News & Updates
August, 2021
Seminars are now called sessions
We are constantly working on making InvitePeople easier to understand both for administrators and participants. Most often we try to make small and gradual changes to the administrator UI, but this summer we renamed one of the most important InvitePeople modules. Seminars are now called sessions to provide a more general and easier to understandable name. You will find the sessions and all the features around them in the same place, but the headline is different.
New features for workshops and breakouts
We have made video meeting workshops and breakouts easier to manage for administrators and moderators. A simple, but easy-to-use raise hand function will allow any participant in a workshop to turn on their camera or microphone until there are twelve active speakers. After that, any person who wants to join the discussion will have to raise their hand and be approved by a meeting moderator. This will allow hosting a larger workshop in a safe way.
When sending participants into breakout rooms, random or pre-booked, most often there are some no-shows and some rooms might end up with too few people in them. We added the ability to manually move single participants into other rooms so that no one will be alone.
Images in chats
A picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why we added image uploads to our chats. It’s up to you to enable this function for participants, but administrators will always be able to upload and publish images in chats. Be it announcements, advertisements, QR-codes leading to external quizzes or apps, or just mood-boosting pictures.
Trim and publish recordings quickly
InvitePeople have always put our recording and video-on-demand features as a high priority. Participants should be able to access recordings quickly if they miss out on any part of a live stream. It is crucial to give access to video-on-demand content while the event has the participant’s attention. Our new live stream recordings will be available to watch almost instantly when a live stream starts. It usually lags around a minute behind the live stream. Administrators could publish the whole recording in one chunk or use our trimming feature. For a longer live stream, every finished session can be trimmed out of the recording and published fast, sometimes within minutes.
More sponsors in one place with the carousel
We added a shortcode for publishing your sponsor, partner, or exhibitor logotypes in a rotating carousel. With this, administrators can add more logotypes using less space on a page. The sponsor carousel will make an event page a bit more vibrant and exhibit your sponsors in a tasteful way.
Updated payment solutions
Every year the mobile usage of InvitePeople increases and this shouldn’t affect your revenue. We updated our credit card payment solution to create a better, more user-friendly, and responsive experience for participants.
Actors in the public sector are required by law to use e-invoicing. With our invoicing feature administrators are now able to export invoices to PEPPOL BIS format, a widely used standard for e-invoicing.