Changelog

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Change the Logo Size On Your Footer and Other Improvements

• You can now set a custom size for the logo on your footer.
• You can now use live YouTube videos in the video block. This is helpful if you trim down your livestreams for your VODs.
• We made a performance improvement on the backend, so now blocks should be added and auto-selected even faster than before This is most noticeable on slower wifi.
• When you submit a contact request at flowforth.co/contact, you now receive an email to your inbox letting you know that we got your request. We also improved how this notifies our team, helping us to respond faster.
• We filter out email templates from the recent emails on the home dashboard.
• We fixed a bug where some changes on email templates weren’t saving.

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Improvements

• Filter on the email category on the emails table
• Improved the block drop indicator to be more accurate.
• We fixed a bug where typing in a text block and then quickly hitting “Save and Exit” after would lead to your most recent text content not being saved.

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Columns and List Category Permissions

• You can now officially create column layouts in your emails using regular blocks. While the cards style will stick around, it’s no longer the only way to make a columns layout.
• You can change the cards block images to their original aspect ratio rather than just 16:9.
• You can set list permissions based on the list category. This way you can more easily control list visibility in Planning Center.
• We improved the domain verification process by verifying your DMARC policy (previously it would always say ‘Recommended’) and by allowing you to share the DNS records via email with a team member. This is great if another team member manages your website/domain.
• We now filter out list with a hidden visibility status on the People > Lists table. You can show these by using the “include hidden” filter.
• We added a filter on the People table to filter between those who have and who don’t have an email address.
• You can now resize an image block on the image itself by grabbing and dragging the resize handle.

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Extra Send Credits

• You can now purchase extra send credits for busier seasons where you need more sends but don’t want to upgrade your whole plan. These credits never expire and are only used after your monthly limit is exhausted. You can purchase extra sends in the billing section of settings.
• We fixed a bug where some lists weren’t showing in the list selector on the drafts page.

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Small Improvements

• We’ve made the share links for emails significantly shorter. This should help for sharing this link via text and social media.
• On the recipients table after sending an email, you can now click a person’s name to go to their profile in Flowforth.
• You can now set lists to “hidden.” This will restrict non-owners from accessing these lists and it will hide the lists from owners when using the list selector on the “to” field. This should help cleanup how much information you’re seeing throughout the app.
• When a payment fails, we now notify all organization owners rather than just the email you used with Stripe. This is helpful if you use a general email for receipts but want to be notified if your card fails.

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Asset Browser Improvements (and more)

• On the assets page, you can click an asset to preview it in a larger popup. On the asset browser in the email editor, you can click the “eye” button shown on hover to preview an asset in a larger view.
• We added a tooltip to help better explain what “card style” means on an email.
• We’ve improved the search for Registrations when importing from Planning Center.

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Custom Text Sizes and More

• You can now set custom text sizes for text in a text block, text in a button, and text in your email footer.
• If you’re viewing a List at flowforth.co/people/lists, you can now easily click a button to view that list in Planning Center.
• We added a link on the branding page to edit your default email footer. This helps you see all your branding options in one place.
• We fixed a bug where you couldn’t click the checkmark on the Import from Planning Center popup.
• We fixed a bug where new email templates wouldn’t show on the email templates table after hitting “save and exit.” Before, you had to refresh to see the new template.
• We’ve added some more options to the three dot menus on the emails table so that you can do more without having to go to the email’s page. This includes things like canceling a scheduled email, deleting a failed email, and copying the share link for sent email.

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Reply-To Address on Test Emails

• We now set the reply-to address on test emails to the person who sent the test. Before, replies would either go to the Flowforth team or to your organization’s default email address. This should make collaborating on emails a bit easier.

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Drag and Drop Uploads

• We’ve added drag and drop uploads to the asset browser. Before, you had to click a separate upload button. Now, you can drag files straight into the asset browser or assets page.

