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Educate
Educate Release Note: HF v9.21.1 July 10, 2026
Movable Chat Launcher (Chat bubble) | Transaction Report Improvements | Bug Fixes
✨Movable Chat Launcher (Chat bubble)
What’s New
- Chat launcher can now be dragged and repositioned anywhere on screen
- Stays in place across pages and refresh
- Always find the chat bubble in the right bottom corner each login
Why It Matters
- No more blocked buttons or dropdowns
- Smoother navigation across Educate
✨Transaction Report Improvements
What’s Improved
- Better clarity for legacy and new payments
- Improved labels and help/hover text
Why It Matters
- Easier reconciliation for finance teams
- Clear understanding of fees and totals across all payment types
✔️Bug Fixes
- Duplicate Meal Orders Fixed- Attendance updates no longer create duplicate meal orders. This results to accurate meal count and eliminates manual cleanup.
- Service Fee Permissions Fixed- School admins with permissions can now add/edit/save service fees independently without reliance on Support.
✅ Key Benefits
- Improved usability (no blocked actions)
- Clearer, more reliable financial reporting
- More accurate data (no duplicate orders)
- Greater control for admins
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Ravenna FA
Ravenna Financial Aid Rebrand - July 1, 2026
SSS is now Ravenna Financial Aid®!
Your trusted financial aid solution is now part of the Ravenna platform, creating a more connected enrollment experience for schools and families. While the name is changing, the functionality you rely on remains the same—there are no changes to your system, workflows, data, pricing, or contracts. Learn more
What's Changing?
- Updated branding and logos throughout the application and related materials
- New URLs reflecting the Ravenna Financial Aid brand
- Removal of in-product references to "SSS", replaced with Ravenna Financial Aid branding
What's Not Changing?
- Your existing workflows and processes
- Historical and current data
- Pricing or contractual agreements
- Core functionality and features
✨Modernized Payments - Powered by Adyen
We’re introducing a new
Adyen-powered online payments experience
to support more transparent payment processing, fee visibility, and reconciliation for schools and families.🌟
What’s New
New Online Payments Configuration
- Schools can now configure online payments using their Adyen account details.
- The setup page has been refreshed to make payment readiness easier to understand, with clear status indicators for account verification, balance account setup, capabilities, and payments.
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Service Fee Configuration for POS
Schools can configure how service fees are handled for card payments:
- Required Service Fee— automatically added to the payer’s total.
- Optional Service Fee— gives payers the choice to opt in.
- No Service Fee— no additional service fee is added.
- Service fees are configured by the school and are added on top of the payer’s amount.
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Clearer Checkout Experience
- Payers will see service fee details at the bottom of the page
- Totals update automatically when the amount or optional service fee choice changes.
- Required fields now show clearer inline validation messages, with automatic scrolling to help users quickly find and correct missing information.
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Improved Transaction Reporting
- Payment reports now include clearer transaction-level details to help schools with reconciliation.
- Updated reports include information such as payment method, payer total, transaction fee, net total, status, and processor transaction reference.
- A new transaction detail view provides a clearer breakdown of payer information, fees, and settlement-related details.
- Transparent Fee and Settlement Details:
- Payments now support a net settlementmodel, where applicable VenturEd transaction fees are deducted before funds are deposited to the school.
- The payer total represents the amount paid by the payer and shown on their card statement.
- The net total represents the amount deposited into the school’s bank account.
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Settlement Reporting
- A new settlement-style report helps schools review funding activity by deposit date.
- Schools can see settlement batches, balance account information, transaction counts, gross totals, refunds/returns, and net totals.
- Transaction details within a settlement can be reviewed or exported for reconciliation.
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Improved Security and Supportability
- Behind the scenes, Adyen-related actions are logged for auditing and troubleshooting.
- Sensitive payment data is notstored. Only limited card display details, such as card brand and last four digits, are used where needed for reporting and reconciliation.
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Why This Matters
- Gives schools more control over how service fees are configured.
- Gives families clearer visibility into what they are paying before submitting payment.
- Improves reporting and reconciliation for school finance teams.
- Supports a more modern, reliable, and transparent payment experience.
Notes
- This release focuses on card payments.
- Refund will continue as a manual process, we will improve it in future release.x
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Important: Prepare for Merchant Account Onboarding
To help ensure a smooth transition to Adyen, please refer to the onboarding communication previously shared with your school administrator. Before beginning setup, we recommend having all required business and banking information readily available, along with any supporting documentation listed in the onboarding checklist. Having these items prepared in advance will help expedite the merchant account verification and activation process.
