All changes in brief:

• API extensions enable more precise customization of your e-learning environment.
• Moving the course/chapter variable for improved overview and management.
• Personalized content through extended editor functions with variables.
• New admin home menu and organization function for more efficient customer management.
• Advanced Zoho integration to optimize your CRM experience.
• Creation of mini-courses without a chapter structure for more flexible course design.
• Custom colors in the editor for individual and brand-compliant course design.

We've released our latest updates to make your e-learning experience more efficient and personalized. With the new API enhancements and improved Zoho integration, you can optimize your CRM processes. ⚙️ 

The ability to personalize courses and content using custom variables, as well as the new functions in the admin area and the profile deletion function, increase the flexibility and user-friendliness of your platform. 🤝🏽

In addition, the mini courses and custom colors in the editor offer new creative freedom. Immerse yourself in the world of Memberspot and discover how these updates enrich your digital learning! 🎉

Let's go, you can find everything about our latest functions here.👇🏽

API extensions

We have added a new API endpoint for setting and reading member-specific properties. 🌐

This opens up a wide range of possibilities for a more individual platform design. 🎨

Now you can automatically provide agency customers or employees with customer or employee portals with the right links. All you need is a form such as Type Form or a Hubspot form that you send to your customers/employees by email. 📧

For anyone using the API add-on or the Premium plan, these extensions are a real game changer. Integration is also available via Make, and integration via Zapier is planned. 📆

If you have any questions, please contact our support team for details! 👋🏽

The advantages at a glance:

✅ More control and customization: Adjust your e-learning environment more precisely by setting and reading custom properties.

✅ Integration extension: Facilitate your automation processes by integrating via Make and soon also via Zapier for a seamless e-learning experience.

✅ User-defined customizations: With these API extensions, you can make your e-learning environment even more precise and individual.

✅ Increased flexibility: Design courses and content more flexibly and responsively.

Why it is important to automate employee and customer onboarding:

⚙️ Serve more customers, thanks to the massive time savings

⚙️ Scale your fulfillment 

⚙️ Nobody should have to create Google Drive folders by hand and link them manually, or delegate this, but simply automate it

We are fans of flexibility and efficiency, which is why we have made a few changes. 👇🏽

Shifting the course/chapter variable

We have moved the variable for email notifications to the course/chapter settings - for even better handling and overview. 📚

✅ Improved clarity: Easier access and management of email notification settings directly in the course/chapter settings.

✅ Centralized control: Management of course details in one place for more efficient course maintenance.

✅ Ease of use: Simplified navigation and settings changes for a better user experience.

To further increase user-friendliness, we have expanded our editor with individual fields. 👍🏽

Advanced editor with variables

Personalize your content with variables throughout the editor to make your courses and communication more personal! 🤝🏽

In the middle of the text in the editor you will see 2 variables, the first name and a link to a drive document (highlighted in bold), which can be selected via the drop-down menu. Standard variables and member-specific properties that you can define are displayed.

This is an example of how you can use variables in the course. You can use variables in the entire editor, including in email templates. 🙌🏽

Define member-specific properties

In Memberspot, click on Settings and then on Member properties, then click on Create property in the top right-hand corner. Now you can create a new property, name the property and then choose between Text or External link and you have already created member-specific properties, i.e. user-specific variables, and can select them as variables in the editor in future. 🎉

The use of Google Drive links is ideal for direct customer contact, as shown here in the screenshot. From the drop-down menu in the editor, select the corresponding user-defined variable that you want to insert there (e.g. link) and combine this with standard variables (e.g. first name) to work even more efficiently. 📝

Please note: External link variables cannot be used in e-mail templates due to spam prevention and security reasons.

Here you can find another detailed explanation: https://help.memberspot.de/de/articles/8341360-mitgliederspezifische-eigenschaften 👈🏽

Test our variables in your course to get the most out of them for you and your members:

✅ Personalized approach: Make your courses and emails even more individual and appealing by personalizing your course content and emails with names and other individual information.

✅ Versatile application options: Whether in lessons or email templates, these variables offer you more flexibility in design.

