Vonza Highlights for 2023

This article is all about Vonza highlights for 2023 from new features to added functionalities. All to give our esteemed customers a great user experience and simplify their online businesses in easy steps.

Hey Vonzanites,

Happy 2024 to you and your family.

Thank you all for your love for the Vonza platform and for sharing it with your friends and clients as well.

I created Vonza to help entrepreneurs, coaches and course creators to simplify their online business so they can save time, money and remove the tech barrier that holds them back from building a more successful business.

Take a look at what we accomplished for you in 2023 to streamline your business.

January

• Added course name and assignment name in email
• Campaign Page Design
• Footer menu and sub-menu options (Builder)
• Sign up and email verification process Design
• Showed total payments upfront in scheduling
• Added notes and cloud tab in each of the customer profile screen
• List & grid views on Sales module (Builder)
• Revamped whole scheduling module
  • Added email form and routed to signup on scheduling confirmation
• Campaign page Design.
• Changed payment notification to go to Sales module
•  Individual pages in new builder
• Changed redirect link in assignments submission email to Vonzanite
• Installment scheduler
• Email templates integration
• Login button in all Vonzanites emails
• Retake quiz option for any customer/student
• Vonza admin dashboard re-design top panel
• Created signup page design 2023
• Added course name and assignment name in email
• Option to show text in place of logo in header
• Enable multiple location options in scheduling
• Reschedule meeting by admin should route to exact meeting after login
• Show scheduled meeting details
• Bundle courses support in funnels
• Option to send email to subscribed user in subscription form
• Vonza SMS (Module)
• Custom code snippet – new component (Builder)
• Include phone number in few more subscription form/popup variants (Builder)
• New variations of courses and products page (Builder)

February

• Customize cookie policy popup
• Copy embed code in all features on admin side
• Separate fields for first and last name in Contacts
• Enable lesson within lesson content screen
• Added search and filters on admissions just like other modules
• Show funnel name in lead grid
• Gift digital product to customers
• Automations module
• Re-designed settings page
• New variation of courses
• Product detail page to new builder (Builder)
• New dashboard widgets & hide functionality
• All scheduling page – New builder
• Make cards clickable including images
• Re-designed plan upgrade screen
• Settings module uplift
• Re-designed top bar navigation for each module
• Uplift top navigation bar in all admin modules
• Bulk Contacts module uplift
• Hide zip code for free digital products or courses
• Pricing plan of (Admin panel)

March

• Pricing plans for funnels
• Option to link external or internal page to privacy policy and terms of use on Signup
• Course to membership
• Added an option to make membership tier public
• Added number of installment options in Coupon
• Option to change button color in pricing component in course detail and other pages
• Re-designed student/customer grids
• Re-designed automation module
• Hide zip code for digital products – funnels
• Ability to remove author and price filter from all courses, degrees and other items
• Moved list into separate tab – People module
• Uplift automation module
• Featured meetings functionality
• Ability to export Students registrations
• Design membership community
• Added copy category link in all admin managers
• Added unsubscribe link in online mail functionality similar to Newsletters
• The category icon should be displayed on the bundle courses.
• Cloud improvements
• Select current lesson from left
• Added funnel option in post purchase course options
• Made one step user enrollment in individual course
• Sequences module implementation
• Sequences in Automation
• Revamped Curriculum Screen by Adding Sub-Section Functionality
• Uplift curriculum and lecture content screens
• Courses subsection Design.
• Arrange and rearrange product images
• Funnel pricing

April

• Routed user to curriculum from course details
• Added sub-section support on curriculum – Courses, Degrees & Memberships
• Sidebar change – products, degrees, courses & memberships
• Added delete link along with edit link – new builder
• Added an option to make current course or lesson compulsory
• Re-use media assets from Vonza cloud to courses, degrees & memberships
• Added props to change the height and width of buttons new builder
• Reduce one step in lecture locked module
• Uplift community page – end user site
• Access to the course for a specific period of time
• Added functionality of comments on course lesson
• Option to hide section on builder
• Designed New Website Template on New Web Builder
• Created settings tabs – Courses, Degrees and Memberships
• Comments functionality in lesson content – Courses, degrees & memberships
• Assignment Creation Flow
• Added publish/unpublish for a web page
• Analytical page Design
• Redirect URL in email templates to end users

