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Category: USING BEACON
Posts that describe how to use Beacon’s features; or any handy tips and tricks
Changing your Beacon Administrator
If your U3A has changed its Beacon administrator there are two things you need to do. A new step by step video will guide you through the process.
Latest User Guide Always to Hand
A link to the latest User Guide has been added to the footer of this site.
Improvements to Beacon’s Finance Module
February will bring significant improvements to the way Beacon handles ledgers, with renamed fields, improved sorting and better handling of credit batches.
Working with the member list
Member lists are at the heart of the Beacon system, and there are several features and tools available to users to make it easy to select some, all or none of the members on a given list – so you don’t need to tick them off one by one On all lists, you can click […]
Managing financial accruals with Beacon
Following my last notes in the Beacon Newsletter on using the Beacon Finance Package, where I presented a case for using a membership ledger in order to keep the current account uncluttered. Another area of the Finance Package which gets a bad press is its lack of ability to deal with accruals. In my discussions […]
Spellchecking
This month’s tip for using Beacon is about spellling. As you may know, the Beacon software does not currently include a spellchecker. However, many web browsers now include a facility for checking spelling within the browser itself. One example is Google Chrome, which has a spellchecker that is usually enabled by default. If you’d like […]