New features Archive • new kulibri

kulibri premium

Andreas Kutzer — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:38:13 +0000

New features for admins who use kulibri in a (semi-) professional way and/or very regularly

We decided to go with the well-known “freemium” model – without advertising – as our business model.

That means:

The majority of the functions will continue to be free of charge and without advertising for all users.
Some functions will only be made available to admins with “Premium User” status, who will have to sign up for a paid annual membership (subscription). These are mostly features that are useful or necessary for special or very intense use.

The current overview of all features, memberships and prices can be found here.

New Feature: Sub-Administration

Many of our users use kulibri to organize repetitive queries in larger groups.
However, since the admins are often volunteers or work shifts, they cannot always be available themselves. Organizational bottlenecks then sometimes occur.
To be able to distribute this work on more shoulders, we now offer the admins the possibility to make participants sub-admins, and this in the most simple way possible.

New Feature: Automated reminders

If you often use kulibri for planning tasks, it may happen that you to remind the participants of a poll or event to respond before the deadline or the upcoming next option.
Now there is an option for admins to define automated reminders per project.

New module: Tasks / ToDo Lists

Many of our users use kulibri to plan events of any kind. For this purpose, event invitations, date surveys or text surveys are used.

When it comes to events in known groups, the kulibri comments or accompanying WhatsApp / Signal groups are often used to distribute tasks that need to be done at the event.
Alternatively, there are the well known tear-off notes on the bulletin boards of schools/nurseries/clubs and companies etc.

A job/task list for a kindergarten summer party could e.g. look like this:

5 x set up
1 x grill
20 x bring food
5 x clean up
2 x do shopping
3 x appetizers
1 x dessert

Often the options in polls are used to better coordinate predetermined processes, which corresponds to kind of a “shift planning” as for example with:

fire department drills
choir planning
orchestra or band planning
all sorts of group sports planning (football / soccer / hockey / etc)

In most of these cases, certain tasks/activities have to be done once or several times by one or more people at the event. The main task of the organizers is to make sure that all tasks are distributed.

This is exactly where the new kulibri module “Jobs / Todos” comes in:

Admins can define multiple tasks to be done by the group of participants in addition to each poll/event invitation.

Custom logos and designs

Many kulibri users use kulibri in a professional or semi-professional way.
In those cases the requirment for custom logos, that fit well into the project page, always comes up.

In order to support this requirement, the following features are now available:

Upload of own logos
Manage own links behind the logo
Adjust the logo size
Adjust the header background color and font color
Adjust transparency for dark or light mode

More options will follow soon.

As an example here are 2 different “Custom Designs”:

Copying contacts from other projects

Many of our users have long contact lists and do not always invite everyone, but only a sub-set of their contacts to their projects.
And those sub-sets are basically always the same for the corresponding target group, or correspond to the last used participant list.

To minimize the effort for creating the invitations, admins can now copy contacts from their other (mostly last) projects with one click.

Up to 50 background images

Premium users can now upload up to 50 background images – the limit for standard registered users is 3.

Coming very soon

We are currently working on the following premium functionalities and will release them soon:

Automated reminders
Custom landing pages

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Optional email addresses for participants

Andreas Kutzer — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:55:45 +0000

Support of anonymous participants as an option for admins

In old kulibri, when using the general link, it was mandatory to provide an email address in order to participate in a vote/invitation.

Now admins have the option to make this optional for participants.

Using a setting in the invitations panel, admins can now specify whether entering the email is mandatory or optional for participants.

This approach gives our admins the ultimate flexibility depending on the objective of the vote.

When adding participants directly to the list via the plus sign, admins themselves can always decide whether to add participants with or without an email address.

In the display for the admins you can see this by the missing email addresses and the missing user icon.

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The new date poll

Andreas Kutzer — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:19:19 +0000

The principle is the same, otherwise a lot is different

The creation of date polls has changed a lot, for the better according to our test users. For a step by step walkthrough, click here.

Start screen for admins

The admin view is now a WYSIWYG editor. I.e. while editing on the right side, you can see changes in real time on the left side.
The type selection is also done in WYSIWYG mode, so you can always see the differences between the types right away
Many new settings
- “If need be” answers
- Limited number of votes per option (first come first serve)
- Only one option selectable (single choice)
- Hide the comment area
- Hidden mode (improved)

Editing of date options for admins

A lot has also been done in this area to provide more flexibility and convenience for our admins:

Times and free text can also be combined. This makes it very easy to map e.g. rooms, teams, etc.
Support of times and time zones (the old kulibri had interpreted these only as text)
With the new copy function you can now transfer repeating times/teams etc. with one click to all other days

The new view on mobile devices

The support for mobile devices is completely new.

It is primarily optimized for the easiest and most comfortable use by the participants.

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New layout and new admin features

Andreas Kutzer — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:58:00 +0000

Design

We’ve come up with a few things to make the experience for admins and the participants not as “dry” as you’re usually used to with appointment polls.

Admins can now:

Select background images from a library
Upload their own background images
Choose between dark and light mode – depending on what suits the selected background better.

In this way, very different representations can be created to visually emphasize the respective topic.

New comfort functions for the admins

To make our admins’ work even easier or to save even more time, we have introduced a few general improvements:

Project creation with WYSIWYG editor: no more guessing how the poll will finally look like. Admins can see what their poll will look like as they type it in
Copy polls and invitations
Add participants directly via the plus sign (with or without email address)
Export polls
Receive comments as admin only in hidden mode
Decide if users can or cannot see the results of hidden polls

Mobile version finally available

Now there is finally a mobile version available. Especially the participants have it much easier now to submit their answers.

Appointment polls and event invitations look slightly different.

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More improvements in the new kulibri app

Andreas Kutzer — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:45:27 +0000

Additional admin features

A number of new functions facilitate the work of admins:

Copy projects/invitations (incl. options)
Excel export of projects
Various new settings for admin notifications
Setting of expiration dates, after which the participants can no longer give answers
Closing and if necessary reopening of projects
Selection and display of the “best option(s)”
Support of sorting and line breaks in general polls.

New settings

Allow “if need be” answers

In addition to YES and NO, participants can also indicate if an option is ok but not ideal for them. The answer will always be counted as YES.

Max number of votes per option (first come first serve)

Admins can specify the maximum number of votes. As soon as this number of YESs for an option is reached, this option is no longer selectable for the other participants.

Participants can only cast one vote (single choice)

Participants can only vote for one option, but one option can be voted for by more than one participant.

Hiding the comment area

It happens that admins do not want any comments. This is now supported as a setting.

Hidden mode: Now also takes comments into account

Names, answers and comments of participants are only shown to admins.
On the other hand, admins can no longer post comments in this mode either.
However, they can always communicate with participants via “Send messages”.

Send invitations

The Invite Participants module now provides admins with an overview of personalized access links. Admins can provide better support in case participants can’t find them anymore.

Furthermore, a comfortable search function helps to compile the contacts faster.

Comments

Comments are now displayed with initials. This increases the readability.
The annoying “scrolling” is no longer necessary.
Comments now support HTML tags, in case someone wants to highlight something or post links
Long links are recognized and automatically shortened

Dashboard

The new dashboard has been greatly simplified.

The newest projects appear on top
The division into tabs is gone
Images are displayed as well
Invitation status is displayed directly in the list

Registration and login via Google

To make registration and login easier, we now offer Google as the first “social login”.
Depending on acceptance and demand, more will be added.

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