Release Notes

On this page, we provide an overview of new functionality introduced to SpeakerTravel over time.

2024 - November

• ✨ Redesigned invitation e-mail notifications
• ✨ Flight booking adds support for Ryanair
• ✨ Organizer - Improved reporting
• ✨ Technical updates (migration to .NET 9.0, migration to OpenTelemetry)

2024 - October

• ✨ Organizer - Improved overview of transactions

2024 - September

• ✨ Traveller - Add warnings for short flight connections in search
• ✨ Traveller - Improve rail search performance

2024 - August

• ✨ Rail booking adds support for Sweden (Vy, Öresundståg, Snälltåget), Norway (Vy and SJ), Denmark (DSB, SJ and Deutsche Bahn), France (SNCF and TGV), Netherlands (NS), Belgium (SNCB/NMBS), Luxembourg (CFL)

2024 - July

• ✨ Display time format in 12h/24h format depending on Accept-Language HTTP header

2024 - June

• ✨ Traveller - Support for reduction cards (SBB, Deutsche Bahn, ÖBB, Trenitalia)
• ✨ Show notification to encourage rail travel when available
• ✨ Added an option to show travel options that are out of budget when searching for flights and trains

2024 - May

• ✨ Preview customers can now book via our Concierge service for more advanced travel plans
• ✨ Traveller - Improved performance when searching for train station names
• ✨ Organizer - Added an option to specify country-specific budget
• ✨ Organizer - Added an option to specify low balance threshold when sending an e-mail notification

2024 - April

• 🐞 Traveller - Fixed issue with some results not being displayed when searching for business class flights

2024 - March

• ✨ Traveller - Add filter to show only flight search results with included checked bags

2024 - February

• ✨ Rail booking engine is now available for all events!
• 🐞 Traveller - Fixed issue where frequent flyer programme was not always added to each booking.

2024 - January

• ✨ Beta version of rail booking engine.

2023 - November-December

• ✨ Organizer - Added an option to delete the event when no travellers have been added yet.

2023 - October

• ✨ Traveller - Suggest additional alternative routes in search results (all Eurostar and former Thalys routes)
• ✨ Organizer - Support invitation e-mail text placeholders

2023 - September

• ✨ Traveller - Suggest alternative routes in search results (e.g. using Eurostar for Paris-London)
• ✨ Traveller - Search results start with best route, cheapest, and fastest route
• ✨ Phone number entry no longer requires area code to be specified separately

2023 - August

• ✨ Traveller - Flight search now uses server-side filtering for a smoother user experience
• ✨ Traveller - Do not require identity documents if airline does not need them
• 🐞 Organizer invoice contact details update improvements

2023 - July

• ✨ Traveller - Flight search now returns more possible flight combinations
• ✨ Organizer - View ordered baggage details for traveller
• ✨ Update airline icons and master data
• ✨ Technical updates (migration to .NET 8.0)
• 🐞 Organizer VAT number check is now more reliable

2023 - June

• ✨ Creating traveller invitations using the SpeakerTravel API
• 🐞 Fix issue when importing travellers with invalid IATA airport codes

2023 - May

• ✨ "Cancel for any Reason" (CFAR) is now available!. CFAR can be added to select bookings.
• ✨ Usability improvements to e-mail subject/previews

2023 - April

• ✨ Bundled tickets are now available!. These are not enabled by default and should be enabled by the event organizer.
• ✨ Organizer - Change/cancellation options are now displayed on traveller details page (when known).
• 🐞 Fare family is now displayed correctly on passenger details page after booking.

2023 - March

• ✨ Organizer - View price range of similar flights on booking approval page
• 🐞 Organizer - Update traveller budget currencies when updating event currency

2023 - February

• ✨ Organizer - Add notes and activity to traveller details
• ✨ Traveller - Display fare class in search results
• ✨ Traveller - Redesigned trip details pages
• ✨ An initial version of the SpeakerTravel API

2023 - January

• ✨ Organizer - Added the ability to set default budgets per event/region
• ✨ Organizer - Contextual documentation was added to the organizer section
• ✨ Traveller - Add "With this flight only" filter to search results
• ✨ Better support for several airlines in Asia and Oceania (Scoot, Qantas, ...)

2022 - December

• ✨ Organizer - Display all notification options that can be enabled/disabled
• ✨ Traveller - Make included baggage information more visible in search results

2022 - November

• ✨ Organizer - See all transactions for an event, including passenger fees
• ✨ Organizer - Improved billing options for events
• ✨ Organizer - Request change/cancelation/bags/... in traveller details interface
• ✨ Traveller - Make cabin class/branded fare name more visible in search results
• 🐞 Traveller - Fixed issue with British Airways sometimes not returning flight details
• 🐞 Traveller - Fixed issue with not being able to remove account details in all cases

2022 - October

• ✨ Organizer - Improved traveller details interface
• ✨ Technical updates (migration to .NET 7.0)

2022 - September

• ✨ Traveller - Improved search interface
• 🐞 Traveller - Fixed issue with some airlines reporting the wrong number of included checked bags
• ✨ Organizer - Additional confirmation when sending reminders to avoid accidental mass-mails
• ✨ Support booking multi-city flights

2022 - August

• ✨ Reworked booking engine

2022 - July

• ✨ Collect additional traveller information with custom fields
• ✨ Update airline icons and master data

2022 - June

• ✨ Organizer - Clone event now also clones branding options
• ✨ Train stations with an IATA code can now be booked (SNCF, Accesrail, and more)
• 🐞 Improve rendering of map locations when no airport lat/lon is known

2022 - May

• ✨ Traveller - Allow separate baggage upgrades per flight (when available)
• ✨ Traveller - Add support for known traveller number
• ✨ Introduce the SpeakerTravel trust center

