NationBuilder Release Notes

🔗 Trackable links

We recently released a tool that allows you to shorten URLs and optimize your text blast by saving characters. The shortened links are trackable, and you can now see exactly how many people clicked in the email blast overview of your broadcaster.

🔍 New filters

We’ve added 2 new filters to the people section to help you make data-driven decisions and take action. You can now filter for:

• Sent - people who have been sent one or more specific text blasts
• Clicked - text blast recipients who have clicked a shortened link in one or more specific text blasts

The theme step is now the first step in creating a new email blast! Why do this?

• To provide a user experience that better supports the user’s intuitive decision-making process, starting with “What kind of email blast do I want to send? Do I want to clone a previous email blast?”
• When cloning a previous email blast, the user no longer has to click through the Theme step.
• No more wasted time on filling out the entire Settings form before encountering the Clone option at the bottom.
• No more confusing warning modal when changing themes on a brand new email blast.

🌟 ActionButton

• Several customers have wanted a way to target state senators and state representatives separately - now they can!

✉️ Email

• When sending a 1:1 email and ccing someone, the behavior used to be that these cc recipients were automatically cced in any email created later. We’ve changed that so they are no longer added to new emails.

😊 People

• Some tags didn’t populate as a recipient option in broadcasters for texting, this has been fixed!
  We added status_reason as a membership liquid drop

💸 Finances

• You used to be able to change the payment type for a credit card through an import and break all the transactions. This is no longer possible!

We have some exciting news that will transform the way you create and send emails for your organization! Introducing the brand-new drag-and-drop email builder, designed specifically with non-technical users in mind.

Say hello to a user-friendly experience that will make your email communications a breeze:

• Use stock themes or start from scratch: Choose our new professionally designed stock themes that instantly give your emails a polished look. Alternatively, if you prefer a unique touch, start from scratch and let your creativity shine.
• Effortless Drag-and-Drop: Our intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities make it a breeze to compose your emails. Simply select the elements you want to include and drop them into place.
• Personalize with ease: Making your emails reflect your brand has never been easier. Customize your colors, header, and footer in just a few clicks and match your organization's visual identity.
• Team efficiency and consistency: Save your custom themes and make them available for your team to use later. This ensures that your branding remains consistent across all your communications, saving you time and effort.

Visit the email theme gallery or create your own

✉️ Email

• We simplified the code required to ask recurring donors to increase their regular gift amounts. This allows emailing donors with an ask to increase their monthly or annual donation amount by a dynamic percentage with far less liquid. Read our documentation for Instructions.

🤖 Automations

• We fixed a bug with automations filters in the People section that could not be grouped together with other filter criteria.

✉️ Email

Are you using custom themes? We added thumbnails for custom theme previews in the email editor.

😊 People

We added autodistricting for Austria 🇦🇹. It means that profiles with a primary address in Austria will automatically be assigned to their electoral districts.

Are you using the ActionButton add-on? Supercharge your nation with easy-to-share quizzes, polls, petitions, and more. The latest exciting addition to our ActionButton add-on, the Custom Email Target Button, is now available! 🎉

With this new button, you can mobilize your supporters to email a specific decision-maker, regardless of their geolocation. Identify a target that has a publicly available email address and simply enter it into the settings of the button, upload their photo, and encourage your audience to send them a message!

Whether you need to target a company, an institution, or a local representative, this new button can help! Visit our blog to see examples of use for this new button.

The Custom Email Target button is included in ActionButton plans that have access to legislative advocacy features (Paid plan & Plus plan).

💸 Finances

We fixed theme issues that prevented using express payment options with staged donations pages

💸 Supporter portal

Donors can now receive automated notifications when a recurring donation fails to process! The feature is available under Settings > Supporter portal > Donation management > Enable failed donation notifications. Only recurring donors processed through NationBuilder Payments are able to receive these emails. You can edit the copy prior to enabling the email type, read more in our documentation.

😊 People

When an Address2 is deleted from an address, it now stays deleted

This update was published on Dec 28, 2022

💸 Supporter portal

• Your recurring donors can now edit their recurring donation amount through the supporter portal.

• You can also email your donors with a link to a specified amount in the portal so they can easily find where to increase their recurring donation amount. Read our documentation for more details.