After a year of adding new features to Guestlist we decided it was time to go back and tighten up the user experience. We didn’t always have time to integrate new features as nicely as we wanted to, so this was an opportunity to do that and also fix some of the issues that have popped up over time.

Today we are launching the result of that work. While we focused mainly on improving what was already there, we managed to sneak in a couple of new features.

Greatly improved event summary

The event summary page has been redesigned to provide relevant content depending on what your needs are. As you progress through the event we will highlight the next steps needed for hosting a kickass event.

Order stages

Until now we had only displayed completed orders (and their associated attendees) in Guestlist because we wanted to keep things as simple as possible. However, this was misleading in some cases. For example, if an order was paid by echeck, the event admin would have no indication of it until the payment cleared. We now display four distinct order stages to help event admins better understand their order pipeline:

Incomplete In-progress orders where users are currently in the process of filling out information in Guestlist and/or PayPal.

Pending Orders where a payment has been submitted but has not yet cleared.

Completed Orders with completed payments that have not been refunded.

Refunded Orders that have been refunded. If you initiate a refund inside PayPal we will automatically move the order here and make the corresponding tickets available for resale.

Charts!

We’ve wanted to update our recent activity feed for quite some time. A long list of purchase details does not clearly convey how well an event is doing. So we removed the activity feed and replaced it with a chart.

There are lots of other changes as well, but don’t want to spoil everything. Take a look and let us know what you think.