Recent ShortStack upgrades

Once your Instant Win contest has been configured, the Instant Win settings in the Form Designer will now display a simple prize distribution graph. It shows prizes distributed by day; unless the contest is only a few days, in which case it shows prizes distributed per hour. Check it out next time you run an Instant Win contest!

Did you accidentally test out the Instant Win functionality with live prizes instead of using the handy test features of our Preview Mode? No worries, as now you have the ability to reset the awarded prizes back to zero in the Instant Win settings of the Form Designer. Resetting will make awarded prizes available again, remove the winning label from the winning entries, and reset the attached codes so that they are unclaimed and available again. Just be careful; if any legitimate prizes have been awarded, this will undo those as well!

Disposable email addresses are not blocked from being used both for entry submissions and for being used to vote when Email Login is enabled for the Entry Display Widget in S2. Anyone who tries to use a disposable email address will see a default message of “Email invalid or disposable email detected.” – you can, of course, change this to whatever you’d like.

Note: We at ShortStack do not control whether an email is judged as disposable or not; for this, we use a 3rd party API to identify them.

The Custom Domains Manager is now available via the “Other” dropdown menu in your account’s Dashboard. You can use it to change the version (between S1 and S2) of a domain, or delete a custom domain; as long as it’s not being used. Otherwise, the campaigns where a domain is being used are shown in the Manager for easy reference. You can also verify any unverified domains by clicking “Verify” in the dropdown.

The Tracking Widget has been updated to support Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which was introduced by Google in October 2020. Because the old Google Analytics (what is now referred to as “Universal Analytics” [UA]) will be around for awhile, GA4 has been added as a third option when configuring the Tracking Widget. It is possible to have two Tracking Widgets in the same campaign; one for UA and one for GA4, which is a good way to test GA4 and see the differences – if you don’t want to abandon UA right away.

You can now limit how many times the same email address can win in an Instant Win contest. When checking how many times an email address has won, we do count alias emails (emails that include + signs) as the original email address – no getting around the rules that way! Once an email address has hit the limit, it will always get the “losing” result in every subsequent entry.