Name: Product Update Briefing - Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®
Uploaded: 2025-05-08T18:30:17.746Z
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Description: Product Update Briefing - Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®

Transcript for "Product Update Briefing - Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®": Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining our Financial Edge NXT product update briefing today. We're happy to have you here to learn more about the recent and even more exciting upcoming releases for Financial Edge NXT. So while everyone's getting logged in, I'm just gonna go over a few housekeeping items. My name is Nikki Baldwin. I'm our principal product marketing manager for Financial Edge NXT. I'm gonna be passing things over to our product management team in just a few moments. But while, again, while everyone gets logged in, a few, housekeeping tips. The webinar audio will be broadcast through your computer speakers. So, hopefully, you can all hear me. If you do need captions, you can hover over the stage and click the CC button on the bottom of the screen to turn captions on and off. And if you encounter any technical issues like no sound or the slideshow's freezing, a quick refresh of your browser is the best way to get it working for you. And you will get a link to the recording of this presentation by email within about twenty four hours. We'll ask to please click on the q and a on the top right of your screen to submit any questions that you may have. When you're submitting your questions, do please make sure to be specific. The more details and specifics we have, the better we can address your question directly. We have a great team in the background who will answer those questions throughout today's webinar. But if we don't get to your question, we hope to go ahead and follow-up with a blog post along with a couple of sessions. You'll see invites to in the coming weeks, so you can kind of see all the FAQs and those kinda items. So we will try to attempt, to answer as many questions as we can. Next to the q and a option, you're gonna see docs, and that's where you can access several links and resources that we're gonna discuss and share today during the presentation, and you can save for future reference. You can also adjust any settings by using the cogwheel at the bottom of the event space. And finally, you can also use those tabs on the top of the event space to see today's agenda and meet your speakers. Bring from a few of our Financial Edge NXT product management team members, including our director of product management, Heather Johnson, out of Charleston, South Carolina, and our senior technical product manager, Regina Okonkwo out of Maryland. We'll also be hearing from Hallie Hurwitz, a senior technical PM coming to us also from Charleston and making his pub debut, Russell Fulhor from the Holiday Island in Arkansas. And last but not least, also making his first pub debut, Brad Bonham from our user experience team joining us from Seneca, South Carolina. 1 quick little note before we get things started. This presentation does contain forward looking statements that involve inherent risk, uncertainties, and assumptions and outline Blackbaud's current plans and general product direction as of the date this presentation was created. So please keep that in mind. But while you will you will get a copy of the recording after the presentation, all slides, images, and content are not to be distributed, share, or copied in any way. So without further ado, thank you so much for your patience. I'm gonna pass things over to Heather Johnson. Thank you, Nikki. Welcome, everyone. We are so thrilled to have you join us today and taking the time out of your busy schedule, whether you're listening live or on the recording. Hopefully, whether you're new here or a long time user, you may be familiar with our three key pillars that anchor how we deliver value to our customers, driving increased efficiency, enhanced accountability, and better data driven decision making. We're fostering sustainability of the organization with industry leading fund accounting purpose built for nonprofits. We focus on capabilities that might add value to the top outcomes that customers just like you have told us are critically important to gaining by using Affi NXT, and these are the drivers where my team focuses on making an impact and ensuring you are realizing the benefits. Such things as improved visibility into spending, saving time staff, streamlining reconciliation, and, again, enhanced accountability and security. And we'll follow through these things throughout this presentation. And these are just a couple of other things of where we're focusing transforming financial edge NXT to really being, the center of your organization's business office. We wanna empower your mission to take control of fund accounting, grant tracking, donor restrictions with purpose built solutions designed specifically, again, for nonprofits, ensuring you're audit ready and focused on your mission. We want you to experience a modernized user interface that really simplifies onboarding, boost productivity, and really enables your team to work smarter and achieve, more in less time. And we want to, leverage advanced API capabilities really in the right way, for seamless connections, setting the stage for AI driven insights, real time collaboration, and innovative future advancements to make sure that you, again, are are focusing more