Release Updates

• Mobile
• Reporting & Analytics
• Campaigns
• Apps & Integrations
• Conversations
• Onboarding
• Automations
• Personalization

Users could previously only review a single campaign’s engagement metrics. The new Automation Overview Report provides an overall look at how an entire automated marketing strategy is performing, by aggregating all campaign data associated with a specific automation to help identify areas of opportunity and success.

This update lets users add or edit tasks in a way that aligns with our recently updated Contact, Deal, and Account Forms. Users now have greater clarity and consistency when viewing the task tab, contact profile, or deal profile.

The new, intuitive Android Task screen design leads to a dedicated Task Detail view that lets users fully understand the task, its related deals and contacts, and provides quick actions to call, email, or text.

The Contact Activity Stream adds transparency into the data users are shown, by providing an extra level of detail when viewing a campaign’s engagement. Tap into opens, clicks, unsubscribes, bounces, and forwards to see which contacts have performed that action. Since launching campaign reporting at the end of 2019, this was the most requested enhancement!

This will give users more flexibility to dig deep or integrate their data in new or existing workflows by expanding limits to download all results within a look or a dashboard.

The way that revenue is associated with an automation has been updated. If a user deletes an order, that order will no longer be associated with that automation in the Automation Overview Report. This update will create a consistent data experience between the way revenue is displayed between the Automations Overview Report and the Marketing Revenue Report.

The “Inspiration” tab in our template builder features pre-designed emails for users to take advantage of when building out a new campaign or automation. Over 70 new templates have been added, for a library of over 125+ design templates — making it easy to customize emails and send beautiful messages in just a few clicks.

Users with the Zendesk Sell CX App can now push ActiveCampaign contacts to Zendesk Sell Contacts (in addition to Zendesk Sell Leads), letting users orchestrate their data in a more flexible way within ActiveCampaign.

Users can now better track how many blocks they’ve used while creating their chatbot procedural flow. This lets users plan their procedural flow better as it relates to the current 25 block cap.

When editing an email address within the Inbox’s visitors detail pane, the pop-over will not auto-close, so agents can effectively manage any changes to a contact within their inbox

For all users with Conversations web chat or with Site Tracking enabled, cookies are properly being placed to prevent breaks in tracking for a better experience.

For all customers who use Zapier and ActiveCampaign Deals, there is now a new search action retrieves ActiveCampaign Deal Owner user information on Deals.

For all users (excluding resellers), they will see two short welcome videos as a first touchpoint in-app for 1) e-commerce, and 2) other customers (digital first + B2B). This will provide a more catered onboarding experience that helps the user understand how the platform is built for them.

These are usability improvements, some of which were specifically requested by customers and some to improve overall performance.

• Automations Builder: when mousing over a send email block, the thumbnail image of the email can now be clicked to take the user directly to the email editor.
• Automation Builder Manage Messages section: clicking any email name opens the email editor/designer with that email selected
• If/Else block title: If the customer has defined multiple segment groups, all conditions for all groups are displayed. This time-saver eliminates the need to click on the block and scroll through the conditions to see your current configuration.
• Automation homepage: Thumbnail now appears in all instances.
• Automations Builder: Wait Until blocks have been improved to provide a more consistent automation experience and allow customers to send the right messages at the right time.

In response to Developer requests, new capability exists to allow the Layer to accept subdomains specific to 3rd-party accounts.

Users often saw a different experience between the editor and published (and between browsers) because of the way different browsers render pages. This fix makes experiences consistent.

Users won’t be able to delete folders with published pages. Coming next, we’ll allow customers to move pages between folders. Folders can be currently deleted with published pages in them. This delete causes the user to lose the ability to manage any of those pages.

Users will be able to make checkboxes required in Pages Forms.

Customers will see consistency between mobile/desktop versions and the changes they make in mobile view (or desktop) will be reflected accurately on the published page.

Customers will see an error message if they try to publish a URL that is being used by another active page.

When trying to add a Pages form to a page users got an error when the page name has a comma (or special character) in it. Now users with Pages that have a special character can add a Pages form.

When a user adjusts the parallax effects setting it will work now as expected.

When users attempted to upload image video into a landing page it was not working - this error has been fixed.

• Android
• Conversations
• iOS
• Mobile
• Personalization
• Reporting & Analytics

We have removed the 20 seat per account limit. You can now purchase and assign as many seats as you need so you can continue to be supported as your business scales.

New web chat availability settings provide more control over when the web chat widget is available to visitors on your website. You can now turn the chat widget off outside of your working hours, or when an agent is not available, to improve the experience for visitors to your site.

We have introduced a new inbox toggle that allows each individual agent to set their overall availability for Conversations. This can serve as an internal indicator for other agents to understand who is available or away within the Inbox. This agent setting is also tied directly to a configuration option within the new Web Chat Display Rules. This update improves team efficiency by providing Conversations agents the transparency they need to understand which colleagues are logged in/available internally to help field conversations.

