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Dear BVCMS Community,
This newsletter contains tips, information about new features, and announcments of upcoming events. See past newsletters.
User News & Announcements
This is where we keep users informed. Here are the latest news items and announcements from BVCMS.
Make Some New Year's Resolutions!
- If you aren't tracking attendance, start this year!
- Use the iPhone app, the new iPad Checkin app, the iPad Attendance page
- Or do it with pen and paper (along with a little help from BVCMS and your favorite wand scanner)
- Learn more about QueryBuilder, conquer your fears!
- Use the Contributions capability
- Start using Online Registrations
- Let your congregation use Online Giving
- Try out Votelinks, RegisterLinks, and VoteTags, they can really make your life easier with registrations
- Watch previous and attend upcoming webinars about BVCMS returning in January
- Enlist more Lay Leaders to use BVCMS for their ministry to their groups
- Investigate Extra Value fields for customizing your data
- Keep your database cleaner by:
- Dropping Members and making Organizations inactive after the event has occured or meetings have ended.
- Get rid of those duplicate records.
There is a new Query Condition for 1st, 2nd, 3rd time Visitors
We have always been able to do some complex queries to find interesting statistics on attendance. But who wants complex? BVCMS now makes it easy to find people who have visited for the second time since a particular date.
A number of churches have an assimilation process in which they do particular things (like make a phone call, or pay a visit, etc) when a person visits the first time and then a different thing for the second visit and then the third. You do this with a special Query condition called Visit Nth Time. Here is a new simpler way: Read more
You may know that when you are on a duplicate record, you can see potential duplicates on the System > Duplicates tab. But how can you get a list of all records that have serious potential duplicates? We now have a new routine that can be used by Admins and those with the Manage2 role. It is the Manage/Duplicates process. Basically, for each record, it searches your entire database for a potential duplicate using the same algorithm we use for finding records in Online Registrations. Read more about this here.
We are working on a number of fronts with BVCMS currently. Version 1.0 of the BVCMS Checkin iPad app is waiting for approval from the Apple ITunes store. It should be ready for download very soon. We'll be writing more about how to use this exciting new product in January after we roll it out here at Bellevue and at Redeemer in New York. Except for the printing scheme we have come up with, if you are familiar with how the checkin works for a regular kiosk, you should be able to use the iPad version with what you already know.
Recurring Giving shouild be ready to go in January. We will be supporting both Authorize.Net and SagePayments gateways with PCI 4.0 complience (that means we will not be storing any credit card, or bank account information in your own database).
We are also working on a new type of Checkin for secure access to recreation centers and other facilities you want to control registered access to. Stay tuned...
Blessings,
David Carroll and Karen Worrell
Your BVCMS Team
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