Product Updates

This is more of an under-the-hood type of thing, but we've just upgraded to the latest version of ActiveMerchant, the underlying payment processor integration software, as well as added support for the latest version (v10) of Quickpay, our primary payment processor in Denmark. 

That means that you can now do subscription payments and auto-charge on the Quickpay V10 platform.

Simplero does smart handling of things like prefixes to the subject lines, automatically adding a footer to all emails, or inserting personalized links for each recipient.

The problem, until now, has been that you couldn't preview exactly what people were seeing, because the preview wouldn't include the actual subject prefix, footer, or personalized links, so in the end you had to just have faith in yourself and the software and hit send and trust that it would all do as expected.

Well, no mor…

As announced in our Facebook group and in our newsletter, we've changed the way you edit and manage content in spaces, so it now happens in your normal admin interface, along with everything else, rather than inside your space.

We've done this for two important reasons:

First, it means we can add more features to the admin interface, such as triggers, and information about activity inside the spaces. We've already begun this, showing you top viewed pages, all the pages each member has access t…

I've just rolled out a new feature which allows you to quote prices for your products in multiple currencies.

It's been a big project, and a highly requested feature, and I'm glad it's finally out there for everyone to enjoy.

Here's how it works:

You can now quickly search within the subscribers on a list, or purchases of a product—or purchases on your account overall.

Quick and smooth.

When we started, Simplero's menu structure made sense. But over time, as we've added features, it had grown into a bit of a disorganized, jumbled mess. Most of us had learned to live with it, but new customers... forget it. They'd be lost.

We spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of organization of the menu would make sense, a lot of time playing around with different categorizations. It's all about logic and balance. You need a structure that's both clear, and at the same time distribut…

I bet you've experienced this: Each time you send broadcast to hundreds or even thousands of recipients, you brace yourself for the inevitable flood of vacation and out-of-office responses.

And if you encourage people to reply to you—or if they do, anyway, which is great, you want the interaction—then you end up with one long thread of replies and your replies to them and back and forth, they all end up in one long thread in most email clients, and it quickly becomes a jumbled mess that's almos…

Since its inception, Simplero has run all of the automated charges—installments and renewals of subscriptions—at the same time each day, worldwide: At midnight EST, 9pm PST, and 6am CET.

The reason why is that we started out in Denmark, and it made good sense to charge everything at 6am in the morning local time. But since 2012, we've had customers all over the globe, and it's made less and less sense. It's confusing to ask a charge to be done on a certain date, and then it doesn't happen until…

We're now tracking clicks on affiliate links, and we show the total number in the affiliate center, so they can see the aggregate number of clicks they've gotten. This helps confirm that it's working.

Later on we'll probably show you a breakdown of which specific links were clicked, when, but that'll be for another day. For now, we wanted to make sure that we started tracking them.

Your members can now mark pages completed in your spaces, which lets both you and them track their progress.