Here are the major changes and enhancements to CompuDance
from Version 7.20 (06/05/2006) to Version 7.30.
Version 7.30 Release Date: June 4, 2007

Specific details about these and other enhancements can be found in the new User Manual and in additional Help Windows.
You should print details of these New Features by using the Print Link Above.
If you print it using MS Word, set the R & L margins at .6 inch.

 1. There is a new Configuration tab named Pay Assist. The default is Off. When you turn it on CompuDance
    will look at the Total Check Amount when entering a payment. If it finds an amount due that exactly
    matches that check amount, it will so inform you and ask if you want to apply the check to that balance.
    If you say Yes, CompuDance will complete that payment transaction for you to save you time.

 2. There are two new Configuration Tabs for entering a Tuition Scale.

    Tuition Scale 1 - allows the user to create a tuition scale based upon the number of classes taken by a
       student and/or family.  If you give discounts based upon taking multiple classes, you should look at this.
       The more classes a student/family takes, the lower the cost of each class, and the lower the tuition.

    Tuition Scale 2 - allows the user to create a tuition scale based upon the number of hours a student
       and a family have. If you give discounts based upon this idea, you should look at this.  The more hours
       (minutes) a student/family has, the lower the cost/hour.

       There is a new APPENDIX O that describes the Tuition Scales in great detail.
       You can download APPENDIX O from the bottom of the How To Update page on our web site.

 3. There is a new Configuration tab named Theme. CompuDance checks the Windows Version on your
     computer during installation and records it.  It will then adjust some of the displays that do not look
     the same in Windows Vista as they do in previous versions of Windows. If you are still having some
     display problems, use this Configuration tab to set your Theme.

 4. The Deposit Slip code has been completely re-written.

 5. When printing Class Statements the "Accounts with a Credit Balance" check box is enabled.

 6. We have added a new update for the E-Mail objects we use for CompuDance E-Mail operations.
    This should result in faster execution times and generally more robust, better supported-operations.

 7. There is a new box in the FRD. It shows the number of hours for which the family is registered.

 8. There is a new report in the Lists window. It is a list of Students and # of Hours taken.

 9. For 21 years CompuDance has been able to access up to five different "studios" for users who have
    multiple locations. The use of the term "studio" for those additional "places" has been confusing.
    Many people have considered that meant the number of "rooms" (classrooms) in the building.
    So . . we are changing the word "studio" to "location" starting with Version 7.3.

10. There is a new item in the Record Analysis Display - # of Student/hours & average hours per student.

11. The amount in the SRD Tuition Text Box of a family student is grey.

12. In the Main Window Tool Bar, we have deleted the Query & Apportion buttons. They can  now
     be found under GoTo in the Menu Bar. You still use Ctrl+Q for Query and Ctrl+O for Apportion.

13. In SRD Tool Bar we moved the F6-FRD button down by itself, and added a button for Recital.
     In FRD Tool Bar we moved the F5-SRD button down by itself, and added a button for Recital.

14. Added a reminder that statements will either skip or not skip accounts with an E-Mail address.

15. When displaying a Participation Report in the Recital Module, CompuDance would show
      a list of dancers who have less than three dances between their numbers.
      That Number (three) is now a variable. You can set it at any number 1 thru 9.

17. We added the ability to Print the settings in the E-Mail Configuration tab.  Many users get a new
     computer or operating system then have trouble remembering their E-Mail Configuration
     Settings from the old computer/system.

Here are the major changes and enhancements to CompuDance
from Version 7.10 (06/06/2005) to Version 7.20.

 1. CompuDance will now accept Global EFT Payments for any Income Category, not just Tuition
    Categories.  The payment will be for the amount due in whatever category you select.

 2. We changed the process of entering Credit Card data in the SRD/FRD to be able to enter the
    Credit Card CVV Code. That is the three-digit code found on the signature stripe on the back of Visa
    and MasterCard cards; the four-digit code on the front of the AmEx card.

