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Version 4 Evolution

Version 4 (December 2023 – present) is Eventene's current era. Where earlier versions focused on building and stabilizing the core architecture, v4 layered new strategic pillars onto that foundation: real-time messaging, sponsor lead generation, participant gamification, and operational coordination through unified scanning.

The v4 Mobile App redesign at the start of the era reaffirmed Eventene's commitment to the Mobile App as the platform's runtime surface. The releases that followed treated the Mobile App as the operational nerve center — adding messaging, badges, lead capture, and point-earning workflows that would have been awkward or impossible without a mature mobile foundation.

A defining v4 milestone was the Tags v2 release (4.8, April 2026), which completed a five-and-a-half-year dormant-infrastructure thread by finally integrating Tags into Subgroup rules, Track filters, and column sets. That release exemplifies a recurring v4 pattern — finishing work that had been started, not just adding new things.

Major themes

  • Native engagement layer — Messaging Center, Lead Generation, and Points became three distinct platform pillars
  • Identity surfaced — the Digital Badge, magic-link authentication, additional OAuth providers, and email-privacy hardening made the participant's identity a first-class, visible artifact
  • Operational unification — the Floating Action Button consolidated scattered scanning entry points; activity-card sign-up began softening the rigid step-based registration model
  • Segmentation completion — Tags v2 finished what v3.5.4 started

Releases

This list summarizes at the minor (0.x) release level. Patch releases within an era (e.g., 4.8.1–4.8.6, 4.9.1–4.9.4) are rolled up into their parent minor release and listed inside it, newest patch first. For the detailed, plain-language rundown of each patch, see What's New. The full raw archive is preserved internally.

4.9 — New Pages menu, Summary & Track redesign, Communication improvements

July 2026 – present. Now the current release line. The 4.9 era reworked the surfaces organizers use most — a dedicated home for Event Website content, a rebuilt Summary, and a cleaner Track selector — and put email consent in participants' own hands.

4.9.4 — Self-service email opt-in / opt-out. A new Communication Preferences section (Account → Profile) lets participants and organizers control which organizations may email them, with a per-organization Email Delivery switch; anyone who previously used an email's unsubscribe link can now turn those emails back on themselves. Owner, Admin, and Organizer roles can also restore delivery for someone who explicitly asks, from Track → Overall Event → Email Tracking → Unsubscribes. Both build on Eventene's existing per-organization unsubscribe model — there is no new global email switch.

4.9.3 — Improvements to the activity selector in Track. Track's left selector became a permanent Overall Event entry above a searchable, sortable Activities list, replacing the old Overall Event / Activities toggle and the View: / Source: selectors — cleanly separating event-level operations (on Overall Event) from activity-level operations (on each Activity). Several cards were renamed for clarity in the same pass: Required Questions (from Required Questions Completion), Emails Sent (from Emails), Email Tracking (from Sent Status), and Activity Payments (from Activity Payment Status), plus the per-person view from Individual to Participants.

4.9.2 — Redesign of the Summary page. Summary was rebuilt into a three-column command center: an Event Health column rolling up Attendance, Required Questions, and Payment for the Overall Event with Track's own status-bar cards (matching Track's counts and drill-downs exactly); a center column pairing the four primary metrics (Participants, Attending, Activities, Pages) with the Event's first Page, shown as attendees see it and editable inline; and a right column holding the Promote Event card (Event Website URL, a native Share… action, and a copy / download / print QR code) plus Activity Groups and Sections. Registration status and the Starts In / Ends In countdown moved into the event header.

4.9.1 — New 'Pages' menu. A dedicated top-level Pages workspace took over management of attendee-facing information pages — a permanent Page selector, the rich-text editor, and a Manage Pages side panel for creating, renaming, reordering (drag-and-drop), hiding, and deleting pages (now called Pages rather than Tabs throughout the app). The event menu was reordered to Summary · Pages · Activities · Send · Track · Assign · Payments · Points, and Edit Event gained a plain-text, organizer-facing Description field distinct from the attendee-facing Pages.

Why this mattered: Giving Summary and Track each a single, clear job — and moving Event Website content into its own workspace — turned crowded surfaces into a predictable mental model, while the communication controls put email consent in participants' hands. See What's New, What is the Summary Dashboard?, What is Track?, and Managing Event Pages.

4.8 — Tags v2, Pending payments, Track performance gains

April–June 2026. The 4.8 era completed a long-dormant segmentation thread and then sharpened Eventene's operational surfaces — payments, confirmations, and Track reporting.

4.8.6 — Track reporting performance improvements. The Track Overview was redesigned into a consistent dashboard of summary cards with neutral placeholders for not-yet-started metrics, and Track Participants moved to true server-side paging, so very large participant lists load quickly while sorting, searching, select-all, and exports still span the full filtered set.

4.8.5 — Copy / Print / Export for question summaries. Every Overview drill-down — including the per-question answer summaries, with their drill-down to who chose each answer and a 1st Choice Results view for rank-choice questions — gained Copy / Print / Export to CSV, so any segment behind a metric can be saved or printed.

