News & Updates

January, 2025


Happy new 2025! 🎆 When writing this the InvitePeople team has just finished our yearly kick-off. Three energized, forward-looking, and fun days filled with insights from 2024 and discussions about 2025. We are ready to bring it and can reveal some new Development Focus Areas. We will continue developing our Data Integrations and APIs. We will improve our onsite solutions to deliver more easy-to-use and cost-efficient badge printing. Most importantly, we will ramp up our AI developments to streamline, to begin with, internal processes. We believe in the personal meeting and want to keep giving you all great human-to-human support. With the help of GenAI and ML we can do just that, but quicker and more accurately. There are exciting times ahead and of course, some exciting recent releases to read about right now.

Matchmaking & Meeting Generation 🤝

  • A new feature for Assigned meetingsGenerated meetings has been released: Extend. The Extend feature is similar to the Copy feature but will instead of creating completely separate meeting generations create extensions of existing ones. This is useful when doing multiple generations, especially for complex matchmaking cases: for example across different meeting days, using different tags, or with different settings. When extending a generation the previous matches in the main generation and all other extended generations will be taken into account, and duplicated match-ups will be avoided. The Extend feature can also be used to squeeze in additional meetings if more Meeting partakers have been added to a Meeting party.

General Administrator Backend Improvements 💻

  • The main menu in the administrator backend has gotten two new categories: Communication and Reporting. Under Communication, you can now find: Event chat, Email batches, SMS batches, and Notification batches. Under Reporting, you can now find: Statistics and Exports. If the number of open sections in the menu becomes overwhelming, there is now a button at the bottom to close all expanded sections.
  • The Ticket checkin view has been reworked and updated to provide smoother filtering and a better overview of tickets. A new Choose ticket type filter has been added, that will both filter the participants and the checkin buttons visible. The top bar is now sticky, making it easy to access when scrolling down.
  • The Content managers list in the administrator backend can now be filtered by: All content managers, Content managers with at least one session, and Content managers with no sessions.

New Import Types 📄

  • A new import type has been added: Busy time slots. This allows you to import Marked as busy blocks into participants’ calendars. The calendars can be marked as busy either using the default free_slots mode or using the double_book mode. When using the free_slots mode only available slots will be marked as busy. When using the double_book mode the whole imported time slot will be marked as busy, potentially creating double bookings on top of existing meetings or sessions.

Exports and API Updates 💾

  • A new export Assigned meeting free time slots has been released. This new export contains all free calendar time slots for all Assigned meeting partakers together with basic partaker data and profile fields. It can be filtered by Meeting parties and Dates.
  • A new filter has been added to the All participants export. Content managers can now be filtered by: All content managers, Content managers with at least one session, and Content managers with no sessions.
  • The Ticket scans export now includes all ticket scans (eg. for add-ons and session tickets). It also includes more participant data such as Participant ID, First name, Last name, and the event’s profile fields.

SMS Pricing Update 📲

  • Our SMS pricing has been updated due to rising market prices for text messages. We know that text messaging is important to you, and have managed to negotiate and control the price levels. The Swedish pricing remains the same, and the German pricing has been decreased! The full price list can be found here: https://invitepeople.com/sms