This week we will being posting an automatic update for GiftWorks (the 5th update for GiftWorks 2006). The timing of the update is to prepare customers for downloading Internet Explorer 7 which will be sent out to Windows customers in upcoming weeks. Besides working with IE7, the update includes some bug fixes and a functional change to the way GiftWorks interacts with QuickBooks. Here are the major bugs that were fixed:
- For some customers, saved SmartList settings created in previous versions were causing errors.
- Labels and envelopes printing blanks has been fixed.
- In some cases, the importer would cause the database checkup to fail. This has been fixed.
- Database compacting errors have been resolved.
The functional changes to QuickBooks integration are summarized as follows:
- Individual Donors that have transactions will be posted to QuickBooks as customers.
- Accounts used in the posted transactions will be added to QuickBooks if they do not already exist in QuickBooks.
- Each journal entry will now consolidate the donation transactions, posting one line per asset account and one line per fund for each income account.
We will be detailing all the specific changes when the update has been released which will be this week. When we release updates to customers we do so gradually. This means some customers may get updates a day or two before others. You can avoid the wait and download the full, updated release from our website.