Thank You, Team and Customers: Celebrating Six Months of Innovation
“As we kick off the latter half of 2024 at Accelevents, we're thrilled to celebrate the amazing progress we've made. The tools we've introduced this year mark significant milestones in our mission to deliver powerful, intuitive, and flexible event technology.
I want to extend my sincere gratitude to our dedicated team for their relentless drive towards innovation, and to our valued customers, especially those on our Customer Advisory Board, for their invaluable feedback and insights.
Here's to another 6 months of pushing boundaries and redefining event management together. Let's maintain our momentum and achieve even greater success in the months ahead!”
Explore Our Top New Features
In the first six months of 2024, we have launched 13 major updates aimed at enhancing the event experience, placing particular emphasis on optimizing our mobile app for attendees.
Throughout, our focus has been on refining every aspect of the event experience. The result? An intuitive event management platform that makes it easy to host events of any size, format, and complexity.
Here are the standout new features that have resonated most with our customers, grouped into key areas to help you explore what matters most to you:
- Event Website Creation
- Registration
- Check-In
- Badge Management
- Agenda Management
- Meeting Management
- Mobile App
- Virtual Event Hub
- In-Person Event Management
- Email Marketing & Management
- Integrations
- Engagement
- Survey Management
Event Website Creation
Enhanced Drag-And-Drop Event Website Builder
Build a stunning website in no time. Our advanced event page builder is now even faster and more user-friendly!
You can now include advanced website builder templates and pages when duplicating events
Attendees now have the option to sign in from the event landing page using a magic link if they forget their password.
Event Registration
Expanded Editing Options For Orders Uploaded Via CSV
Streamline order management by editing orders uploaded via CSV.
Automatic Discount Application via HubSpot Integration
Automatically apply discounts to an order, based on a HubSpot contact property value. Select any contact-level property and its corresponding value to trigger the discount through your Accelevents and HubSpot integration.
Here’s an example of a discount applied when the contact property “member” is set to “yes,” indicating that the registrant is a member:
For more information on automatic discounts via HubSpot visit our knowledge base.
Passwordless Registration for Attendees, Speakers, and Exhibitors
Passwordless registration is now available for all event participants - attendees, speakers, and exhibitors.
Personalize the buyer experience and boost upsell revenue by linking the perfect add-ons to each ticket type. Ideal for crafting tailored sponsorship packages!
Admins can now swap any ticket type without requiring re-registration. This includes switching between free ticket types, exchanging between free and paid tickets, or swapping lower-priced tickets for higher-priced ones.
Drive revenue by applying discount codes to tickets and now also add-ons.
Apply access codes to add-ons, giving you more control over who can purchase event extras.
Pre-Selected Country & State Fields
For speedy registration, the “country” and ‘state” fields will automatically pre-populate with the attendee’s current location.
In-Person Tickets For Speakers
Assign your speakers a free ticket to join a session with just one click.
Disable automatic refunds to offer alternative refund methods or credits instead.
When importing attendees into Accelevents, you can now add both ticket types and add-ons to the CSV file.
Customized Order Confirmation Pages & Emails
Customize confirmation pages and emails by ticket type to personalize the registration experience.
Generate URLs that direct buyers to a registration page showcasing only selected ticket or registration types. Ideal for targeted marketing campaigns!
Event Check-In
Easy Self Check-in For In-Person Sessions
Attendees can check themselves into an in-person session by scanning the unique QR code on their mobile app.
Capacity Restrictions For Items With Limited Availability
During check-in via kiosk-mode, attendees can reserve event items by answering a multiple-choice question, with available answers limited by capacity. Once an option, such as meal or t-shirt size options, reaches its limit, it becomes unavailable.
Here is an example of a multiple-choice question with capacity limits for various meal choices:
Badge Management
Easily print colorful badges from nearly any printer, thanks to our PrintNode Printer Server support.
Dynamically Print Badge Colors
For color printers like the Epson C4000, our new dynamic text color option allows you to automatically change badge color text based on the answers given during registration.
Choose whether attendees can reprint badges multiple times at a kiosk, or only allow administrators to do so through the Admin Console.
Facilitate logistics and access control by designing badges that display purchased add-ons like “backstage access” or “luncheon guest.”