 3. CompuDance is now configured for batch global Credit Card Payments that can be sent to our new
    processor, Smart Payment Solutions. This is available for any Income Category.

 4. The EFT List Printouts sort has been changed to be more helpful and easier to understand.

 5. When posting global EFT or CC payments to a Tuition Category, the resulting category status is Paid.
    When posting global EFT or CC payments to a Variable Category, the resulting category status is $0.00.
    When posting global EFT or CC payments to a Fixed Category, the resulting category status is Paid.

 6. When sending an E-Mail to All Students as HTML Text, CompuDance used to imbed images.
    In this version the images are no longer imbeded in the message. Instead it will allow you to point
    to the images over the Internet (your Web Site, for example).

 7. We added a Calculator to the CDW Main Window and to the Account Ledger Window.

 8. There is a new Configuration tab - EFT/CC Processor.

 9. When you send E-Mails to all students, CompuDance will offer you the option of skipping students
     who are temporarily deleted.

10. There is an operation to import student data from another program (database, spreadsheet, etc.).

11. There is a new Query operation called "Have E-Mail Address, Find Student."

12. All bulk E-Mail will now be saved in a folder named Bulk E-Mail Sent.

13. CompuDance will now save the Message you typed for a bulk E-Mail immediately when you click
      the Save As Displayed, then Close button.

14. When using the Special Audit, you can now select the ending Transaction Number as well as
      Starting Transaction Number.

15. An Explorer operation has been added.

16. The length of E-Mail addresses has been increased from a max of 35 characters to 40 characters.

17. There are many new Recital reports. Most of them are designed to help you export recital data.

18. There is new report that lists all students and their Registration Dates, sorted by Registration Date.

19. There is a new configuration option check box in the E-Mail tab of Configuration.

20. We revised the EFT Registration Form to include an agreement to allow EFT for other Misc
      dance related charges during the year in addition to the tuition.

21. There is an additional option when deleting students and families. You can elect to keep
      or remove all references to the student/or family Registration Date and E-Mail address.

22. There is a new report - Accounts that have a Credit Balance in any category or categories.

23. The printout of the Perfect Attendance - All Classes list now works Ok.

24. There is a new E-Mail Operation - receive E-Mails. This will receive, display, and open E-Mails.
      You can also reply to E-Mails and Delete E-Mails from your ISP Server.

25. When backing up, the creation of a Special Folder is no longer optional. It is required.

26. You can now delete individual E-Mail files from the E-Mail Sent folder.

27. You can now delete all E-Mails from the Bulk E-Mail Sent and the E-Mails Sent folders.

28. The Current Year Record Analysis is now available as a printout as well as a display.

29. The Monthly BirthDay List is now sent to Windows ClipBoard.

30. The Income Category Analysis in Query has been enhanced.

31. Presssing <Enter> now has the same effect as double-clicking when adding or deleting classes
       from a student's schedule in the SRD.

32. Press <Ctrl> + <F6> in the SRD of a Family Student to go to the FRD of that specific Family.

33. CompuDance will now combine Multiple Credit Card Transactions and Multiple EFT Transactions
      into only ONE transaction to save you money.

34. The User can empty the imap.log file if it gets too big.

35. APOP is now a user choice in E-Mail Configuration. You should leave it checked.

36. The imap.log file no longer a choice.  Right-click an item in E-Mail Configuration for Help.

37. The FRD now shows total classes for all family members.

38. The student's Class Schedule in the SRD is now sorted Chronologically.

39. You now have an option to include printing or not printing the Code on Address Labels by Code.

40. The Participation Report (Costume/Cost) now includes the Name of the Dance, not just the Number.

41. The AR Display List tells the number of accounts as well as the Total Amount.

42. The Print this Grid option in List of Classes now has two sub-options:
      a) Send to Printer
         b) Create an ASCII Text File
      The result of this is that all class lists, sorted as you want them, can now be converted into text files.