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Improvements

• We now let you know when you plan resets on the send usage warning emails.
• We made email errors easier for you to read on mobile.

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Email Recipients Table Improvements

• You can now see if someone clicked on a link in the email from the recipients table.
• You can export your email recipients table to a CSV.
• We fixed a bug on the “unsubscribed” filter on the email recipients table where it wasn’t loading any results.

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Improvements

• You now have more linking options throughout your email. You can link to a traditional web link, an email, or a file from text, images, and buttons.
• We’ve added more alignment options for buttons and images. You can now justify right, left, or center.

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Home Dashboard and Many Small Improvements

• We officially have a global dashboard to give you a better understanding of what’s happening in your account. You can see your aggregated metrics, recent emails, your email send limit, and recently unsubscribed contacts. Let us know what other stats you would like to see included.
• You can now export your contacts with this subscription status. We also give you a link on this export to view the person in Planning Center or view them in Flowforth.
• We’ve improved the accuracy of the subscribers count on the People page.

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Improved text color picker and email limit warnings

• We’ve improved the color picker in the text block. It should be easier to set a custom color for text.
• We now send organization owners a email if your send limit is over 75% used. This should help you catch this early rather than finding out from an email failing to send.

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Bug Fix

• We fixed a bug where there were many people on the post-send recipients table who had no first name or last name.

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Improvements

• We’ve made the error emails for hitting your sending limit more clear so you know what’s wrong and have an easy way to upgrade your plan.

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Drag in “Import from Planning Center”

• You can now drag the “Import Content from Planning Center” button into your email where you want the content to be imported. Before, all content was added to the end of the email.

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Improvements

• We made some improvements to how we keep your Planning Center and Flowforth data in sync.

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Asset Browser Improvements

• We made the asset browser larger in the email editor, and it now loads more assets on a single page.
• We also make significant improvements to how fast your assets load.

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Import from Planning Center Calendar

• In addition to importing from Groups and Registrations, you can also import content from Calendar.
• We also improved the process for connecting to Planning Center. You now have more control over which apps you choose to use with Flowforth.

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Bug Fixes and Improvements

• We fixed an issue where email templates were still tied to a Planning Center List. This meant if someone couldn’t see the list, they couldn’t see the template, but there was no way to control this. This has been fixed.
• We fixed a bug with importing unsubscribes.
• We improved how headers in a text block render on Gmail to closer match what you’re seeing in the editor (and other email clients).

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Bug Fix

• We fixed a bug where the “sent” status was sometimes overwriting “delivered.”

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BETA: RSS Feeds

• Set up an RSS feed for a list category that people can subscribe to and receive in their RSS reader of choice. This can also be used in a website RSS feed embed.

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NEW: HTML and Icons Blocks (and other improvements)

• Add social media icons and custom HTML to your emails. There’s room for one more block. Any guesses on what’s next?
• You can now archive an email after sending to keep your emails table clean.

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Improvements

• We made it easier to retry your domain verification if it fails.
• We improved the process for setting up your Planning Center connection.
• We’ve updated our ‘Toast’ component to be cleaner than ever.

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Customize Your Unsubscribe Page

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Use Planning Center Custom Fields as Merge Tags In Your Emails

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See Opens Over Time

• While open rates aren’t the best metrics to track, they still give helpful insights into the performance of your email and what time you should be sending. That’s why we just rolled out a new chart on the metrics tab of sent emails. You should see this on any email sent from this week forward.
• You can also now click on a link on the sent email page to see who clicked that link.
• We also cleaned up the links section on the sent email page so that your link click stats aren’t cluttered with people clicking on the unsubscribe and manage preferences links.

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Improvements

• We improved how unsubscribes work on CSV emails

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Improvements

• We made some improvements to the login and onboarding flow.
• We made mobile tables a bit easier to use.
• We added Pintrest as an icon option throughout the app.

