The Financial Post

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Welcome to The Financial Post for October 2025!  

Every month, we bring you updates on Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®, featuring the latest project developments and release information. If you missed it, catch up with last month's edition of The Financial Post. 

In This Issue 

This month's post features these topics: 

• What’s New  
• Introducing the Financial Edge NXT Resource Center! 
• What’s Next 
• Total Web Solution Journey 
• Stay in the Know 

What’s New 

We’re excited to announce several powerful enhancements that are now available in Financial Edge NXT web view. These updates are designed to streamline your workflows and give you more control over your financial data. 

• Bank reconciliation improvements based on customer feedback 
• General ledger Overview page 
  • Including the Fiscal years tile 
• General ledger settings – quicker access to current fiscal years 
• Import transactions directly from a journal entry batch record  
• Financial Edge NXT Resource Center 
• Create purchase orders form approved purchase requests 
• Merge clients 
• Add and manage indirect miscellaneous (misc) allocations 
• Automated deposits (currently in EAP for some customers) 

The following features are in LA for some customers. 

• When printing checks, customize check element alignment 
• Reporting enhancements 
• New Home page experience 

Introducing the Financial Edge NXT Resource Center! 

This new tool consolidates all your resources in one place. With the search functionality, you can easily find articles, help documentation, and training.  

The Resource Center displays the latest content, including newly released features and trending topics, to help you level up your skills with thought leadership, tips & tricks, and tools to boost your knowledge. 

Whether you're new to Financial Edge NXT, new to your organization, or just need to refresh your skills, you can follow our guided onboarding experience and leverage basic resources to get started. 

What’s Next 

We’re currently working on several features and enhancements for Financial Edge NXT web view. Here are some of the updates you’ll see in upcoming releases: 

• Allocations — Support for additional business rules 
• Blackbaud AI Chat 
• Expenses — Generate invoice requests 
• Automated deposits —  only for gifts disbursed through Blackbaud Merchant Services 
• Sales tax report 
• Receivables — Manage returns 
• Receivables — 3rd party billing 
• Public sector bodies report (Canada customers) — will be available in Receivables with updated filters 
• Business activity statement (Australia and New Zealand customers) — will be available in Receivables with updated filters 
• Payment Assistant enhancements 

Total Web Solution Journey 

We've extended the completion timeline for Total Web Solution (TWS) to the first half of 2026.  This extension decision was made to ensure you have time to adopt, while also allowing time for improvements in usability and performance, based on your feedback!  

By slowing the process, we hope users will feel assured and well-supported as they adapt to Financial Edge NXT's new workflows.  

Stay engaged with our TWS journey right here and through our dedicated Total Web Solution page, the Product Update Briefing (PUB), your monthly emails, and of course, the in-product notifications. These resources will keep you up-to-date on the latest developments and what's coming next. Thank you for being part of this exciting transformation! 

Stay in the Know 

Thirsty for more Financial Edge NXT knowledge? Here are some of the best ways to learn more about what's coming: 

• Community Announcements. The Community is a great way to stay informed. Subscribe to Financial Edge NXT Community Announcements by clicking on the "Subscribe" link at the top of this blog. You can then select how often you want to receive update notifications.  
• Release Updates. Check out What's Recent, What's New, and What's Next to get all the details on prior, current, and future releases. To help keep you up to date on the most recent developments, What's New automatically opens when you log in to the web view.  
• In-Product Help. Help documentation throughout Financial Edge NXT is context-sensitive. So, no matter where you are in the solution, you can click the bright green question mark at the top right of your screen to get help for that feature.  
• Product Update Briefings (PUB). Check out the most recent Financial Edge NXT PUB, now on demand, to hear from our product management team directly on the latest and upcoming development for Financial Edge NXT!