Release log · Updated October 27, 2026
What's new in Nowadays
An assistant for search, and restaurants
Roo helps you search for hotels, a cost estimator prices out trips, restaurants can be booked through Nowadays, and contract review suggests edits based on your own clauses.
Roo, your hotel search assistant
Ask Roo questions while you search for hotels and attach documents for it to read. Search shows the list and map side by side, covers several destinations on one map, and flags citywide events and travel advisories.
AI contract review
Review a hotel contract with suggestions shown inline, accept or comment on each one from a single sidebar, and download the result as a Word file. Choose which clauses the review checks, or start from a standard set.
Restaurant search and booking
Search restaurants for group dinners, save a shared shortlist and send a request from the restaurant's page. See which restaurants your organization booked before, with notes from colleagues.
Cost estimator
Estimate what a trip will cost using live airfares, city-adjusted meal and meeting space costs, and your preferred airlines. Save estimates, export them to CSV or slides, or ask the built-in assistant about them.
Inbox for venue conversations
One inbox brings all your venue emails together as one conversation per venue. Message a venue from anywhere you see it, and review a negotiation email before it goes to the hotel.
Close out sourcing
Mark the venue you booked and close out the rest with a polite note in one step. A map shows every proposal's venue together, and a guided flow walks you through requesting a contract.
Page tours and a clearer sidebar
Short tours on each page replace the old tutorial carousel. The sidebar follows your event's five stages, and you choose which notifications you get, including in Slack.
Registration updates
Guests can add the schedule to Apple Calendar as well as Google Calendar, and password-protected pages can also require an invited email. Each check-in can post to a Slack channel.
Contracts, and a faster way around
Request, review and sign hotel contracts inside Nowadays, jump anywhere with ⌘K, and find gaps in a quote before you agree to it.
Contracts inside Nowadays
Request a contract from your proposals, review and redline it, and sign it without leaving the app. Your home page shows which stage each contract is at, and anyone can check a signed contract on a public verify page.
⌘K command palette
Press ⌘K to jump to any event, page or proposal, or search proposals by venue name. If the palette can't find what you need, it hands your question to chat.
Quotes that point out what's missing
Proposals flag where a quote doesn't match what you asked for, mark prices that changed in negotiation, and list what each venue still owes you. A table view compares proposals row by row.
Send RFPs to several hotels at once
Select several hotels in search and send them all an RFP in one step. Choose the event name venues see, and filter by meeting space capacity and setup style.
Event changes reach your hotels
Edits to your event details save in one batch, and hotels that already have your RFP are told what changed. Removing a location cancels its open RFPs for you.
A portal for hotels
Hotels follow a link from their RFP email to their own portal, where they submit a quote and keep the conversation going. You can reply to a hotel directly from the event you're sourcing.
Rebuilt form builder
Edit forms on a canvas, organize sections, set up branching logic with a flow map, preview the form and publish when it's ready. The responses dashboard was redesigned too.
Multi-step landing page buttons
A landing page button can take guests through up to five steps in a row. Sections can have their own background colors and images, with dividers and spacers between them.
A new way to start an event
A rebuilt create-event flow and sidebar, more than one offer per venue, negotiation emails drafted for you, and check-in tools ready for event day.
Rebuilt create-event wizard
Creating an event takes you through a clearer set of steps, including room counts for your general session. The sidebar changes with what you're working on and switches events in one click.
Multiple offers per venue
When a venue sends more than one offer, flip through them side by side instead of seeing only the newest. Fees and taxes show as both a percentage and an amount.
Negotiation emails drafted for you
Choose the concessions you want and Nowadays drafts the negotiation email to the hotel. Export your negotiation details as a slide deck when you need sign-off.
Barcode check-in
Attendees get a barcode in their email and you scan it at the door. Seat and hotel details can be merged into those emails.
Smarter forms and emails
Add rich text sections to forms, show a different confirmation depending on someone's answers, and use answers as variables in emails. Build a feedback form straight from your schedule.
Activity sign-up limits
Cap how many activities each person can join per day and stop sign-ups for activities that clash.
