The Simplero Changelog: Here's what we've been up to...
When a popup order form appears, it used to close if you clicked anywhere outside the form — including on the surrounding page. That meant an accidental click could wipe out anything you'd already typed. Now the popup only closes when you explicitly click the dismiss (X) button, so your entered information stays put until you choose to close it.
When you open a video or audio file, the "Usage" list now shows only the real places it's used — your lessons, pages, emails, and so on. We've stopped listing internal "Service job" entries from the encoding system, which were never real usages. This also keeps the "Unused files" filter accurate, so you can safely clean up files that truly aren't used anywhere.
The course content editor used to always show a 'Preview' column for setting how each lesson looks to people who don't have access yet. Since that only matters while you're building toward launch, we now hide it once a course is Published or Scheduled — so the editor is less cluttered for courses that are already live or about to go live. Change a course's status right from the header, and the table updates instantly. Draft and Dripped courses still show the column exactly as before.
While building a Draft or Dripped course, the 'Preview' column header in the course editor now has a little open-in-new-tab icon. Click it to instantly see your course the way someone without access sees it — no need to dig through the course menu. It opens in a new tab so you never lose your place in the editor.
Lessons set to be visible without access — now called Teaser in the lesson's access settings — show their title, description, and duration in the course lesson list. Visitors get a real sense of what's inside before buying, while the content itself stays locked.
When someone browses a course they don't have access to yet, it's now obvious which lessons they can watch right away: free preview lessons are highlighted with a pulsing play button on the thumbnail and a FREE label, while locked lessons are dimmed with a padlock.
You can now filter your chat conversations to show only the ones with unread messages. Look for the envelope icon next to the search bar — click it to toggle the filter on and off. Great for when new messages get buried under automated messages or busy group chats.
Individual scheduling links now display the link type and the team member's name at the top, so you always know who the link belongs to.
The time zone used for availability times is also shown next to the recurring schedule, with a quick link to edit it if needed.
Your contact form can now ask visitors for their phone number. Turn it on with the new Include phone field switch in the contact form's settings — in the page builder or in the contact form section of your site theme.
When it's on, visitors get an extra phone field. The number they enter shows up in the notification email you receive and is saved to the cont…
When Disable chat is turned on for your branded mobile app, members no longer receive push notifications for new chat messages and reactions. Previously those notifications still went out and opened a Chat tab that was no longer there — now switching chat off turns it off completely.
Reacting to a message in a Simplero Live event's chat used to ping the message's author by email, push, and in-app — even though the chat itself is self-contained and sends no notifications. Now reactions stay in the live call too, so no one gets a spurious notification when someone reacts during or after the event.
Uploading a video with more than one audio track — common with dual-microphone or screen-plus-mic recordings — could fail during processing, leaving the video unplayable. These videos now encode all the way through, with the audio tracks mixed together and loudness-normalized so playback sounds right. If you have a video that failed to process before, just upload it again.
Videos encoded from recordings with multiple microphone tracks could play back with just one of the raw mic tracks instead of the combined, volume-balanced audio — in some players that meant the speaker was barely audible or missing entirely. Encoded videos now contain exactly one audio track: all microphones mixed together and loudness-normalized. This also makes video files a bit smaller. If one of your videos plays back with wrong or missing audio, re-encode it from the video's page in your admin area and it will come out right.
Sending a chat message with a file or resource attached could crash instead of sending — the message wouldn't go through and you'd see an error. Attachments now send normally in every chat.
If you've set up facets on your events, the facet filter dropdown now appears when viewing your events page in calendar mode — not just list mode. Events in the calendar also show their time alongside the title, so you can tell at a glance when things are happening.
When a non-logged-in visitor clicked "Read full text" on an acceptance checkbox during event registration, the full text appeared behind the registration popup. It now opens in its own dialog on top, so the text is always readable and comfortable on any screen size.
When an automation step fails, you can now see it right away. A new Failing column on the automations list shows how many flows have errors, and a red badge appears on the automation page itself. Click through to see exactly which contacts are stuck and on which step — no more guessing why contacts seem to disappear from your automations.
During a Simplero Live event, the chat button now shows a little red dot whenever new messages arrive while the chat panel is closed — so you can tell something's being said without keeping the chat open the whole time. Open the chat and the dot clears.
If you set up a scheduling link to redirect visitors to a specific page when they hit the per-contact booking limit, the redirect now works as expected. Previously, visitors would see a 404 error instead of being redirected.
Opening a funnel that contained an order-form step whose product had since been deleted used to show an error page. Now that step simply shows as “(Deleted)” and the rest of the funnel loads normally, so you can fix or remove it.