43. You can create a Text File of List of Families.

44. You can create a Text File of the Class AR List and the Master AR List.

45. You can create a .CSV (comma delimited) file of your E-Mail Address List.

46. The Browse Operation will open .cvs, .log, and .txt files.

Here are the major changes and enhancements to CompuDance
from Version 7.00 (06/02/2004) to Version 7.10 (06/06/05).

1.  Print No. of Copies and Printer Orientation are now available for Statements & Most Printed Reports.  You set these in
      File, Printer Setup from the CompuDance Main Window.

 2.  An Electronic Funds Transfer function has been added.  Details are in a new Appendix N.

 3.  The list of transactions found in Query, Have Memo Find Transaction now includes Non-Student transactions
      as well as student and family transactions.

 4.  You can now E-Mail a complete or a partial Account Ledger to student/family.

 5.  Write A Note To A Class has been enhanced.

 6.  CompuDance now fixes incorrect file attributes when you copy data from a closed CD.

 7.  The E-Mail Configuration has been enhanced.

 8.  Statements to All Students will bypass Temporarily Deleted Students.

 9.  A Family Statement contains the list of classes each family student is in.

10. Click File, then About CompuDance for a list of current Support Hours.  Update this list from the About Updates Page
       of our web site.

11. All Mailing Labels to non-family students have the option of Student Name OR Guardian Name.

12. When you register a New Student, CompuDance checks the name against the names in A File of Some Friends.

13. CompuDance can skip students/families who have E-mail addresses when printing Mailing Labels and/or Statements.
      You set this up in Configuration from the CompuDance Main Window.

14. Ability to E-Mail a Statement to One Student and to One Family has been added.

15. There is a new Student Perfect Attendance report for All Classes.

16. You can now print the Participation Report Problems in the Recital module by right-clicking the list.

17. The number of students in the list has been added to printouts in the Recital module.

18. All Dance Cast List printouts now contain a total at the bottom of the page.

19. The maximum number of classes in the SRD display has been increased to 520.

20. An E-Mail to All Students in a Class can have an attachment.

21. An E-Mail to All Students with a Common Code can have an attachment.

22. An E-Mail to All Students can have attachment.

23. When you E-Mail statements to All Students you can now include Late Fee and the Most Recent Previous Statement Date
       & Amount message as in printed statements.

24. The Recital Participation Report display has been enlarged to display all dances a student is in no matter
       how many that may be.

25. Additional details have been added to the Record Analysis Report.

26. Audits can now include a Deposit Slip.

Here are the major changes and enhancements to CompuDance
from Version 6.20 (06/02/2003) to Version 7.00 (06/02/04).

  1. You can now print Student and/or Family Ledgers for all students in a class.

  2. The City Text Box in the SRD and FRD has a drop-down list of cities which you can simply click  instead of having to
       type the name of the city.  Each new city you enter will be added the drop down-list.

  3. A Status Bar has been added to the SRD and the FRD.

  4. There is a faster way to select and change the Income Date.

  5. You can now print Mailing Labels for all those on the "Whose Not Here?" list.

  6. You can change the three SRD and FRD telephone labels to whatever you want.

  7. You can now print selected transactions in a Student or Family Account Ledger.  You don't have to print the entire ledger.

  8. You can send a student an E-Mail directly from his/her SRD, and you can send a family E-Mail  directly from their FRD.

  9. You can now send E-Mail Statements to all students and families with a balance due.
       These are similar in format to the printed statements.

10. You can send an E-Mail to all students with an E-Mail address on file.  The E-Mail Message may be a simple text message
       or an HTML formatted message.

11. You can send an E-Mail to all students in a specified class who have an E-Mail address on file.  The E-Mail Message may be
       a simple text message or HTML formatted.

12. The Misc Field Query now automatically searches families as well as students.
 
13. You can send an E-Mail to all students with a Specified Code.

14. In the SRD/FRD Find operation, entering two letters will jump you to that place.
       This is similar to entering one letter, but it's more specific.

