Release Notes

For Tenants – Added a maximum cap of 4000 SEK/DKK to the tenant service fee.

Various updates & improvements to all existing whatsapp message to make it easier to navigate between WhatsApp & Hemavi.

Added an ‘application expiry' counter on applications, so that it’s clearer when applications will expire.

Various UI improvements to the Find Housing & Listing pages.

Fixed an issue where listings of landlords who were deleted/blocked were still accessible.

Various bug fixes & minor improvements.

Deprecated usage of SMS for notifications. Only WhatsApp will be used moving forward - to improve quality of notifications & reduce spam.

Deprecated Swedish and Danish as supported languages on Hemavi.

For Landlords – You can now list your entire place for rental on Hemavi.

For Tenants – You can now browse entire apartments/houses available for rental, and apply for those exclusively if you want to.

Hemavi is now launching its pilot program in Tokyo, Japan!!

For Landlords – The whole ‘Manage My Listings’ section has gone through a facelift – so that it’s even easier for you to manage your listings.

Fixed an issue where Landlords couldn’t properly verify their emails.

Various bug fixes & improvements.

For Tenants – Tenants are now able to confirm interviews via the Hemavi Platform by themselves, or suggest alternatives that would work for them (rather than have to go through our Support staff to do so)

For Landlords – Landlords can now receive alternate suggestions from the Tenants regarding the online viewing, and confirm one slot directly on the Hemavi Platform.

Optimized image formats primarily for photo highlights, so that images are now always loaded as fast as possible with minimal loss in image quality.

For Tenants – Improved the ‘new rooms notifications’ so that the emails are received only when the location of the new listing is an excellent match for the tenant.

For Landlords – On mobile, fixed an issue at the end of the onboarding process, where landlords were sometimes incorrectly redirected to the sign up flow again after authentication.

Fixed an issue for when interviews were cancelled, but users were not notified correctly (or still received notifications on interviews that were no longer going to happen)

For Landlords – Fixed an issue where the landlord service fee was incorrectly showing for Landlords renting out in Denmark.

For Landlords – Revamped the entire onboarding process for landlords, to make it easier to sign up, and clarify why our landlords can find better tenants on Hemavi.

Improved communications when an online viewing that has been confirmed, is cancelled.

Minor bug fixes

Added a feature that makes it clearer to Users when there are important parts of their personal profile that are incomplete.

For Landlords – Updated the Profile Info section for Landlords to be clearer as to what’s expected concerning Profile Photos and Personal Bios.

Fixed an issue when a Landlord had multiple rooms and received applications, but those applications were sometimes not showing up properly.

Fixed an issue with room photos sometimes appearing as distorted.

Fixed an issue where applications were canceled or rejected after an online viewing was confirmed, but the user still received reminder notifications about the viewing.

Fixed an issue with interview reminders were sometimes sent one hour earlier than expected due to daylight savings.

For Tenants – Revamped the entire sign up flow for Users to make it easier to sign up, and clearer as to what’s expected.

For Landlords – Clarified in the landlord sign up flow, that listing of entire apartments/houses is possible on Hemavi, as long as the rooms are rented out individually.

Fixed an issue where rooms that have been inactive for a while were still being able to be applied to.

For Landlords – Fixed an issue where Landlords could not edit their profile just after sign up.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Upload photos to your profile, and tell us the story of who you are in images – your lifestyle, your hobbies, your interests, the real you.

Gave the User Profile a fresh new look, coupled with a dedicated section for Photo Highlights accessible to both Landlords and Tenants.

Gave the Contact Support page a fresh new look, with more information about how to contact the Hemavi team, regardless of who you are.

Improved general page load performance.

Fixed an issue with the Create Account pop-up UI sometimes breaking when opening it directly from an external link.

For Tenants – Updated the ‘How it works’ section to better explain the current user journey that includes the online interview.

For Tenants – Added clarifications as to what’s expected of the tenant during the onboarding flow.

For Landlords – Added a confirmation pop-up after ‘Decline Application’ to prevent landlords from declining applications by mistake.

Improved design consistency of emails sent to users.

Improved layout and content of multiple transactional emails sent to Users to inform them about the application process.

Moved the blogs from hemavi.com to blog.hemavi.com

For Tenants – Fixed an issue on the My Applications page where the room’s area was incorrectly displayed as {{neighbourhood}}

Fixed an issue for tablets where the Header was displayed incorrectly.

