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What's New

Every improvement we ship to Symposia, written for the people who run conferences on it. The newest release is always at the top.

Feature v2.1.0

A clearer review workflow & fairer scoring

A rebuilt review experience on the abstract page, with reviews that stick around and scores that stay fair.

  • A rebuilt Review & Scoring section — see who's reviewing at a glance with status chips for each assigned reviewer ('Review submitted' or 'Awaiting review'), an overall score with a per-criterion breakdown, and every review laid out in one place with its criteria, comment, and score.
  • Reviews now stick around — removing a reviewer no longer throws away their work. A submitted review stays on the abstract under a 'Former reviewer' badge and keeps counting toward the score, so you never lose feedback you've already gathered.
  • Curate reviews directly — organizers can delete any review (with a confirmation first), even on abstracts you've already accepted, and reviewers can still edit or remove their own review right up until a decision is made. Assigned reviewers and organizers also get a prompt to add their review straight from the abstract page.
  • Improvement: the Reviewer Workload card now shows Reviewer, Reviewed, and Pending at a glance and keeps a reviewer's counts even after they've been un-assigned.
  • Improvement: decided abstracts no longer count as pending or clutter a reviewer's queue, so your pending numbers reflect real outstanding work.
  • Improvement: the Attendee, Abstract Data, Final Decision, and Interaction History cards on the abstract page have a refreshed design, with quick Preview, Download, and Upload new actions on attached files.
  • A handful of smaller bug fixes across review scoring and reviewer assignments.
  • Good to know: reviewers now only see each other's scores and comments once everyone has submitted — their own review stays visible throughout — so early opinions can't sway the rest of the panel.
Feature v2.0.0

A fresh look & smarter past conferences

A refreshed design across the whole admin interface, and finished conferences that tidy themselves up automatically.

  • A refreshed look — the entire admin interface has a new, consistent design with updated colors and typography. Everything is where it was, it just feels cleaner and more modern.
  • Past conferences, handled for you — Symposia now knows when your conference is over, no switch to flip. Finished events move to a 'Past conferences' list in the sidebar with an 'Ended' label, and the public sign-up pages show a friendly 'This conference has ended' message instead of a registration form.
  • Attendees keep access after the event — they can still view their registration and download invoices and abstracts, they just can't make further changes. On the mobile app, they have 48 hours after the event to rate sessions — perfect for feedback on the trip home.
  • Improvement: once an event has ended, the 'registration open' switch clearly shows as off with a short explanation of why.
  • A handful of smaller bug fixes so conference pages load smoothly across time zones.
  • Good to know: you keep full access to a finished conference — manage attendees, correct details, and export data anytime.
Feature v1.8.0

Early-bird pricing & a clearer cookie choice

Early-bird pricing built into a single ticket, plus a proper reject option for cookies.

  • Early-bird pricing, built into the ticket.
  • A clearer reject for cookies.
  • Improvement: the ticket types table and edit dialog have been redesigned, tickets now have a manual active switch instead of a future open date, and 'available until' is inclusive so a ticket ending today sells through the end of today.
  • Improvement: 'max abstracts per author' now lives with your abstract settings.
  • A handful of smaller bug fixes across ticketing, abstracts, and onboarding.
  • Good to know: retire the old two-ticket early-bird trick — put both prices on one ticket. Existing tickets are unaffected.
  • Good to know: tickets no longer open for sale automatically on a future date. To go live later, leave one off and turn it on when ready.
Feature v1.7.0

Abstract confirmations & flexible group registrations

Reassurance for people submitting abstracts, more room to fix group registrations after the fact, and a batch of smaller polish.

  • Abstract confirmation emails — when someone adds or edits their abstract from their registration link, they now get a confirmation straight away with the title and a link to view or edit it. Answers the 'is my abstract actually in?' question people keep asking.
  • Change a group member's ticket type — the shared group invoice now recalculates with the group discount kept for everyone. Blocked once the invoice is paid or cancelled.
  • Improvement: bulk email variables like {{firstName}} now insert at your cursor.
  • Improvement: abstract details now show the Section and Type.
  • Improvement: long presenter names in the Authors column are shortened, with the full name on hover.
  • A handful of smaller bug fixes across registration, attendees, and abstracts.
  • Good to know: attendees now get a confirmation email on every abstract save from their registration link — expect one per save during a submission window.
Feature v1.6.0

Invoicing, event day & certificates

Invoicing that handles bilingual and scannable payments, plus a smoother event day from check-in to certificates.

  • Invoicing that fits your event — issue invoices in English or Croatian, add a scannable EPC payment code so attendees can pay from their banking app, and show your tax number labelled correctly per language.
  • A smoother event day — check in attendees in bulk, and make sure certificates only reach the people who actually showed up.
  • Improvement: you can re-issue an unpaid invoice with today's date while keeping the same invoice number, and invoice emails now confirm whether they actually sent.
  • Improvement: reviewers see only the assignments for their selected conference, and the attendee list can show abstract category and check-in status as optional columns.
  • A handful of smaller bug fixes across invoicing, payment codes, and team access.
  • Good to know: certificate check-in is on by default, including for existing conferences — turn it off in your certificate settings if your event has already taken place or runs virtually.
  • Good to know: Croatian invoicing is off by default. Emailed invoices always go out in English, with Croatian available as a manual download or preview.
Improvement v1.4.0

Smoother registration & clearer emails

A smaller release that smooths out registration and makes sure the emails you send actually reach everyone clearly.

  • Primary Interest is now optional at registration — even for conferences with tracks, a missing selection never blocks someone from completing their signup.
  • Every email Symposia sends now includes a plain-text version, so messages display correctly even in clients that don't render HTML.
  • Registration now shows a clear, specific message when something goes wrong — for example, when an email is already registered — instead of a generic error.
Feature v1.3.0

Guided setup, speaker management & mobile app

A big release focused on getting your conference set up faster, managing your speakers properly, and supporting attendees on the go through the mobile app.

  • A guided setup walks you through everything step by step — name, dates, venue, tracks, tickets, billing, and abstract settings — and you can finish at once, save and come back later, or open registration whenever you're ready.
  • Speaker management — add external speakers or promote an existing attendee, link speakers to accounts, assign them to sessions, and keep their details in sync (with safeguards against duplicate emails and deleting assigned speakers).
  • Mobile app support — attendees can view the schedule, rate sessions and individual talks, and download accepted abstracts as PDFs from their phone.
  • Conferences without tracks — registration, group registration, and abstract submission all work without sections, with anything unassigned clearly labelled.
  • Attendees can update their own registration details after signing up, and request a fresh update link if they lose the original.
  • Improvements: tidier abstract titles and author lists (collapse to 'presenter + N more'), easier reviewer assignment, corrected group-invoice billing names, Word-only abstract uploads, and better dialogs and notifications.
  • Stability: fixed a crash when browser page translation was active during registration, added friendly error fallbacks across the app, and shipped many smaller fixes to registration, abstracts, and invoicing.

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