What’s new
The latest user-facing changes to Novex. Internal-only fixes (deploy tooling, infrastructure) are omitted.
August 2026 — Master records, invitations & the builder tools
New
- Master records — six workspace-level records (People, Vendors, Benefits & add-ons, Services, Speakers, Customers) that are the single source of truth. An event holds a thin link carrying only what is true for that event, so an event list is a filtered view rather than a second list to keep in step.
- Invitations and express registration — an invited person confirms their place on one screen from a private link: the details you already hold, corrected if they have changed, and a button that says yes. No form to fill in from scratch, no account to create. The invitee’s door is live; the organizer screen for building and sending a list is the next slice — see the note on the invitations page.
- Custom questions — eight answer types with bilingual labels, now documented in their own page. Options take an Arabic label of their own, so an Arabic form no longer shows English choices.
- Copy an event’s structure — build year two from year one in one click: the agenda and the rate card. The shape travels; the people do not.
- Booths assignable to customers — a company can buy floor space without buying a sponsorship package, and may hold several stands. See Floor plan.
Improved
- Package builder picks from your catalog — benefits and add-ons come from the workspace catalog instead of being retyped per package, so renaming one renames it everywhere. Benefits now have a third state: Excluded renders an explicit cross next to the package that has the tick.
- Express registration asks the organizer’s questions — an invitee answers them on their own screen instead of being handed off to the full registration form.
- Agenda sessions carry a planning count — “Speakers planned” sits alongside who has actually been assigned, so “we still need two” is a fact the agenda can hold.
July 2026 — Onboarding, reporting, websites & mobile
New
- First-login tours — short guided tours open the first time you reach the dashboard, the events list, or the form builder, with a Replay tour button to run them again any time.
- Empty states — every list with no data yet shows the same friendly one-liner plus a button to create the first item.
- Export any report to CSV / Excel — every report page (revenue, events, leads, pipeline, occupancy, vendors) has an Export CSV button in the header, so you can pull the underlying figures into a spreadsheet.
- Branded eBadge designer — set a per-field text colour and a QR foreground colour, and upload a background image while you’re creating a template (not only when editing an existing one).
- Stale-edit protection — if someone saves a record while you’re editing it, Novex warns you before your save can overwrite their newer changes, and lets you reload or overwrite on purpose.
- Mobile app (coming soon) — a companion app with native badge QR check-in and push notifications, starting with Google Play internal testing.
- WhatsApp inbox — a shared, two-way inbox: per-number filtering, conversation assignment, inbound/outbound media, the 24-hour reply window, sending a template into a thread, and linking a conversation to a CRM contact.
- In-app Help page — a Help entry in the sidebar lets any member send a bug report or question straight to Novex support, with workspace and account details attached automatically.
Improved
- Event websites, fully themeable — dual colour pickers with automatic WCAG-AA contrast, seven font pairs, and a live EN/AR preview; publish or unpublish any time with a sticky public URL. See theming and publishing.
- WhatsApp: starter-template library + draft campaigns — browse Novex’s ready-made starter templates and save a campaign as a draft to finish and send later.
- WhatsApp Business on every paid plan — connecting via Facebook and sending campaigns is now included on Flare, Spectrum, Aurora, and Cosmos (plus the Pro Event pass), not just higher tiers.
- Consistent currency display — monetary amounts now render with your
workspace or document currency (for example the
SARsuffix) consistently across invoices, quotations, and reports. See finance & locale settings. - Vendor invoices & payments — vendor-invoice rows now show total, paid, and remaining, lines default to 15% VAT, and you can record a direct vendor payment with no PO or invoice — including from an event’s finance tab, where it rolls into the event’s money cards.
- Billing on one screen — Settings → Billing now shows your plan, usage, and full billing history with each invoice in one place, alongside change-plan and billing-portal actions.
June 2026 — Sales, finance & engagement
New
- Clients & CRM — capture leads (manual or via a public, embeddable capture form), work deals through a drag-and-drop pipeline, keep a master client record, and track contracts. Converting a qualified lead creates a deal and a client in one step.
- Approvals queue — a central Approvals inbox routes quotations, budgets, purchase orders, and invoices through multi-step sign-off chains, with the document previewed inline so approvers decide in context.
- Analytics & reports — a dedicated Analytics area covering the workspace dashboards, filterable report pages, and the branded post-event event report PDF.
- Projected profit — the dashboard now shows projected profit (approved invoices minus approved budgets) so you can see expected margin at a glance.
- Surveys & feedback — create NPS/CSAT surveys, share them by public link or QR, capture respondent identity, and read response analytics.
- Vendor directory — a full vendors supplier directory with legal documents, bank details, logo upload, and linked purchase orders.
Improved
- Year-aware document numbering — references now carry the year (e.g.
QT-2026-0001) and reset each January. See Document numbering. - Day-based pricing — quote, invoice, and budget lines compute as quantity × days × unit price, so multi-day crews and rentals price on one line.
- Editable finance, locale & company settings — set your own currency, VAT rate, fiscal year, timezone, language, and company identity. See Finance & locale defaults.
- Branding with auto-contrast headers — pick any brand colour; the document header text adapts for readability. See Branding.
- Confirmation-email batch send — send registrant confirmations in bulk to a selected batch, with Sent / Not-sent tracking. See Managing registrations.
- More reliable kiosk offline sync — the offline check-in queue is durable across reloads and drains reliably once back online. See Kiosk check-in.
- Full budget control — edit or delete individual budget lines and delete a whole budget. See Budgets & forecasting.
On the roadmap
- ROI dashboard — a per-event return-on-investment view. See ROI dashboard.
- WhatsApp drip automation — trigger-based attendee message journeys. See WhatsApp drip automation.
- Gamification — a points leaderboard and a moderated photo wall. See Gamification.
May 2026 — Launch-polish wave
New
- First-run product tour & empty-state guidance — new workspaces get a guided tour, and modules with no data yet show helpful next-step prompts instead of blank screens.
- Blog, resources & glossary — a content library on the marketing site, including an event-ROI calculator and a glossary of event-management terms.
- Populated sales-demo workspace — a pre-seeded demo tenant lets you explore a realistic, fully-populated Novex without setting anything up. The onboarding gate can be skipped to jump straight in.
- Enterprise kiosk mode — expanded kiosk check-in for larger deployments.
- Branded, bilingual error pages — friendly 404 and 500 pages in English and Arabic. See Error pages.
- Public status page — real-time service health at
/status. See Status page.
Improved
- English-first experience — the landing page and signup now default to English for a global audience, with Arabic a first-class switch. See Localization.
- Arabic polish — number formatting and wording refinements across the Arabic interface.
- Faster marketing site — code-splitting, optimized images, and a responsive header that works cleanly down to 360px-wide screens.
- Accessibility & contrast — several passes improving colour contrast and screen-reader support across the app and public pages.
- Activation reminders — helpful day-2 and day-5 emails during the free trial so you don’t lose momentum.
Security & correctness
- Signup abuse protection — per-IP rate limiting and a honeypot guard on the public trial signup to block automated abuse.
- Correct Hijri dates on invoices — invoice date validation prevents implausible years, and the Hijri date now renders correctly on KSA tax documents. See Invoices.
- Technical SEO — richer structured data, metadata, and sitemap coverage so Novex pages surface accurately in search and AI answer engines.