time on your mission and less on tedious task. And, this is really just a look at, again, how we are want to accelerate your impact, empowering your team with the agility to make those faster data driven decisions that push your mission forward, enabling you to create a greater impact in the communities that you serve. We want you to have access to vital financial insights and manage your operations with ease from anywhere, anytime. And we want to ensure your organization stays responsive and efficient no matter where you work. We want you to navigate the complexities of financial management with a platform that ensures accuracy and adherence to regulations, giving you peace of mind to focus on your core mission. And there's no better way than to hear straight from our customers just like you. So we did wanna include just some high level quotes. And I really do love this coming from the University of South Florida Foundation. Just comparing to other options, Blackbaud took the time to really develop a solution that was scalable for everyone in that business office from data entry to management analysis. We wanna make sure that you have the dashboards and reporting, right at your fingertips so you're not having to dig into the system. And then just one more quick quote, and then we'll get into what you're all here for. But I really do love this one, from Midland Center for the Arts. Just they're rocking it with Blackbaud, FA NXT, learning new things every day. Still on our journey to a total web solution, still doing things in both views, but they share that they do have someone that leaned in and exclusively using LabVIEW, and really enjoys our journal entry batch creator Excel add in, that we do talk about pub over pub, but we always get great feedback, and it is free to use. So if you're not using our Excel add ins, please do investigate and take a look. And then I do just wanna thank you again, for our long time users and if you're new to us for taking this journey with us. We are almost, complete with our total web journey, but we are never done. We were really doing this to intending to save you time to complete all of your workflows in one space. But we it it does allow us to innovate faster. So as we are getting all of those goodness that was in database view into web view, We do plan on continuing to enhance your experience, enhance your security. You you do see that, there's a couple of, views here, dashlets are what we're calling them. The team will go through in just a moment. But, again, we wanna make sure that you are making dent better data driven decisions right at your fingertips. So we're never done, and lots of goodness to, the team will take you through today. And, again, if you're, been with us a while, this view is probably, you're used to, but we'll tell the road map story today through horizons of what is already available today with capabilities released since our last hub in the fall. And then capabilities and active development. So these are things the team are working on right now and coming to you soon. Really in the next two quarters is when you can expect these. And then a sneak peek into things that we're researching or starting, that can be expected, the latter half of this year or early next year. Alright. And we'll start out, with a couple of things that were recently released. The green are actually items that you've told us are really important to you for achieving your mission and the outcomes and capabilities that you're looking for. So I know sometimes it feels like things, maybe, go in a black hole, but we do listen to you through a variety of different ways, whether that's the idea bank, support cases, your CSM, conferences, webinars. And so we have, been delivering on what you've asked us for. Some of these being report schedulers for users that, don't have access to f e n x t, printing logos on checks, managing products, and purchasing. We originally didn't intend to deliver this, and then through kind of discovery and conversations with our users, we did bring this in, continue to improve the journal entry experience, which we know is critical for your organization, recurring invoices, which the team will take you through in more detail. And then just a couple of other things. We did hope you enjoyed, processing October, through Atrix Cloud and the web this year. We heard great feedback from that and then delivering on imports, for all ledgers, and we'll continue to improve that import experience based on your feedback as well. And I will pass to Regina and the team to go into a little bit. Thanks, Heather. So, starting with allocations, a powerful tool that enables nonprofit organizations distribute expenses, revenues, or balances, across multiple accounts, grants, projects, or funds using predefined rules. With this, with this release, you now have the ability to view all your existing configurations in database view directly in Financial Edge NXT. This includes your rates, fee schedules, and pools. You can also run your current allocations, which brings this functionality out of database view and into a modern, web based experience. This feature is currently, being released in waves. And then looking ahead, the ability to add and edit your settings and allocations is coming soon. It is actively in development and targeted for release by media. Now let's talk about receivables. Towards our goal of implementing receivable workflows in financial edge and x t, we have recently delivered additional new capabilities in