I hope you’ve had a fantastic summer holiday and that you’re ready to give it your all for the rest of 2026 🚀

We’ve been brewing on a couple of new features for you and your members, including a brand new “referral” module and calendar synchronization with Outlook.

Outlook calendar synchronization

Your members can now have the meetings they’re invited to added automatically, straight into their Outlook calendar.

For now only Microsoft Outlook calendars can be synchronized, and if members take well to the feature, more providers will be added.

Synchronization is set up through your profile settings or under “add to calendar” on a meeting. It’s a good idea to create a post for your members in your community, so they don’t have to add every single meeting to their calendars manually.

See more and feel free to share this guide with your members: https://samli.io/guides/calendar-synchronization

Keep track of referrals between members

Built specifically for business-oriented professional networks

It’s almost unavoidable that a member will say at some point “I don’t feel like I’m getting anything out of the network” - and when the membership is up for renewal, that’s a pretty rough starting point.

The referral module is built to create transparency about what members actually help each other with.

There are 4 ways a referral can be created, and 3 of them are automatic:

1. By sharing a member’s business card via Share contact on member profiles
2. When a search is moved to Done.
3. When one-to-one meetings are held between two members via Book meeting on member profiles.
4. By manual creation, which both administrators and members can do.

And of course it’s entirely up to you whether you want to put an amount on the referrals.

Interested? See the video walkthrough here and how to get started: https://samli.io/guides/manage-referrals-in-your-network

Avoid last-minute cancellations

Are you tired of members being able to cancel their attendance at the last minute, leaving you with far too much breakfast for the meeting?

It’s now possible to set a response deadline on meetings via the meeting’s reminders. Meaning that after the response deadline, it’s no longer possible to cancel or sign up.

A first look at member statistics

We’re working on building more member management tools in the near future, so you can get an easy overview of the community, your members and guests.

The first graph is a simple view of member growth over time in the community. The graph is fairly simple at this early stage, since the history starts on July 25th. Take a look under Administration -> Users -> Statistics

More improvements

• Members in draft groups are now clearly shown in the admin user list.
• Added the HEIC image format as an accepted media attachment.
• Uploading video from pc/mac now creates a “thumbnail”.
• Better download experience for files on Android and iPhone.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where guests couldn’t be added to older meetings.
• Fixed an issue where the back button under administration went black.
• Fixed a bug where moving a file to a new folder didn’t work.
• Various fixes in translations and in the display of dates depending on language.

What’s coming next time?

• Removing the need for a “Shared group” by being able to create meetings without selecting a group.
• Register attendance during/after the meeting.
• A better create member flow
• New module: Member management à la CRM.

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If you have feedback or requests, please do reach out to me tom@samli.dk 2655 6044

Best regards, Tom