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We upgraded the email notification that you receive when someone makes a donation on your CMS Connected Donate form. Some of the improvements:

When you click Reply to the email, you will be replying to the person who submitted the donation if they included an email. Both the ReplyToName and ReplyToEmail fields are used for this purpose. This is now quite useful if you want to quickly send a personal email to the donor as soon as you get the notification email. The email...

While we at Chabad Management Solutions take credit card security very seriously and have implemented additional safeguards on our servers to detect and block criminals from testing their stolen credit cards on your forms, it is crucial that every merchant enable and configure Authorize.net's Advanced Fraud Detection Suite (AFDS) to add a basic level of protection.

There is no extra cost to use the Authorize.net AFDS.

Here is the scenario: A hacker discovers your website along with the...

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To update to this latest version, please login to http://support.chabadms.com/ and click Downloads... Birthday reminders now correctly remind you on the upcoming year when set to celebrate on the English date (where in the past, it would remind you a year after the original date, or in some CMS versions a year after the current year). Default Organization is now correctly and automatically entered for bills, as well as transactions created...

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To update to this latest version, please login to http://support.chabadms.com/ and click Downloads...

Yahrtzeit List now shows up under any contact who is observing (being notified). A new option "Hide Yarhtzeit Observed By" is available to hide this information in the list. It will also suppress multiple appearances of the same yarhtzeit record if it observed by different members in the same family. The Yahrtzeit Tracking KB article has...

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To update to this latest version, please login to http://support.chabadms.com/ and click Downloads...

Word Merge for Pledge Letter, now works as expected. Was causing error "Item not found in collection"

Default organization for Transactions now works even if the selected category does not have an Organization associated with it.

Custom Fields: Contact Report can now Group By these fields when using custom...

Depending on your version of CMS and Office, the error shows up in either the following when starting CMS: Object or Class does not support the set of events. Error 429 Program not opening at all. This began happening due to an update released by Microsoft on Tuesday January 12 which caused older versions of CMS to no longer open at all, or open with errors the above errors.

To resolve this, please upgrade your CMS to the latest version of CMS. Login to...

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To update to this latest version, please login to http://support.chabadms.com/, login then click Downloads... Here is a short listing of the changes recently implemented (since 15.8.7). 15.8.12: Fixed bug when updating the matched record address of an Online Form Donation (caused error "Item not found in collection"). 15.8.14: Deleting a bill that has payment(s) applied now correctly marks those payment details as "unapplied" 15.10.19:...

It is very important that you do not upgrade to Office 2016. The current version of CMS (15.8.7) is not compatible with Office 2016 and will not run at all if you upgrade to that version of Office.

If you are using Office 365, you are most likely getting Office Updates automatically. It is therefore very important that you configure your computer to prevent Office 365 from updating to 2016.

Here is a link to a Microsoft page that details how this is...

The following applies to those using the Credit Card Processing Integration (CCPI) module. For more information about this module, please see various articles in the Credit Card section of the Knowledge Base.

Customer Information Manager (CIM) is required for the CCPI module and online forms integration.

Due to the increase in security concerns in storing credit card numbers and other cardholder information, we will in the near future be integrating with Authorize.net's Customer...

To update to this latest version, please login to http://support.chabadms.com/, login then click Downloads... Here is a short listing of the changes recently implemented (since 15.7.8). 15.7.14: Fixed issue where CMS crashes after creating a relationship. In our tests it only happened (on some installations) when using Office 2013. 15.7.15: Implemented the ability to sort a Yarhtzeit report by Hebrew Date and more. This works with the new Yahrtzeit system. 15.7.17: Fixed issue...