WebView, including improved record management, additional reports such as invoice, transaction list, and project distribution reports, and we have also implemented the ability to generate invoices. We are currently in limited availability for allowing applications, Applying for posted records and automatic application is being released in waves. Kindly know that applying partial payments and third party support for applications is coming soon. We have also delivered updates to Treasury. But first, a big thank you for all your ongoing feedback to the IDEA Bank. Some of these features were inspired directly by your input, including the ability to print a bank logo on checks. Initially, only the organization logo was supported. You can now also add notes when voiding payments, which helps with audit tracking and internal controls. Payment default for both cash receipts and receivables are also now available in WebView, which helps improve data entry efficiency. And for our Canadian users, partial payments are now supported, allowing scheduled payments towards an invoice to be processed with ease. We have been listening closely to your feedback around performance, especially when processing large volumes of payments, and we have made some major improvements. Now payment processing happens in the background, which means no more waiting around for tasks to complete. You are free to continue working within the system, and you'll be notified once the process is complete. Even better, you now have continuous access to your processed payments, and there are no disruption if a browser window is accidentally closed. This upgrade helps you stay focused and productive without losing your place in the workflow. Let's take a look at a quick demo to show you this new experience. In this walkthrough, I will guide you through the new payment processing workflow in WebView. While most of the steps remain the same, we have made a few key improvements to enhance reliability and ease of use. To start, let's navigate to the bank accounts list or navigate to a specific bank account. From here, click on the process payments button. Choose a payment method, and then click process payments. Here, you see a list of invoices available to be paid. Let's select five invoices to process. If needed, you can modify the payment amount here. From here, you can access format settings for customizations. Before proceeding with the payment run, you may wish to generate a prepayment report by clicking on this button. Now let's generate these payments. Let's click on the generate checks button to start the payment run. You will immediately see a toast notification at the right bottom of the screen confirming that payment run has started. Additional notifications will appear at the top of the screen. This one is for the detail sheet for this payment run, and this one is for the actual checks being printed from this payment run. One of the key benefits is that the payments now run or operates in the background, allowing you to continue using the system while processing occurs. The notifications included direct links to download or view your check or the detailed report, but these notifications only remain visible for a few seconds before closing automatically. If you miss them, don't worry. You can access them anytime from the notifications bell. To access the checks, simply click on this link, and it will automatically download your checks. Another benefit is if you close your browser accidentally or you step away for a bit, you can come back and your files will remain available in the notification center. So you can always retrieve them when needed. This feature will be released in waves and will be available to all users soon. We are also working on performance improvements on journal entry batches, so you will see some updates soon on that. And with that, I will pass it over to Harley who will walk us through other recent releases. Thanks, Regina. So here's another example of how much your feedback really matters to us. Initially, we didn't plan to support recurring invoices and payables. We really thought that our copy previous functionality for invoices would suffice, but you told us otherwise. So I'm excited to announce that support for recurring invoices is now available in WebView, which will allow you to work more efficiently in the payables area. And speaking of payables, we've made significant strides in bringing our purchasing workflow over to WebView. Again, thanks to your feedback, we deliver the product library, as Heather mentioned earlier, which should enable you to manage your product list directly in WebView. You can add products to purchase order line items too. You can also convert your purchase requests, which were, formally called requisitions in database view. You can convert those to purchase orders, again, further enhancing your data entry efficiency. We also made some updates to the print workflow for purchase orders. Initially, it wasn't the same as our database view, but now it's, completely in line with how you were doing it previously. We know there's still some work to be done in the purchasing area, but these updates are really paving away paving the way for a full web purchasing workflow, that'll come in expense management, and I'll speak more to a little bit later. Now onto my absolute favorite topic, payment assistant. So payment assistant is our in product solution to automate and streamline your bill payment process. We launched it over a year ago now, and we've made such tremendous