March 20th, 2023
Silent Auction:
1. Support for adding a video along with multiple images for each auction item.
2. Added extra fields like donated by, item id#, etc.
3. Ability to mark any item as a featured item which will show up on top of the user bid dashboard and be marked in the auction items list. It also allows bidders to filter by featured items.
4. Improved user bid dashboard for bidders to keep track of all the bids along with real-time bid activity flow. This dashboard can be accessed by the link sent in each email and text notifications to the bidder. It also can be accessed directly by logged-in users.
5. Support for filtering by categories and search in manage/auction.
Ticketing:
1. New and improved support for multiple ticket type selection along with guest required.
2. "Guest-required" and "Send Tickets" can be configured for each ticket option, which is great for mixing and matching different types of tickets in teh same campaign.
3. Completely redesigned user experience for adding and inviting guests. New and improved flow for payment and add guests to teh tickets.
4. Mnagae/Ticket and Guests have a new reminder at every level.
5. Improved ticket email with a clear explanation of tickets and guests etc.
6. Support for guests to add cards from the link sent in the reminder emails. This is a limited-release feature. Please contact us if you would like us to enable it for you.
PayBee Volunteer Apps (ios and android), coming up on 23rd March:
1. Support for moving merging carts for donors.
2. Support for looking up past transactions.
3. Performance improvement.
Misc:
1. Misc bug fixes and UI improvements throughout the dashboard.
The next Release is expected by the last week of April:
1. Support for requiring bidders to create accounts and add a payment method before bidding for a campaign.
2. Support for guest information by each ticketing option.
3. Discount code support for Ticketing.
4. Basket Raffle setting and reports.
5. Ios Tap to pay support where the phone can work as a card reader.
Released on: Feb 28th, 2023
New Description Formatting
1. Includes updated control to all descriptions, campaigns, Account, Events, etc., for easier text formatting.
Released on: January 14th, 2023
Annual Receipt for 2022 and Preview Receipt
1. Go to Reports/Donors from the left menu
2. Select the date range on the top from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022.
3. Click on the "..." next to the donor you want to see receipts for.
4. Then click on "Preview/Send Annual Receipt..." and you will see a preview button.
Released on: January 7th, 2023
New Dashboard
New and improved dashboard. Please send your feedback to contact@paybee.io.
Report/AllDonations
Edit transaction now allows for updating donor email.
Manage/Ticket and Guests
Edit tickets. Improved ticket and guest reminders.
Manage/All Pending
Move cart and many other bugfixes and improvements.
Released on: October 10h, 2022
Auto/Max Bid support for Silent Auction
Autobid/maxbid feature for Silent auctions is available for all silent auction campaigns.
By default, it will be enabled for all new campaigns created.
For existing campaigns, it can be switched on by editing the campaign. This setting is located under Campaign/Auction settings.
Released on: September 6th, 2022
New paddle designs and name cards for events
1. Go to Manage/Events, ... and then in-person event report, select paddle tab.
Released on: July 24th, 2022
Custom Color for Event Page
1. You can now copy an existing event page theme and customize the color for all sections.
2. Go to Manage/Events and edit the event and then navigate to the Event Page Tab.
3. Create a new theme from the existing theme and edit it to customize.
Event Page Invitations
1. Guests can be invited to register via the event page for all event types.
2. Go to Manage/Events, click on the ... and then Virtual or In Person event reports, select "Event Page Invitation" tab to invite one by one or upload for bulk invitations.
Released on: July 16th, 2022
New & Improved Ticketing
1. New look and feel on the donor side while purchasing tickets and on your dashboard when managing tickets and guests.
2. When adding guests to a ticket, your team and your donors can select placeholder emails if you don't have a guest's email address. You may also choose to have guests share email addresses and bidder numbers.
3. Send ticket holders reminders to add guests to their ticket if there are empty spots on the ticket.
4. While creating a ticketing campaign, you can decide if the tickets are to be connected to an in-person or virtual events so the appropriate fields are automatically adjusted.
Videos On The Event Page
1. You can now embed a video from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook or any other website with embeddable videos into your event landing page. You can also choose to include a title and description along with the video.
