Main Street Sites has made major improvements in our support for secure web pages.  Previously only things like order pages and payment pages used a secure connection.  Other pages, like your home page or class schedule page, did not.  Now all Main Street Sites pages can use a secure SSL connection.  To make this possible we have obtained SSL certificates for all active customer website domains.  We recommend that all customers activate this feature for their account(s) by following the directions below.*  
 

Website customers

Please go to Website > Site Options > Settings and set the "SSL Setting" to "Active" to turn on this feature.  There may be a brief period during which your site is unresponsive while the new settings take effect. Let us know if your site doesn't begin working properly a few minutes after you change this setting.  If you find the setting is disabled it means we are having trouble generating your SSL certificate for you. Please contact customer support to get it set up.
 

Standalone Back Office customers

If you are using "app.mainstreetsites.com" to link to your MSS pages then you have already been upgraded. All of your MSS pages are now using a secure connection.  

If you are using a CNAME to connect to Back Office (such as, "app.your-domain-name.com") please go to Website > Site Options > Settings and set the "SSL Setting" to "Active" to turn on this feature.  There may be a brief period when your pages are unresponsive while the new settings take effect. Let us know if your pages don't begin working properly a few minutes after you change this setting.  If you find the setting is disabled it means we are having trouble generating your SSL certificate for you. Please contact customer support to get it set up.

Please let us know if you have any questions.  If all went well you should now see a nice "Secure'" lock icon in front of all of your MSS pages.

* future versions of the Chrome browser will highlight any pages that don't use a secure connection as "not secure." We are rolling out these improvements so you can avoid running into this issue.

Enrollment confirmations now support up to 5 different versions (one primary and 4 alternates). 

When you send enrollment confirmations, we'll show you the subject line once you make your selection (primary or alternate 1-4).  You can use the subject line to make sure you have picked the right version -- of course, make sure you update the subject lines at Communications > Settings > Notification Templates in advance so this trick will work.

• Improvements to holiday processing
• Improvements to recitals conflict handling
• Fix for appointment popup summary
• Improvements to make-up and demo scheduling to prevent duplicates
• More terms added for user messages
• Updated YouTube URL parsing for new Media Vault items
• Added sorting options to the grid in Manage > Classes
• Audit trail tracking added for make-ups, demos, semesters, prices, coupons and auto-apply fees/discounts.

User queries now support being sorted into categories. You can create new categories by clicking on the new "Manage Categories" link at Reports > User Queries > Saved Queries.  When you create a new query you can indicate the category to which it belongs.

• You can now select "Add Payment Request" for a given account in the Manage > Accounts list to generate a payment request for that account.
• You can now select "Attendance by Class" for a given class in Manage > Classes to record online attendance for that class.
• You can now select "Attendance Sheet" for a given class in Manage > Classes to generate an Attendance Sheet report for that class.

User emails can now be sent to a list of selected accounts instead of just one at a time.

• From Manage > Accounts you can now select a list of accounts and choose the "Send User Email to Selected.." option to send an email to those accounts.
• From Manage > Classes you can now select a list of classes and chose the "Send User Email to Selected.." option to send an email to the accounts enrolled in those classes.
• From Manage > Enrollments you can now select a list of enrollments and chose the "Send User Email to Selected..." option to send an email to the accounts associated with those enrollments.

A new image browser has been added to the "Insert Image" popup window.  This new feature lets you browse all of your Image Images and all of the Image Repository images.  Select any image in the browser to add it to the current page or user email.

See the images below for an example:

The "How did you hear about us" field in the demo scheduler can now be made required or hidden.  The field has been added to the field manager at Setup > Advanced > Field Manager (on the Demo Scheduler tab).

Two new options were added for scheduling make-ups for enrolled families. The new options are:

• Require an enrollment in the same semester for the selected student
• The class type of the make-up must match the class type of an enrolled class for the student

These restrictions will only be in effect if your customers log in to use the make-up scheduler.  This allows us to check their enrollment history before allowing them to schedule a make-up.

The new settings can be found at Setup > Settings > Make-Up Scheduler Settings.

A new prorating option has been added to registration pricing.  You can now prorate your prices based on the number of class meetings missed in the current month.  In this scenario, you would set your prices to the full monthly amount. Then, as the month progresses, the price would be reduced for each missed class.  The price would then reset back to the full amount after the last class in the month.  Prorating would begin again in the following month.

Prorating features can be found at Setup > Settings > Registration Pricing.

• Updates made to moving recurring appointments -- recurring appointments with fees attached will now only prevent the move if they occur after the date the first moved appointment
• Improvements made to the calendar for narrow screen widths
• Improvements to the logic that automatically removes the starter text from user emails when they are sent
• Fix made to coupon enrollment history restriction feature

You can now track whether or not materials have been distributed to your students.  Materials tracking can be turned on at Setup > Settings > Class Settings.  Once activated, you will see a "Materials Received" checkbox when adding or editing an enrollment.  At any time, you can show materials tracking in online attendance and in the attendance sheet reports.  In either case, use the "include" options to display the "Materials Received" column.

• Enrollment notes lengthened
• More responsiveness updates
• Pages that support different modes in the back end will now save the mode last used
• Updates made to user query filters
• Content areas added for Contact Us to support conversion tracking
• Users can now select individual accounts when generating fees
• Improvements made to the custom forms handler
• Improvements made to the display of holidays