progress. I'm thrilled to announce our latest new feature, which is tiered payment approvals. And these really offer customizable tiered controls that allow you to streamline your payment approval process exactly how you need. So what better way to see it than through a demo? So let's, take a look at that now. You can set up your payment tiers during the onboarding process to payment assistant, or you can customize them anytime after you are live. For those of you that are already live, you can get to your approval tiers by going to payables settings. You'll see a new option under the payment assistant area for approval tiers. By default, we have a tier for all payments starting from $0 and above, but you can adjust this to fit any payment segments that you need. For this demo, I'll set tier one to be payments under $50,000, and then tier two will be payments $50,000 and above. Once your tiers are in place, you can customize who should approve each tier. Each tier allows you to choose approvers and set rules such as any, all, or at least a certain number of approvers. Additionally, each tier has a step feature for further grouping and customization. For this demo, I'll set tier one so that either Hallie or Nikki can approve. And for tier two, which was our larger tier, we'll set it so that Regina must approve. You can view a summary of your tiers on the third tab. Once you've confirmed everything looks good, just click finish, and your tiers are all set. We've also added the ability to customize how your approvers are notified. By default, approvers receive email and end product notifications, but you can choose to have just email or just end product notifications. Now let's see how this works in practice. Under payables, payment assistant, I'll go ahead and create a new payment run. Now I already have a few invoices that I'm ready to pay, so I'll go ahead and get those selected. Once I click submit for approval, the approvers from tier one will be notified. And after all tier one approvals are complete, the tier two approvers will be notified. So let's click submit for approval. You'll see the number of pending approvals at the top of the page and within the approval tiers tile. On the payments tab, you can drill in further to see the payment tier information and the payment status. Now you also probably saw an in product notification. I am set to be an approver. So this is what an approver would get, alerting them to the run that's needing their review. They have the option here to approve it, or if something needs modified, they can reject it and send a reject reason back to the submitter. Payment run submitters can also recall a payment run if it's still in a pending approval state. This allows for necessary changes because we all know that things can come up last minute. Now let's see an example of a recently rejected payment run and a fully approved payment run. So here's the rejected run, and you can see that it is in a rejected status. You can also see the rejection reason at the top of the page. The submitter can edit the run, make any necessary modifications, and resubmit it for approval. And finally, here's an example of a fully approved payment run. You can see in the approval tiers area who the approvers were and when they approved it and also who the final approver was. Now this run is in an approved awaiting fund state, which means our payment partner will begin processing the payment shortly and getting those payments out the door to the vendors involved. Thank you. Alright. So let's hear a little bit more about some of, what our current users are saying about payment assistant. We've received, fantastic feedback overall. Seth Hurd from Burrow Academy mentions how, payment assistant has cut his workload in half just by adopting it. Similarly, Claudia Becker from Catholic Charities Diocese of Madison has expressed her satisfaction. Among other things, she notes that, her team's real time visibility into the status of each payment. So if you're interested, in adopting payment assistant, I invite you to get started now. Payment assistant might be in your environment already. If it is, you'll see it under the payables area. And if you do see it, dive right in and, get started with our self serve onboarding. If you don't see it, but you're eager to learn more, use the scan scan the QR code that we have up on the screen, and we'll be in touch shortly to give you all the details. You can also reach out directly to your customer success manager. Switching gears, the much requested Sky APIs for treasury and accounts receivable are now now ready. And, we've got a Microsoft Power Platform connector available as well to enhance efficiency and automation in the query accounts payable and general ledger area. And I know we've got partners and local developers in the audience listening right now. You've all played a a very significant role in guiding all of these developments. So I wanna take a minute and thank you all for your feedback and contributions. And lastly, from me for now, I wanted to announce that BBDEV days will be held this year from June. The theme this year focuses on community building with several FENXT focused sessions. If you see anything up here that piques your interest, I encourage you to sign up and attend. And now I'll pass it back to Regina. Thanks, Holly. So, alongside these amazing product releases and enhancements, we are happy to share that Blackboard University has launched brand new courses tailored for financial edge NXT. So head