Changelog

Significant performance optimizations on all sites and membership sites

Migrate to stripe elements

Ability to get SMS notifications on all new tickets for the account

Trigger for billing contact on purchase when they said yes to marketing

Ability to convert incoming emails into tickets

GDPR check box is included in raw form for list sign ups

Reorganized settings for support tickets, handling email replies, and support email

Compress JS and CSS for sites to optimize site performance

Cleaned up email domain screen a bit, added some help

Cleaned up the empty state for the Media Files library so it's more clear what to do for new accounts.

Use a Launch Editor button to launch the page editor for landing pages as well, so you're not thrown into the editor by surprise when clicking a regular navigation link.

When clicking 'Pages' in the menu for a Site, show table of pages instead of launching the page editor. The page editor is launched by clicking a button instead.

Show publish status for pages in the pages table

Happy June! Made the help link more obvious so you can find in when you need it!

Assume GDPR consent on subscribers import

Ability to delete and restore worksheet responses

New comment email notification now have a link directly to the comment

Links insertion works properly for embedded forms

Show contact's gdpr info on customer page

Make it possible to require GDPR consent for ALL contacts, even if they appear to come from outside the EU

Automation wait types: Wait for contact field, including birthday, course start, and a purchase period ends

When customer agrees on gdpr they get 'GDPR consent' tag added

Purchase page is now faster, due to the charges and summary tabs being loaded when requested, instead of being generated at page load time

When calculating the outstanding balance on a purchase, all paid charges matched with payments will now zero out. This solves an issue where drift could happen when currencies got mixed, ie. charge in one currency, payment in another.

Notes on automation steps

When customer accepts marketing emails on checkout, that's considered consent according to the GDPR

Add notes to automation steps

Implemented support for GDPR on checkout and opt-in

Canary Islands could be used as a country without erros

You can now submit the filter form on a table view using Cmd-Enter

New filter on contact: Unsubscribed at - see the contact that unsubscribed from a list in the given time period

A downloadable file would not show the filename when used as the main media file for a course lesson

Filter contacts by name/email using contains / starts with / ends with, etc. Makes it easy to find all contacts with gmail or hotmail addresses, for example

Lots of little tweaks to make reordering of course modules and lessons work more smoothly

Fancy-pants editor for auto-responses: drag-and-drop to reorder, see the editor and the overview all together

Fix that the link to show all for purchases awaiting manual payment would show a set of columns that were not helpful

First invoice for a subscription or installment plan would not show the next charge date

We new also show the product sold out message / wait list / redirect when a product is closed, in addition to when it's sold out

Choose button color and style on list signup on themed landing page; choose button style on pricing table.

Label things in the admin interface, so you can see which campaign, product, course or whatever things belong to

Choose to make an image smaller when you select it for a page section or most other places that you get to choose an asset for something

Facebook comments section on themed pages

Save to library for both broadcasts and auto-responses, as well as Send as broadcast for both auto-responses and library emails

Cleaned up the admin interface a bit and made a bit more consistent. Biggest noticeable change is that the red color for action links are gone. It was starting to feel a bit stale.

Drag and drop upload file in the media dialog in the themed page editor wasn't working. It is now.

Send login link to affiliate

Show values for custom fields belonging to other objects on the contact page. This would be custom fields for product participants, or specific to a list signup form.

Reset download links in bulk for particpants

Added list tyep and categories to product table, as well as action to change either

Changing color on outline style buttons on themed pages now works as expected

Show affiliate commission for selected period on invoices screen

Duplicating courses was missing a couple of fields.

Bad white-space in preview of courses

Social media sharing image now fill the entire 200x200 area

Fixes around validation of custom field values when editing a record, as well as when signing up a new contact where not all fields are on the form

Fixes around newsletter schedules

Ability to narrow the 'Recent blog posts' section to posts within a single category

Auto email reply to ticket submitter when a new ticket is submitted. Use this to provide helpful links to people to fix the problem on their own.

Global snippets lets you define a variable that you can use in emails or on your site, globally for your account. Use it for special promos, or just to avoid having multiple copies of things.

Use the table view that we use in all other places to show landing pages. We may add a card view back in later, but for now this should have much better usability.

