2017 Product Updates

Here are all the little and big things we're doing to make GroupVitals even better  👍

December 2017

🐜Admins and staff will no longer receive the attendance change notification email for a group if it's attendance hasn't changed since the last one you received.

🚀The metrics shown on a group's card now default to the current day, so you can see the freshest metrics.

🐜Churches with more than 50K+ records in F1 now more reliably have all of their people added to GV during the first time sync.

November 2017

🐜Fixed an issue where sending a mass email Message would sometimes get stuck for some users.

🐜F1 family ID's are now assigned to new people records when they are added as a guest to attendance or as an account team member.

October 2017

🚀You can now easily see a snapshot of someone's personal attendance near the bottom of their profile page. Each role a person has will show a separate attendance timeline 💯 

🚀 You'll now find the attendance setting in your add-ons area. This will allow us to more easily roll out new features specifically for churches with attendance turned on 👊

🐜We fixed a bug that caused group admins and apprentice leaders to be pushed to F1 as leaders of a group instead of members.

🐜We fixed a bug that causes some groups and people to not update their information in F1 when updated within GroupVitals.

🚀Your coaches can now receive the following email notifications:

🚀  If a leader leaves a comment on their group attendance, you can now easily reply back via the button below their note.

🚀 If you have group "hosts" then you can now see them listed on the group card on your internal list of groups.

🐜 We fixed the broken link to view a group's profile in the notification for when a group's attendance rate has dropped.

🐜We fixed a bug the prevented coaches from receiving an email with the note taken on attendance for groups within their span of care.

🚀We've updated our map with fresh icons and also replaced the empty circles that represent groups that want to hide their exact location with the same new group icons. For security, users cannot zoom-in enough to tell which address the group is at. The group address is still hidden on their public profile page.

🚀We gave GroupVitals a fresh, yet subtle, face lift across the entire product to bring it into 2017 and beyond. You'll notice that it's more mobile friendly, has brighter colors, flatter elements, more spacing, fresh icons and more. 

🚀Coaches are now listed as a recipient of emails sent to a group within their span of care. They are always listed first and identified as the coach and can be removed from the email by the person sending it.

🚀Coaches now have several more notifications about groups in people within their span of care. They can now toggle ON:

- when attendance has been taken for a group - - when a group is set to active/inactive - - when a group is set to full - - when a group ends - - when a group is archived - - when a guest is added/removed - - when a prospect is assigned/removed - - when a member added/removed - - when a group admin is added/removed - - when an apprentice leader is added/removed - - when a leader is added/removed from a group - - when a leader created their GroupVitals account

🚀You can now send an email message to all groups that have the open or closed status. Just select the group status segment dropdown to get started.

🚀You can now toggle ON/OFF the automatic notification email that gets sent to people who are added into a group as a new member in the GroupFinder settings area.

September 2017

🚀On your leader's list page, you now have a search filter that will let you see all of your leaders without a coach.

🚀All attendance text message reminders will not include the link to take attendance in the first message. In other words, it will no longer ask if their group met and require them to respond with a yes or no.

🚀You can now add the list of group models and life stages as a search filter option in the GroupFinder all via the GroupFinder settings area.

🚀The email a person receives when they are placed into a group has been updated to include the group's start date and meeting time.

August 2017

🚀On the GroupFinder page, if you have the Need Help? form enabled, then you now have the option to have people either fill out the default short form or if they click on the Need Help, they can be taken to your general group signup form (if enabled). This will help you gather more information from prospects if you need it.

🚀On the groups list page, you can now filter by open, closed and full groups. You'll find this under the filter dropdown labeled "group options." 

🚀The email that gets sent to prospects who fill out the contact form for a group on the GroupFinder has been modified so that the words "join" or "joining" no longer appear, which keeps the intent of their signup more neutral for all churches. 

🚀On the group signup page on the GroupFinder, we've added the text "Please submit for one person at a time." to the top of the signup form to help prevent couples from filling out the form for two people at one time. 

🚀People who have the "host" role can now toggle on text message alerts for group attendance and their group's GroupFinder form submission. 8/23/17

🚀On the main groups page search filters, we added "%" to the attendance slider to make it more clear it filters by attendance percentage. We also updated the Active filter label to Active Rate, so that it's more clear as well. 

🚀For the automatically email that gets sent to GroupFinder prospects, the reply-to email is now the staff member who's responsible for prospects. 

🚀The GroupFinder map now zooms in a little bit more to help churches who had lots of circles overlapping each other. The circles represent groups that have chosen to hide their exact location. 

You'll now see all the tags associated with a person on the left sidebar of their profile. 

July 2017

🚀When you set an end date for a group, you now have the option to choose if you'd like the group to automatically be made inactive or archived when it ends.

 🐜We worked on a lot of small behind the scenes bugs to make it a better experience for you.

June 2017

🚀 We cleaned up the group's profile page by moving all action links/buttons to the top-right sub-menu drop-down.

🚀When you search for a group by name on your groups list page, it will now include archived groups in the search results. 

🚀 Group leaders and group admins can now download their groups roster via the top-right menu button on their group's profile page. 

🚀On the groups list page, you'll now only see active and inactive groups by default and those statuses are pre-checked under the group status drop-down in the search filters.