over to the resources section to explore the full curriculum and dive into what's new, including updated payables content and e learnings for payment assistant. These quick targeted lessons are a great way to keep your team up to speed. Make sure to bookmark the training hub. It's continually updated to reflect new features and best practices that meet your organization's evolving needs. And now, looking ahead to the next three months, we have a strong lineup of enhancements, activity, and development. We are excited to bring you features based directly on your feedback. For example, the ability to insert a line within a journal entry batch, which is currently the number one requested item in the idea bank. That workflow, along with batch one time checks and export capabilities across all models, will be arriving in web view soon. More account receivable functionality is also underway, including recurring invoices, reimbursable grants, and EFT processing. We are continually improving usability and performance. We also have a modernized and customized and customizable home page with left navigation coming soon. That will give you quick access to key tax and financial insights. Please note that by the August, most customers will be operating the fully web based experience. However, if you rely on functionality not yet available in WebView, such as consolidation management, receivables, third party billing, just to mention a couple, you will continue to have access to those features in database view. Rest assured, we will not turn off impacted functionalities on the until they are in web view. For customers using queue, which is report scheduler in Financial Edge NXT, We've heard you, and we are bringing over the export option in queue. You will continue to have access to queue in database view until the export option is fully in web view. Thank you again for being great partners in this journey. Your feedback is truly shaping Financial Edge NXT into the number one fund accounting solution for nonprofits. With that said, a quick poll reappear on your screen. We'd love you to know, would you be interested in participating in a customer product advisory group or board to provide early feedback and help shape our product road map? Being part of this group, we give you the opportunity to preview upcoming features, share your insights directly with our product team, and play a meaningful role in influencing future development priorities. I will just wait a few seconds, for you to answer the poll. And now I will hand it back to Heather to introduce what the future holds for Financial Edge NXT. Alright. I always get the fun stuff. I don't know how I, pull the the great straw. But, wait. There's more. We've gone through, lots of exciting updates that are coming soon or already at your fingertips, but we never stop improving. We are always trying to strive to improve your experience and, again, deliver on those outcomes for you. We are already the leading nonprofit accounting solution in the market with robust end to end workflows, and we intend to supercharge your operations. So connected finance is no longer something we aspire to. It is something nonprofits need right now in a world where agility and accountability and insight can make a difference between surviving and thriving. Disconnected systems and siloed teams just aren't sustainable. With Financial Edge NXT, we're not just digitizing finance. We're creating an ecosystem where people, processes, and systems work in harmony. It's about enabling strategic decisions in real time, fostering transparency at every level, and unlocking the kind of impact that only happens when finance is fully aligned with the mission. This is the future of nonprofit operations. And this is a look at, what you can expect, again, coming the latter half of this year or early next year. These are things that our team are, actively planning or in discovery with customers just like you. You probably saw at, BBCon. We do intend to deliver, AI assistance with Blackbaud Copilot to allow you kind of easy, access to data at your fingertips, data entry, AI document intelligence for scanning invoices, spend management for purchase requests. So that's, kind of, getting rid of the web purchasing that you may use today and having it all in WebView tied to expense management, improved reconciliation with automation and AI, additional capabilities to payment assistant, additional capabilities to report scheduler, and, additional APIs. And I will pass back to Russell and team to showcase these in more detail. Awesome. Thanks, Heather. Delighted to be here today. So as a part of our ongoing modernization efforts, we continue to prioritize strategic alignment between third party integrators and core financial workflows. We're focusing on integrations that directly enhance and extend capabilities of fund accounting within Financial Edge NXT. Our approach is intentional. That means identifying solutions that will streamline core processes such as payables, receivables, reporting, and compliance, allowing customers to work more efficiently, reduce manual effort, and improve, data accuracy. We're also ensuring that every integration we pursue supports long term scalability and aligns the evolving needs of nonprofits managing complex financial operations. We're also connecting Blackbaud systems to increase confidence by pairing greater transparency with strong internal controls while reducing the need for manual data manipulation. To this end, we're working on the