You can now see an incoming caller's contact name even if they are not in your phone's address book. No more waiting for an incoming call to go to voicemail just to get the caller’s name—you can now get the context you need as the call is happening. Note: You must enable caller ID for this update to work. Instructions and status can be found in the "Settings" tab of the mobile app. Only the last 1,000 created contacts will have caller ID.

Mobile app users with Contact Edit Permissions can now update a contact's list status from "Subscribed" to "Unsubscribed." This has been an ongoing ask from our mobile customers. Occasionally, subscribers will directly ask to be taken off a certain list or to stop receiving certain types of content during a phone call or via email. This update provides the ability to take a more manual list update action that is not easily handled by a direct unsubscribe link or automation.

When mobile app users with Contact Add Permissions create a new contact, required fields will now get default values. Additionally, we improved validation messaging.

We know our mobile app users want to know how many other tasks they have to do on a certain date, so they can better understand workload and protect themselves from a day of too many tasks. We’ve now added a task count that allows you to see how many tasks you have to do on a set due date.

All mobile app users now have the option to turn off sending diagnostics and usage data.

Customers with Deal Access can now globally turn push notifications on or off. Previously, you were given one opportunity to accept or deny push notifications. Now, you can adjust that decision in the Settings tab of the mobile app. This ability is only available for customers with Deal Access because "Deal Assignment' is the only notification event we have. Other customers would never get any push notifications. This will change as we add more notification types.

Agents can now set availability and see other agents’ availability when assigning or reassigning conversations. If the chat widget is set to hide or show based on agent availability, it is important for you to set your status so visitors don’t expect an immediate response. It’s also important to see which agents are available when assigning or reassigning conversations, so visitors are not left waiting for a response.

Our Professional and Enterprise customers can now create targeted website experiences with expanded contact detail conditions and custom contact fields. By leveraging tags, custom fields, and additional contact details, you can now create hyper-targeted experiences for your website visitors.

We have introduced a new filter in the All Automations Report that lets you quickly search for and select a specific automation by name. If your account has a significant number of automations, this update allows you to more easily look up a specific automation to see how it's performing.

As part of an ongoing effort to extend Custom Reporting capabilities, we are introducing two updates:

• We removed unnecessary models from displaying during the global dashboard filter creation and edit process. This helps streamline the ability to create a global dashboard filter without second-guessing which one is associated with custom reporting during the selection process
• We are deprecating the Forecasted Close Date as a value in the Deal Custom Field Name dimension to remove confusion from the Forecasted Close Date dimension that’s available under the Deals view. By adding Forecasted Close Date within Deals as its own dimension, you are now able to analyze your deals based on when the deals are expected to close. This means you no longer need to use the Forecasted Close Date value from the Deal Custom Field Name dimension

Note: You should replace any references to the Forecasted Close Date value in the Custom Field Name dimension with the new Forecasted Close Date field dimension.

• Conversations
• Onboarding
• iOS
• Personalization
• Reporting & Analytics
• Mobile

Facebook is a dominant social platform for B2C businesses to communicate with customers, and this new inbound channel allows ActiveCampaign Conversations users to receive and send messages for their Facebook Business page right from the unified inbox. Agents will be notified and be able to respond from the same place as their inbound web chats and emails, allowing them to better engage and converse with customers.

For the Web Personalization feature, we increased the limit of published experiences from 3 to 5 for users on the Professional tier, and increased from 3 to unlimited for Enterprise users to allow for more flexibility and access for our Web Personalization users.

Forms is moving out of the primary navigation and into the Site nav to help you embed Forms into Pages easier. The following items are also moving: Manage Fields will move to Settings, Site Tracking will be available under Site, but will redirect to Settings. The items that were in the secondary nav (Webhooks, App Directory, and ActiveCampaign API) still exist where they did before, we just removed the links from the forms secondary nav. If you do not have permission to see Pages or Web Personalization, you will only see Forms and Site Tracking.

When navigating to automations, users will now see a new screen welcoming them into the automations section of the platform and highlighting educational content in the form of contextual content, guides, and videos. Recipe recommendations will also be featured. We want to provide more in-app contextual content throughout the platform. When branding is turned off, guides, videos, and external links will be hidden.

In advanced settings, we’ve made an update to the language and UI related to SPF (sender policy framework). The SPF and SenderID modals are now combined into one and a help doc is available. We’ve updated the language to be more accurate and have improved the interaction of displaying this information.

Users with Deal Access can now globally turn push notifications on or off. Previously, users were given one opportunity to accept or deny push notifications. Now, users will be able to adjust that decision in the settings tab. The reason this is only available for users with Deal access is because “Deal Assignment” is the only notification event we have. Other users would never get any push notifications. This will change as we add more notification types.

All users with Deals will now see a recently viewed contacts list on their mobile devices. Before this change, you had to always search for an Account to associate it to a Deal. Occasionally though, the Account was recently viewed on the device. For these scenarios, we’re making it easier for the user to select the Account they need. Users will still be able to search globally for an Account.