Hotel booking links on landing pages
Create hotel booking links before a venue is confirmed and add them to your landing page as a button, with custom button colors and banner heights.
Export wizard
Pick exactly which columns you want when exporting rooming lists, form responses and reports, as CSV or Excel.
Registration that runs itself
Forms now chase non-responders and sync with Google Sheets and calendars, an AI builder drafts your landing page, and every event sits on one calendar.
AI landing page builder
Describe the page you want and the assistant builds it, then edit it by chatting. Copy landing pages and forms from one event to another instead of starting over.
Reminders, payments and access rules on forms
Reminders go out to anyone who hasn't responded, each with its own email. Collect payments on a form and choose which types of respondent can open it.
Google Sheets and attendee sync
Keep your invite list in sync with a Google Sheet and pick the email new invitees get. Form responses add people to your attendee list automatically.
Shared calendar invites
Sync your event to a shared Google Calendar so attendees always have the latest schedule, with a custom invite email and header image.
Events calendar and duplicate event
See all your events on a calendar, duplicate an event to start a new one, and cancel or restore an event when plans change. Shared notes give your team one place to write things down.
Event space search and better filters
A new tab searches event spaces as well as hotels, and hotel search gained more filters and sort options.
See what venues are told
Proposals show the emails sent to each venue for you. Hotels you decline or shortlist get a decision email automatically.
Venue panel in chat
Venues the chat assistant mentions open in a side panel next to the conversation, and its behind-the-scenes steps fold away so the answer is easy to read.
Shortlists, sign-ups and check-in
Save venues to a shortlist as you go, and give attendees more control over registration, activities and check-in.
Venue shortlist
Bookmark venues while you search and find the same shortlist on your proposals page. The venue panel is the same in both places and shows any quotes already received.
Manage proposals
Decline a proposal or bring it back later, and filter proposals in clearer tabs.
Start a search from your office
Search suggests your office locations as starting points, pins your origin on the map, and zooms to fit the area you pick.
A guided new-event setup
Creating an event starts with your budget, suggests locations, checks your room needs, and takes you straight to venue search when you're done.
Activity sign-ups attendees control
Attendees can bring a guest, change their own sign-ups, and join invite-only activities. You can text everyone signed up for an activity.
Mobile check-in and QR passes
Attendees get a QR pass on their phone, and staff check them in from a phone at the door.
Richer forms
More field types, multi-page forms, questions that only show when they apply, and forms limited to people from your company.
Private events and company sign-in
New events are private to their creator by default. Teammates join your organization from their email domain, and your company can require single sign-on.
Restaurants, packages, payments
Search for restaurants next to your hotels, bundle proposals into packages, and manage event payments and budgets in one place.
Restaurant search
A restaurant tab sits next to hotel search, so you can find group dinner spots near your event. Venue details also show restaurants nearby.
A faster search bar and Our picks
Search by location and dates from one bar, refine with filter pills, and start from a carousel of recommended venues. Hide any venue you don't want to see again.
Proposal packages
Bundle proposals into packages, share them as an export, and request a contract once a quote is negotiated.
Payments and budgets
Track receipts and transactions, see a budget tab per event with department reporting, and set hotel rate caps.
Your currency, your language
Choose the currency amounts are shown in, with conversion applied everywhere, and use the app in more languages.
Chat assistant and live support
Ask the assistant from its own tab and give it standing instructions for you or your whole company. Reach the Nowadays team through live chat from any venue.
Smarter forms
Fill PDF and Word templates from form answers, save drafts automatically, and close responses on a schedule.
Event pages with sponsors and time zones
Add a sponsors section, draft the page with AI, set its time zone, and let attendees add sessions to their calendar.
Contract review and approvals
Upload a hotel contract and Nowadays checks it against your company's clause requirements, then routes it for approval.
Contract review
Upload a contract and Nowadays pulls out the key clauses. A checklist shows which of your required terms are met, and each item highlights the exact text in the PDF.
Comments and redlines
Leave comments and suggested edits on a contract with your team, right on the document.
Contract approvals
Send a contract to the right person for approval. They get an email and approve it in one step from the approvals tab.
