WHAT'S FRESH? 

THESE ARE THE RECENT CHANGES TO SIMPLERO

Feature
Nov 4, 2018

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.

Fix
Nov 2, 2018

Fixed a bug with automations where a condition on a wait step would not always be honored

Improvement
Nov 1, 2018

You can now include autogenerated password in interpolation for affiliate program emails

Improvement
Oct 29, 2018

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.

Feature
Oct 27, 2018

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.

Feature
Oct 25, 2018

You can now designate a page of your choosing as the 404 not found page for your site

Feature
Oct 24, 2018

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

Improvement
Oct 23, 2018

Theme code editor now highlights files with local changes

Feature
Oct 23, 2018

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.

Improvement
Oct 22, 2018

Changed wording from 'grant' credit to 'isssue' credit. I feel like that works better whether they paid for them or not.

Improvement
Oct 22, 2018

Issue/consume partial credits from triggers/automations. Also, don't show the decimal points when not needed.

Feature
Oct 22, 2018

You can now purchase using a saved payment method

Improvement
Oct 20, 2018

Respond more quickly to quantity change on the order form so customers get a more responsive experience

Improvement
Oct 12, 2018

You can now access site's pages without /pages in url

Improvement
Oct 11, 2018

Added triggers on course lesson completed

Feature
Oct 11, 2018

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.

Improvement
Oct 9, 2018

Ability to backdate when a credit was consumed

Improvement
Oct 8, 2018

Strip spaces and invisible non-breaking spaces from links in emails

Feature
Oct 7, 2018

Subnavigation between page sections inside the current page

Fix
Oct 3, 2018

Use the landing page's actual URL in link rel=canonical tag on landing pages

Feature
Oct 3, 2018

Set site home page to blog, forum, or product catalog page

Improvement
Oct 3, 2018

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

Improvement
Oct 3, 2018

Use max size image for social media sharing

Feature
Oct 3, 2018

Add filters for phone number custom fields, as well as any other field with simple string values

Fix
Oct 3, 2018

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

Feature
Oct 2, 2018

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.

Improvement
Oct 2, 2018

Link directly to Custom CSS and Edit code for themed pages

Feature
Oct 2, 2018

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.

Feature
Oct 2, 2018

Contact actions to grant/consume credits

Improvement
Oct 1, 2018

You can now add column for credit balances to the Contacts view

Fix
Oct 1, 2018

Create credit while granting, grant to contact that doesn't have any credits currently.

Feature
Oct 1, 2018

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.

Feature
Sep 30, 2018

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.

Improvement
Sep 28, 2018

Added the little Capitalize link so you can now capitalize headings in site sections and any other one-line text value

Fix
Sep 24, 2018

Fixed issue with rendering of the issue credit/refund dialog in the latest version of Chrome.

Improvement
Sep 24, 2018

Added a filter on Contacts to show which contacts are considered active by Simplero

Feature
Sep 21, 2018

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!

Fix
Sep 20, 2018

Notifications for comments on forum posts would not be sent if you had muted notifications from the blog on a site.

Feature
Sep 20, 2018

You can now choose what participants are called for a given product: Member, Customer, Guest, Student, etc.

Fix
Sep 18, 2018

Featured courses and similar sections would function perfectly but show up as 'Unuspported section type' in the page section overview.

Improvement
Sep 16, 2018

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

Improvement
Sep 15, 2018

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

Feature
Sep 13, 2018

Courses are now available for the main Site

Optimization
Sep 7, 2018

Massive performance optimizations on course pages

Feature
Sep 3, 2018

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

Improvement
Sep 2, 2018

Support for conditional liquid tags in mailing footer from Product/List/Affiliate Program, etc.

Feature
Sep 2, 2018

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.

Improvement
Sep 2, 2018

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.

Improvement
Sep 1, 2018

New action on Automation Flows table: Update continue at - makes it possible to set when a flow should continue with the next step

Optimization
Aug 30, 2018

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