September Release Notes – 2021

Our product team has made some significant changes to our software this month. Here’s a detailed description of the updates:

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Free Text Questionnaire and Free Text Questionnaire Geolocation

  • Added new question types (list and statement)
  • Added the ability to create sections in your questionnaire
  • Added the ability to insert videos and images into your questionnaire
  • Added new settings (set cooldown time, set start time, set end time, set maximum number of submissions per user)

WYSIWYG Enhancements

The WYSIWYG editor is everywhere throughout our platform. So this was a pretty big update. It can really level up a lot of apps, especially with the updates we’ve been making on deep linking and action items. 

  • Ability to add buttons to any WYSIWYG
  • Cleaned up the WYSIWYG menu

New Stripe APIs

  • Refund payment ability (for captured payments)
  • Cancel payment ability (you can cancel authorized payments before the amount has been captured)
  • Added new “metadata” option for Stripe Connect

New Feature — Deeplink onUpdate

  • Can be used to listen for deep link changes
  • For example, push notifications or action items that can navigate to the active feature (ex. launcher)
  • Check our onUpdate documentation for more info

SDK — Standards Cleanup

  • Improved standards consistency
  • Focused on core components like Carousel button and Action Item buttons and links

Nic Hughart

Nic is the VP of Sales at BuildFire. He's a proven sales leader with 20+ years of experience in SMB, MM & ENT level sales markets, with more than a decade in the SaaS segment. Nic specializes in leadership, hiring, training, developing, and optimizing growing sales teams.