Exciting news! You can now enhance account security by disabling password logins and forcing all users to log in via Single Sign-On (SSO) only.

✅ Tightened Security: Eliminate unauthorized access via traditional passwords.

✅ Simplified Authentication: Streamline logins through your designated SSO system.

How to Enable:

1. Visit "Team Settings."
2. Enable "Force users to login with SSO" on.
3. Save changes.

Note: Ensure your SSO is configured before enabling this feature.

We're thrilled to share an exciting update that creates a new set of possibilities for your feedback collection process  - Feature Request Segmentation.

What's New?

With this improvement, you will have the ability to control who can submit, display, comment and upvote Feature Requests. The "Suggest a Feature" button is now customizable to appear exclusively for segmented users so that you can tailor and target who can provide you feedback.

Sample Use-Cases:

💡 Premium User Feedback: Offert the submission capability to premium users, creating an exclusive space for your most valued customers to contribute their ideas.
🌐 Hiding Feature Requests from Trials: If you want to share feature requests only with active users, this will solve your request!

How to Set Up:

1. Navigate to your Feature Request settings.
2. Access the new segmentation options.
3. Define the user segments eligible to submit feature requests.

Why It Matters:

🎯 Targeted Feedback: By limiting submissions to specific user segments, you ensure that feature requests align with the priorities of key user groups.

🤝 Enhanced User Engagement: Offering exclusive submission access fosters a sense of importance among segmented users, encouraging more thoughtful and valuable suggestions.

Empower your feedback loop with the precision of segmentation. Now, gather feature requests from the users that matter most and shape the evolution of your product accordingly!

We are delighted to bring to your attention a significant enhancement to the AnnounceKit platform—the introduction of the "Reply to Feature Request" feature!

💫 Effortless Communication: Explore the newly added "Reply" button on each Feature Request's detailed page, facilitating direct and seamless communication.

🔎  User Tracking Integration: With user tracking in place, you can now respond directly via email, offering a personalized and engaging user experience.

📝 Reply History Monitoring: Keep track of your communication history effortlessly. The new feature empowers you to revisit and review your replies as needed.

➡ How to Get Started:

• Explore the "Reply" button on any Feature Request's detailed page.
• To fully utilize the capabilities of email replies, kindly ensure the setup of your SMTP or Mailgun. Here is our straightforward guide that will assist you every step of the way.

Elevate your communication strategy with Feature Request Replies and unlock a new level of user engagement!

With great excitement, we announce a new enhancement for AnnounceKit – the ability to enable distinct Labels for various features!

This improvement is designed for those who utilize AnnounceKit to oversee Posts, Feature Requests, and Roadmaps. You can now effortlessly enable or disable specific Labels, allowing for a clear distinction between Posts, Feature Requests, and Roadmap items.

You will be able to quickly and easily discern which Labels are for Feature Requests, which ones are for Roadmap items, and which ones are for Announcements.

➡ Labels will only show up when you enable a label for Posts;

• Post Editor for labeling
• Posts Page for filtering
• Changelog Page for filtering

➡ Labels will only show up when you enable a label for Feature Request

• Create/Edit Feature Request for labeling
• Feature Request Dashboard for filtering

➡  Labels will only show up when you enable a label for Roadmap

• Create/Edit Roadmap Items for labeling
• Roadmap Dashboard for filtering

We hope you'll find this improvement helpful in keeping your AnnounceKit organized and up to date. As always, we're open to hearing your feedback and suggestions, so if you have any ideas for how we can improve AnnounceKit, please don't hesitate to reach out.

We're thrilled to announce that NPS by AnnounceKit has successfully graduated from its beta phase and is now available as a standalone product!

🎉 What Does This Mean for You? 🎉

With the beta phase behind us, here's what you need to know:

✨ NPS Independence: NPS is now a separate product and can be accessed independently from AnnounceKit. This means that all users, regardless of their AnnounceKit plan, can now start using NPS. 

💼 Pricing & Plans: For just $49/month, you gain full access to the power of NPS. If you opt for an annual subscription, you'll receive a 15% discount. Subscribe now and supercharge your user feedback strategy.

📊 New Features: We've listened to your feedback and made NPS even better. Now you can filter NPS responses and scores by segments, making it easier than ever to gather valuable insights from your specific user groups and also export your responses as CSV to analyze them.

🐞 Bug Fixes: We've ironed out the wrinkles from the beta version, and NPS is now faster and smoother.

🧩 Seamless Integration: If you're already using AnnounceKit's widget, you don't need to make any additional implementations to start using NPS. It's just a click away!

🚀 Get Started Today: Haven't tried NPS yet? No worries! You can now create your NPS surveys and start collecting user feedback right away.

Ready to take your user feedback to the next level? Subscribe to NPS today and embark on a journey of user satisfaction and product improvement!

