Release is scheduled to deploy on May 17, 2024 at 3pm ET.
These are beta release notes and subject to change.
Notable Updates
Email Classic access
- The top level navigation access for Email Classic has now been removed. Please note email classic can still be accessed via the Marketing Tools drop-down.
VGS Tokenization
- Test credit cards can now be used in ENS API when the chosen gateway is in test mode, and with the standard non-payment endpoints:
- https://ca.engagingnetworks.app
- https://us.engagingnetworks.app
- The payment type field is now disabled under supporter lookup, as it will be auto-populated based on the credit card entered by user.
For more details, please visit this page about VGS tokenization.
Marketing Tools – free and flexible email templates
We continue to improve our sample template and sample blocks to address client needs and facilitate migration to the Marketing Tools.
Updates:
- Body text block – fixed padding issue seen on some iPhones.
- Two column layouts – fixed issue affecting some versions of Outlook on Mac (eg Outlook Office 365 macOS 12).
- Image size now maintained when larger images are uploaded.
- Buttons no longer use VML, which was causing duplication issues when emails were forwarded from Outlook.
- Full width banner logos can now be added.
- Improvement: Image block with optional caption.
New sample blocks
- New sample block for signature photo and text.
- New sample block for displaying a progress bar. Note: the progress is not displayed dynamically.
Improvements
Gateways – Stripe
- Added a new Stripe webhook event to better handle ACH disputes and keep the transaction status up-to-date.
charge.dispute.closed
- Additional metadata will be passed to the Stripe gateway to reflect values submitted into tagged transactional data fields : tax deductible, other 1-4 and appeal code.
Fundraising
- Annual Receipt emails will now be signed with whatever the “From” address of the email is for DKIM.
Marketing Tools
- We have added an additional confirmation overlay when sending a new broadcast or changing a schedule of an existing one.
Bugs
Marketing Tools
- There was an issue with the correct display of replacement sections when using ‘select’ type replacements in Marketing tools templates. This has been fixed.
- Marketing tools reporting has been updated to show correct subject lines for conditional and split test messages.
- There was an issue creating custom URL parameters in Marketing Tools under certain conditions. This has been fixed.
- It wasn’t possible to add an email sender before authenticating a domain. This has been fixed.
Email Classic
- Source button is now available again for legacy template based emails.
Fundraising
- There was an issue with FCR transactions not showing correctly in ENS export. This has been fixed.