WHAT'S FRESH?
THESE ARE THE RECENT CHANGES TO SIMPLERO
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
New section for themed pages and landing pages: Text in 2 columns
Save edits in page editor and landing page editor to local draft, and offer to restore when you come back
Allow access to ALL Google web fonts from theme customization
You can now launch the image editor directly from the media files dialog, edit your images, and save them as a new media file, ready to use anywhere you can use media files in Simplero.
I broke duplicating steps in automations, and now I fixed it. While I was at it, I decided that duplicated a templated email step should duplicate the email as well, so now it does.
Improved how we process auto-responses internally to make it significantly more efficient
Product duplication: price "replaces price" and order form "hide the checkbox where we encourage..." are now correctly duplicating
Fixed that copying lots of subscribers from products or other lists would be super slow or even fail
From the badge where it says 'Renews xx date' or things like that, on the purchase card for the customer, link that to the manage payment page.
Show manage renewal on customer's purchase manage payment page, even when there are upcoming payments on a purchase.
Show link to manage payment on purchase on admin.
Commitment was always a bit confusing. If you said $99/month, with a 3 month commitment, you'd expect them to be able to cancel after the first 3 payments, but that's not how it worked. Well, now it is, folks! Once you've paid for that third month, you're free to cancel any time.
If the recipient going through an automation (eg. a product participant, or a list subscription) opted out of emails from that prodcut/list, then honor that when an automation is sending emails to them as well
Show the actual object in the automation on the flow page
Show timestamps in new purchase notification email in account time zone
Allow email notifying about new comments on tickets to be translated
Style URL fields (website, URL) the same as the other fields on embedded opt-in forms
Set Safari to drop its default styling for submit buttons on embedded opt-in forms
Twitter sharing link on themed landing pages now includes the official public URL, rather than the never-changing canonical URL which we use for most other sharing purposes
Duplicating a step was missing a couple wait-related parts
Allow creating pages that start with a number in the title