What a year eh? It’s hard to believe we’re already into August and month 18 of the pandemic. We’ve all been experiencing anxiety, overwork and concern about the future. So Coconut has instituted a four day work week for the month of August giving our incredible team four extra paid days off to relax and recharge as they desire. Our team is going for runs, organizing our spaces, doing day trips with the family, reading books and trying new recipes. You can follow along here.
Because we're giving the team a break, we've tackled some specifically requested items and will be back into hyperdrive/beast mode come September. August has some nice enhancements for self-service tools for branding emails, and we're giving you a look ahead at September for a trial revamp of our data tables, as well as adding the ability to book or edit an appointment right from the Schedule view.
If you haven’t yet, join our Coconut Customer Slack channel. Connect with your peers, share tips and best practices, get real time updates on improvements happening between releases and provide product feedback and ideas.
We also have our next Product Roadmap webinar coming up September 8th at 3pm EST, where Mihnea, our VP of Product, will walk you through our plans for the rest of the year and into 2022. Register here to get access - it’s always a hoot and a half.
Otherwise, close that laptop at 5pm. Mute your Teams or Slack notifications (here’s a handy guide on how to handle Slack after a vacation) and carve out a little mind and body space to check in with you. We’ve all been through so much and deserve to take a break.
Take care and be good to yourself,
- Your Coconut Team
P.S. If you missed what we released in July, click here to review
New Features & Capabilities - launching August 26th
Email branding enhancements - like we mentioned in our July release over the next few months, we’re providing more self-service email branding configurability for admins. Instead of having to contact Coconut to do these items, admins will now be empowered to make changes themselves. For non-standard requests, you will still need to contact us to help. Here is a list of new items you can now do yourself, in addition to what we launched in July:
Can send add text with basic formatting below the footer (helpful for unsubscribe links, boilerplates, or fun facts)
Choice of footer background colors
Below are the new screens you can adjust the branding from directly - let us know what you think!
Here is the window to update the email header and social media icons and links.
And the new font, logo, favicon and color editor.
Recently we have launched some enhancements to our notifications to help ensure your clients/members and your staff meet at the expected time. We have received feedback that when managers and admins are assigned to a location, they now receive all the notifications that staff at those locations are receiving. In response, we are introducing a new Location notification setting that allows an Admin to turn off the Managers and Admins from receiving notifications:
Sneak Peek 👀 These are coming in September!
These are a lil sneak peek of what is coming in September as a thanks for reading this whole Release Note!
Data table modernization - we’ve started revamping our data tables to have a cleaner look and feel that is consistent across the staff experience, as well as behind the scenes updates using modern technologies as part of our dedication to evolving security needs. Individual staff members will have the ability to opt themselves, by clicking on the banner as shown below, into using the new version of each updated data table as it’s released, and from there we’ll give them more info about the changes.
The banner you’ll see while in the original data table screen.
Banner seen while trialing the new data tables.
We’d love to have feedback: what is working well, how the data tables could be improved. Post in our customer Slack channel here or reach out to your customer experience team!
Event window updates - we’re creating a brand new event create/edit experience that makes it easier to use our solution as well as providing better security and will be rolling this out to you in September.
This improvement means staff can:Click on an empty space in the schedule to create a new appointment or busy time
Click on the add button in the top right corner to create a new appointment or busy time
New window right from the Schedule.
Or you can click the Add button. The world is your oyster.
This is what opens when you select to create a new appointment.