Changelog

We've rolled out a set of updates focused on improving the initial experience for new users and enhancing our integration capabilities.

• New Onboarding Flow: We've designed a brand new onboarding experience to help new users quickly set up their first calendar and event, guiding them to key features for a faster start.
• Custom 'Reply To' Email (Under Templates): You can now set a specific 'Reply To' email address within your Templates (Email Settings). This ensures that any replies to your RSVP confirmation and reminder emails go directly to the organizer's preferred inbox, streamlining communication.
• API Improvements: We've expanded our API capabilities with new RSVP management endpoints, allowing for programmatic control over attendees. We've also undertaken a major documentation cleanup to make integration smoother and faster than ever.

We've been cooking up some behind-the-scenes magic to make managing your events even smoother! This release focuses on giving you cleaner links, more control over your custom domain, and a better subscriber experience.

Key New Features:

• Custom Short Links for Calendars: We've extended our short link functionality so that Calendars (in addition to events) can now utilize custom short links.
• Clean URL Format on Custom Domains: This enhancement allows both calendar and event links on your custom domain to use clean, memorable URLs (e.g., events.example.com/PKF instead of events.example.com/c/PKF).
• Custom Domain Homepage Redirect: You can now configure a Homepage Redirect URL for your custom domain (e.g., calendar.example.com). Instead of showing a generic 404, visitors to your domain root will be sent to the specific URL you configure (or a helpful 404 if none is set).
• Improved Calendar Subscription Trigger: We've improved the subscription experience with an automatic calendar app trigger (for Apple and Outlook Desktop). If the automatic trigger fails, we now provide comprehensive manual import guides for all common calendar applications.
• Configurable External Sync Settings: Events imported from external calendars now benefit from smart configuration. We automatically apply your configured default RSVP and email reminder settings to newly imported external events, saving you manual setup time.

You can now host your event and calendar pages on your own custom domain (e.g., events.yourcompany.com or schedule.mybrand.co).

This Business plan feature ensures full brand consistency and trust across every touchpoint.

Custom Domain Use Cases:

• White Labeling: Deliver a completely branded experience where visitors never leave your domain, removing all third-party branding.
• Brand Trust: Use a recognizable subdomain to increase user confidence in registration and subscription links.
• SEO & Tracking: Maintain maximum SEO benefit and tracking consistency by keeping all your content under one root domain.

We've extended the power of our custom field system to your calendar subscription pages!

You can now use Custom Subscription Forms to collect any additional information you need from visitors when they subscribe or follow your calendar. This brings all the flexibility of the RSVP form builder—including text fields, dropdowns, and marketing consent—to your subscriber management.

We've also added the ability to export your calendar subscribers, making it easy to integrate your audience data with external CRM or marketing systems! This gives you complete control over the data you collect and how you use it.

This month, we focused on delivering significant incremental improvements across the platform, including squashing lots of pesky bugs 🐞, to ensure a smoother experience as we prepare for some big features coming soon!

Here are the key enhancements rolled out:

• API Event Filtering: You can now search and filter events programmatically using our updated API, giving you the power to build dynamic and responsive applications.
• Delete Calendar Subscribers: Gain better control over your audience by having the option to delete calendar subscribers directly, which allows for a cleaner list management process than simply blocking.
• Granular Series Management: For those using Event Series, you can now delete a specific individual event from the series without disrupting the recurring schedule.
• Addevent Import Upgrades: We've made significant improvements to the import functionality to better support and map native features when migrating events from Addevent.
• Custom RSVP Button Text: Personalize your event pages by customizing the text on the main RSVP button (e.g., change "RSVP Now" to "Register Here").
• RSVP Button Control: Enhance attendee focus by configuring your custom RSVP forms to hide the 'Maybe' and/or 'Can't Go' buttons, simplifying the response choices.

We've revolutionized how recurring events work with our new Event Series system. This major upgrade replaces the old event recurrence approach with a more intuitive and flexible way to manage your repeating events.

Unlike traditional recurring events, each event in a series is a real, standalone event that can be customized independently.

Key Advantages of Event Series

• Individual Event Customization: Modify any event in a series without affecting other instances. Change the location for a single meeting or add special details to a holiday event with ease.
• Independent RSVP Management: Every event in a series has its own unique RSVP list, attendee tracking, and capacity limits.
• Perfect External Calendar Sync: Event Series solve common sync issues by ensuring each event syncs perfectly as an individual calendar entry, eliminating conflicts and ensuring perfect integration with Google, Outlook, and other calendars.

Plus, some other improvements:

• Per-event RSVP: Now available for all events in a series.
• Improved External Calendar Sync: Overall reliability and speed have been significantly boosted.
• Date Filtering via API: You can now filter events by date when using our API.

We've improved how recurring events are handled, giving you and your visitors more control over which events are added to their calendar.

• Selective Event Imports: When a visitor clicks the "Add to Calendar" button for a recurring event on both the event page and calendar page, they can now choose to add just the next upcoming occurrence or all future occurrences of the event. This allows them to keep their personal calendars clean while still staying up-to-date.
• Improved Recurrence Display: Event pages now clearly show recurrence details, such as "Weekly on Thursday" as well as the date of the next upcoming recurrence. This helps visitors easily understand the event schedule.

We've upgraded our analytics engine to provide you with more accurate and powerful insights. Our new filtering system now automatically detects and excludes bot clicks, including those from email security checkers and other services that mimic browser behavior.

This change ensures that your traffic data is cleaner and more reflective of real human engagement. Your analytics should now be even more powerful and reliable.

If you notice any unexpected changes or have questions about the data, please don't hesitate to contact our support team.

