WHAT'S FRESH?
THESE ARE THE RECENT CHANGES TO SIMPLERO
💥 Zoom integration is now available on the Starter plan!
You can use the Zoom integration to automatically create events on zoom when someone uses the new 'Scheduling link' feature in Simplero to schedule an event with you.
🗓️ New feature: Scheduling Links (Beta)
Now you can create Scheduling Links in Simplero! Learn more. This makes it way simpler to run an online business. No need to use Calendly or Acuity or any of those calendar programs.
This feature is still in beta, and we’ve got tons of improvements on their way. But it is 100% usable right now, so please go use it!
Improved country auto-detection of phone number fields on the new order form design to make it simpler for people checking out.
Automatic transcripts on course lessons (Skyrocket)
We just added a new feature to the course lesson videos.
Starting today, you can now access video transcripts with a click of a button.
This new feature allows you to read along with the video as it plays.
The transcript highlights the phrase being said on the video in real-time, making it easier to follow along and understand the content.
To access the transcript, simply click on the 'transcript' button located below the video player in any course lesson video with a transcript available. You can also toggle the transcript on and off during video playback.
In order to generate the transcript, go to Content > Media Library, check the videos in question, and choose “Transcribe”.
We’ll make that last bit even simpler in the coming days.
When using Stripe, we now support payments with Bancontact, an online Belgian payment method, to make payments simpler for your users.
Enable Bancontact in your Stripe account, then enable it in Simplero under Settings > Payment Processors > Stripe.
Simplified the Settings page for Landing Pages and embedded Forms
When following search result links to a specific point in a video or audio, we will now auto-play that video or audio if the browser allows us to.
If the browser doesn't allow it for videos, we will at least update the still image to reflect that point in the video.
This makes it simpler for your customers to get to the content they're looking for.
Now storing auto-generated video summaries as timestamped segments, making it simpler to link to those points in the video.
When writing a newsletter, you can now choose if it goes at the top of the queue, bottom of queue, or if you want to send it immediately. Always looking to make it simpler.
If you have enabled the iDEAL payment method with Stripe or the ACH payment method with EasyPayDirect and haven't provided a custom label, we will now use 'iDEAL' or 'ACH' on your order form instead of your payment processor's name.
This makes it simpler for you to keep your order form understandable to your customers.
Our Spanish translation is now substantially complete, so you can choose Spanish for your sites and landing pages y sus usuarios pueden verlos en español. Thanks to user vida-aurea on translation.io. This will make it much simpler for your Spanish speaking customers.
We've simplified our subtitle transcription to show easier-to-understand captions when there are multiple people speaking in a video or audio.
Webbooks: We've simplified how table-of-contents is generated for pages with lots of headings.
Geeky details:
Before, we used all h1,h2,h3,h4 headings on the page to generate table-of-contents, always!
Even if you had 100 headings in total! That'd mean you'd have 100s of item in your table-of-contents.
But now, we've made it so that we'll always include h1 and h2 headings, but only include h3 and h4 headings if total number of headings does not exceed 10.
That makes it simple for you: Use headings in the way most relevant to your content, and we’ll automatically make a table of contents that’s helpful, not overwhelming.
Using zoom events on Simplero just got a bit simpler! You can now edit more things on your zoom events right from Simplero. Specifically, you can now edit time & duration of a non-recurring zoom event (on top of title & description which was always possible). Additionally, you can now also edit registration type for all zoom events (i.e whether an event requires registration or not). And delete any zoom events! And in case you missed it last week, registering to zoom events now works right on the Simplero event page as well - i.e it's no longer necessary to redirect people to the Zoom's registration page.
On the Integrations screen of the admin interface, we now show the result of the last time we sent data to your webhooks.
Fixed an issue where some subtitles in a video or audio would not show.
Fixed an issue where video and audio subtitles could show too much text at once.
To make it simpler for you to know when your webhooks are failing, we will now send you notifications when it happens.
Fixed that downloading/exporting video analytics table used to export data about all media files in your account, which was incorrect.
Improved the Newsletter feature UI a bit to make it easier and funner to work with
Webhooks you use are now listed on the Integrations screen in the admin interface. You can use this to see where your webhooks are being used, give them useful names, and update the URLs they go to.
