Embedded widgets width can now be easier controlled by allowing you to either select a full width content or make the content expand to the width of the widget. The whole widget will still take 100% of parent's width all the time.
We totally reworked the way your JS snippet is generated and now its size will solely depend on the features and integrations you use in your account. This was a huge change and will help us further optimize our js bundle to make it run faster and be smaller in size.
Now every text and caption in the widget builder can be configured translated. The last ones which were hardcoded and now are configurable are the units of the timer element and the feedback on copy text of the coupon element.
It used to be tricky to select some elements which are just containers in the Personalization builder. We now added a select parent button to make it easier.
We have improved the CSS and HTML of all the widget elements to make them look better and be more optimized code-wise.
You can now sync your contacts to your GetResponse account, as well as target them by their list membership.
We have updated our bot database and now bots are better ignored from counting towards your monthly visitors quota. This will keep your quotas clean with only the real visitors visiting your site.
Now you can finally AB test your widgets in Personizely. You can have up to five variations of your widget with different designs, elements, and steps. You can also AB test the trigger so you can learn which trigger works better for a certain use case. Besides the AB testing tooling itself we've built a detailed reporting system that allows you to understand which variation is a winning one and to see what's the statistical significance of each result. Try it out and let us know about your experience and results.
Previously when a product was changed in Shopify, you had to resync/re-add your products in your Personizely widgets - no more. All the changes are automatically synchronized now, including the price, the title, and images.
When previewing the widgets, the website preview was not being displayed for some server configuration due to iframe policy settings. We've reworked the preview window and it now supports most sites.
You can now set the widget to perform certain actions like redirect or widget close once the timer is exceeding its time limit.
If you have custom CSS for your Personalization variations - you will now see how it affects the page directly in the preview window.
A new integration has landed in Personizely. You can now sync contacts with Convertkit while also being able to identify contacts visiting from a newsletter as known visitors to show or hide widgets/personalizations from them.
Phone number validation is no longer done directly in the widget using a regexp. Now the backend is automatically detecting whether a country code is prefixed and if not it is going to prepend it by detecting visitor's geolocation.
You can now trigger automations when someone clicks an image element.
You can now target Shopify logged-in customers by their customer tags.
A new DOM event is now being triggered when a campaign or widget has an event performed on it. You can listen to it using the following piece of code:
document.addEventListener('personizely:{widget/campaign}:{view/click/submit}', (e) => {
console.log('Entity with id', e.detail.id)
})
Note: Curly braces are there just to show the possible value placeholders.
In Personizely 2.0 we've rebuilt the personalization product from scratch. We took into account a lot of feedback received from our customers as well as the industry's standards. Using the new editor you are going to be able to:
A few more words on the personalization editor. In the new editor, you are able to edit any element on the page and customize text/images/URLs as well as the visual aspect with colors, borders, and font size. You can hide specific elements based on the visitor's device or totally hide some elements from the page.
In Personizely 2.0 Campaigns can be both used for Personalization and AB testing. You can create a campaign and target All visitors, which will allow you to show one variation to a certain percent of your visitors, giving you the ability to run experiments with new sales pitches, call to actions, and images and make decisions backed by data to implement them or not.
Until now the targeting options in Personizely were pretty limited. You only were able to target visitors who match a specific list of filters. Now you're going to be able to Include/Exclude visitors based on these filters while also being able to group filters between them and choose to include/exclude those who match all or any filter in a group. Also, the UTM and Cookie filters were improved and now you can use text matching rules there too.
Now you're able to track goals like element clicks, page views, and custom events. Goals allow you to attribute goal conversions to Personizely's widgets, personalizations, and experiments. Using our SDK you're now able to track purchases on your websites like you would do with a FB pixel, by just calling ply.trackGoal('Purchase', 100). More info can be found in the helpdesk article.
Now if a visitor submits a form on your website and you have Personalizations anywhere on your page, including other steps of the same widget, they are going to be replaced with fresh data on every change. As an example, this will give you the ability to personalize thank your messages on the forms, so if someone submits a form with a Name field, you can use, "Thank you, John" on the next page, where John is a personalized placeholder.
Now you can change field values (including custom fields) when a visitor performs an action within a widget. Using this you can create Surveys with buttons or change fields automatically once someone opt-ins.
A new widget frequency display option was added, which gives you the ability to close widgets once they are closed by the visitor. This will give you more flexibility and allow making widgets less annoying.
We reworked our client-facing script (the one that you embed in your sites) and made it even lighter while gaining performance. This will both make your websites faster, bring widgets and campaigns quicker and allow us to build more cool stuff on the basis of that.