September 10, 2026 · 2026.09.10.5
Your icon in the tab
A convention site's browser tab now shows the convention's own app icon instead of the RallyPoint shield. RallyPoint's support console also gains a live view of the platform for the on-sale weekend.
- Organizers
- Set an app icon under Theme and it appears in the browser tab on every page of your convention site.
September 10, 2026 · 2026.09.10.4
The policies address finds your page
The checkout's policies link now follows a page you've published as either "convention-policies" or "policies": a link page sends people on to your own site, a content page shows in place.
- Organizers
- If you published your policies under the slug convention-policies, the checkout link now reaches it instead of saying nothing is published.
September 10, 2026 · 2026.09.10.3
Support tooling
Small additions to RallyPoint's own support console. Nothing changes for organizers or attendees.
September 10, 2026 · 2026.09.10.2
New conventions start with limits
Anyone can stand up a convention site in an afternoon, so a new convention now starts limited: a handful of badges and no merch sales until RallyPoint has verified the organizer and lifted the limits. Every real convention passes it once. Checkout statements can link to the page they refer to, and the policies agreement always has somewhere to go.
- Organizers
- Financials gains a Limits page that says where your convention stands and how to lift it: connect Stripe, then contact us. Each checkout statement takes an optional link. The policies checkbox points at a stable address on your site that goes to your published policies page, or explains that one isn't published yet. The badge type list no longer lists included merch under each type.
- Attendees
- A convention that hasn't been verified yet can't sell you more than a handful of badges or any merch, and says so. Checkout statements that refer to a page link to it.
September 10, 2026 · 2026.09.10
A checkout that finishes the job
Buying badges now ends with the badges themselves: right after checkout, each one asks for its name and the details the convention needs, instead of leaving that for later. The cart says what happens next and for how much, agrees to the convention's policies, and ticks whatever else the convention asks every buyer to confirm.
- Organizers
- Add the statements every buyer must tick before paying — "I am 18 or older", "I will follow the code of conduct" — on the configuration page; each one is recorded on the transaction. Private release links now count only what was sold through them, so comps and other links never eat a reward tranche, and a used-up link says so. The release schedule shows how many each private link has claimed.
- Attendees
- Coming back to the badge shop shows what's already in your cart instead of starting over. The button says "Pay $52.30" or "Reserve 2 items", the hold timer says what it's for, and a badge that still needs details says "Finish this badge".
September 9, 2026 · 2026.09.09.3
Online by default, all the way
A convention sells online, with card payment at checkout, unless RallyPoint has expressly set it up to take payment at the door. Until online payment is ready, prices show and nothing can be bought — no quiet fallback to IOUs.
- Organizers
- Your Payments page names how your convention is selling right now: online, at the door by arrangement with RallyPoint, or not yet. Connecting a Stripe account with Stripe Tax active turns online sales on by itself.
- Attendees
- If a convention isn't taking payment yet, its badges say so instead of pretending you can pay later.
September 9, 2026 · 2026.09.09.2
My Purchases
One place to see everything you've bought at a convention: each purchase with its receipt as the books have it, and the door to a refund when the convention's refund window is open.
- Organizers
- A pay-at-the-door purchase now stays exactly that: it never expires and never gets pulled back into the buyer's cart. If anyone reported a 'You're all set' purchase that later vanished, this is why, and it is fixed.
- Attendees
- My Purchases is under your account menu on every convention site. Open a purchase for the full receipt, what you got, and a Refund button where the convention allows it.
September 9, 2026 · 2026.09.09
Badge list fits the page
A small follow-up to last night's release: the organizer badge list keeps every column on screen, with a badge type's bundled items and transfer flag on a line of their own beneath it.
- Organizers
- The Schedule, Visible, and View columns are back on screen at the normal page width, whatever the description length.
- Attendees
- No change.
