 2012 941 form (Trade Name, Box 16, Sched B)