Discover Release Notes 11 April 2024 (v1.24.7)

Tēnā koutou katoa,

We’re committed to continuously improving Discover and have some exciting updates to share with our services this week.

You can add additional subscribers to our emailed release notes here.

And you can attend our new release monthly hui, where we’ll showcase all the new features covered in our release notes for that month.  

When: First Wednesday of each month, 11:00 am NZT

Next date: 8 May 2024 | 8 Mei 2024 

Register: Via this link

Ka tūtaki tātou ki te hui! We hope to see you there!

Features & Enhancements

These features will be available on 11 April 2024. 

Group Bulk Actions 

• Bulk absence exemptions can be performed across a group, under Group > Bulk Actions. We will continue to add additional bulk actions in future. Some of the other bulk actions (once added) may take some time to process, depending on the volume of recipients or requests. 

Funding Reports 

• We have added a new report called “Children Funding History” under Child Reports > Ministry of Education. This will allow centres to see the funding at a day level for each child in a single report to see where they might be losing out on funding. This report includes the attendance, the funded hours and any reasons where funding isn’t being claimed such as frequent absences or holidays. It’s built in the new reporting framework and therefore can be exported directly to spreadsheets or printed, the column widths can be adjusted and you can sort multiple columns as needed. Additionally, this report can be run at a Group or Chain level for those users that have access permissions. 
  
  

• There is a new report under Reports > Finance Reports called "Group Funding" that allows centres to run the funded child hours and the used funding rates for each month at a Chain, Group or Centre level. This report will help accountants accurately report on future funding payments from the Ministry. We strongly advise entering the correct funding rates your centre is using in the Funding Advancement screen found in the Ministry menu.  
  
  

• There is a new report under Reports > Finance Reports called "Group Funding Summary" that allows administrators to see a high level overview of centres funding information at a Group or Chain level. This report shows Licence Number and the Advanced, Actual, Washup, Advance 75% and the Total for an extremely quick overview across the funding period. Again, we strongly advise entering the correct funding rates your centre is using in the Funding Advancement screen found in the Ministry menu. 
  
  

Other Enhancements

• Based on your feedback, we've made a slight adjustment to the new WINZ Schedule. If a new Child Benefactor is added on the Child screen, the schedule will pick up this change within five minutes and adjust the payment that is due to be processed, reducing the steps to permanently update the WINZ payments due to the rolling schedule. 

• We have added an option to add Bill Payer Email to the Aged Debtors report.

Bug Fixes

• Enrolment attestations should now print more rows of future enrolments, and correctly print when selecting an attestation to print that is a few enrolments in the future. 

• The dashboard alert for 2-year-olds will no longer show and the alert for 3-year-olds will now show correctly. 

• Staff percentages on the Roster Sheet should update quicker when attendances are marked and saved on the Attendance screen. 

• The Centre List has been fixed again to ensure it sorts alphabetically. This change affects the Copy Child Details list, as well at the centre list in reports, staff and the centre switchers.

• Printing the attestation form directly from the Frequent Absence report should no longer have overlapping text when the child has absences exceeding three months. 

• The error when running the Staff Roster report has been resolved.