2025 Product Updates
2025 product updates for Gatsby Events — Lists, Ticketing, Multi-Event Registration, One-Click RSVPs, Family Tree View, iOS app updates, and more.
Groups became Lists. The name is the least interesting part of this change.
Lists carry full event-level functionality: landing pages, surveys, seating charts, campaigns, custom columns, and views. The difference is structural. Lists have no date and send no calendar invites.
If you needed a registration form for something that wasn’t an event (a newsletter signup, a gift address collection, a post-event survey), you used to create a fake event and turn off the calendar invite. Lists remove that workaround.
- Post-event surveys without creating another event
- Newsletter subscriber management with campaigns and engagement tracking
- Registration forms for anything without a date (membership renewals, program applications, vendor onboarding)
- Network dashboards like “2025 VIP Prospects” that pull data columns from past events
Create a List from the dashboard. You’ll find it alongside Events and Families.
Ticketing
Section titled “Ticketing”Gatsby now supports paid event registration. Ticket purchasing, QR codes on purchase, waitlists for sold-out tiers, promo codes, configurable sales tax, and a full refund flow. Payment tracking lives right on your guest list.
Ticketing is not enabled by default. To get access, email:
Multi-Event Registration
Section titled “Multi-Event Registration”You can now offer registration for multiple events from a single survey form without setting up parent-child event linking.
Add a survey question that lists other events available for registration. When a guest selects additional events, they’re registered on each one independently. Each event keeps its own guest list, capacity, and settings. No family hierarchy needed.
Parent-child linking still exists for when you want guests to roll up into an overview parent. It just isn’t required for multi-event registration anymore.
One-Click RSVPs
Section titled “One-Click RSVPs”A new option on invite links: skip the landing page and send guests straight to the survey. If there are no survey questions, the link goes straight to confirmation and sends a calendar invite. One click from email to confirmed.
- With survey questions: Guest lands directly on the form. No landing page in between.
- Without survey questions: Guest clicks the link and gets a confirmation with a calendar invite. Done.
This also makes save-the-dates simple. Create an event, enable “invite link skips to survey” with no questions, and send a campaign. Recipients click once and get a proper calendar hold.
BYOB SendGrid
Section titled “BYOB SendGrid”You can connect your own SendGrid API key in Gatsby settings and send all emails through your account instead of Gatsby’s shared infrastructure.
Two reasons to do this. First, you see every email Gatsby sends in your own SendGrid dashboard: opens, bounces, spam reports, delivery logs. Second, your emails go through your dedicated IP. If another Gatsby customer has deliverability problems, it doesn’t affect you.
Once connected, all emails from Gatsby (campaigns, notifications, confirmations) route through your SendGrid account.
Family Tree View
Section titled “Family Tree View”A visual builder for event families. Your parent-child event connections display as tree diagrams in the Families tab. You can see the entire structure at a glance and create new connected events directly from the tree.
Landing Page Embed Blocks
Section titled “Landing Page Embed Blocks”A new block type in the Advanced Editor: embeds. Add Google Maps, YouTube videos, Vimeo players, or any iframe-compatible content directly to your event page.
Supported types: Google Maps (interactive), YouTube, Vimeo, and generic iframe.
Horizontal Set Blocks
Section titled “Horizontal Set Blocks”Another addition to the Advanced Editor. Horizontal Sets let you arrange content in a row with dynamically added or removed columns. Items within a column use a fixed width, but auto-wrap is available so content flows naturally when the row fills up.
Revisit RSVP Bar
Section titled “Revisit RSVP Bar”When a guest revisits their personal RSVP link after responding, a bar at the top of the page shows their name and current status. For ticketed events, it shows whether payment is complete or still needed. No more guessing whether the system recorded their response.
iOS App Updates
Section titled “iOS App Updates”Both Gatsby iOS apps got significant updates in 2025. The guest-facing mobile app received a full overhaul. The host app (used for check-in and badge printing) got a major UI refresh.
Learn more about the Guest App | Learn more about the Host App
Improvements
Section titled “Improvements”- Seating Chart PDF Exports: Export your seating chart as a PDF from the three-dots menu. Options include high DPI, per-table exports with guest lists, and dietary restrictions printed by guest.
- Event Family Cancellations: A new “Are you attending?” Yes/No question at the top of surveys. When a guest says No, you can cascade the cancellation to all connected events in the family. Guests get a double-confirmation step to reduce accidental cancellations.
- Media Library: Upload images and videos once, reuse them across landing page templates without re-uploading. Update an asset in one place and it updates everywhere.
- Soft Deletes for Contacts: Deleting a contact from a guest list no longer removes them permanently. Contacts can be restored.
- REST API Expansion: The API now supports deleting guests, searching for people, and RSVP tracking. API docs
Under the Hood
Section titled “Under the Hood”- Significant pre-compute and caching improvements across the platform. Faster load times and better observability for the engineering team to identify and resolve issues quickly.