4.8.4 — Clearer Survey Completion charts. The required-questions completion measure was corrected to a single Complete-vs-Incomplete read that counts only the people each question actually applies to, so the percentage reflects who really owes answers.

4.8.3 — Resend confirmations. Confirmation delivery became more reliable, and a manual Resend Confirmation action (per person or in bulk) sends a fresh confirmation reflecting an attendee's current registration even when automatic confirmations are off, previewing who is eligible vs. skipped.

4.8.2 — Manual payment management. Clearer Paid / Pending / Unpaid reporting, a dedicated view of outstanding offline obligations, and a full manual-payment lifecycle — record an obligation, then Mark as Paid (individually, in bulk, or from the Pending list) with a receipt and audit note; optional add-on product payments now count toward payment status.

4.8.1 — Tags v2. Tags became a fully operational segmentation system usable in Subgroup rules, Track filters, and column sets, closing a five-and-a-half-year dormant-infrastructure thread (with redesigned system email templates and a modernized Calendar view alongside it).

Why this mattered: Tags v2 closed one of Eventene's longest dormant threads, and the follow-on work turned confirmations, payments, survey responses, and Track itself into readable, recoverable surfaces. See What's New, plus What are Tags?, What is Track?, and Offline & Manual Payments.

4.7 — UI polish

February 2026. Mobile App UI consistency improvements. The Register tab in the bottom navigation was renamed to Activities; the Details button became an Info icon. Small wording shifts that signal a softening of the rigid step-based registration mindset.

4.6 — Floating Action Button & activity-card sign-up

December 2025. The FAB on the Mobile App's main details page unified four scanning workflows (check-in, lead capture, Points scanning, badge display) into a single context-aware menu. Activity-card sign-up arrived — participants could sign up for optional Activities and answer related questions directly on the Activity card, dissolving the Step 1 / Step 2 boundary.

Why this mattered: Operational coordination work that had been split across scattered entry points became one surface. See QR Codes & Scanning in Eventene.

4.5 — Points

September–November 2025. The Points feature introduced configurable point-earning actions (logging in, uploading a profile photo, posting in chat, scanning custom QR codes, checking in attendees). Organizers could rename "Points" per Event. The Digital Badge showed the participant's current total. Orders CSV export was redesigned with a per-product-per-order pivot-friendly schema; the rich-text editor gained Markdown mode, Print to PDF, and broader image and Office-file support.

Why this mattered: Points became Eventene's gamification pillar — a structured way to surface engagement and drive Mobile App adoption. See Points & Engagement.

4.4 — Lead Generation

January–August 2025. Lead Generation introduced a complete sponsor lead-capture workflow: lead capture forms attached to Activities, Collectors (a new system role distinct from Organizer or Event Staff), online and offline scanning, lead survey responses, and lead-data export. Threaded messaging arrived in Activity Rooms and Direct Messages. Multi-select recipients and persistent drafts came to the Send composer.

Why this mattered: Lead Generation was Eventene's first system with a third-party role. Until v4.4, the model had been Organizer + Participant. With Collectors, the platform formally supported sponsor staff with scoped capabilities. See Lead Generation.

4.3 — New Mobile App home page; check-in filters

July 2024. The Mobile App's vertical section menu replaced the older horizontally scrolling tab strip — a discoverability improvement for events with many information tabs. Check-in filters arrived on the Attendees tab with three-state behavior (off / checked-in only / not-yet-checked-in). Subsequent patches added profile usability improvements, the new Completed Events page, Microsoft OAuth as a fourth identity provider, and the major fix that hides account-email addresses from peer participants by default.

April 2024. The Mobile App sign-in flow was rewritten to route by email rather than ask the user to choose Log In or Sign Up. Magic link authentication arrived — Eventene could now email a one-time sign-in link with embedded event-launch links.

4.1 — Messaging Center

January 2024. The Messaging Center introduced the Event Feed (event-wide chat), Activity Rooms (per-Activity channels), and 1:1 Direct Messages. Threaded conversations, pinned messages, and image and video uploads were in scope from day one. A subsequent patch (4.1.7, March 2024) added per-Event and per-Activity messaging toggles plus the 15-Room cap and Pro/Premier subscription gating.

Why this mattered: Messaging became Eventene's first native engagement surface. The platform had previously relied on email plus optional 3rd-party embeds. See Messaging & Communications.

4.0 — Major Mobile App update

December 2023. The Mobile App was redesigned with a new header, Digital Badge as a first-class participant artifact, improved QR scanning, and timezone display options (event-local vs device-local). Event-info pages moved from a hidden ... menu to a horizontal scrollable tab strip above the agenda.

Why this mattered: v4.0 established the Digital Badge as the participant's identity artifact in the Mobile App. Every subsequent v4 engagement feature builds on it. See Digital Badges.

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