Welcome to EmailElement's release notes, where you can see the full details of all features, bug fixes, and enhancements for every update.
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FEATURES
- Triggered Sequences: Data Sync Action
- There's a new Action type for Triggered Sequences called Data Sync.
- Data Sync has 2 Connector to choose from: Generic and EmailElement
- EmailElement connectors allow you to set an API call to add a contact to a contact list, including contact lists from a different account.
- Generic connectors allow you to define an API endpoint, HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE), Custom Headers, and Request Body to make an API call.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Forms Preview: Pop-up Forms that have a delay on them will show with the delay for the preview, along with a message indicating that there is delay.
- Bug Fixes:
- Sender Domains: Fixed issue where some AWS domains were not validating properly.
FEATURES
- Triggered Sequences: Action Counts
- Action nodes in Triggered Sequences now have a badge with a number indicating how many times that action node was triggered/executed.
- These counts can show for up to 60 days ago, which you can choose the date range in the Triggered Sequence Page.
- Transactional API: New TrackID Parameters
- There are new parameters available for Transactional API Emails: trackId1, trackId2, trackId3, trackId4, and trackId5.
- These parameters and their values will also appear in the responses that come in for your EmailElement Webhook.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Contact API: Contacts that are added via Contact API will now include additional metadata: Signup Date, Signup IP, and Signup Type.
- Scheduled Email: “Assign Email Domain Groups” and “Assign Weights” options will now only be available if there is at least 2 Send Integrations added to the Scheduled Email to reduce confusion from these features.
- Suppression API: General performance improvements to making simultaneous Suppression API download requests.
FEATURES
- Delete Single Contact From A Contact List
- There's a new button for Contact Lists that allows you to remove a single specific contact from the list.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Bot Detection/Handling: General improvement in filtering out bot clicks/opens from the Engagement Report, and added new Bot Click/Open columns to Advanced Report to track them separately from normal click/open events.
FEATURES
- Jump Pages: Buttons for HTML Fields
- There are new buttons for easy adding of HTML fields in the Jump Pages editor.
- You can also add Submit, Close, and Link buttons.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Jump Pages: Made improvements for collecting contact data from contacts that fill out fields on a Jump Page attached to a Triggered Sequence or Transactional Email.
- Triggered Sequences: Added an “Active” toggle on the Triggered Sequence edit page that you can use to activate/deactivate a Triggered Sequence.
- Suppression Check: Made performance improvements for checking suppression count (on Contact Lists and Segments grids) so that it runs faster and auto updates on the UI without the need to refresh.
- Scheduled Email: Minor UI improvements on the Schedule grid to indicate whether a Scheduled Email has Recurring/Warm-up settings configured for it.
- Bug Fixes:
- Segments: Fixed issue where the User Actions filter would show “OR” when it wasn't applicable.
FEATURES
- New Platform Integration: RedTrack
- Added support for new Platform Integration: RedTrack.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Delivery Events: Added “Send Integration” column and renamed the “Scheduled Email” column to “Source”, which will display whether the event came from a Scheduled Email, Triggered Sequence, or Transactional Email.
- Bug Fixes:
- Reports: Fixed issue where data from a Send Integration group would be separated by all individual Gmail accounts from the group.
FEATURES
- Forms: Bot Protection
- We've added some bot detection to forms to reduce chances of receiving bad data from bots.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Forms: Pop-up forms, upon completion/dismissal, now keep the user on the same page. This change involves generating Javascript code for your form (previously HTML) to embed on your site, meaning you'll have to update this on your site to see the change.
- Bug Fixes:
- Jump Pages: Fixed issue where some Jump Pages (the original 5, built-in human verification pages plus the new default Jump Page) would result in not displaying the correct page when a link is clicked.
- Clicks: Fixed issue where clicks from Scheduled Emails would sometimes count as Bot Protection Clicks in the backend, resulting in things like Triggered Sequences (that are triggered by clicks) not working correctly.
FEATURES
- Jump Pages
- You can now build pages that contacts will be routed to first when clicking a link, before arriving at their final URL.
- Jump Pages can be used to gather/update contact information, act as age gates, show consent notices or legal disclaimers, and more.
- Build your Jump Page using our Custom HTML editor, and add them when scheduling an email or as part of a triggered sequence.
- You can find Jump Pages in the “Pages & Forms” section.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- AWS: Added support for sending text-based content through AWS SES Send Integrations.
FEATURES
- New Replacement Tag: ContactListID
- Added a new replacement tag for passing in the ID of the contact list used in a send:
{ContactListId}
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Reports: The Send Integration filter in Reports now groups Gmail Send Integration accounts, whereas before all accounts in a Gmail Send Integration had separate entries.
