The Free plan has been revised and will come into effect from today, 11th March, 2016. From now on, all new event platforms created under Free plan, will be able to manage up to 60 contacts and as many abstract submissions.
The revised Free plan – Dryfta Event Platform
Spreading too thin!
We’ve decided to slow down a bit from taking on new feature requests. We’ll continue to accept feature requests as long as they can be implemented within our existing tools and closely relate to our roadmap.
If the new feature requests does not meet this condition, then, although you can still share your requests with us, however, you would have to wait before we attend to it.
We think we’ve spread too thin. It’s time for us to grow vertical by focusing on improving existing features.
Collect Fees for Accepted Abstracts & Papers
Are you organizing a scientific conference and managing abstract submissions? One of the challenges for event organizers is collecting fees for approved abstracts and papers efficiently. With Dryfta, this process is now simpler than ever. Our platform not only collects abstract submission and peer reviews but also allows you to accept payments for approved submissions—saving time and reducing manual effort.
Feature updates #2
Here’s our update for this week with some really exciting features and some improvements and fixes in the existing features.
Membership payments
Membership payments is now available for all Dryfta users. Create membership tickets and sell memberships to your attendees. Later this month, we’ll release Coupon Manager and Access control features to enable discounts and access to premium content for members.
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The Art of Shipping Early and Often
“Several distinct problems manifest themselves as delays in launching: working too slowly; not truly understanding the problem; fear of having to deal with users; fear of being judged; working on too many different things; excessive perfectionism. Fortunately you can combat all of them by the simple expedient of forcing yourself to launch something fairly quickly.” — Paul Graham, The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups
At Dryfta, we live by this↑ maxim. Shipping code early and often is an integral part of our code of ethics. The way we do it is we ask our customers to share their feature requests, set them up against our own list of feature updates, and then ruthlessly prioritize code shipping. If you’re the man/woman overlooking product management at your company, you should be skilled at prioritizing product features, market needs and growth expectations all at once.
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Create customizable event websites
In today’s digital age, your event website is often the first interaction attendees have with your event. A well-designed, fully customizable event website can set the tone for a successful experience, giving attendees all the information they need while reflecting your event's unique personality. Dryfta’s event website builder makes this process effortless, enabling event organizers to build stunning, feature-rich websites and mobile sites without needing advanced technical skills.
Feature updates #1
Dryfta is getting an upgrade this month, with new and improved features to manage your event. Let’s explore!
Custom modules to design flexible event website
We’re currently working on custom modules in website builder so one can add as many custom text, photos, forms, videos etc on the homepage. Current website builder does not have this ability. We expect this to be out by the next week.
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Use your own Email address to send mails
Currently, when you send an email from within Dryfta, we use our own email account to send those emails on your behalf. We received a lot of feedback from our customers that they would like those emails sent using their own email address instead of ours, so we’re going to implement that change over the next few days.
What makes it so important?
- Emails sent from Dryfta are far less likely to be caught by spam filters because they are sent from your own email address now
- Any replies to those emails go straight to your inbox
- If you have configured DKIM for your domain, all emails sent will be signed automatically, further reducing mail being caught in spam filters
- Dryfta will still be able to track clicks and opens per email template, you will still be able to use the same templates you’ve created
- Ability to send outbound emails from multiple email addresses of your choice (within the same domain)
We’re going to roll out this improvement in the next few days, and to enable these features you only need to verify your domain once. We support all private domains eg. yourdomainname.com. We currently do not support the public email providers like Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo, Google Apps etc.
Update: This feature is now released and has been rolled out across the platform.
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How to Organize an Event Successfully?
Someone recently asked me how she should go about organizing an event. So I jotted down a quick list of things which I do to plan my own events and making sure my attendees go home happy, and I also get to have a decent ROI.
Here’re the most common things that I do every time I have to organize an event:
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Academia’s Most Popular Event Management Software
The world of event management software is vast, with almost 300 options to choose from. But not all platforms are created equal, nor do they cater to every type of event. Some specialize in registration systems, while others focus on attendee engagement. Certain platforms are tailor-made for corporate events, while others have been adapted to fit academic conferences. However, none of these platforms were originally designed with academic conferences in mind.
Design your abstracts and papers with Picasso
For some time now, the Dryfta team has been working on a side project. The premise was to build something practically useful, obviously. So we brainstormed. Since, at that time we were writing codes for the abstract management and peer reviews functionality of Dryfta, the first thing which came to mind were authors and speakers who would use this functionality to submit their abstracts and papers.