News & Updates
February, 2022
We are only a month into the new year and we have already completed lots of events! Still mostly digital events and of course also some pivots from physical due to Omicron and new restrictions. We carry on, developing InvitePeople with focus on you, our dear customer. Interactivity, emails, support features, imports, and ticket sale VAT configurations have been on the agenda lately. Also, as always we continue pushing our video features. How about a whole new set of technical live stream data, and unlimited file sizes when uploading videos?
Use Best of Breed tools with our Interactivity add-ons
InvitePeople has built in support for polls and Q&A but sometimes you need more complex solutions, maybe including quizzes with points and leaderboards or advanced result views for live streams. We want you to be able to use the tools with the best fit in each situation. That’s why we created Interactivity add-ons and the possibility to integrate Vevox, Slido, Mentimeter, Kahoot and more third party tools into InvitePeople chats. Start up your quiz, competition, Q&A session or polling in your favorite tools and create an Interactivity add-on. Read more on how to use this here.
Lots of improvements for our Emails
The new email sender types, using either InvitePeople as a sender or your company name have been implemented and serving us well. The number of spam reports are going from low to very low. Another important change to fight the spam folder is our new un-subscription feature. It is quicker and easier to say no to all emails from an InvitePeople event, a necessity when sending out lots of emails. As a bonus we created a new, nicer looking and responsive email template that runs a lot better on mobile devices.
Two new features for smoother Support
We think that smooth support to participants is crucial for successful events. You and your team of administrators need to be able to act quickly. Thats why we added two new shortcuts when moderating chats and meetings. A new Send private message icon is now available for chats, allowing administrators to start a private message thread with a participant regardless of whether the initial chat message is hidden or not.
For the Ongoing meetings view, where you in realtime can monitor ongoing 1:1 meetings, we added a Join as administrator button to let admins check in on the meeting if there are participants missing or any other trouble. The button appearance and meeting event list is updated in realtime, giving clear feedback to the support team on which admin joined the meeting and when.
Expanded possibilities with Imports
Some of you are using external systems for handling participants, speakers and especially company representatives such as exhibitors or partners. If so, the new Company representative import will make your event preparations easier. It will allow you to import multiple Company representatives, connecting an unlimited number of participants to companies with the correct respective role.
We also shaped up the Participants and Sessions import functions. When importing or mass updating participants you may now set the time zone in the import file. When importing or mass updating sessions there are lots of new fields and settings for company name, booking kind, ticket type access, turning checkin on or off and the checkin internal link.
Ticket sale VAT configurations
Tax and VAT regulations can be difficult to grasp, especially when selling tickets for digital events to a global audience. Tickets to online events are usually considered digital assets, and are subject to other VAT rules than tickets to physical ones. We now have a wider range of settings to handle this complexity and can offer different kinds of reverse VAT charges for multiple payment methods. Please reach out to us, and we will try to help you set up your events so that you can comply with the regulations that applies to your events.