Expedite Email Creation with Blueprints
Designed to streamline and simplify email production for your organization, users can now create fully tested, on-brand emails in just moments by utilizing pre-approved design Blueprints. Blueprints are templates that eliminate the need to create emails from scratch.
With Blueprints, designers can set and maintain brand standards for common email layouts (transactional, promotional, newsletters), and marketers can quickly generate professional emails without starting from scratch. This ensures that every email contains all of the necessary features and components for sending: from legal footers to CTA buttons, they’re all in the Blueprint.
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Organize your customer profiles with folders and workspace permissions
Enterprise teams who are using customer profiles to test their emails with real data and use cases can now logically organize their customer profiles into folders, allowing them to more easily locate and test specific Customer Profiles in Dyspatch when creating new emails.
Additionally, Customer Profiles can now be locked to workspaces. This applies workspace permissions to the profiles, which will eliminate the need to navigate through inapplicable profiles during testing. Marketing teams can focus on marketing-specific profiles while transactional emails will have access to the transactional email Customer Profiles, creating a more efficient and focused workflow for all users.
Functionality updates:
- Handlebars.java has been updated to Support standard AND/OR Conditional helpers
- Editable border styles have been added to image editable Styles including support for border colors
Introducing Scribe AI: Revolutionizing Email Creation in Dyspatch
We are thrilled to release Scribe AI, a major improvement to Dyspatch that delivers on our mission to empower anyone on your team to craft innovative, high-performing email campaigns – whether you’re an email HTML expert or a non-coder.
With Scribe AI as your new DML co-pilot, the block building experience in Dyspatch is re-defined: create a new content block in moments all by telling Scribe about your vision using simple, conversational language.
Read more about our launch of Scribe AI here
New Feature Spotlight: Dyspatch Block Gallery
We’re excited to introduce the Dyspatch Block Gallery, a comprehensive repository showcasing our curated collection of block designs. This new feature is designed to streamline your email inspiration and creation process.
The Dyspatch Block Gallery offers an extensive design archive featuring a wide variety of pre-designed blocks, from simple headers and footers to complex layouts and interactive elements.
All gallery blocks are fully customizable, enabling you to adapt them to your brand’s specific needs and style guidelines. And you can rest assured that our modular and customizable blocks have been tested for compatibility across various email clients and devices, ensuring your emails look great no matter where they’re opened.
Rollback design approval in 2-step approvals
This updated feature allows workspace owners to roll back a draft from the localizations stage to the design stage in a multi-step approval workflow. This action will be available to Workspace Editors, Owners, and Admins, providing flexibility in the content creation process if issues are discovered during translation.
UX Sprint 2024 Release Notes
Change an email’s theme on the fly
It’s now easier than ever to swap a theme on an email, with two new methods available.
Swap the theme directly in the email builder: the theme name has been updated to include an options menu. Now, in addition to the quick link to jump to the theme editor, there is an action to “Change Theme”.
You can also switch the theme on an individual email from the workspaces page. On the specific email you want to update, click the 3 dots option menu in the row, and select the “Change Theme” action.
Note: as we’ve also recently launched the ability to assign themes to specific workspaces, the themes available to swap with will respect those admin settings.
UX delights
We’ve updated a few key touch points within the app to make your experience that much more enjoyable, including:
Assign a block to themes
The theme assignment modal for blocks has been overhauled. Remember how you have to remember what your themes are called to apply new themes to the blocks? I sure can’t remember all of those names! The modal has been updated to display all available themes, all the time, along with their assignment status (active, inactive). Easily toggle themes on and off with the status switcher.
Saving without a subject line
Saving an email with an empty subject line used to trigger an “you sure you want to do that?” warning, that would require a few clicks to close the modal, re-open the subject line editor, update the subject line, and re-save the email. We’ve updated the warning modal with a new input field, so you can add the forgotten subject line right there.
Previewing published emails
For published emails, the thumbnail preview gives you a glimpse into how the approved version looks. To take a closer look, you’d historically have to open up the email to see the full view. Now, you can click on the thumbnail to open up an expanded preview.
The commenting features we’ve all been dreaming of
Our commenting workflow in the email builder has undergone a serious upgrade. Collaborating with your teammates is now much much easier.
See feedback while editing
You can now see feedback from your team while you are updating a block’s content. No more flipping back and forth between tabs to double-check feedback!
On the “Collaborate” tab, there is a new toggle beside the feed filters. Flip this to on, and all annotation pins for open comments will remain visible as you navigate to other sections of the builder.
There is a second toggle to “Show Comments”, which is always available in the toolbar at the bottom of the email preview area. For folks who like to keyboard, we’ve introduced a new shortcut option; use Shift+C to toggle the annotation pins on and off at will.
Mentioning teammates
We’ve included a bit of a sneaky upgrade – @mention. When leaving a comment on an email, you can now specifically @mention one of your teammates within that workspace. They will receive an email notification.
