Product Updates

September 19, 2023

Product Update - New Auditorium Seating Options

We get it - not every event is built the same. So, we’ve added the ability to customize your event to have either rows or tables in the auditorium, or turn both off entirely. Plus, app updates for a smoother Altar experience - no matter the device.

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August 22, 2023

Introducing Engagement Basic

Introducing our new subscription tier - Engagement Basic! Now for a fraction of the cost, you can gain access to all the basic features you need to engage your community – because creating a community should be affordable, easy, and engaging.‍

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June 20, 2023

Product Update - Chat Attachments and Bug Fixes

You asked - we delivered! With this product update, we've got some great quality-of-life changes to make the Altar Live experience smoother for both you and your community.

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April 27, 2023

New Audience Navigation Features!

It’s been less than a month since our last update, but our team has been busy with new features! With customizable navigation, your events can be tailored even more to your individual community's needs.

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April 6, 2023

New Bug Fixes and Improvements

Over the past month, our team has been busy finding (and eliminating) all sorts of bugs. From auditorium seating to help buttons, we’ve got several updates that will make your Altar Live experience smoother!

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December 22, 2022

New Host Features and Seating Fixes

As the new year fast approaches, we want to equip you with a few new features to make online church engagement even smoother than before. Now you can quickly move your attendees from room to room, and upload your pre-event slides with ease!

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February 16, 2023

New Scheduled Announcements, Polls, and More!

As the new year fast approaches, we want to equip you with a few new features to make online church engagement even easier! Not only can you now create announcements and poll drafts, but you can schedule them to send automatically during your event - freeing you up to personally engage with your digital community even further.

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November 15, 2022

Updates to Mobile Apps & Analytics

We're so glad to get to share with you all the bugs we've fixed and updates we've made. Hopefully, you're as excited as we are that the Android app has been updated. We're grateful for both your patience and the perseverance of our development team while working through these persistent issues.

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October 21, 2022

New Templates Feature & Improvements!

We've added two new features - templates and favicons! Tired of typing the same announcements every week? Want to ask your audience members to fill out a poll every session, but don't want to constantly copy and paste? Try out our new announcement and poll template creation feature! Plus, make your community your own with favicons.

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July 5, 2022

Introducing the Analytics Dashboard!

We have released a long-awaited feature: the Analytics Dashboard! You can now keep track of who is attending your online events and meetings and monitor overall engagement. After all, if you can’t measure it, how do you know the impact?

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June 2, 2022

Ban a Chat User, Backgrounds in Meetings, and More

We dropped LOTS of new features this week - hop into Altar Live to see them all for yourself! This week we released a new chat feature for your hospitality team, blurry backgrounds in Meetings, and squished several pesky bugs. Here’s what’s new:

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May 4, 2022

New Event Features & Improvements!

Celebrate, because new features are officially here! This week released a new exciting feature that will take your Altar Live experience to the next level. Here’s what’s new: ‍

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April 14, 2022

Personal Meeting Room Improvements & Duplicating Polls and Announcements

Hooray for new improvements! This week we took the time to improve the chat feature in Personal Meeting Rooms, Polls, and Announcements. Here's what's new: Clear chat for Personal Meeting Rooms Duplicate Polls & Announcements

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March 25, 2022

Small Fixes & Improvements

This week we spent some time fine-tuning and improving features to make your Altar experience smoother than ever.

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March 18, 2022

Bug Fixes and RTMP Issues Resolved

This week we spent time squishing some small bugs and ironing out some RTMP issues. Here’s what’s new and improved: ‍

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February 4, 2022

Fine-tuning and Bug Fixes

Get your bug fixes here! This week, we spent more time fine-tuning and bug-fixing to resolve issues and improve your online experience.

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January 27, 2022

Altar Live's Best of 2021

Can you believe it’s already 2022? As we enter a new year, discover the most game changing features and updates that were brought to Altar Live in 2021. See what’s new and get excited for what’s to come!

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January 14, 2022

Introducing Host Notes & Chat Fixes

You asked, we delivered: Host Notes! This week we’ve been hard at work getting this helpful Host feature out the door and continuing to squash chat related bugs.