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Import Registrations and Groups from Planning Center

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List Block Updates

• The List block should be easier to use with just a keyboard. You can now type directly in it on the email editor, use arrow keys to navigate, and use the return/enter key to make more items.
• We disabled using ’---’ in a text block to make a

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  . We recommend using a divider block for horizontal rules as you have much greater control over them.

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Improvements

• We’ve made some small improvements to the asset browser. You should see more filter options and significantly better performance.
• We fixed the button text color on the unsubscribe page in dark mode to improve readability.

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Plain Text Merge Tags

• You can now use merge tags in any block by typing them out (i.e., @first-name replaces to the person’s first name). Before, the merge tag feature only worked in a text block when you used the @ menu.
• We also fixed a bug where the block order was sometimes incorrect after bulk duplicate blocks in the email editor.

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Person Page and List Table Updates

• You can now click on a person’s name at https://flowforth.co/people to see the emails sent to that email address. You can also set a custom email address for a person that is different from their Planning Center email address. This can be helpful for people who like newsletters to go to a different email address than Planning Center notifications.
• You can now see and filter by a list’s category in Planning Center on the table at https://flowforth.co/people/lists.

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Free QR Code Generator and More

• We released a free QR code generator that isn’t tied to your account. Try it out at https://flowforth.co/tools/qr-code-generator.
• We added a filter for the from email address on the Emails table.
• We fixed a bug with the video block. Before if a thumbnail wasn’t a high enough resolution on YouTube, you would get an error on Flowforth. Now, if the high quality thumbnail isn’t available, we use the next best option from YouTube.

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Persistent Sort

• When you set a sort direction on a table, that should now persist if you refresh or change pages and come back.

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Church Space is now Flowforth

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Improvements

• We made some small changes to the new email dialog when you start a new email.

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Improvements

• If you import a person as unsubscribed, we now mark their unsubscribe reason as “Unsubscribe imported from CSV”.

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Improvements

• When you open the block styles and then click another block, the block styles options will stay open for you so you don’t have to click them again.

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Confirm bulk changes to lists

• When bulk-changing list permissions, we now have you confirm this change. This should prevent accidental changes.

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background images on blocks

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Know why a person didn’t receive an email

• We improved the recipients table to give you more information on why a person was not sent an email (i.e., they don’t have an email address, they share the email address with someone who was sent the email, they have an invalid email address, etc.)

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Improvements

• Improved how we generate the code that is sent for HTML emails.

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Improvements

• On the post-send page of an email, you can now click a stat to be taken to a filtered view of people with that status on the email recipients table.
• We now personalized the ‘to’ field for email recipients with their first and last name, rather than just using their email.

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Improvements

• Duplicate multiple blocks at once in the email editor.
• We’ve increased the limit of blocks in an email from 50 to 100.

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Improvements

• Better drag previews when moving a block in the email editor.
• Improved the drag and drop experience on the email editor.

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Select and move multiple blocks at once and more

• In the email editor, you can now hold down shift or command/control to select and move multiple blocks at once.
• NEW: Create automated emails that send at the same time each week.
• We improved the People table to show more information about a person’s status.

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Bug fix

• We fixed a bug that affected merge tags not converting on automation emails.
• We improved our automatic column matching for importing people.

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Custom text colors

• Set custom text for any text in a text block rather than being limited to the default and accent text colors.

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Share link to email after sending

• You can now share a web link to an email after sending it.

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Improvements

• We’ve made some changes to the invites process that should make it easier to invite your team.
• We now validate email addresses before sending to them. While Planning Center does validate email addresses when you add them, their validation doesn’t catch everything. This second check should lead to fewer bounced emails.

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List Members Update

• We no longer get and store the members of your lists in our system. We now get the list members at the time of send. This helps ensure everything is up to date and no data is stale.

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Improvement

• When sorting by status on the emails table, we now do a sub-sort by sent at, scheduled for, and updated at.

