As you probably already know Buzzshot now has a booking system! Want to know how it can streamline your operations and help increase your revenue? Find out more at https://buzzshot.com/bookings/

The exports page has had a long-overdue update. 

1. It's now easier to get exports for specific date ranges
2. You can select the "Date field" which means you can now choose to get Groups created this month or Groups scheduled for this month. This has been requested a lot!
3. You can filter the data before downloading it. Want only winning teams from a specific room? You can do that now.

Let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see!

In our to improve deliverability we are now going a little bit slower when sending broadcast emails to lots of recipients. If you're sending to less than 20,000 people at a time this won't effect you. If you're sending more than that then for domains new to Buzzshot (or which haven't sent a lot over the past 6 months) will send at a rate of 20,000/hour for the first day as a warm up period. After the warm up period we'll send in batches of 50,000 at a time with a gap of 30 minutes between each send.

This gives the email servers (such as Gmail and Outlook) time to recognise your incoming emails as not spam and should reduce the rate of emails ending up in spam folders. Please allow extra time for delivery when sending large broadcasts in the future.

If you think this might cause an issue for you then please do get in touch and we'll see what we can do to mitigate that. Please also get in touch if you have any questions.

A lot of you use our "Touchless Registration" (soon to be renamed to "QR-Code Sign-in") feature to have people sign in using their own phones. However the QR-Codes we've generated have always been... a bit plain. And that's a shame because you probably have them printed out and displayed in your lobby. So we've given them a bit of a makeover!

You can now choose a color, a style of QR Code, andyou can choose to put your room in the middle.  

Your existing QR codes will continue to work just fine. But if you'd like to make them a bit prettier then head to Touchless Registration in the settings and have a play!

PS: That big announcement I teased in the last update is still coming very soon, I can't wait to show you what I've been working on! If you want an advanced preview email now and I'll let you in on the secret early - Tom

You can now upload multiple photos at once when uploading photos from the admin dashboard (eg from your computer). Previously you had to upload them one at a time and I realise that was quite a slow process for those adding lots of photos to each group.

PS: I'm aware there have not been a lot of new feature announcements this year. That's not because there hasn't been work going on, far from it! Look out for some bigger announcements in the next few months. - Tom

Buzzshot now has an integration with the Tempus escape room booking system. If you're a Tempus user and would like to integrate with Buzzshot then please follow the instructions here.

Automations are a hugely powerful new feature of Buzzshot that allow you to set up any kind of automated message sequence for your players. Use Buzzshot Automations to:

• Create a powerful automated marketing machine sending out targeted messages to your players enticing them back to play your other game
• Send out pre-game reminders to make sure your players know where to find you
• Create an extension of your game narrative that starts before the game and carries on after it
• And lots more! What can YOU do with Automations?

Automations are available at NO EXTRA COST in your standard Buzzshot subscription (subject to a "fair use" policy). Get all the details in our support article on Automations here, or get in touch with us at support@buzzshot.com if you have questions, feedback or anything you'd like to discuss. We'll be happy to help you understand how you can best use Buzzshot Automations for your business!

You can now add/remove tags from a player wherever they are displayed. For example from the page for a group or from the pending groups page. This should make it much easier to tag payers which useful information for later. You could use it to track types of players ("Newby", "Enthusiast") or to flag a problem players for next time (eg "Breaks Things").

For more details please see the article on our support site.

A feature to allow you to create forms to collect email addresses from interested people and potential players. These forms can be embedded in your website or can be a URL (that we host for you) that you can send people to. Find it under "Marketing" then "Subscribe Forms" on the left hand menu.

This feature has been available for a few month's but there wasn't a post on here before.

Over the past week we've released an update to the Buzzshot app for both iOS and Android. You can upgrade by going to the App Store (iOS) or the Play Store (Android) or if you have auto-updates turned on you may already have it. This is a fairly minor update to keep compatability with future devices and our upcoming features. It does also add the long requested Pinch to Zoom feature to the camera!