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Version 3 Evolution

Version 3 (February 2020 – October 2023) was Eventene's operational-maturation era. The version opened with Public Events and Open Registration — a deliberate expansion of the platform's audience beyond invite-only events. It transformed during COVID into a virtual-event-capable platform, then matured into a true runtime operational system through Mobile App redesigns, QR codes, multi-event Credits, expanded user roles, and dormant infrastructure (Tags v1) that would only complete much later.

The v3 era is also when several long-running themes became architecturally visible: persistent participant identity (Eventene ID), multi-language support, recurring program coordination, and the operational sophistication that v4 would later build on.

Major themes

  • Public Events with Open Registration opened Eventene to a broader audience (v3.0)
  • Virtual events arrived as a direct COVID response (v3.1)
  • Mobile App redesign for v3 made the app a true runtime operational surface (v3.3)
  • QR codes entered the platform vocabulary (v3.15)
  • Credits and Packages introduced multi-Event participant continuity at the payments level (v3.8)
  • Multi-role coordination expanded with Associate and Event Staff user types (v3.9.7)
  • Tags v1 shipped as dormant infrastructure (v3.5.4) — completed years later in v4.8

Releases

This list shows minor releases only. Patch releases are summarized into their parent release. The full raw archive is preserved internally.

  • 3.0 — Public Events with Open Registration. The first deliberate market expansion beyond invite-only events. Attendees Visibility setting and Show / Hide Attendees options.
  • 3.1 — Virtual Events. External Link auto-detection for Zoom / Teams / Webex / YouTube / Vimeo / etc. Direct response to COVID-19 launching March–April 2020.
  • 3.2 — Calendar View (Month / Week / Day) in the Web App for both the Events List and per-Event Activities.
  • 3.3 — New Mobile App for v3. Complete redesign with offline support, Persona switching, and virtual-event linking. The first of two v3-era Mobile App redesigns.
  • 3.4 — Check In / Check Out in the Mobile App. Organizer-side runtime attendance tracking arrived on mobile, including multi-organizer offline sync with timestamp-based reconciliation (v3.4.2).
  • 3.5 — International Support. Localization for English, French, German, and Portuguese in Webforms and Event Websites. Additional languages (Spanish, Italian, Dutch) added later. Tags v1 shipped in this release series (v3.5.4) along with the surfacing of Eventene ID as a per-Person identifier.
  • 3.6 — Change Attendance in the Mobile App for organizers. Sections and Places visible across all Activities.
  • 3.7 — Response Timing with Link / From / To controls. Per-Activity registration windows.
  • 3.8 — Package Pricing (Credits). Cross-Event prepaid bundles tied to underlying Stripe Products. Credits never expire.
  • 3.9 — Manage Credits for Participants. Send Message action from Track. New user roles Associate and Event Staff arrived in this release series (v3.9.7), along with OAuth sign-in via Apple, Facebook, and Google. Payment Timer for enforcing payment during registration (v3.9.5). Split and Transfer Payment actions (v3.9.6).
  • 3.10 — Improved Events List in the Mobile App. Smart paging, redesigned list groupings, Profile Photos.
  • 3.11 — Event Description Tabs (up to 20). Auto-save in the rich-text editor.
  • 3.12 — Guest Registration. Participants could add other people to their account during registration, creating new Personas on the fly.
  • 3.13 — Linking Survey Responses to Group Fields. Bidirectional data flow between Surveys and Main Group profiles. Auto-update of dependent Subgroups when linked Fields change.
  • 3.14 — Email Color Schemes. Customizable Send button text and colors.
  • 3.15 — QR Codes. Event-level setting to enable QR-based check-in. QR codes in Confirmation emails. Pinch to zoom in the Mobile App.
  • 3.16 — Confirmations message type. Per-recipient confirmation emails (each Persona gets their own). Scan to Check Out in the Mobile App (v3.16.3).
  • 3.17 — Live Polls, Q&A, and Quizzes via Slido embed. The final v3-era attempt at engagement before v4 brought native Messaging.

A note on Tags v1

The first Tags implementation shipped in v3.5.4 (November 2020) as the ability to apply color-coded tags to people in a Main Group. However, the operational integrations — using tags in Subgroup rules, filtering by tags in Track, customizing column sets with tags — were never delivered in v3. Tags would remain dormant infrastructure for the next 5.5 years until Tags v2 completed the system in v4.8.

If you encounter older documentation referring to Tags from this era, treat it as the labeling primitive only. The Tags experience today (post-v4.8) is significantly more capable.

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