Cameo now retains any bookings which expire or are cancelled, instead of deleting them. Additional information is added to provisional bookings to offer insight as to why a booking may have been abandoned. This information also to make it easier to process refunds if a payment was made but the booking did not complete. Also, all bookings can now be purged from Cameo after a number of months or years. Read More…
Opt-out form additions
People who use the personalised opt-out form often actually want to terminate their membership. Therefore the form can now offer that option. Also, you can now offer the visitor the option to exercise their GDPR right to delete all data held about them. Read More…
“contact us” form now offers custom fields
The contactus form type (formerly called request) now offers custom fields so that you can ask the person filling in the form specific questions, including ones with multiple choice or yes/no answers. Read More…
Simplified form hosting
Forms are now hosted within Cameo itself. Though they still have a separate domain name, this will always point at the same server as Cameo. Read More…
The visual form editor
Cameo version 9 introduces a new visual form editor. The Manage Forms section of the Forms menu overlays controls on a real, embedded copy of the form where you can make changes and immediately see the effect. For example, a pencil icon lets you re-word a chunk of text. The idea is you step through the form as a visitor would, using the controls to make changes as you go. Read More…
Colour Scheme And Style for forms
Make stylistic changes to all your forms so they match your website from the Colour Scheme and Style section of the Forms menu.
Many aspects of your website’s design are automatically applied to your forms anyway, such as the fonts and link colour and decoration. Some form-specific features, like the progress indicators and button colours need to be customised here to match. Read More…
Cameo version 9: introducing a second generation of forms and one-off events
Cameo version 9 was released in December 2019, with these changes:
* A much simpler way of preparing and customising forms using a visual editor
* A short-cut method for adding straightforward, one-off events
* Styling all your forms with colour scheme and design variations
* Simplified form hosting Read More…
Accepting payments by Apple Pay and Google Pay
Cameo is now able to use a Stripe account (which you will probably already be using to accept credit and debit card payments) to offer Apple Pay and Google Pay… Read More…
New transactions reconciliation searches
A couple of additions to the automatic matching of bank statement transactions to membership records — to match on booking reference number and also by email address — makes it easier to reconcile payments, especially when payments are made with the payment or event booking forms. Read More…
Events: additional custom fields
Event bookings can have additional custom fields so that you can prompt for and collect structured information in the booking form that isn’t already built in to it. For example, consider an event that provides lunch: you can have boxes on the form for the customer to indicate any special dietary requirements and their drinks preference. Read More…