Limited release of PayBee Low Latency Streming for Virtual and Hybrid Event:
You don't need to rely on third-party streaming services like YouTube or Twitch. It's a limited release for PayBee streaming, please contact us if you like to use this for your next event. It is low latency (2 seconds with most video services and sub-second latency with OBS-RTC.
Released on: April 26 2022
Add On Donation for Ticketing campaigns
1. Now you can add a donation campaign to the ticketing campaign for people to add an optional donation to the ticket purchase whether it is a free or paid ticket.
2. Edit the campaign, switch the option 'Enable Add On Donation', select a campaign and save.
3. This option will show up after the ticket has been selected and right before the payment page for the donors.
New Purple theme for Event Pages
Released on: December 30 2021
Event Web Page:
1. When you create an event in the PayBee (all kinds), it automatically creates a barebones event page. You can customize the event page in minutes. Go to manage/events and edit the event to see it in action.
Find more information about event page
here.
2. Donation receipts to individual donors for 2021 can be sent from reports/donors. If you have not opted out, 2021 consolidated receipts to all donors will be sent out on 24th January.
Released on: November 20 2021
Silent Auction:
1. Silent Auction can now have items that are for Buy only. Just flip the flag called "Buy it now only Item, the bid button will not be shown" to enable it.
Released on: October 13 2021
Campaign:
1. Each campaign option can have its own description.
2. Sponsors can be added to each campaign. Once a sponsor group is created, it can be shared across many campaigns.
3. Old and not in use campaigns can be archived, reports will still be available, but they will not appear in various dropdowns across managing and reports, reducing clutter and confusion.
Donor Pages:
1. We have redesigned the campaign donor experience to be consistent, beautiful, and intuitive across any device size. Better controls and are even easier easy to navigate.
Event:
1. All relevant links are now available in one place. This includes event join, rsvp, big screen display, watch party join link, etc.
Misc other fixes are included in the major release.
Released on: August 5th 2021
1. Manage -> Virtual Events is now deprecated (all events can be found under Manage -> Events)
2. New All Pending report is now available under Reports.
3. Clean and new In-person event report.
4. Buttons in the in-person and virtual reports have been updated.
5. Paddle numbers of bidders/pledgers show up in Recent Activity (Auctioneer + Producer mode) and the Audience Monitor.
6. Fixes and updates in All Donations reports
7. Misc. other fixes and improvements.
Released on: August 30th 2021
1. Added PDF download of Bid Sheet for offline silent auctions and online silent auctions. Check it out in manage/auctions, download Button on the right top.
2. Misc. other fixes and improvements.
Released on: August 5th 2021
1. Manage -> Virtual Events is now deprecated (all events can be found under Manage -> Events)
2. New All Pending report is now available under Reports.
3. Clean and new In-person event report.
4. Buttons in the in-person and virtual reports have been updated.
5. Paddle numbers of bidders/pledgers show up in Recent Activity (Auctioneer + Producer mode) and the Audience Monitor.
6. Fixes and updates in All Donations reports
7. Misc. other fixes and improvements.
Released on: May 13th 2021
1. Added support for description for each ticket item. If added for the item will show up for ticket buyers.
Released on: May 4th 2021
1. Brand new virtual event user interface.
2. Improved chat with link recognition.
3. Cleaner UI where the organization content pops.
4. Images in the full-color mode.
5. Completely rethought experience on the phone.
6. Separate Watch, Pledge, and Chat tabs with activity buttons so donors never miss a pledging or bidding opportunity.
7. Enter Watch Party mode, so the video turns off. Guests will watch videos on the TV or large screen. Bidding and chat will continue on their own device.
8. Added option to show Bid History and Top Bidder for Silent Auction.
Released on: April 7th 2021
1. New UX for Virtual Event management
2. Support for Anonymous Donations during Virtual Events. Donors choose to remain anonymous at the time they join the event.
3. Anonymous Donations can be enabled or disabled from virtual event settings.
4. Support for explicit selection of time zone and duration of the virtual event.
5. Support for explicit selection of time zone and duration for ticketing campaign.
6. Clone Virtual Event to create a new one with all the same settings.
7. Misc. bug fixes and improvement throughout the platform.