Platform Updates
July, 2023
- White Label - New option to export projects from the management panel
- White Label - New option to export users from the management panel
- New option to restore websites or funnels deleted by mistake
- Platform API - New endpoint for activating projects for a specific initial period (ex: 3-month promotion, then continue on monthly/yearly plan)
- Appointments - New option for sending meeting reminders to clients
- E-Commerce - It's now possible to search orders by invoice number
- E-Commerce - Additional questions/answers for ordered products will appear in a more user-friendly way from now on
- Funnel/store analytics - New predefined period available - "last month"
- Ukrainian language is now available on client websites
- Email Marketing:
- Website personalization tags will now work in emails
- New option to define default reply-to email address for all email marketing emails
- New option to define a reply-to email address for automation emails
- New option to hide the logo in the footer email blocks
- Social media icons in emails will not display if no links are set (previously a dummy social media button was shown)
- Brand details are now reset when a website is cloned/created from a template
- Notable fixes:
- Email builder - text color discrepancies in emails
- Email builder - image width discrepancies in emails
- Email marketing - issues with the delay step in automations when editing in Safari browsers
- Email marketing - issues with automations not working when coming from the website/funnel template
- Quiz widget - issue where changes were not always persisted properly
- E-Commerce - multiple cart layout discrepancies
- Funnel Analytics - the period picker was misbehaving when changing between funnels on the same website
- Search widget not always showing all store products
- Multiple stability, security, and performance updates
- Updates to i18n and translations
Premium templates
Introducing the ability to restrict templates to specific plans
June & May, 2023
- Improvements to the phone fields on checkouts
- New option allowing for embedding the login/registration pages in an iframe (disabled by default)
- Changes to the email marketing reputation thresholds
- Email Marketing Automations - new automations created from a template will use the default sender details and will not require customers to manually change the sender details in all automation steps.
- White Label management panel - Templates - showing the available system templates by default.
- Orders API - order notes are now part of the order details retrieved through the Orders API / webhooks
- Hidden store products will now have a noindex tag, excluding them from search engine indexing
- Improvements to the website analytics
- Notable fixes:
- robots.txt file incorrectly excluding some filtering pages from indexing
- Uploading an image in the brand-details popup occasionally restarted the progress when creating new websites.
- E-Commerce - Order weight was not always calculated properly
- E-Commerce API - Updating order details via the API was resetting the order create date
- Email Marketing Templates - adding tags ({first_name}, {last_name}, etc) was not working for email templates
- Restricting the AI assistant to specific pricing plans was not working on rare occasions
- Selecting images in the email builder was returning an error if the user has limited permissions
- Editing Email Templates was returning an error if the user has limited permissions
- Cloning system templates required a page reload to see the latest changes
- RTL text direction was not working properly on some forms shown in a popup
- Multiple stability, security, and performance updates
- Updates to i18n and translations
April, 2023
AI Text Assistant
Introducing our OpenAI-powered AI Text Assistant.
- Website templates are no longer indexed by search engines.
- Email Marketing - performance improvements when sending email campaigns to very large lists
- Improvements to the UX of the management panel on mobile devices
- Fixed rare issues with the marketing campaigns changing status from "sent" to "draft".
- Fixed issues with the Mollie payment gateway not redirecting customers to the next page when used in a sales funnel
- Many stability, security, and performance updates under the hood
- White Label - Greek language is now available as a default language for new users.
- Updates to i18n and translations
March, 2023
- The system Double Opt-In confirmation page is now editable
- Performance improvements in uploading files and images to websites
- Various improvements to the White Label management panel
- Improved hints and tooltips
- Fixed issues with payments via Afterpay made through the Stripe integration
- Fixed an issue where some products couldn't be deleted if the products view was filtered
- Multiple stability, security, and performance updates under the hood
- Updates to i18n and translations
February, 2023
- Updates to the Stripe payment integration
- Improvements of the Builder Subscription widget
- Improvements in the system invoices
- SEO improvements
- Updates to the Mollie payment integration
- Updates to the Barclaycard payment integration
- Removed the default image in the Image widget
- Notable fixes:
- Stripe payments made through a builder subscription widget don't show in the 'Transactions' section in Management Panel -> Fees & Transactions
- PayFast Error occurring for some merchants
- Issue with redirecting from the builder subscription widget in funnels when a payment via Stripe is completed
- Discrepancies in calculating commissions in the affiliate module.
