Kit Release Notes

When someone makes a personal introduction for you, what do you do? You thank them! It’s also the most natural way for you to then build a connection with the person you just met because you have a friend in common.

With the new Creator Network referrer conditional, you can do just that. Customize your email content by displaying personalized messages of who recommended your content to them, making your emails even more relevant and engaging.

With this feature you can:

• Reference the creator who recommended your subscriber using Liquid: {{ subscriber.recommendations.referrer.name }}
• Create conditional content based on the creator who recommended your subscriber using the Personalization block

Try it out in your next email to subscribers gained through Recommendations, or add it to your welcome Sequence to make it more personal.

For more information on how to set this up, check out this Knowledge Base article.

Our self-serve app developer platform is now in open beta for everyone to access with our brand new V4 API. With our app developer platform, if you can think it, you can build it!

You can create an app that…

• Manage subscribers
• Track purchases
• Create, schedule, and target broadcast emails
• Create plugins for the email editor with content blocks
• Use bulk endpoints to create subscribers, tags, and custom fields
• Test and iterate your app with API Keys
• Automate your own individual workflows

Whenever you’re ready, publish your app directly in your Kit and it’ll be added to our App Store page when it’s been approved by the Kit Team.

Learn more about building apps for creators here.

Discover a simpler way to manage your images in ConvertKit with our improved Media Gallery. Now, you can filter, favorite, and find images more easily, helping you save time and focus on creating content.

This new update gives you…

• “Favorites” tab for easy access: Save time by adding your most-used images to the new "Favorites" tab. Click the heart icon to favorite an image, and find all your favorites in one place, ordered by the most recently favorited. You can easily add or remove favorites with a single click.
• Enhanced Unsplash search filters: Find the perfect image faster with new filtering options. If you haven't entered a search term, you can sort Unsplash images by newest, oldest, or popular. Once you enter a search term, you can sort results by relevance or newest and filter by image orientation—landscape or portrait.
• Updated media gallery UI: Enjoy a cleaner, simpler interface that makes finding, sorting, and managing images simpler and faster.

This update provides a smoother experience for finding and managing the images you need, so you can get back to writing and creating content faster. Check out the new features next time you create an email or landing page!

A/B test your subject lines with new flexible durations directly in your Broadcast Email Editor. Choose from 30 to 240 minutes in 30-minute increments to find out which subject line resonates best with your readers.

This new feature gives you…

• Flexible testing: Adjust the test duration from 30 minutes up to 4 hours to better suit your schedule and still get valuable insights.
• Automatic deployment: Once a winning subject line is identified, it is automatically sent to the remaining recipients.
• Real-time insights: Monitor your A/B test on the Broadcast → Analytics page to see the winning subject line, determined by the highest open rate.

This update makes it easier to improve your emails without changing how you work. There's no extra learning required—just more control for you. Try it out the next time you write your newsletter!

We have a round of improvements to bring higher quality into your day-to-day experience in ConvertKit.

• Autosave, consistently: We’ve improved and standardized our autosave function across all our email and email template editors. As you’re drafting your email or editing your templates, you work will be autosaved so you don’t lose any progress.

• Apps categories: New apps are coming and we are bringing you an easy category filter so you can find what you need more easily. 

• Saved links for Recommendations: Add your top links to your account and we’ll automatically pull it into your in-network Recommendation profile. Recommendations is all about your network and we want to make connecting with other creators simpler for you.

• [Beta] App developer updates: We are building out new functionality for developers to create new Apps on ConvertKit. Developers will now be able to kick off an app approval process, and also un-publish their apps self-serve.

We’re launching an App store with apps you can install to do more with your ConvertKit. This is the new ecosystem we are building to make ConvertKit even more efficient for your needs.

We have five apps we’ll launch that will expand the way you run your business with ConvertKit:

• KitBoard: Add CRM to your ConvertKit account. Easily visualize your sales pipeline to efficiently follow up with prospects and track customer conversions.
• Wordsmith: Automatically turn your YouTube videos into email newsletters. Alert your subscribers of new video drops, round-ups, and more.
• SavvyCal: Add a 1:1 booking widget to your emails with SaavyCal and sync all the information back into the subscriber profile in ConvertKit.
• Mighty: Connect your Mighty community and pull content from your community directly from your ConvertKit account. Two apps in one.
• SegMetrics: Get actionable information from Insights, a dashboard built in partnership with SegMetrics, that gives you a comprehensive look at how you gain, engage, and convert your subscribers. This app is only available on the Creator Pro Plan.

Please note that apps may have their own billing. For more information on how to install apps, please check out our Knowledge Base article.

Drive email engagement and collect insights about your subscribers with Polls directly in your email editor. Polls are perfect way to collect information about new subscribers and explore new ideas with your super fans. With Polls, you can…

• Ask your subscribers questions and collect data
• Automatically tag creators based on their answers for better personalization and segmentation
• Increase email clickthrough rates and boost future deliverability.

Available for all paid plan users, you can add Polls to your one-off email broadcasts, evergreen sequences, email templates, and public posts, too! Start diving into Polls today and ask how your subscribers are enjoying your content.

For more information on how to set up Polls, check out this Knowledge Base article.

New updates for how you can continue to use Recommendations to grow your list:

• Block function: Use it to block others from recommending you. This can be helpful if you have strict requirements about who is recommending you or about the quality of subscribers you receive.
• New interface: We’ve moved the Settings and Customizations to the top right corner to give you a cleaner view.
• Sponsored tags: To follow industry best practices to provide transparency and clarity to your subscribers, there’s now a sponsored tag on next to all Paid Recommendations.

For more information on how to set up Free and Paid Recommendations, check out this Knowledge Base article.

Advertise on your website with platforms like Raptive? This is a game changer to drive more revenue and save you time. This is a one-click easy solution to third-party cookie deprecation that’s affected your day-to-day workflow and income.

This new account-wide advanced tracking will automate the highly manual task of appending subscriber emails to your links with just one-click—securely with SHA256 hashes.

When you enable this, every link clicked by a subscriber will now include a new parameter, sh_kit=[hashed email], that third parties can decode and use to identify the subscriber.

This will help you…

• Pass on subscriber email to third parties securely
• Save time by automatically adding subscriber tracking to all the links in all your emails
• Send with confidence knowing all your links are tracked (no manual errors!)

Go to Settings > Advanced now to enable it. Or, check out our Knowledge base article for more support.

Just like you'd create additional pages on a website, you can now do so too on your Creator Profile. Use custom pages to set up pages like:

• A****bout page: Deeper dive into your background, the work you've done, and the testimonials you've received from clients or brands you've worked with.
• Work with me: If you're a service provider, this is a great way to include a page to share the type of services you provide and a call out to reach out to you.
• Sponsor me: Want to work with brands? Create a page with your newsletter details, demographic information, and the type of brands you'd want to work with.

This is a great way to expand your Creator Profile if you don't have a separate website. You can add up to 3 custom pages, and you won't need to get used to a new editing experience—it's the same as our email editor!

For more information about how to customize your custom pages on your Creator Profile, check out this Knowledge Base article.