August 2024 Newsletter

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Blackthorn Events

Sales Tax/GST for Events Checkout

The updated Fees feature for Event checkout and Invoices allows Event organizers to collect the credit card processing fee separately from the total amount due and apply required taxes. Use the following links to learn more.

• New Functionality: Learn more about the updated functionality and new logic associated with the Fee object and related updates to the Company Info, Invoice, and Event Item objects.
• Checkout Process: Learn about the order of calculations and supported scenarios.
• Using Fees: Customize your Event with either tax-inclusive pricing or taxes calculated at checkout and create Event Items that are tax-exempt.
• Set Up Goods and Services Tax (GST) Fees: For countries that use GST, our step-by-step guide will walk you through setting up Fees and the Invoice/DocumentLink.

Table Manager

The Events Table Manager is a new Salesforce Lightning component located on the Event object and is designed to efficiently manage your Event’s table and seat assignments. It’s as easy as dragging and dropping Attendees into Table and Seat assignments. This user-friendly tool offers the following functionality.

• Intuitive Drag-and-Drop Interface: Easily assign Tables and Seats by dragging Attendees right where you want them.
• Efficiency: Reduce the effort required and the potential for errors in table and seat management. The tool can bulk-assign Seats and support up to 100 Tables with 10 Seats each.
• Improved User Experience: Visualize and alter Attendee seating as needed.
• Validations: Prevent users from exceeding established limits on assignments and changes between saves.

Click here to learn more about the new Table Manager.

Recurring Events and the Builder

• Event organizers can now create, publish, and manage Recurring Events with the Event Builder, streamlining the Event scheduling and management process.
• When a user clones an Event in the Event Builder, they can edit all Event fields before saving the cloned record. This functionality now matches the Event Wizard.
• Users can now configure and manage emails from within the Event Builder when editing existing Events. The “Emails” page includes the following components and functionality:
  • Email Templates Related List
    • Create new Email Templates
    • See Email Templates related to the current record.
  • Email Configuration
    • Includes the same functionality as the Event record page component (Send Emails From, Confirmation Email, Waitlisted Email, and Waitlisted Pending Email)
  • Send Email
    • Send emails instantly.
    • Includes the same functionality as the Event record page component (Send Emails From, Email Template, Attendee Filter, Total Attendees, Email List, Attendee Preview, Preview Email, and Send)

Mobile Check-in App

• Bug Fix
  • Android Only – Badges: Android Mobile Check-in app users can now click the TAKE PHOTO button in the Attendee’s Badge section to take a photo of the Attendee. Previously, users could not launch their device’s camera by clicking the TAKE PHOTO button.
• Enhancements
  • Biometric Authentication: Mobile Check-in app users can now set up and use their mobile device’s biometric authentication feature to log into the app. Click here for instructions to set up and use the biometric authentication feature.
  • Attendees: If a user changes an Attendee’s information, including their name or email address, in Salesforce, the Mobile Check-in app will correctly display the new information on the app’s history screen. Previously, the app only displayed the old information on the check-in history screen.

Click here for more information about the Mobile Check-in app’s release notes.

For more information on these enhancements and a full list of bug fixes, please click the Events Release Notes button.

Blackthorn Payments

1. SALESFORCE KNOWN ISSUE | Enable Secure Static Resources for Lightning Components: This Salesforce release update has been postponed indefinitely. Test Run on this Release Update should remain disabled in order to use our Virtual Terminal components. This is due to a Salesforce Known Issue.
2. Batch Jobs: The Payment Balance Update batch process now only includes Connected Accounts with Update Balance = “True” (checked). Previously, it included all Connected Accounts, causing a large number of accounts to be processed together.
3. Mobile Payments App: The Mobile Payments app’s logic was updated to ensure a user can process different Transactions across different Payment Gateways and create a successfully processed Transaction and a valid Payment Method.

For more information on these enhancements and a full list of bug fixes, please click the Payments Release Notes button.