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January 7, 2022

New Year, New Features

New year, new features, fixes, and improvements! Here’s what’s new:

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December 23, 2021

Google Analytics, Host Chat, and more

As 2021 comes to close. We’re bringing you new improvements and features to celebrate and take your church community to the next level in 2022

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December 10, 2021

Pre-Event Screens, Host Titles, and Vimeo API Integration

Pre-Event slides are better than ever. This week brings new features and fixes like new Host options, Vimeo API integration, and more! See what’s new!

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December 3, 2021

New Meeting Features

Meetings just got a whole lot cooler! New features for attendees and privileges for Hosts and here to make your Meetings fun, interactive, and efficient. You can now raise your hand, send emojis, create rooms, and more. See what’s new

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November 19, 2021

Knock, Knock

Who’s there? New host features, a knock feature for all Meetings, screen improvements, and bug fixes galore! See what’s new.

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November 5, 2021

Duplicate Events and Edit Personal Meeting Rooms

New features are here to increase engagement, effectiveness, and efficiency! Tired of creating a new Event every week? You can now duplicate Events for all your weekly gatherings. Need more space in a Room? You can now edit an already published Personal Meeting Rooms

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October 29, 2021

Microphone and Camera Improvements

We’re bringing you TWO product updates in a week because we’re bursting at the seams with new features and improvements. Not sure if you want to be on camera when you take a seat with others? You can now join Events and Meetings knowing you’re in control. camera and microphone preferences before joining.

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October 27, 2021

Export Members and Connect with Us

New improvements and features are here to make your experience so much better. Now, you can export member lists and if you’re joining a Meeting or Event, we released camera and microphone permissions tailored to your browser.

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October 22, 2021

October 2021 Product Roadmap

Online engagement is about making people feel known and a part of the community. The month of October brought a bunch of new features that encourage engagement and connection, while also turning on more video conference features. Stay tuned for more delightful releases!

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October 15, 2021

Those Pesky Bugs

Have no fear, the Android bugs have been squished, squashed, kersplat! Improvements were added to the Events and creation flow to create a seamless Altar Live Event experience.

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October 8, 2021

Rejoice, Small Screen Users

Hurrah! This week brings many new features, improvements, and bug squishes. More improvements have come to smaller screens, hosts and admins have more special privileges, unneeded communities can be deleted, and so much more!

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September 24, 2021

Laptops, iPads, and bugs, oh my!

This week was full of improvements and bug-squishing! Altar Live screen content on smaller laptops, iPad and tablet screens are now scaled to size to ensure a smooth Altar Live android experience.

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September 16, 2021

SPLAT went the Bugs

Raise your flyswatters, it was a successful week of bug-squishing! Now you don’t worry about getting kicked out of the Altar Android app when joining meetings, disappearing chats, or announcement confusion. We patched some critical bugs on Community Landing pages and Meetings.

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September 10, 2021

Pricing Pages!

Pricing Pages are live, onboarding has improved, and more Android bugs were squashed! When choosing an Altar Live plan, you will now be able to choose the number of monthly active user seats that will best suit your community.

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September 3, 2021

Mobile Improvements, and New Live Streaming Options

This week brought some bug squishing, improvements to Android and a new streaming option! As you plan your next Altar Live event, you can now use StreamingChurch.tv as a livestream platform.

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August 20, 2021

August Product Roadmap

August brings many new features, fixes, and bug squashing! Since July we have worked to meet all your requests and bring features that will make your Altar Live experience efficient, effective, and effortless!

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August 19, 2021

Community Dashboards

Community Dashboards are live! Our new dashboard style ensures organization and accessibility. Now, each Community Dashboard features personal meeting rooms, event creation portals, and areas to help you with your online engagement! 2 FEATURESCommunity Dashboard Personal Meeting Rooms

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August 17, 2021

Onboarding, Free Trials, and more!

This week, events and meetings are even more seamless and efficient! We have implemented the “Play a Video” screen, fixed a bug, added an “Ongoing” label, and increased pre-recorded file size. Now your events and meetings will be better than ever.

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July 29, 2021

Meetings and Large Rooms

Meetings have launched! Now you can forget zoom and use Altar Live meetings! Meetings function as most video-conference programs, but with even more features. You can easily host group meetings with up to 50 people attending. Meetings are great for small-groups, Bible studies, prayer meetings, staff meetings, and more!