- Builder subscription widget not adding contacts to the correct member group
- Selling products as upsells in funnels was possible even if there was no available inventory for the product
- Rare issues with the subscription widget not triggering automations
- Low inventory notifications are wrongly sent for products that do not track inventory
- Automations were not always starting for orders paid via Stripe
- Automations not always starting after double-opt-in confirmation
- RTL discrepancies in the switch-website popup
- Styling issues
- Various other stability, security, and performance updates
- Updates to i18n and translations
January, 2023
- E-Commerce - Introduced the ability to mark customer carts as abandoned
- Email Marketing - Introduced new Abandoned Cart trigger for following up with customers who abandoned their carts
- Stripe - various improvements to our Stripe integration, including a more secure connection and the ability to use all of the 25+ supported payment methods in Stripe (like Apple Pay / Google Pay / SEPA direct debit / Klarna / Afterpay (Clearpay) and others
- Various performance updates and minor bugfixes under the hood
- Upgraded FontAwesome to v6
- E-Commerce - Payments via the Mollie payment processor will use the Orders API from now on, allowing for more payment methods
- Fixed an issue where importing store products was only allowed for project owners and no other admins with access to the Store
- Various stability and performance updates under the hood
- Updates to i18n and translations
December, 2022
- Platform API - added the ability to define the website subdomain when creating a new website
- Platform API - introduced a new endpoint for retrieving user account details by email
- Affiliate - the minimum lifetime of the affiliate-tracking cookies is now 7 days (down from 30 days previously)
- Fixed styling issues with the cart and quick-view product popup
- Store Catalog - fixed an issue with the search field not working on rare occasions
- Email Marketing - clicking a link in an email will also mark the email as opened to mitigate discrepancies caused by clients blocking the tracking pixels in emails
- Accordion widget - fixed a discrepancy where tabs were sometimes limited in their height
- Accordion widget - fixed an issue with the global background color not applying to the tab body
- Updates to i18n and translations
November, 2022
- Platform API - introduced a new endpoint for deleting user accounts.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes store orders were not properly displayed when checking contact orders from the contact profile page
- Email Marketing - automations with no trigger rules can now be made active. Useful if the automation should be called from another automation.
- Email Marketing - fixed an issue where when a contact property is changed from an automation, other automations triggered by this property were not started for the contact
- Email Marketing - fixed an issue where adding / removing tags in an automation didn't start other automations with the tag as a trigger
- Email Marketing - fixed an issue where adding / removing marketing lists in an automation didn't start other automations with the list as a trigger
- White Label - Displaying dates in the Users / Projects / Websites view in the management panel will use the time format set in the main (www) website and will not be fixed to dd/mm/yyyy UTC.
- Security and performance improvements
- E-Commerce - introduced an Order Update endpoint to the Website API
- E-Commerce - introduced an option to notify store owners if a product inventory falls below a given threshold
- E-Commerce - orders can be archived in bulk from the orders view now
- E-Commerce - improvements to the PayU Latam payment method
- Fixed an issue that was preventing updates to inventory tracking for products with variations
- Fixed a rare issue where renewing store subscriptions was not sending the renewal notification
- Email Marketing - fixed a rare issue where the page confirming a customer unsubscribed from a list was showing an error
- Fixed a rare issue where bandwidth notifications were not sent when the used bandwidth reaches 80%, 90%, or 100% of the project bandwidth limit
- White Label - introduced new platform webhook for bandwidth notifications, triggered when a project reaches 80%, 90%, or 100% of a project's bandwidth limit
- Improved 3D Secure transaction handling when Braintree is used as a payment processor
- Improved the error messages on some of the website / platform APIs
- Estonian language is now available as a website language
- Updates to i18n and translations
October, 2022
- Fixed an issue with the tracking of inventory for products when quantity is tracked per product variation
- Fixed an issue with the themes widget not filtering templates in some cases
- Platform API - introduced new endpoint for creating user accounts.
- Platform API - introduced new endpoint for retrieving user account details
- Website API - introduced new endpoint for searching for registered website members by their email
- White Label - Enhanced the option for proxying google fonts through fonts.bunny.net to also proxy the fonts in the builder area, not on client sites only.