Fixed centering of images in attachments to tickets and other places when clicked to enlarge

Use customer. object in liquid in landing pages as well

Send login link to customers that logs them in to their content directly (spaces, membership sites, affiliate center) without having to remember or reset their password.

Affiliate leaderboard: Choose to show or hide revenue, units sold, and leads generated, on the leaderboard. The leaderboard will still always be sorted by revenue generated.

Fixed issue with video encoding when video file contains tracsk that are neither video nor audio.

Fixed bug on product catalog settings page

Added canonical rel link to site pages for improved SEO

Hide pages that hidden from navigation from the sitemap.xml file

Added the ability to use liquid tags and expressions in broadcasts, auto-responses, and automation emails.

Web preview of email to specific recipient

Improved how we send emails under the hood which should make emails via large automations work a lot more smoothly.

Fixed a couple of issues that made large automations be ridiculously slow.

Always use 2 decimals in revenue numbers interpolated for purchases

Made a customer object consistently available on themed pages when we have it

Cleaned up the credit dialog

Notify admins on forum posts and site comments awaiting moderation

Ability to undelete stuff from table views

Show teaser mode of embedded forms even when we won't trigger to show the form to this user again at this time

A bunch of new interpolations for purchases

When submitting a worksheet that you've filled out before, you now get the choice between editing your past submissions or creating a new one.

Added a class for the Your sites menu, so it's easy to target with custom CSS.

Use liquid tags in wysiwyg sections on site pages.

All video playback is now using MPEG-DASH, which allows for dynamic adaptive bitrate streaming in all browsers. Previously we did HLS, but only on devices that support it, which essentially means Macs and iOS devices.

Added the ability to add a member directly on the site members page.

Changed 'Your spaces' menu item to 'Your sites' because Spaces is not the new cool anymore. Also do include the site you're on. Confusing that it would disappear.

Tracking of UTM parameters when contacts interact with you. We store both the first ones so you can see the original source of a contact, as well as the last time we saw them subscribe to a list or purchase something.

Add a new member to a site right there on the Members page for the site

Tracking code for upsells and order bumps would not be run. They do now.

Improved processing of videos so we now handle a couple of corner cases that would previously fail.

Fixed that a single forum thread could end up taking too much space in the Recent Contributions section on sites.

Support for SSL over all custom domains, so the browsers don't complain that it's insecure.

Triggers could still be run on deleted lists. Not good.

Link to show all broadcasts to a list.

Cookies to track who had seen the embedded popup would not be set with an explit path=/, which means they'd only register for that specific URL.

Added the ability to serve themed landing pages from a custom domain.

Added interpolation options for the product (name, internal name, parameterized internal name) for purchases, especially useful for the global tracking code.

Added global tracking code that gets run for all purchases across the account.

Ability to hide specific lessons from the preview to people that haven't purchased yet.

Create redirects for any URL on your site, including forward slashes and uppercase leters. This way you can honor all old URLs.

One on one messaging around worksheet responses

Added three new question types to worksheets: Radio buttons, check boxes, and file upload

Fixed that the customer purchase screen would not work right when auto-renew is not available

Comment on site by replying to email notifications

That excluding recipients for products on broadcasts would not exclude people who had turned off notifications

Added card image for worksheets

Fixed that when we auto-generate a user for a worksheet, the user wouldn't get linked to the worksheet response, meaning the worksheet wouldn't show up on Your Account

Include a link to the worksheet in the email that goes out with the login information after auto-generating a user for the worksheet response

You can now set your mobile phone number on your Profile. We'll use this for text message notifications (opt-in, of course)

That replaced price on upsell would not be shown with the strike-out

Fields marked required on embedded opt-in forms would not actually be required.

The theme editor is live! You can now edit every template on your site.

Recent contributions section has been added to membership sites

Newsletters is a new feature that lets you do broadcasts on a fixed schedule, and queue them up in advance.

Instead of saying 'Owned' on courses you own, say 'Preview' on the ones you don't, yet can see a preview of.

Added username to site members table

When turning an auto-responder into an automation, prefix the internal name of all the emails with the name of the product or list they came from

When duplicating an automation, choose whether you want to duplicate emails, too, or reuse the emails already in the automation

With auto-renewing subscription price for just one day/week/month/year, the '1' was missing in the price description

Changing your Simplero URL would get messed up when there's a custom host for the account

Make error message when video encoding fails more readable, and added button to try again

Added the ability to preview courses that you don't own yet, and have them show up in the course catalog.