May

• Ability to stop or pause the customer subscriptions
• Side bar change – products, degrees, courses & memberships
• Added an option to make current course or lesson compulsory
• Added instructional video option in products like courses promo video
• Access to the course for a specific period of time
• Business theme templates
• Added an option on buttons to do nothing
• Move category to Customize – Meeting
• Change pricing dropdown on forms and scheduling
• Analytics Feature
• Assignment module uplift
• Degree flow to show My Admissions on dashboard
• Detail page and settings design + Right navigation design
• Update and upgrade Vonza Membership
• Re-designed pricing plan screen – Admin
• Redesigned customer dashboard

June

• Ability to stop or pause the customer subscriptions
• Funnel automation action names as per funnel step names
• Added user name placeholder in online mail
• Recurring payment option in installment plan
• Added instructional video option in products like courses promo video
• Powered by Vonza logo in newsletters like builder footer
• Background color for feature block
• Made with Vonza logo
• Ability to change Question mark icon color in the FAQ section
• Templates for online email just like newsletter
• Analytics in all individual modules
• View and edit text in downloadable content – products
• Read only PDFs in Vonza
• Improve UI for menu tabs
• Make icons closeable
• Display total sales instead of net sales on the Sales Dashboard.
• Show full payment description – Scheduling & Forms
• Update pricing plan screen for all modules & uplift funnel pricing
• New student dashboard & modules
• Email marketing dashboard updates
• Customer name & email on transactions screen
• Changed sequence of categories

July

• Design course detail page and theme selection
• Pricing plans on checkout page
• Physical and Digital product Detail page Design
• New themes design under website builder
• Business theme default on new signup
• Cart checkout on new builder platform site
• Sequences & Automations updates
• Course, Degree, Membership detail Page + Template
• Community sales page design
• Automation to work with General forms having email
• More Automation triggers
• Show all features on all plans
• Notifications settings global & module specific
• Duplicate landing page or website
• Made with Vonza logo in new Business theme footer
• Persist video or image on style change
• Make lesson name editable like forms

August – October

• More icon in case of extra tabs
• Email template design implementation
• End User Community
• Admin User Community
• Community phase 2
• Community sales page
• Community Course, Degree, Membership detail Page + Template
• Change payment plan for customers
• New coaching theme under coaching category
• Creator website theme
• Coach category website template
• Physical/Digital filter on products manager
• Added credits to customer against entitlement/enrollment
• Move email verification step in signup after payment step
• Implement Notification Enable and Disable Setting in this Module
• Funnel Template – 1
• Funnel Template – 2    
• Funnel new template implementation
• Link in BIO templates design
• Contact not searchable in global search
• Show products in tabs
• Show remaining balance on enrollment card

November – December

• Option to add both logo and text to headers
• Added purchases filter on customers
• Added an option to create new plan from change plan screen
• Show website name in title not platform name
• Phone number country code selection in all the places inside Website builder
• Move Product up
• Remove the text from end user receipt
• SMS Contact Update
• Muted audio
• Checkout
• Link in bio template 2, we have to create a desktop and responsive version too.

Major Functionalities Added

• Community
• SMS
• ESP
• Website builder – new & modern themes – 4
• 100+ new variations added for all the components.
• Funnels enhancements – new modern templates – 3
• Automations
• Automations in subscription forms
• Sequences
• Marketing site uplift – 2 times
• Customer portal uplift – 2 times
• Checkout pages (December release)
• Link in BIO – landing page (December release)
• Vonza pages – templating e.g., courses, degrees, bundle courses etc. (December release)
• Platform Analytics
• New email templates – transactional
• Email marketing statistics
• Newsletter templates
• Manual credits feature
• PDF stamping
• Certificates templates
• Courses enhancements e.g., comments, expiration etc.
• Assignments module uplifting
• Quizzes enhancements

In your service,

Uyi Abraham

Vonza Founder & CEO