This would have been nice to know up front, before we started testing the batches in NXT. I often need to come back to batches as we add checks over multiple days. The order is necessary to keep track of what has been entered and what has been reviewed. Now, I need to delete the whole batch and start over again because everything is out of place. If I had known this was going to be an issue our process would have been needed to be changed.

This is crucial for usability. When we enter checks, we need them to stay in order so when we validate a stack of checks we can go through our physical stack and compare to the batch. If the gift order is scrambled, this will become an onerous, time-consuming process rather than a quick double-check.

Received from a team member who reached out about this issue;

"I hope you're doing great and thanks for your patience!

I was able to reach out our product development team and they explained this behavior and this is how currently works:

Our gifts are all saved at the same time when you press save or save and review. Then the system will start registering all gifts at the same time and due to this behavior the system will save them in the order of which gift loaded faster which is not controllable and that's the order you end up with. Then after you save and you add another gift, it goes in order because is only 1

They understand the difficulties this can cause and they are going to start working on a feature that allow us to keep the gifts in the order they were entered. Not sure exactly how this will be implemented but I will let you know how it works once is completed. This might take some time to implement so I'll place the case on hold for 1 month to make sure I can follow up on and let you know once this is added"

Yes, we need to have the batch stay in the same order we enter. This has made it so difficult to go back and review my batches that I enter. It also makes entering my batch more time consuming. Please allow us to see the records in the order that we enter. I was so disappointed when they were out of order.

Yes absolutely. Why do they move around in the first place? Like Malory Kimble commented. I ended up having to go through each one, and then tick them off on my spreadsheet. It was extremely time consuming. If the amounts do not add up for instance, i would have to go through each gift, and as they're no longer in order of entry, id have to search in the batch for each one. This is also made harder by the fact there is no search option in the batches, nor constituent raiser's edge ID number - particularly when surnames can be the the same.

Keeping the gifts in the order they were entered is crucial for our org. We have different staff doing data entry vs double-checking and committing that data. The person checking/committing needs to be able to follow along the data and compare to the entry lines. Not having this functionality forces us to keep working in database view.

Yes pleaseee! I strongly support this! It is very frustrating when the batch order changes. It forces us to spend hours re-checking everything and makes it way too easy to make mistakes.

Yes Please! I have a batch of 80+ and am trying to hunt down a missing gift and compare and was coming to see if anyone was going to say this!