Fixed issues with users that visit a membership site for the first time not seeing the content they have access to

Fixed issue with modals not showing on Android

Added custom tracking code to new themed landing pages, both for head and body placement

When converting an auto-responder to an automation, auto-released site content would not be moved over

Comment and forum post notifications on sites would not use the subject prefix for the site

Warnings if your price has periods that are never reached, or subscriptions that run out of periods

Simplified product creation a bit

Clean up size of videos in all places, have an max-height so portrait mode videos still use full width on the screen but with black bars on the side

Show image dimensions in the media dialog

Added auto-renew column to purchases table so you can see if it's on or off, and include it in downloads

Streamlined video encoding so we don't need to download it twice

Choose button color for buttons on site

Grab a new still or animated (!!) frame from a video right there where you insert into the editor!

Made it easier to change the title of a media file. We'll use the title for the ALT text for images by default.

You can now restore deleted system views on your table views. So if you deleted the 'Draft' tab on your Broadcasts table, you can now get it back.

Upload files by letting Simplero grab them from a URL. So if you already have them in Dropbox, just get a public Dropbox URL, paste it in here, and we'll take it from there.

Improved replying to comments in membership sites. You can now hit reply next to any comment, and it'll take you to where your reply will appear.

A new 'Featured Courses' section on pages on sites, like the existing 'Featured Products' section.

Faster image uploads, and flexible sizes. We now scale images to the desired size on the fly, which means you can insert them in any size you want, and they're available to insert in your emails or other places immediately after you've uploaded them.

A new much more powerful media dialog for inserting media files into the text editor. Lets you pick a still frame from your video, and choose the size you want.

Simplified how we handle due charges when there are payments and payouts that haven't been matched to a charge.

If you click a video in an email, start playing right away.

Videos now remember where you left them off, so it'll automatically resume from the same place next time you come back.

Ability to manually add a course to the main navigation.

Show thumbnails when hovering over the timeline. Only for new videos, as we need to grab the frames and organize them.

Made site member table searchable by name and email.

Streamline participant info section on checkout forms when not required.

Much improved video encoding infrastructure launched today. It should lead to faster encodings, as well as live progress updates, so you can see how long you should expect encoding to take.

Insert links to course modules. In reality, they'll redirect to the first lesson in the module, since modules don't have their own pages.

Error when following the blog.

More tidying up of broadcast split test reporting.

Fix that order summary would show with discount being applied to each installment, even when it wasn't and shouldn't be.

Make it possible to view an invoice, even if the account issuing it was deleted.

Made purchase screen with a lot of payments much much faster.

Allow a discount to be set on a purchase before activation.

Fixed bug with og:url on landing pages pointing to a non-existent URL.

Cleaned up design of system emails.

Much better (and prettier) reporting on split-test broadcasts.

Add intro text at the top of a category in a forum. Also tidied up the UI for both forum and blog categories.

When editing an address field, if everything but region/state and country is left blank, consider the whole thing to be blank

Log text messages to the activity log

Duplicate broadcasts right there in the table view.

Cleaned up navigation for all types of landing pages ... it was a bit of a mess, really.

Show labels on embedded forms for controls like radio buttons and check boxes that can't do placeholders.

Internal name for contact fields, so the label can be 'Please select', but you'll still know what it all means.

Triggers on field options, letting you put checkboxes/radio buttons on any form, and run triggers based on what people choose.

Log to the activity log when people responds to a worksheet.

Notification triggers on worksheet responses.

Added action to make an automation continue now and not wait its current wait period till the end.

Add Purchase function on a Contact now uses Product internal names.

Presentation of subscription price with only one period repetition, or with auto-renew forced off.

Fixed reordering of courses in a membership site.

Show the number of videos in the encoding queue. We will be adding more peak capacity to the encoding, but for now, this will at least give you more information.

Ability to star/unstar automation emails

Don't register member/contact when visiting a public site, unless they post a comment.

Moved coupon code field down under price & payments.

