What’s New—Hippo Latest Updates
Welcome to the Hippo Latest Updates section, where we highlight the newest features, enhancements, and optimizations. At Hippo, we believe that staying ahead means constantly evolving and innovating to meet your needs. Our goal is to ensure you have the most effective and user-friendly tools at your fingertips to engage with your audience seamlessly, across multiple channels.
Hippo Latest Updates:
November 2024
1. Open Method to Cut Ongoing Call
We have introduced a method (disconnectCall()) in web applications to terminate communication or end an active call initiated through the website.
2. Outplay Integration
Outplay is a sales engagement platform that enhances the management of customer interactions, lead tracking, and sales workflows. Integrated as a CRM, it helps businesses improve their prospecting processes and boost lead generation.
3. Notification Logs Export
The Notification Logs Export feature allows you to export WhatsApp notification details from Yelo and Tookan by date via email. To access this, go to the settings dashboard of your Tookan/Yelo account and navigate to the notifications section.
4. Audio and Video Support for WhatsApp
Previously, you could only send text messages through WhatsApp, but now you can share audio and video as well. Agents can also send audio, video, and file attachments through the Hippo platform.
5. Facebook/Instagram Ad Campaign Details in User Info
When you create ad campaigns on Meta (for Facebook or Instagram) and link the Hippo WhatsApp number, all chats coming through these ads will include detailed information about the campaign. This helps you analyze ad performance and better understand your target audience. Simply enable visitor info details as shown below.
6. Order Details in Profile Sidebar
With this feature, you can now view all customer orders directly from the Hippo dashboard with just one click in the profile sidebar.
October 2024
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Header Customization for WhatsApp Templates:
Previously, you could only customize and edit the body of WhatsApp templates. With this release, we have added support to customize the header with any text message or user attribute you wish to include.
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WhatsApp Update Notification Template Bug Fix:
Earlier, there was an issue where the template data for a few templates with specific variables could not be matched, resulting in no notification being sent to users. Below are screenshots to help you analyze how templates appear on your Yelo/Tookan platform as well as on WhatsApp.
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What’s New Button:
This button provides quick access to the latest updates, features, and improvements within the platform. To access the ‘What’s New’ section, simply click on the bell icon located in the sidebar of the admin dashboard.
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Feature/Feedback Request Survey Form:
You can now submit your feedback for the platform and share your suggestions for new features that you would like us to develop to enhance the platform’s functionality.
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Support for Image and Location-Type Messages:
Images and location pins shared to your WhatsApp number can now be easily accessed from your Hippo Agent Panel. Shared location pins/current locations on WhatsApp will appear as Google Maps links on the platform.
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Bug Fixes:
– UI improvements for the Live Campaign Preview Screen
– UI improvements on the “Create New Instant Campaign” screen
– An issue where saving a bot action other than a simple button, reloading the page, and editing it again caused the action type to switch back to “Simple Button” has been resolved.
– Tickets opened via a URL in Safari browser were not loading correctly, which has now been fixed. -
Optimizations
Minification of js files to improve security as well as improve loading time for the widget.
September 2024
1. Generate push/support campaigns content
This feature is designed to make sending broadcast campaigns easier and more effective, especially for the support and promotional campaigns. Simply add the use case and tone of the message and leave the rest to AI for generating specially curated content just for you.The message generated by AI depends upon the use-case, tone, and prompt added by you. You can find it in the campaigns section.
2. Analyze your emails
The Email Analysis feature is designed to enhance email communication by providing detailed insights into the quality and effectiveness of the content. It works by analyzing an email’s text, generating an email score, evaluating the tone, and offering suggestions for improvement.
- Email Score: The system assigns a numerical score based on various factors, such as clarity, grammar, conciseness, and overall professionalism. This helps users understand how well their emails are crafted and identify areas for enhancement.
