Enhancements
Jackrabbit is always improving and adding new features and enhancements. Review the latest
enhancements below and click at the bottom to see more enhancements.
# | Date | Enhancement | Description |
1 | 04/08/21 | Need Help with Anything Jackrabbit? | If you have been a Jackrabbit client for more than 3 months and have questions on enhancements posted here, or you just want to review your account with an expert, click the button to schedule a 45-minute checkup call now\! |
2 | 04/08/21 | Online Registration: Flexible Registration Fee Option | Now you can select which classes will have a Registration Fee for your families when they sign up online for classes. There are 2 settings required for this action to occur:
Note: The Online Registration Settings control if the Registration Fee is charged. When this is set to No, no registration fee will be processed even though the check box in the Class Record is checked. |
3 | 04/08/21 | Classic Menu Update: Classes (menu) > All Classes | All Classes (NEW) has replaced List All Classes under the Classes (menu). This is a terrific opportunity to start using the powerful grid, just like you do with the All Families and All Students grids\! The grid features the following:
Refer to Work with All Classes - View, Search, and Take Action for more details. |
4 | 03/25/21 | New Menu Updates: Families & Classes Menus | The Lead File is now easily accessible with one-click under the Families (menu). It was previously located under the Gear (icon) > Settings. Add Class has been added as an option under the Classes (menu). Select Add Class from the menu to open an Add Class window. Additionally, a class can be added from the All Classes grid using the Add New Class (icon). |
5 | 03/25/21 | Tax Enhancements: Tax Columns Shown on Receipts | Effective with today’s release, all ePayment and payment receipts will automatically include a tax column when taxes are applicable. Additionally, the Parent Portal > Billing & Payments > Recent Activi'); ty and Full Transaction History will show a tax column when the Show Tax setting is selected in the Parent Portal Settings > Fees & Payments section. |
6 | 03/25/21 | Grids: All Families & All Classes | Families (menu) – A Credit Card (CC) Expiration Date column has been added as an option to the All Families grid. To view this column in the grid, use the Column Menu (icon) > Columns and select the check box for CC Expiration Date. Classes (menu) – A Registration Start Date column has been added in the default view for the All Classes grid. In addition, Duration is an additional show/hide option in the grid. To see this column in the grid, use the Column Menu (icon) > Columns and select the check box for Duration. |
7 | 02/25/21 | Search ePayment Transactions: New Options Available | From the Transactions (menu) > Search, select one of the ePayment options along with a Transaction Date range:
Refer to Find Declined ePayment Transactions for more information. |
8 | 02/12/21 | New Menu Update: Classes (menu) > All Classes | The All Classes page, like All Families and All Students, provides you with a comprehensive view of all the classes in your organization. On the All Classes page you can do the following:
Refer to Work with All Classes - View, Search, and Take Action for additional information. |
9 | 01/27/21 | New Menu Update: Families (menu) > Email/Text Families | A menu item has been added to the New Simplified Menu under Families to give you an additional email option. Go to the Families (menu) > Email/Text Families to open the Email/Text Families page. This enables you to compose an email and select multiple criteria:
Refer to Email Families for more details. |
10 | 12/21/20 | Grid Updates: All Families, All Students, and All Classes | Column Search Added Send Message (icon) Updated |
11 | 12/21/20 | More Grid Updates: Action Buttons Moved | The Print and Export to Excel buttons have been modified and added to the drop-down list under the More (icon). In addition, the Refresh Grid (icon) has been moved. These actions, when available, are found above the grid to the right in the following: Class/Event Revenue Summary Report Related Help Center articles have been updated to reflect this information. |
12 | 12/03/20 | Grid Updates: Families (menu) > All Families and Students (menu) > All Students | Both the Print and Export to Excel options have been moved to one location under the More (icon). In addition, the Refresh Grid (icon) has been moved. These can all be found, above the grid to the right, next to the Send Message (icon). Refer to Work with All Families and Work with All Students for more details. |
13 | 12/03/20 | New Menu Update: Families (menu) > Quick Registration | The Quick Registration option has been added to the Families (menu) drop-down list. |
14 | 12/03/20 | Reports: Drop History Report | Under Search Criteria in the Drop History Report > Show Drops, you can now multi-select from the drop-down list. Refer to Drop History Report for more details. |
15 | 11/19/20 | Copy Classes: Copy Virtual Links & Resources | When you copy a single class or copy multiple classes at the same time, you now have the option to copy the class resources and the virtual class/video information. Refer to Copy Multiple Classes at Once and Copy a Single Class for more details. |
16 | 11/19/20 | Staff Portal: External Staff Portal Link Added | A Copy Portal Link button has been added to the top right of the Staff Portal Settings page. Click the link to save it to your computer\'s clipboard and paste the link in an email or text to share with your staff. |
17 | 11/19/20 | Multi-Class Discounts: Number of Discounts Increased to 20 | If you offer multi-class discounts to your families, the limit for the number of classes has been increased to 20. The previous limit was 6. Refer to Create/Add a New Class Discount Rule for more details. This will go into effect Dec 1 |
18 | 11/05/20 | Grids: Select Grid Data to Perform Mass Actions | There are 3 options to select grid data to perform mass actions on these pages: Families > All Families, Students > All Students, and Classes > All Classes (Beta).
