We've added a Badges feature for Rule the World plan subscribers. Badges lets you recognise site members for outstanding forum contributions, keeping them engaged and motivating them to be more active. Configure this feature on the Engagement tab under Membership Sites.

Show custom fields as selectable columns in Sales > Financials table

Change 'What's the problem?' in support widget to 'How can we help?' ... sounds more helpful, less problem focused.

Added Created At and Updated At columns to Lists table

Use Site internal name consistently in admin UI

The long awaited ability to have a list sign up form with text above it and an image to the right or left of it is here. Use the page editor to add an image to your form, change its position, vertical alignment and size.

We now add List-Unsubscribe headers to broadcast emails. (Oh, what's that?) This makes it easier for subscribers to unsubscribe if they choose and so improves email deliverability. We only support unsubscribe via http (and not mailto) so far.

We've working on cookie consent as required by regulations such as the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive. We've implemented an option to show a banner notifying users of the cookies we set. We're still working on this (including an option to not set cookies until the user accepts), so this first needs to be enabled under Account Settings, Test Track.

If you use the cold contacts feature and made newsletters, the newsletter schedule was getting a new Exclude section every time you added a newsletter. We've fixed that.

We've refreshed the interface a bit with changes mostly to the header. The one thing that's moved is Settings, which is now the gear icon in the top right that gives you direct access to all the settings pages.

Fixed oddly aligned checklists on mobile.

Add participant information in Sales > Financials

Using standard interpolations like {{ firstname }}, {{ email }}, etc on your product's custom thank you page URL is now possible!

Ireland reduced its VAT rate from 23% to 21% from September 1 2020 until March 1 2021. If you were using the reduced rate of 21% (which was our default), we've updated you to regular rate.

Membership levels will now stop offerings prices that were replaced by other prices as upgrade/downgrade options.

Filter bounced email deliveries by the error message we received.

Blog post will now respect the setting for whether notifications will include the full text of the post.

CAPTCHA's can now be completely disabled from the list settings

Corrected the names of the parishes of Bermuda.

If a subscription is bought as a gift to be delivered in the future, the subscription will now renew based on when the gift was delivered.

When processing purchases with PayPal, we now split out taxes from the full amount. This will make the total PayPal displays clearer to the purchaser and help with your accounting.

Duplicating a product now intelligently duplicates the contents of the 'Upselling' tab, too.

Columns about the first participant are now available to add to the Product > Purchases table.

Downloading CSV or Excel files with address custom fields? Now the address is split into its component parts instead of the whole thing being dumped in one column.

We now give a clearer message in the charge failure email if a subscription payment fails due to 3-D Secure Authentication.

On a subscription change between membership levels, if Stripe requires 3-D Secure Authentication from the purchaser, we will now properly prompt them to provide it.

When a purchaser re-enters their payment info after a subscription payment failure, the overdue payment will now work even if the credit card never allows future charges (e.g. due to 3-D Secure Authentication rules).

On an upsell, if Stripe requires 3-D Secure Authentication from the purchaser, we will now properly prompt them to provide it.

Closed products are no longer offered as upgrade/downgrade options in membership level groups.

Events supports Zoom Meetings! 🎉

Now you can see all your scheduled zoom meetings, track attendance, add triggers & more, even if you don't have a Zoom Webinars account. Check it out under Content > Events. If you've already connected your Zoom account, click 'Sync events from Zoom', authorize us again, and we'll handle the rest.

You can now add labels on events and delete basic events.

You can now use Liquid template filters in <a href> and <img src> in your emails.

We've eliminated a potential cause of 'lost steps' when editing an automation.

We've made our 'prevent downloads' logic smarter when a user has access to a site through multiple purchases.

We've set the default German VAT rate back to 19% (after being reduced to 16% in 2020). If you have sales in Germany, make sure you review your tax settings.

Create basic events in Simplero

Basic events have a title, description, image, URL, start & end time.
You can share links to these events to any of your customers by using the link builder (for ex. while writing a broadcast, click the link icon, scroll down, select Upcoming events & then select your event). Your customers can visit this link to add your events to their calendars! To create a basic event, just visit the newly launched Events page under Content > Events and click 'Create a basic event'.
P.S: As the name implies, they really are basic events right now ;) You won't be able to add triggers on them or view participants for these events just yet.

The play button on animated frames for videos is no longer pulse-y. This fix is only for new frames creating going forward.

Forum categories will now show an indicator when there are new posts.

You can now mark forum categories as archived. An archived forum category won't get new posts and won't appear in your forum, but any posts already in the category are still searchable and directly accessible.

Zoom Webinar integration is here

Now you can manage your Zoom Webinars, track attendance, add triggers for registration and attendance, and more. Check it out under Content > Events.
P.S: For now, you need a Zoom account that supports webinars. Support for scheduled meetings is coming soon. And this is still brand new, so let us know if you run into anything confusing.

Create your own Done-for-you Templates

Just about anything you've made in Simplero you can package together as a done-for-you template to share (or just for your own convenience). It's still experimental but too useful to keep to ourselves. Here's a 3 minute video introduction

What's that down there? ↘️

It's a brand new support interface. Check it out!

Private groups on membership sites

Create a private community for each course cohort, a premium membership level, or any other subset of your site members. Each group has its own forum and member directory, accessible only to group members.

Improve your email deliverability with our new Cold Contacts Tracking feature.

We've upgraded our media uploader to support files larger than 5GB and to be more resilient to interruptions.

Conditions now show up in a more rich format, linking to the relevant objects like tags and products, etc.

You can now change the publish status of your published course lessons right from the course admin page

It used to be that you could only change the publish status from the course admin page if the lesson was not published - an inconvenience that is now fixed!

When viewing an email broadcast's summary, you can now see any conditions you applied to who will receive the email.

Show reading time for blog posts. Also included new words_count and reading_time_minutes and reading_time_seconds filters that you can use in your own Liquid code.

With Brexit, our validation of UK VAT numbers stopped working. We've fixed it.