Subscribe to NPS

Thank you for being a part of the AnnounceKit community. Your success is our success!

We're thrilled to announce that the beta version of NPS by AnnounceKit is officially live for all customers! With NPS by AnnounceKit, measuring customer loyalty & satisfaction and gathering feedback will become a breeze. 

Before using NPS by AnnounceKit	After using NPS by AnnounceKit

What is NPS?  

NPS is a metric that uses customers’ likelihood to recommend a product, service, or organisation as a score for your customer experience. As such, it helps you to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction. 

It is based on a single survey question, along the lines of: "On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend our business to a friend or colleague?” 

• 6 or lower: "Detractors"
• 7 or 8: "Passives"
• 9 or 10: "Promoters"

The formula to calculate NPS is the following: Total % of promoters – total % of detractors = NPS. 

Why NPS?

1. NPS translates a myriad of confusing metrics into a single measure, a single metric of customer experience success that is relevant for the entire organisation. 
2. NPS is based on a single survey question, which makes it easy & quick for customers and users to respond and share their feedback. 
   
   
   
   
   
   

How can you benefit from NPS by AnnounceKit? 

Very quick & easy to implement

As always, minimum effort is required from your side. You do not need to code anything in order to display the NPS question to your users; you can do it within a few clicks. If you're already using our widget, you're all set! No additional setup is required. Start gathering valuable feedback from your users directly within your AnnounceKit account. 

Seamless integration with your AnnounceKit account

All of the responses come back into your AnnounceKit account. The analytics dashboard will help you make sense of the data and draw insights & conclusions. 

Maximum flexibility thanks to advanced customization

• Customize NPS questions to suit your needs
• Opt to show or hide the "What is the reason for your score?" prompt
• Choose interaction options, such as "Until users close it," "Until users submit a response," "Only once," or "Even if users do nothing"
• Apply advanced customizations to match your brand's style

User Segmentation: Targeted Insights

With our user segmentation feature, you have the power to send NPS surveys to specific customer segments. Tailor your questions and gather feedback from the right audience. Whether you're interested in feedback from new users, long-time customers, or a specific group, NPS by AnnounceKit has you covered.

Free access during the beta phase

You are officially invited to join the beta phase of this product. During the beta phase, you will enjoy free access to NPS by AnnounceKit. Your feedback will play a crucial role in refining and enhancing the capabilities of this product. The beta process will last until we're confident that it is ready for official launch. 

Get ready to elevate your user engagement

Enough text, time for you to experience it first-hand! 😉 Get started by checking out our guide here.

NPS was one of the most upvoted feature requests that we received from our community, so we hope that this release will bring you lots of joy ☺️

We are looking forward to your feedback and thank you for being part of the AnnounceKit community. 

Cheers

Today we are excited to launch our first official referral program: Share & Earn! 🎁 

💡 Why did we launch it? 

With an NPS of 65 and lots of customer love, word of mouth is important for a business like ours, especially since we are fully bootstrapped and do not rely on external financing. But we also knew that we don't expect you to promote AnnounceKit for free; we want to reward you for it. So that everyone wins. Now we have the technology in place to do that. 

💰 What's in it for me?

You can offer your network a 30% discount & earn up to $1,000 on their subscription. 

• For every customer that signs up through your referral link, you will receive 25% of their subscription. 
• You can earn up to $1,000 per referred client. 
• Your network will also get 30% off on their AnnounceKit plan for the first 3 months. 

☺ Awesome! How can I get started? 

Generate a link. To participate you simply need to login to AnnounceKit and click on the Gift Icon in the top right corner to generate your unique link.

Share it. Once you have the link, you can copy & share via your preferred distribution channel. Share it with your friends, in Slack groups, on LinkedIn, or place it in your bio on Instagram and TikTok.

Track the status. When you click on the Gift Icon, you can track the status of your referral(s). 

Earn rewards. The person who clicks on your link can sign up for a free 15-day trial of AnnounceKit. If they subscribe to one of our plans, then you will be rewarded for it. You will be notified once someone views your link or becomes a customer. Your rewards will be displayed in your referral widget & automatically transferred to your Paypal account every month. 

👇 Where and how do I promote my unique referral link best?

It totally depends on you and the platforms you are active on. We do have a few tips for you:

• If you are active in a lot of Slack groups, search in these Slack groups for keywords that AnnounceKit can help with. “Product announcements”, "Product updates", “Feature requests”, “Release notes”, "Changelog", "Roadmap", can be great keywords. Recommend AnnounceKit and paste your unique link into the thread.
• If you are active on LinkedIn or Twitter, recommend AnnounceKit to your network as a post. Also pay attention to conversations in your network around the problems that AnnounceKit can solve and recommend AnnounceKit as a tool to explore.
• If you are active on Instagram and TikTok, make a video about how AnnounceKit helps you with your specific use cases. Also, make sure to add AnnounceKit to your link-in-bio so that your new and existing followers can discover AnnounceKit continuously.
• Additionally, it never hurts to promote it to your friends and family via Whatsapp. 

