Welcome to The Raiser's Edge 7.84. Before you begin to use the program, please take a moment to review the following notes, which highlight some of the new features and enhancements. It is important to share this information with all Raiser's Edge users in your organization. A shortcut to the Release Notes for The Raiser's Edge has been added to your desktop, so you can access these notes at any time.

    ResearchPoint Integration

    • Users of the standalone version of ResearchPoint (not integrated with Blackbaud’s Constituent Record Management system) and The Raiser’s Edge 7.84 or higher can integrate the two applications and simplify constituent management duties between the two application databases.

    • The integration feature located in ResearchPoint links records included in both databases and synchronizes the information included on both records.

    • You can also open Raiser’s Edge records from ResearchPoint and ResearchPoint records from The Raiser’s Edge.  For more information, see the Prospect Data Entry Guide.

    Planned Gift Tracking

    • With the optional module PlannedGiftTracker, in addition to cash gifts, you can now apply payments with a gift type of Stock/Property, Gift-in-Kind, or Other to your planned gifts. To apply a gift to a planned gift from the planned gift record, select Gift, Add Revenue Realized from Planned Gift from the menu bar.

    • On the planned gift record, the new Realized Revenue tab displays all payments applied to the planned gift. At the bottom of the tab, the Total Realized field displays the sum of the revenue amounts associated with the planned gift.  For more information about PlannedGiftTracker, see the Planned Gift Tracking Guide.

    Reports

    • With the optional module PlannedGiftTracker, you can now include the Total Realized column in the Planned Gifts Report. This column displays the sum of the revenue amounts received and applied to each planned gift. For more information about the Planned Gifts Report, see the Reports Guide.

    eReceipts

    • You can now configure The Raiser’s Edge to send gift receipts by email without having NetSolutions or Blackbaud NetCommunity installed. In Mail, you can use the eReceipts tab to create a Microsoft Word merge template to use for the PDF file you send as an email to your clients. For more information, see the Mail Guide.

    Windows Server 2008

    • The Raiser’s Edge 7.84 is now compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

    The Raiser's Edge User Guides

    • The Raiser's Edge user guides are no longer installed on your workstation. However, you can still access the guides from the User Guides page within the program, as well as the Blackbaud website. If you experience problems accessing the guides, create a case on the Blackbaud Customer Support Case Central website.