Venue details at a glance
Open any venue in search to see photos, traveler ratings, amenities, meeting spaces and its location without leaving the page.
A clearer way around
A new home page, a reorganized sidebar and a breadcrumb with an event switcher make it easier to move between events and tools.
All your company's events
An events tab shows every event across your organization in one grid, with filters.
Quick proposal previews
Click a proposal card to preview the full quote, and compare proposals on a faster page.
Experiences and services
Source experiences and services alongside hotels, with their ratings, reviews and a badge showing where each listing comes from.
Reporting, duty of care, richer event pages
Reporting shows spend, savings and where your travelers are, and event pages pick up activities, fonts and calendar invites.
Reporting and duty of care
Charts for spend, savings, sustainability and tool usage across your company's events. A duty of care view shows where your people are traveling.
Activity sign-ups with capacity
Activities show how many spots are left, and you can share a booking link for a specific time slot.
More landing page building blocks
Add card grids with icons, link to any section with a ⌘K link picker, and upload your company's fonts. Changes save as you edit.
Custom calendar invites
Choose what goes into the calendar invite attendees receive, and use form answers in your email templates.
Preferred venues by chain
Mark a hotel chain as preferred once and every property in that chain is recognized as preferred in your results.
Better venue options view
Filter options by venue type, see your office locations on the map, and open full venue details without leaving the table.
Integrations directory
The integrations page covers travel, HR, CRM, payments and spend tools, so you can see what connects to your stack.
Dashboard for hotel partners
Hotel chain partners get a dashboard to track the requests sent to their properties and the quotes still outstanding.
Search venues on a map, compare proposals
A new venue search with a live map and filters, plus a side-by-side view for the proposals hotels send back.
New venue search with a map
Browse venues in a list that keeps loading as you scroll, next to a map of where they are. One date range picker replaces separate check-in and check-out fields.
Filters, quick filters and sorting
Filter by what your event needs, use one-tap filters such as 4+ rating, and sort by distance from your office. Filters stay in the URL, so you can share the exact search.
Suggested destinations
Not sure which city fits? Search suggests destinations to consider next to the venue list.
Request proposals from search
Send a request for proposal to a venue right from its search card.
Proposals grid and comparison
See every proposal for your event in one grid, then compare the ones you like side by side.
Hotel booking links for attendees
Share a link where attendees book their own room in your block, with your own title and description and payment taken at booking.
Landing page builder
Build your event page in a three-panel editor that shows the page exactly as attendees will see it, with your company's logo and branding.
Attendee schedules and text updates
Attendees see their schedule with pickup times and maps, get a QR code in their confirmation email, and can receive updates by text or WhatsApp.
Company venue rules, faster flight estimates
Your company's venue preferences carry through sourcing, and group flight estimates run in the background while you work.
Preferred and blocked venues
Mark the venues, chains and brands your company prefers or never wants to use. Preferred venues are tagged in search, and you can import an existing list.
Organization settings
A settings area holds your company profile, policies, contracts and integrations, all reachable from a new sidebar.
Chat to search for venues
Describe the event you need in plain language and the assistant finds matching venues, showing progress while it works.
Group flight estimator, rebuilt
Flight estimates for a whole group run in the background with a progress bar, so you can keep working.
Attendee portal
Attendees get their own page with their schedule, travel and event details in one place.
QR code check-in
Scan attendee QR codes at the door to check people in from a phone.
Export proposals to slides
Turn your venue options into a slide deck you can share with stakeholders.
Activity sign-ups and clearer quotes
Attendees sign up for activities with waitlists, quotes show concessions and a full breakdown, and you can look back on your year with Nowadays.
Activity sign-ups with waitlists
Attendees pick activities from your event page. When an activity fills up they join a waitlist, and they get an email whenever they sign up, change or cancel.
Edit your sign-up from a link
Attendees change their activity choices from a personal link, on desktop or phone, without contacting the planner.
Concessions and status in the quote list
The quote list shows each venue's concessions and whether its quote has arrived. Export it to CSV or copy it to share.
Detailed quote breakdown
Open any quote to see guest room rates night by night, plus each concession as a clear list.