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July 21, 2021

Polls, Announcements, and More!

Announcements are here! Polls are live! RTMP, and mutistreaming is ready to use! You can now send announcements, create polls, connect your RTMP credentials, and multistream through a provider of your choice!

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July 7, 2021

July Product Roadmap

July will be welcoming all kinds of new releases! Since June, we have been working on your requests. You will soon be able to see the many improvements we made to make your experience efficient and effective.

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June 25, 2021

New improvements to Community Landing Pages

Community Landing Pages are out of beta with new improvements!! You can now customize your community landing page to fit your desired look by choosing the light or dark mode. We also improved the landing page proportions and added badges to featured events. You can also see updated events in real time.

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June 9, 2021

Community landing pages

Introducing the new Community Landing Pages! You can now connect Altar Live seamlessly to your website with a fully customizable event landing page. Use your own logo, color and even custom URL! Start beta testing today.

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May 29, 2021

Chat, chat, chat

Chat just got a whole lot better! This week you will see chat notifications when someone sends a new message, the ability to turn off/on your chat notification settings, and more moderation tools for Hosts to manage the General Chat channel. Plus, so much more!

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May 1, 2021

May 2021 Product Roadmap

May is going to be a big month of releases! Since our exit from beta in April, we are excited to be focusing on some long-requested features. Here's what we're shipping this month...

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May 22, 2021

Uploading pre-recorded videos

This week is a big release! You can now upload pre-recorded videos directly to Altar Live. Once you upload a video file, the system will upload and then transcode the video to optimize your video for attendees on mobile devices and slow internet connections.

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May 15, 2021

Improving hospitality & small details

We believe in hospitality, which is why this week we've improved the automated greeter message flow so your online host team's message inbox is more streamlined. You'll also notice lots of small, but delightful improvements across the platform.

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May 1, 2021

New community creation flow

This week, we're also simplifying the new community creation process, an important step in making the creation of an online community easy and seamless.

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April 24, 2021

Updating Recurring Links

This week we released even more updates to events on mobile browsers! Plus, we have some important updates to your event links.

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April 17, 2021

Mobile browser support & HLS stream links

Today, we’re making it possible to join events on mobile browsers, an important step in making Altar events easy and seamless to join

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April 10, 2021

Same vision, new look

Today we’re releasing our biggest update since entering beta last December. We’re confident this update will make your experience of Altar Live delightful and marked by hospitable, virtual conversations.

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April 10, 2021

We're out of beta!

After 5 months in beta, we're excited to share that Altar Live is now fully released. After months of hard work behind the scenes, we're thrilled to introduce you to our new design.

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April 3, 2021

Mobile apps are released!

Spring is here and so are the long-awaited mobile apps! Online engagement should be delightful, that’s why we’ve designed frictionless and intuitive apps so your community can join your events on any device. Head to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store today to try them out for yourself.

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March 27, 2021

Beta apps & pre-recorded video sync

This week we’re introducing a few big updates to our iOS and Android apps, which are currently in beta. (Want access? Send us a message and we'll send instructions.) We’re also making it easier to connect pre-recorded video to ensure synchronization.

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March 20, 2021

Improving event creation

With Altar Live, setting up and running events should be simple and straightforward, and editing should always be effortless. This week, we're introducing more improvements to recurring events, and much more!

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March 13, 2021

Resolving common issues

Each week, we aim to make Altar more intuitive, more stable, and more delightful. With this week's update, we did a lot of work behind the scenes. On your end, you will see improvements!

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March 6, 2021

Recurring & shareable links

It's finally here: recurring events and static URLs! If you want to use the same URL for a certain type of event (i.e. weekly Sunday service, morning Bible study, etc), you will want to create a recurring event series. Plus, we've also changed the links on events so they are shareable on Facebook. Keep reading for more long-awaited updates!

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February 27, 2021

Backend optimization for big results

This was a big week for optimization across the Altar Live platform. We worked on reducing data consumption needs, server distribution, and client processing power. In everyday English, this means you will see more stability in both chat and video conferencing. Read on for more specifics on what we did to the backend!

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February 19, 2021

Seamless transitions

Some weeks we don't have as many updates to share because we are busy working on our next big releases behind the scenes. While this is a lighter week of updates, we did make some improvements to the flow of events in Altar Live.

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