# Product Updates

## <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts25">June 2026 Updates</span></span>**</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Captcha**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pickAtime has replaced Google Captcha with Cloudflare.</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Clever**</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Data Importer**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pickAtime has implemented the <span class="il">Clever</span> v3.0 API data importer with the ability to switch between the previous v2.0 and the new v3.0 version per request to pickAtime Support.</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The option of importing parent and relationship data, if available in <span class="il">Clever, is also now available</span>.</span>

## <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts25">May 2026 Updates</span></span>**</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Blackbaud Updates**</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Admission Event Importer**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Added a new **Parent Type** selector to the Blackbaud **Admission Event** importer, allowing Admin to select either the Parent of Incoming or Parent of Candidate or both.</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Contacts Setup Improvements**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An addition to **Global Setup /Contacts/Advanced Options/Setup Parents Category** has been made by replacing the standard text input fields with a multi-select dropdown for event categories.</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This update applies to:</span>
    
    
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**CategoryID for Prospective Parents**</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**CategoryID for Current Parents**</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Importer Updates**</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Slot Import Enhancements**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Added the ability to define both **Slot Type** and **Appointment Type** directly within the Slots Import file. </span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[![image.png](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/IwEimage.png)](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/IwEimage.png)</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Resource and Class Removal Updates**</span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Additional updates were made to the option allowing Admins to delete existing resources, classes, and enrollments directly from the Import page before uploading new data, making it easier to remove bad data without leaving the Importer page. Changes include:</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An issue where the **Remove all resources and their classes** option did not fully remove resources from all scheduling areas has been corrected.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Resources are now correctly removed from:</span>

- - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Appointments Tab &gt; Teachers**</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**ClassEditor Tab &gt; Teachers**</span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To locate this feature on the Imports page, click the Class file option within the File Type drop-down menu.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[![image.png](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/UZSimage.png)](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/UZSimage.png)</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Reporting Updates**</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Email Report Improvements**</span>

##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Button Label Updates**</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The orange **Send email** button has been renamed **Email Report** and now includes multiple email options**. Email options** include**:**</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Send to specific email -** all reports</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Send Email to Parents -** for the following reports:</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students without any scheduled parent-teacher appointments</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students without any scheduled parent-teacher appointments by class</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Parent Schedule Report</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Send Email to Students -** for the following report:</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students’ Schedule</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[![image.png](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/7l5image.png)](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/7l5image.png)</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[![image.png](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/OTQimage.png)](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/OTQimage.png)</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The **Email Report to Teacher/Parent/Student** actions now display a processing message indicating:</span>
    
    
    - - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Emails are currently being sent</span>
        - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A summary notification will be delivered once processing is complete</span>

##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Report Name Updates**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Renamed the following reports for improved clarity:</span>

<table id="bkmrk-previous-name-update"><thead><tr><th><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Previous Name**</span></th><th><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Updated Name**</span></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students whose parents have not booked ANY appointments</span></td><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students without any scheduled parent-teacher appointments</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students whose parents have not booked appointments PER CLASS</span></td><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Students without any scheduled parent-teacher appointments by class</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Online Meetings Page Updates**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The **Online Meeting Issues** page has now been renamed to **Online Meetings** and now acts as your centralized dashboard for overseeing your virtual integrations. At a glance, you’ll be able to track active sync statuses, monitor overall setups, and confirm that your unique appointment meeting links are being generated exactly as they should be.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Click on one of these pages below to see the page for your integration: fgf</span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**[Google Meet Options](https://help.pickatime.com/books/pickatime-virtual-options/page/google-meet-options)**</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**[Microsoft Teams](https://help.pickatime.com/books/pickatime-virtual-options/page/setting-up-and-using-microsoft-teams)**</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**[Zoom](https://help.pickatime.com/books/pickatime-virtual-options/page/zoom-admin-managed-app)**</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**SMS Updates** </span>

- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Improved SMS phone number formatting to prevent country codes from being accidentally added twice to phone numbers that already include them.</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Updated the Contact Log to show more detailed text message delivery results, making it easier to identify whether a message was successfully sent or why it failed.</span>
- <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Added an automatic “\[Replies unmonitored\]” message to outgoing text messages so recipients know that replies to system-generated SMS notifications are not monitored.</span>