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Bug Fix and a small win

• Fixed a bug where merge tags sometimes would not convert.
• You can now right click on the theme selector in the user menu on the sidebar to select your theme preference directly without having to cycle through.

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BETA: Send an email to a CSV

• Sometimes you need to send a bulk email to people who aren’t in your Planning Center account. Now, you can upload a CSV of email recipients and send a beautifully designed email their way without adding them to Planning Center.
• We also made some improvements to the block styling so you have more control over your designs.

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Send us your feedback

• At the bottom of the sidebar, you can now quickly send us your feedback to let us know any issues you run into, feature ideas you have, or things you’d like to see improved.

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Delete failed emails and more

• You can now delete an email that failed to send.
• We improved our invites flow to make it easier to onboard new team members.

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Purple to Blue

• We’ve changed our brand color from purple to blue.

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Paragraph spacing and line height on text blocks

• You can now set line height, paragraph spacing, and list item spacing on a text block.

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Bug fix

• We fixed a bug where there was sometimes a delay between subscribing to a paid plan and your email send limit updating.
• We narrowed the amount of space between list block items to better reflect what you see in the email editor.

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Set a custom refresh schedule for lists

• Ever wish you could refresh a Planning Center list right after church instead of 2am? You can now set custom list refresh schedule from the People > Lists page. This is great for building automations that run right after church rather than the day after.

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Bug fixes and improvements

• We’ve fixed a few bugs and improved the quality of our sync with Planning Center.

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Link page improvements

• Use a custom Flowforth subdomain for your link page.
• Other small improvements to link pages.
• We also fixed a few bugs throughout the app.

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Change your organization logo

• Upload your church’s logo to be used throughout your Flowforth account.
• Upload and change your profile picture for your own account. Previously we used your Planning Center profile picture.

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New merge tags + people import improved

• We’ve added merge tags for the current month and current date (at time of send) that you can use in a text block in an email.
• When you import subscribed people from a previous platform, you’ll be take to a import preview where you’ll see who will be created in Planning Center, who is already in Planning Center with a matching email, who is already in Planning Center with a matching name, and who has a matching name and email that will be updated and tagged.

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Email Templates and Recipients Tables

• You can now duplicate email templates.
• You can create a new email from a template directly from the email template table.
• Sort and filters added to the email recipients table after you send an email.
• We’ve restricted some link page slugs from being used.

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App-wide link improvements and more

• When previewing an email, there is now a table to let you see what links are in an email.
• You can now see the stats of how many times your links have been clicked on your link pages.
• QR Code scan statistics should load significantly faster.
• We made some changes to our tables throughout the app to improve performance and to allow you to sort and filter on more attributes.
• You can now set the permissions you would like a user to have when you invite them.

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Clean up text with AI

• While we don’t believe you should use AI to write what you’re asking your congregation to read, it can be helpful for cleaning up some copy you’ve already written. To make this easier, you can now ask AI to help cleanup text in a text block.

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Cleaned up copy, unsubscribe page changes, and more

• Some places previously said “duplicate email” where others said “replicate email.” We have cleaned this up to only refer to this action as “replicate.”
• If someone clicks “unsubscribe” on an email, we now show the email category preferences under the confirm unsubscribe button. This lets people see if that they have options to manage preferences preventing accidental full unsubscribes.
• You can no longer sign up for a Flowforth account with a temporary email address. This helps to prevent abuse of our system.

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Planning Center Lists Syncing Improved

• We now periodically check if there are any Planning Center lists missing in your Flowforth account. This typically happens when a list is shared with the account who connected Flowforth to Planning Center but no changes were made to the list since then.
• We also added a notice to let you know if a list you’re sending an email to is still syncing into our system.

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More granular permission controls

• You can now choose if a member has access to emails, people, QR codes, and link pages.

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Bug fix

• Fixed a bug where newly added blocks would sometimes disappear.

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Bug fix

• Fixed a bug where you couldn’t set the corner radius to 0.