Admit
Features & Improvements
Leads
- Link a lead to multiple students— A single lead can now be associated with more than one student record.
- Zip code and state on leads— Leads now capture zip code and state information for better geographic tracking.
- Student name filters on leads list and match queue— Filter leads by student first or last name for faster lookup.
- Lead Source autocomplete— The Lead Source field now suggests existing values to prevent data inconsistency.
- Tags shown in potential matches— Tags are now visible on the leads match queue for better context.
Dashboard & Reporting
- Pin queries to the dashboard— Save frequently-used queries directly to your dashboard from the query builder.
- All application statuses in Applicant Conversion Report— The report now includes every status for complete funnel visibility.
- Additional columns on the Event Conversion Report— Added columns for richer event reporting.
Communications & Email
- Custom subject lines for automated emails— Customize subject lines on reminder and confirmation emails.
- Sort communications by template name or type— The communication list can now be sorted by these columns.
- Log Text Message on Engagement Tab— Record text message interactions directly from the engagement tab.
- Default signature button— Quickly insert your default signature when composing individual emails.
Events
- Withdrawal date on events— Event attendee records now show the withdrawal date.
- Integrations & Assessments
- Multiple Kira assessments— Schools can now configure and send multiple Kira assessment invitations.
Student Profiles & Fields
- Custom field IDs displayed— Custom field IDs are now shown next to field names for easier identification.
- Hide citizenship and country of birth fields— Schools can choose to remove these fields from student profiles.
UI/UX
- New UI design system rollout— Select pages now use the updated design system for a more modern experience.
- Universal search UI improvements— Refreshed search interface for faster navigation.
- Dismissible system-wide notifications— Notifications can now be dismissed for the current session.
- Simplified contact modalities— Streamlined in-product contact options.
- Prior schools can view former students applying out— Prior schools now have visibility when a former student applies to another school.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where certain queries in the query builder failed to run.
- Fixed the lead email template chooser getting cut off on screen.
- Resolved slow refresh rate on the dashboard for queue numbers.
- Fixed waitlist decision values not being tracked in the Lead Source Conversion Report.
- Fixed an error when deleting email attachments.
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Hub
Features & Improvements
Communications & Email
- Custom subject lines for automated emails— Customize subject lines on reminder and confirmation emails.
Dashboard & Applications
- Application filtering on dashboard— Filter applications directly from the dashboard.
- "Show Me What's Left" repositioned with tooltip— The progress indicator has been relocated for clarity, with an explanatory tooltip added.
Account Creation
- Account creation flow improvements— Streamlined the account creation/guest browsing experience for new users.
UI/UX
- Dismissible system-wide notifications— System notifications can be dismissed for the current session.
- Simplified contact modalities— Streamlined in-product contact options.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where parents were unable to upload photos.
- Fixed a missing language in the student profile dropdown menu.
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Enroll
Features & Improvements
- Tags— Enroll now supports tagging (similar to Admit) for better organization and filtering of records.
- Simplified contact modalities— Streamlined in-product contact options.
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Configuration Now Open for School Year 2027–2028
🌟The 2027-2028 school year in TADS is now available for configuration in Admissions, Enrollment, Tuition Management, and Billing. This means that schools wishing to open any of those TADS modules early can now do so.
If you would like to begin preparing, please reach out to your TADS Implementation Specialist (or send an email to tads-implementation@venturedsolutions.com) and they can configure the modules for you and help with next steps. Otherwise, we will reach out later in the year to get the process started. Thank you!
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24/7/365 Support is Here!
All support now starts with our agentic chat-first experience in the bottom right of all VenturEd products – just a click away when you need help!
Read our FAQ for more information on how support is changing to better support you.
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Educate
Educate Release Note: MN v9.19.0 May 27, 2026
Wise Improvements and Bug Fix
🌟Improved WISE Reporting for Next Year Grade
- Starting with the 2025–26 school year, we now sendNext Year Grade Levelto WISE based on the student’s promotion details.