ability to schedule grant payments from Blackbaud grant making to Financial Edge. It will create invoices in Financial Edge. And once those invoices have been marked paid, it'll update the grant record in Blackbaud grant making. And then you can also automate this by using payment assistant. So we have another poll that'll be coming up. For this poll, what third party partner system are you using and or would like to see better integrated within FE NXT and BBGM? While you're answering that, I will turn to, donations. So one of our core priority priorities is creating a seamless system for dent from donation to disbursement. We're making meaningful progress in that direction. Our goal is to eliminate the friction between fundraising and finance teams by allowing gifts recorded in Raiser's Edge NXT to automatically post to Financial Edge NXT in those open batches. This reduces duplicate data entry and ensures faster, more accurate reconciliation. What's even more powerful is the ability to view Raiser's Edge NXT gift records directly within Financial Edge NXT, providing vital context and visibility without the need to switch platforms. The tighter connection between fundraising and financing helps or finance helps our customers work more efficient efficiently, improves transparently transparency, and keeps our teams aligned on the full life cycle of a gift from initial donation all the way through to disbursement and reporting. And expanding on that concept, we're currently prototyping a new capability that will automatically reconcile disperse gift payments with your bank transactions, helping finance teams close the loop faster with greater accuracy. This includes accounting for processing fees by automatically adjusting your cash and fee expense accounts, removing yet another manual step and saving both time and effort. Leveraging AI driven transaction matching, the solution will significantly improve reconciliation speed and accuracy, reducing the burden on your team and enhancing financial clarity. We're excited to share more about this upcoming feature, so stay tuned. And for accounts receivable, collections will be easier with the new email invoice feature. Invoices, including including links for payments, can easily be created and sent. Payments links will direct users to Blackbaud Merchant Services for checkout, and payments will automatically be recorded in Financial Edge, making the whole collection process so much more efficient. So next, I will pass on to Holly again to talk to us a little bit more about payment assistance. Alright. Back to my favorite topic again. As I mentioned before, payment assistant has evolved significantly over the past year, and it feels like we have new features rolling out all the time. We have improved reporting, in the works right now, and that will be available very soon. And following that, we plan to support the processing of payments from multiple bank accounts as well as making payment assistant available for our attendees in Canada. And now, so that takes care of the payment the automation on the payment side. Imagine if you could automate and accelerate your accounts payable workflow even more by eliminating the manual data entry part of your invoices. So we have plans to allow you to effortlessly upload your invoices or invoice requests using AI powered document intelligence that will extract the key information from those invoices and generate it in FENXT for you. If you take this and you pair it with payment assistant, you'll have a true end to end automated payables workflow. We have plans to make this first available in our expense management module for invoice requests. So stay tuned for more details. And as I mentioned earlier, we have plans, improvements planned for our purchasing workflow. We really have this long term vision to take expense management as it is today and turn it into your one stop shop for everything spending related. So, again, stay tuned. You'll soon see incremental releases that will make this happen, including our automated invoice scanning capabilities for invoice requests. Also, imagine if you could have a trusted assistant built directly into Financial Edge NXT. One who understands your tasks, the data, or reports that you need. And that's really what, Copilot offers. With simple prompts, you can ask Copilot to surface insights, budget variances, or even generate a report. We've mentioned implementing Copilot in the last, product update briefing that we had, And I'm excited to say that we are on track to get this within, FE NXT this year. So, again, look out for more updates. So with the last few slides that we've presented, I think the key theme has been around innovation and what what we can do after we're truly at a full web view solution. So I wanted to take a little bit of time to really talk about what innovation means. Innovation isn't just about the latest features, flashy bugs, words, or chasing trends. For us, innovation is far more meaningful. It's about transforming how nonprofit organizations really operate at their core. It's about it's about reimagining your day to day so that your finance teams can focus less on manual tasks and more on really driving impact. We want to innovate to create space, space for insights, space for agility, and most importantly, space for your mission. When we talk about innovation, we're really talking about empowerment too. Empowering nonprofits with the tools, the systems, the intelligence to move faster, act smarter, and scale impact like never