An option on the join form’s contact (second) step let’s you ask the question “how did you hear about us?”. The answer is appended to the membership record’s source field. Read More…
Calendar file attachments for booking-related emails
Attaching a calendar (.ics) file to emails such as booking receipts triggers many email apps to offer add to calendar automatically. These include Outlook and GMail. Read More…
Postcode and What3Words for event venues
In addition to a map link, event venues can now also include more information to help customers locate the venue, particularly with a Satnav:
* a post code (most Satnavs work from post codes)
* a What3Words address (helpful for spoken or printed communications) Read More…
Payment text for event booking tickets and receipts
A substitution {ticket: payment text} provides payment-method-specific text for ticket and receipt emails. Read More…
Notification alerts
You can now ask Cameo to send its notifications to the computer’s notification area. These are quite short: we show a truncated version of the whole notification. When you click on a notification alert, it takes you to Cameo’s notifications section to see it all.
Each browser and platform behaves a little differently. The simplest is probably Chrome on Windows. The most useful is probably on a phone. Read More…
Event offer codes
You can offer a price in an event venue’s price plan which accepts an offer code from among more than one possible code.
You can restrict the number of times an offer code is used by each membership and how long the code is valid for.
Offer codes used are recorded. Read More…
Apple and Google Wallets
You can now offer to add event tickets and membership cards to both Apple Wallet on iPhone and Google Wallet on Android
Cameo supports this with:
* a new wallet form type, and
* a new substitution {insert: add to wallet}. Read More…
Identity checks when viewing or updating third-party credentials
Particularly when first setting up Cameo, you need to manage credentials for third-party services connected to it. For example, payment providers. To protect this information, you must now give either your password or second factor code to do this. Read More…
Booking tickets for multiple events
The event booking form can now book tickets for multiple events at the same time with a single checkout and payment. In other words, it now includes an optional shopping basket for tickets. Read More…
Sending ad-hoc email to members
Most emails you send from Cameo are either mailshots or part of the membership life-cycle workflow (such as a renewal reminder). Sometimes, though, you want to email someone, as you would through an ordinary email app: use one-off message for these. Sometimes you find similar emails going to multiple people over time: use canned message templates for these. Read More…