MSS customers testing the drop-ins feature have now scheduled over 500 600 drop-ins!  Thank you to everyone who has been providing feedback on the new drop-ins feature. 

Here are the latest drop-in updates:

• Support for drop-ins has been added to the Account Statement Report, Payment Summary Report, Daily Schedule Report, and Teacher Schedule Report
• Drop-ins are now supported as an "include" option for recipients in Send Message
• Drop-ins are now supported in User Queries (in the Payment Allocations, Drop-in Attendance and Drop-ins query scopes)

Let us know if you'd like help adding Drop-ins to your site.

Thanks to everyone who has been providing feedback on our new drop-in features. Here is the latest round of updates:

• "Drop-in" links can now be added to class schedules by updating the layout for the schedule. There are two options for this -- one is a "drop-in" link and the other shows a few upcoming dates as links (plus a "more.." link).  This can be added to you class layout by going to Website > Settings > Named Layouts.  The text used for the "drop-in" link can be changed in Setup > Make-ups, Demos & Drop-Ins > Drop-in Settings.
• Drop-in links are also now shown on the individual class details page in the class meetings section.
• Drop-in reminder emails are now active. This can be turned on by going to Setup > Make-ups, Demos & Drop-Ins > Drop-In Settings
• The display of drop-ins orders in Manage > Activity > Orders has been improved so you can now see details of the drop-ins from the list of orders.
• Drop-ins are now supported in the Manage > Orders export formats.
• When using drop-ins in a catalog layout, the prefix for the column will no longer display if the drop-in link is not active for that class.
• Drop-in links can also be displayed in the calendar by updating the calendar format at Settings > Settings > Class Settings.

We have released some updates for the new drop-ins module:

• Drop-ins have been added as an option to the Attendance Sheet Report
• Issues with the date filters in Manage > Drop-Ins have been fixed
• "Drop-in Scheduled" emails are now being sent to teachers when drop-ins are scheduled on your customer-facing pages (i.e. when drop-ins are purchased on your website)

This week we rolled out our new Drop-in Scheduler feature set.  With this feature you can offer your customers paid drop-in classes.  

Drop-ins are very similar to make-ups and demos in how they work.   You can set aside slots for drop-ins in your semester classes. You can also use open enrollment seats and marked absences for drop-ins.  Drop-ins can be added from the back-end and from your customer-facing pages.  

The important difference with the drop-in scheduler is that you can set prices for your drop-ins.  Price sets for dropins are created at Setup > Make-Ups, Demos & Drop-Ins > Drop-In Pricing.  Settings for your drop-ins can be found at Setup > Make-Ups, Demos & Drop-Ins > Drop-In Settings.

See the Drop-in Scheduler Overview for details on the Drop-In Scheduler.  See How to Add Drop-in Scheduler to get started.

Note: this feature is not yet fully complete. For example, updates are still pending for the Attendance Sheet Report, Send Message, Transaction Summary and Detail Reports, Manage > Orders and drop-in reminder notifications.  We will complete these lower priority items in the coming weeks.
 

Taxes are now supported in the Appointment Fee Generator.  Each appointment type can now be marked as being taxable as needed in Setup > Appointments > Appointment Types.  In the Appointment Fee Generator you can indicate if you would like taxes generated as part of the current fee generation run.   Taxes can then be generated for each of the applicable tax types.  

Note: be sure to select a fee type for taxes at Setup > Advanced > Fee Types before using this feature.  You can add additional fee types from here if needed as well.

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).