As Harmony's has expanded over the past few years, so has its complexity. Just like with any feature rich product, maintaining simplicity while enhancing functionality is critical for usability.
Below are some features that have gone LIVE, that make the system simple yet more functional.
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Re-register for additional sessions of an event
Program organizers can create events where participants can re-register for additional sessions. For instance, let’s say an organizer has announced a yoga event with options to purchase a single-session ticket or a five-session ticket. A participant who has bought a single-session ticket can re-register for the same event with another single-session ticket or five-session ticket.
Paid recurring events
Earlier there was no facility to charge a fee for recurring events making it difficult for the organizers to manage the registrations and payments, as that had to be done offline. With the new enhancement, now paid recurring events can be announced making the registration and payment management much simpler and more organized.
Search for free or paid events
An additional filter available within the ‘Filter by’ feature on the ‘Find Events’ page allows you to filter the search results by paid or free events.
Announce bi-monthly events with ease
Organizers and teachers can announce events that repeat more than once a month within a single event instead of having to create separate events, making it easier to manage them.
Courses of disabled course/event types available on Find courses/events page
Harmony admin can disable announcement of new courses of a specific course type and still have the past and active courses available on the ‘Find Courses’ page and in the ‘Reports’ module, preventing the inadvertent announcement of inactive course types.
Discount codes for courses falling in a specific date range
Earlier, if a discount code needed to be applied to all courses starting within a specific date range, all relevant course IDs would have to be manually added while creating the discount code, making the process frustrating and cumbersome.
Now, while setting up discount codes, a course start date range can be specified. When this is done, the discount code would automatically become available for all courses starting within that range.
Enhanced Participants Details Page
We’ve removed some redundant information from the participant details page and now re-organized the participant information in an easy-to-understand tabular format.
Rollouts
We have rolled out Harmony online registration for Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Curacao, Guatemala
Online payments have been enabled for Brazil and Colombia with Mercado Pago enabling ease of registration and payment for the participant as well as payment tracking and accounting for teachers and organizers.
We have also integrated a feature offered by the payment gateway (Mercado Pago) that allows participants to pay their courses and events fees in multiple installments.
Group participant check-in
Avoid having to manually keep a track of who attended and who did not attend an event. Use the new ‘group size’ field on the ‘add attendee’ page to check-in participants who registered as a group.
Forgot password enhancement
Earlier when a user would reset his password he would be re-directed to the ‘manage account page’ and the user would have to separately open the registration form in case he needed to register.
Now, after the user resets the password, he is automatically redirected to the ‘registration form’ making it easier and quicker for the user to register for the program.
Optimized list view for participants
Building on the work we have done in the past few months to present the course, events and participant information in a concise manner, we've optimized the 'View Participants' page further.
a) The default view on this page now shows participants whose payment status is either confirmed or pending, instead of just confirmed ones as earlier.
b) Participants’ registration date is displayed now.
c) Added the 'group size' column (for events) which makes it easier to understand how many people are coming in each group of participants.
Feature the event facilitator’s name on the website
Several of your events have speakers or facilitators you would like to feature on the event details page on the website, but there wasn’t a way to add their names when announcing the event. The new ‘Facilitator’ field allows you to do this, and you can also customize the label for it (Instructor, Speaker, etc.).
Improved course and event filters
New course and event filters available on the 'Find events and 'Find courses' page provide greater filtering capability - you can now also filter by 'event name' and events and courses with/without accommodation. We're really working on reducing manual work for you.
Access participants list from the course summary pane
Earlier, clicking on the participant count took you to the participant summary view. Instead, now you are taken to the participant details page, which most organizers and teachers find more relevant.
We understand this change is minor and your life does not depend on them, but we feel these fixes make it a little more comfortable for you to use Harmony, so it's worth the effort!
Online Payment for Luxembourg
We have now added Luxembourg to our list of countries who have a payment gateway (Stripe) available - making online payments possible for participants.
Announce events that happen more than once a week
We understand you have different needs for your recurring events - some of them need to happen more than once a week. Earlier it wasn’t possible to announce such events, such as follow-ups twice a week - now it is possible!
Managing refund notification settings
Now National admins can set which finance admins get notified when a teacher submits a refund request.