Today (on Sunday 8th of April 2018 01:30 PM GMT), we released the software we were building since last 9 months.
What’s new in 2.0?
What’s coming next?
Journey
What’s new in 2.0?
Chrome Plugin (Update)
- Built using theinboxsdk – prevents SalesHandy plugin conflicts with other chrome plugins
- Revamped Plugin UI/UX (New)
- Link Tracking (New)
- Activity feed (New)
- Revamped Template and Document Insert flow (New)
- Plugin Preferences (New)
- UI/UX Improvements in Email Scheduling
Outlook Plugin (Update)
- Built from scratch for speed, reliability, and performance
- Revamped Plugin UI/UX (New)
- Multiple SalesHandy Account Support (New)
- Link Tracking (New)
- Revamped Template and Document Insert flow (New)
- Plugin Preferences (New)
- Implemented Self-email open block (New)
- Improvements in Notification Service (New)
- The plugin supports Outlook (for Microsoft Windows) – 2010, 2013, 2016
Web App
- Frontend built using Angular 4 & Material UI
- New microservices based Software Architecture for speed, reliability, and performance
Activity Feed:
- Minimalistic activity feed design
- Email link click tracking activity (New)
- Campaign Email open & link click activity (New)
- Activity filters & Search (New)
- For admin user – view email sent by the team (Coming soon)
Email Tracking:
- Email link tracking (New)
- The detailed history of email open/link click (Coming soon)
- Export email tracking data (Coming soon)
- Teamwise filter options (Coming soon)
Templates
- Organize templates in folders (New)
- Revamped templates sharing & access control feature (New)
- Integration of template usage & performance with mail merge campaign (New)
- Template text editor: text formatting related issues fixed, hyperlink image (New)
Document Tracking
- Formerly known as Files
- Revamped document UI/UX (New)
- Organize document in folders (New)
- Revamped document sharing & access control feature (New)
- Rebuilt document viewer (with a lot of bug fixes reported in the old app) (New)
- Increased reliability of periodic data collection mechanism in document viewer (New)
- The detailed document analytics & chart (Coming soon)
Document Set (Group of documents)
- Formerly known as file links
- Revamped document UI/UX (New)
- The detailed document set analytics & chart (Coming soon)
- More control over document link sharing (New)
- Options to select visitor fields (name, email, phone, company name)
- Document link expiry date
- Remind if not link not viewed
Email Accounts
- Now user can connect more than 2 email accounts (Gmail/SMTP) to SalesHandy (New)
- Additional charges for per additional email account (New)
- SalesHandy email sending quota for mail merge campaign: per email account basis (New)
- Performance Improvements in SMTP email sending method
Mail Merge Campaign
- Revamped campaign list, create and reporting UI (New)
- Multi email accounts can be used for Mail Merge (New)
What’s coming next?
Chrome Plugin
- Per-recipient tracking
- Individual email followup
- Remind me if email not open/replied
- And many more…
Outlook Plugin
- Activity feed inside outlook plugin
- Email scheduling
- Outlook plugin for Mac
- And many more…
Web App
- Webhooks (zapier integration)
- SMTP reply tracking
- Email Tracking
- The detailed history of email open/link click
- Export email tracking data
- Teamwise filter options
- Email verification service integration in mail merge campaign
- Custom link tracking domain for mail merge campaign
- Custom domain for document tracking
- Agency accounts for mail merge campaign
- And many more…
SalesHandy Platform
- GDPR compliance (Read Our GDPR Compliance Article)
- Public API
Journey
We started building the product 2.5 years back as MVP (minimum viable product) which evolved over time based on customer’s feedback.
2015
- Initial idea was to build live document presentation software
- Started focusing more to build a tool around email productivity
2016
- Full-fledged Document tracking
- The first version of chrome and outlook released
- Webhooks
- Released Mail Merge Campaign
2017
- Removed Live Presentation feature (hardly made any impact)
- Released new version of Mail Merge Campaign with Auto Followup
- Started building Saleshandy 2.0
2018
- Released whole new platform – SalesHandy 2.0