Refer to Work with All Families - View, Search, and Take Action and Work with All Students - View, Search, and Take Action for more detailed information. |
19 | 10/22/20 | Grids: Column Functionality Updated | When you Save a Favorite'); in All Families, All Students, and All Classes (Beta) these column attributes are saved:
In addition, if you use the sorting function for columns, the column width will adjust automatically so you can see the sort and the sort number:
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20 | 10/01/20 | Grids: Additional Features Added | These features have been added to some grids:
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21 | 10/01/20 | Parent Portal: Charitable Donations Added to Select Reports | Now that Jackrabbit offers the ability to collect charitable donations from your families using the Parent Portal, you can also pull report information on the donations with these reports:
Refer to Accept Charitable Donations in Jackrabbit for more details. |
22 | 09/17/20 | Simplified Menu Beta Release | Introducing a new simpler menu for Jackrabbit\! We encourage you to give it a try and toggle the new menu on, located at the top right side of the page in Jackrabbit. Try it today\!
Refer to the Help Center article: Classic Menu to Simplified Menu - Where is it now? for more details on the new menu. Watch the Jackrabbit Menu Bar video for additional information. |
23 | 09/17/20 | Parent Portal: Collect Charitable Donations | Jackrabbit now offers the ability to collect charitable donations from your families in the Parent Portal.
Refer to Accept Charitable Donations in Jackrabbit for more information. |
24 | 09/17/20 | Grids: Column Multi-Sort Functionality | All Families and All Students now support mu'); lti-sorting for columns in the grid. For example, in All Families, click on the Family column header to sort the column in ascending order (A-Z), then click on the Status column title and the grid will be sorted by Family (A-Z) and all Active families will be listed first in the grid. Refer to Working with Grids in Jackrabbit for more details. |
25 | 09/03/20 | Parent Portal: Additional Class Makeup Settings Added | These additional makeup settings are now available:
In addition, once a makeup class has been scheduled in the Parent Portal, an automatic email is sent to the class instructor, primary family contact, and the Parent Portal user. Watch this video Parent Portal Absence & Makeup Settings for more details. |
26 | 08/06/20 | Reports: Fee Summary Report | Additional location selections have been added to the Fee Summary report. This enhancement provides multi-location businesses with additional options to align the report to their reporting needs. The location drop-down list now includes the following:
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27 | 07/23/20 | Staff Portal: Staff Members Can Add and Manage Resources | Now you can allow staff members, you have identified, to be able to manage resources for classes directly in their Staff Portal. Select a staff member and go to the Portal Settings (tab) and set Allow staff person to manage resources to Yes. Refer to Resources in Jackrabbit - Family, Student, Class, and Staff for more details. |
28 | 07/23/20 | Post Tuition Fees: Advanced Detection | Duplicate detection for Post Tuition Fees has been enhanced to detect both duplicate tuition fees and tuition fees set to post for a student who dropped a class in the same billing cycle. This is designed to save you time and effort when you go to post your tuition fees. Refer to Advanced Detection in Post Tuition Fees for more details. |
29 | 07/09/20 | Students Menu: All Students (New Menu Item) | You can see all your student data easier than ever before\! View enrollments, absences, skills, and so much more\! Sort, filter, and perform mass actions in the grid. Refer to Work with All Students - View, Search, and Mass Actions for more details. With this new enhancement, there is no longer a need for Students (menu) > Search or Students (menu) > List All Students, so they have been removed from the menu to simplify the list.
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30 | 06/25/20 | Families Menu: Families > Search Removed | All your family data is in one place in the Families (menu) > All Families. There is no longer a need for Families (menu) > Search, so we have removed it from the menu to simplify the list.
