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Drupal 12 arrives in December, the same week Drupal 10 support ends
Drupal 12 is scheduled for the week of 7 December, and Drupal 10 reaches end of life on 9 December. If you are still on 10, the clock is now short.
Charity accounting thresholds change on 30 September. Can your systems report the new way?
The Charity Commission has updated its accounts guidance for SORP 2026 and new income thresholds. The finance rules have changed. Your data may not have.
New subscription rules brought forward to January 2027: what membership bodies need to change
The DMCC Act subscription regime now goes live in January 2027, earlier than expected. Auto-renewing memberships will need reminders, cooling-off periods and online cancellation.
Buy Now Pay Later is now regulated. Here is what it changes at your checkout
Since 15 July, third-party BNPL lenders have been regulated by the FCA. Lenders carry most of the burden, but the checkout journey is still the retailer's to get right.
PPA Next Gen Awards 2026: winners named ahead of the 8 October celebration
The PPA has named this year's Next Gen winners, with the celebration on 8 October in Shoreditch. The roles on the list say a lot about how publishing teams are changing.
Gift Aid at the point of giving: getting the declaration right
Where the declaration is captured decides how much of the claim survives an audit. Usually it is captured in the wrong place.
What a CRM migration really costs you in staff time
The licence is the small number. Data cleansing, parallel running and retraining are where the year goes.
Why your donation form is the slowest page on the site
Third-party scripts, an iframe and a redirect. Each one costs you supporters who meant to give.
Replatforming without losing fifteen years of SEO
Redirect maps are the boring part of a rebuild and the one that decides whether trade holds up in month two.
Trade pricing, and why it breaks most off-the-shelf carts
Account-specific prices, minimum quantities and credit terms are normal in B2B and unusual in the platforms sold to it.
Stock accuracy is a process problem before it is a software one
No integration fixes a warehouse that books goods out at the end of the day. Decide where the truth lives first.
One member record: what it actually takes to get there
Four systems, four versions of the same person. Consolidation is mostly a series of decisions about who owns which field.
Renewals are a design problem, not a reminder problem
If lapsing is easier than renewing, more email will not save you. Look at the twelve months before the renewal date.
Running events and membership on one platform
Member pricing, waiting lists and CPD records stop being integrations and start being fields. What that changes.
Migrating twenty years of archive without losing the taxonomy
The tags are the asset. Mapping an old vocabulary onto a new one is editorial work, not a script.
Editorial tools people will use at 4pm on deadline
Every extra required field is a workaround waiting to happen. Design the CMS for the worst hour of the day.
Paywalls, metering and the reader you already have
Most metering models are tuned for acquisition. Tuning one for retention looks quite different.
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