We're happy to announce the availability of Seatsurfing version 1.32. Everything in this new version is about groups: You can now organize your users in groups. These groups can be used as approvers for your spaces, i.e. a space admin in a space's approver group must approve a user's booking request before it becomes definite. Furthermore, you can use groups to restrict users who can book specific spaces, i.e. only users in an allowed group are permitted to place a booking.

We're happy to announce the availability of Seatsurfing version 1.31. The new version lets users import their bookings into their calendar applications (such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, Google Mail etc.) using the Booking Web Interface. Additionally, users can opt for receiving booking confirmations via email, and these emails also include an attachment which can be imported to calendars in no time. By the way, we're now sending emails in HTML formatting, providing a greater user experience.

Many of you, our users, asked us for. Today, we are excited to finally announce the launch and immediate availability of our Cloud-hosted Paid Plan 🤩

The Paid Plan includes all features known from the Open Source Edition of Seatsurfing, plus:

The past weeks ran fast: We've released eight new versions (plus multiple fix versions) of Seatsurfing, each containing exciting new features. Features which our users asked for. As we've not blogged about versions 1.22 to 1.28, this blog post summarized the most remarkable features and improvements since the release of version 1.21 which was released by the end of 2024.

Time for some release news! Seatsurfing 1.21 has been released today, including several features that you, Seatsurfing's users, asked for. The biggest feature is that you can now specify custom attributes which can be attached to your locations. For example, as an administrator, you can specify whether a location is accessible with wheelchairs or what kind of media system is installed. Your users can view a location's attributes and even filter the list of locations according to their needs.

Enjoy the new features, I wish you a happy new year 2025!

Long time no hear! While we've released several new versions of Seatsurfing since the last post from August 2023, we haven't blogged about them. Let's catch up with today's release of Seatsurfing 1.19.

Here are some of the awesome new features: You can now quickly access certain floors and spaces by direct links / QR codes. A brand-new slider allows for quickly getting an overview of the space availability in the upcoming days. Space admins can manually add and edit reservations for their users. Find out where your buddies sit at a glance. Furthermore, multiple translations made it into the new version - namely Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, and Dutch.

We're happy to announce the availability of Seatsurfing 1.14. Version 1.14 adds Italian translations and the ability for users to change their own password. Besides, various improvements and fixes have been implemented.

A few days ago, we've released Seatsurfing 1.13. This new version adds French translations to the user interfaces. Furthermore, we've migrated the React-based front ends from Create React App (CRA) to Next.js. The move to Next.js allows for server-side rendering, resulting in faster load times. However, this leads to a breaking change, because the front ends are not shipped with the backend Docker image anymore, but in two separate containers (admin-ui and booking-ui).

We're pleased to announce the release of Seatsurfing 1.12. The new release adds features our users have requested, such as login brute force prevention, an improved login-process for single-organization instances and more.

As of July 30, 2022, the Seatsurfing mobile apps for iOS and Android will be discontinued. We decided to focus on one state-of-the-art web booking interface, which is the existing, yet improved Web Booking UI. In order to optimize the user experience of the Web Booking UI when using mobile devices (such as phones and tablets), we've turned it into a Progressive Web App (PWA). This means, you can "install" the web app to your device's home screen and benefit from enhanced caching mechanisms.