We've implemented Server-Side Rendering (SSR) for your AddCal event and calendar pages, significantly boosting performance. This technical enhancement means faster load times, improved SEO through better search engine indexing, and more consistent performance across all devices. This upgrade delivers a foundational improvement for both your visitors and search engines.

We're excited to introduce a powerful new Spreadsheet Import feature, allowing you to bulk upload events into your AddCal calendars using CSV or XLSX files!

Key capabilities include:

• Bulk Upload: Easily import a large number of events by uploading your CSV or Excel file.
• Flexible Field Mapping: Map columns from your spreadsheet to event fields like Title, Description, Location, Start Date, End Date, Timezone, and more.
• Pre-Import Review: Get a comprehensive preview to review and adjust your column mappings before finalizing the import.

We're excited to introduce Automated Email Reminders for your events, a powerful new feature designed to boost attendance and keep your registered attendees informed! Now, event organizers on Business plans can automatically send timely reminder emails to their RSVP attendees before events begin.

Key features include:

• Flexible Timing Options: Set reminders to send days or hours before your event (e.g., 1-7 days, 1-23 hours, or a combination).
• Smart Processing: Reminders are sent automatically in the background, only once, and only for active, upcoming events.
• Professional Emails: Reminder emails match your event branding, include event details, and attach a calendar file (.ics) for easy adding to attendees' calendars.

We're excited to introduce Event Tagging and Pinning, giving you more control over how your events are organized and highlighted!

• Event Tagging: You can now assign custom tags to your events. This allows for better categorization and organization, making it easier for you and your users to find specific types of events.
• Event Pinning: Highlight important events by "pinning" them. Pinned events will appear at the top of your event lists, ensuring they get maximum visibility regardless of their date.

We're introducing a new Duplicate Calendar feature, allowing you to quickly clone entire calendars with all their events and settings. This significant improvement saves you  time, making it perfect for creating templates, setting up seasonal events, or safely testing new configurations.

Custom RSVP Email Branding allows you to personalize your RSVP confirmation emails!

• Use Your Logo & Custom Colors: Replace AddCal branding with your own logo, and select custom background and accent colors.
• Setting a Custom "From" Name: Control the sender name displayed in the email.

We've introduced automated RSVP Confirmation Emails, ensuring your attendees receive immediate confirmation and essential event details after they RSVP! This is a Premium Feature.

Once someone responds to your event's RSVP, an automated email is sent with their response confirmation, an attached calendar event (.ics file) for easy adding, full event details, and direct links to view the event page or update their RSVP.

We're excited to announce Custom RSVP Forms, giving you the power to collect all the information you need from your event attendees!

Key capabilities include:

• Tailored Fields: Add a variety of field types to your forms, such as text fields, number fields, dropdowns, radio buttons, dates, country selectors, US states, marketing consent checkboxes, and query string fields (which auto-populate from the URL).
• Field Control: Set individual fields as required or optional, and choose whether they are visible to attendees.
• Default Forms: Create a default RSVP form that can be automatically applied to all your new RSVP events.

We've introduced External Calendar Sync, a powerful new feature allowing you to centralize all your appointments, meetings, and events by importing them from other platforms directly into AddCal! This is perfect for consolidating work or client schedules into one place.

• Supported Calendars: Connect any app with a calendar feed, including popular services like Google, Outlook/Office 365, and many more.
• Hourly Sync: External events automatically sync with your AddCal calendar every hour, ensuring your schedule is always up-to-date.
• Visible to Subscribers: Synced events are visible in your calendar and to your subscribers, providing a comprehensive view of your schedule.

You can configure External Calendar Sync on your calendar's management page

You can now embed your AddCal calendars directly into any website or application with a highly customizable widget. This allows you to display your calendar events seamlessly on your own platforms.

Key features of Calendar Embedding include:

• Display your calendar events on any website or application.
• Choose between Month and Schedule (List) views.
• "Add to Calendar" buttons are included for each event.
• Follow / Subscribe buttons for visitors to easily keep up with your events.
• Automatic timezone conversion to display events in your user's local time.

This feature is in active beta, and we're continually improving it based on your valuable feedback. If you have any questions, please reach out to us via live chat :)

We're excited to introduce Templates, a premium feature giving you full control over the appearance and behavior of your event and calendar pages!

With Templates, you can now customize key elements to match your brand and preferences:

• Branding & Appearance: Upload your own logo to be prominently displayed on event pages, define base and accent colors, and select your preferred font family to ensure a consistent look.
• Display Options: Choose to hide the "Add to Calendar" section entirely or set pages to use a 24-hour time format.
• Custom Text: Add specific text below the event description and to the page footer for additional messaging.
• Calendar Services Control: Tailor which calendar services are shown to your users, providing a streamlined experience.

You can also set any template as a team default, applying it to all events without a specific template assigned. 

We're excited to announce our new Zoom integration, designed to streamline your scheduling and meeting management within AddCal!

Now you can seamlessly connect your Zoom account with AddCal to:

• Sign Up/In with Zoom: Conveniently sign up for or sign in to AddCal using your existing Zoom account credentials.
• Import Zoom Meetings: Easily import your existing Zoom meetings directly into your AddCal calendar.
• Create Events with Zoom Links: Generate new calendar events in AddCal that automatically include your Zoom meeting links.
• Automatic Updates: Any changes made to your Zoom meetings will automatically update in AddCal, keeping your schedule perfectly aligned.
• One-Click Import: Select and import specific Zoom meetings with a simple and intuitive interface.
• Comprehensive Meeting Details: All essential meeting details, including join links, are imported for a seamless experience for you and your attendees.