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Custom Footer Address

• You can now change the address in the footer of an email to be different than your main account address.

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Text pasting bug fix

• We fixed a bug related to pasting in text. It should now render consistently.

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Major email editor improvements

• Each block can have it’s own styles separate from the main email style. This allows you to give the block it’s own background color and adjust the padding and margin. This means you can now have images go edge-to-edge on a card style email.
• We deprecated block spacing as you can now control this via the block padding.
• In addition to buttons, you can now type on every block directly in the editor.
• Videos now show a play button on them to help people know that they’re a video.

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Small Improvements and URL changes

• In a text block, you can type @view-in-browser to insert the view in browser link. This link is unique per recipient which ensure merge tags (like first name, last name, and email) still work.
• We moved the email manager (where people can unsubscribe and update their preferences) to a new domain (https://churchspace.email)
• We changed the link for proxied content (https://churchusercontent.com).
• We made it easier to retry a failed domain verification.
• Sent images are now cached and should load faster for most users in their emails.
• We fixed some bugs in the text block. You should have a better experience pasting text and your text alignment will persist when you change text size.

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View emails in browser

• You can now view emails in the browser. This option is on the bottom of every email.

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Small changes and bug fixes

• Type in buttons within the editor to change their text. Previously you could only change the text using the sidebar.
• Dividers can now have a height of 0. This lets you use the divider block as a spacer.
• We now proxy images in emails which helps prevent them from not loading for people who use Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection.
• We fixed a bug that was occasionally causing text emails to take 30+ minutes to send.

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Test Emails Persist

• Test emails should now persist in the input. This saves you from having to type in your email address(es) in every time you want to send a test.

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Lists are under people (and bug fixes)

• Lists and lists permissions are now under the People tab on the sidebar
• You can manually refresh your lists using the Actions button on the Lists page. This is helpful is a list is shared with the account that did the sync with Flowforth and Planning Center and it’s not showing up right away in Flowforth. We have a better fix for this in progress.
• We fixed a bug that was causing imports to fail if a column has an apostrophe in its name.
• We removed the domain step from getting started, allowing new accounts to get in the app faster.

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Rich Text in Email Footer Description

• We’ve added rich text editing to the email footer so you can add formatting and line breaks to your footer description.

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AI Subject Lines

• While we continue to work on our AI email builder, we’re putting out a taste with our subject line generator. Give it a go and let us know what you think!

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Improved Permissions

• You can now restrict who can access certain lists, their list members, and the emails sent to those lists. This should help secure any confidential lists and emails.
• You can change the default sync permission in settings if you would prefer to have all lists be visible to owners only by default.

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Import Improvements and Bug Fixes

• We’ve added the option to input the name of a former audience when importing contacts. This will show up in Planning Center under the Flowforth custom tab.
• We added a nicer loading state for the email editor and the email preview.
• We fixed a bug that was making all new email templates use Courier New as the font family.
• We fix the focus ring being clipped on the editor’s sidebar inputs.
• We fixed a bug on the categories table where if you added a new category and then went to edit a category, the wrong category editor would potentially open up.
• We fixed a bug that wasn’t allowing email previews to load and test emails to send in Webkit based browsers (Safari, any mobile browser on iOS, etc.).
• We fixed a bug where the color scheme previews were not showing on the new email modal on Safari.

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Email Editor Sidebar Improvements

1. We have cleaned up the email editor sidebar to make it easier to view your content. All inputs should noe be wider and easier to read. We brought this change to the link page editor too.
2. We improved how much control you have over buttons. We still have a long way to go to give you a more powerful email editor without introducing complexity.
3. We fixed a bug in our email subject tips where numbers were counting as emojis.

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Planning Center is no longer required for onboarding.

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Add an Automation Offset for your auto-refreshed lists

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Flowforth is officially publicly available.

• Email Marketing and Automations
• QR Code Management
• Link Pages