Dark Mode testing, in-real-time
Both the email builder and theme editor have a new dark mode toggle. This will render the content with any dark mode styles that have been applied in the theme editor’s “Advanced” tab.
This preview works great for a quick confidence check on how your theme or email will look in dark mode, and will help you get ahead of any contrast or display issues.
Because email clients render dark mode differently from each other, we recommend continuing to device test emails to be confident about the final output. With our built-in Litmus device testing, we currently offer 27 dark mode options to test with.
Drafts are easier to manage
The drafts page in the email builder has received many small upgrades to make it easier to search and maintain the draft history, including:
- Sorting options are available to quickly find a draft amongst many
- Last modified date displays an exact date, vs an approximation
- Draft actions are now visible all the time
We now visually display the workflow stages that a draft must go through as part of the approval workflow. We’ve improved clarity about which stage each draft is currently in, and what’s left to do to get that draft to production. This applies to both single- and two-step approval workflows.
Single-step approval workflow
Two-step approval workflow
Email builder bits-n’-bobs
We’re always striving to improve the email building experience, from micro-interactions to advanced testing and compliance tools. Some new changes you’ll notice in your journeys:
The “From” metadata now displays above the subject line preview, showing sender name and sender email address. Never forget to fill it out again, and double-check that the email will be sent from the correct company address.
Our automated QA tool, Email Guardrails, has been grouped together with the email layers panel, above our live chat customer support. This includes a count of the number of warnings that are left to address, so you know at a glance what’s left to resolve.
We’ve added a new rule to our automated QA warning list. We will now display a warning to highlight if any blocks in your email have a newer version to update to. Keep your blocks up-to-date with the current block version, to ensure the email is always using the latest approved design. You will be able to update all applicable blocks at once, or navigate to each block specifically to update one-by-one.
Build & manage your SMS marketing campaigns
Using our SMS builder, non-technical users can create data driven, personalized SMS marketing messages at lightning speed.
Dyspatch is the platform to centralize your email and SMS communications: create highly personalized customer journeys and guarantee brand compliance, customer loyalty, and conversions.
Test both email and SMS communications together in one platform: confirm accuracy, branding, legal requirements, and accessibility requirements in one platform. Ensure your email and SMS communications are flawless before anything is sent to a customer
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NEW admin dashboard
We’ve revamped our admin dashboard to highlight key platform usage. Get a contextual overview of your account limits and Dyspatch usage with real-time seat counts, monthly API call usage, and insights into your overall Litmus device testing usage.
Assign themes to workspaces
Theme management just got a major update! If you have themes that you need to reserve for specific platforms or messaging, then you’ll love our new workspace theme assignment feature. Now you can easily assign specific themes to only be available to specific workspaces, ensuring every email gets the perfect branding, and modules every time.
Our new theme management is a game-changer for agencies handling numerous brands and clients, or enterprise organizations managing multiple projects and sub-brands. Try out our new theme assignment updates and see how Dyspatch can make email production both intuitive and effective today.
Simplified Integration management, Enhanced User Experience, and More: What’s New in Dyspatch
Assign Integrations to Workspace
ESP integrations can now be assigned to specific workspaces in the admin portal. This will support teams that manage many integrations, and global teams where each region is exporting to a different platform.
Only integrations that are assigned to the workspace will appear for email builders to select from when exporting a published email. This ensures that emails are always exported by the right team to the right platform, eliminating the risk of emails being sent to the wrong service.
In addition, default sender profile metadata can be filled out for each ESP integration. When installing or editing an integration, fill out the sender name and sender email address. This information will be automatically exported along with published email content, so you don’t have to manually add important email metadata every time a new email is created.
Resolving comments
Comments can now be resolved in the email builder; resolve feedback that has been actioned upon so annotation pins in the email preview only show what feedback is left to address. In addition, the comments feed in the sidebar has been updated with filtering options to help users focus down when an email is going through a feedback cycle.
Plain text auto-generation
We’ve introduced an admin setting to automatically generate plain text for all emails. This eliminates the need to manually add plain text for every email, and keeps the plain text in sync with the HTML version as the email content is updated. This will not affect any emails where plain text was already entered.
Dynamic Data Toolbar in the email builder
Previewing dynamic data and switching between customer profiles in the email builder is now easier than ever with a new toolbar that appears at the bottom of the email preview area. This simplifies the process of previewing how an email will appear with different data sets applied, enabling effective testing of dynamic, personalized emails in Dyspatch.
Layout builder updates – more options added for title, text, button
We’ve added more options for customizing your email content. You can now change the font size of your text or title, providing greater flexibility in email design.
Variable format warnings
To prevent errors when exporting your Dyspatch emails, we’ve added warnings for custom variables that use syntax that does not match our standardized DML variable syntax. DML is built to handle exporting variables correctly to many different ESP syntaxes; if you code your emails using your preferred variable syntax, our guardrails will alert you to potential issues, ensuring better email integrity.