As 2025 comes to a close, we've been focused on preparing Equipe for the new year. This month's update brings critical 2026 rule updates, new scheduling tools, and important reliability improvements across the platform.

🧾 Peppol E-Invoicing

Belgium mandates electronic B2B invoicing via Peppol starting January 1, 2026. Equipe now supports sending invoices through the Peppol network automatically for Belgian companies. We will enable Peppol on your account when you have register your company. We published a dedicated post with all the details

📋 Regulatory Updates: 2026 Rules

FEI Show Jumping 2026 Rules

Starting January 1, 2026, FEI Show Jumping competitions will use updated prize distribution rules. Equipe now fully supports:
- New prize money distribution percentages
- Updated article mappings for the 2026 regulation changes
- Automatic handling of the new distribution formulas

FEI Dressage Marking Sheets 2026

The FEI has made changes to dressage marking sheets effective January 1, 2026. All FEI dressage tests have been updated with the new marking sheet formats.

Eventing: Missed Flag Penalty Update

For 2026, the penalty for a missed flag in cross-country has changed from 15 points to 9 points. This is now the default setting for new eventing competitions.

🏆 New Features

Judge Collision Detection in Schedule

When viewing the schedule, you can now see which judges are assigned to each competition. The system automatically detects and highlights scheduling conflicts where the same judge is assigned to overlapping time slots—helping you catch double-bookings before they become problems. See dedicated post with details

Dressage Lock Start Times

A new column in the competitions table lets you quickly lock start times for dressage competitions. This makes it easier to manage schedules where some competitions have fixed times while others remain flexible.

Entry System: Payment Activity Log

The Entry system now includes a comprehensive payment and refund activity log. Track every transaction with detailed timestamps, amounts, and status changes—making reconciliation and troubleshooting much easier.

Pro-Forma Invoice Support

You can now generate and send pro-forma invoices directly from the economy section. The system properly labels these as "PRO-FORMA" in email subjects and handles them separately from final invoices.

✨ Improvements

Rider Declaration: Multiple Exclusion Lists

Grand Prix and similar competitions often need to exclude riders from multiple qualification sources. The rider declaration now supports selecting multiple "Riders must not be in this list" restrictions, making it easier to enforce complex entry requirements.

Show Jumping Federation Settings

Managing which Show Jumping article mappings are active is now faster with an inline toggle directly in the federation settings table. No more opening dialogs just to activate or deactivate articles.

Unified Startlist Enhancements

Show jumping scorecards and scoresheets can now be printed directly from the unified startlist view. Previously, you had to navigate to individual competitions to print these reports.

Horse Search Improvements

When searching for horses via the FEI database, results are now sortable by clicking the column header rather than FEI ID, making it easier to find the correct horse.

Competition Date Ordering

The "Fetch data" dropdown now displays competition dates in chronological order instead of seemingly random order—a small but frequently requested improvement.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Show Jumping Scorecards: Fixed an issue where generating scorecards for a selection of specific starts would fail
• Empty Invoice Emails: Resolved a crash that occurred when attempting to send invoice emails for accounts with no items
• FEI Name Normalization: Fixed Unicode character handling that was causing issues after the Rails 8.1 upgrade
• Marking Sheet Language: Fixed an issue where Finnish competitions with individual marking sheets would show Swedish labels
• Individual Marking Sheet Protection: The system now prevents you from accidentally disabling individual marking sheets when results have already been entered
• Entry System Stability: Fixed several production errors related to missing data and edge cases in payment processing

🔧 Technical Notes

The Entry system received significant improvements to timezone handling, ensuring that all timestamps are displayed consistently in the meeting's local timezone.

Thank you for a great 2025! We look forward to continuing to improve Equipe together in the new year.