NationBuilder Release Notes

Understanding your community just got a whole lot easier.

With our latest release, we’ve introduced AI-powered Opinion summaries to ActionButton—making it faster than ever to turn raw responses into clear insights.

Whether you're organizing neighbors, gathering feedback from classmates, or rallying support for a cause, you can now:

• ✍️ Ask your community anything using the Opinion button—e.g. “What’s the most important issue in our neighborhood?”
• ⚡ Get an instant AI-generated summary of the responses—see the big picture at a glance.
• 🔍 Explore individual answers in the ActionButton dashboard, sync them directly with your nation, or export them as a CSV.

🎉 Bonus: If you’re a NationBuilder customer, you already have free access to ActionButton. Just connect it to your nation with a few clicks and start collecting insights today.

Why it matters

We’re using AI to do what it does best: cut down on manual work, so you can focus on what truly matters—connecting with your community and leading with humanity.

Try it now and let us know what you think!

We’ve made a series of updates to improve how users engage with your buttons: all designed to make actions easier, clearer, and more impactful.

These changes include:

• Cleaner, more focused design: We removed distracting horizontal lines and moved the “Created by” tag to the bottom of the button, helping the call to action stand out.
• Seamless embedding: You can now easily remove the button's border with the new showBorder=true/false parameter.
• More eye-catching colors: We’ve refreshed the button color palette to make it more vibrant and attention-grabbing across different devices and backgrounds.
• Easier sharing: A new Copy Link option in the sharing menu and thank you screen makes it faster for users to spread your message across platforms.
• More flexibility in branding: Prefer a cleaner look? You can now remove the logo from your buttons.
• More inclusive language: We've updated the language “lawmaker” to say “elected officials” on the Contact Your Lawmaker button, to better support users across the globe.
• More expressive user input: We’ve removed the character minimum for opinion-based responses on future buttons. This makes the Opinion button more flexible, allowing the submission of shorter responses.

You can now assign broadcasters to specific Groups—giving you greater control over who can access and send messages from each broadcaster. This update aligns communication permissions with your team structure, just like Groups already do for people and websites. This is ideal for organizations with regional teams, volunteers, or strict data controls.

Available on Enterprise and Network plans.

👉 Read the full blog post for more details and set up instructions.

Your supporters can now interact with fully translated buttons in their own language. Here’s how it works:

• Select your preferred language from the dropdown menu when creating a new button.
• All pre-loaded text on the button—including labels, links, and helper text—will be automatically translated.

We hope this enhancement empowers you to engage even more people around the world and inspire them to take action. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team.

With integrated apps, you can effortlessly make different software systems work together and share data. NationBuilder offers dozens of apps, and we've recently upgraded our Zapier integration, enabling you to automate tasks between NationBuilder and thousands of third-party applications!

Read more about ways Zapier can help you streamline your operations on our blog and find detailed instructions in our documentation.

If you’re in the US or Canada, you can now send longer SMS messages—no need to squeeze everything into one text. The new character counter makes it easy to see how many credits your message will use. Check out the documentation for details on how this impacts billing.

We’re pleased to announce 2 new updates to the ActionButton dashboard!

Get the metrics you need for all of your buttons

Get clear insights into the views and completed actions from any of your buttons. Whether you are sending your button out on social, text or email, learn how your buttons resonate with your audience in real-time.

Granular data on your legislative advocacy actions

You can now easily see which recipients have been contacted and how many messages they’ve received. What makes this update particularly significant is how it empowers you to take the right next steps. By knowing exactly which recipients are receiving the most attention—and which aren’t—you can adjust your outreach to fill gaps or sustain pressure where it’s needed most.

Read our support documentation for more information about these new features.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of the new and improved NationBuilder Insights, which will provide Enterprise customers with a new game-changing view of their data.

What’s New with NationBuilder Insights?

• Daily data updates: Respond quickly to emerging trends, adjust strategies on the fly, and always stay a step ahead. Daily updates ensure you’re never working with outdated information.
• New email dashboard: Email is one of the most powerful ways to mobilize supporters, and our new dashboards give you an in-depth look at delivery, open, and click rates across your entire nation or network.
• New fundraising dashboard: Fundraising is the engine that powers your mission. With our new fundraising dashboards, track total revenue, donor behavior, and average transaction size—all in one place. Spot trends and fine-tune your strategies for maximum revenue growth.
• Enhanced filtering: Customize your view with new advanced data filtering criteria (i.e. broadcaster, blast, recipient/donor tag, transaction type, tracking codes, postal code) to drill down into specific campaigns or audience segments and understand how to best refine your strategy.

Get in touch with your Enterprise Account Manager for more information.

NationBuilder is upgrading its login system, replacing the current experience with a more modern, more secure one. This upgrade will involve a series of rolling feature releases.

We will be migrating customers to a new authentication system in phases and you will receive an email notice ahead of your nation’s planned migration.

We officially released the NationBuilder API v2! After months of testing, the new version is designed to give developers, integrators, and creators more flexibility, security, and efficiency.

Built on the JSON framework, API v2 offers powerful features like:

• Precise data filtering and lightweight responses.
• Sideposting to interact with multiple objects in one request.
• New endpoints for paths, relationships, automations, and more.

Read our blog post for more details.