Upload your contract templates
Add your company's contract templates when you set up your organization, so venue agreements start from your terms.
Your year in events
Nowadays Planned shows what you planned this year next to totals from everyone on Nowadays.
Richer venue pages, and Nowadays for larger teams
Venue pages show meeting spaces, photos and seasonality, and larger companies get single sign-on, their own branding and approved venue lists.
Richer venue pages
Each venue page shows its meeting spaces, a full photo gallery, sustainability certifications and the best and busiest seasons to book.
Single sign-on
Your team signs in through your company's identity provider, so access follows your existing accounts.
Your company's branding
Nowadays can show your company's colors and logo, so it feels like your own internal tool.
Preferred and blocked venues
Mark venues your company prefers or wants to avoid, and venue search follows that list. You can also search near a specific address.
Dashboards for hotel partners
Hotels and venue groups get a dashboard of their Nowadays events and bookings, for one property or across many.
More event page sections
Add an FAQ, an agenda, activities and a navigation bar to your event page.
Smoother forms on any device
Registration forms work better on phones, attendees fill them in without an account, and you can add many responses at once.
Event pages and registration forms
Build a branded page for your event and collect attendee details with your own forms, synced to Google Sheets.
Event landing pages
Build a page for your event from ready-made sections like a photo carousel, and publish it at your own link.
Public, private or invite-only pages
Choose who can see each event page: anyone with the link, only invited guests, or only your team.
Registration forms
Make a registration form with your own questions and see every response in a table. Attendees get a confirmation email when they submit.
Google Sheets sync and bulk emails
Send form responses to Google Sheets, and email everyone who registered at once from the same screen.
A new event dashboard
The event dashboard has a sidebar and progress steps, so you can always see where your event stands.
Advanced quote view
A detailed list puts room rates, meeting space and totals for each venue side by side, so you can compare quotes line by line.
Shared payment links
Several people can pay through the same payment link, each buying more than one item, which helps when attendees pay their own way.
Venue Collective, and easier team access
Planners share honest venue reviews in Venue Collective, teammates can request access to an event, and proposals export to PowerPoint.
Venue Collective
A community where event planners post and read venue reviews, follow a trending feed, keep a profile and climb a leaderboard. You can post anonymously.
Write reviews by voice or paste
Talk through a venue visit, or paste your notes, and the review form fills itself in for you to check and post.
Request access to an event
A colleague who opens an event they're not on can request access, and the owner approves it.
Sign in with Google
Log in with your Google work account instead of waiting for an email code.
Export proposals to PowerPoint
Turn your venue options into a slide deck you can drop into a leadership review without rebuilding it by hand.
A clear next step after you submit
After you send an event request, a page explains what happens next while venues prepare proposals.
A better event request, and payments that wait
The event request form was rebuilt with drafts and a budget breakdown, and you can keep a card on file and schedule payments for later.
Rebuilt event request form
Describe your event in clear sections: event info, accommodations, agenda and other details. Required fields and a low-budget warning catch gaps before the request goes out.
Budget breakdown
Split your budget across rooms, meeting space, food and other costs, so venues quote against numbers that match your plan.
Save a draft and finish later
Start an event request, save it as a draft, and pick it up again when you have the details.
Cards on file and scheduled payments
Save a card once and use it on any event. Deposits and later payments can be scheduled to charge on the right date.
Nightly rates in your currency
A currency toggle on venue cards converts nightly rates, so you can compare international hotels in the currency you budget in.
Activations
Browse on-site activations for your event, such as headshot booths and coffee carts, and book them through Nowadays.
A new home, and your hotel emails in one place
A rebuilt Nowadays website, a free budget estimator, and every hotel conversation on that venue's page.
A new nowadays.ai
A new landing page plus updated pricing, company, template and blog pages make it easier to see what Nowadays plans for you and what it costs.
Budget estimator
Enter your city, dates and headcount to get a rough budget for your event before you talk to anyone or send a request.
Hotel emails and attachments on each venue
Each venue's page shows the full email thread with that hotel, with downloadable attachments, so you never search your inbox for the latest quote or floor plan.
