Dyspatch
Release Notes
New: Automatic Image Optimization
We’ve introduced automatic image optimization to our image library that has been designed to improve email performance and overall user experience.
When uploading new assets our real-time optimization will help to automatically reduce file sizes, while maintaining image quality. This will help speed up your email delivery, minimizing email load times in a market where every second counts.
While building your email or SMS marketing messages, oversized images will be automatically optimized to provide quicker loading times for your end users. For advanced users who want full control over their optimization, this can be bypassed by using the ‘upload unoptimized’ option in the image library.
Key Benefits
- Improved Email Deliverability: Smaller image sizes mean faster email loading and happier customers.
- Cost Efficiency: Reduced asset storage and transmission costs.
- Enhanced User Experience: Streamlined email creation process eliminating the need to rely on outside help to optimize your images.
Expanded Integrations & Email Previews
Expanded Brevo integration with localizations support
Our Brevo integration has been updated to add full localization support. Emails designed with Dyspatch will export to Brevo as a single template with conditional logic, allowing you to manage multiple language versions efficiently within one template.
This added functionality will reduce clutter in your Brevo account and allow Dyspatch to remain the source of truth for your communications and collaboration.
Preview customer profiles before generating Litmus device tests
Dyspatch users will now see a preview of the email they are editing when selecting a customer profile in the litmus preview flow. This will help the user with additional context so they know they’re testing the right profile before sending their email off to Litmus for device testing via our direct integration.
Skip approval has moved!
Skip approval has been relocated; it is now a dropdown option on the “Submit for Approval” button to reduce clicks and streamline the workflow for smaller teams and power users. Users who have publishing access on a workspace can see this feature.
For users who are not admins, the skip option will not be visible if the workspace has assigned approvers. Admins will still always be able to access this feature.
Introducing an Account Settings page
A new “Account Settings” page has been added to our admin dashboard! We’ve consolidated controls for workflow features that existed across various admin pages into a single page for easier management:
- Generate plain text for emails: Automatically generate the plain text version for email content.
- Allow export before publishing: Email can be exported to your connected integrations before it has been published.
- Enable approval step before localizations: Email content and design must be approved before the content can be localized.
Other tweaks & adjustments
- The ‘block layers’ panel has been updated to always be visible, regardless of your email status.
- Dys-wrapper element support has been added to the advanced theme tab, so it can be styled with advanced customization.
Draft Workflow API Enhancements
New API capabilities have been added for improved draft management. Webhooks will continue to fire for draft submissions, but have now been expanded to also cover Approvals and Rejections. These updates will provide enhanced flexibility for your draft review processes, offering more control over approvals and enabling more comprehensive draft management.
Reject Draft
- Added a new endpoint to reject a draft for further edits
- Support for a comment to be added to a rejection
Approve Draft
- Introduced an endpoint for partial approval
- Does not finalize draft if other approvers are pending
- Automatically adds an “API user” as an approver
- Support for a comment to be added to a submission
Approve Draft For All
- New endpoint to approve and publish a draft immediately
- Bypasses standard approval workflows
- Support for a comment to be added to a submission
For more information please see our API documentation.
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.
What else is new?
UX Sprint 2024 Release Notes
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Build & manage your SMS marketing campaigns
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Simplified Integration management, Enhanced User Experience, and More: What’s New in Dyspatch
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