The Financial Post

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Hello and welcome to The Financial Post for October 2021!


On the first Thursday of every month, we bring you the latest Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® news on everything from current projects and initiatives to release information and much more!


If you didn’t get a chance to read the last edition of The Financial Post, you can check it out here.

In This Issue


This month's post features these topics:

• Accounts Receivable Customer Tech Preview (Billing Items video!)
• SKY UX® Update
• Reminder: User Display Preferences
• Meet the Team: Reece Hopkins, User Experience Designer
• Tell Us What You Think!

Accounts Receivable Customer Tech Preview


Our Accounts Receivable Customer Tech Preview (CTP) is now in full swing! Check out this video about Billing Items in Accounts Receivable.



If you aren’t familiar with CTPs, they’re a new and exciting way for us to gather customer feedback that will help enrich the development of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT capabilities.


During each CTP, our product management team engages a select group of customers to test a feature and share insights about their experience.


We are currently partnering with around 15 Accounts Receivable customers to learn everything we can about their receivables processes in Financial Edge NXT.


We will keep you informed as this CTP progresses!

SKY UX Update


We’re continuing to update and modernize Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, working behind the scenes to update to the latest version of SKY UX—the underlying framework that allows us to deliver a more cohesive user experience across many of our products.


So far, we've released updates to Reporting, Fields and Tables, General Ledger settings, Chart Organizer, and Post subledgers. You can see product screenshots and learn more about these recent enhancements by checking out What's Recent.


The next capabilities we plan to release as part of this effort will include:

• Accounts
• Projects
• Grants

For more detail about these enhancements, check out What's Next.

Reminder: User Display Preferences


The next Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT release will include enhancements to your user display preferences, such as tile and column order (see a full list below).


With this change, your current user display preferences will be set back to their defaults. You will need to set them again, but once you do, they’ll remain in place across browser sessions and devices.


This enhancement offers a more consistent experience as you work through your day-to-day tasks. Over time, if you need to update your preferences again, they will continue to remain in place.


Here are a few more examples of user display preferences that you'll need to reset:

• Column order for a list
• Sort order for a list
• Filters
• Tile location on a page
• Expanded/Collapsed tiles on a page
• Tab selections for pages in Settings and Reporting

We hope you’ll enjoy this streamlined experience!

Meet the Team: Reece Hopkins, User Experience Designer



We want you to get to know our entire Financials team. Each month we will introduce you to someone working on Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT.

Reece Hopkins is a User Experience (UX) designer who now works at the confluence of Blackbaud’s financial and fundraising solutions. UX designers focus on understanding you, our customer, so we can create better products, capabilities, and services.


During his career he has worked on medical devices, water technology, reporting, and Accounts Receivable.


He grew up in the west, but his family calls Charleston, South Carolina home.

Tell Us What You Think!


Thanks so much for checking out this month's Financial Post. You've heard from us on the latest Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT updates, and now we want to hear from you!

• Want to share your excitement about this month's update or a suggestion for next month's post? Let us know in the comment section below.
• Have a great idea on how to make Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT even better? Stop by the Idea Bank to submit a suggestion.

We hope you'll stop by to check out next month's issue!