As part of an ongoing effort to extend Custom Reporting capabilities, we are excited to introduce two new updates! Users will now have the ability to cross join between Automation, Campaign, Contact, and Deal attributes. We also removed unnecessary models from displaying during the global dashboard filter creation process. Cross joining enables users to answer deeper level questions based on their desired parameters between the existing table attributes. Removing unnecessary models helps streamline the ability to create a global dashboard filter without second guessing which one is associated with custom reporting during the selection process. (In order to enable cross join between automations, campaign, and contact attributes; the “relationship type” filter dimensions must be selected and defined.)

Deal Forecasted Close Date can now be utilized in Custom Reporting under the Deals view. A Forecast Close Date is a standard field that can be managed on the Deal page and is indicated by the user as to when the deal should close. This enables users to leverage the report in a more dynamic way such as creating a custom report that displays Deals Total Value by Deal Forecasted Close Date filtered by a specific pipeline, stage, status, custom field name, and more.

We've recently added a new content block that guides Pages users through the process of embedding PayPal buttons onto their landing page. ActiveCampaign users want to optimize for conversions on their landing pages, and many of these conversions come in the form of payments. In order to highlight this popular use case, we are surfacing a PayPal block and guiding our users through the required steps. We aim to make it easier for customers who use PayPal to start driving more meaningful conversions using Pages!

• Reporting & Analytics
• Conversations
• Ecommerce
• iOS
• Mobile
• CRM
• Onboarding
• Personalization
• Deals

All ActiveCampaign users across all plan tiers can now drill into a suite of SMS reports directly from a corresponding automation in the recently updated Automation Overview report. This enables users to examine the SMS data for any automation that uses messages.

As an effort to extend Custom Reporting capabilities for customers on the Enterprise plan tier, we are introducing three new updates to the existing feature: More Contact Attributes, Shared Spaces, and Reporting Templates.

More Contact Attributes

Users can now utilize significantly more contact dimensions and measures. By providing more contact attributes, users can further segment and dive deeper to understand how contacts are engaging with their business. Note: Contact attributes will not be able to cross-join with automation and campaign attributes in this update.

Shared Spaces

Users can share saved reports with other users within the account. Shared spaces will remove the need to recreate the same report across different users on the same account and provide a more collaborative experience for those trying to share and cross-examine data. Note: Reports saved in the shared space will be accessible to all users within the account.

Reporting Templates

Users can leverage pre-built reporting templates to better understand the capabilities of Custom Reporting. Pre-built reporting templates will provide a framework for users who want to leverage custom reports starting from the dashboard level. Note: Reporting templates will only include a framework for automation and campaign attributes at this time.

Note: All custom reporting data is refreshed daily around 08:00 UTC.

For all users across all plan tiers, the Automation Overview report (within the All Automation report) user interface has been updated to improve load time performance and to provide a consistent user experience across the reporting navigation. The original functionality of the report has been maintained – including the ability to edit the automation or view the automation map. The report will also display a 14-day trend visualization for sends, opens, and clicks.

For customers using the Shopify integration, we have increased the number of collections shown in the dropdown of the Shopify product block in the email designer to now show up to 250 collections in alphabetical order. The block previously showed up to 100 collections so this new limit should enable a majority of merchants to access all of their collections. Note: this is available for users in Trial and on Plus, Professional, and Enterprise plan tiers.

All users with Deals who opt-in will receive a push notification whenever a Deal (new or existing) is assigned to them. Tapping on a notification takes you directly to the deal, ensuring you can get to your work at a moment's notice.

Users with WhatsApp installed can now make WhatsApp the default SMS app to send text messages to contacts, instead of the Messages app. By setting WhatsApp as the default SMS app, users can now contact their leads and customers in the app they communicate with most. Note: users with WhatsApp already installed will be prompted the first time tapping a message icon to set their default SMS app. Until then, users must go to the Settings tab.

Available for all Conversations users in both the web and mobile app experience, agents can now assign a conversation to themselves or to other agents, providing clarity within the shared inbox experience. The agent can also filter their conversation list view based on ownership to see their assigned conversations, unassigned conversations, or team members’ conversations. This helps improve agent efficiency and workflow when responding to customer conversations.

Field editing within Contact, Deals, and Accounts has been improved to allow users who use those features in the ActiveCampaign web application to edit multiple fields at once and click Save at the end. This enables multi-field editing so you can update multiple fields at once before saving all the changes, instead of saving each field change one-by-one. If you’re editing multiple records a day, those savings add up quickly.

If you're a new account user, a new "Welcome" page will appear when you click on Campaigns from the main navigation menu. The page provides educational guides and videos on deliverability and general best practices when sending a test campaign, to help you get started. Note: If branding is turned off in your account, all guides, videos, and external links will be hidden.

Users who use web personalization can now quickly get an “Experience Recap” of any web personalization experience and see the associated segment criteria. When the button is clicked, the “Segment Criteria” modal will show the various conditions for that experience. This allows users to view what segment criteria qualifies a user for a specific experience.