2022 - April

• ✨ Organizer - Configure e-mail notifications
• ✨ Organizer - Import - Additional default options can be specified
• ✨ Traveller - Show list of pending trips as starting page
• ✨ Traveller - Search results UI updates
• 🐞 Traveller - When flight number is re-used, confirmation e-mail contains a duplicate attachment
• 🐞 Traveller - Calendar invitations sometimes include wrong timezone
• ✨ Booking engine performance improvements

2022 - March

• ✨ Organizer - Re-send booking confirmation e-mail on demand
• ✨ Organizer - Self-leave event team

2022 - February

• ✨ Traveller - Minor UI/UX updates to search results
• ✨ Organizer - Minor UI updates to finished events in events list
• 🐞 Organizer - When cloning an event, travel dates are now suggested correctly
• ✨ Support for booking carry-on and baggage upgrades when available
• ✨ Improved airport search with all airports in city
• ✨ Improved airport search UI

2022 - January

• ✨ Organizer - Limit travel dates for event and individual travellers
• ✨ Traveller - Removed SimCorner partner link from booking confirmation e-mails
• ✨ Traveller - Improved search for specific booking class

2021 - December

• ✨ Update airline icons and master data

2021 - November

• ✨ Organizer - UX improvements when working with multiple events

2021 - October

• ✨ Traveller - Airline check-in link available in e-mail and trip details
• ✨ Traveller - Flights with different fare families on each flight leg now score lower in search results
• 🐞 Traveller - Calendar attachments in confirmation e-mail now correctly picked up by GMail client
• ✨ Remember previous choice of login method and display it on the login page
• ✨ Technical updates (migration to .NET 6.0)

2021 - September

• ✨ Organizer - Show passenger baggage information in approval step
• ✨ Organizer - Remind all travellers in one go
• ✨ Various UI improvements

2021 - July

• ✨ Booking engine performance improvements
• ✨ Documentation navigation improvements

2021 - June

• ✨ Organizer - Support for new Sessionize.com XLSX format to import and invite travellers.

2020 - September

• ✨ Technical updates (migration to .NET 5.0)

2020 - August

• 🐞 Additional verification of bookability related to COVID-19 flight availability.

2020 - July

• ✨ Update airline icons and master data.
• ✨ Work on additional documentation.

2020 - June

• ✨ Update maps source.
• ✨ Various minor updates to UX.

2020 - May

• ✨ A new documentation center is now available.

2020 - April

• ✨ Organizer - Travellers can be auto-approved when cost is within budget (optional).
• ✨ Organizer - Import and invite travellers from XLSX, CSV file and speaker exports from Sessionize.com.

2020 - March

• ✨ Traveller - Ticketing phone number can be specified to retrieve airline notifications.
• ✨ Organizer - Booking approval is now asynchronous - no need to stare at a progress bar for 20 seconds after approving travel.
• ✨ Organizer - Event currency can now be EUR and USD.

2020 - February

• ✨ Render Great Circle arcs on maps.
• ✨ Traveller - Our partner SimCorner, offering data/4G travel SIM cards is listed in booking confirmation e-mails.
• ✨ Traveller - Our partner TripIt can parse SpeakerTravel confirmation e-mails.
• ✨ Organizer - Added a switch to display flight prices to travellers (disabled by default).
• ✨ Organizer - Invite team members to manage travel for speakers.
• 🐞 Organizer - Speed up budget price range retrieval.

2020 - January

• ✨ Localize calendar start of week when possible.
• ✨ Traveller - Improve filtering departure/arrival time and duration of flight.
• 🐞 Traveller - Redirect to search when invitation already accepted (do not show "invalid invitation").
• ✨ Organizer - Reporting (financial summary, travel times summary)
• ✨ Organizer - Scrollbar for mail preview.
• ✨ Organizer - Added ability to edit invitation.

2019 - December

• ✨ Added support for baggage fees and fare tiers.
• ✨ Added support for low-cost carrier bookings.
• ✨ Organizer - Added ability to clone previous event.

2019 - November

• ✨ Support for one-way flights.
• ✨ Traveller - Improve flight selection UI on mobile devices.
• ✨ Organizer - Provide budget suggestions when creating traveller invitation.

2019 - October

• ✨ Pre-formatted itineraries replaced with nice HTML design in web application and confirmation e-mails.
• ✨ Organizer - Allow pre-populating traveller departure airport when known.

2019 - September

• ✨ Organizer - Allow specifying potential budget overrun percentage.
• ✨ Organizer - Option to provide EU VAT details.
• ✨ Organizer - Improve UI for flight pricing.
• 🐞 Organizer - Recomended departure date not always pre-populated [bugfix]

2019 - August

• ✨ Display badge in top menu for organizers and travellers, to visualize when an action is required.
• ✨ Organizer - Branding enhancements, including customization of traveller invitation and booking confirmation e-mails.
• ✨ Organizer - Remind travellers to accept an invitation or to search for travel options.
• ✨ Organizer - Reason can be specified when rejecting a travel option.
• ✨ Organizer - Booking vs. budget amount chart is now displayed on the event dashboard.
• ✨ Organizer - Base metrics on dashboard are now clickable and link to more details.
• ✨ Organizer - Multiple passengers can be invited on one booking.
• ✨ Traveller - Show contact details of organizer on trip details page.
• ✨ Traveller - Show selected itinerary while flight approval is pending.
• ✨ Traveller - Basic flight info is shown on the trip overview page.

2019 - March - July

• ✨ Initial release of SpeakerTravel and refinements, providing support to create an event and invite passengers, with basic booking functionality.