Changelog. Everything we've shipped, newest first.

Since February 2026, Clerestory has shipped more than 1,200 improvements across 61 versioned releases. Dates are when each release reached customers. Some features are switched on per organization under Settings → Features, so a feature listed here is available to you, not necessarily on by default.

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How fast we build

1,200+
improvements since February 2026
61
versioned releases
25
releases from September 1 to October 14
13
releases in the first 14 days of October

October 2026

October 14 · v1.46.0

Pledges, stock and DAF gifts

  • Pledges, switched on in Settings → Features: payment schedules, automatic card payments, write-offs, imports and an Outstanding Pledges report.
  • Record gifts of stock and donor-advised fund grants, with the advisor credited and thanked.
  • The Event Transactions report: every item sold or given at an event, adding up to the event's total to the cent.
  • The New Members report, showing whether an event or class purchase brought each member in.
  • Move an event order to another event, or turn a checkout gift into an add-on.
  • Every filter and sort a report offers now works.

October 12 · v1.45.0

The right access for every person

  • Seven ready-made team roles, from Owner to Front desk and Viewer, enforced everywhere, not just hidden on screen.
  • Owners and Administrators can preview the dashboard as any role.
  • The full receipt for any payment in the supporter portal, with giving by year.
  • A Volunteers area with standing weekly shifts and a public sign-up page.

October 12 · v1.44.0

Staff alerts, your way

  • Each person on your team can switch staff alerts on or off for themselves.
  • Custom confirmation emails, written by your organization.

October 11 · v1.43.0

The Supporter CRM

  • Tributes, email engagement, multi-step automations, volunteers and grants.
  • A page for every payment, gift, membership, event order and shop sale, with real links between them.
  • Liability waivers for events.
  • A switch for every automatic email.

October 8 · v1.41.0–v1.42.0

Your brand on every page

  • A brand kit with "Match my website": your fonts and colors on forms, public pages, the donor portal and emails.
  • A different brand for each form, if you need one.
  • Minimum and maximum tickets per order.

October 6–7 · v1.39.0–v1.40.1

Move a payment to anything

  • Reassign any payment to an event, membership dues, the shop and more.
  • One refund dialog everywhere.
  • An image slot in your letterhead footer.

October 5 · v1.38.0

Search everything

  • ⌘K global search and a "+ New" button on every screen.
  • Features settings: choose which features your organization uses.
  • Bookkeeper and treasurer reports.

October 5 · v1.37.0

Households and Communications

  • Households and relationships, for family memberships and for businesses and their people.
  • A Communications area with opt-out management.
  • The People report: build your own list of supporters.
  • Shipping for online shop orders.
  • A check-in scanner for every event.
  • Every email in the new Letter design, with your logo.

October 2 · v1.36.0

Event orders

  • Order numbers for every event order, and an Orders view.
  • A link to the Help Center from inside the app.

September 2026

September 29–October 1 · v1.35.0–v1.35.4

A new Overview

  • An Overview built around what needs doing next.
  • Bookkeeping reports brought up to date.
  • A switch to turn sales tax off.
  • A private member directory.

September 28 · v1.34.0

Auctions

  • Silent and live auctions, with guests bidding from their own phones.
  • Dues levels available to every organization.

September 25 · v1.33.2

Raffles, and renewals we run ourselves

  • Memberships and recurring gifts now renew on Clerestory's own renewal engine, with Stripe collecting the payments.
  • Raffles.
  • Redesigned Events and Campaigns.

September 16–17 · v1.32.0–v1.33.1

Gala paddle raises

  • Paddle raises for gala nights.
  • Lifetime giving shown before fees and after refunds.
  • Easier sign-in, and donor pages that open on giving history.
  • Email everyone attending an event.
  • Headshots in the member directory.

September 6 · v1.31.0

Clerestory goes live

  • The platform launches under its new name, Clerestory.
  • Event add-ons.
  • Custom fields for donors, members and events.
  • Your own note on receipts.
  • Treasurer reports that reconcile to a bank statement.
  • Classes.

September 2 · v1.30.0

Groundwork for the new name

  • Our largest release so far: 71 changes preparing the move to Clerestory.

August 2026

August 27–28 · v1.28.0–v1.29.0

Ticket transfers and sponsor showcase

  • Move a ticket from one ticket type to another.
  • Fair market value on every product line.
  • Custom fields shared across products.
  • A sponsor showcase, with logo upload.

August 20 · v1.26.0

Payout reconciliation

  • Members-first ticket sales.
  • Payout reconciliation, from import through report to export.
  • Refund any payment from the dashboard.

August 18 · v1.25.0

Rebuilt emails

  • Thirty email templates rebuilt to one standard.

August 14–18 · v1.22.0–v1.24.0

Fees you can trust

  • Donors and organizations see the fee they were quoted.
  • Fees covered by donors are shown separately.
  • Refund and dispute fees taken from Stripe's actual charges.

August 5 · v1.21.0

Class catalog

  • A catalog of your classes.

August 1 · v1.20.0

Active Members report

  • An Active Members report.
  • A template gallery grouped into categories.

July 2026

July 30 · v1.19.0

A more secure kiosk

  • Kiosk security: rotating device tokens and an organization PIN.
  • The new kiosk, one point of sale for everything, is now the default.
  • Edit a donor's contact details.

July 27 · v1.18.0

Giving history

  • Giving history on every donor.
  • Admission receipts.

July 19–25 · v1.16.0–v1.17.0

Accuracy and reliability

  • More accurate retail tax and receipts.
  • More reliable recurring payments, email delivery and dispute handling.

July 14–16 · v1.14.0–v1.15.0

Keyed card entry

  • Custom fields in the member directory.
  • Keyed card entry at the kiosk.
  • One-time giving levels.

July 8 · v1.13.0

Security and reliability

  • Security and reliability improvements across the platform.

May and June 2026

June 10 · v1.11.0

Offer codes for memberships

  • Membership pricing with offer codes.

June 2–4 · v1.6.8–v1.10.0

Donor portal QR code

  • A link and QR code for your donor portal.
  • Editable membership dates.

May 9 · v1.6.0

Walk-up admission

  • Walk-up admission ticketing for museums and venues, with a kiosk launcher.

February to April 2026

March 28–April 10 · v1.2.0–v1.5.1

Events and memberships

  • Names on membership listings.
  • Full event setup when you create an event.
  • Fixes and refinements.

March 26 · v1.1.0

Giving levels

  • Giving levels.
  • QuickBooks Online for organizations with more than one entity.
  • Donors manage their own event attendees.
  • Clean, readable form addresses.

March 24 · v1.0.0

Version 1.0

  • Our first versioned release.

February–March · before versioned releases

The foundations

  • A kiosk redesigned for iPad.
  • A reporting dashboard, with CSV and PDF export and scheduled reports.
  • QuickBooks Online and Mailchimp.
  • Several legal entities in one organization, each with its own Stripe account and EIN.
  • Membership dues, with auto-pay and proration.
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