September Updates: Dyspatch improvements to accelerate your email workflow
Advanced Logo Support in Themes
Logos can now be configured at the theme level and dynamically referenced throughout your email blocks using reserved theme variables.
This new approach allows for:
- Consistent branding across all email templates
- Easy logo updates without modifying individual blocks
- Streamlined theme management for multi-brand organizations
Reserved theme variables can be called dynamically into any block, giving you increased reusability for the blocks in your email design system.
New ESP Integration: Listrak!
We've expanded our ESP and CRM integrations library with the addition of Listrak. Listrak is a powerful tool that is ideal for teams creating hyper personalized experiences. This integration includes:
- Full Listrak (Liquid) template compatibility
- New export option added to the download options list
Customer Profile Selection
When sending test emails, you can now select specific customer profiles to ensure personalization and dynamic content render correctly.
Preview exactly how your conditional content looks, live and in your inbox. Allowing you to ensure your dynamic content renders properly across different customer personas before your message goes live.
And More Workflow Improvements
- Blocks Overview Panel: Now visible for both submitted and published drafts, allowing you to get a comprehensive view of your email structure at any stage. This panel lists all blocks used in the email, along with any conditional logic applied to a block
- Enhanced Export Metadata: Two new <meta> tags are now automatically included on export:
- Force Internet Explorer to use the latest rendering engine for optimal display
- Prevent automatic conversion of numbers to phone number formatting, ensuring design integrity
- LocalizationKeys Access via API: Published emails now support pulling LocalizationKeys through the Drafts API, enabling better internationalization workflows and content management
Dyspatch August updates: Powerful Features to Transform Your Email Marketing
Introducing Variants - Design Flexibility at Your Fingertips
With Variants, your team will be able to turn your email design system into a powerhouse with a greater variety of on-brand customization options. Now available in the theme editor, Variants empower you to create multiple pre-styled versions of any element (buttons, text, headers, and more) that your team can instantly apply to their designs.
What this means for your team's workflow:
- Faster email creation - No more manual styling for each campaign
- Brand consistency - Pre-approved design options ensure every email stays on-brand
- Team efficiency - Email builders can focus on content while design standards are maintained automatically across all of your communication channels
- Simplified block library - Button and text variants can now be contained within 1 block, reducing the need for duplication
Simply define your brand's button styles, text, and design elements once, then watch your team build beautiful, consistent emails in record time.
Adobe Campaign v8 Integration
Bridge the gap between creative collaboration and campaign execution with our Adobe Campaign v8 integration. Design your emails in Dyspatch's collaborative environment, then seamlessly sync them to Adobe Campaign v8 for orchestrated, personalized customer journeys.
Perfect for enterprise teams:
- Advanced personalization capabilities
- Streamlined creative-to-campaign workflows
- Comprehensive customer journey orchestration
Knock.app Integration - Developer-Friendly Notifications Made Simple
Product and engineering teams, this one's for you! Our Knock.app direct integration puts notification template management directly in your admin portal, making it easier than ever to maintain consistent messaging across your product notifications.
Streamlined workflow:
- Export templates directly from Dyspatch to your Knock workflows
- Create new workflows on-the-fly during export
- Full admin control over integration setup and management
Repeating partials within blocks
Using the new <dys-include> element, you can define an element once then call on it multiple times within a block. Simply define your <dys-partial> element within your block, whether it’s a product cart, list item, gallery element or more, then call on it multiple times within a block using the <dys-include> element.
Defining repeatable elements will help you build more sophisticated layouts, and help reduce code duplication and simplify layout management.
More Enhanced User Experience & Productivity Boosters
- Smarter Localization Management: Rich text editing support has been added to our localization functionality with HTML fallback options available at your fingertips.
- Persistent Preview Settings: Templates and blocks will now remember your dynamic data preferences.
Ready to experience these powerful new features? These updates are designed to accelerate your email marketing operations while maintaining the design quality and brand consistency your customers expect.
June updates round up
Template organization just got simple with tags!
We’ve shipped tags in Dyspatch. Now you can organize templates, blocks, and drafts exactly how your team thinks—by audience, campaign, feature set, or whatever makes sense for your workflow.
