Release Note Version – 1.9.7

Admin Role

 Enhancements

1. Drop-in module is introduced in the application. Manage attendance, billing, and payment processing for your Drop-in Center from one single page.
2. Program/Class Enrollment Capacity Management has also been introduced. Now, you may edit the capacity of programs and use dynamic slot allotment to schedule children.
3. Delete/Deactivate function has been added in Staff module. Now, delete or deactivate staff using Action menu on Staff page.
4. Fix (Attendance) from Schedule for staff payroll purposes is introduced. Fix staff attendance from their schedule using Staff Payroll Report. Original attendance entries are preserved under Staff Payroll Fixes report.
5. On iCare Support Forum, design of the Status column is enhanced for a better user-experience.
6. Share feature has been introduced on iCare Support Forum; admins may now share the help articles with various users using the Share button at the bottom of the help articles.
7. Batch Void feature has been introduced on Transactions page in Accounting module. You may now void multiple transaction entries using Void Transaction option under Action menu.
8. Payment button has been added in iCare Lobby for parents to make Credit Card and ACH payments.
9. Balance Offsetting Payment feature has been introduced on Balances page under Action menu. Using this feature, you may write-off the balance of the selected payer.
10. Right-click event on Attendance page is enhanced. Now, right-click an attendance entry and view Lobby Messages, Lobby Questions, and Admin Notes for the selected child on one single pop-up.
11. In Direct Deposits (Recurring Payments) report, inline editing in for Date and Amount column is implemented.
12. Room name column is added on Step - 3 of Settings page to enhance the usability.
13. Ratio Compliance and Staff Scheduling Needs reports have been introduced in iCare Report Center under Staff tab. Use these reports to analyze the efficiency of staff scheduling for any given period.
14. Emergency Cards report is introduced under Children tab in Report Center.
15. Email Open Tracking report has also been introduced. Track the Open/Click status of the emails sent to parents and staff from the application.

 Bug Fixes

  General

1. Print preview was not responding for any report.
2. Direct Deposit (Recurring Payments) accounts were not being charged automatically on their Next Processing Date. Payments are now processing on time.
3. Emails were not forwarding using the Send Email option under Action menu.
4. Unexpected error while logging into the iCare application has been resolved.

  Home

1. Adding an event in the Calendar section was giving an unexpected error.

  Children

1. Few children were not deleting from Children page using Delete/Deactivate option under Action menu.
2. Credit card Payments were not processing for a few user accounts.

  Child Profile Page

1. Contact Names and Lobby Passwords are now editable.
2. Contacts list under Contacts tab was not appearing in the correct format. Now, the contacts are sorted in the following order;

• Main Contact
• Contacts that can pick-up
• Contacts that cannot pick-up

3. Changing relationships of the contacts was not responding. Relationships are now updating correctly.
4. Under Ledger tab, using the search box for filtering Child Name or Payer Name was not responding.
5. Changing the Lobby Passwords to more than 10 characters was not saving the changes.

  Staff

1. Staff were not appearing on Staff page for a few user accounts. Now, all staff are appearing fine.

  Attendance

1. Sorting order of the Attendance grid has been modified. Attendance entries are sorted according to the date and child name.
2. Under Children/Staff filter, filtering for Rooms was giving an unexpected error.
3. Checking out children was giving an unexpected error. Check-in/Check-out is now working fine.
4. Editing or removing an attendance entry was not saving the changes.
5. Checking out children or staff after Center Closing Time was automatically updating the Closing Time in Time-out field.
6. On filtering for a past period, children with no attendance entries were also appearing in the list. Now, only children who have attendance for the selected period only appear in the filtered list.
7. Searching a child’s name and filtering the attendance for a custom range was giving an unexpected error.
8. Batch Check-in/out is now working fine.
9. Room column has been added back in the Attendance grid for a better usability.

  Accounting

    Balances

1. Navigating to a child’s profile page from Balances was redirecting to an error page.
2. Making payments for subsidy accounts was giving unexpected error.

    Transactions

1. Making payments for Subsidy accounts was giving an unexpected error.
2. On making a Check payment, Transaction grid was not responding.
3. Editing a transactions entry was not saving the changes for a few user accounts.
4. Transferring transactions from one contact to another was giving an unexpected error.

    Billing Grid

1. Single Payment Form (SPF) was not responding for a few user accounts.
2. While ending a bill for a date, End Date was changing automatically to a random date on saving.

  Report Center

1. Billing Rates report is now center specific for the special rate-chart based accounts.
2. Balances report was not responding for a few user accounts.

Parent Role

 Enhancements

1. No major enhancements.

 Bug Fixes

1. Parents were not able to log in to the iCare application on changing their passwords.

Teacher Role

 Enhancements

1. No major enhancements.

 Bug Fixes

1. On changing the age-based Room of a staff, children from the previous room were also appearing in Children list.
2. Crystal report (print preview) of the Enrollments report was showing enrollment details of all staff.
3. Removed Programs/Classes were appearing in the Program/Class list.
4. Print Preview on all reports was opening a blank screen.

iCare Lobby

 Enhancements

1. Payment button has been added in the Lobby for parents to make CC and ACH payments.

 Bug Fixes

1. Lobby page was freezing on checking out children. Check-in, check-out is now responding fine.
2. Undo Check-in was not responding on checking in to the lobby.