Event Locations and Hosts
You already knew that every event attendee has their own, personalised RSVP page that houses their ticket and session information, right? Well, last January we added event locations, including an embedded map, to help students easily find where your event/sessions are taking place. And we also added event hosts, to give students visibility into who they’ll be meeting at each session.
Multiple CRM integration improvements
First, we rolled out an update for Salesforce schools, allowing for recurring contact imports and the syncing of more call/message/note/email/attendance data to the contact and lead records. Then we followed that with an improved two-way sync between events in Gecko and campaigns in Salesforce, which pulls through 6+ attendance statuses. We also enabled users to map their unique institution IDs to their CRM — for easier linking of enquiries to individual schools — and we improved our Microsoft Dynamics integration to better support contacts AND leads.
2-Factor Authentication and Single Sign-On
2FA is an extra layer of security used to make sure that people trying to gain access to an online account are who they say they are. We added 2FA last summer, to make it harder for others to impersonate your team-members and gain access to their account. Single sign-on (SSO) also helps secure your GeckoEngage accounts, but in a different way. SSO can allow users to login to their Gecko accounts using existing login credentials from third-party accounts, such as Microsoft and Google. This means that new users do not have to set up a password to access the system, and lapsed users (such as colleagues who have left the institution) do not have to be manually removed from your Gecko account.
Other improvements:
- Export Templates. Gecko users can now save recurring exports as templates, then run them at any time with just a few clicks.
- Personalised landing pages. Use mail merge tags to customise landing pages for every student.
- Configurable end dates for workflows. Once set-up, event and form workflows will now stop running past the set date.
- Email/SMS template categories. Track and group your templates by assigning them to customisable categories.
- Use Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA to prevent spammy submissions on your Gecko Forms.
- Use a single phone number to make calls and send texts. Make contacts with students via text message first, so they’re more open to picking up your calls.
- Update the time format across your Gecko org.
- Monitor your Gecko payments without logging in to Gecko, via your institution Stripe account.
- and more…