vFairs Monthly Product Updates: July 2024

The summer heat might be on, but things are cool (and efficient) here at vFairs! This month, we’ve been busy providing you with the features to host engaging and impactful events. We’ve got a suite of new features designed to simplify every stage of the process, from cloning your best events instantly to capturing leads with CRM systems.

Mobile App Updates

New In-App Chatbot: Your Virtual Assistant

Introducing our new conversational chatbot on the vFairs mobile app! Designed to enhance your user experience, the chatbot offers instant support and guidance.

Our chatbot is your virtual assistant, ready to assist you with navigating the app, answering frequently asked questions, and providing helpful information. It uses keyword-based technology to deliver quick and relevant responses.

Improved Badge Design and Printing Flexibility

Create professional badges that perfectly showcase your brand and suit your event’s needs. This will be the first impression for your event audience. This new improved functionality will help you do the following:

• Create bold specific fields on your badges to draw attention to crucial details.
• Switch between 203 DPI and 300 DPI printers without compromising badge quality. 

Virtual Event Platform Updates

Design Your Ideal Event Space with Stunning Floor Plans

Bring your vision to life while setting up your event floor plan. The vfairs floor plan builder helps you easily customize your event layout to create easy accessibility for attendees.

Now you can create stunning as well as functional floor plans by adding, removing, and rearranging booths on your own, customizing with your branding for a professional look, and linking specific areas to sessions for easy navigation. You can also monetize your space by charging exhibitors for booth rentals.

This feature includes:

• Creation Tools: Easy-to-use drawing tools for designing floorplans from scratch.
• Editing Capabilities: Options to modify existing floorplans.
• Integration: Seamless integration of the floorplan with booth creation form to allow booth representatives to reserve spots for the event.
• Attendee Capabilities: Ability to integrate floorplan with web and mobile app events to allow attendees to navigate different session and exhibitor-specific spots on the venue.

Replicate Your Event Success with Clone Event Feature

Save time and resources to build your next successful event with our vFairs clone event feature. Duplicate your most successful events, including design elements, configurations, and personnel. You can now focus on creating new experiences while maintaining consistency.

Add Location Data In Your CSV Uploads for Sessions & Webinars

Provide greater information control when importing session data. To better accommodate your specific requirements, we’ve added new fields to the CSV template: “Location Name” and “Location Link” for you to specify more details in sessions and webinars.

A Self-serve Setup To Manage Tradeshows

Setting up a tradeshow with all of its elements involves a detailed planning process. The new self-serve tradeshow setup is here to sort out all of your worries from setting up booths to showcasing your products and engaging with attendees.

With dedicated tradeshow menus, easy product filtering, and bulk import options, you can spend less time on administrative tasks and more time focusing on what truly matters – driving results.

Event Management Platform Updates

Convert Attendees into Leads with Zapier Integration

Capturing attendee information and nurturing leads was not that easy. Our Lead Capture App is now synced with your CRM through Zapier to ensure no lead goes to waste.

This automated data transfer and efficient follow-up will give you multiple benefits including:

• Real-time lead synchronization
• Improved lead quality and conversion rates
• Increased sales and marketing efficiency

Streamline Your Review Process with Abstract Management Reviewer Flow

Gain complete visibility into abstract evaluations with our new reviewer flow. Now you have access to detailed feedback and insights provided by reviewers. By centralizing evaluation data, you can make informed decisions about submissions and identify top contenders.

This feature provides a comprehensive overview of each submission, including reviewer ratings, comments, and acceptance status. With this centralized access, you can simplify the abstract selection process and improve overall efficiency.

Manage Users Directly From Search Resume

Now you no longer need to navigate multiple screens or menus to change attendee statuses. With this new update, you can quickly activate and deactivate attendees directly from the search resume feature. This powerful addition offers several benefits:

• Quick selection: Easily choose specific attendees for management.
• Clear status visibility: Instantly see if an attendee is active or inactive.
• Efficient filtering: Filter attendees based on their status (active or inactive) for targeted actions.
• Bulk actions: Activate or deactivate multiple attendees simultaneously.
• Individual control: Maintain granular control by activating or deactivating specific attendees as needed.

See the full update here.

Import Group Registrants in Seconds with Import Mapper

Avoid manual data entry and improve your registration process with the new import mapper. This functionality allows you to upload both individual and group registrants using a single CSV file. This means no more tackling multiple spreadsheets or spending countless hours inputting data.

Here’s what this means for you..

• Import all your registrants, including group members, in one simple step.
• Use the same CSV template for both individual and group registrations.
• The system intelligently assigns group members to the correct parent registration.

That concludes our product updates from July. We hope these updates will make your experience with vFairs more engaging and you will able to scale with your events. 

Get in touch with us today to start using these features and stay tuned as we come back with a lot more excitement next month!