- Tone Analysis: The tool detects the emotional tone of the email, such as whether it’s formal, friendly, urgent, or aggressive. This helps users ensure their intended tone aligns with the message they want to convey.
- Suggestions for Improvement: Based on the analysis, the feature provides actionable suggestions, such as rephrasing sentences, adjusting the tone, or improving structure. These tips assist in making the email more polished and effective in achieving its purpose.
This feature empowers users to send better, more impactful emails, improving communication with clients and colleagues.
3. Message Crafter
This feature allows you to transform your messages in the chat into a message that is more suitable for the chat. Message Crafter provides you with a number of options to choose from and makes your conversations with the customers more effective and engaging.
Optimizations:
Options provided:-
- Translate your messages as per the language the customer is comfortable with.
- Detect the tone of your messages to improve communication
- Make your messages more friendly/concise and formal as per the requirement of the conversation
- Rephrase, expand, and fix your messages for any grammatical or spelling mistakes for effective communication
- Summarize Conversation option helps us to generate a summary of the whole chat and then add it as an internal note into the conversation.
Enhancements/Optimizations- Earlier, the agent availability toggle in the Hippo Android Agent App used to toggle back off after you closed the app.
- Removed deprecated dependencies from our sdks to make them lighter.
- Added push notification popup for campaign notifications in case of Android devices.
- Ticket Dashboard Optimization:-
Adding notes/comments/tagging and assigning tickets to your peers has now become much easier and faster with our performance improvements in the panel. Hippo Ticket Helpdesk
August 2024
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Images in Push Notifications:
We’ve enhanced push notifications by enabling image support! This new feature allows you to send notifications with engaging visuals such as promotional banners, event flyers, or product images directly to your users’ devices. With visuals, your notifications become much more attractive and informative, driving better engagement.
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Broadcast Screen UI Revamp:
To improve the user experience, we’ve made the broadcast screen more responsive across all devices, including laptops and mobile phones. This update ensures that sending broadcasts to customers is now smoother, faster, and accessible, regardless of the device used.
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Ticket History UI Revamp:
We’ve revamped the ticketing history interface to improve navigation and usability. Now, tracking older activities, due dates, and assignments is simpler and more intuitive. Look forward to our upcoming Ticket Dashboard Revamp, which will further enhance your experience!
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Enhancements & Optimizations:
We’ve made several behind-the-scenes improvements to optimize performance and reliability:
- Added support for PWA (Progressive Web App) notifications to enhance your web engagement.
- Improved delivery rates for web push notifications to ensure timely and reliable notifications.
- Added sound notifications for push notifications on both Android and PWA apps.
- Added sound alerts for in-app messages on the customer widget, making interactions more engaging.
- Ensured IPv6 compatibility for better network support.
- Enhanced WhatsApp stats for more detailed insights and analytics.
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Upcoming Features:
Exciting things are coming to Hippo! Here’s a sneak peek at what’s next:
- AI to Generate Content for Campaigns
- Email Analyst for Campaigns
- AI MessageCrafter
January 2023
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Help Center:
We have introduced Help Center on the HIPPO. You can access this option under the “Chats” menu on the HIPPO dashboard. This feature will empower you to create a knowledge base that can be assessed by your internal team and can be shared with your customers to educate them on anything e.g. processes, FAQs, SLAs, Cost, product features, etc.
As an admin, you can
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- Create collections (article categories)
- Add new articles
- Move articles under article categories
- Publish/Unpublish/Delete articles
- Generate Help Center URL to share the help center link and individual articles
- Share the article/help center link over the chat widget
- Make the Help Center visible to your users on the chat widget
- Search articles by title
- Kindly watch the video below to learn more.
For showing the Help center on the chat widget:
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- Add the articles
- Publish the articles
- Then under Help Center “Settings,” enable the toggle to show on the widget
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Retargeting Segments-Engagement Automation
Now you can retarget a segment of users based on user statistics for actions in a campaign, e.g read, clicked, opened, etc.