- White Label - Fixed a discrepancy with overlapping elements when editing email templates
- Simvoly Affiliate - commission is now automatically tracked and rewarded for referring White Label partners
- Product Import - fixed various issues were errors were not reported for some improperly formatted files
- Admin area is now available in Turkish
- Admin area - fixed multiple UI discrepancies where some elements where improperly overlapping
- White Label - Added an option to proxy google fonts through fonts.bunny.net. This option is set per-WL account and might help with GDPR compliance
- Automations - fixed issue where sometimes the number of available automations was reported wrong
- Automations - improved automation search by name
- White Label - using custom billing page will include customer / project details as URL parameters to the embedded billing page
- Blog comments - comment time is now formatted according to the website time format set in the website settings
- Improved anti-spam filtering in forms and checkouts
- ECommerce - fixed issues with tracking UTM parameters in orders
- Funnel Analytics - fixed issues with tracking UTM parameters
- Hong Kong Dollars (HKD) will be displayed as HK$ instead of $ by default
- ECommerce - fixed an issue where the option for tracking inventory of products couldn't be turned off
- Funnels - Fixed an issue where duplicating a checkout step with upsells moved the upsells under the new step
- Canary Islands is no longer treated as part of Spain's VAT rules
- Updates to i18n and translations
September, 2022
- Better RTL support in the admin area of the platform when RTL language is selected
- Blog categories are no longer excluded from indexing
- Email Marketing - fixed issue where sometimes the number of unsubscribed contacts was reported wrong
- Email Marketing - clearing small discrepancies in rendering emails in different email clients
- White Label - all emails to white label partners are sent from their system email from now on, instead of a @simvoly.com email address
- Fixed issue with automations showing error when the flow exceeds 100 steps
- Email Marketing - fixed issue where duplicated campaign sometimes showed as scheduled, instead of drafts
- Various system stability and performance improvements
- Email marketing - added the ability to unsubscribe contacts in bulk
- Built-in page analytics are now served through their own script allowing for cookie-blocking tools to safely block it without breaking core functionalities
- Product Import - Fixed issue where only one image was imported for products having multiple images in the import file
- Checkout - fixed issue where a customer could buy only the bump offer if there were multiple pre-selected items in the checkout.
- Email marketing - Brand details are now included in the footer of the system double opt-in email
- Fixed addon renewal discrepancy where an addon renewal could've been charged more than once on rare occasions
- Minor Mobile Editing improvements
- Updated translations
- Email marketing - brand details included in emails are set on an account, not per email anymore.
- Checkout - fixed tagging issue causing improper tagging of customers if multiple preselected products were being bought
- Updates to i18n and translations
Earlier updates
49 New E-Commerce Templates
We've introduced 11 website and 38 funnel templates for e-commerce.
Big Store Update
1. Tracking
- Tracking UTM parameters for orders - where the order came from
- Tracking UTM parameters for contacts - where the contact came from
2. Improved Store Dashboard experience
3. Statistics
- Sales overview - showing summary of sales, with filtering by period or property, grouped by day/month/year
- Sales overview - ability to create UTM tracking links
- Subscriptions overview - showing summary of subscriptions, with filtering by period or property, grouped by day/month/year
- Upsells/Downsells/Bumps overview - showing summary of upsells, downsells, bumps, with filtering by period or property, grouped by day/month/year
- Top performers - showing summary of top performing products, users, or traffic sources (utm source, campaign, medium, content, term)
- UTM Tracking Link Generator - the ability to build sales tracking links
- New Subscriptions section to view and manage all subscriptions in your store as well as statistics such as churn and subscription products.
4. Products & Orders
- Improved orders view experience
- Orders can be filtered now by any contact / order property, UTM parameter, period, funnel, etc
- Orders can be archived
- Order export can be filtered by any contact / order property, UTM parameter, period, funnel, etc
- Orders can be edited - order items can be modified, removed, new items can be added. Order properties / customer details can be changed
- Manual fulfillment - orders can be manually fulfilled, customers can be sent a tracking number for their order
- Improved Products experience
- Improved Product Categories experience
- Product Categories can be sorted now
- Improved Store Product editing experience - product description can be simple text now, instead of a Drag & Drop area
- Store Products can add tags to customers that purchase them
- Improved Layout & Styling experience
- Product Import - you can now import products from a CSV file
5. Funnels
- Improved Funnel Steps experience
- Stats can be filtered by custom periods
- Improved Visitor stats
- Improved Sales stats - adding sales overview, subscriptions, upsells / downsells
- Improved the funnel orders view - clicking an order shows it in a popup now
- Improved the product view
- New Top Performers stats listing top customers / top sources
- Added floating cart option when you have 'add to cart' functionality in funnels
6. Widgets
- Checkout Widget - improved layout and styling options, introduced 3-step checkouts, multi-select for products.
- Store Widget - improved layout and styling options
- System Pages/Store Catalog - improved layout and styling options
- Scarcity - store widgets can show how many items are left in stock (Only 3 left in stock!)
7. Discounts
- You can now set a usage limit to each discount code
8. Others
- Added new design for Quick Cart view in full height