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What's Changed Since the First Beta
We released the first NPPatch beta about a month ago. Here’s what’s been happening since. The short version: We’ve been replacing legacy layers, cleaning up the admin experience, and absorbing Program Management into the package. If you installed the early beta, the app you’d see today is meaningfully different - and if you haven’t installed it yet, now is a great time to try it out. A completely new Settings experience This is probably the most visible change. The entire NPSP Settings page - all 36 Visualforce panel pages and their 25 controllers has been replaced with a native Lightning Web Component.
March 26, 2026
Try the NPPatch Beta: A Step-by-Step Guide
The NPPatch beta is live, and we want you to try it. We believe the best way to serve the community is to build with the community - so we’ve put real effort into making this available without relying solely on command line tools. We’ve published a web-based installer at install.nppatch.com — and if it looks familiar, that’s because it’s an instance of MetaDeploy, the same tool that powers install.salesforce.org. If you’ve ever installed NPSP or EDA through that site, this is the same experience.
March 25, 2026
The Product Was Never Just the Product
I’ve been thinking a lot about what a product actually is. We talk about products like they’re a list of features. What can it do? How much does it cost? What’s on the roadmap? And sure, that matters. But if you’ve spent any real time in the Salesforce nonprofit ecosystem, you know the Nonprofit Success Pack was never just a set of features. It was never just household management and rollup calculations and recurring donation schedules.
February 16, 2026