The exports page has had a long-overdue update.
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
Do let us know if this is useful to you, or if you have ideas for other things that would improve Buzzshot for you!
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:
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.
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)
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.
