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Monday, December 27, 2021
By Zibster Team
2021 has been an exciting year! Our development team has been working hard on enhancements for the Zibster platform all year. Let’s take a look at the new features, tools, and programs we launched this year.
Organization is key to a good user experience. We made updates this year to the main menu in the control panel with that in mind. The main menu moved from the top of the screen to the left side for quick easy access and now slides out when you need it and minimizes when you don’t.
We also introduced a website progress bar at the top of the dashboard, to help guide you through the steps of building a website. This is particularly helpful for new users, but even long-time customers might get some tips from it. The progress bar guides you from designing your site to attaching your domain and adding security, to show you how far into the process you are.
Once your website is live and the progress bar is complete, it is replaced with a notification bar to help you quickly and clearly see various details about your account.
With these updates to the dashboard you are also able to see more news stories from Zibster's Growth Hub, quickly access products and tools, and see notifications and product usage all in one place.
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To help you have consistent branding across all the tools in your account, we released a global branding feature this year. It allows you to upload your logo once, select your brand colors once, and have this information applied to all the tools in your account. There is still an option to override the global branding settings with custom branding within each tool, but you don’t have to anymore!
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Updated universal checkout
The checkout process in our ecommerce tools underwent a radical redesign this year to make purchasing even easier for your customers. It now features a simple four-step process to collect customer details, shipping information, and payment and ends with a confirmation message. And from every step customers can see a running total for their order. It is also more mobile-friendly.
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Scheduler calendar feed + bulk actions for Proofing and Ecommerce
Some enhancements were added to the Scheduler and Ecommerce tools early in the year. We added the ability for you to add your Scheduler calendar to your personal calendars with the help of a calendar feed. This means if someone books a time with you through your Scheduler, that time will automatically show up on your calendars, such as Google, Apple, or Microsoft calendar. This allows you to quickly and easily see your calendar without logging into your Zibster account.
We also added a bulk action feature to our Ecommerce to help you quickly make adjustments to pricing and shipping on multiple products or services at the same time. You can make bulk edits to products and services, including:
We hope each of these updates will help save you time!
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And we saved the best for last! This fall we launched one of our most requested features, Email Automation. You can now set up a series of emails to trigger at specific times or based on specific actions to automatically follow up with your contacts. There are Email Automations for scheduled appointments and invoices. You can select and customize templates or create your own series of automated emails. They can be used to remind people of upcoming appointments (booked through the Scheduler), payments due on invoices, and more.
Email Automation allows you to take a hands-off approach to customer follow-up and frees up your time to focus on other aspects of your business.
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Our highest priority continues to be providing high-quality products and designs backed by unparalleled support. We are looking forward to developing and releasing even more enhancements in 2022. If you have any questions about our tools, services, or education events, please call us at 844.353.3412 or chat with us online (customers, please log in first).