Once a campaign is completed, you can choose to “Retarget” that campaign to a particular set of contacts out of the total contacts that fall under that campaign. These particular contacts can be fetched from the user statistics like Read, Clicked, Opened, etc, and created into a segment. Kindly refer to the screenshots below:
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Resend Campaigns-Engagement Automation
We have added an option of “Resend” on the campaign page.
Earlier, in order to send a campaign with the same content and to the same segment, you had to create a new campaign from the start. This option duplicates a campaign for you and you can send it straight away instead of creating a new campaign again. If required, you can edit this campaign as per your needs. The Resend campaign will be added as a new campaign in the campaign list.
Kindly refer to the screenshots below:
Kindly note Resend is not applicable to “Live Campaigns” as they are ongoing. They are applicable to historical campaigns only.
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Engagement Automation on Shopify
Now you can view and access HIPPO “Chat” and “Engagement Automation” menus on the HIPPO dashboard for Shopify. Earlier, only the “Chat” option was accessible.
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Agent Mobile Application
Updates on the HIPPO agent mobile application, as mentioned below:
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- The mobile application has been updated to the Android 13 OS version
- The functionality of Ticketing is now accessible on the Agent mobile application
December 2022
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Domain verification for email configuration
Now instead of adding an email address and getting emails verified, clients can get their domain verified automatically on the HIPPO platform. The benefit of verifying a domain is that you can simply add a username with your domain to send emails to your customers. Earlier admin could configure up to 3 verified emails for email campaigns. With domain verification, this limitation is removed. The delivery rate of sending emails from a verified domain is higher than that of a verified email.
The steps to verify the domain are as:
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- Enter the domain you want to verify
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- Log in to your domain provider to set DNS records for your domain.
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Add CNAME records to your DNS settings as provided in your email configuration section of the automation dashboard:
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HIPPO Chat-Set your default bot
Now you can select a bot and set it as the default bot for your widget. Earlier the first bot that was created was automatically set as the default bot.
To set a bot as default kindly follow the steps below:
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- Got to HIPPO chat dashboard>> Bots
- Click on a Bot that you want to set as default under “My Hippo Bots”
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- Enable the “Default Bot” toggle to the right-hand side next to “Bot Status” to set this bot as the default bot.
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Engagement Automation
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- Email and push campaign updates
Now you can personalize your email subjects and push campaign titles. We have provided the option to select “User Attributes” in the email subject line and push the campaign title field so that you can add personalization to your campaigns. Kindly refer to the screenshots below:
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- Recurring/scheduled campaigns
Now you can edit images in recurring/scheduled campaigns after being published. Earlier only the description and title could be edited once a campaign was published.
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- Campaign User stats:
We have added the following data to campaign statistics:
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- Email Campaign stats for Open and click for the first 24 hours
- Email Campaign stats for links click count
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Contacts
Now you can import users on the basis of comparison factor. You can change and set a desired comparison between Email, Phone number, and Unique User Key.
November 2022
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Campaign ROI (Return on investment):
Through this new update, you can view statistics in terms of:
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Exact ROI (Return on investment) from the automated campaigns for 2 hours and 12 hours.
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Other details like total sessions created by the customers, the number of orders, and the value of orders.
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We have optimized the push notification flow for better delivery to the customers in the updated Hippo SDK.
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Advance analytics reports added:
We have added a new advanced chat details report, in which you will find the chat level details report like:
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First Response Time
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Average Response Time
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Other statistics
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Now you can filter and view the ticket statistics corresponding to the groups and agents.
October 2022
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Dashboard revamp:
The dashboard has been created from scratch and UI has been made more interactive. It is more engaging, easy to navigate, and faster than ever.
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Widget revamp
The UI of the web widget is revamped and improved for an aesthetic look along with new features for the customers.
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Seamless plan buying with billing section
A billing section is added and the process of billing has been made much easier. Moreover, differences among the plans are also highlighted on the billing page so that you can make an informed decision about the plan that meets your needs.
