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Fourwaves is quietly building out the payments layer under its conference admin tools.

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◆Current state
Fourwaves publishes a near-daily, one-line changelog covering small changes to the conference organiser's admin surface. The August window is dominated by payments and money administration: transaction filtering by organisation and by payment gateway, the Free plan surfaced in the upgrade checkout, and now Authorize.net added as a supported processor. Around that sits a steady thread of attendee-facing clarity work — a sidebar showing existing form entries, Tracks usable as an email variable — and routine fixes.
◆Where it's heading
The work is aimed at multi-event organisations rather than single-conference organisers; transaction filtering and a second payment processor only matter if you run several events through shared gateways. Adding Authorize.net alongside the existing gateway support turns payments from a fixed part of the platform into something an organisation can choose, which is the prerequisite for selling to institutions that already have a processor relationship. Individually each change is minor; together they describe a platform being made to hold more events per customer.
◆Prediction
Expect the payments thread to continue — further gateway options or per-organisation payment configuration are the natural next step now that transactions can be filtered by gateway. The date-stamped daily format suggests the cadence holds regardless of the size of what ships.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    Authorize.net added as a payment processor

    Authorize.net joins the supported payment processors, the third payments change in the window after the two transaction-filtering additions. It gives organisations with an existing processor relationship a way onto the platform without switching gateways.

  2. 7d ago

    Free plan shown as a card in upgrade checkout

    The Free plan now appears as a card in the upgrade checkout, making the no-cost tier legible at the point of decision. A packaging clarification rather than a capability change.

  3. 8d ago

    Tracks field usable as a confirmation-email variable

    Tracks can now be interpolated into confirmation emails, letting organisers tell registrants which track they landed in without a manual send. Part of the ongoing effort to reduce follow-up questions from attendees.

  4. 9d ago

    Fix: Website section shown to program chairs

    A fix for the Website section appearing in event navigation for program chairs. Role-visibility cleanup with no effect outside that role.

  5. 13d ago

    Sidebar shows attendees their existing form entries

    Registration and submission forms now show a sidebar of the attendee's existing entries, so repeat submitters can see what they have already sent. Aimed squarely at the duplicate-submission confusion that comes with multi-track events.

  6. 14d ago

    Filter transactions by payment gateway

    Organisation admins gain a payment-gateway filter on transactions, extending the organisation filter shipped the previous day. The pair makes shared gateways workable for customers running several events.