## <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts25">March 2026 Updates</span></span>**</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts24">Log-In &amp; Registration Updates</span></span>**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">The </span><span class="rvts21">“**Do not allow self-registration**”</span><span class="rvts20"> option is now automatically disabled when </span><span class="rvts21">“**Show the scheduler to users before they log in**”</span><span class="rvts20"> is enabled.</span></span>  
    <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">→ This allows participants to create an account seamlessly when they’re ready to book.</span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">New feature: </span>**<span class="rvts21">Sign up with Google</span>**</span>  
    <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">→ Participants can now register using Google when:</span>
    - <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“**Show scheduler before login**” is enabled</span>
    - <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“**Allow login with external provider**” is enabled</span>
3. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">When participants are creating a new account, a second </span><span class="rvts23">Password (Confirm)" field has been added to the Sign Up form.</span></span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Location for Log-Ins and Registrations: **Global Setup/ Business/ Registration and Login Settings** </span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts24">Google Updates</span></span>**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">**Google Workspace** integration will now display </span><span class="rvts21">“Enabled” only when syncing is error-free</span></span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">Automatic email notifications are now </span><span class="rvts21">disabled</span><span class="rvts20"> when participants create or update **Google Calendar** events</span></span>  
    <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">→ Helps reduce unnecessary email volume</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts24">Reporting Updates</span></span>**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">**Event Reports** now display </span><span class="rvts21">all teacher team members</span><span class="rvts20"> in the Teachers column</span></span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">A new field, </span><span class="rvts21">“**Last Logged In**,”</span><span class="rvts20"> has been added within the **List of Administrators** report. </span><span class="rvts20">  
    </span></span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Location: **Reports/ Account Reports/ List of Administrators** (click the green “Additional Fields” button)</span>

### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts0"><span class="rvts24">Events &amp; Scheduling Updates</span></span>**</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts21">Class Import Improvements</span>**</span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can now delete existing resources, classes, and enrollments directly from the Import page before uploading new data, making it easier to remove bad data without leaving the Importer page.</span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To locate this feature on the Imports page, click the Class file option within the File Type drop-down menu.</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts21">Featured Events</span>**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">pickAtime has added a new option that allows the account Admin to choose to display all events at once or list the "featured" event first, with a search bar for the </span><span class="rvts23">others. This feature can be activated or deactivated on the Event Settings page, accessible from the Events Preview in the upper-right corner.</span></span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts21">Table View Customization</span>**</span>

<span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Admins can now set the default view:</span>

- - - - - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts21">Expanded</span><span class="rvts20"> (fixed time steps – classic view, may require </span><span class="rvts21">more </span><span class="rvts20">scrolling)</span></span>
                - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts21">Condensed </span><span class="rvts20">(shows variable time steps - may require </span><span class="rvts21">less </span><span class="rvts20">scrolling )</span></span>
            - <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Users can toggle views directly within the scheduler</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An update has been made to the Date Field in both the [Appointment and Contact Field Setup](https://help.pickatime.com/books/additional-event-features/page/contact-appointment-fields-with-questions) sections. This update allows you to add 'restrict dates' to control the date range that participants can enter to ensure that there are fewer erroneous entries. </span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[![image.png](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/QRYimage.png)](https://help.pickatime.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/QRYimage.png)</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Locations are **Global Setup /Contacts/ContactFieldsSetup** and **EventsManagement/Settings/AppointmentFields**</span>

#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts21">Forced Reminder Emails</span>**</span>

- - <span class="rvts20" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Admins can now send reminder emails from the Appointments List even if reminders are disabled for the event</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts20">These are labeled: </span><span class="rvts21">“Sent Reminder Forced”</span><span class="rvts20"> within the Contact’s log.</span></span>

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## <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span class="rvts18">January 2026 Updates</span>**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts14">We have changed the name of the Email and SMS Setup page </span><span class="rvts14">to </span><span class="rvts18">Notification Setup</span><span class="rvts14">. On the Notification Setup page, we have added two additional sections. A </span><span class="rvts18">Resource Notification Email Section</span><span class="rvts14"> and a </span><span class="rvts18">Calendar Event Notification Section</span><span class="rvts14">. The Resource Notification section will allow you to have appointment notification emails sent to your resources or teachers. The Calendar Event Notification Section will allow you to customize the calendar reminders. </span></span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts14">We have added an integration with </span><span class="rvts17">ClassLink</span><span class="rvts14">.</span></span>
3. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="rvts14">We have added an integration with the payment processor </span>[Stripe](https://help.pickatime.com/books/additional-event-features/page/connecting-payment-with-stripe)<span class="rvts14">.</span></span>
4. <span class="rvts14" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Upcoming: We will be adding an integration with Veracross in the next several months. </span>