Announcements

ScoutManage 5.0

Saturday, 19 April 2008

ScoutManage would like to announce our latest in a long history of major enhancements to our service. ScoutManage 5.0 provides additional long-requested features, performance improvements, and usability improvements.

Among the most requested new features is File Space. Each ScoutManage account now comes standard with 5MB of storage space that can be used for pictures and documents to share with members of your unit. Files may be attached to calendar entries, and pictures of scouts can be added to each scout's home page. In the future, we'll be providing options for additional storage capacity, along with additional features making use of shared files.

Another highly requested feature is Scout Accounts. Scout accounts allow you to setup individual "bank accounts" for each scout and/or leader. Many units use scout accounts to allocate fund raising dollars among those who contributed the most, allowing scouts to apply money they raised towards event fees and dues owed throughout the year. A complete history of money added to and used from each scout account is maintained, along with reports summarizing funds available.

Many smaller improvements are also included, such as the much asked for improved date entry, scout ID tracking, daily recurring calendar events, finer granularity for fee assignment, leadership position history reports, and more.

Our most exciting new feature is support for the OpenId single sign-on standard. With OpenId, you can create a single user sign-on at one of many different OpenId providers, and use that login on many different websites. With OpenId, you can login to ScoutManage using your AOL screen name, WordPress blog login, Flickr ID, SmugMug, etc. The number of sites supporting OpenId is growing daily. With OpenId and VeriSign's Personal Identity service, you can setup two-factor login authentication easily and cheaply. Two-factor authentication makes use of a hardware device to ensure that your login and password can not be stolen and misused. Already have a PayPal keychain token? Use it with ScoutManage as well and keep your account safe and secure.

But the biggest improvement to ScoutManage is under the covers. We've dramatically improved our database management. This has increased ScoutManage performance and reliability. Additionally, it has given us improved scaling that we need to support the high growth rate we are currently experiencing.

New Color Scheme

Monday, 31 December 2007

By popular demand, we have updated our color scheme. The improved color scheme includes more vibrant, active colors and easier to read menus. Unlike the previous color scheme, this scheme should look good on most monitors and browser combinations. The previous color scheme had a greenish/yellowish tinge that didn't look good on some monitor/browser pairs.

Scout Data Import

Tuesday, 14 August 2007

ScoutManage is proud to announce the creation of a new utility to make migrating data from other applications to ScoutManage easy and painless. Now, you can import information from any of the following applications:

• TroopMaster
• PackMaster
• ScoutTrack (Cub Scouts)
ScoutTrack (Boy Scouts)

In addition, if you are using another tool to manage your Scout data (such as an Excel spreadsheet) you can import that information to ScoutManage as well using our CSV/TSV import mechanism.

New Customer Support Mechanism

Tuesday, 24 July 2007

ScoutManage is proud to announce the addition of our new improved ScoutManage Support System. With this new system, customers can enter support questions online or via e-mail, then track the status of their request from their account on the support website. The new system allows easier tracking of replies and clarification requests, providing more complete comprehensive customer information to our representatives allowing them to provide better service to our customers.

ScoutManage announces the ScoutManage Wiki

Monday, 09 July 2007

ScoutManage is proud to announce the addition of the ScoutManage Wiki to the lineup of features available to users of ScoutManage.

The ScoutManage Wiki provides:

• Online documentation for ScoutManage
• Frequently Asked QuestionsTips, hints, and troubleshooting ideas
• Content by ScoutManage and the ScoutManage user community

The best part of the Wiki is the distributed nature of the content. Content is provided from the entire user community, allowing a variety of inputs and perspectives to increase the quality of information provided.

Whether you're looking for an answer to a question, or have an idea you want to share, check out the ScoutManage Wiki. Help make ScoutManage better for everyone!

ScoutManage announces new Version 4.0

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

ScoutManage would like to announce our largest upgrade in ScoutManage history.

The upgrade starts out with a major redesign of the user experience, providing substantially better user workflow. Improved menu structure makes Most features within 2-clicks from any other page. Improved data entry, and form design continues the usability improvement. New color scheme and page layout rounds out the changes.

Next, major new features have been added. Features include Blogs support, improved reports, recurring calendar entries, advanced event management, and improved member and family home pages.

This upgrade was provided free of charge to all new and existing ScoutManage users. ScoutManage, and all updates and upgrades, are provided as part of our low cost, annual subscription fee of $34.95.

For more information on ScoutManage, or to start a free 30 day trial, please visit www.scoutmanage.com.