Convertri September Updates
It’s been a month since our last mega-update, so here’s everything that’s gone on in the wonderful world of Convertri in September.
One of the biggest updates is that the Facebook pixel is now live – so you can now integrate your pixel automatically, no more messing around with code!
Events we send:
Lead – when someone submits an opt-in form you’ve connected through Convertri API.
Initiate Checkout – this one is when someone clicks a button with its mode set to Open Checkout.
Purchase – when someone buys a product through the Convertri Cart.
Events fire at the point it happens, not on your Thank You page. This means you can redirect to whatever page you wish – it doesn’t matter if your thank you page is on Convertri.
Will be blocked by the cookie consent footer if it’s being used.
This is the very first stage to getting our Conversion API properly integrated, and we’re hoping to have Facebook’s approval on that soon.
In other news, we’ve also started sending events to a data layer. Why is this important, you ask? Because a data layer can be read by Google Tag Manager – which can then send this analytics data to any other tool you use.
Events we send:
Click
Form Submission
Initiate Checkout
Purchase
We’ve also added the ability to republish all of your pages at once, checkboxes are now in the Forms Widget – and we’ve also fixed an unholy amount of bugs. Read on to find out more.
FEATURES
Facebook pixel – you can now integrate your pixel to have Convertri automatically include it on your pages and fire events automatically, so no more messing around with code. Events we send are Lead, Initiate Checkout, and Purchase. Don’t forget, this will be blocked by the cookie consent footer if you’re using it! Here’s a help doc for you: https://help.convertri.com/article/552-facebook-pixel-overview
Data Layer – Convertri is now sending events to a data layer. A data layer allows Google Tag Manager (GTM) to easily find information and send it to different tools. Events we send are Click, Form Submission, Initiate Checkout, and Purchase. This one’s a wee bit technical, so grab the help doc here: https://help.convertri.com/article/548-data-layer-reference
Republish – a new button in the Funnels screen lets you mass republish all previously published pages. Any pages in progress which haven’t already been published once will not be affected, and the same goes for pages which you unpublished yourself.
Dropdowns – dropdown menus are now available as input types in the Form Widget, allowing you to build more complex forms even easier.
Checkboxes – likewise, checkboxes are now available in the Form Widget also. These are great for complying with GDPR regulations, as you can require users to confirm they have read your T&C’s before submitting your form.
BUGS
Autowebinars – the autowebinar registration page countdown timer was showing the timer for the replay, not the actual webinar. We fixed it.
Autowebinar preview – you might have got a 404 error when previewing autowebinar pages. We’ve fixed that.
Publishing – if you have a published page and deleted it without first unpublishing, the path wasn’t being freed up. In other words, if you tried to save a new page with the same path as one of the deleted pages you might have gotten an error. We’ve fixed that.
Zapier – pages weren’t loading correctly in Zapier when you were creating a zap targeting a specific page. We’ve fixed that, too.
Forms – if you set your form to stay on the page after submitting, the “Form submitting” transparent layer never went away, so users had to refresh the page. We’ve fixed this now.
Prospects – a good problem to have? Perhaps, but if you had too many prospects in your prospect list you may not have been able to download it. We’ve added extra engines to the download rocket, so if you have a mega list you’ll be able to download it no problem.
Layers – if you cloned an element to a layer on your page, the layer was automatically selected but not actually shown on the page. Even though it told you that you were editing it, you couldn’t see anything from the layer on the page or select it. We’ve fixed this.
Zapier – if your funnel had too many pages, Zapier may have encountered some problems while loading the page names for you to select. We’ve fixed the issue.
A/B testing – something odd was happening during split tests: sometimes, Variant B of your split test would be found to contain page scripts from Variant A. We’ve sorted all that out.
Cloning – if you tried to clone elements to another page, you may not have been able to see your target page or nothing would show up.
Videos – if you added a video to a page using Convertri’s video element and users clicked on the element in the second or two before it finished loading, some playback issues may have been had. We’ve fixed this now.
Autoplay – if you configured Autoplay to Off in your video’s settings, the video player may not have stayed off. Now, we’ve made ‘autoplay on desktop’ and ‘autoplay on mobile’ always visible rather than having them hidden behind a generic ‘autoplay’ toggle, and it works a lot better.
Text – if you added a text element with a long URL, it wouldn’t wrap properly with the rest of the text. We’ve fixed it.
Funnel share links – if you click on a funnel share link when NOT logged into Convertri, you are taken to a screen that says if you are already a Convertri Member you should click on Add Funnel. However, you may have gotten a 404 error when you clicked. We’ve fixed this issue.
Video upload – sometimes, videos may have gotten stuck at Saving (almost done) while you were uploading. This was annoying, so we fixed it.
Carousels – some photos on your carousels were getting magnified when viewed on a device that changed orientation, e.g. from horizontal to vertical or vice versa. That’s fixed now.
Stay safe, and happy converting!
Beth
Executive Word Arranger at Convertri