New Features

Updated Web-based Phone App!

CMD 2013.2 builds on the free web-based phone app first introduced in 2013.1. However, the updated phone app has a bonus - there's a page designed for only staff to see, and there's a page your general membership can see (at your discretion). We've called it Mobile Church Directory.

Read about its new expanded capabilities in the CMD Phone App help topic.

This phone app is provided free with your CMD 2013 program, however the proprietary web server is required in order to use it. If you would like more information on what it does or what it looks like, read the CMD Phone App help topic, and then do the live demonstration you can try right on your own smart phone (or web browser on your computer). The link to try the live demo is:

http://www.softwareforministry.com/html/livephoneaccess.html

If you need information on what's required to use the phone app, see the Server Setups help topic.

Web Access Setup Dialog

You will need a way to determine user names and passwords and lookup permissions for the new updated web-based phone app, and the Web Access Setup dialog provides the tools to do that.

There are global tools to set all names/families to basic settings so that you can just change the exceptions.

Specific tools allow you to define the user name/password for each family individually, plus you can determine if any or all or none of a given family's members are to be made visible to any searches by other members who use the app as a phone-based church directory.

Contributions Manager

There are two changes in Contrib:

1.I changed the query in the Deposit dialog so that only the Deposit ID is considered when creating the list of Deposit IDs. This will eliminate the issue of having an entry with a different date but still included in the same Deposit ID from creating two different Deposit IDs that appear identical. If you experience any issues with this change, please let us know right away.

2.We've added a new feature, Import Bank Summary, that lets you pull in data from a file you can get from your bank if you use a bank's or other financial provider's services in accepting checks and/or credit cards directly through the bank. CMD provides for importing specific fields in a specific order, which means you may need to do some adjusting of your data in Excel (or a similar program) before CMD can import it. The help topic for this feature will cover the specifics of the fields and the field order.

This feature will allow you to directly import the information into a separate Deposit ID so that you don't have to manually enter the information.