✅ Security and control: We have implemented measures to prevent misuse through external link variables.

✅ Creativity and flexibility: Customize your content and speak directly to your users.

✅ Individual content and direct communication: Create customized learning content and communication tools.

✅ Flexibility and efficiency: Choose from a variety of variables in the editor's drop-down menu.

Our next feature massively simplifies your day-to-day work and saves you a lot of time. ⏳

New homepage and organizations

Discover our new homepage with useful links and information! 🎉

It is now also possible to bundle customers into organizations. With organizations, you can group members and combine them into one group, so to speak. This means, for example, that an agency can create an organization per company (i.e. per customer) and thus define member-specific properties once per company instead of in each individual member. ⏩

Companies that use Memberspot for employee training and onboarding can, for example, use organizations for employees and thus define the member-specific properties or the individual start page once per department or location. 📍

This function enables more efficient use of portals with varying content for different customers. ⚙️

‍Bigadvantage: Less administrative work and individual start pages per customer or department. 🏢

Further advantages: 

✅ Clear dashboard: Quick access to important functions and information.

✅ Efficient customer bundling: Organize and bundle customers and their members into clearly defined organizations to improve the overview

✅ Save time: Reduce your administrative workload and concentrate on the essentials.

You can find detailed instructions on how to create and manage organizations in this help article: https://help.memberspot.de/de/articles/8463664-organisationen 

We have also continued to work on our Zoho integration so that you can use Zoho seamlessly and to its full extent. ⚙️

Advanced Zoho integration

The Zoho integration has been extended so that fields in contacts and leads can now be updated. This allows you to use it even more seamlessly and efficiently. 💪🏽

Important: You need to create a new Zoho app with us to use the advanced features. 📊

✅ Improved field update: Update fields in Zoho contacts and leads directly from Memberspot.

✅ Optimized CRM experience: Experience a more seamless integration, similar to Hubspot.

✅ Better data management: Synchronize user data efficiently and easily and make full use of Zoho.

Watch out: A new type of course is making its way onto the platform: mini-courses without a chapter structure. 🎉

We also have a detailed help article for you here: https://help.memberspot.de/de/articles/8347496-zoho-crm-integration 👈🏽

Mini courses

Create courses without chapters, where all lessons are stored flat and without a chapter structure. Ideal for compact learning content. This gives you more flexibility when designing your course. 📚

✅ Flexible course structure: Ideal for compact learning content and faster course development.

✅ Simpler course management: Manage your courses without the complexity of chapter structures.

✅ Faster access to content: Give your users direct and uncomplicated access to learning materials.

✅ Easy to use: Simplifies the creation and management of mini-courses.

By the way, we have a new approach to color design in the editor to give your courses an individual touch. 🖌️

Custom colors in the editor

Instead of the color picker, a preselection of colors is now displayed in the editor. 🎨

Define your preferred colors under Colors & Font in the Designs tab. Adapt the color scheme in your editor to your corporate design to give your courses an individual look. 👀

Note: The colors are retained in dark mode and are not displayed inverted.

That's why you should use our custom colors:

✅ Individual color scheme: Adapt the colors of your course content to your corporate design.

✅ Brand conformity: Keep your courses in line with your company branding.

✅ Improved user experience: Create appealing and aesthetic course content.

We have reached the end, at least almost... We have presented all the November features to you in detail and hope you can make the most of them. At this point, however, we would like to give you a small preview of the next release. 👇🏽

Outlook for our next update

Stay tuned for new community features, improved profile options and enhanced API capabilities in our next update! 🌟

🚀 Community member posting: Look forward to new community features such as post sharing and moderation.

🚀 Organizations via API: Soon you will also be able to set organizations via API, Zapier or Make.

🚀 Revised profiles: We are working on new community profiles that offer more opportunities for interaction.

It remains exciting and you'll find out more soon, so stay tuned! 🙌🏽

Thank you for being part of the Memberspot community. We hope these updates will further improve your e-learning experience and look forward to your feedback on the new features. Here's to a continued successful collaboration! 💪🏽

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Your Memberspot team 💙