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By bgm Filed under Interface and design

Around July last year, I wrote a blog post about a few user interface changes that might go unnoticed to most (covering versions around 5.55 to 5.65). Here are a few more changes that have been introduced in versions 5.75 to 5.80.

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By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. This month, we present one of our most used extensions: Donation Receipts. It supports administrative processes around donation management.
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By AllenShawFiled under
Regular scanning for duplicates is an important part of good data hygiene, but it's certainly no fun; this extension does it for you in your sleep.

Duplicate contacts in your CRM are a source of trouble.

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By bgm Filed under Extensions

CiviCRM 5.79, which will be released around November 7 2024, will include a slightly different experience for administrators who wish to install extensions. On the surface, it is a rather small change which will make CiviCRM easier to use though it may have a bigger impact for CiviCRM hosting providers and for extension developers.

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By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. In this blog series, we want to showcase some of the Civi tools we are most proud of: and the funding framework is a big one! Thanks for reading on.
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By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
CiviCRM has a lot of entities tailor-made for a non-profit’s CRM needs. Contacts, participants, memberships, activities and many more. But what if you want to keep track of a different “thing” in Civi? Well, we’ve got just the thing!
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By josh Filed under Marketing and Promotion

Next year, CiviCRM will celebrate 20 years of existence! And while some things have changed dramatically in both the community and software, our mission has remained the same: to ensure that all organizations, regardless of size, budget or focus, can access a world-class CRM.

Our commitment to this mission is as strong as ever and is, in fact, a primary driver behind an impending change in how we present CiviCRM via https//civicrm.org, its primary marketing channel.

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By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
In this blog series, we introduce the wide range of extensions, modules, and other tools SYSTOPIA has developed for CiviCRM users over the years. Today’s about our “matchmaker” XCM – a crucial gear in almost all setups that connect Civi with external sources.
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By aydunsFiled under

In 10 weeks, an amazing/varied/mega-talented selection of the CiviCRM community will be enjoying the UK Sprint & Developer Training 2024.

Join us!

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By nicol Filed under Architecture

At CiviCamp Hamburg at the start of June it was nice to finally share for the first time a project to improves how CiviCRM looks I've been working on for several years, alongside Rich 'Artful Robot' Lott and in close discussion with the core team.

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