Changelog

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Text pasting bug fix

• We fixed a bug related to pasting in text. It should now render consistently.

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Major email editor improvements

• Each block can have it’s own styles separate from the main email style. This allows you to give the block it’s own background color and adjust the padding and margin. This means you can now have images go edge-to-edge on a card style email.
• We deprecated block spacing as you can now control this via the block padding.
• In addition to buttons, you can now type on every block directly in the editor.
• Videos now show a play button on them to help people know that they’re a video.

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Small Improvements and URL changes

• In a text block, you can type @view-in-browser to insert the view in browser link. This link is unique per recipient which ensure merge tags (like first name, last name, and email) still work.
• We moved the email manager (where people can unsubscribe and update their preferences) to a new domain (https://churchspace.email)
• We changed the link for proxied content (https://churchusercontent.com).
• We made it easier to retry a failed domain verification.
• Sent images are now cached and should load faster for most users in their emails.
• We fixed some bugs in the text block. You should have a better experience pasting text and your text alignment will persist when you change text size.

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View emails in browser

• You can now view emails in the browser. This option is on the bottom of every email.

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Small changes and bug fixes

• Type in buttons within the editor to change their text. Previously you could only change the text using the sidebar.
• Dividers can now have a height of 0. This lets you use the divider block as a spacer.
• We now proxy images in emails which helps prevent them from not loading for people who use Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection.
• We fixed a bug that was occasionally causing text emails to take 30+ minutes to send.

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Test Emails Persist

• Test emails should now persist in the input. This saves you from having to type in your email address(es) in every time you want to send a test.

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Lists are under people (and bug fixes)

• Lists and lists permissions are now under the People tab on the sidebar
• You can manually refresh your lists using the Actions button on the Lists page. This is helpful is a list is shared with the account that did the sync with Church Space and Planning Center and it’s not showing up right away in Church Space. We have a better fix for this in progress.
• We fixed a bug that was causing imports to fail if a column has an apostrophe in its name.
• We removed the domain step from getting started, allowing new accounts to get in the app faster.

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Rich Text in Email Footer Description

• We’ve added rich text editing to the email footer so you can add formatting and line breaks to your footer description.

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AI Subject Lines

• While we continue to work on our AI email builder, we’re putting out a taste with our subject line generator. Give it a go and let us know what you think!

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Improved Permissions

• You can now restrict who can access certain lists, their list members, and the emails sent to those lists. This should help secure any confidential lists and emails.
• You can change the default sync permission in settings if you would prefer to have all lists be visible to owners only by default.

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Import Improvements and Bug Fixes

• We’ve added the option to input the name of a former audience when importing contacts. This will show up in Planning Center under the Church Space custom tab.
• We added a nicer loading state for the email editor and the email preview.
• We fixed a bug that was making all new email templates use Courier New as the font family.
• We fix the focus ring being clipped on the editor’s sidebar inputs.
• We fixed a bug on the categories table where if you added a new category and then went to edit a category, the wrong category editor would potentially open up.
• We fixed a bug that wasn’t allowing email previews to load and test emails to send in Webkit based browsers (Safari, any mobile browser on iOS, etc.).
• We fixed a bug where the color scheme previews were not showing on the new email modal on Safari.

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Email Editor Sidebar Improvements

We’ve made a few small changes across the app.

1. We have cleaned up the email editor sidebar to make it easier to view your content. All inputs should noe be wider and easier to read. We brought this change to the link page editor too.
2. We improved how much control you have over buttons. We still have a long way to go to give you a more powerful email editor without introducing complexity.
3. We fixed a bug in our email subject tips where numbers were counting as emojis.

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Planning Center is no longer required for onboarding.

You now no longer have to connect to your Planning Center account to explore Church Space’s email builder, to use QR codes, or to use link pages.

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Add an Automation Offset for your auto-refreshed lists

Planning Center Lists refresh at 2am in the timezone set in your PCO account localization settings, but we don’t want to email our people at 2am. So, we added an offset option to our automations to make sure the flow starts at a good time.

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Church Space is officially publicly available.

This is the beginning of our journey to free your ministry from app overload, and it starts with three things:

• Email Marketing and Automations
• QR Code Management
• Link Pages

We have so much more planned that we’re excited to get out into the world. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at hello@churchspace.co. We’d love to chat!