What's New

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT releases new features on a regular basis, so keep an eye on this space for details about these additions. Features that release in waves are noted below. You may receive these updates immediately or in a future release.

You can now generate reports in Financial Edge NXT and email them to non-Financial Edge NXT users based on a schedule (previously, you could only email to existing users). Reports are sent as PDF files and can easily be accessed via the email application associated with the recipient.

For more information, see Add a Report.

If your organization receives reimbursable grant funding, you can now add criteria to report and track qualified expenses for reimbursement.

From a grant record, you can view, edit, and delete existing rules, or add new ones. You can also view distributions for each existing rule, including credit and debit accounts.

For more information, see Add Reimbursement Rules.

Note: In a future release, you'll be able request grant reimbursements from charge records.

From Payables, you can now add and generate recurring invoices. Recurring invoices are templates from which you create regular invoices quickly and easily according to a schedule. They're helpful for tracking recurring revenues such as monthly rental income, planned giving donations, and grant reimbursement requests.

For more information, see Recurring Invoices for Payables.

You can now print bank logos on checks in web view. To print your bank’s logo on a check, mark Bank logo on the Format check screen, and choose the logo to use.

For more information, see Format Check Settings.

You can now view your product records in web view. Using product records saves time when adding line items on purchase orders because you can quickly select a product you previously created, instead of entering the information every time you create a purchase order for identical items.

You can access the Products list page under Payables. For more information, see Products.

Automate Payment Processing with Payment Assistant™

Payment Assistant automates and delivers vendor payments for you directly from Financial Edge NXT. With virtual card payments, accelerated ACH processing, and remote check printing, vendors are paid quickly and on time. By providing a faster, more cost-effective, and more secure way to pay invoices, you have more time to focus on your mission. Included in your subscription cost of Financial Edge NXT, Payment Assistant is now in Limited Availability (LA). Are you interested in participating? Apply to join our LA group. During this time, we'll review and implement participant feedback to prepare for general availability.

  • Group the invoices you need to pay into payment runs.

  • Use roles and permissions to decide who can create payment runs and who can approve them (Coming soon! Tiered payment approvals).

  • View the payment run record to track the progress of individual payments.

  • When you select to pay invoices, REPAY®, our trusted payments technology partner, contacts them to select their preferred payment method. After set up, all communication with vendors is automated for subsequent payments.

  • New! When you create a payment run, we added the ability to use filters to help you find and select the invoices you are ready to pay.

Once you're added to the Limited Availability group, you can access Payment Assistant from the Payables menu. The first time you navigate to Payment Assistant, you’ll go to the Getting started page. After you complete the onboarding steps, when you navigate to Payment Assistant, you’ll go directly to the Payment runs page.

Every payment run requires at least one approver before the funds are withdrawn from your account to pay vendors. However, your organization may require more than a single person approving the payments. You also may require that different payment amounts require different people to approve. Payments can now be approved at multiple levels based on rules. You can define up to 5 approval tiers for payments with Payment Assistant. This ensures larger transactions receive necessary oversight, while smaller ones process more quickly.

Tip: Tip! Learn how Seth Hurd, Financial Controller and Director of Information Systems at Berwick Academy (Berwick, ME), adopted Payment Assistant!

Total Web Solution

As Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT shifts to a total web solution, we're moving features from database view exclusively to web view. As this shift progresses, we'll remove access to these features in database view.

To reduce the risk of service interruptions, gather feedback, and scale as needed, we're releasing these updates in waves instead of deploying everything at once.

For each feature area, we've listed "wave" dates to indicate when a feature area will begin to turn off in database view. If your organization is included in a wave, you will no longer have access to that specific feature beginning on the date listed. It's important to know that you may receive the updates immediately or in a future release.

To review feature areas and dates, see Total Web Solution.

Receivables

We're releasing Receivables features in small, usable increments. Many of these features are releasing in waves to our United States customers first. We'll fully support additional locales in a future release.

Tip: To catch on up features we've completed in Receivables, review Receivables: What's Recent.

Note: The ability to apply applications for posted transactions is in Limited Availability (LA) for some of our customers. Look for full support and general availability in a future release.

Note: Don't see this yet? Automatic applications is in Limited Availability (LA) for some of our customers. Look for full support and general availability in a future release.

You can now automatically apply new payments and credits for clients in web view. From Settings, Business rules, General select Always or As defined on each client under Automatically apply new payments or Automatically apply new credits. If you define them for each client, make sure to select Automatically apply new payments and Automatically apply new credits under Data entry defaults on the client's record.

Note: The ability to process automatic applications is new in web view, but settings and client defaults were introduced in an earlier release.

Additional settings exist to determine how you want to automatically apply applications. For example, you can select to always apply new payments and credits to existing charges or ask each time, and you can determine whether payments and credits apply to the oldest charge first or the most recent. For more details, see General.

From Receivables, Invoices, you can now add, edit, and delete invoices with line items for receivables and view their record pages in web view.

Note: When you add a new invoice, you can now add new line items for it under Line items. For more details, see Add Invoices in Receivables.

For more details, see Invoices.

To open a line item record, select the one you need under Line items on an invoice record.

Note: You can now manage invoice line items with the Finance charge billing item type.

For more details, see Invoice Line Items in Receivables.

You can now view the list of recurring invoices. From Invoices, select Recurring to view the list.

To open a recurring invoice, select it in the ID column.

For more details, see Recurring Invoices in Receivables.

You can now add, edit, reverse, and delete credits from Receivables, Credits and view their record pages in web view. To view a credit, select it under Credit ID.

Note: You can now manage credits with the Finance charge billing item type.

For more details, see Credits.

From Receivables, Clients, you can now add and edit refund records in web view. To add a refund, open the client's record and select Add, Refund under Activity.

To view a refund record, select it under Transaction ID.

The Overview, Distributions, and Applications tabs display for you to add and edit additional info.

Tip: You can also now view a refund from a bank's Register tab. To locate the refund, search by One-time check for Transaction type and select View from the row's menu.

Reverse refunds

To reverse a refund, open one with a Posted status and select Delete.

You can't delete a refund with unposted adjustments.

Tip: After you confirm to delete the refund, enter a reversal date for the journal entry that automatically generates the next time you post.

Note: You can edit the reversal date before posting it.

Adjust refunds

To adjust a refund, open one with a Posted status and select Adjust.

Enter adjustment details, such as the new date and reason, then save.

For more details, see Refund Records.

From Receivables, Clients, you can now view return records in web view. To view a return for an invoice or a line item, open the client's record and select Activity.

Note: In a future release, you'll be able to add and edit returns.

To view the return record, select View from a row's menu. The Overview, Distributions, and Applications tabs display for you to view and edit additional info.

For more details, see Returns.

You can add, edit, reverse, and delete charges from Receivables, Charges and view their record pages in web view. To view a charge, select it in the Charge ID column.

Note: You can now manage charges with the Finance charge billing item type.

Note: In a future release, you'll be able request grant reimbursements from charge records.

Reverse charges as credits

Note: The ability to reverse posted charges as credits is in Limited Availability (LA) for some of our customers. Look for full support and general availability in a future release.

You can now reverse a charge as a credit in web view. From the charge record, select Reverse charge.

After you confirm the reverse, the new credit is saved and automatically applied to the charge to reduce the client's balance.

Tip: If you don't want to reverse the entire charge amount, select Reverse part of charge to enter a different amount for the new credit. The amount you enter also automatically applies to the charge to reduce the client's balance.

For more information, see Charges.

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