If you’ve ever clicked Send and then had to wait—watching your screen sit there with no real sense of how long it would take—this update is for you. Who this change helps (and who it doesn’t) What’s new: your screen is no longer tied up Previously, sending Yahrzeit emails could lock up your screen while … Continue reading Batch Yahrzeit Reminders: Streamline Email Sending Now
Discover the New Enhancements to Yahrzeit Queries In the realm of yahrzeit management, efficiency and accuracy are key. Today, we’re excited to reveal enhancements to yahrzeit queries that promise just that. Traditionally, many of you have utilized the yahrzeit query to search by the name of the deceased or an observer, and more often for … Continue reading New Features in Yahrzeit Query System
ShalomCloud offers quite a few ways to handle Yahrzeits. The point of this post is a new way — a simple, all-in list of Yahrzeits, their observers, and the respective dates of the next occurrence. Rather than providing that background in this article, we encourage the reader to visit https://blog.shalomcloud.com/?s=Yahrzeit . There, you will see … Continue reading New — Complete and Fast List of Yahrzeits
Perhaps you’ve made use of the ShalomCloud Combo Bimah List. This change is an additional nugget of information that you may add to that list. If there is a relationship, where the related party is also deceased, this change allows you to denote that fact with an acronym, or phrase, of your choice. Could be … Continue reading Add Your Preferred Phrase to the Yahrzeit Combo Bimah List
Announcing two new features for yahrzeit emails. First — until now, the recipient of the reminders saw only the email address of the sender. So, for example, if you logged in as admin@yourtemple.org, that’s all the recipient saw. Now, the name associated with that user will appear, alongside the email. Thus, for example, assuming that … Continue reading Two New Features for Yahrzeit Emails
This is purely an incremental change, and one of modest scope. Nonetheless, it’s something that a few of our customers and prospects have suggested. Let’s say that you want to see the Yahrzeits related to a person or a family. Heretofore, there were basically two way: Way I: Go to Queries -> Yahrzeits. Enter any … Continue reading An additional way to see Yahrzeits
Directly from the Yahrzeit query screen, you may now print envelopes for Yahrzeit notifications. The envelopes come out in alphabetical order, one per person. As is the case for printing envelopes from the family query, you may choose to print your synagogue’s return address on the upper left of the envelope, or leave that area … Continue reading Envelopes for Yahrzeit notifications.
This enhancement includes the ability to do a yahrzeit query by attribute. To review — you can assign attributes (a.k.a. “tags”) to individuals. For example, you may wish to assign an attribute of “Snail Mail Only,” or “Send yahrzeit notifications by surface mail” to some congregants who have expressed that preference. Until now, there was … Continue reading Yahrzeit Query by Attribute
We have a couple of yahrzeit enhancements that may be quite useful, depending on your situation. yahrzeit enhancements 1: Date range change Until now, when you keyed a date range to pull yahrzeit lists, that range had to be entirely in the future. If you entered a date in the past, the system assumed you … Continue reading Yahrzeit Enhancements
If in your congregation, it is common for one person to receive multiple Yahrzeit reminder letters in the same period, you can now use the tabular format. In this format, the Yahrzeits appear in neat columns, in the middle of the page. In contrast, in the traditional format, the Yahrzeits were in-line with the rest … Continue reading Yahrzeit Letters – Tabular Format