Deprecated support for the Chat feature

For Tenants – Added a ‘Preferred Location’ feature, which allows tenants to specify where they want to live close to. Default sorting in ‘Find Rooms’ also considers the distance between each room, and the Tenant’s Preferred Location.

For Landlords – The ‘Find Tenants’ feature now considers the tenants' Preferred Location in the sorting algorithm.

For Landlords – Improved the navigation for the Complete/Edit Room process on mobile.

For Landlords – Improved the UI for the ‘Manage my Listings’ page

For Tenants – Fixed an issue with Tenants either not receiving New Room Notifications at all, or receiving multiple about the same room in a row.

Fixed an issue with Users not being able to send messages after a booking has been completed.

Fixed an issue on Tenant Profiles, where the budget was not displayed correctly if above 7000 SEK.

Clarified that the room description is an optional field whenever a Landlord is creating a room ad.

Fixed an issue with authentication in general where users were sometimes incorrectly prompted to log in.

Fixed an issue for landlords where rooms that have just been booked were not showing up anymore in Manage Applications.

Fixed an issue where URLs in SMS messages were not displaying correctly.

Fixed an issue where tenants were incorrectly allowed to send applications for rooms that had just been booked.

Major SEO fixes and improvements

Added a new feature called ‘Recommended Tenants’ which suggests the best tenants for the Landlord, and allows them to send invitations to multiple eligible tenants.

Tenants can now fill more possible values for their ‘budget’.

Improved our notifications systems to cover more scenarios and be more personalised, so that users can be better informed of their progress in the Hemavi journey.

Improved the UI for Manage My Listings on mobile.

Increased the number of items in the Rooms List from 6 to 20.

Fixed an issue with the room description sometimes not displaying at all.

Removed multiple outdated filters on the Browse Rooms page.

Multiple UI/UX improvements relating to the room creation & listing process.

Fixed an issue with apartment photos not loading correctly on the room profile.

Fixed an issue with ‘Use my Location’ when setting the address of a property not working correctly.

Added a notification system that Tenants can subscribe to on the Browse Rooms page so that they receive email updates whenever new rooms are available according to their personal preferences.

Rooms are now automatically updated to ‘Inactive’ once a booking has been confirmed.

Fixed an issue with the Applications counter showing an incorrect number of new updates to applications.

Fixed an issue with the Messages section not showing conversations that were created with Users that are now inactive.

Updated the default sorting for Browse Roommates to prioritise Tenants that have been most recently active on Hemavi.

Improved the application process, so that known fields are prefilled to allow for faster application process.

Updated the ‘Open in new tab’ functionality on the Rooms page.

Fixed an issue where if Landlord had multiple listings, the room amenities were not being updated correctly for each room.

Fixed an issue which allowed Landlords to skip essential steps in the onboarding process.

Added some animations to make navigation smoother, and other improvements.

Updated the character limit in an application from 150 to 300.

Fixed an issue where the Deposit was incorrectly being displayed

Minor bug fixes

Reworked and improved the home page.

Added a new page dedicated for landlords.

Fixed an issue with text translations not displaying correctly.

Fixed an issue with the ‘Manage My Listings’ page not being optimised for mobile.

Improved the search feature in ‘Find Tenants' to return results based on proximity rather than only exact match.

Fixed some design inconsistencies from pages implemented in v2.19.0

Fixed an issue with text spill on the blog cards.

Fixed an issue with Users sometimes not receiving the email granting them access to their contracts

Fixed an issue with creation of new room listings not working correctly.

Fixed an issue with the landlord sometimes not being able to view their own room listing.

Fixed an issue with rooms without photos.

Minor improvements on the digital contract signature process

Minor bug fixes.

Major improvements made to general site loading speed

Major improvements on image loading speeds

Minor bug fixes

Minor improvements on the Browse Rooms page.

Minor fixes to increase site loading speed.

Minor fixes to increase search engine visibility.

Fixed issues with the new contract solution.

Hemavi is now available in Germany!

Improved layout for Blog pages

Updated page title and descriptions for better search engine visibility

Fixed another issue with the Browse Rooms filters returning no results

Fixed an issue with Browse Roommates returning no results when ‘Active within last 7 days’ filter was turned on.

Fixed some localisation issues in Swedish on the Browse Rooms page

Implemented unique subdirectories for each language currently supported (English & Swedish).

