News & Updates
December, 2022
Hi again! Long time no see! October and November is usually our busiest months, filled with B2B events, internal conferences, exhibitions, and webinars. That didn’t stop us from releasing some of the greatest changes in InvitePeople’s history! Let’s start with the icing on the cake: emoji reactions are now available in all video meeting rooms! 🎉
A whole new administrator backend
We finally released our new administrator backend, which has been in the making for a long time. We hope you enjoy the more up-to-date design, smoother navigation, mobile friendlier, and more spacious admin UI.
Not just that! The whole thing is available in German, and every administrator can freely choose which language to use regardless of the event’s language settings. 🇩🇪
Keeping usability top of mind
Usability is often in the small things. Tiny little shortcuts, features, or changes that make your life a lot easier. We always try to find these and add them where possible.
Mobile number quality should increase since we added a new input field for phone numbers. Users will be able to enter their numbers in the local format that they are used to, the numbers are thoroughly validated and converted to international format so that you can send text messages to them.
Got lots of participants that should become company representatives? Click on the Connect to company icon in the participants’ list to quickly add them to an existing or new company. We will suggest and pre-fill a company based on the participant’s profile data.
More flexibility and using our features in different ways
We love it when we can allow more usage of our existing features by adding a little bit of flexibility to them. Our vision is that InvitePeople should be easy to use out of the box, but advanced users should still be able to modify events and set things up in their way. Sessions have gotten some more settings so that you can control which views to use, list view, schedule, or both. Company representatives can be set up so that the company name from their profile is visible instead of the connected company’s name.
A great example of flexibility is our new Engagement score feature. If you are familiar with the Gamification feature, the Engagement score works in the same way. It is just that the participants aren’t aware that they are collecting points. No leaderboard, no notifications, and no game plans. The Engagement score feature allows you to measure the participants’ engagement, interactions, and actions in events. What to measure is totally up to you!
Our ticketing system keeps evolving. The latest big addition to the suite is Personal additional tickets. This allows participants to buy or register for add-ons in the second step of registration. Selling lunch coupons, bar tickets, or bus transfers? Your imagination is the limit!
Meetings and matchmaking is one of our top priorities
Our story started with matchmaking many years ago, and we put pride in trying to deliver one of the best meeting platforms out there! We have released lots of updates to our Assigned meetings feature, where participants can rate who they like to meet, and you can auto-generate a meeting schedule based on this data.
Handling lots of meetings are time-consuming, and we love to automate things. In many cases though, things need to be done manually. We are dealing with humans after all. Right now we are adding lots of convenient functionality. For example, you can now control if notifications should be sent out when accepting or declining meetings on behalf of a participant.
The good old imports, exports, and APIs
Imports, exports, and the API are being updated continuously. We added a new import for lecturers, speakers, and moderators. Many of the exports can now be filtered so that you don’t have to pull all the data every time. The API has gotten two new versions, with more data for you to fetch.
Security-related changes that you should be aware of
Why are you suddenly getting New login to InvitePeople emails? Because we care about you! We understand these emails can become a bit annoying, but the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks. You should get one of these emails every time you log out and in again or log in from a new browser or device. This is to keep your account safe and make you aware of any unauthorized access to it.
Please beware that the Location presented in the email is approximate, and it might not be correct if you connect to the internet using a VPN.
If you are worried someone else is logging in to your account, please change your password, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you need help!