Shipped in July 2026

A short round-up of everything that went live across Stampede in July 2026.

Venue Music lands on the day planner

Shipped 24 July. If your venue runs Sonos behind SNAPguard, there is now a music button beside the date on the day planner, and on the list and floor plan views too. Tap it and you get a player: now playing, volume, the queue, and multi-room grouping across the areas you already set up, Main Floor, Terrace, Bar. We got this wrong for a long time. Speaker control lived four levels deep in Wi-Fi settings, which is a sensible place for it if you are a network engineer and a ridiculous place for it if you are a duty manager on a Saturday. Nobody on the floor was ever going to leave the planner, open Wi-Fi settings and click through four screens to turn the Terrace down. So they walked to the speaker instead, or left it.

The scenario we built for: 19:15, a party of 12 arrives on the Terrace, and the Terrace is grouped with Main Floor playing whatever suits the bar. You tap the music button beside the date, ungroup the Terrace, drop the volume, and go back to seating the party without losing your place on the timeline. Same screen you drag pills on, same screen that warns you before a clash. Two honest limits. It is Sonos only, so if your speakers are something else the button will not appear, and it needs SNAPguard, which is included on every Guest Wi-Fi deployment but is not on sites that do not take our Wi-Fi. It sits in Bookings because that is where the operator actually uses it, not because it is a bookings feature.

Audience building on one page

The Audience Builder in Marketing, under Audiences, is now a single page. Before the rebuild it was three cards fighting over the same screen: filters in one, preview in another, save in a third, and no agreement between them about what state you were actually in. You could add a condition and not know whether the number in front of you belonged to what you had just set or to what you had set two clicks earlier. Now each condition collapses to one line, the page carries one highlighted next action, and counts only appear after you press preview, so a number on screen always describes the audience as it currently stands. Preview gives you the total match, how many are reachable by email, how many by SMS, and a sample of exactly who is in it, with the whole thing summarised back in plain English. Tag and campaign pickers are searchable rather than long lists to scroll, and on a phone they open as bottom sheets instead of the desktop menus we used to shove onto a handset.

Say it is four o'clock on a Tuesday and a party of eight has just dropped their 7.30. You can open Audiences on your phone, start from the lapsed regulars quick-start recipe, add a tag condition, preview to see the email-reachable and SMS-reachable split before you commit, save it, and point a quick campaign at it. Two honest caveats. Conditions combine with AND only, so every one has to match: to reach either of two groups you build two audiences, or tag the guests and build from the tag. And the preview count is a guide to reach, not a guarantee of delivery. Two other things moved at the same time. Classic segment creation was switched off across the back half of July, which is a forced move and we know some of you had saved segments you liked, so everything new now goes through the builder. And the Campaigns page was rebuilt on 24 July with a delete confirmation, because until then a delete was one click and gone. We also shipped a Base UI crash on marketing/data/meta on 28 July, tracked as STA-5056, and fixed it.