There were a ton of new releases this past week (even though it was a short week — Happy 4th of July 🎇!).

To start, we launched two massive improvements to posts.

First, we launched templated posts. You can now create post templates to ensure that all of your announcements and posts are professionally written and are quick to draft from previous versions. Write post templates for days off, early dismissal, sick children, or anything else you find yourself frequently writing. We're excited to see what kind of templates you start creating. Share them with us if you want us to add them to the template library that is coming soon.

Next, we launched custom posts. We have had a lot of requests for different post types such as for medications, allergies, daily checks, specific activities, and more. You can now create your own custom posts, select your own emoji, and build your own form to fill out as you create them. We hope that this will allow you to also change the wording and branding that goes with the post types you want to support.

Another big launch this week was bulk payment charging. We heard that many folks end up manually charging parents outside of the normal billing cycle for different incidentals and at the request of parents. We made the process much easier with bulk payments. Select which families you want to charge, how much, and with which payment method, and they will be billed directly through the dashboard.

Releases

• Templated posts — you can now create post templates that auto-populate for you on web

• Custom posts — create your own post types and customize the fields and data you collect with them

• Bulk payments — Can charge multiple parents' directly through the website at once

Improvements

• Post filters are more clear on web

• Able to choose to download original or updated data on enrollment

• Improved document creation flow and speed

• Easier to add siblings on web

• Improved chat search on web

• Attendance summary buttons on students tab are now clickable (and you can filter by attendance status)

• More descriptive messaging on push notifications from teachers to families

• Able to copy and send sign up links to guardians directly from the mobile app

• New setting toggle to hide staff last names

• Better photo sharing from android devices

Fixes

• Fixed issue with overlapping fields being created on documents with shortcuts

• Fixed infinite loading spinner when creating multiple schedules too quickly

• Fixed documents with no fields not showing up if share setting was "view"

• Fixed crash with photo sharing too many large photos at once on Android phones