Organizations for your team
Teammates sit under one organization, and a new invite flow brings colleagues in. Events, cards and history stay with the company.
Requests that send themselves
Liking a venue now sends it your request, and new filters help you find the right fit faster.
Send RFPs automatically
When you like a venue, we send it your request for proposal right away, so quotes arrive sooner.
Clearer requests for hotels
Requests to venues and hotel chain sales teams include a tidy table of your dates, rooms and space needs, so they can quote faster.
Price and meeting room filters
Filter venues by price and by how many meeting rooms they have.
Custom location on the map
Set your own location on the map and see which venues are close to it.
Your dashboard, ready right away
Creating an event builds your venue dashboard automatically, and it loads faster.
More detail on every venue
Venue pages show meeting spaces, amenities and reviews, with estimated rates before a quote arrives.
Meeting spaces and amenities
Venue pages list meeting spaces with their details and the main amenities, so you can judge fit before you ask for a quote.
Tripadvisor on venue pages
Tripadvisor ratings and reviews appear on venue cards and full venue pages.
Estimated nightly rates
While you wait for a hotel's quote, your dashboard shows an estimated nightly rate so you can start comparing.
Better venue photos
Venues come with a fuller, cleaner set of photos.
Pay with Amex
American Express cards are accepted for payments.
Flight search, richer forms, saved cards
Search flights more easily, collect files and multiple choices from attendees, and pay deposits with a saved card.
Improved flight search
Searching flights for your group is faster, and results are saved so they're there when you come back.
File uploads and multi-select in forms
Attendee forms can collect files, such as passport scans, and multiple-choice answers.
Card on file for deposits
When you pay a deposit, your card is saved securely so later payments take less work.
Tell us what you think of your options
A feedback button on your venue options lets you say what's working and what isn't, so the next round fits better.
Reasons on your shortlist
See why each venue was shortlisted, right on your options page.
Reviews and ratings on every venue
Compare venues using Google and Tripadvisor reviews, shortlist faster, and share your options with your team.
Google and Tripadvisor reviews
Venue cards show guest ratings and reviews. Use the rating slider to hide anything below the score you want.
Shortlist from the card
A shortlist button on each venue card, and a clear marker on venues that have already sent a quote.
Better map browsing
Clicking a venue on the map opens its details so you keep your place, and photos load faster.
Copy to Google Sheets
Copy your venue comparison into Google Sheets in one click. Exports include links to quote attachments.
Quotes that follow your room count
When your room count changes, quote totals update to match, and each venue shows when it was last updated.
A chat assistant and a better way to add venues
Ask questions about your event in chat, add any venue from a map search, and review options in a richer list view.
Chat assistant
Ask questions about your event and get answers as they're written. The assistant knows your event, your venues and your email threads with them.
Add any venue by search
Search Google Maps for hotels, restaurants or event spaces and add them to your event in a couple of clicks.
Advanced list view
Compare venues side by side in a detailed table with photo carousels, then export it to Excel with images included.
Build and share attendee forms
Create your own attendee forms, share them by link, and see responses as they come in. Anyone can respond without an account.
Start from your own RFP
Upload an RFP PDF when you create an event, mark whether your dates are flexible, and filter venues by a custom location.
All your events in one place
A manage events page lists every event you're planning.
Map view, flight estimates, attendee forms
Plan around a map, estimate flight costs for your group, and collect attendee details in one place.
Map view for venues
See every venue option on a map next to its card. Drop pins for offices or airports, draw an area to focus on, and check driving and transit times.
Flight cost calculator
Estimate what it will cost to fly your group in from different cities, so you can compare destinations before you commit.
Attendee forms
Send attendees a form to collect their details and preferences. Responses land in a dashboard you can sort and download as a CSV.
Clearer quotes
Quotes show taxes and fees per room type, food and beverage minimums per person, and why a venue said it was unavailable.
Invite teammates
Bring colleagues into your venue shortlist and quote dashboard so everyone can review options together.
Quotes read from attachments
When a hotel replies with a PDF, Word file, spreadsheet or image, the quote inside it is pulled into your dashboard.