Fixed a bug where affiliate links would not track clicks if they went to a Simplero hosted page on a different account.
When search results on your site match the transcript of a video or audio, we will include link to that point in the video or audio.
People can now register for zoom events directly on the event page on Simplero (just as they always could for non-zoom events). Before, for zoom events, we always linked to the zoom registration page to register for the event when viewing the event page (even if the person viewing the event page was already registered). And there was no ability for people to see their registration status or cancel their registration. Now it will all behave exactly like it did for non-zoom events!
Hide zoom integration columns on the participants table for non-zoom-integrated events
When installing a DFY template it will by default clone all the videos without labeling them. Also, we have removed the check to clone images and other assets only if the size is less than 50 MB, now any asset would be cloned. The assets will be cloned only when the DFY template is shared from some other account, in the case of the own DFY template the objects would be linked to the existing assets.
We've integrated with an improved service for generating transcripts and subtitles from videos.
Going forward, transcripts and subtitles will not be generated automatically, but you can easily generate them from your Media Library.
We’ll also generate a summary, and a list of keywords.
Translation is supported in multiple different languages, and we can also detect multiple speakers.
This feature is available to all members on the Skyrocket plan.
We'll now only append the site/account name to your page's title tag if it does not get super long (>65 characters). Before, we always appended the site/account name to the title tag. The problem with that is search engines might cut-off part of the text with '...' if it's very long. This applies to any page on the site (e.g course lessons or forum posts) as well as landing pages.
The custom affiliate links would now track the number of opt-ins if it links to any opt-in page, the count will be recorded from today (10th Feb 2023)
✨ Embedded order forms in a modal anwyhere on your site! ✨
- You can now easily embed an order form in a modal anywhere on your site or landing page by using the simplero link dialog (click here/see screenshot below).
- When inserting a link, just choose 'Products', select your product, then click on 'Embedded/One-step order form'.
- We plan to polish a bunch of things on the one-step/embedded order forms over the next few weeks & months. But do let us know of any issues you face by opening a ticket.
Send broadcast on product would now send it to active participants instead of billing contacts.
It was always supposed to be that way, but a bug was introduced a while ago where it went to billing contacts instead of participants.
Fixed a bug where the number of list subscribers shown when sending a broadcast or creating a segment didn't take into account subscribers imported from a CSV file.
We have fixed the issue where it was required to check all the check boxes of a participant field on order form to purchase a product.
Webbooks 📚
Webbooks are a perfect tool for long-form content, which are also very useful for SEO. Search engines love them! You can now build these in Simplero with ease. Check a live example. Learn more about how to use webbooks.
Allow sorting by additional columns in our table views
Fixed a bug where you weren't able to update a page's slug that had non-latin characters in it.
We've sped up updating large segments.
Added the ability to deactivate a site redirect without having to delete it. Also made it possible to inline edit the destination for a redirect.
Added 'move to other site' and 'duplicate to other site' as bulk actions for the Courses table
We've update the design of building a segment to match that of choosing recipients for a broadcast.
We added a 'Cancel' link when creating a new forum post.
Added a new page section called - 'Schedule'. An example usecase would be when you've got a conference-like-long-event that has multiple sessions.
Added a new page section called - 'Offer'. An example usecase would be when you've got a limited time discount offer.
Some upgrades to the 'Features' section - you can now set the maximum width of a column, round attached images, choose to show 1 column per row (previously the minimum was 2)
You can now make a landing page available on the site's home page.
Previously, if you wanted to make a landing page available on a site domain, you had to enter a path for it to use (it wouldn't allow '/', but now it will!). Doing so will make your site render the landing page when visiting the home page.
Fixed that you weren't able to add/edit custom CSS to a landing page by clicking on 'Edit custom CSS' on the landing page header's '...' menu.
Buttons on most page sections will now allow you to configure a minimum width
We were mistakenly using the site's Accent Color, instead of the Navigation Text Color, for the name of the site the header, when not using a graphic logo.
Now the search in your Admin interface will also include Courses.
We will now separate email open rates where it appears that the recipient has enabled Mail Privacy Protection (MPP). Learn more about email stats.