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31 | 06/25/20 | Web Registration Forms: Collapse/Expand Added to Policies & Agreements | Less scrolling during online registration for classes and events\! The Required Policies and Agreements sections in both the Web Registration and Online Events Registration forms have been updated to a collapse/expand format. The user just clicks + to expand the policy to review. This takes up less space on the form and means less time scrolling through the Policy Agreements |
32 | 06/18/20 | Parent Portal: Added Settings for Absences & Makeups | New controls have been added to the Parent Portal Absence & Makeup Settings to allow you to select the following:
Refer to Parent Portal Absence & Makeup Settings for more information. |
33 | 06/18/20 | Online Web Registration Form: Class Instructions Updated | Now you can enhance Class Instructions information in your Online Web Registration Form with the use of color fonts, rich text formatting, and styling (HTML supported). Refer to Online Web Registration Settings - General Settings for more details. |
34 | 06/18/20 | Payment (row menu list and button) updated | For Class Edition Only: To help provide clarity when you want to post a credit to an account, the row menu selection, in the All Families page, Accept Payment has been updated to Accept Payment/Post Credit. For Class and Care Editions: On a Family record, the Payment button has been updated to Payment/Credit. When selected, a Payment Transaction Entry page opens in a separate window so you can post a credit to the account. |
35 | 06/03/20 | Time Clock Menu Updated | Your process payroll workflow just got a little easier. The 1st step for processing payroll, Incomplete Time Entries, has been moved and is now located at the top of the menu. Staff Portal > Time Clock > Incomplete Time Entries. See the updated Time Clock menu |
36 | 05/21/20 | User login status more intuitive | A new button was added for you to set a User to a revoked status. This button is for staff members who no longer need access to Jackrabbit. Go to Tools> Manage Users and Permissions. Click on the User ID to see the User Details and the Revoke User ID button. Refer to the Jackrabbit Help Center article, User ID Login Status, for more information. |
37 | 05/21/20 | Allow parents to schedule absences & makeups in Parent Portal | Save those admin hours with the option to allow parents to submit absences and schedule makeups right from the Parent Portal. Go to Tools> Edit Ema'); il Templates, select 136 or 137 to send informative emails to your families so that they know how to do this\! Watch the video on how to set up this new feature |
38 | 05/14/20 | Email Student Schedules: Contact and Student names added | Contact and Student names are now showing in Email Student Schedules when sending a Student Schedule to a family when sending from the Student page. |
39 | 05/07/20 | NEW Mass drop classes | Jackrabbit users can now drop all classes for a student or family at one time from the student and family records. |
40 | 05/07/20 | Class Skills Worksheet: Display additional information | Class Skills Worksheets now have the option to display roll notes, allergies, and special needs. |
41 | 05/07/20 | Revenue Reconciliation Report: Add search criteria | Location and Payment Method search criteria options added to Revenue Reconciliation Reports. |
42 | 04/27/20 | Credits: Search and mass apply | With a new option under the Transactions menu, Find Unapplied Credits, you can now search and apply outstanding credits to multiple family accounts at one time. |
43 | 04/23/20 | Absences: Add multiple for student or family | Quickly submit absences for a period of time from the student or family record. |
44 | 04/14/20 | Staff Portal: Display Virtual Classes and Resources | Virtual Classes and Class Resources are now viewable in the Staff Portal. Note: All Resources that were previously shared to the Parent Portal will automatically be shown in the Staff Portal. New Resources added from this point forward should be shared to the Staff Portal as needed. |
45 | 04/09/20 | Classes Search: Resources criteria added | The Classes Search now includes search criteria for Resources to help quickly find classes that have resources added. |
46 | 04/07/20 | NEW All Families | The All Families page allows you to quickly and efficiently find the information you need, related to family accounts. Help article and video for more information |
47 | 04/02/20 | Skills: Display options for Staff Portal | Select which skills show in the Staff Portal based on whether they are class-assigned skills or student-assigned skills. |
48 | 04/02/20 | NEW Gender Customization | You now have the ability to edit your drop-down lists for gender to include more inclusive options in addition to male and female. |
49 | 03/27/20 | Sent Emails report: Add Contact Us correspondence | The Sent Emails report will now show correspondence sent by your customers to your organization through the Parent Portal\'s Contact Us form. This report is not retroactive and will only show correspondence from the parent portal going forward. |
50 | 03/27/20 | NEW Resource Management | A new Resources tab is now available on the Families, Students, Class, and Staff Records. Resources added to the Class records can be viewable from the Parent Portal. |