September 8, 2026 · 2026.09.08.2
Sell to a chosen group before doors open
A badge type can now have a private release: a batch that opens only for people who arrive through a link you hand out. Same badge, same price, same inventory as the public sale. Reward winners, student groups, and early supporters buy before everyone else, and the public batches open on schedule as if nothing happened.
- Organizers
- Add a release, tick Private, and copy the link. Set how many each link holder may buy when that differs from the type's usual limit. Append a discount code to the link and it applies itself. You are also now on your own staff roster, first in the list, and the kiosk knows it.
- Attendees
- The app home leads with the conventions you're attending. A private link shows the badge as Early access and remembers you for a month.
The organizer badge list keeps long descriptions short, and Linktree gets its icon.
September 8, 2026 · 2026.09.08
Sponsorship levels and file uploads
A sponsor can take more than one sponsorship level in a single application, and any application form can ask for files such as a W-9 or a certificate of insurance.
- Organizers
- Add a File upload question to a sponsor, exhibitor, or volunteer form; documents land in private storage and open from the review page. Exhibitors can have their own terms page. A sponsor holding two levels counts against both caps and books a fee line for each.
- Attendees
- Badge and cart buttons stay readable on every convention theme, and pages below the homepage show the whole banner instead of a cropped strip.
The timespan template button is gone until it returns as a proper picker, and Clear All asks first. A sponsor level's count refuses zero.
September 7, 2026 · 2026.09.07
RallyPoint is live
RallyPoint is live with full online payment and ready to accept customers. A convention connects its own Stripe account, sales settle straight to it, and RallyPoint never holds the money.
- Organizers
- Connect your Stripe account with Stripe Tax set up and online sales turn on by themselves — no switch to find. Info pages can now be links to another website, opening in a new tab from your site's menu.
- Attendees
- Pay at checkout with a card; your badges and receipt land in the app the moment the payment clears.
Also in this release: the theme editor's save button waits for a change, a larger logo in the site header, and a handful of cart and scheduling fixes.
September 4, 2026 · 2026.09.04
Site rebrand
RallyPoint has a new look: a shield mark, a new logo across the marketing site, the app, and the admin console, and a homepage that shows the real product instead of a mockup.
- Organizers
- Your convention pages are unchanged; the new mark appears in the RallyPoint header, browser tab, and installed app icon.
- Attendees
- Same app, new icon on your home screen after the next install or update.
Dependencies were also updated past this month's security advisories.
September 2, 2026 · 2026.09.02.2
Per-person badge limits, and reservations that expire
Two protections for a fast sale: organizers can cap how many of a badge type one account can buy, and a reserved-but-unpaid cart now expires so the badges go back on sale.
- Organizers
- Set a purchase limit per person on any badge type, beside capacity. Unpaid reservations free up after thirty minutes; the abandonment rate shows on the platform overview.
- Attendees
- The shop tells you the limit before you pick. A reserved cart shows how long it's held for, and you can cancel a reservation outright instead of returning items one by one.
Limits count what an account has bought, never what it was given, so comped badges and kiosk sales don't count against anyone.
September 2, 2026 · 2026.09.02
Self-serve refunds and discount codes
Attendees can refund their own badges, seats, and merch inside the window a convention sets, and organizers can mint discount codes scoped to exactly the badges, merch, or events they choose.
- Organizers
- Set a refund window and the fee you keep. Mint prize codes, early-bird codes, and private links; a code scoped to a group covers anything you add to that group later.
- Attendees
- Refund from My Badges or My Schedule while the window is open. Enter a code in the cart and see the savings before you pay.
Discounts live on the receipt line, so a refund of a discounted item returns what was actually paid.
August 29, 2026 · 2026.08.29
Reserved carts can go back
A cart that was confirmed but not paid can return to the cart, its items still held, so nothing is lost if payment didn't go through the first time.
- Organizers
- Fewer stranded reservations on the roster; the books record the return.
- Attendees
- If payment fails or you change your mind, Go back puts everything in your cart again and you confirm when ready.