15. An Audit Display can now be sent to Windows Clipboard.

16. You now have the ability to change a student's Registration Date.

17. There are two new Query Operations: 1) Have Address, Find Student; 2) Have Phone, Find Student.

18. There is now a list of Statement Messages from which you can select when printing statements.
      This way you do not have to type a message again and again if you use the same message more than once.

19. When you click Refresh in a FRD, CompuDance will update the SRD of each family student with the latest address,
       phone, guardian, information.

20. You have the option of adding a blank line between names on Class AR Lists.

21. The Ledger Posting Analysis of Charges can now be displayed/printed by month.

22. There is a new Comments Field in your class database for each class.  You can create a list of up to 250 comments.
       Then, you simply select the one you want to enter into the Comments Field for a specified class.
 
23. You now have the option of including Your Studio Name and Phone Number(s) on printed  statements.

24. All Class List displays and printouts have been re-designed for greater flexibility in the available options.

25. CompuDance checks for number of dances between students' numbers and can provide a list of potential problems.
       It will see a problem if a student has less than three dances between her dances.  For example,
        if a dancer is in Dance 7 and Dance 10, CompuDance will alert you.

26. Additional information is displayed in the Dialog Box when confirming the addition of a class to a student's schedule.

27. The Class Measurements Roster is now printed with a grid.

28. The following Query options are both displays and printouts: Students in Number of Classes, Ages, Year Enrolled,
       Have Memo/Find Charges, Have Memo/Find Payment.

29. There is an additional Class List clipboard operation.

30. We have added a Browse operation.  To use it, goto Lists, then Other Lists, then Browse.  This has many uses.
       You can display files, and you can open text files and E-Mails.

31. You now have a choice for the format of the ASCII Text File of student  names.  You can select
       LastNameFirst (Lopez, Maria) or LastNameLast (Maria Lopez).

32. Student and family E-Mails sent from the SRD and FRD are kept in a folder named
       E-Mails Sent in the appropriate Studio folder.  The folder can be accessed through CDW.

33.  You can create and print a Note to a specific class.

34.  You now have the option of excluding Credit Balances from your Master AR list.
 
35. All Audit and Income Ledger displays now contain a Name Column.  That column will also be a part of data
       sent to Windows Clipboard and data sent to tab delimited files.

36. Exported Audit and Ledger data can now be sorted by name.

37. The Expenses/Payroll Module adds the ability to delete a check from payrolls in your Master Expense Ledger.

Here are the major changes and enhancements to CompuDance
from Version 6.10 (06/03/2002) to Version 6.20.
Release Date of 6.20: June 2, 2003.

Here are the major changes and enhancements to CompuDance
from Version 5.40 (06/02/2000) to Version 6.00.
Release Date of 6.00: June 4, 2001.

1. Version 6 is a 32 bit application which will run in Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, or ME. It is not designed for Windows 3.1.  The last 16 bit version for Windows 3.1 was Version 5.40.9.
   
   

2. When printing labels, you now have a choice between 1 x 4 labels, 20 on a page, two-column label sheets; or 1 x 2^5/8 labels, 30 on a page, three-column label sheets.
   
   

3. The maximum number of classes has been increased to 375.
   
   

4. CDW is centered on your desktop for 800 x 600 screen display resolution; on a 640 x 480 resolution, CDW takes up the entire screen with larger, easier-to-read, type.
   
   

5. When entering a payment, CDW looks at the total check amount to see if there is any category which has that exact amount due.  If so, it  offers to post this payment to that category.  This saves you from having to make that selection.
   
   

6. The Income Date display is now bright red to hopefully prevent posting date errors. 
   
   

7. All searches are no longer case sensitive.  To find the name Smith, enter smith or SMITH or sMITH, etc.
   
   

8. The Profit Loss, Current Year function has been moved to  Expenses/Payroll.
   
   

9. There is an option to place a blank line between lines when printing lists for easier reading.
   
   

10. Default font in Select Font list box is now Courier New.
    
    

11. There is a new Help Window in the Select Fonts Window.
    
    

12. When you permanently delete a student record, you now have the option to send that record to "A File of Some Friends" just in case you might someday need it.
    
