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THESE ARE THE RECENT CHANGES TO SIMPLERO
Cleaned up your customers' 'Your Account' area
'Your Account' is the area where your customers can go find all their stuff. Their purchases, membership sites, affiliate accounts, profile, etc. We do want to do a deeper redesign of this, but for now, I cleaned up how we display the links and the menu to make it a bit more clear. -CC
New page section: Text inside a scrollbar
This will allow you to write text constrained to a maximum height - if the text grows longer than your specified height, it will automatically get a scrollbar and remain at that height.
We've updated the list of countries on the order form and are now displaying country names in the same language as the rest of the form.
When you're done writing a newsletter and you're ready to queue it, we'll now show when the newsletter will go out right there next to the button.
Cleaned up the columns we show for purchases for an affiliate program. They don't all make sense in this context, and it was getting crowded.
Added new triggers for when a known contact visits the order form when sales are closed, or the product has been sold out.
We now process delivery events much faster, so you should never be wondering for hours (or even minutes) if your broadcast really got delivered.
Streamlined a few things about the media dialog and the WYSIWYG editor as it relates to the media dialog
Site members can now edit and delete their own forum posts and comments.
You can now add triggers that run exclusively on clicking an expired/unexpired link!
We've added a built-in tab that lets you review the emails you sent that bounced. See it on the Recipients page of your sent broadcasts and automation emails.
Acceptance fields are now properly displayed on embedded landing pages - with their label & content.
When choosing when product is available for sale, also show any prices with time restrictions, to avoid annoying snafus.
Cleaned up the Broadcast report page. The right sidebar was pretty messy. Now it's a lot neater. Look for more links in the '...' menu on the top-right.
On an affiliate program, moved the Payouts tab up before the separator for consistency.
Tags now have an owner and a description, and a page where you can more easily manage and edit triggers.
Show purchases for an affiliate program
You can now include commission percent in mailings. Note, though, that it only works when the recipient is an Affiliate. Otherwise it'll just give you an empty string.
The URL of a landing page would be based on the internal name you gave the page, rather than the publicly visible title of the page
Added four new filters on Subscriptions table: First name, last name, email, and Do Not Contact
Ticket reassignments without comments will now be recorded as an internal note instead of a blank comment.
We now show Related Contacts at the bottom of the sidebar for a Contact. This will show any contact with the same email (can happen when people register twice with different emails, then change their email on one to be the same as the other), or contacts that have the same name
Fixed that it was impossible to search for unstarred lists/products/etc. by name
The sales by price pie chart was showing revenue numbers x 100.
Change in behavior for prices that only apply to certain contacts: It used to be that if we knew who the contact was from eg. a login, or from them coming from cilcking a link in an email from Simplero, then that would be the only thing we looked at. I've now changed it so that if they enter a different email address on the checkout form, then we'll also attempt to look them up by that email address, and if that Contact qualifies for the price, that's good enough. I don't foresee any problems with this, I think it's how it should have behaved from the start, but do let us know if we're mistaken. -Calvin
If you're using the QuickPay payment processor, you now have a separate setting for whether to accept Maestro (Mastercard's debit card) and Visa Debit. If you accepted credit cards from those companies, we've defaulted you to also accept debit cards, so no change is needed if you were cool with your settings before.
You can now view/filter by the timezone of your contacts right on the contacts table.
Improved the affiliate messaging and affiliate dashboard for when an affiliate is not yet approved. The email notification will now take them straight to the message, and we'll show a badge with unread message count. We'll also track when the message was read.
The search at the top of this page should be faster now, especially if you have lots of contacts.
We've updated the logos we use for credit cards and other payment methods.
Some email providers automatically check links in emails they receive. In some cases, this was triggering one-click actions contained in emails. We've added some checks to prevent these bots from triggering one-click actions.
Duplicating a broadcast with many recipients could be very slow. Now it's very fast.
If you have a lot of contacts, your contacts table is now much, much faster.
It’s now easier than ever to manage your on-page SEO
- We’ve added an SEO view on the Pages and Landing Pages tables so you can view and edit your meta title, description and images in one place.
- Each image remembers its last used ALT text for convenience the next time you use it.
- You can access the sitemap.xml of your public sites via the “View sitemap” button on the Pages tab.
Show time zone on member profile, open links in new window
Twitter name in member profile could include double @ sign, which would make it wrong and the link not work
When you edit a link in a broadcast email after sending, the list of links will show that it was edited, and you can click to see what it was originally.
Editing email links sometimes made copies, didn't change the web view of a sent email, and made it look like they weren't working at all. (Edits did actually work for sent emails, but it sure was confusing.) Fixed now. Thanks to Calvin for sending out an email about this feature and getting a whole lot more people to experiment with it.
Messaging with affiliates
An admin can now start a messaging conversation with an affiliate right from within Simplero. Just go to the page for an affiliate, and you'll see a box that says 'Start a conversation with (name)'. This is super useful for communicating about the approval process, as well as any other ongoing conversation around the affiliate relationship.
The Simplero-handled reply to your broadcasts will now show as coming from the person who replied. The reason we didn't was to avoid their name being associated with our 'noreply' email address, but this is how Facebook Messenger handles their notifications, so I guess if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us. It's definitely a lot less confusing.
Show animated frames for your media files in the library. And you can grab a new animated frame at the same time. Also fixed an issue where the second frame grab would silently fail if there was already a frame grab in progress. Now you can run multiple concurrently. -Calvin
Automations started to look a little funky, so we've put in some fixes to how they look.
The search bar above will now return more Menu Item results, making it easier than ever to find your way around Simplero.
Disabled triggers now show with an icon, not the text '(Disabled)'.
The table that shows list subscribers by affiliate was not showing the same numbers as the view they linked to. Also, the graphs were broken. Fixed that. Thanks, LeAnn! -Calvin
Resend broadcast to clicks
You can now easily resend a Broadcast to everybody who clicked a link. This is super useful if you accidentally sent out the wrong link, and you already fixed it in the original broadcast. This way you can send a reminder only to the folks who clicked the bad link, and not everyone. Calvin/Owais
We made a huge upgrade to the mobile phone input on your landing page forms, but we accidentally lost the ability to customize the placeholder. Fixed now.
Cleaned up the subscription confirmation pages.
Include newsletter name in subject line of reminder emails so it's easier to distinguish between different newsletters when you do more than one.
Affiliate program's 'Payouts' view is now more powerful with the ability to search, sort and filter payouts!