We’re thrilled to announce that Phoenix v1.45, our most ambitious Amp Impact release to date, is live!
This isn’t just another update—it’s a major milestone in Amp Impact’s evolution. Phoenix brings together long-standing feature requests from over 30 clients. Rather than phasing these enhancements across multiple releases, we made a bold decision last year: launch it all in one go.
This focused, collaborative effort spanned several months and multiple concurrent releases (we shipped Nashira, Orion, and two Many2Many releases along the way). The result? A release that takes Amp Impact’s features, flexibility, and user experience to a new level.
Every feature in Phoenix is available across the Amp Impact experience in Salesforce and in Partner/Grantee Portals, ensuring a consistent experience for all users.
Phoenix is designed to help organizations plan smarter, report faster, collaborate more easily, and create greater impact.
What’s New in Phoenix?
Smarter Indicator Disaggregation
Previously, Indicators in Amp Impact were limited to a maximum of two levels of disaggregation (e.g., Sex and Age), so organizations needed to create additional Project Indicators if they needed to break down an Indicator in more ways. Phoenix changes that—allowing up to six custom Disaggregation Groups per Project Indicator, facilitating simpler results reporting with greater precision.
Two powerful ways to structure disaggregations:
- Stacked View: See totals for each group independently for quick, high-level insights
- Nested View: Understand intersections between groups for a more granular breakdown
Bonus: This feature supports cross-disaggregation by sex and works seamlessly with Excel download/upload templates for bulk edits.
This was one of the most requested new features, with organizations like Plan International, World Vision International, and WaterAid among those supporting us in the new designs.
Manage Framework Objectives via Excel
Building, collaborating on, or updating logframes just got easier! With Phoenix, users can download, edit, and upload Framework Objectives in Excel—enabling offline collaboration and streamlining large-scale updates or migrations.
- Add or update framework objectives
- Define parent-child relationships
- Get error logs to fix any unsuccessful uploads
This enhancement responds to consistent feedback from clients like SOS Children’s Villages and World Vision International, who wanted a more efficient way to collaborate and manage logframes offline.
Budget Planning & Reporting Made Simple
This is the feature so many of you have been waiting for! The new Financials interface has been one of the most requested functionalities in Amp Impact’s history—with numerous organizations asking for a slicker way to manage budgets and report expenditures in the system without having to use Excel.
With Phoenix, we’re delivering on that promise. The new interface helps users move beyond static spreadsheets to dynamic, collaborative workflows.
Two new Lightning Web Components make this possible:
- Plan Budget: Manage budget line items, input amounts directly or calculate them (quantity × unit cost), group items by any field, and submit for approval.
- Report Expenditure: Track actuals vs. planned amounts, log any unplanned costs, and view expenditure across periods.
Additional features include:
- Plan and report budgets at different frequencies, for example, plan the budget annually, and report expenditure quarterly
- Auto-calculations for common categories like salaries and travel
- Customizable filters for quick analysis
- Budget locking for control and governance
“I feel ‘heard’. That is the word for me today. Thank you for improving the system with the financials component. I am excited to try it.”
– Noor Abdulqadir, HODI
Watch the Phoenix Release Walkthrough
Get a full tour of Phoenix and see the new features in action.
Access Technical Documentation
All detailed upgrade instructions, configuration steps, and feature documentation for Phoenix are now live on the Amp Impact Knowledge Base.
Ready to Upgrade?
Upgrading to Phoenix isn’t just about accessing new features—it also delivers significant technical optimizations, bug fixes, and performance enhancements, making this upgrade (along with others) a smart move for system stability and efficiency.
To explore the full details, check out our Phoenix Release Notes.
If you’d like to upgrade to Phoenix or need support with the process, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager or contact us at success@verasolutions.org. We’d be happy to schedule a demo or a 1:1 session to walk you through the new features and discuss how they can best support your organizational goals.
“Phoenix challenged and stretched us in the best ways. With 200+ mockups, 3,700+ test cases, and over 11,000 logged hours, this release has been a journey of growth and deep collaboration. We hope implementing Phoenix brings you as much pride as building it brought us.”
– Our Product Manager, Harshula
