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Version 4.1

Version 4.1 is hot off the press, with all current live and demo calls upgraded to this version. Here's the list of new features:

Released 01/16/2019
New 'judge' user type with ability to view juried-in works, favorite works, and assign awards to submissions
New 'Support Ticket' system for call admins to interface with ArtCall.org support via the admin panel
Track tickets, reply to tickets, request features, etc.
New optional 'Support Tickets' for call admins to interface with users/entrants
Added global user profile images (user no longer need to upload profile images for each call)
Added global user social profile fields (allow users to specify: twitter, facebook, Instagram, linked in, and personal website) fields
New ORG site theme (more in-line with current call admin theme)
New ORG site "Event" type of free (users don't need to add any credit card details to register for free events)
New ORG site print receipt option (with ORG logo) on all artwork purchases
New ORG detailed buyer view with global buyers allowing admins to view purchases across all calls for single buyers

Version 4.0

Released 11/14/2018
Brand new web gallery template & options with large thumbnails and fully responsive template
Ability to order submissions in web gallery
Ability to customize which user / submission information appears under web gallery thumbnails
Masonry style web gallery layout
Ability for end users to filter web gallery by category
Ability to public vote on submission detail view page
Ability to add custom text to web gallery
Search filter on open calls for entry page
Duplicate back label instructions onto 'claim ticket' portion
Ability to specifiy state on Call Settings
New Judging workflow to easily award submissions (under Awards tab)
Ability to set a award value field for an award
Ability to limit number of submissions receiving a specific award
Several small fixes and enhancements

Version 3.9

Released 03/31/2018
New frontend & backend theme
New custom field type Date (allows for date selection fields by month/day/year in common format)
New custom field options Limits (allows for max or min characters on custom fields)
Ability to sort Users by # of submissions (allows for seeing users without any entries)
Buying/Selling moving to ORG Sites
Org Sites - Mass email users across all calls
Org Sites - Selling of multiple artworks in a single transaction (cart style)
Org Sites - Single buyer information across all calls allowing your to track indefintely which buyers have purchased artworks
Org Sites - Membership management updates including public members profiles?

Version 3.8

Released 11/01/2017
Make user agreements optional to view by Jurors
Updated user submission page with popover prompt if they are have pending or missing items (missing images, missing agreements, pending booth payments etc)
Ability to hide specific user fields from jurors
Added submission and user info to buyer purchase email receipt
Added ability to print buyer purchase receipts
Ability to do 2 jury rounds
Added file browser to pages edit page
Ability to order printed display tags by several criteria
Added fee name to payment data export
Auto add back the "submission credit" when a user deletes a submission if the call has multi-pay enabled.
Add Customers which stores a users credit card making it easy to do future payments and re-bill users.

Version 3.7

Released 07/15/2017
User Agreements. Admin users can create user agreement PDF's that individual users must download, fill-out, and re-submit.

Version 3.6

Released 02/20/2017
Ability to run public voting contest on web-gallery via Facebook authentication
Added 'Juried Alternate' designation and email template
Create customized Booth Maps with publicly viewable interactive Booth Map option
Ability to add optional 'addons' to Booths with associated pricing
Added 2 new mass email groups
- Ability to mass email all users that don't have a submission
- Ability to mass email all users with submissions that don't have an image
Separated buyer from user payment exports
Added 'Total Purchased Amount' column in buyer view
Added individual item purchased amounts in buyer view
Allow 'address line 2' to be empty?

Version 3.5

Released 01/25/2017
New print master view
Ability to mark submissions as 'Checked Out' for tracking artwork pickup
Icon notification of jury email delivery failure.
Decreased % transaction charge on 'buyer purchases'
Ability to add organization Facebook and Twitter links to menu
Ability to get notified of submissions/registaritons on any call type
Ability to upload an organization 'logo', which is used on our open calls for entry page

Version 3.4

Released 12/19/2016
Auto Awards Slideshow
Signature Waivers
User Profile Image Uploads
Booth Map Generator (to scale)
First & Last pagination links on submissions & users views
Choose which fields appear in web gallery title?

