Scheduler
Welcome to the official release hub for the Salesforce Scheduler Package, detailing all past, current, and upcoming releases across our core scheduling and field management modules. Across every version listed below, you will find a complete breakdown of new capabilities, workflow optimizations, and feature updates covering Appointment Booking, Shift Planner, Attendance Tracker, Event Booking, Payment Gateway Integrations, and Agentforce Automation. Explore the individual release sections below for full version notes and implementation details.
Release 1.0
Release Date: May 25, 2026
Package Name: Scheduler Package
Version: Scheduler@2.16.0-8
1. Seating Arrangement Management
Type: New Feature
Previous Version: NA
What’s New: Introduced comprehensive event builder and booking capabilities featuring prompt-based seating layout generation. The system dynamically assigns seats based on registrant counts and ticket types, including tailored seating arrangements for children.
2. Chase Payment Gateway Integration
Type: Enhancement
Previous Version: Event registration payments were restricted to select third-party gateways, such as PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.Net, offering limited flexibility for organizations utilizing Chase merchant services.
What’s New: Added Chase as a native payment option during event registration, enabling streamlined, single-step checkout and direct transaction processing.
3. Enhanced Attendance Tracking
Type: New Feature
Previous Version:
What’s New: Weekly Dashboard & Visualization: Enables centralized attendance tracking across all events via a weekly dashboard with time zone-safe date handling and horizontal segmented pill bars for quick visual status updates. Weekly Dashboard & Visualization: Enables centralized attendance tracking across all events via a weekly dashboard with time zone-safe date handling and horizontal segmented pill bars for quick visual status updates. Bulk Attendance Management: Introduces one-step bulk actions to update entire session rosters to Present, Absent, or Class Cancelled. Attendance Carry-Forward: Allows administrators to quickly copy and carry forward the previous day’s attendance status directly into subsequent sessions to reduce redundant data entry.
4. Self-Service Event Attendance & Feedback via Portal
Type: New Feature
Previous Version: NA
What’s New: Introduced a seamless Attendance portal for guest users utilizing QR code scanning along with email verification, which automatically prompts a post-event feedback survey upon check-in completion. To drive recurring engagement, the system now tracks attendance streaks and awards gamification badges directly to participant profiles.
5. Resource Management: Double-Booking Prevention
Type: New Feature
Previous Version: NA
What’s New: Enforced database-level row locking on Event and candidate slot records during reservation processing. This ensures that concurrent booking attempts are evaluated sequentially at the database layer, completely preventing race conditions and double-booking edge cases.
6. Agentforce Automation: Event Booking
Type: Enhancement
Previous Version: Event booking was restricted to standard Lightning Web Component (LWC) forms, requiring users to manually navigate multi-page screens without conversational assistance or AI-guided seat and session selection.
What’s New: Migrated the event booking experience to an autonomous Agentforce agent equipped with four custom Invocable Actions.Users can now discover events, check schedules, look up contact records, and complete bookings conversationally, with extended capabilities for multi-registrant family bookings.
7. Dynamic Event Session Rescheduling
Type: Enhancement
Previous Version: Lacked a structured way to reschedule or exclude specific sessions in an event series, requiring manual session deletion and manual attendee outreach.
What’s New: Introduced a dedicated Session Exceptions tab to create, edit, and manage session-level exception records. Additionally, added a Reschedule action directly to the Attendance Tracker, enabling event managers to shift individual sessions to any target date—those that fall outside normal recurring weekday schedules.
8. Organizer Calendar Events & Schedule Synchronization
Type: New Feature
Previous Version: NA
What’s New: Enabled organizer-side calendar event creation feature. When event sessions are scheduled, assigned, or updated, corresponding calendar events are generated automatically and synced directly to the organizer’s personal calendar.
9. Booking Management: Cancel & Update
Type: Enhancement
Previous Version: Event bookings could not be self-managed post-creation, requiring attendees to contact support or event administrators to request updates, session changes, or cancellations.
What’s New: Direct Record Management: Adds native capabilities to cancel or update event booking records directly at the record level.
Automated Inventory Release: Canceling a booking record automatically restores seat availability and capacity limits in real time.
Data Consistency: Syncs registration changes instantly across linked attendee rosters, schedules, and communication triggers.