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Optimization:
- Web push,
- User search filter
- Calling version updated
- Day on day
- Week on Week
- Month on month
- Custom
- Web Widget
- iOS SDK
- Welcome them to your platform
- Targeting abandoned carts (Customers that have at least one item in their shopping carts)
- Targeting users at risk (Customers who have placed more than 10 orders and the most recent order was more than 15 days ago)
- Targeting users about to go to sleep (Customers who placed their last order 20 days ago)
- Targeting dormant users (Customers who signed up 30 days ago, but haven’t completed any orders yet)
- Targeting window shoppers (Customers whose order count is 0 and visited your platform in the last 48 hours).
- Notifying them of order placement and order delivery.
- Live campaign builder
- Facebook integration
- WhatsApp Chat (Conversational Support).
- WhatsApp Broadcast (Customer Engagement Automation).
- Hippo calling optimisation
- Updated SDK released with optimisation
- popup campaign improvements
- Events optimisation
- Email templates and preview
- Email unsubscribe issue fixed
- Live campaign ROI fixes
- Email builder optimisation
- Facebook integration optimisation
- Duplicate contact handled for Email/SMS
- Popup UI revamp
- Abandoned cart fixes
- Live campaign optimisation
- Customer SDK optimisation
- WordPress Hippo plugin
- Widget optimisation
September 2022
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New Offering: Hippo ticketing
The new offering, Ticketing, will be soon available on Hippo. There will no longer be a need to create manual tickets on ERP. The ticket user creates, will be created and catered to on Hippo itself.
August 2022
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Freshdesk Ticketing Integration:
The Freshdesk Ticketing system is now integrated into the Hippo platform to cater to the needs and queries of their customers from the back end by providing the utmost support.
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RFM Analytics Report
You can now track your performance on the RFM. Make informed decisions by comparing data over different timelines.
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- Day on day
- Week on Week
- Month on month
- Custom
July 2022
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Recurring campaign:
When setting up a campaign, you will now be able to make it a recurring campaign. Doing this will run the campaign again when the specified criteria are met. It can be done for both instant campaigns and live campaigns.
In the case of scheduled campaigns, you can change prerequisites and rules before the due time.
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Web Push:
A new introduction onto the list of channels for more widespread marketing purposes. Now Retarget prospects who have already visited your website and invite them back.
They can increase your reach significantly by targeting every person who visits your website irrespective of the device they use. They don’t even have to be active on your website in order to receive a push notification.
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Optimization:
- iOS SDK
June 2022
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Email Templates:
We know your time is precious, so although you get everything you need to create personalised emails from scratch, we will also be providing email templates for various use cases from welcome emails to order confirmation and new offers to feedback.
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Live campaign templates:
Templates for various live campaigns have been added as part of the customer journey. You can enable them as such or customize them to make them more personalized and target customers dynamically. Templates created include:
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- Welcome them to your platform
- Targeting abandoned carts (Customers that have at least one item in their shopping carts)
- Targeting users at risk (Customers who have placed more than 10 orders and the most recent order was more than 15 days ago)
- Targeting users about to go to sleep (Customers who placed their last order 20 days ago)
- Targeting dormant users (Customers who signed up 30 days ago, but haven’t completed any orders yet)
- Targeting window shoppers (customers whose order count is 0 and who visited your platform in the last 48 hours).
- Notifying them of order placement and order delivery.
Live Campaigns now have an all-new look. You will be able to manage them more effectively.
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Chat shareable link:
The chat link is used to share chat so that you can configure it. Also, you can use the chatbot if you want to check the default message or pass the tags.
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Optimisation:
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- Live campaign builder
- Facebook integration
May 2022
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Hippo-WhatsApp Integration
We have integrated WhatsApp with both of our offerings;
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- WhatsApp Chat (Conversational Support).