Version 3.3

Released 08/10/2016
Admin user can add users and new submissions for users after regardless of submission timeframe.
Ability to search by email or name on users view
Rename 'Media / Mediums' to 'Sub Category / Sub Categories'
Jury Scorecard (with unlimited scorecard criteria)
Pricing tiers for discounts after initial x entries (allows for scenarious of: 3 submissions for $35, each subsequent submission = $15)
Limit file types allowed for attachments
Print Select Display Tags
Coupon codes limited to either submission, registration, or booth
Wholesale transaction fee rate on Booth Fees & Buyer Purchases
Many small enhancements and bug fixes

Version 3.2

Released 05/5/2016
Allow admins to 'add' submissions to user accounts and also 'create' user accounts even after cut-off end date
'Continous' mode for artcalls, where there isn't a set submission open and end date.
Admin jury view (sort juries and see notes and such)

Version 3.1

Released 03/19/2016
Email Template Preview
Ability to manually send or resend individual jury notification emails
Language Support (Spanish)
Easy upgrade tier action
New Single View Jury Mode
New Notes View Jury View

Version 3.0

Released 01/29/2016
Ability to accept .doc/.docx submission attachment file types
Ability to add additional 'Admin' users if needed
Ability to add half-star ratings to juror voting
Enhancements to 'Selling' artwork portals
Ability to add custom instructions on the 'add attachments' page
Ability to mass mark 'Hide From Jurors' on submissions
Ability to mass mark 'Pending Jury' on submissions
Added links to video/audio/pdf files on Web Gallery Page
Ability to randomize submission order for jurors
Added 'Buyers' view to see buyer data and associated submission purchases.
Ability to choose which attachment is 'featured' for web gallery, receipt print, and more info views
Minor bug fixes

Version 2.9

Released 09/15/2015
Manage and track Buyers
Added ability for Attendant Users to 'Sell' submissions complete with Buyer information
Ability to purchase submissions with credit card directly through portal, or take cash/check payments for purchases
View Buyers information and purchase information for submissions
New Export Data Page with complete data export & download (Submission data, User data, Payment data, Jury data, Buyer data, Image Data)
Increased custom submission fields allotted from 5 to 10
Increased custom registration fields allotted from 5 to 10
Many small ehancements such as (click anywhere to dismiss a 'more info' popover on submissions view)
Minor bug fixes

Version 2.8

Released 07/12/2015
Login as User feature
Mass email your users
Ability to hide any Submission field (even custom fields) from Jurors
Added QR code to submission receipt pages
Added ability to Delete users
Ability to scan QR code on print receipts to mark submissions as received (available while logged in as Attendant User)
Ability to mark submissions as 'Hide From Jury'
Added 'Art Exhibition' call type
Increased maximum attachments per application to 10 (or less if defined) for 'Art Festival' and 'Art Exhibition' call types

Version 2.7

Released 05/27/2015
Added Coupons. Ability to add coupon codes to your calls fees for special members only discounts or 100% off coupons for in-person, check, or pre-paid users.
Added Automatic Certificate PDF generation. Genereate certificates from your awarded submissions for easy printing
Many minor enhacements and feature requests.
Added a 'Company/Organization' User Registration Field
Awarded Submissions View. Easily see which submissions have been assigned an award.

Version 2.6

Released 04/28/2015
Added ability to customize the heading background color and border (away from the default blue)
Added 2 new call types: Art Festival, Art Exhibition
Added 'booths' feature to Art Festival Applications
When logged in as Admin, sidebar will always be gray regardless of theme settings
Brand new beautiful html email templates for notification emails
Increased video, audio, & PDF file formats max upload size from 4mb to 25mb
Submission attachment filenames are now pre-pended with the display ID
Added several local currencies, allowing for international calls to specify call fees in their own currency.
Allow editing of notified status on submissions
Auto embed of youtube, vimeo and other providers web urls into submissions view
Added ability to de-activate user accounts
Jurors cannot edit nor add new jurys after jury end date

