Recent ShortStack upgrades

Now that our Builder has officially been split in twain (one version for S1, and a separate version for S2), some changes have been made to the Template Gallery to reflect this split. If your account only has access to one version of the Campaign Builder – you will be linked to the corresponding version of the Template Gallery. If you have access to both, the default will now be S2; the Campaign button on the Dashboard and the New Campaign button in the Campaigns Manager will bring up the S2 Template Gallery. You will see a new link in the Campaigns Manager (“legacy templates”) that will bring you to the S1 Templates Manager. There is also a link in the bottom-right of the S2 Templates Gallery that will allow you to toggle to S1, if needed.

We at ShortStack do recommend using S2 templates, as those will always have the most up-to-date features and widgets.

In news that security-minded users will be excited about: After digging in and doing a bit of research, we found that we’ve been encrypting our data at rest all along! For more detailed information, reach out to Adam using the calendar on our Contact Sales page.

ShortStack’s new Image Editor Widget is live! This widget allows your visitors to perform limited actions on an image that they’ve uploaded as part of an entry. This initial version of the widget includes the abilities to crop, flip, rotate, and add a frame to the images – as well as a handy undo button to undo changes. These actions can be re-arranged and enabled/disabled from the widget settings. For more information on this snazzy new widget, check out our Image Editor Widget help doc.

Note: This new widget is only available on the Agency Plan or higher.

We’ve now added a merge code to emails that can generate a URL that will display an Instant Win prize code as a QR code! This will typically be used with an autoresponder in an Instant Win campaign, or when sending prize codes to a list. When the entrant receives the email and clicks the link, they’ll see a page appear with their prize code and the associated QR code, ready to be scanned by a POS scanner. Handy!

Just a heads up: ShortStack will not generate a certificate for SSL (so that https works) for custom domains until that domain appears in our database by way of a published campaign. For example, if you point your custom domain to our S2 IP address and try to test it in your browser before publishing a campaign – you’ll see an error in your browser. This is because the validation check will fail since we don’t have the domain in our database. Once you’ve added the domain to your account by publishing a campaign to it, the validation check will succeed and a certificate will be issued. This is an update on our prior process of issuing a certificate as soon as a browser request came in.

Before; if you wanted to reset the live votes on a campaign, you had to go into each individual entry’s details and do a vote adjustment. Ugh. Now, though – it’s easy! We have a new “Reset Votes” button in the Entries Manager – this allows you to quickly reset the vote totals to zero for any entries currently showing in the manager. Give it a try next time you need to start votes from scratch.