Full-featured iPhone Event App for your next Event

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The Dryfta event app for iOS was launched last week.

With this update, we have covered one of our major milestones. Similar to our Android app, for organizers, the iOS app includes the ability to send push notifications to attendees, a QR code scanner to scan QR codes to checkin attendees to event and sessions. Also, it is automatically synced with the website data in real-time so whatever updates organizers push to the website would be synced and displayed on the app as well.
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Organ Preservation Alliance is using Dryfta Event Platform to Manage its Annual Summit

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The Organ Preservation Alliance has partnered with Dryfta to host its annual Organ Banking Summit. The Summit on Organ Banking through Converging Technologies integrates several areas of science and engineering with the aim to tackle mutliple public health challenges.

Dryfta is used by companies & universities to build their event registration website, sell tickets online, collect abstract submissions & assign them to reviewers for review, send email campaigns, create event schedule, accept donations, design badges & participation certificates, and manage attendee data using a full-stack event CRM. All from one dashboard.

To set up call for papers using abstract management system, Organ Preservation Alliance team has first completed the initial setup of the abstract submission system and then went on to add custom fields to collect abstracts through their abstract submission form and review abstracts through the review submission form.
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Send Automated SMS notifications to Speakers about Upcoming Sessions

Need to make sure speakers are around when their session comes up during the event? Want attendees to fill up the seats prior to the session so you can assess if more seats need to be made available?

Stop worrying and set up automated SMS notifications. Dryfta’s automated SMS notification system notifies/reminds speakers and attendees about upcoming sessions. The SMS based notifications are sent to speaker’s registered phone number an hour before the session begins. This provides ample time to the speakers to reach the venue in time and do some final preparations for the session.

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Since it also allows you to send automated notifications to attendees an hour prior to the session begins, you can be rest assured about seats filling up in time which would help you assess the demand for the session.
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Create Survey Forms and let Attendees Participate in Surveys

Need to create a simple pre-event poll? Or a complex questionnaire with dropdowns, multiple choice questions, comment boxes, conditional fields et al? We’ve got you covered.

Introducing Survey Manager. It lets you create any type of survey form – from simple to sophisticated – and makes it available to users to participate in the survey (comes with the option to allow only registered users to participate in a survey).

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As an admin in the backend, you can create surveys and multiple survey questions, view participants and their answers, view reports with numbers and charts viz. how many people chose what answer, which were the top choices, the least-selected choices etc.
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LinkedIn Company Pages is now integrated with Dryfta Organizations Manager

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We have been working on this integration for some time now. Although, this is only the first version of the LinkedIn Company integration with Dryfta platform, we have laid out the basics. In future versions, we would be able to fetch real time news and updates from company pages. However, since this data is coming from a third-party, most of what is possible depends on LinkedIn’s policies related to its data use.

In our first LinkedIn company integration, we have created a tool to manage Organizations listings. Admins can add companies under Organizations tab and later use it to add contacts. Organizations also list the companies and organizations as added by users during registration. Each organization would have basic information including country and HQ location along with the complete list of contacts from that organization.
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Dryfta has been Awarded the High Performer Event Management Platform for 2017

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This year, G2Crowd has adjudged Dryfta as a High Performing event management platform in Event management software category. According to their Scoring Grid, we’re one of the top three event management platforms.

G2Crowd is a well-known and highly respected decision making platform for software buyers. Their review platform leverages more than 150,000 independent and authenticated user reviews read by nearly 750,000 buyers each month bringing transparency to B2B buying.

Every year, G2Crowd releases a list of high performing platforms in each category by sifting through thousands of reviews, using their complex scoring methodologies. They apply a unique, patent-pending algorithm to this data to calculate the Customer Satisfaction and Market Presence scores in real time.

Highest Net Promoter Score
In terms of customer satisfaction, Dryfta beats everyone in the list with highest Net Promoter Score (91) for any platform in the category.
Dryfta has been named a High Performer primarily because of receiving a high customer Satisfaction score.

More numbers
100% of users have rated Dryfta 4 or 5 stars.
100% of users believe Dryfta is headed in the right direction.
97% of users said they would likely to recommend Dryfta.

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To see the latest features added and improvements made to the Dryfta event platform, go to our System Status page.

 

 


Attendees: Register for Events using their LinkedIn Profile

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Event registration with Dryfta is easier than before. Organizers can now use the Sign In with LinkedIn feature to let delegates register using their LinkedIn accounts.

The user registering would simply click on the Sign in with LinkedIn button and this would open a popup asking the user to authorize this request. Once authorized, the Dryfta website would fetch user’s details from LinkedIn including user’s photo, first name, last name, email address, company name and designation/role and save these data into the user’s newly created account on the Dryfta-powered event website.

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While registering using the event registration form takes around 1-2 minutes, registering using LinkedIn takes only a few seconds and also saves user from the need to enter their details as everything is automatically fetched from the user’s LinkedIn profile.

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Agenda Conflict Management – Manage Conflicting Sessions in Program Agenda

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Import your program sessions or add them manually using Quick add button to prepare your program schedule. Once your program schedule is ready, click on Conflicts button to view conflicts between sessions. Each session which is conflict with another session is listed there along with the reason for the conflict.

Conflict management system checks for conflict between venue and time and corresponding speakers. An admin has the option to resolve the conflict by changing the venue, or adjusting the time slot of the session in conflict.

Admin has the option to override conflicts and schedule the sessions as is. This would, however, displays different sessions in program schedule with same venues at the same time slot or same time slot at the same venue.

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Program Changelog – Track Changes made to your Program Schedule

Until now, you were able to create program schedule, list speakers, check-in attendees to sessions et al. With this new update, admin would now be able to track all the changes made to the program agenda.

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Changes are now logged and displayed under Program builder tool’s Program Changelog. This helps admins know what changes are made when and by whom which further helps bring accountability among the team members.

The changes that are logged include changes in sessions, speakers, session notes, time slot changes, venue changes, format and track changes.
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Set Groups for Tickets & Display them under Different Headings

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Many event organizers using Dryfta have a lot of ticket types for their delegates to choose from. So, they would just create these ticket types and it would all display in the ticket purchase form. Most of the times, this results in confusion for delegates as to which ticket type is meant for what purpose.
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Abstract Submissions Progress Bar – Visual Approach to Managing your Call for Papers

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We decided to add a progress bar in abstract management system to keep chairs and admins aware of where they are in the abstract submission process and what is next that is to be done.

This progress bar progressively displays the task that needs to be done in the abstract management system, marks completed tasks as done and keeps admin updated on the currently ongoing activity in the abstract submission system.

Starting from setting up abstract submission to collecting abstracts, assigning abstracts to reviewers and making decisions on the reviewed abstracts, it covers the whole aspect of abstract management and peer review.

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The Reason We Stopped Our Free Plan

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Dryfta is an all-in-one event management platform for universities and non-profits. Until a few months ago, we had a free plan for event organizers to host events for up to 30 registrants. With access to all features. Without any time limitation on usage. It was a plain, simple free plan. Until we realized it wasnt. We were giving up too much for nothing.
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