Improved exports

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!




Broadcasts, now a bit slower! (for a good reason)

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.

Upload lots of photos at once

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

Tagging players is now much easier

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").

You can use tags to keep track or players between visits or you can use them to decide which players will receive your broadcast emails. You can even set some tags to display in the dashboard/calendar view.

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

SMS Landing Page Editor

It is now possible to edit the SMS landing page (the page players get to after following the link in the SMS they are sent) in much more detail. You may recognise the editor from our new email content editor, it all works the same!

Let us know what you think, or if we can help in any way to get you the landing page you want!

Filter by game master on the Groups and Players pages

A simple update today, but one that will be very useful to some people. In the "Players" or "Groups" pages you can now filter by the game master assigned to that group. So if you want to see all the games your GM "Jim" took you can select "Jim" from the Game Masters dropdown and see them right away.

Do let us know if this is useful to you, or if you have ideas for other things that would improve Buzzshot for you!

New user permissions

We've added some more granular user permissions so you can restrict your staff members access to certain areas of the Buzzshot Admin. New today are permission settings for:

  • Viewing the Stats page
  • Reading Player Reviews
  • Exporting data (whether staff members can download data the data)

In particular the Stats and Player Reviews permissions might be useful if you find that having access to these pages promotes an unhealthy competition between your staff members.

To change permissions for a user please visit the "Users" page in the Settings.

End of game form customisation

We've added a new settings page to let you change some settings on the "complete game" screen used to fill in details of a game after it is played. This allows to change which fields are present for the game master to fill in.

We do also have the ability to add custom fields to this screen. It's not in the settings page right now (coming soon though!) but do email us if there's anything you'd like to collect and we'll set it up for you.

We've also added a SMS Sender field to the SMS settings page to change the name players see when they receive their SMS. Unfortunately this is for non-US/Canadian customers only (the US and Canadian SMS systems work a little differently)

Customize Buzzshot app colors

We've made some small updates to the settings pages today. Along with various small tweaks to make them easier to use we've added settings to change the colors used in the Buzzshot app. You can tweak your color settings here. This customisation has been available on request for a while, but now you can do it yourself. Just remember to always log out and log back in to the app after updating these settings.

Touchless registration improvements

Now usable without booking integration

The best way to use touchless registration is still in conjunction with booking integration, that way teams get automatically created ahead when they book. However, if you don't use booking software that integrates with Buzzshot, or if you'd just prefer not to use the integration, then we now have a solution. You can add "time slots" at https://buzzshot.co/admin/settings/timeslots/ and we will show games for those times whether or not they currently exist as groups in the Buzzshot system.

"Register Another Player"

As a small usability enhancement we have added a "Register Another Player" button after a player registers themselves. This is helpful if multiple players are sharing a mobile device and means they don't have to scan the QR code again.

Pending Groups Page

This feature has existed for a while so it may not be new to you. I've now switched on the "Pending Groups Page" for everyone, this page (in the admin) allows you to view all your pending groups and shows who has registered and who has signed.

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