11.0B Release

If you're part of the Preferred Client Program, you can download the latest desktop version in the Client Portal.

PDS Church Office 11.0B, releasing for desktop 12-14-22 and OnDemand 12-16-22, offers the following enhancements.

New and Improved Features

Sacramental Register Entries for Deceased Members

Now, when you mark someone as deceased, you can choose whether to add an entry for that person in the Death Register. Select Add Entry to Sacramental Register if you want to do so.

Emailing from PDS using Gmail

If you use a Gmail account to send emails from your PDS program, you must set up an App Password with Google. This security feature, which is required by Google, ensures that your Gmail account is used safely. App Passwords do not expire on a regular basis, but if you change your Google password, you must set up a new App Password at that time.
We have a help topic with steps on setting up an app password, and we thought it would be helpful to link to that topic within PDS. That way, you can get to the steps you need, when you need them! In your Email Server Setup window, click Set Up an App Password for Gmail to open the help topic. You will only see this link if your server includes "gmail.com".

We fixed the following issues that affected some of our customers:

If you sorted the Top Givers/Pledgers Report by one of the Ascending options, families did not display in the correct order.
After creating an online registration form, sacrament fields were displaying as required even if you didn't mark them as such.
The list of sacrament names was not displaying correctly on online registration forms.
HTML emails that were created in Version 10 were not displaying after upgrading.