Ability to set flags for tickets that will be filled out during submission

Fix for quotes in forum post titles

Fix for the disappearing sales pages for products

Much faster countdown timers. And less error-prone, too!!

Fixed search in spaces and membership sites with a lot of pages

Fixed video fram grab for very first frame

Intro text on main forum page

Pinned posts in forums (pinned per category)

Easier-to-navigate landing pages

Honor "Do not show email" setting on profile in membership sites.

Make it so if you click on the transparent background behind the vertical area where the notice appears, itll click the thing you intended to click.

Error when subscribing to a blog category.

Moved Forum and Blog settings to their own pages; moved Forum Categories to their own page.

Force break long words (typically URLs) in blog posts and forum posts

Added ids and classes courses, modules, and lessons HTML

Open footer social media links in new window

Create and select additional themes for your new themed landing pages.

Subscriptions with periods that run until a fixed day, or a minimum duration. Lets you do "$x until March 1st" type subscriptions.

When a free product had paid order bumps, the payment form would not appear.

Show all upcoming charges when you go to change payment method for a purchase with installments.

New brand spanking new landing pages using the same beautiful, flexible, and easy to use framework as the website and membership sites. Yay squared!

Worksheets and worksheet responses now use the new fancy-pants table views.

Upgraded pretty much all our servers, and doubled database performance.

Be better about removing reply content from incoming emails.

Tweets can now be 280 characters.

Added a confirmation step to refunding purchases from the table.

Individual steps in an automation can now be duplicated with one click

Membership sites now feature search, allowing members to search through pages, forum posts, blog posts and courses

Custom CSS can now be added to site and membership site themes. Go to Themes and click Edit custom CSS in the dropdown next to the Customize button to put your own finishing touches on the design

Participant membership sites are now visible for purchases in the administrative interface

Membership sites now have a course catalog section to provide an overview of courses a member has access to, and courses can be assigned a catalog description and image

Membership site forums, blog posts and comments now support emojis

Auto-responders can now auto-publish course content on membership sites

Zapier triggers and actions for tags

The Zapier integration now allows you to perform zaps when a tag is added to or removed from a contact, as well as actions to add or remove tags from a contact.

Products can now dictate whether or not media content can be downloaded

Courses now have support for podcast feeds for each individual participant

Course presentation is now configurable between showing with or without modules

Course lessons can now also be independently auto-published

Membership sites

Simplero now sports entirely new member sites with a fresh design, the customizability you know from your Simplero site and courses built right into them! Read all about it on our blog.

When adding a trigger that starts something (automation, subscription, etc.) we automatically add the trigger that stops it again, so you don't have to remember

Count number of views for blog posts

On checkout with order bumps we now combine the different payments into on combined schedule of payments to make it easier to see what you're being charged

Insert countdown timer in emails

Added integration with the 2017 version of WebinarJam

Send broadcast to specific single contacts

Segment by list subscribers who have been unengaged for the past 3 months

Shortlinks

You can now create Simplero shortlinks to longer URLs convenient for both sharing and tracking behavior around shared links. Go to Marketing > Shortlinks to create short links.

Added new filters to list subscribers table: Subscribed on, Unsubscribed on, and Unengaged. This lets you find everyone who subscribed or unsubscribed in a particular time period, as well as everyone who hasn't opened or clicked a link in any email in a given period. You can then choose to unsubscribe all of those subscribers, to keep your lists clean. Keep in mind that open reports are NOT accurate.

Untag and delete inactive customers. Go to Lists & Contacts > Contacts, then click Cleanup and choose an option.

Post blog posts to Twitter

Added the option to hide the header, footer and sidebar on individual pages on your Simplero site.

Added a Recent blog posts section to the site, so you can list the most recent blog posts on for example your home page.

Added a Buttons section to the site to allow you to insert simple calls to action on your pages.

Allow commenting on blogs without being logged in. New comments will be verified by email to combat spam.

Site shortcuts lets you define an arbitrary path and have it redirect to another arbitrary URL on the same page or on an external site.

Import from a Wordpress blog to your Simplero site blog.