Fixed issues with displaying localised content on the Home Page

Added a loading animation while User waits for Home Page & Profile pages to be loaded.

Fixed a search issue on Browse Roommates when User’s browser language is not English.

Fixed an issue with search results on Browse Roooms when Location = Amsterdam.

Various minor bug fixes

The Browse Rooms (Map) feature is now available on mobile.

Added a room marker clustering feature on the Map, so that Users can get a better overview of all the rooms/apartments available on Hemavi.

Greatly improved page performance, layout and usability.

Improved site SEO and fixed indexing issues on search engines.

Landlords can now rent out rooms or apartments in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tenants can now find rooms or apartments in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Users in Denmark can directly download the contract template in pdf form, in either English or Danish.

Removed a pop-up on the Home Page where User had to define whether they were a Landlord or a Tenant.

Added a new Messages List page, where all of User’s existing conversations can be viewed and accessed.

Fixed an issue where the message counter was not updating correctly sometimes.

Fixed an issue where Landlrods having signed up before v2.0.0 couldn’t go through the new Onboarding process.

Photo preview when receiving a new messages was not loading properly.

Minor bug fixes & improvements

Users can now sign up and log into Hemavi using their Facebook or Google accounts.

The entire Sign Up process on Hemavi has been redesigned to be more user-friendly, faster, and smoother.

Greatly improved when signing up on mobile.

Minor bug fixes & improvements.

New Landlords that sign up on Hemavi will now need to create a room before being allowed to access the Platform.

Updated the minimum requirements for all Users when signing up.

Users will now receive emails in Swedish if their account’s preferred language is Swedish.

Tenants can now message any Landlord, unless they don’t satisfy the Landlord’s Tenant gender preferences.

Fixed issue when User attempts to edit his/her profile.

Added ‘Blogs’ section, where relevant content will be posted by the Hemavi team.

Updated various pages so that the UI & language is more consistent throughout the platform.

When on mobile, selecting a Room no longer opens a new tab.

Removed a loading animation between each step of the Room Creation process.

Improved general website performance

Improved the layout of the ‘Chat Request’ pop-up.

Fixed an issue with the chat request counter sometimes not updating properly.

Fixed an issue with the Age sometimes only considering the Year of birth, and not the day and month.

Fixed an issue with locations sometimes not being translated properly.

Users (both Tenants and Landlords) are now able to cancel contract procedures, as long as they haven’t signed it yet.

Tenants can now use the disount code feature to receive discounts on the Service Fee.

Added a Settings section where User can manage notifications, and personal preferences.

Updated number of rooms per page from 6 to 15, and improved navigation.

Added links to popular cities on the landing page.

Made ‘Message’ button more visible when viewing a Room Profile on mobile.

Improved general site loading speed, and optimized room photo sizing.

Fixed an issue when users try to upload a video as profile photo.

Fixed an issue with the budget not showing properly on the user profile.

Fixed an issue with emails not displaying properly on mobile.

Fixed some texts in the Messages section

Added a Release Notes page accessible via the Footer.

Added a method to set the user’s browser language as default.

Added a link for users to purchase home insurance with Hedvig and receive the first month for free.

Improved overall website loading speed and performance.

Increase the room search radius when finding a room.

Improved the Drafting Contract process for the Landlord.

Improved the speed that the Landlord can connect Stripe to their account.

Fixed an issue with photos uploaded from mobile not being supported.

Fixed UI issues related to using the platform on tablet.

Updated hemavi.com with the latest features previously only available in beta.

Added a Contact Support page which can be accessed in the Footer.

Improved the UI for when the User connects Facebook, LinkedIn or BankID to be more user-friendly.

Room photo previews no longer scroll automatically.

Improved message delivery speed when messages are sent by users to other users.

Fixed an issue on mobile, where the user is automatically zoomed in, and has to manually zoom out after.

Fixed an issue with emails not not being received into the mailbox for Outlook users.

Hemavi is now fully functional and available for the public!

Landlords can now add the full address of their room, instead of just the city.

Improved general responsiveness on laptops and mobiles.

Fixed an issue with smaller screens where the main call-to-action is not visible (e.g. Proceed)

Users can browse rooms, find tenants, and can message each other.

Users can start contract procedures, sign contracts, and transfer payment for the room deposit.

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