- WhatsApp Broadcast (Customer Engagement Automation).
The update is free of charge and can be integrated with your Hippo in less than 5 seconds.
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Hippo Marketing Automation for Shopify
Hippo is available as a one-click integration for your Shopify Store. You can now unlock the full potential of Shopify stores and improve your customer engagements by taking a data-driven approach across all touchpoints.
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Survey form
You can now create a survey form on the dashboard and send it along with your campaigns and ask prospects for a signup, customers for feedback, etc., and provide them with discounts/vouchers for their valuable time.
April 2022
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FreshWork Integration
If you have Freshworks CRM, you can integrate it with Hippo. You can create leads on chat and push them to Freshworks or move customers through the pipeline.
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Stop ongoing popup
Now you can stop an ongoing pop-up campaign anytime you want.
A sync button has been added to the ‘instant campaign’ so that you can refresh data.
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Event count filter
You can copy any email template or page created on the email builder by clicking on ‘copy link preview’.
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Optimisation:
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- Popup campaign improvements
- Events optimisation
- Email templates and preview
March 2022
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Dove-soft SMS gateway
Hippo now offers Dove-soft SMS providers along with Twilio, Plivo, Ezagel, Unifonic and Bue.
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Adding BOT to chat
Now you can enable the bot to any ongoing chat and the bot can take over.
Tags can be added while proving support or with WhatsApp campaigns.
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Event-based filter
Events can be filtered based on two factors. First, one is the visited URL of the customer and the second one is of completing the order.
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GIF support in the popup campaign
Use the most popular media, GIFs, in your popup campaigns. Use memes, animations, and a lot more to engage with your customers.
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Image in WhatsApp
Add images to your WhatsApp campaigns and make them more interesting (Twilio Supported).
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Optimisation:
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The email unsubscribe issue fixed
- Live campaign ROI fixes
- Email builder optimization
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Facebook integration optimization
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February 2022
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Live Campaign ROI
Now you can see the overall conversion rate and live campaigns in two timeframes: 2hr and 12 hr.
The chatbot can now direct your customers to the concerned team based on pre-saved questions/options and customers’ responses to those.
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White-labelled email
Now you can directly white-label your emails from the Hippo dashboard.
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Personalization in the campaign
You can now use attributes like the name, phone number, or email ID of customers while creating campaigns. This will provide them with a personalised message with their personal information.
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Search in segments and live campaigns
Search option is now available on segments as well as live campaigns for you to save time and energy.
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Optimisation:
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- Duplicate contact handled for Email/SMS
- Popup UI revamp
- Abandoned cart fixes
- Live campaign optimisation
- Customer SDK optimisation
January 2022
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Popup Campaign
A new channel for better engagement has been added. You can use pop-ups for instant campaigns as well as live campaigns and show your customers content on priority.
You can customize the popup template with your own branding and have them active in a few minutes with actionable buttons. A few use cases of this functionality is to prompt onboarded users with welcome messages, explain to them a new functionality, Send offers, announce critical updates, ask for rating and many more.
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Edit options in ‘Scheduled campaigns’
If you have scheduled a campaign and you want to edit the date or content, you don’t have to start from scratch. You can now edit the campaign anytime after it’s scheduled and before due time.
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Advanced stats for push notifications
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Attachments and CC options in the Email Campaign
You can now CC anyone in the emails you send. Attachments can also be added along with the emails, whether they are in template or text in the form of images, pdfs, CSVs, etc.
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VideoSDK
Now you can schedule conference calls and provide customers demonstrations about various offerings.
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Optimisation
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- WordPress Hippo plugin
- Widget optimisation
December 2021
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WhatsApp Widget
Now a WhatsApp widget can be enabled on your website or app along with or in place of your chat support and communicate to your customers on their most preferred channel.
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RFM Analysis
RFM tracker is added to Hippo for better segmentation and targeting. It enables you to understand your customers’ buying behavior and lifetime value.
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