What's new?

9 June 2008

Improvements to appointment / time slot mode

Visual improvements to the display of people allocated to each date. You can now click on an icon next to the person and manually allocate them to one or more dates if they contact you with a change to their availability.

24 April 2008

No more advertisements!

We used to include adverts at the top of the reply pages. We've decided to remove these so that the experience for your invitees is as clean and simple as possible.

Increased value for money on premium membership

We've increased the inclusive invitations from 50 to 75 for Silver members and from 100 to 150 for Gold members. That means Gold membership is now equivalent to an 80% saving on the first 150 invitations.

23 April 2008

Simplification of meeting confirmations

You no longer have to separately confirm people under a confirmed date when choosing a date based on an availability poll. This is now done for you automatically. Also, when people reply with availability for a confirmed date in this mode, they are ticked as confirmed automatically. So, when using availability mode you can't have a mix of selected and unselected people who are available.

Improvement to reply page

Times on the same date are now grouped together. This makes it easier for respondents to see which date the suggested times relate to.

2 April 2008

Poll facility added

Now you can add up to five mutliple choice questions to your invitations in step 2. These will then be added to the invitation reply form and results are summarised below the grid in step 4.

Each of the five questions can have any number of options, and you can restrict people to choosing just one option or you can allow multiple options to be ticked.

This makes it easy for you to canvas opinion to make your event a real success. For example, you can select the best venue for a business meeting, choose the type of food you want to eat with your friends, choose what game you all want to play on a games night... It's just one more way in which agreeAdate keeps emails and telephone calls to a minimum, saving you time and money.

23 March 2008

Reminder facility added

You can now automatically send reminders to people up to 7 days in advance of their confirmed dates. Just tick the box at the bottom of step 1 and select the number of days in advance you'd like the reminders to be sent. To try it out, you can set up an event with today's date and invite yourself. When you confirm a date in step 4 and save the event, the reminder will be created and will then be sent to you.

Facility added for ignoring daylight savings

One of our users in Arizona pointed out that not all areas there adhere to Daylight Savings time rules. Time zone rules are very complex and the rules keep changing. We've added a new tick box in step 1 and on the reply page so that you and your invitees can turn off automatic daylight savings adjustment if it doesn't apply in your region.

10 March 2008

Personal address book added and changes to contact entry

A new editor has been added for entering invitees in step 3. This makes it quicker to enter the details and also allows you to import directly into the invitation list from CSV, Excel, Outlook, etc.

A new personal address book feature has been added. Address book entries can be picked by group or individually for entry into the invitation list. The size of the address book canbe increased by upgrading your account.

The import facility has been made more flexible to allow simple CSV files to be imported, and contacts can be imported into the address book, invitation list, or both, all in step 3.

Reply page text box moved

Text for the reply page is now entered at the bottom of the email form rather than in step 1. This was moved because people were getting confused as to where this text would be placed.

Reply page now allows you to hide contact details

When you send out invitations, you will see a new option that gives you the ability to include the availability grid but not show the contact details to everyone.