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AAC Online System – Version 2.5 Release

1 November, 2017

Apart from the new ANONYMOUS feature, it is largely a selection of minor fixes to make your experience easier and more secure.

We’ve released a brand-new feature that gives you the option to make any donation you want – “anonymous”. That means that the recipient charity will not know that it came from you
We have created a new very compressed report to make it easier for you to see many more transaction on each page, viewable both on a PC or mobile. You can access this new report in the new Reports section. As with other reports, it can be exported directly to Excel when access with a PC
You can now cancel any donations that are still pending (ie have not been carried out) without needing to contact the office.
You can now find your Charity more efficiently by typing in for the charity name, the charity number or even address in the searchbox.
The voucher book report (a list of all vouchers in a book in cheque number order) is more easily locatable in the REPORTS section.

Summary of general maintenance updates:

In response to requests from charities, if you make a donation over £2,000 you will have to complete a “Note to charity”.
In order to prevent unwanted Duplicate Payments – an extra question will be asked if you make an identical request within a few hours.
In order to prevent unwanted Duplicate Standing Orders Payments – an extra question will be asked if you make an identical request within a few hours.
At login, an inactive user will have instructions displayed on how to reactivate account. Generally, more helpful messages are displayed if you give invalid password etc
Standing order note on view transactions will display the standing order “payment number.”
If you do not use the system for 7 hours – you can move away from the site without getting that annoying “Leave or Stay” request.
For Gift Aid accounts, any Deposits shown on “view transactions”, will display the note: Gift Aid Applicable together with the Gift Aid amount for the deposit.
A Captcha has been introduced after two unsuccessful logins or the “forgot password” dialogue. There will also be a delay of 5 seconds between each login attempt.

Confirmation email of donation change – ‘Notes to AAC’ changed from blank to N/A when no comments entered.
Logout button will take user to the login page.
“Blank voucher book” order option is now listed higher on the order page.
Various formatting issues to make the site more intuitive to use.
Changes to the message and formatting in the email confirming Donations.

The button on Voucher book ordering the bugs affecting it have been fixed.
Redo voucher button on view transactions now allows you to order new voucher book.
Some standing order data inconsistencies have been fixed.
Message of the Day formatting issues have been fixed.
Currency display issues on the view transaction table for some transactions have been fixed.
Standing orders that are being amended are no longer marked as being cancelled. I.e. once a SO is cancelled, you cannot do anything to it.
Issue of pending transactions appearing on list of current transactions has been resolved.
Some of the Contact messages are no longer being sent twice.

My Giving – a set of reports, including pretty graphs, that shows your giving patterns, by time or charity, over time. (We are also looking at what other reports the system should generate – if you have any feedback, please do be in touch.)
Adding “being processed” amounts to the “account balance” at the very top of the page
Direct links to Charity Commission pages for each (relevant) charity
Stronger passwords for all users – for improved security.
Encryption of all system files
Much improved “search for charity” on the dropdown list
And more!

David Kahan

If you have any ideas, queries or feedback email me at it-support@achisomoch.org

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