✅ What’s New
- Grade level is now calculated from Student Profile → Enrollment → History → Promotion Details
- Promoted to Next Grade→ Next grade is sent (e.g., Grade 2 → 03)
- Retained in Current Grade→ Current grade is sent (e.g., Grade 2 → 02)
- Default is “Promoted to Next Grade”(schools can adjust as needed)
No Change for Prior Years
2024–25 and earlier
will continue using the Repeat Grade Indicator
Why This Matters
- Helps prevent WISE errors related to missing: Next Grade Level, Exit Date / Exit Type
- Ensures smoother certification and accurate student progression reporting
✔️ Action Required
- Review and update Promotion DetailsandExit Informationfor students, especially for transfers or mid-year changes
- Send the updated data of the student to wise
🌟Bug Fix
Correct Attendance Days for Past Years
- Fixed an issue where attendance days were miscalculatedfor past school years.
- Now accurately uses the student’s enrollment start and end dateswith the condition that it is within the track start and end date.
Impact:
- More accurate attendance reporting
- Fewer discrepancies in WISE submissions
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Ravenna Admit
Ravenna Release Notes – May 2026
Admit
New Features & Enhancements
Events & Document Uploading for Starter
- Starter subscription schools now have access to the Events module and document uploading functionality. NAIS / DASL Admissions Report
- A new school-facing report under Ravenna Reporting that surfaces the admissions metrics required for NAIS/DASL submissions. Schools can now generate and export aggregated counts (inquiries, DNI, completed applications, DNC applicants, acceptance rate, international applicant data, and more) without Support assistance. Excel export included. Applicant Decline Report
- A new report showing applicants who have declined an offer of admission, along with the destination school (when provided) and results grouped by grade level — giving enrollment teams visibility into competitive trends. Export Payment Queue to CSV
- The Payment Queue page has been updated to the new React data list, with one-click CSV export for both payments and waivers. Reconciliation with external systems is now dramatically faster. Dashboard — Admission Season Selector Moved to Top
- The admission season selector now lives in the top header (similar to Enroll), making it easier to view and switch between seasons without scrolling. Funnel Statistics — Clarity Improvements
- New tooltips and modals explain Current Counts vs. Raw Data, provide definitions for each funnel stage (All, Started, Applied, Forms Complete, Complete, Offer, Accepted, Matriculating), and explain yield calculations — all without adding UI clutter. Lead Management
- Lead status can now be updated directly from the lead edit modal without needing a bulk action.
- The leads date filter now supports selecting a start and end date range for more precise analysis.
- Unlinked leads can now be deleted individually or in bulk, with a confirmation modal to prevent accidents.
- Admins entering leads manually can now include student name, date of birth, current grade, and apply grade. The potential match queue now also includes leads where student names match.
- Starter schools now have limited access to the Communications page to manage Lead email templates.
Family Event Sibling Logic
- Schools can now define a minimum application status threshold for sibling records to be created during family event registration — eliminating spurious "exploring" records for siblings of current students. Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Applicant Decline Report was hidden for schools that collect decision responses (it now displays correctly for those schools).
- Fixed an issue where forms containing <section> HTML tags could not be saved.
- Fixed an issue where delegated recommendation form links were not working for some delegates.
- Fixed duplicate Application and Inquiry Confirmation templates being allowed on the new Communications page — only one of each can now be created, matching the original behavior.
- Fixed an issue where test emails to younger siblings incorrectly pulled the older sibling's apply-to grade.
- Fixed <h2> heading tags not rendering correctly in decision template previews and the Hub decision tab.
- Fixed the Hub directory Preview button redirecting to the "Browse for Schools" page instead of the school's own listing.
- Fixed duplicate lead imports silently appearing to succeed — users now see accurate success/failure counts.
- Fixed an issue where the Leads list showed a template dropdown for Starter schools that didn't have access to create templates.
- Data Explorer: Added a clear, user-facing error message when attempting to delete a query that is associated with one or more workflow triggers, including a list of the associated workflows.
Hub
New Features & Enhancements
Improved Households Wizard -
The Households step in the application wizard has been updated to remove the "Primary Household" and "Make Primary" badges from the wizard view (the first household is still set as primary in the backend and can be updated from the profile page if needed). Instructional copy has been rewritten to be clearer and more inclusive of families with shared custody situations. Family Event Sibling Logic
- Sibling records are no longer auto-created as "exploring" during family event registration unless they meet the school's defined application status threshold — preventing spurious records for siblings of current students. Affordability Calculator Button Removed
- The Affordability Calculator button has been removed. Bug Fixes
- Fixed the Hub directory Preview button redirecting to the "Browse for Schools" page instead of the school's listing.
