eCatholic Release Notes provides a brief look at what we’re accomplishing for you through our product releases, upgrades, and internal workings. Our goal is to help you stay in-the-know while we strive to keep improving. Enjoy our July 2020 edition of Release Notes!
We're happy to celebrate the latest free theme available to our eCatholic website customers. Moser offers new elements for a refreshingly bold style, that is versatile enough to accomplish your website vision.
Here are just a few of our favorite things Moser offers:
Another favorite is the inspiration for the Moser theme and name. Look below to the Inside eCatholic section of this Release Notes for more about our friend behind this eCatholic design.
Learn more: Read more about these new features in Moser
There's always something on the horizon! Keep an eye out for these new features.
Button, button, who’s got the button? You do! Linking content within text directs site visitors from place to place, while continuing to engage them. Now, turn those links into attractive eye-catching HTML buttons with hover effects. It only takes three clicks!
Easily highlight the word or phrase you want to hyperlink, then click the link button in the WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor. In the link settings, you’ll notice new style options where you can select between two different button appearances. Click save and ta-dah!
Try it out: Step-by-step instructions for creating HTML buttons
It’s now easier for bookkeepers to reconcile bank statements with information found in the eCatholic Payments Center. Reconciliation Mode is a new way to clearly group batches by settlement date and view convenient total batch amounts by grouping.
Once switched on, Reconciliation Mode will sort transactions into grouped batches with the option to instantly download a report as a CSV or PDF file. For easier reconciliation:Learn more: Create a batch transaction report with Reconciliation Mode
eCatholic Payments automatically notifies both admins and donors regarding various changes to gifts and payment accounts. Most recently added are:
Learn more: See entire list of email notifications for eCatholic Payments
We’re always improving! Here are updates we've made to existing features and functionality.
Along with several other updates to eCatholic Donations & Payments, we also made a few visual changes to the Payments Center for an easier way to find, filter, and view information on donors.
Check out these changes under your Donor Management tab:
We’ve polished up the Donor Details dialog found inside the eCatholic Payments Center. Moving a few pieces of content around makes it easier to edit and update donor information.
Now, a donor’s contact info will be grouped together on the left, while admin links and informational items, including the donor status and the Admin Notes section, remain on the right.
Using eCatholic Payments? Now, you can see the amount of a recurring gift set to occur in the future. When a new recurring gift is set (even if it isn't supposed to occur for weeks later), the gift amount for the new account will appear with the date of the intended future transaction. (Hint: just make sure Reconciliation mode is turned to “off.”)
eCatholic's products, features, and designs stem from all sorts of inspiration, such as our faith, our team culture, church history, or even our customers' experiences or stories. These inspirations become part of the eCatholic journey, a story which we are always honored to share with all of you ... especially this one.
Our most recent free theme, Moser, is a sort of gift to us from the inspiration of longtime eCatholic friend, Terri Moser. Terri’s belief in eCatholic started from our humble beginnings, when she met our founder and CEO, Josh Simmons, before he ever thought eCatholic would grow to what it is today. However, Terri loved our mission from the get-go. She worked with us for nearly 14 years while serving in church ministry.
When Terri realized she was not going to be able to stop her cancer, she reached out to us with a very warming and noble idea. Terri wanted to gift her parish a custom design website which had never happened up to that point. A short while later, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church went live with a new website design. We named our latest free theme Moser, as a way of thanking and honoring Terri for all she meant to us and to her ministry.
"St. Catherine was blessed to have her and I was blessed to know and work with her. I'm grateful eCatholic is able to recognize her life and the impact she had on so many by naming this theme after her."
- Jason Jaynes, eCatholic Chief Operating Officer and St. Catherine of Siena parishioner
Terri passed away in February of 2020, but her love and legacy carry on in her ministry, as well as in those lives she touched along the way.
Read more: Terri's story and the new Moser theme