Bam! 14 new Flexvite Beta Improvements.

By matt

Flexvite.com Beta – The Bam! release.

The improvements detailed below were driven based on 14 getsatisfaction requests, 10 pieces of e-mail feedback, many opportunities discovered from interviewing our users directly, and issues we identified in aggregate when analyzing what made event voting and resolution more successful.  We’re extremely excited to share these with you!

What’s New and Noteworthy?

Date Ranges

We’ve added the ability to negotiate within a date range.   Now you can set up an event for the month/week you will be in town, over the holidays, or during the week/month you know you’ll have availability.

date range

requested by Scott and others

No more cancel and resend.   Now you can edit most of the event details (even extending the votable set of days if necessary) after creating it.

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Screen shot 2009-10-12 at 9.29.14 AM

requested by RichardMollyJay and others

This business week.

Pick Mon-Fri, and select the ‘this week’ preset to automatically set a date range for the remainder of the week.

this business week

requested by Don and others

Give people more time to vote by default -and- change the vote deadline advanced option

The default voting deadline/cutoff is now 3 days instead of 2 days.   We’ve also added an advanced option to allow you to override that cutoff to be anywhere from 1 to 5 days given your knowledge of the event and attendees.

voting cutoff advanced option

requested by Kathryn and others

Guests can invite other guests advanced option

Need we say more?

guests can invite others advanced option

requested by Brian and others

Individual reminder feature -and- advanced option to send reminder automatically x days before an event

manual reminder

Auto reminder advanced option

requested by geek4christ and others

It comes from _you_ — E-mail improvement

newfrom

instead of

old from name

requested by Derek and others

Pick single days

‘Tuesday’ in the next 4 weeks’

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requested by Ben and others

Block off days from voting — advanced option to disable days the organizer votes against.

Screen shot 2009-10-12 at 9.08.13 AM

requested by Lisa and others

Set your own title for a location w/an address.  i.e. - Scott’s House’.

location titling

requested by Scott and others

Who has seen this?   Who has voted?  Who’s coming?   – guest list improvements

Before a day is chosen . . .

guest list before finalize

And after a day is chosen . . .

Screen shot 2009-10-12 at 9.23.35 AM

requested by Don and others

Remove an invitee (usually for typos, or out-of-date e-mail addresses)

remove invitee

requested by everyone that ever typed an e-mail incorrectly once

Other:  Numerous bug fixes and other improvements:  Double e-mail bug, IE8 done voting issue (requested by Don),  sort events on account page, various IE compatibility issues, consistency in layout/wording/imagery,  wider hover target for ‘who has voted’ on each day — requested by Kathryn, Andrea.

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