Product Release Notes - February 2025

Please review the latest features, improvements, and more:

• New Features and Enhancements
• Improvements and Bug Fixes
• Tips and Best Practices

New Features and Enhancements 🚀

• Error Messaging Added for Impact Imports
  • Description: If there is missing data in “Hours Served” field, admin will be notified of this error in the admin panel
  • How to Use: When importing impacts in the admin panel, there will be a column to the right that will show all errors related to a blocked import.
• Give Matching Setting Donation Tracking
  • Description: When the admin chooses this option, they pick the event they want. For this type of gift matching, the employee does not need to request the match. As soon as the impact is verified, a Matching Gift record is automatically created 
  • How to Use: Admin must select Internal Event in the New Charity Eligibility Settings.
• Giving Settings Update
  • Description: Gift matching has been simplified with the new giving settings update.
  • How to Use: When employees go to add impacts to a specific event a match request will be automatically created.
• Engage Sync Naming Update
  • Description: The platform is now using the first/last names from engage for the first/last names in GivePulse instead of defaulting to the email for preferred name if one is not given.
• New Overbooking Setting
  • Description: Admins can now enable overbooking for events so they do not have to manually add a registration without having to use a waitlist and increasing event capacity.
  • How to Use: Admins can enable overbooking in Customize > Events > Allow Overbooking.
• Live Impact Tracker Map
  • Description: Users can see impact and event creation in live time as tracked by the map.
  • How to Use: Navigate to https://www.givepulse.com/live to see activity. Red dots indicate event creation, white dots indicate impact creation.

Improvements and Bug Fixes 🧰

• Widget Photo Display: Fixed issues with widget photos not displaying public event timeslots.
• Recaptcha Refresh: Users that made errors on the start page form are now able to complete the recaptcha without refreshing the form and losing filled out data.
• Dashboard Accessibility Update: Heading levels for user dashboard items of hours, impacts, and groups were updated to be recognized correctly by a screen reader.
• Mobile App Registration Alerts: An issue with users not receiving confirmation emails for mobile app registrations has been resolved.
• Event Creation Shared Groups: In New View, users can now get rid of a shared group they assign during event creation.

Tips and Best Practices💡

• Filtering for Data on the Manage Users Grid
  • When filtering through users in the manage grids, admins that wish to see impacts logged over a specific timeframe must use the 'Givepulse Hours' filter to generate this data. Impact tag alone is not enough filtering.