before. That's the kind of innovation that lasts, and that's the kind that really change changes lives, not just software. So now I'll pass it over to Brad to speak more about everything we have planned. Thanks so much, Hallie. Now I wanna spend some time introducing some exciting upcoming enhancements and future concepts that we're exploring. We're gonna start with a demo of the enhanced home page and action hubs and lap navigation that we're developing for upcoming releases. After that, I'll walk you through a few other future ideas that we're considering. Here are some upcoming features that will make fNXT more intuitive and useful for a wide array of users. First, the enhanced home page. We're developing a new home page that provides key insights and actions across the entire system. Users can customize the page based on their role to view important information such as financial performance, project metrics, budgets versus actuals, cash flow, revenue, expenses, and more. Also, many users have requested an easier way to save frequently used queries and reports without navigating deeper into the system, so we're adding shortcuts for these important functions. Next, you'll notice a new left hand navigation and updated look and feel. Over the coming releases, we'll improve the organization of FBNXT and modernize the interface for a new generation of users. The new navigation system will keep more items within view regardless of browser width, which will enhance the efficiency. We're also introducing something we're calling action hubs. These are strategic parts of the application, provide greater insights and clarity for both new and advanced users. These hubs will offer first class access to common workflows, eliminating the need to search for filters or determine which items need attention. Finally, we're exploring the best uses of AI in the system. One use case is machine learning to identify transaction patterns and surface actions and recommendations. We're also integrating Blackbaud Copilot to help users find information and take actions more efficiently. Here you see an example of someone quickly getting a list of past due clients with the assistance of Copilot for personalized follow-up. Great. As we continue to modernize FE NXT, we recognize that, not everyone's an accounting expert. We're exploring a mobile expenses app for organizations using our spend management capabilities. This app is going to provide employees with easier access to get through things like capture receipts, record expenses, and check approvals no matter where they are. You also may have been hearing a lot about AI agents and wondering what they mean for your future accounting workflows. We believe that AI can drive greater efficiency but must be transparent and really requires human oversight to function safely and effectively. With that in mind, we're exploring a monthly closing assistant that can run complex processes in the background, helping you close your books more efficiently. And with this, we would really have a poll question. We're really interested to hear from you. If you could get help with an AI agent, what would you most likely to have what would you most like to have coverage or assistance with? We're gonna give you a list of options to choose from. Give you a few more seconds to respond to that. And there's an other option. Remember, if you have details there, we'd love to hear that in the, in the q and a. Speaking of agents, we're also considering a collections agent. This agent could help them post emails and outreach related to overdue invoices, allowing your staff to focus on other parts of the receivables workflow and easing some of the most tedious aspects of the process. We're really excited about the potential for AI agents to streamline work flows and enhance organizational efficiency. We know we need to partner responsibly with our users to ensure we deliver a great user experience and help improve your financial performance. And with that, we have another poll question. And this one is, if you could use an automated billing capability and accounts receivable, would you? And I'll just give a few more seconds for you to respond to that. And with that, I'm gonna pass it back over to Heather. Alright. Thank you so much everyone and to the team and for the participation in the polls from our customers. Again, we have a great community of users. We look forward to your feedback on today's content. We're so excited to share recent releases and highlight all of the amazing things we have planned. I think I say this every time, but this may be my favorite, product update briefing just because of all the goodness that, we are listening to you all and working to improve your daily operations. And I hope you all agree that we, and we do plan to continue, aiming higher. And there was lots of questions on, how can I get more involved or I have feedback on, you know, several areas? I think we've hopefully made it clear to y'all, but, we'd love to hear from you. We wanna make sure we're focusing on what's important to you. Here's how you can join in on the process. And for those that, have some q and a, we'll follow-up with you directly as well. But, again, your feedback is incredibly important. We'll make sure that you have access to these links, again, when this is shared out, but we do have lots of helpful material with partnerships, throughout Blackbaud to make sure that we are, providing you with the tips and tricks and information that you need, to be able to, you