Blog

Jan 09

Sorting by Name in Exported Reports

By Darian Shimy

FutureFund allows administrators to export many reports to a CSV (Excel) file for processing outside of the FutureFund Admin. In most cases, the user’s name was included with the first and last name concatenated. This caused problems when one tried to sort the reports by last name for example. We’ve updated the system to break up the first and last name in the exported reports. The following reports were updated:

Jan 09

Order Source Attribute

By Darian Shimy

When an order is placed in FutureFund, we track the origination of the order as the Order Source. There are three possible values for the order source:

Nov 06

Note to Seller

By Darian Shimy

The Note to Seller feature allows the collection additional information during the purchase process for purchase campaigns. To enable the Note to Seller feature and customize the label text, click on the ‘Edit Advanced Settings’ button when viewing the campaign and set the appropriate options. When enabled, the purchaser will see an additional field to supply the requested information.

Mar 31

Notifications are Here

By Darian Shimy

Today we are launching notifications. Notifications allow you to receive an email when orders are placed or students are registered. The frequency can be either daily or weekly. Here is a sample:

Mar 31

Improving the Store

By Darian Shimy

When an item is added to the cart in the store, the new behavior shows the following dialog asking the purchaser to continue shopping or view the cart and checkout. The old behavior sent them straight to the checkout process. We made this change to help purchasers add additional items to the cart. Some found it hard to navigate back to the campaign page while others didn’t know you could make multiple purchases.

Nov 07