Added the ability for organizers to show the attendee directory. When enabled, the list of attendees and their profiles will show on the event website. Display options are public, ticket holders only, or off (default)
Organizers can now enforce room capacities so no attendee can add sessions to their agenda when there are no available seats (default off)
Limit Session Reservations - organizers can now limit the number of sessions per category that an attendee can add to their agenda
Restrict attendees from adding sessions outside of their ticket entry valid times. When set to on, attendees who are attending only part of your event will not be able to add sessions that fall outside of their ticket entitlement to their personal agenda
Prevent attendees from seeing sessions outside of their ticket valid period. When activated, any sessions that fall outside of the attendee’s ticket valid period will not display in the event schedule when they’re logged in
Added the ability to auto register users for an event by uploading a CSV making it easy for customers who want to use our badge printing solution to import their registration lists. Organizers can supply external ticket numbers so that our system will recognize existing issued tickets and print their badge. If no ticket number is provided, our system will generate one and organizers can choose whether attendees receive a ticket QR code email or not
Added the ability to receive incoming webhook requests to receive registration data from external systems allowing organizers to receive real-time registrations into our platform to use with badge printing or other features of our platform
Added the ability for external webhook so our platform can notify other systems like CRMs and email marketing platforms when registration data is created. This allows you as an organizer to automatically keep your systems updated and grow your contact list without needing to manually export
Improvements
Changed the group name ‘Exhibitor’ to ‘Exhibitor Admin’ to make a clearer distinction between users who are exhibitor admins that don’t have event tickets and ‘Booth Staff’ that are exhibitor staff with event tickets
Added an admin control setting to disable exhibitor logo editing by exhibitor admins giving organizers control on logo display. Default setting is ‘Allow Editing’
Added the ability for organizers to control when attendee’s are able to see their personal agenda. This is useful for organizers who are pre-setting agendas for attendees and want to not display it until they’re ready
All active attendee table list has been separated by attendee role. You can now view by role to separate attendees from speaker and exhibitors. There is also a filter for all ticket holders containing everyone
Badge Printing Kiosk
Added the ability to print attendee’s personal agenda onto the event badge
Added support for text wrapping so dynamic data can be printed multi-line instead of auto-resizing to fit on one line
Added the ability for attendees to search for tickets using their phone number
Mobile App
Added a new directory page that shows a list of volunteers and their profiles
Bug Fixes
Platform
Fixed issue where cancelled tickets leave ghost reservations on sessions causing fake seat counts
Fixed issue where changing of the ticket type for an attendee does not save
Fixed issue with some reports showing in the wrong currency
Badge Printing Kiosk
No bugs reported
Mobile App
Fixed issue with screen overlay when switching between events
Fixed issue with profile photos showing out of shape for volunteers
Fixed issue with ‘My Ticket’ display page not loading on first load attempt
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.
Organizations - customers will now be able to create organizations to containerize their event brands into business units and manage them centrally.
Team members - customers will be able to add their team members to their account and associate them with their organizations for administration.
CRM Capabilities - customers will be able to import their customers into contact lists and group them into organisations as well as categorize them. Admins will be able to view each contact to track their event sign-ups, add notes for team members, and send outbound email communication.
Email Campaigns - admins will be able to send email campaigns to contact lists with event merge tags to personalize the email. Admins will be able to create email templates using a web builder and save them for future use.
Branding - Added advanced branding capabilities for event admins to colorize the event web front end
Added the ability for conference admins to enforce preset agendas for their attendees. In time we will allow the event manager to set personal agendas for attendees, but for now presetting an agenda, please contact us for import.
Improvements
Added the ability to invoke a magic login link from constructed URL. Users can now add the following query strings to the login URL: ?email=user@domain.com&send_magic_link=1. This will auto log the user in once they receive the login link via email
Improved the mobile app stability.
Improved the badge printing kiosk software print options to print custom QR codes for encoded data that isn’t just a ticket number
Added support for bold and italic font handling
Fixes
Fixed issue with edit speaker where the delete action triggered on click on the speaker’s image
Fixed issue with secondary speakers in call for content not being able to accept their place
Fixed issue where zero amount transactions were represented in the wrong currency.
Fixed issue with admin added speakers not receiving the correct data in content backfill
Fixed issue where no transaction for a registration produced an 500 server error on invoice generation
Fixed issue with incorrect URL in new account email for resetting password.