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Two New Releases and Happy Holidays from Wild Apricot

Two new versions of Wild Apricot, 2.27 and 2.28 have been released in December. Here's a quick overview of new features and changes (read more on Wild Apricot release history page):

Best wishes to a safe and joyous holiday season for you and yours!

Automatic recurring payments 

You can now have members be charged automatically on monthly, quarterly etc. basis

Point and click customization

Adjusting colors and styles across your site without any technical skills required.

Workflow customization for each member level

Customization of emails and workflows for new applications and renewals separately for each membership level.

Managing site administrators

Ability to make any member a site administrator (without the need of setting him up with a separate email in another list).



Page header customization

Ability to upload your own header background picture or select from a large set of the ones we have prepared.

Importing events into MS Outlook or iCal

Events can now be added to your MS Outlook/Mac calendar.

Completing pending event registrations

Members can now retry paying for pending event registrations if they had any problems the first time - no intervention needed by the administrator.

  • Ability to sort member directory by fields of drop-down type
  • Empty fields are now automatically hidden from member profiles
  • Advanced search now includes field 'Show in member directory'
  • Statistics on most active members and outdated pages on Dashboard

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


 

Published Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:26 PM by Creative Apricot
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We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations

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