    

13. There is a new, faster way to add students into a class.  It lets you enter all students in a class from one window instead of having to go to each SRD.  You will find this operation in Options in the Classes Window.
    
    

14. All Help buttons contain a light bulb instead of the word "Help." There are additional "light bulbs" in the lower left corner of many windows.  Click a light bulb for Help.
    
    

15. Most grid displays can now be re-sorted by the user.  Click the column header to sort by that column.  For example, the default Student List display sort is  alphabetical by last name. You can change that to Student Number by clicking that column header.  This is also true in The Music Locator, which makes the of songs and artists more meaningful.
    
    

16. Families can now be temporarily deleted (just like students).
    To reinstate a family, click the red Information label on the FRD.
    
    

17. Student and Family Account Ledgers have been modified to make changes easier. Double-click on any row to change the posted charge or payment on that row.  There is a new Help button (light bulb) in the Account Ledgers to assist you.
    
    

18. There is a new Query search operation: "Have Memo, Find Transactions."
    
    

19. The printing on Statements has been moved over slightly to the right.  If you are using a non-standard window envelope, you will probably need to make further   adjustments so that only the name/address appears in the window.  Use Printer Adjustment for that.  Also, use the font size that we recommend: 12 point, Courier New.
    
    

20. Displays and printouts of Teacher Class Lists contains an analysis of students, classes, average class size.
    
    

21. When adding a student to a Class Attendance File, CDW will remind you of the number of students currently in that file.
    
    

22. The second time you use a print operation, CDW will ask you to confirm the font and font size you used last time.  It will then ask you if you want to be reminded of this each time you use this print operation.  If you say No, CDW will never again display the Confirm Font and Font Size dialog box when you use this print operation.  You can reverse this decision by going to Configuration in the CDW Main Window.  Then click Restore Font Reminder.
    
    

23. Credit Card Batch Processing.  Assume that each of 100 students and/or families has given you a credit card number and told you that you can use that to collect tuition each month. CDW now supports this batch processing of credit card payments for tuition.  CDW can file, under a special new security code, your clients' credit card information.  You can download specific details on the UpDate Download Page.  Load it into WordPad.
    
    

24. There is a new ASCII text file of temporarily deleted student names and addresses.  Also, all of the ASCII files are automatically sent to Windows Clipboard as tab-delimited files.  They can then be pasted into most database and spreadsheet programs.
    
    

25. A BackUp and Restore operation has been added to this version.  You access it from the CDW Main Window.  Click File, then click BackUp.  You can backup to a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, or a zip drive.  If you have more than 6,000 income transactions, you can not use 3.5 inch disks.  There are two help windows to assist you.  If you need some additional documentation, you can download and then print the new Appendix K from the UpDate Download Page.  Load it into WordPad.
    
    

26. When transferring students into a New Year, the transfer operation now includes the option of not transferring student measurements and/or not transferring the Miscellaneous comments in each SRD.  If you think these pieces of data are no longer applicable, then you might want to exclude them from the transfer.
    
    

27. There is a third date option in the Change A Charge and the Change A Payment windows.  Place the MousePointer on the date on the bottom of the screen for info.  Or, just right click that date to enter a new date.
    
    

28. You now have the option of including Student Codes in the Attendance Roster.
    
    

29. Song title and artist name searches in The Music Locator are not case sensitive.
    
    

30. There is a new printed report in The Music Locator.  Click Lists, Alpha List, Print. The #2 option is new.
    
    

31. All ASCII text files in A File of Some Friends are now automatically sent to Windows Clipboard in a tab-delimited format ready to be pasted into a spreadsheet or database program.
    
    

32. When printing statements for a specific class, you have the option of including a statement for members of the class who have no balance.
    
    

33. You can now include a Due Date on statements.  When in the Statements Window (AR Window), click Statements, then Statement Configuration.