The network, front and centre. • Connections brings Bud Board, Jobs, Reporter Briefs, Messages, Group chats and Who's Nearby together on one screen. • The Prize Wheel opens inside the app, and your phone works as a remote for the wheel on a big screen. • Ask Ray is on hand from each screen when you want a question answered. • Fixes and polish throughout.

Unlock RepBud with Face ID. • Turn on Face ID or Touch ID and RepBud opens with a glance. After signing out, sign in normally. The check happens on your iPhone; RepBud only learns that it matched. • Group messages: write once to a group of your connections, such as travel agents near Edinburgh, and each person receives it on their own, with their first name. Replies come back to you alone. • Travel media can now sign up in the app, with a home for their briefs and projects. • Places are picked from one list, so a search on Auckland finds the members in Orewa, and you can add the other countries you work from. • Connect now sits near the top of your home screen, so anything waiting on you is in view when the app opens. • Optional Wheel Pro enhancements add branded entry pages, custom questions and event reports. Existing free prize wheel features remain free.

Try a cabin before you pay. • Premium Economy, Business Class and First Class now start with a 14-day free trial. Your App Store account is charged when the trial ends, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. • When you reach something your cabin does not include, RepBud offers the trial right there, and Your Cabin shows the price and the terms beside it. • Who's Nearby now tells you when your location could not be updated, and why. • Smaller fixes and clearer wording across the app.

Sign in the way you already do. • Create your RepBud account, or sign in, with Apple, Google or LinkedIn, alongside email. • Choosing Apple lets you keep your email address private. • Whichever you choose, you land in the same account and the same setup.

Your phone's contacts, in one pass. • Import from the contacts already on your phone. Choose the ones that belong in your book — nothing is copied until you say so. • Who's Nearby now tells you how near, and the chip row stays put instead of growing down the screen. • A reply carries what its thread was about, so a threaded conversation reads as one thing. • Reports no longer treat a test message as a live enquiry, and an image that could not load stops pretending it might. • Faster to get where you are going: the Field Log, Reports, The Trail, your contacts and the Reserve directories all open straight from a link.

Join and subscribe without leaving the app. • Create a RepBud account on your phone. A six-digit code arrives by email and confirms it on the spot. • Choose your cabin in the app. Premium Economy, Business Class and First Class are available through your Apple Account, with the term and the price in your own currency shown before you confirm. Restore Purchases is there if you change phone. • Put a face to a name. Anyone can upload a profile picture now, and it shows on your connections and in the directories. • Integrations are clearer about what they can do. A sync that cannot read a provider no longer clears the data it already had, connecting one provider does not overwrite another's credentials, and a provider that is not yet supported says so instead of failing quietly. • A mileage trip survives leaving the screen. • A connection request says who is asking.

A tidier book, sharper intelligence, and steadier reports. • Park a client you're not working with and bring them back when you are. Current and Past lists keep your book tidy, and parked clients stop being offered for new work. • The Lantern reads your mail more carefully — real due dates, true interaction dates, and threads matched on who is actually in them. What it learns from an email now stays attached to the interaction. • Reports you generate on your phone arrive readable, drawing on the right client's tasks. You are no longer charged for a report that doesn't start, or twice for the same log. • Task reminders for dated items on the Trail, so a follow-up doesn't slip. • Send files straight from your phone with Relay. • Follow-up emails go out signed with your name. • Steadier throughout: a crash on one screen no longer ends your session, empty screens explain themselves, and there are fixes across connections, upgrades, the scanner and the keyboard.

