WHAT'S FRESH?
THESE ARE THE RECENT CHANGES TO SIMPLERO
Send any broadcast or library email to a single contact by checking the row in the table and choosing 'Send to...', then pick the contact.
Fixed a bug with automations where a condition on a wait step would not always be honored
You can now include autogenerated password in interpolation for affiliate program emails
The 'Your Account' in the drop-down menu on websites on your Simplero account now link to people's 'Your Account' page for your Simplero account only, instead of the 'Your Global Account' that shows evertyhing they've purchased on Simplero. I feel like that makes more sense for your customers. They don't need to know that you're using Simplero. At the same time, we've made it a bit easier to navigate to 'Your Global Account', though not quite as easy/confusing as it was about a month ago. I know the nomenclature here is confusing. Haven't figured out how to resolve this yet.
We now have 5 new top-level domain names to choose from for your Simplero sites and membership sites: vipclub.ninja, simplyeducated.net, coursehub.tv, geteducated.me, mycourse.tv, and mysimplero.com. To use them, go to your site > Configuration, and look for the section named 'URL'. There will be a drop-down where you can choose the top-level domain name to use. The default one is still simplero-sites.com, but you now have more choices.
You can now designate a page of your choosing as the 404 not found page for your site
You can now have your site header stick to the top of the page, independent of whether you make the header be transparent on top of the first page section
Theme code editor now highlights files with local changes
Buttons in themed sites can now link to videos, and those videos will open in a lightbox and start playing right away, when the button is clicked.
Changed wording from 'grant' credit to 'isssue' credit. I feel like that works better whether they paid for them or not.
Issue/consume partial credits from triggers/automations. Also, don't show the decimal points when not needed.
You can now purchase using a saved payment method
Respond more quickly to quantity change on the order form so customers get a more responsive experience
You can now access site's pages without /pages in url
Added triggers on course lesson completed
There's now a great way to include your own custom JS and CSS in your sites, while keeping everything fast. Customize your theme and you'll find the section for Assets. Here you can name asset files to include on your site.
Ability to backdate when a credit was consumed
Strip spaces and invisible non-breaking spaces from links in emails
Subnavigation between page sections inside the current page
Use the landing page's actual URL in link rel=canonical tag on landing pages
Set site home page to blog, forum, or product catalog page
In site mentions, search anywhere in first/last name, and also return 30 results, to make it easier to find the member you want when you have a lot of them
Use max size image for social media sharing
Add filters for phone number custom fields, as well as any other field with simple string values
Donation on checkout screen would update erratically, not be included in the order summary, and wouldn't automatically change when you changed to another price with a different donation minimum
There's now a setting on site pages that lets you make the header transparent. It'll automatically go non-transparent with a white background when you scroll down the page.
Link directly to Custom CSS and Edit code for themed pages
Added support for SVG files as media files. They're great because they are very small, and they're infinitely scalable, rendering perfectly regardless of resolution, and can easily change color or size with CSS.
Contact actions to grant/consume credits
You can now add column for credit balances to the Contacts view
Create credit while granting, grant to contact that doesn't have any credits currently.
Credits
Named units that you can grant, sell, consume, so you can sell it now to be consumed later. Eg. 10 sessions for $x, and those sessions can be consumed when needed. You create a product for it, you can have prices that require a minimum quantity purchase, you can even create subscriptions where credits are granted each month/week/etc. Credits can have an expiration so if they're not consumed within that time frame, they expire.
Contact notes: Edit and delete notes. Added a separate page for the notes to make it more manageable when you have lots of notes on a contact. Added title and kind to note, and allow you to select which admin to associate with the note.
Added the little Capitalize link so you can now capitalize headings in site sections and any other one-line text value
Fixed issue with rendering of the issue credit/refund dialog in the latest version of Chrome.
Added a filter on Contacts to show which contacts are considered active by Simplero
You can now say that a price is only available for eg. 3 days after someone subscribes to a list or purchases a product. In other words, true expiring prices and offers. Enjoy!
Notifications for comments on forum posts would not be sent if you had muted notifications from the blog on a site.
You can now choose what participants are called for a given product: Member, Customer, Guest, Student, etc.
Featured courses and similar sections would function perfectly but show up as 'Unuspported section type' in the page section overview.
Search results for course lessons now include the name of the course and module in a little breadcrumb trail to help people understand where the lesson fits
When resuming a paused flow, what we used to do was calculate how long it was paused for (say 10 days), and just add that to the current wait time. So if it was originally to continue on Sep 1st, it'd now resume on Sep 10th. If you're doing something on a specific schedule, though, eg. the 1st of each month, or each Monday, then that's not helpful, because now it's thrown off schedule. It's a bit complicated, but here's what we came up with:
- If you're waiting for a duration
- If there are no adjustments (time of day, weekday, day of month), we just extend wait time with how long it was paused for.
- Otherwise if the original time to continue has passed, recalculate the adjustments from now
- All other wait times, we recalculate from now, in case the field value has changed, or the birthday or subscription period has passed.
This is all a bit complicated, but I think this should do what people would expect in every case. If not, we'll have to adjust again until we get it right. -Calvin
Courses are now available for the main Site
Massive performance optimizations on course pages
Let other people 'steal your landing page' by providing them with a special link they can use to copy your exact landing page over to their own Simplero account
Support for conditional liquid tags in mailing footer from Product/List/Affiliate Program, etc.
You can now add custom CSS for each section on a page, right there in the editor. We will automatically scope the CSS to the section in qusetion, and we'll also preprocess the CSS with both Liquid and SCSS, so you can use super-advanced markup, access your theme assets, and much more.
Made a bunch of improvements to the theme editor. Cleaned up navigation between customize theme, edit custom CSS, and edit code. Show when folders are open/closed in code editor. Fixed that you couldn't upload assets twice in a row. Allow closing the folder with the current file. After deleting a file, focus the editor on a neighboring file. Added icons for different file types in theme code editor.
New action on Automation Flows table: Update continue at - makes it possible to set when a flow should continue with the next step
When something goes wrong while processing an automation, back off exponentially, so we don't try the same thing that didn't work over and over again