New Event Features That Have Just Been Released On Member Jungle

Member Jungle is committed to constantly improving our membership management system. Every month, we release a new Product Release featuring new fixes, features and functionality. 

I’m being generous when I say “we”, the Member Jungle development team, work hard every month to ensure they are adding new features each month and that the Member Jungle system is always improving. Meanwhile, I sit around writing funny little words, rabbiting on weird animals I’ve found, and making obscure references. 

Take, for example, this little nightmare of a fish. 

 

 

This little creep is the Sarcastic Fringehead. No, I don’t know why it’s called that, no, I don’t know why it looks like that, and no, I don’t care to learn. 

My point is that the Member Jungle development team works super hard to keep the Member Jungle system always evolving and improving. So, today, let’s look at some of the new event features they have put together in the last two months alone. 

Recurring Club Events With Member Jungle

Let’s start with the big one, the Member Jungle development team has just released the ability to set up recurring events. That’s right, you can now set up one event, add in all the details you want and then set that event to repeat whenever you wish. This simplifies scheduling for recurring activities like monthly meetings, weekly catch-ups, or regular workshops.

 

Once published, these events appear in a colour-coded format on your club's calendar, offering members a clear overview of upcoming activities. Editing recurring events is a breeze. Modify details like times, dates, locations, and even email content. Then, choose whether to apply changes to a single event or the entire series of events. 

This new feature will save you serious time when it comes to setting up and managing repeating events and will save you from having to clone events over and over again. 

For a lot more details on how this works and all of its applications, check out Recurring Club Events With Member Jungle.

Set Event Ticket Discounts In Dollars

With Member Jungle, you can add discounts to event tickets so that you select that certain groups or membership levels get discounted prices on event tickets. For example, maybe your premium members will get 20% off on event tickets. 

However, up until this point, you have only been able to add discounts in percentages. Now, though, you can choose to set your ticket discounts to dollar amounts and/or percentages. 

 

 

 

This makes it easier to reward your members' loyalty and further customise how your events are set up. 

Role Restricted Event Tickets & Products

Prior to this release, you only had the option to have a completely public or member-restricted event, however, with the new releas,e you can now also restrict particular event tickets and event products to be for a membership group or tag. Meaning that your members will have to be a part of that membership level to even see that those tickets exist. 

This means you can set up multiple event tickets with different inclusions or with different discounts that will only be visible to members of the applicable level or with the relevant member tag. So standard members won’t be distracted by tickets that only premium members on committee members can purchase. 

Publicly Promoted Events With Member-Only Tickets

With the release of role-restricted event tickets, it now means that you can now set up your events to be publicly visible so anyone can share your event and look at your event details but still keep the event tickets locked down to members only. If you try to purchase tickets, you will be instructed to log in to see what tickets are available for purchase.  

This allows you to promote your events to the public, share your event calendar with the public and let the public see your event details and all the great stuff you have planned but still keep the purchase of any event tickets locked down to members only. You may also have a mix of public and member-restricted tickets, so once a person logs, they will be able to see what is available to them.

As you can imagine, showing people what you’re up to but ensuring they have to be members to participate is a really good way to encourage people to join your club.

 

View Event Attendees On Your Website 

Previously, the only way members could see who was and wasn’t registered to attend an upcoming event was to check it on the app. However, this has now been updated so members can see who is attending events on both the mobile app and website. 

 

  

 

This is a pretty simple one, so there’s nothing else to really say about it. So, here is a picture of a cheetah considering a life of crime. 

 

New Event Contributor Role Permissions 

The Event Contributor role can now be given the ability to create, manage and edit their own events on the mobile app without needing the App Coordinator role. This allows people with the app coordinator role to manage their event attendance on the app, without having to see all events.

This will make it easier for clubs and associations that have individuals organising particular events and don’t want to give out access to manage attendance for the whole event calendar.  Event Coordinators can now view member list details, scan members for events and mark attendance on the app only for the events they have created.

At the beginning of this article, I made fun of a real uggo of a fish in the Sarcastic Fringehead, but now I want to defend a fish that I think is unfairly called the world's ugliest fish. This is it. 

 

 

This is the Psychrolutes marcidus, and I’m not going to lie to you and say this is a pretty fish, but I could list two dozen worse-looking fish than this.   

This is a very deepwater fish that usually lives between 600 and 1,200 meters, meaning it lives its life at 61 to 121 atmospheres of pressure. Due to the depths at which it lives, this fish has no swimbladder and instead has gelatinous flesh and very little muscle mass, which allows it to effortlessly float at its chosen depth. This gives the fish’s body very little structural support, but under such extreme pressure, it doesn’t matter.  

The problem occurs when we catch this fish in deep trawling nets and rapidly drag it to the surface. The gases in its flesh expand quickly, causing the entire fish's structure to rupture and collapse under the sudden depressurisation.

This is the result. 

 

 

That’s right; it’s a blobfish. Blobfish don’t naturally look like that; that is just what their dead bodies look like after we kill them by dragging them to the surface. So no, blobfish aren’t the world's ugliest fish, and blobfish is kind of a mean name. If we named humans by what they’d look like if they were suddenly yanked a kilometre underwater, we’d be called Fine Red Mist Apes. 

Where To Next

If you want a much more detailed breakdown of how recurring events work, please read Recurring Club Events With Member Jungle.

To learn more about our commitment to constantly improving the Member Jungle system, check out Member Jungle Product Releases: What It Means For Your Club.