February 28th, 2025

February 2025

The following items have been released this mont

New Features

  • New volunteer role: Admins can now open a call for volunteers with a page to encourage volunteer sign-up and registration.

  • Meet the Team Page: Admins can display a profile directory of all event staff and volunteers on the front end so attendees can see who is part of the organizing team. This can be turned on for public view or ticket holders only.

  • Taxonomy customization: Admins can now rename the taxonomy for speakers, exhibitors, volunteers, and tickets to better suit their event naming conventions.

  • Admin Agenda Assign: Organizers can now pre-set the agenda for an attendee or volunteer and enforce it.

  • Ticket Categories: Admins can now create ticket categories to better improve the registration funnel and guide attendees to the right event ticket for them

  • Session Groups: Admins can now group together duplicate sessions so they are treated as one logical session. This is useful if you have session repeats and want attendees to attend only one of these grouped sessions.

  • Agenda Auto Assign: Admins can now create automated agenda rules based on the type of ticket purchased. When enabled, attendees registering for a ticket will have certain sessions automatically added to their agenda.

  • Attendee Agenda Suggest: Attendees registering for tickets will be able to select the session tracks that interest them. When doing so, an agenda will be created for them to match their interests.

  • Added support for the Volunteer role to the mobile app. Volunteers will get the same mobile app permissions as event managers to check-in attendees to the event and sessions.

  • Added Meet the Team directory page to the mobile app so attendees can find out who the event team are at the event.

  • Added the ability for event admins to enforce room capacity. Default setting is OFF. When enabled and the room is full, attendees will not be able to add the session to their agenda.

  • Added the ability for the event admin to restrict the number of sessions per track an attendee is allowed to add to their agenda. This is an event wide setting that affects all tracks.

Improvements

  • Alternative layout to homepage when there are no tickets on sale to reduce unused whitespace and bring other content into view.

  • Changed the phone number validation to accept phone numbers in standard and E.164 formats.

  • Added options to registration fields for attendees that optionally require profile completion.

  • Removed 24 hour time format from the frontend, time now shows in AM and PM format for better internationalisation.

  • Replaced long format time zone naming to 3 character ISO format to reduce space.

  • Added the valid entry times of tickets to the ticket cards so attendees know when their ticket is valid from and to.

  • Added option to enforce room capacity limits. When enabled the add to agenda feature will be disabled for sessions exceeding seating capacity.

  • Event admins can now export their sessions from the agenda to CSV

  • Event admins can now export their speaker profiles to CSV

  • Added the export of the user’s biography to volunteer CSV export

  • Added the number of sessions on an attendees agenda count to the active attendees table

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with editing event details where the time zone of the conference was not saving causing an error.

  • Fixed issue where loyalty discount badge was being incorrectly shown when coupon was applied.

  • Fixed bug with layout on session detail page.

  • Fixed issue where call for content closed 24 hours before it was supposed to.

  • Fixed issue where exhibitor admins received an error when saving changes to their event page.

  • Fixed issue where attendee does not complete their registration and hasn’t set a password causing them to receive an error when trying to login using the magic link.

  • Fixed issue that prevented the deletion of rooms

Deprecated

  • Download event agenda for attendees to PDF has been temporarily removed for performance reasons. This will be reintroduced in a future release when stabilised.

  • Removed the branding section from Events Admin as this is now controlled at organization level.