We’re thrilled to announce our latest wave of product updates and fixes for June, bringing a host of new features and improvements to enhance your url.rw experience and give you even more control over your Biolink pages. Our focus for this release was on empowering you with better communication, more customization, and deeper insights.
Let’s dive into what’s new!
Stay Notified: The All-New Notification Handlers System
One of our most significant updates this month is the introduction of our fully-featured Notification Handlers system. This robust new capability ensures you’re always in the loop, providing 13 different ways to receive notifications directly from your Biolink blocks.
- Comprehensive Notification Options: Whether it’s a new appointment booked through your booking block or an order placed on your QR Menu store, you can now get instant alerts. This means less time checking manually and more time responding to your audience and customers. We now support a wide range of notification channels, including:
- Email notifications
- Webhook notifications
- Slack notifications
- Discord notifications
- Telegram notifications
- Microsoft Teams notifications
- SMS notifications
- Phone call notifications
- Whatsapp notifications
- X (formerly Twitter) tweet notifications
- Google chat notifications
- Internal notification notifications
- Data Collection Alerts: We’ve integrated these notification handlers directly into your Biolink Blocks Collector Types. Now, when new data is collected via your forms or other data-gathering blocks, you’ll be immediately notified, allowing for timely follow-ups and efficient data management.
- Payment Confirmation Notifications: For those utilizing payment features, the new notification handlers are also integrated into Biolink Blocks Payment Types. You’ll receive instant alerts when new payments are successfully processed, ensuring you never miss a transaction and can fulfill orders promptly.
- Full API & Admin Management: To give you complete control, we’ve implemented a comprehensive API system and a full management panel within your admin dashboard for these notification handlers. This allows for seamless integration with your existing workflows and easy configuration of your notification preferences.
These new notification features are designed to streamline your operations, improve response times, and ultimately help you better manage the interactions happening on your Biolink pages.
Enhanced Scheduling & Information Display
We’ve added powerful new blocks to make your Biolink pages even more functional for your audience.
- Fully Featured Booking Block: Managing appointments just got easier! The new, fully-featured Booking Block for Biolink Pages allows your visitors to schedule appointments directly from your page, providing a seamless experience for both you and your clients. This is perfect for consultants, service providers, or anyone who needs to manage their availability.
- Business Hours Block: Clearly communicate your availability with the new Business Hours Block for Biolink Pages. This helps your audience know when you’re open for business or available for contact, reducing confusion and improving customer satisfaction.
- Text Modal Block: Need to share more detailed information without cluttering your main page? The new Text Modal block allows you to display additional content in a pop-up window, keeping your Biolink page clean while providing access to important details like terms and conditions, FAQs, or extended descriptions.
Improved Content Control & Presentation
We’re giving you more tools to manage how your content is displayed and interacted with.
- Sensitive Content Flagging: You can now set a particular Block Link as sensitive content. This is crucial for maintaining content standards and providing a safer browsing experience for your audience, allowing you to flag content that may not be suitable for all viewers.
- Column Settings for Blocks: Maximize your page layout efficiency with the ability to set column settings for certain biolink blocks. This means you can now have two blocks side-by-side in one row, allowing for more dynamic and space-efficient designs on your Biolink page.
- Reworked Paragraph Block with WYSIWYG Editor: Editing text on your Biolink page is now much more intuitive. We’ve fully reworked the biolink paragraph block to support editing via a WYSIWYG editor, giving you a “what you see is what you get” experience for formatting your text, making content creation easier and more precise.
- Enhanced Theme Selector: Discovering the perfect look for your Biolink page is now more enjoyable. We’ve fully reworked the biolink theme selector to a more beautiful and user-friendly one, making it easier to browse and select themes that match your brand and style.
- New “Barcelona” Preset Theme: To kickstart your design options, we’ve also added a beautiful new preset Theme called Barcelona.
- Custom Account Profile Picture: Personalize your profile even further with the ability to set a custom account profile picture.
Deeper Insights & Analytics
Understanding your audience is key, and we’ve boosted your analytics capabilities.
- Enhanced Link Statistics Page: Gain a clearer picture of your link performance with the new statistics page for links. You can now verify most views by the hour, providing granular insights into when your content is most engaging. This also includes support within the API, allowing for custom data integrations.
- Email Analytics Reports: Stay informed about your link performance with our new fully featured Email Analytics Reports. You can now receive weekly or monthly reports directly to your inbox, providing convenient summaries of your link’s engagement without needing to log in every time.
Improved Customization & Sharing
We’ve added more ways to customize your content and share your links across platforms.
- Color Transparency Support: Get more creative with your QR codes and frames! We’ve implemented color transparency support for the frame text color, frame color, foreground color, and eyes color, giving you more design flexibility and ensuring your QR codes seamlessly integrate with your branding.
- New Social Share Options:
- Instagram Direct Message Block: Connect with your audience on Instagram easily with the new Instagram Direct Message social block link for biolink pages. This allows visitors to send you a direct message on Instagram with a single click.
- Share to Snapchat Handle: We’ve improved share buttons by adding the new Share to Snapchat handle, expanding your reach and making it easier for your audience to share your content on their preferred platforms.
- Share to Microsoft Teams Handle: For business users, we’ve also improved share buttons by adding the new Share to Microsoft Teams handle, facilitating easy sharing within team environments.
Reliability & Performance Fixes
Behind the scenes, we’ve also been busy making important improvements to ensure a smooth experience.
- Duplicate Data Prevention for Collector Blocks: We’ve improved the email and phone collector blocks to avoid duplicated data, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the information you collect from your audience.
We’re continuously working to make url.rw the best tool for your online presence. We hope you enjoy these new updates and look forward to seeing how you utilize them to enhance your Biolink pages!
Stay tuned for more exciting developments!
The url.rw Team
