Release Notes

ChMeetings 2025.7 – March 13, 2025

IMPROVEMENTS

Accounting

Payee Improvements

1. Payee Address: You can now add an address to payee records
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2. Set The Payee In Import Rules: When importing transactions, you can now set the Payee automatically via the import rule.
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Budget Improvements

You can now select any month to begin or end your budget with.

App Builder

Layouts For Blog Posts And Upcoming Events

When building your Member Portal, you can now choose the layout of your Blog or Upcoming Events cards. This way you can display content vertically or horizontally. For the Upcoming Events card, you can also choose whether to show event images, if available when choosing the horizontal layout.

ChMeetings 2025.6 – February 25, 2025

IMPROVEMENTS

ACCOUNTING

Improved Reconciliation feature

We made several updates to the Reconciliation feature:

You can now choose which transactions to reconcile.
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Reconciled transactions can no longer be edited or deleted, ensuring greater accuracy.++
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We have added an option to undo reconciliation. Undoing a reconciliation will affect all the transactions that have been reconciled together.
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In the Accounts section, under the corresponding account, each transaction has a reconciliation status that now clearly displays as either “Reconciled” or “Unreconciled”.
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Check numbers are now listed with your transactions

When viewing transactions within your Accounts section, you can now see the Check Number corresponding to specific transactions, within the list. You can enable or disable this from the Columns option.

BRANDED APP

Group Leaders can now also start a chat from the Member View

Group Leaders can now go to Group Chat and initiate a conversation without needing to switch to the Admin View.

More flexibility when adding media to the Media Library

You can now choose a combination of linked or uploaded media within the same library item. Previously, you could add an item only using linked or uploaded media, not a combination of the two methods. So, for example, now you can choose to upload a .pdf and link a video to the same media item. Previously you could either upload or link both.

NEW LANGUAGEE

Portuguese (PT)

Now you can use Portuguese in both the Portugal and Brazil versions. You can switch your overall account language from Settings > Account Settings > General Settings. You can change your individual account language from under Settings > Change Language.

ChMeetings 2025.5 – February 12, 2025

IMPROVEMENTS

Add The Amount In Words To Financial Statements

When emailing financial statements you can now add a merge field called [AMOUNT_IN_WORDS] which inserts the total amount given, in words. The amount will be inserted in the language that you have set as the main account language under Settings > Account Settings > General Settings > Member Portal Language. The field will also respect the currency configured in the same area of your Account Settings.

Accounting Improvements

Record Gifts In Kind As $0 Transactions

When your church receives gifts in kind that you want to record in your accounting, you can now do so using a $0 income transaction. This helps keep track of gifts in kind without disrupting your financial records. You can use the transaction notes or memo section to record any details.

Please keep in mind; however, that, if your church receives such gifts often and/or their value is significant, you may need to record their market value, instead of $0. Please consider consulting a professional accountant for advice on the legislation that applies to your church.

Transaction Terminology Improvements

To add clarity to transaction types, we changed terminology as follows:

Expense transactions are now labeled as Expense/Charge – This means that you add such a transaction for situations when money goes out of your account, such as when you transfer money, make a payment or get charged for something automatically, including using a debit card attached to your account, as the case may be.
Income transactions are now labeled as Income/Deposit – This means that you add such a transaction when you receive money into your account, through any means including receiving transfers from contributors, receiving payments for any paid services you offer, money coming from grants, or cash you deposit into the church account.

ChMeetings 2025.4 – February 6, 2025

IMPROVEMENTS

Bulk Delete Transactions

You can now delete several transactions in one go. Just select the transactions and click Delete. Keep in mind that deleted transactions cannot be restored.

Predefined Online Giving Amounts

Givers can enter a custom amount that they want to give; but are now also able to select from a predefined amount. You can also enable and customize a minimum amount to be given.

Add Spotify To Your Social Media Card

We added Spotify to the Social Media Card in the Member Portal Builder. Just enter your Spotify link to allow people to find your church on this platform.

ChMeetings 2025.3 – January 30, 2025

IMPROVEMENTS

More granular Accounting permissions:

Now you can set access permissions for different sections of the Accounting module. The full list of permissions is: View, Manage, Reports, Print Checks, and Reconciliation.

More page options in the App Builder

Share pages: Now you can share direct links to pages so members can open them directly with the ChMeetings app.

Page styles: You can now style app pages with a custom background color, and custom margins that determine the width of your content on-screen.

Better user experience on the All Contributions screen

We improved the All Contributions screen to make the Print Statement, Email Statement, Export, and Columns buttons more visible and more accessible.

ChMeetings 2025.2 – January 23, 2025

MINOR FEATURE

Accounting Subcategories

You can now create subcategories within existing accounting categories for more granular transaction tracking.
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Subcategories are available when adding transactions, allowing for precise categorization.
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All reports now include subcategory data for enhanced financial analysis.
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IMPROVEMENTS

Role-Based Access to Accounting

Accounting access has been updated so that Admins and Owners can allow users to View or Manage the Accounting Module without having access to People data. This means you can, for example, create an Accountant Role, and only grant them View and Manage access to Accounting.

Contribution Attachments (paid feature, accessible with all paid plans)

Churches with a paid account can now attach files (e.g., checks, receipts) anytime when adding a new Contribution. The maximum file size is 5MB.

Calendar View Filtering

Members and guests can now filter events based on their access permissions.The calendar view will display only the calendars which contain events they have access to. They are also now filterable by calendar.

ChMeetings 2025.1 – January 14, 2025

MINOR FEATURE

Edit Account Info

Everyone with a ChMeetings user account can now edit their account info by clicking their name at the top of the main menu, and then selecting Edit Account Info. Here is where users can edit their account email address, and username. The account password is required to save the changes.

IMPROVEMENTS

Group Chat (Branded App Exclusive)

The feature is out of Beta.
The group conversation limit has increased from 50 to 200 members.
Members now see how many unread conversations they have. This is shown right on the Conversations menu item.
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Conversation members can now react to messages with Like, Love, and Pray.
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Disabled conversations are now clearly distinguished in your list, using a dedicated icon.
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We also fixed some minor issues noticed after the first release, including the time zone issues.

Builder

Instagram Video is now available within the Video Card.
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TikTok is now available to add to your Social Media Card, where you can add links to a variety of social media networks.
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Automated Tasks

You can now filter tasks by Zip Code.
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The Newcomer and New Event Attendee tasks now support multiple actions.
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When adding people to a specific group using an automated task, you can now choose to notify the Group Leaders.
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People

Now you can update the Marital Status field using the More Actions > Bulk Update option in your People list.
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Additionally, you can filter people by Zip Code from under the People > Advanced Search feature.
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Contributions

When sending contribution statements, you can now select the statement email sender as either the main church email or your account email.

Reports

There is a new Ministries and Groups Statistical Report which shows you a breakdown of each Ministry and Group This repotr is available with all paid ChMeetings plans.

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