Enroll
New Features & Enhancements
Custom Fields in Email Templates -
Schools can now insert custom field tags into Enroll email templates so student-specific data populates automatically from each student's profile — enabling personalized communication at scale without manual entry. Bug Fixes
- Fixed an error when saving default filter and column display settings
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TADS
TADS Release Notes: MN v12.3.0 May 27, 2026
Defects and Maintenance
This release is focused on small maintenance items.
- Fixed an issue with Streamlined Enrollment that prevented “Financial Aid Blocking” from working correctly. This block is intended to prevent enrolling families who indicate they will apply for financial aid from signing their tuition agreement before their aid application and award assessment is complete.
- Fixed an issue that prevented School Administrator users from submitting Admissions Applications and Enrollment Registrations on behalf of parent/guardians when there were no fees being assessed with the form.
- Fixed an issue that prevented School Administrator users from adding primary households to Admissions Applications or Enrollment Registrations when that form did not already have a primary household added.
- Fixed an issue that caused Billing Accounts created by the submission of an Admissions Application to be incorrectly set to receive invoices by postal mail instead of email. The postal mail option was discontinued some time ago. With the release, all affected accounts will be corrected to receive emailed statements.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Admissions Applications and Enrollment Forms from correctly saving “Graphical Signatures” and their related consent text.
- Fixed an issue with the QuickBooks Online integration that prevented already-mapped QuickBooks accounts from being updated in TADS during the nightly sync when the account name was edited in QuickBooks.
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TADS Release Notes: MN v12.2.0 May 13, 2026
General System Enhancements for Admins | Charge Editing Improvements for Admins | Home Page Improvements for Families | Defects and Maintenance
This release contains a long list of small enhancements as well as various maintenance items and bug fixes.
General System Enhancements for Admins
- Updated the left sidebar navigation menu to automatically close when collapsed or clicking outside the navigation pane.
- Updated all standard data tables with totals rows at the bottom to include the totals rows when exported into Excel format.
- Added fields to the View Student Imports page to provide more clarity and visibility on imported students, as well as a student search option to allow users to find the batch in which a specific student was imported.
Charge Editing Improvements for Admins
We improved the new Charge Editing functionality recently introduced on billing accounts:
- Added the original charge amount at the top of the page when making charge edits. This will give users a static reference point on the original value, in case they are merely redistributing the charge across invoices and not trying to change the total assessed to the family.
- Updated the account's history log to show the new value to which the charge was adjusted. This update should make it easier for support teams and school administrators to trace back the history of events on an account when reviewing for accuracy, additional adjustments, or auditing.
Home Page Improvements for Families
We updated the “Start New Admissions Application” card on the household user dashboard, so users without an existing school to which they can start an application will now have a notice to contact their school for more information on their admissions process, rather than a link to start a new application. This update should reduce ambiguity on the dashboard and better direct parent users to action items relevant to their school.
- Admissions Applications are almost always started via links from the school’s website or specific communication sent by the school. If a parent user does not have an existing association to a school currently accepting applications in at least one year, and they don’t have a link, the user will need a setup code provided by the school to manually start a new application. This option is still available, and families can be linked to this interface by TADS Support, but we found that having it always available on the front page was more confusing to users than it was helpful.
In the above image, you can see the two possible cards:
- On the left is what appears if the user does not have ANY associated schools accepting applications in any school year.
- On the right is what appeared for all users prior to this update and what will continue to appear as long as the family has at least one associated school that is currently accepting applications in at least one school year.
Defects and Maintenance:
- Fixed an issue that was preventing submitted Admissions Applications from triggering an email notice to parents and subscribed school administrators.
- Fixed an issue on billing accounts with the date population of the "Create Multiple Invoices" feature that could cause some invoices to populate due dates other than the one selected.
- Fixed an issue with the School Administrator “Manage Admins” page that prevented ticket assignment changes from properly saving.
- Fixed an issue with the student import that was causing some students to bypass the “Pending” status and immediately import, which could cause peripheral issues with the student record.
- Fixed an issue with Admissions and Enrollment Waiting Lists that was allowing users to submit forms for wait listed students.
- Fixed an issue with Streamlined Enrollment and WaitingListOverrides that was still showing users the “Begin Enrollment” button afterthey submitted Enrollment from the WaitingListOverride status.
- Fixed an issue with Ravenna imports to TADS that could cause records with international phones or international addresses to fail.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Contracts to not reflect the correct text that was signed by the user in specific streamlined enrollment scenarios.
- Fixed two school year references on the Admissions Start Application page to correctly use custom school year names when present.
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