Version 2.5

Released 02/26/2015
Added ability to upload Audio files to submissions
Added ability to upload Video files to submissions
Added ability to upload PDF files to submissions
Removed "GIF" as a valid image upload file format
Renamed the 'Add Images' action to 'Add Attachments' to allow for multiple file types other than images
Added 'Average Jury Score' to data export
Added ability to accept arbitrary user payments
Fixed theme display when custom fields contained too many characters in several spots
Added new 'Jury Stats' view, to see average and total votes per category for each juror.
Added 'Jury Estimator Tool' for quickly assigning values to categories to get estimations on how many submissions are above various thresholds per category.
Many minor theme enhancements and clarifications

Version 2.4

Released 01/05/2015
Added 'More Info' view with QR Code Scanning View
Added 'More Info' link to web gallery
Option to generate QR code images option on Display Tag printing view
Added ability for admins to change users email address (login name)
Added average jury score to exported data
Preliminary "login as user" scaffolding for admins
Theme improvements & fixes

Version 2.3

Released 12/15/2014
Add Jury Star Rating customization. (You can now choose how many stars for your calls Jury rankings)
Customize the value of a 'minimun' image upload size,
Customize how many images can be attached to a submission (1,2, or 3)
Customize the 'print size' resize value

Version 2.2

Released 11/16/2014
Enhanced call archives, allowing for viewing multiple call archives without disrupting your current call.
NEW Exhibit Display Tag customization.
NEW Limit jury users to specific categories.
Many Theme/settings improvements

Version 2.1

Released 10/03/2014
Ability to set your Timezone (All dates and deadline are then reflected/enforced in the timezone)
Ability to set tiered pricing for Submission Fee!
Ability to set tiered pricing for Registration Fee (Ex: Member vs non-member pricing)!
MultiPay (Prepayment for multiple submissions) new feature added!
Enhanced theme settings
Fixed display of large text field data (such as artist statement or resume)
Enhanced custom registration fields displays

Version 2.0

Released 7/14/2014
Added ability to customize custom field types (Radio buttons, Dropdown Menus, Checkboxes, Textareas) See the video tutorial inside of the admin panel or your demo call to see how these powerful new custom fields work
Added Ability to embed call's website into an existing website (This feature is in beta, and enables you to run your entire call from an already existing website!
Increased custom submission fields to 5 (up from 3)
Added new 'transparent' custom background image (useful when embedding)
Added unique token id on submission 'print receipt' page
Added 'add images' button to user submission page (allows users to add images to their submissions at any time)
Fixed payment for JS disabled message
Added Export Images Action (request an .zip export of all of your calls entry images)

Version 1.9

Released 5/29/2014
Added "Rejected" status/ability to submissions (you can reject a submission, and it will email the user with a notification, allowing them to modify/fix details and then re-enter the submission)
Changed Logged in buttons, with quick link to the submissions
Added basic theme customization ability (you can change the background image, sidebar background color, change heading and text colors in the sidebar and content areas, and upload your own css sheet if you're brave.)
Added ability to change text color and text highlight color for pages and sidebar content.
Fixed user profile update
Many theme enhancements
Few bug fixes

Version 1.8

Released 3/04/2014
Added search by email for submissions
Added lightbox on photo viewing
Added 'Tools' tab
Added report/notice for submissions without images (under tools tab)
Updated location page google maps
Added export payments option (on the payments page)
Added manually adding juror/attendant users (under tools tab)
Updated theme with many improvements
Moved sidebar edit/preview to it's own submenu

Version 1.7

Released 2/10/2014
Added 'country' to Optional User Registration Fields
Added 'days countdown' to user submission page
Added PDF uploads to 'Page Uploads' page.
Allow jurors to 'update' votes/notes on already voted submissions
Allow Receipt Page customization

Version 1.6

Released 1/29/2014
User Image Delete ability
User Submission Edit ability
User Profile Edit ability
Hide media, when subcategories are not in use.
Many theme improvements & bug fixes

Version 1.5

Released 12/20/2013
Client payment refunds
Refund notification email & status key
Stripe integration
New user role 'attendant'
Mark submissions as 'received' -- meaning physically received
Recieved status key
Public web gallery view -- public web gallery on your site mobile/tablet/touch friendly.
Keyword submission search -- search by client name, submission id, submission title
Revamped 'Print name tag' feature -- best if used with FireFox.