- Scheduled Email: Improved the “End Time” suggestion given when scheduling an email with a Gmail Send Integration group, where it takes into account the number of Gmail accounts in the group.
- Webhooks: Added more data to the events that are relayed, including Email Content (Name, ID, Template), From Name, Subject Line, and others.
- Send Integrations: Added ‘clear input (X)' buttons to the Volume Cap fields.
- Bug Fixes:
- Email Content: Fixed issue where some styles in Custom HTML templates weren't rendering properly in the WYSIWYG editor.
FEATURES
- New ESP: SendX
- Added support for new ESP Integration: SendX.
- Link Detection and Tracking For Plain Text Email Content
- Links that are placed in a Plain Text Email Content template will now be auto-detected and parsed.
- Links are set as Tracked by default, but can be set as an Unsubscribe link or as unmasked/untracked as they can be in Custom HTML and Drag and Drop templates.
- Brand Headers and Footers can be created using Plain Text now as well.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Reports: Added new columns/metrics in Reports - Unique Click Count, Unique Click Rate, Unique Open Count, Unique Open Rate.
FEATURES
- Form Submission - Tracking
- Added some tracking metrics to Form Submission
- If a new subscriber submits their info through an EmailElement form, you will see additional data from this signup when you look up the user in Contact History:
- Signup URL
- Signup Date
- Signup IP
- Signup Type
- Form ID
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Brands: Sender Domains that are associated with a given brand but are inactive will no longer show in the list of Domains on a Brand's details page.
- Bug Fixes:
- Warm-ups: Fixed issue where some Warm-Ups will still show as being “In Progress” even though it has completed.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Invoices: Added additional info for GSuite Reseller Accounts.
- Account - Transactions: Transactions are expandable to show more details for the transaction and what was charged.
- Bug Fixes:
- Reports: Fixed issue with getting a crash when navigating away from Reports while a report is loading.
- Account: Fixed issue with the “State” field on Accounts was not showing properly
- Email Content: Fixed issue with certain content causing the UI to become skewed and narrow.
FEATURES
- Form Builder
- New feature to build custom forms for contacts to submit their info and be automatically added to selected Contact List(s).
- URL and HTML are auto-generated for your form to easily embed on your site.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Bug Fixes:
- Warm-Ups: Fixed issue where Warm-Up sends would skip the first day if it was scheduled to start too close to midnight UTC.
FEATURES
- Opt-Out From All Brand Footer Requirements
- When creating a custom Brand Footer, you have the option to opt-out of all footer requirements (including an unsub link).
- Spintax AI
- In Email Content, you can now highlight a word or phase (limited to 10 words) and select the option for “SpintaxAI”, which will automatically create a Spintax tag with 4 options (3 new AI-generated options plus the original word/phrase as a fourth).
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Delivery Events: Added “Email Domain Group” column to Delivery Events, allowing you to filter and sort by the Email Domain Group.
- Bug Fixes:
- Email Content Test Send: Fixed issue where sending a test email wasn't always obeying the “Override Sender Domain's From Name with email local-part” setting from the Gmail Send Integration that was used to send the test.
FEATURES
- New Notifications
- Added support for getting notified when your lists or engagement reports are ready for download.
- You can choose your subscriptions settings (email/web/both/none) in the Notifications section of the Account page.
- Disable Tracking for Links in Email Content
- When adding links to an email content template, there is now a dropdown option in the Links section for “Do not mask link”, which will allow you to opt out of having it wrapped by our tracking link.
- New ESP: Campaign Refinery (BETA)
- Added support for new ESP Integration: Campaign Refinery.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Replacement Tags: Added some timeout checks for the case when a Replacement Tag was not formatted correctly in the Email Content, which will allow the email to still get delivered without error.
- Bug Fixes:
- Gmail Send Integration: Fixed issue where adding a new Gmail account to a Gmail Send Integration would not show it right away in the UI.
FEATURES
- Notifications
- Notifications are now available in EmailElement for Scheduled Email completion (more notifications to come in future releases).
- You can choose your subscriptions settings (email/web/both/none) in the Notifications section of the Account page.
VARIOUS BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements:
- Brand Footer: Added a default template for creating a custom Brand Footer.
- Delivery Events Details: When viewing the details of a delivery event coming from a Gmail Send Integration, you can now see which specific Gmail account was used for each Send event.
- Email Content: Added support for easily selecting Replacement Tags in Drag and Drop templates (previously you had to know the specific tag to use them for Drag and Drop).
- Bug Fixes:
- Contact Lists: Fixed issue where the UI would hang when exporting/downloading large Contact Lists.
- Reports: Fixed the way the totals were calculated for rates-type columns.