News & Updates

May, 2025

We at InvitePeople are very pleased to continue offering a service that is becoming increasingly secure, accessible, and compliance-friendly. We’re especially delighted to receive positive feedback from users who value our approach to security and data protection. Security and user-friendliness don’t always go hand in hand, but in the long run, we all benefit from continuously working to safeguard everyone’s data. This newsletter is packed with updates, big and small, that enhance both security and usability. Enjoy!

Two-Factor Authentication 🔐

• An updated Two-Factor Authentication module has been released, and is available for all users of InvitePeople at My account → Edit account. Once set up, you will authenticate using a second factor before entering the administrator backend and logging in from a new device. While there are multiple authentication methods available, we recommend using an Authenticator-App such as Microsoft Authenticator, iCloud Passwords, or Google Authenticator. As of today Two-Factor Authentication is optional, but by the end of November 2025, all administrators will need to set up a second authentication factor. Please don’t wait, do it today!

Visitor Tracking & Cookie Policies 🍪

• You can now manage Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, and Matomo Tag Manager integrations at Settings → Event settings → Visitor tracking. Please remember that when using third-party tracking tools, you need to publish a Cookie Policy and a Cookie Popup.
• Publishing your Cookie Policy is now a lot easier. Go to Settings → Event settings → Visitor tracking and enter your Cookie Policy either directly into a text editor or enter a URL leading to it. This action will trigger a Cookie Popup on all event pages, allowing visitors and participants to read the policy and opt in or out of tracking.

Email Templates ✉️

• We have added a new email template feature to make email sending more efficient. You will find it at Settings → Email settings → Email batch templates. Templates for email batches can be copied into new send-outs by clicking on Copy from email batch template, similar to when copying from previous batches. An Email batch template can also be Set as default, making it the default text each time a new Email batch is created.

Matchmaking & Meeting Generation 🤝

• A new setting for Meeting parties is available: Default meeting kind. When setting Meeting kind to 1-1 or Group meetings, you can choose the default meeting kind (1-1 meetings or Group meetings). This way you can nudge meeting partakers towards selecting 1-1 meetings or group meetings, but allowing them to freely opt for their preferred choice.

Sessions & Schedules 📅

• New filters for the Session cards widget has been added: Filter by time conditions, Filter by days, and Filter by locations. Filter by time conditions filters out sessions that are upcoming, ongoing, or passed. Filter by days filters out sessions taking place on specific days. Filter by locations filters out sessions taking place in specific locations.

General Administrator Backend Improvements 💻

• We have improved the experience for our super-users, often navigating InvitePeople with many browser tabs open. The page titles and favicons have been updated to differentiate the various sections of InvitePeople more clearly.
• There is a new item at the top of the left menu in the administrator backend, indicating who you are (the logged-in user) and which roles you’ve got.
• Three new codes are available when editing event pages: /*EVENT*/, /*TIME*/, and /*PLACE*/. The /*EVENT*/ code outputs the event name, the /*TIME*/ code outputs the time and dates of the event, and the /*PLACE*/ code outputs the location and address of the event. These new codes come in especially handy when working with Event templates.

Imports & Exports Updates 💾

• The Import wizard has been updated to emphasize the importance of excluding empty columns and preventing data loss. We have made warnings more prominent and columns with no data are clearly marked with a No data in column label. The columns are also excluded from the import by default. If you explicitly want to delete data using an empty column, you can include that column manually.
• A new filter for the export All participants, found at Reporting → Exports → Create list is available: Include company details. When checking this box, company details and profile fields will be appended to the list for participants who are company representatives. Include company details is on by default when pulling the list Only exhibitor representatives.