Agenda Management
Save time by mass editing capacity, location, close-captions, session type, and interactivity settings for chats, polls, and Q&A.
Tags & Tracks Included In Session Bulk Uploads
Simplify session management by including tags and tracks in your session csv uploads.
Meeting Management
Enhanced Meeting Management For Admins
- Set Meeting Slots: Designate specific time slots for meetings before and after key sessions to prevent scheduling conflicts and ensure attendees fully engage with your content.
- Flexible Meeting Scheduling: Pre-schedule meetings or arrange them on the spot during the event.
Disable meetings, restrict them to certain ticket types, or set specific time frames for meetings - now available across web and app!
Mobile App For Attendees
We've streamlined the dashboard, sidebar menu, “My Booth” area, and bottom tab for a more intuitive user experience.
Boost sponsor visibility in the app by creating dynamic sponsor carousels that showcase multiple sponsors.
Detailed Targeting for Push Notifications
Create tailored messages for "All Speakers," "All Exhibitor Admins," or "All Event Admins & Staff" and deliver them directly to the app.
In-Session Polls That Drive Engagement
Gather insights and boost engagement with in-session polls.
Post-Session Surveys For Instant Feedback
Our Mobile App now automatically launches post-session surveys to collect faster, more comprehensive session feedback. Surveys will appear as pop-ups during virtual and hybrid events, and in the activity tab for in-person events.
Lounges That Encourage Topic-Focused Meetups
Our popular virtual lounges are now available on the App. Organize topical meet-ups within your event or allow attendees to submit their own lounge.
Lounge Access Restrictions Now Available On App
Restrict lounge access based on ticket type. For in-person events, these restrictions now apply across web and app to ensure consistent access control.
Profile Image Updates On The Mobile App
Now attendees can snap a selfie to update their profile photos directly through our mobile event app.
Enhanced Attendee Directory Filters
Attendees can easily find and connect with the right people using our improved filters on both the App and the Virtual Hub. Our filters use registration info for broader searches and allow Admins to select filter criteria.
Early Session Access On The App
Access a session before it starts to prepare polls and downloadable handouts.
In our white label app, you now have the option to selectively show or hide white-labeled events from your audience.
Mobile app users can now log into the event using either a password or a magic link, and they can also create or change their password directly within the app.
Virtual Event Hub
Studio Streaming Resolution at 1080P
We now offer higher-resolution options for RTMP and studio streaming, improving the visual quality of virtual and hybrid events.
In-Person Event Management
Advanced Session Settings For In-Person Events
Configure permissions for attendees to self check-in, chat, answer session-specific polls, view the attendee list, engage in session Q&A, and ask questions in private mode.
Email Marketing & Management
Track the status of emails sent to attendees, easily monitoring whether emails have been sent, delivered, or opened.
Enhanced Targeting For Emails & Push Notifications
Send bulk messages to:
- contact lists and/or individually entered custom recipients
- attendees segmented by ticket type, check-in status, or participant type (attendees, buyers, speakers, exhibitors)
Effortlessly incorporate tables into your email designs and event landing pages.
Add QR codes to your reminder emails via a merge tag so attendees don’t need to open a PDF to get their QR code.
Integrations
Our new SessionBoard configuration section makes it easy to set up sessions, speakers, exhibitor booths, exhibitor admins, and sponsors to import from SessionBoard into Accelevents.
Attendee Engagement
Gamification That Drives Engagement
Award attendees gamification points for completing their profile, checking into events, connecting with each other and participating in Q&A sessions, chats, and polls. Boost engagement even more by encouraging them to scan each other’s QR codes as part of a scavenger hunt.
Exhibitor & Sponsor Management
Boost Meeting Management For Exhibitors
Booth admins and staff can view their own and their team's scheduled meetings at a glance, arranged in a user-friendly grid - both on the app and web!
Survey Management
Customize the message displayed when attendees finish a survey to reflect your brand's voice and tone.
Get more feedback and better event insights by letting attendees complete surveys without logging in
Stay Tuned for More Updates!
Congratulations! You’ve reached the end of this epic list of product updates! But guess what? We’ve got even more innovations coming your way in the second half of 2024! Check out our Product Updates page for fresh releases every two weeks. New mobile app updates will be dropping soon!