Your books, and the miles you drive to fill them. • Revenue — your accounting workspace, now on every paid plan. Raise branded invoices, reconcile the bank, and prepare your year-end Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet without leaving RepBud. • Scan a receipt with your phone. RepBud reads the merchant, date and total, and you can split one receipt across several clients — that shared lunch finally lands on the right books. • Live mileage tracking. Start a trip and RepBud measures the distance while you drive, even with your phone in your pocket, then turns it into a mileage claim at HMRC or SARS rates. Tracking runs only while a trip is running, and stops the moment you tap Stop. • Reconnect — host meetings and webinars with your trade partners, straight from RepBud. • The Lantern is sharper: it no longer mixes up contacts from different companies, you can correct a match yourself, and it recognises notes from RepBud meetings. • Plus a long list of fixes across the Brief, Companies, Clients and social posts — and deleting your account now removes your data properly. WHY THIS BUILD USES BACKGROUND LOCATION RepBud is a CRM for travel-industry sales reps, who drive to client sites and claim the mileage against tax. "Track mileage" (More > Revenue > Track mileage) records the distance of a trip the user starts explicitly, so it can be turned into a mileage claim at the official HMRC / SARS rates. Background location is required because the phone is in a pocket or on a dash mount for the length of the drive; a foreground-only measurement would stop recording the moment the screen locks and the claim would be wrong. Location is collected ONLY between the user tapping "Agree and start tracking" and tapping "Stop". It is not collected at any other time, it is not used for advertising, and it is not shared with third parties. iOS shows the blue background-location indicator throughout (showsBackgroundLocationIndicator is enabled). HOW TO TEST BACKGROUND LOCATION 1. Sign in with the demo account. 2. More > Revenue > Track mileage. 3. Choose a company and vehicle, tap "Start trip". 4. A disclosure screen explains what is collected; tap "Agree and start tracking" and allow location. 5. Background the app and simulate movement (Xcode > Debug > Simulate Location, or walk/drive a short distance). The distance increases. 6. Return to the app and tap "Stop & review" — the trip is priced at the mileage rate and saved to the user's books. CAMERA The camera is used for two things: capturing a business card (existing), and photographing a receipt so an expense can be logged in Revenue (new in this build). The purpose string has been updated to cover both. REVENUE AND RECONNECT Both are RepBud features rendered in an embedded web view on our own domains (revenue.repbud.app, reconnect.repbud.app), signed in with the same account — they are not external browsers or third-party services. ACCOUNT DELETION Profile > Delete Account removes the account and its data (Guideline 5.1.1(v)).

Discovery, connections, and polish: • Find fellow members of the Reserve — the RepBuddies and Reps directories list people again, and Who's Nearby shows members who've chosen to be visible at an event, by name. • Pending connection requests now show who they're from. • Respond to a meeting request right in the app — accept it, or suggest a time that suits you better. • Meeting times show in your own timezone, clearly labelled. • A refreshed Watering Hole, clearer profile setup, and a fix for a navigation issue where tapping a tab could leave you on the wrong screen.

This update brings improvements to contacts and profile sharing: • Contact search now matches on full names — type a first and last name together and the right person comes up. • Edit a contact's company directly from their detail screen. • More reliable profile sharing — your RepBud handle stays consistent when you forward your profile to someone. • Smoother sign-in — the password field no longer auto-capitalises. • Stability and behind-the-scenes improvements.

This update makes RepBud smoother and more capable: Smarter, more accurate contact matching — when you log a voice note, RepBud now recognises when a spoken name is close to one of your contacts (e.g. a slightly misheard name) and asks "Did you mean…?" so you can confirm with one tap. You can also correct a name on the spot or pick from suggested matches. Attach several people to one note — when a meeting or stand involves more than one contact, you can now add them all to the same Field Note instead of just one. Who's Nearby improvements — your location now shows as a recognisable area rather than a precise spot, and "last seen" timing means contacts can tell how recent it is. If you travel, RepBud helps you keep it accurate. Typing is easier everywhere — the keyboard no longer covers the field you're working in when adding contacts, editing notes, composing emails, or filling out any form. Email signatures now send correctly — your custom or pasted signature is included properly when you send mail from RepBud. Stability fixes — resolved several issues that could interrupt you, including in team management and meeting follow-ups. Polish and refinements throughout. Thanks for using RepBud. Keep the feedback coming.

What's new in v1.1.0 NEW • Voice notes — record up to 30 seconds, automatically transcribed to The Lantern • RepBud Ready rebuilt — separate sections for where you're based and the source markets you cover, with per-country retainer minimums in any currency • Swipe gestures in RepBud Ready — swipe right to send a property to Rapport, left to dismiss • Photo OCR now warns when long notes might exceed the Lantern entry limit FIXED • Voice logging now reliable on iOS 26 • Worth a Reconnect — shuffle restored • Who's Nearby — visibility persists across navigation • Who's Nearby — your current city always shows, even when invisible • Ready Settings — screen reloads fresh data on every visit