Dyspatch
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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.
New dark mode support, image replace, expanded headline styling & more
The dark side of the app
Dark mode users rejoice! In the name of reducing eye strain, Dyspatch has now added a dark mode switch.
Our app will inherit its state from your Mac OS or Windows preferences, ensuring a consistent experience with your other dark mode-friendly applications. Toggle the switch anytime to set it manually.
Check it out, and while you’re at it, let us know what you think of our unique dark mode Dyspatch logo!
Improved email consistency with image replace
Within the Dyspatch image library, you can now update an existing image while maintaining its current file path URL using the “replace image” action. This will update the image globally, and reflect in the inbox automatically, without requiring you to update or resync existing emails.
Easily update images as you iterate on email designs, without having to worry about creating clutter in your image library. Replace image is a powerful feature for branding or document updates; easily update your logo or other shared assets on the fly. Your changes will not only apply to new emails, but previously sent emails will reflect the updated assets as well.
Expanded headline support
Typographers rejoice! Dyspatch has updated the dys-title styling options in the Theme Editor to support styling each heading level independently. By default, all dys-titles will reflect the theme’s H2 styling; you can update your theme to set different styles for H1 – H6 elements to more accurately reflect your brand guidelines.
Advanced features, unlocked!
A couple power features that were previously reserved for internal use only have been added to the Dyspatch app. These were developed internally to enable our dedicated services team to work more efficiently when onboarding new customers, and we’re excited to share them with you:
- Rendered code preview in the block builder
When developing your email blocks, you can now toggle a preview of the ESP or CRM specific code you will be generating when exporting your email.
- DML block builder in the Dyspatch email builder
Use DML directly in the Dyspatch email builder to quickly create new modules, without having to switch over to our block builder. Build new bespoke modules in context; easily save them to the block library to reuse in other emails.
Announcing our new Marketo email integration
With our new Adobe Marketo Engage integration, teams can create and collaborate on emails using the Dyspatch no-code email builder, then effortlessly sync their emails directly into their Marketo Engage accounts. Teams will save valuable time creating and testing emails, and ensure every email is on brand and personalized to connect with your audience.
New Dashboard
Dyspatch users both new and old will be delighted to see the love we’ve given to our workspaces dashboard. With our newly designed workspaces dashboard you will now be able to quickly access your favorite and most recently updated emails, as well you will be able to quickly list emails by status including emails that are currently being localized, in review, or recently published.
Save and re-use your custom layouts in Dyspatch
Custom layout designs made in our no code email builder can now be saved as re-usable email blocks. Allowing you to speed up your module creation workflow, and build out your email design system.
Duplicate data profiles
Data profiles are an integral part of building and testing your dynamically personalized emails. With this added functionality you can duplicate your existing data profiles to create new customer profiles and variations for testing all of your email use cases.
Phrase TMS support added
Our Phrase localizations integration has been upgraded to support Phrase TMS as well as our existing Strings integration. Phrase TMS offers robust translation management capabilities, and advanced workflow automation. While Strings focuses on simplicity and ease of use, making it ideal for smaller projects or teams.
Our first big updates for 2024!
Figma Live Embed for Dyspatch
We are excited to announce a powerful new integration for designers and developers who use Dyspatch: Figma live embed. This feature transforms your email design workflow, fostering real-time collaboration and streamlining processes for swift email production and seamless collaboration.
With the Figma integration in Dyspatch, your team will be empowered to create, iterate, and finalize email designs in real-time within the Dyspatch email production platform. Coupled with our Dyspatch email builder design system community files, your email production time will be vastly reduced, as you’ll eliminate the need for time-consuming back-and-forth communication between teams.
Your design team will find reassurance in knowing that once they hand over their email designs, developers will be implementing the latest iterations of their mockups when building, testing, and localizing emails. Ensure Dyspatch themes and blocks stay in sync with your Figma design files; link to a specific Figma document, frame, or component.
The Dyspatch Figma live embed feature will also translate into a significant boost in speed for email developers. By eliminating the need to juggle multiple windows or tabs during the email creation process, developers can now implement email designs with ease and minimal context switching between Figma and Dyspatch – all visual components will be in right where you need them, in Dyspatch.
This integration between Figma and Dyspatch is available to all teams in Dyspatch starting in January 2024. Contact us to see the magic!
- Learn more about our suite of tools for email designers here
- Streamline your Email Design Process with Figma & Dyspatch
Consolidate your Project briefs & frequently used links in our Email Builder
Project management professionals, and email content managers alike will now find even more useful functionality built into the Dyspatch email builder with the addition of project links that can be added and maintained on a per email basis. Add and manage your Asana, Dropbox, Figma, Slack, Jira, Google Drive, and Office 365 links all in one place, to save your team from having to dig up their frequently used files as they build their emails with Dyspatch.
Update to latest block version from the visual editor
Until now, bulk updating a change to a block is an all or nothing change in Dyspatch. But you might want to see how a block will update in an individual email, or sometimes want to update a draft without potentially interfering with in-progress work.
Using Dyspatch’s updated block refreshing functionality, you can now easily update your email blocks to the latest saved version, without having to use bulk apply, or having to re-drag the block into your email to see the latest design updates.
What else is new? Mini updates
- Bulk apply now supports select/deselect all for drafts, allowing users to manually opt out specific emails from bulk apply
- The Email Builder now includes a list of blocks being used by the template, allowing you to easily identify and edit the blocks currently used in your emails. Helper icons indicate which blocks have conditional display logic or are hidden/lacking content, allowing you to easily identify dynamic content in your emails
- Editable Fields can now be reset to the default value at the block level, reverting any design changes you’ve made to your email blocks
Request a demo today to learn more about all of the exciting updates we’re making to Dyspatch in 2024!
What else is new?
New ways to share an email with stakeholders
Sharing an email with stakeholders before sending is a key step in every email team’s workflow. Dyspatch has many options to ensure you get feedback and signoff from the right people at the right … More info about New ways to share an email with stakeholders
Improve your collaboration with custom approval workflows, Brevo export & more!
Multi-step approvals Organizations on the Team+ plan will rejoice in hearing about our new optional multi-step approvals. With multi-step approvals enabled, emails will now have a design approval … More info about Improve your collaboration with custom approval workflows, Brevo export & more!
Kick off your summer with advanced features for power email creators
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