Split-testing of subject lines on broadcasts

Save broadcast to email library

Personalizations with custom fields

You can now assign interpolation keys to your custom fields and use their values as personalizations in broadcasts, library mailings and autoresponders as {{field.<interpolation key>}}. For example, if you assign a phone number field the interpolation key mobile_phone_number, you can personalize emails with this as {{field.mobile_phone_number}}.

Added the ability to opt-in to a list, or redirect to a URL, when a product is sold out.

WYSIWYG editor on sites

Comments on sites now feature a WYSIWYG editor that allows people to format their posts and upload images as part of their comments.

Added variants of the new full page landing page template with the CTA box in a sidebar.

New full page landing page template

We've added a new full page ("squeeze page") landing page template for you to choose from when creating landing pages for your lists and products. The design is inspired by the Simple site theme, so you can now have a consistent feel across your site and yor landing pages.

To try it out, select the Simple, single column template when creating a landing page.

Ordering of answers in FAQ sections is now consistent across desktop and mobile.

Added a new trigger on external page views, tracked via our embedded landing page scripts.

Triggers can now be set to only run once per contact.

Add triggers when lead score goes above or below a certain threshold. Also, you can now edit and see lead score directly on a contact.

Triggers can now also have simple conditions (presence or absence of a tag) like automations and steps.

Purchases can now be searched and filtered by the Track value.

You can now choose to download current view or all columns when downloading from custom view tables.

Added a lead score to contacts, which you can increment and decrement using triggers, automations, and actions.

Automations and steps within them now has the ability to add a condition: Only run this step if the contact either has or does not have a given tag.

Added a bunch of actions to the contacts, purchases, participants, and affiliates tables: Add/remove tag, start/stop/pause/resume automation, subscribe/unsubscribe/suspend/resume subscription, grant/revoke access to space/page ... right there... just check a bunch of rows and do it!

Changed the unsubscribe page so we offer 'Unsubscribe from all', and make the Do Not Contact option less prominent. I think a lot of people used that without intending to.

Added download and date filters for tickets.

Expenses P&L totals now take affiliate commission into account.

Paginate through deliveries and activities. That way, the page loads way faster when there's a lot of stuff going on for a contact or purchase.

Added a bunch of columns to purchases and invoices tables.

Blog posts and comments done with new table framework.

Participants table. Done. Boom! And now you can see CUSTOM FIELDS in the overview, too!

Fixed that the name option (first name only / first and last name in separate fields / one field for both first and last name) on custom name fields was not being honored.

Triggers! On! The! New! Table! Framework!!!

Invoices, tax reports, automations, tags, segments, administrators, and global coupons. And you can now unstar tags, automations, and segments to hide them from the main list when you're done with them. And coupons are searchable.

And affiliate programs table is now using the new framework

Tickets table is now using the new framework... and tickets are now searchable!

Broadcasts and email library emails table are now using the new framework

Contacts table can now show custom fields

You can now start and stop an automation directly from the contact page

Modernized the contacts list.

Modernized the tables showing automation flows, email deliveries, and activities.

You can now add sales page link, order form link, and freebie link to your products table views for quick access.

Installment prices on the checkout form now just say something like '$1,200 in 4 installments over 3 months' instead of spelling out all the payments, since we have the table below detailing all of the payments anyway. Having both is a little much.

Added column for 'See as' to purchases table.

When listing failed purchases, we now sort by the date the purchase first failed. When showing canceled purchases, we now sort by when the purchase was canceled.

Expenses

You can now track your expenses in Simplero, so you can easily get a Profit and Loss statement for your business as a whole, or for a single product.

French is now a fully supported language

Thanks to the amazing work by Christelle Petry and Lyvia Débloque, French is no longer just an experimentally supported language. Instead, Simplero is now fully translated into French for all the user facing parts.

Would you like to help out in translating Simplero to your local language? Don't hesitate to get in touch with us!

The list of subscribers to a list has been powerfullified.

French value-added tax is now correctly referred to as TVA. Only for new accounts, though. For existing accounts you can change it under Settings > Taxes.

Custom domains for spaces are now no longer redirects to the space's zenlearn.com subdomain, but instead present your content on the custom domain.

Sites now use the customer language configured for the account no matter the user's language preference. This is to make link texts consistent for all users.

When an email hard bounces, set Do Not Contact instead of unsubscribing them from whatever they were subscribed to.

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