💭 FAQs

Will my link expire?

No. It is valid forever.

Is there a time limit for my referees to convert into customers?

No, even if they will only become customers after months, it will still count as your referral.

How do I get paid? 

You will get paid via PayPal. If you don't yet have a PayPal account, simply set one up.  

What geographies are supported?

The list of supported countries for payouts is Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

💙 Happy referring! 

If you have any other questions, feedback, or concerns, just leave a comment under this post or reach out to support@announcekit.com.

Now it is time to share & earn ✨ 

Your AnnounceKit Team 

Today, we are super excited to give you access to a new version of AnnounceKit - more powerful, more intuitive, and even easier to navigate than before. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - that was our goal when we designed and built our new UI. And we hope you will notice that the next time you log in to your account ☺ 

🔎  What has changed? 

1. Slick New UI: It's not just a facelift; it's a whole new level of simplicity. 
2. Say Hi to the Left Sidebar Menu: You asked, we listened. Meet our new left sidebar menu that makes navigating very simple & quick. 
3. Smooth Sailing Ahead: Though some of the changes might be subtle, we've worked hard behind the scenes to ensure your experience continues to be smooth. 

😇 No Worries

We get it – change can sometimes seem daunting at first. If we compare AnnounceKit to a sportscar, then the exterior has changed, but the engine remains unchanged. The same powerful features you love, now wrapped up in a simple, intuitive UI.

🚀 Getting Started 

Upgrading to the new AnnounceKit experience is simple. Log in to your account, and poof 🪄 – the new UI will greet you with open arms. 

👂 We Want to Hear From You

We care about you and your experience with AnnounceKit. If you have feedback, ideas, or suggestions, then leave a comment under this post, reach out to our support team at support@announcekit.com, or use the Feature Requests function. 

🙌 Thank You

A massive shout-out to our AnnounceKit community. Your feedback & support makes this whole journey a lot of fun 💙 

So, sit back, relax, log in, and experience the new version of AnnounceKit 😎 

🔊 You asked, we listened. Today, we are excited to announce a new feature for AnnounceKit – the ability to immediately display your feature request form when someone opens your widget! 

➿ With this new improvement, you can easily highlight that you are collecting feature requests. We hope that this will boost the amount of feedback you receive, increase user engagement, and strengthen your community. 

We’re adding two options to the widget configuration settings to make Feature Requests even better. Now, you can create separate widgets and use one of them to collect feature requests! 

➡ Public Feature Request: The widget will display the Feature Request List when your users click on it. They will be able to see the other requests and upvote & comment on them.

➡ Suggest Feature Form: The widget will open with the "Suggest a Feature Request Form" so that you can encourage them to share some feedback with you. 

We hope you’re as excited as we are about this new improvement and we hope it takes your user- & community-driven product development to new heights. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We're always happy to hear from you. 

*Feedback from our community*	*Engineers at AnnounceKit HQ*

A week ago, we released Pop-ups. Today we are excited to announce the release of a powerful enhancement to our Pop-ups feature: Segmentation! With this addition, you can send your Pop-up notifications to specific users based on their attributes, as well as choose where your Pop-ups appear on your website or specific widgets.

Key Features and Benefits:

📍Advanced User Targeting: With the Segmentation feature, you can leverage a wide range of user attributes to create highly targeted segments. This includes default attributes such as User ID, User Name, User Email, Widget, Country, and URL. Additionally, if you have user tracking enabled, you can utilize custom attributes to further refine your segments.

✈ Tailored Messaging and Offers: Segmenting your Pop-up notifications allows you to deliver relevant and personalized messages to different user groups. Customize the content, call-to-action, and offers based on the specific attributes of each segment, maximizing the impact of your notifications.

🎯 Targeted Display Options: Choose where your Pop-ups appear on your website or specific widgets. Specify URLs or widgets where you want your Pop-ups to be displayed, ensuring that they are visible in the right context, for the right audience.

📈 Improved User Engagement: By sending targeted notifications to specific user segments and displaying them in the right locations, you can enhance user engagement and increase click-through rates. Users are more likely to interact with notifications that are personalized, relevant, and displayed in the appropriate context.

Getting Started

If you are not familiar with our segmentation feature and are going to use it for the first time, the following article may be very useful for you. Do not hesitate to ask us any questions you may have!

User Tracking&Segmentation

This improvement is based on feedback we received from our community. We encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts, ideas, and success stories with us. Together, we can shape the development of our product so that you have everything you need to deliver exceptional user experiences.