know, be successful at your daily tasks throughout your organization. And then, this is just a, highlight or BBCon for those in The US. We do have pop ups, around the globe, but we'll be at Philadelphia this year with exciting sessions, on, FENXT and our innovation and our connected finance. So we do hope you can join us. We'll have virtual sessions again. But it was great to engage and interact with lots of you last year, and we do again, it's it's nothing, to have face to face interaction and feedback. So with that, I think we're wrapping up and pass over to, Nikki to close us out. Yeah. Thanks so much, Heather. Don't go yet, guys. If you notice, there's one other poll, I did push through for you to access. We know we have some, customers of Blackbaud joining today that don't own FinancialGen XT, so that poll was in there for you. But I'm also gonna be launching a survey as well. We'd love to hear from you, get your feedback on the entire session. So while that's happening and you guys can interact with that, you can continue with q and a. We have a few moments here to continue with q and a in the background. And when I say in the background, I mean that because, we are we have dozens of our colleagues on the line right now that are helping answer those, questions you submitted via q and a. So I wanna keep the, the session open, so we can continue to interact there. If you guys wanna, not only participate in the survey, but also, continue with q and a and getting some answers there. Like Heather said and I mentioned at the beginning, we are trying with every effort to answer all of your many, many questions, but, we know that there are gonna be some we are not able to answer. If they're very specific, you know, is this you know, can you help with my setup or I have, you know, an error I'm experiencing, please do make sure to go and create a support case so we can definitely make sure that's taken care of. But if you had general road map questions or, just anything, about the general information that was shared today. We're gonna, not only follow-up with a blog in the community with some of those FAQs that we were we are receiving today, but you'll also see some invites in the coming weeks for a couple of, follow-up sessions. So please keep an eye on your inboxes, for those. We also had a specific request, come through in the q and a, regarding payment assistant and seeing that QR code one more time. So I am gonna go ahead and share that screen one more time. So if you'd like to sign up for payment assistant while it's still unlimited availability, you can go ahead and get your phone out, get a quick pick of or, actually, if you don't need to take the picture, right, just get a quick shot of that QR code so you can go to the link and fill out that interest form, and our team will be contacting you directly to make sure you get set up. You know, soon enough, you're gonna be able to self serve directly in the product and get that going. But right now, we still, do but right now, we still, do you need you to take this extra step for payment assistant. In the meantime, I will also again say thank you to, to Hallie, to Heather, to Regina, to Russell and Brad for speaking today. Really appreciate you sharing all this exciting news. And, big thank you to all of you in attendance day, our customers, our partners who may be on the line as well. We really appreciate you coming along this journey with us on our TotalOne solution and and just sticking around for all the exciting things we have yet to come in Financial Edge at XT. So with that, hopefully, everyone got got to catch that, payment assistant QR code. I'm gonna go ahead and go back over to our thank you slide and letting everyone know if you do not have any additional questions you'd like answered in the q and a area, you're welcome to go ahead and sign off. You guys will get a a link with the recording as well within about twenty four hours. So if you didn't catch all of it, had to join later, you have colleague you wanted to see, you'll be able to join, and watch on demand at at another time. Again, I'm gonna leave this open for a little bit longer while we continue, answering your questions in the background. I'm gonna go quiet for a little while, so keep those questions coming, and we'll try to keep those answers coming. Again, I just wanted to make sure for anyone who may have joined late or is, sitting with us now that we are fervently, answering your questions and the q and a in the background. So we're just keeping this event open for a few more minutes while we continue to do that. But, again, be on the lookout for a blog in the community, post pub along with a couple of invites for some FAQs from today's session. Okay, everyone. We are just about here at the end of time, so we'll be wrapping up the last of our q and a in this, next thirty seconds or so. Again, please look out for a blog in our community. You can access, you can access that via the docs, link there, and we'll be sending out invites via email for some follow-up, pub sessions. So, please keep an eye out for that so we can get to the rest of your, FAQs that we're getting out of today's, event. But, again, thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for being part of our FE family, and, we really hope you're excited about what's coming soon. And we look forward to getting even more feedback from the various options presented today, requesting that feedback. So thanks again so much, and we hope you have a good rest of your month and week.