Instead of scrolling through endless template lists, create the organizational system that actually matches how your team operates. Tag by customer segment, campaign type, or testing status.
What changes for your team:
- Tag templates across email, SMS, push, and voice channels
- Filter your entire template library instantly
- Pull tagged templates, drafts, and blocks via API for automated workflows
- Build organizational systems that grow with your content library
Cross-functional teams can finally speak the same language. Marketing tags by audience, developers tag by deployment status, and everyone finds what they need without hunting.
Available globally for all Dyspatch accounts.
Misc usability updates
- Email previews now supports external domains, Dyspatch admins can allow specific or wildcard domains at the account level, letting you send your test emails with personalization to external stakeholders or litmus email tests
- Advanced folder management has been added to the image upload window, allowing you to keep your files organized without having to leave the email builder.
- Email Guardrails will now warn you if you use file formats not compatible with some email clients
- Orphaned localizations can now be restored if your localizations key changes while editing your untranslated email template
- Download email as PDF now supports customer profiles to allow you to preview your advanced personalization and pass it on for review
- Sort by preferences are now remembered for content list results, including templates, blocks, themes, blueprints, and images
May updates round up
Enhance your email creation, management, and testing experience with recent updates to Dyspatch. Several key improvements have been made across our Email Builder, Email Guardrails, Block Editor, Integrations, and API capabilities. Read on for more information:
Email Builder Improvements
- New Link Parameters: Added link-level parameter support for dys-button, dys-img, and dys-text elements
- Enhanced Customer Profiles: Our data tab has been updated to display a “variables in use” list that shows variable sources (global, profile, custom, or undefined)
- Improved Email Duplication: When duplicating an email, the system now defaults to the oldest draft and prompts users to select which versions to include (all drafts, published versions only, or most recent version only)
- Share Link Enhancements: Added ability to extend share link expiration dates while preserving the original URL
Email Guardrails Expanded
- Spam Protection: Added new guardrail feature that checks content against a spam word list to ensure sending efficiency
PS. We are currently working on an epic of major improvements to Email Guardrails, stay tuned!
Block Editor Improvements
- Blueprint Support: Easily update blocks across multiple blueprints simultaneously with our updated bulk update support
- Code Editor Improvements: Added text size adjustment in the code panel with increase/decrease options with keyboard shortcut support (Cmd or Ctrl +/-)
Integration Updates
- Oracle Eloqua Integration: Dyspatch now has support for Oracle Eloqua as download type
API Capabilities
- Theme-Specific Rendering: New capability to pull emails with a specified theme when rendering templates or drafts
- API Documentation
Revision History, Enhanced Guardrails and More!
Revision History in Block Builder
Dyspatch Developers and Admins can now access a block’s version history directly in the Block Editor. With this improvement, you can:
- View visual and code-based history for each block, including its localizations
- Restore to a block’s previous version as needed
- Rename key milestones for reference and better tracking
Archived Content
The Archived Content page is now live for all enterprise customers. Admins can view and restore previously archived content for:
- Templates
- Blocks
- Themes
In App Updates & Improvements
- Guardrails: The threshold for warning that your email may be clipped by Gmail has been lowered to <80kb (from previous limit) to account for additional code that may be inserted by email service providers.
- Webhooks: A test button has been added to the Dyspatch admin that will allow users to manually validate their webhook connections.
- Template Variables: Easily retrieve your variables on a per email basis with the new “Copy to Clipboard” button in the data tab of the email builder.
- SMS: Users can now send SMS and Voice template previews pre-filled with selected customer profiles for easy testing.
Dyspatch Markup Language (DML) Improvements
- Dynamic Year Display: Use @{|year} to automatically show the current year in all templates upon export.
- Character Limits: Set maximum character counts on dys-text, dys-title, dys-button and other elements.
- Dys Image Alignment: Alignment & full-width on mobile options have been added to dys-img editable styles.
- Dys Button: Full-width has been added as a toggleable style on Dys Buttons to enable 100% width for buttons in the Email Builder.
Account Settings Updates
A new toggle in the admin portal is available to help streamline template management. It can be used to prevent:
- Duplicate template names
- Duplicate draft names within templates
This keeps your organization’s file naming consistent and organized.