What's new in Varied Reach

✦ New

• Complete Varied Reach brand design system (brand/accent color tokens, dark mode, animation keyframes)
• Premium landing page with Hero, Platform Workflow, Features, Why Us, Pricing teaser, FAQ accordion
• Split-screen login page with trust badges and brand illustration
• Collapsible sidebar with icons and active state highlights
• Redesigned dashboard with stat cards, quick actions, and getting-started guide
• Public pricing page with plan comparison, feature table, and live interactive cost calculator
• Voting portal with step progress indicator and premium ballot card UI
• Toast notification system (success/error/warning/info, auto-dismiss)
• Dark mode with localStorage persistence and FOUC prevention
• Skeleton loaders, EmptyState, Badge, Alert UI primitives
• New marketing pages: About, Security, Why Varied Reach, Contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, Support, API Reference, Release Notes
• Dedicated SVG favicon with Varied Reach brand gradient

↑ Improved

• Button, Card, Input, Select, Textarea, Modal updated to use design system tokens
• Footer redesigned with Logo, nav links, and copyright
• Loading screen shows Logo spinner instead of blank page

✦ New

• Rule-based pricing engine — PricingPlan and PricingItem DB tables, zero hardcoded rates
• Super Admin pricing panel — manage plans, rules, categories, and feature keys
• Quote calculator — live breakdown: base fee, per-homebuyer, towers, duration, premium features, GST
• PDF document generation: Proposal, Quotation, Proforma Invoice, Tax Invoice
• Quote history per assignment — list, view, download

↑ Improved

• API rate calculation now uses DB-stored rules exclusively
• PDF generation supports branded headers, footers, and page numbers

✗ Fixed

• CSV files were not being watermarked on export — fixed
• Conversion failures returned generic 500 instead of a clear validation message — fixed

✦ New

• Election creation linked to approved nomination candidate list
• Unique voting token generation (256-bit, base64url) per homebuyer per election
• AES-256-GCM vote encryption — ballot choices encrypted before database write
• Passwordless OTP voting portal (/vote/:token) — mobile-friendly, no app install required
• Vote receipt code — confirmation without revealing ballot choice
• Automatic election close scheduler (closes at votingEndDate)
• Result declaration — server-side decrypt, tally, and publish

↑ Improved

• Election results page shows turnout, per-candidate breakdown, and winner
• Election audit log records OTP verify and vote cast events

✦ New

• Nomination event lifecycle management (DRAFT → PUBLISHED → OPEN → REVIEW → CLOSED → ARCHIVED)
• Nomination review workflow: Approve / Request Correction / Reject with reason
• Document versioning — replace, preview, delete nomination documents
• Bulk actions — approve all, reject all, bulk export
• Candidate list page — publish/unpublish/export/print
• Nomination dashboard with charts and statistics
• Nomination reports (PDF and Excel)
• Pagination and search across all nomination lists

✦ New

• Project and Tower management (nested under Assignments)
• Homebuyer import via CSV and Excel (up to 10MB, batch processing)
• Homebuyer list with search, filter, pagination
• Nomination Events creation and basic nomination submission
• Document upload for nominations (PDF, images)
• Persistent uploads volume in Docker

✦ New

• Production Docker Compose with API, database, Redis, Nginx
• Nginx reverse proxy with SSL (Let's Encrypt) on evoting.variedreach.com
• GitHub Actions CI/CD with SSH deploy and build log redirect
• Multi-tenant data scoping (organizationId on all queries)
• RBAC — SUPER_ADMIN, RP, TEAM_MEMBER roles
• Rotating JWT + httpOnly refresh token authentication
• OTP login (bcrypt hashed, time-limited, single-use)
• Immutable audit log on all actions