The Simplero Changelog: Here's what we've been up to...

Scheduling links can now let the person booking add extra guests. Turn it on per link under the link's settings ("Allow guests to be invited when booking"), and optionally cap how many guests they can add. When someone books, they'll see a "Guests" section where they can add each guest's name and email. Those guests are added straight to the calendar invite …

Head to the settings for your branded mobile app and you'll find the chat control 'Enable chat' toggle. Switch chat on and a new 'Lock chat to my account' option appears — turn that on and everyone using your app only sees, searches for, and messages your own members, so the chat feels like its own private community.

Automation "wait" steps can now be limited to the exact weekdays you want — for example every day except Tuesday, or only on weekends.

Open a wait step, turn on "Specify day of week", and check the days you want.

Handy shortcuts (Weekdays, Weekends, All, None) let you set them in one click, so you can keep automated emails from landing on your busy days.

You can now turn on live captions — real-time subtitles — for your Simplero Live streams, so viewers can follow along in a noisy room, with the kids nearby, or whenever reading is easier than listening. Captions appear at the bottom of the video, and each line shows who's speaking.

Enable them per stream in your event's (or scheduling link's) live-stream sett…

Setting a start and stop date for when a page builder section should show up — under a section's Advanced tab → Visibility period — works reliably again. The date fields could previously show "undefined NaN" while you were picking a date, and a period you'd already saved could show up as a raw number instead of a readable date.

Try it: open a page in the page builder, select a section, go to Advanced, and turn on Visibility period.

The Reading time column showed up fine on screen in your Email broadcasts table, but got left out when you exported the table to CSV or Excel. It's now included in the exported file too, right alongside your other columns.

Clicking a magic login link soon after it was sent — in a broadcast or an automation email — could bounce you through several redirect screens before landing where you wanted. That was two separate anti-bot checks tripping over each other. We removed the redundant one, so a real click now goes straight through.

The PATCH /api/v2/event_occurrences/{id} endpoint now accepts starts_at and ends_at for booking appointments (events with a scheduling link), so you can reschedule a booking straight from the API — no longer just its title and description.

A time change is treated as a real reschedule: the new slot is checked against the organizer's availability and existing bookings, and the request is rejected if the slot is taken.

Images or other files you embed in a course certificate's body content are now counted as "in use" by the Files & Assets scanner. That means they won't appear in the Unused tab, so you can safely clean up files without accidentally deleting one that's still shown on a certificate.

Open a course from Courses and head to Certificate settings to check your certificates.

If a customer turned on Split payment at checkout, then switched to a payment method that doesn't support it (like Bank transfer) and back to one that does (like Stripe), the split payment switch stayed on but the amount field disappeared — and the charge could quietly go through as a single full payment instead of the installments they'd set up. Switching p…

You can now read the full access roster for a course — or a site, space, podcast, coaching program, or bot tier — through the API. GET /api/v2/access_grants?resource_type=Course&resource_id={id} returns each customer with access, the purchase or subscription that granted it (if any), and when access starts or ends.

Great for course-archive migrations: pull …

GET /api/v2/forum_posts now returns a poster_name field alongside poster_id, matching the commenter_name that /api/v2/site_comments already returns. No more resolving the ID yourself to know who wrote a post.

Thanks for the idea on the Simplero Community!

On order forms using Use separate pages for billing information and payment (turned on automatically wherever you allow split payments), the checkout progress bar was out of sync with the page you were on: missing entirely on the first page, and showing three steps instead of two on the second. Both pages now show a matching, correctly-numbered progress bar. We also widened the payment method buttons so they fill the row instead of shrinking to fit.

Check your order form's checkout settings under Products -> open a product -> Order Form tab.

If a subscription product has an activation fee or a paid first period (for example, $50/month with a $20 signup fee), the Split payment option now shows up at checkout when you have Allow split payments turned on — even though the product is a subscription. Customers can spread that upfront charge across multiple payments, and the subscription then renews n…

On an affiliate's page, clicking the Unique clicks number for one of their links used to take you to all clicks for that link, not just the unique ones — so the number you saw and the list you landed on didn't match, and unique clicks could look artificially low next to opt-ins. That link now correctly filters to unique clicks, and we added a Total clicks co…

If your order form limits customers to a single payment processor (for example, Stripe only) under Limit to specific payment processors, the Split payment option wasn't showing up at checkout even with it turned on. It now appears correctly, so customers can split their total into installments just like they could before you limited processors.

Check your settings under Products → open a product → Order Form tab.

If your branded (white-label) mobile app is live, the app-download links in your customer emails — such as login and content-access emails and community notifications — now send people to your own app on the App Store and Google Play instead of the Simplero app. It happens automatically, so your customers get a fully branded experience.

When you create a landing page or site page, the newest Builder 2.0 templates now appear at the top of the template picker and carry a New badge so you can spot them quickly.

Try it: open Landing pages → Create new landing page, or create a page from a site.

Your page builder can now scan a page for common accessibility issues — low color contrast, missing image alt text, heading problems, and keyboard/focus risks in HTML sections.

Open any page in the page builder, use the ⋯ menu, and choose Check accessibility. Issues list in a sidebar with one-click fixes where safe: Apply suggested fix for style-guide contras…

When Simplero asks you for a quick name or value (for example creating a tag or renaming a style guide), the popup is simpler now: a single clear question, one field, and Cancel / Submit. No repeated title above the field.

You’ll see it the next time an action asks you to type a short value in admin.