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Release 2.8 (Tech Release 1.122)

May 26th, 2026

🟢 Platform: Expanded Default Email Templates

The platform now ships with a comprehensive library of transactional emails triggered directly from Pelcro events — eliminating the need for external ESP setups.

✅ What's New:

  • New Email Center page listing all system emails
  • Per-email enable/disable toggle and read-only preview
  • Event-driven trigger layer firing emails directly from Pelcro events
  • Automatic branding — platform color configuration and client logo applied dynamically
  • Default templates cover:
    • Billing & Payments: Invoice Created, Invoice Paid, Invoice Payment Failed, Refund Issued
    • Subscriptions: Created, Renewed, Updated, Canceled
    • Dunning & Recovery: Payment Failed (retry), Card Expiring Soon, Upcoming Renewal, Trial Ending
    • Customer & Account: Account Created, Password Reset
    • Optional: Order/One-time Purchase Confirmation

🎯 Impact:

You will get consistent, branded transactional email coverage out of the box, with centralized control and no fragmented external workflows.

🟢 Platform: Customer Data Insights

We've introduced a new Customers Activity page powered by an analytics database, giving teams direct access to detailed user activity logs.

✅ What's New:

  • New Analytics > Customers Activity page with a list view of the Analytics DB
  • Filters available by Customer ID, Event Type, IP Address, and more
  • CSV export of complete logs
  • Tracked events include: Page Viewed, Registered, Logged In, Converted, Subscribed, Unsubscribed, Paid Invoice, Newsletter Email Submitted, Customer Address Created, and more

🎯 Impact:

Analytics and business teams can now build reports and analyze reader behavior directly from the platform — no manual copy-pasting from individual customer dashboards.

🟢 Platform: Newsletter Configuration Center

We've introduced a centralized Newsletter Configuration area in the platform so admins can create, edit, and manage newsletters easily.

✅ What's New:

  • Newsletter section now contains two sub-pages: Newsletters and Subscribers
  • Full CRUD on newsletter records with the following fields: title, subtitle, description, photo, status, addToRegistration, onlySubscribers
  • Active/Inactive toggle — inactive newsletters are hidden from your website
  • Newsletters are returned in the site config endpoint alongside products and plans

🎯 Impact:

Platform admins now manage newsletters from the platform, with consistent exposure across the API, Default UI, and registration flows.

🟢 Platform: Newsletters in the Default UI

The Default UI now renders newsletters configured at the platform level — no custom SDK wiring required.

✅ What's New:

  • Configured newsletters surface automatically in the newsletters section of the Default UI dashboard
  • Modals adapt to authenticated and non-authenticated users
  • Registration form displays a "Subscribe to our newsletters" title when newsletters are configured

🎯 Impact:

Your customers see newsletters in real time, with a unified experience across modal triggers and the dashboard.

🟢 Platform: Improved Default UI Quality

We've tightened the entire dashboard experience to feel more consistent, more responsive, and more polished across every account management flow.

✅ What's Improved:

  • Unified success messages — same color palette, typography, animation, positioning, close behavior, and timing across all modules
  • Unified modal behavior and consistent loading/completion interaction patterns
  • Reduced excessive whitespace and oversized form fields
  • Success messages now appear only after loading completes (no more conflicting states)
  • Gift redemption flow now includes a login hyperlink for existing customers

🎯 Impact:

Subscribers experience a faster, more predictable, and visually cleaner dashboard — reducing confusion and friction in everyday account interactions.


🟢 Platform: Change Subscription Collection Method

Admins can now switch a subscription's collection method directly from the platform — no Core API calls or engineering support required.

✅ What's New:

  • New editable control in the Update Subscription screen
  • Supported transitions: charge_automatically ⇄ send_invoice
  • Radio selector with the existing value pre-populated
  • Validation enforced consistently with the Core API — switching to charge_automatically requires a valid default payment method and a chargeable customer state

🎯 Impact:

Billing and support teams can transition customers between automatic charging and invoice-based billing in a single click, eliminating an operational gap.

🟢 Platform: Per-Collaborator AI Agent Permissions

Account owners can now control whether the AI Agent is enabled for their account and which collaborators can use it.

✅ What's New:

  • Account-level consent prompt on first AI Agent access — the agent is disabled for the entire account until accepted
  • Per-collaborator toggle under Settings > Collaborators, controlled by the account owner only
  • Defaults: enabled for the account owner, disabled for all other collaborators
  • Collaborators without permission still see the AI Agent panel but receive: "Please ask your account owner to enable this feature for you."
  • Permission changes take effect on the next interaction — no re-login required, and active sessions are gated immediately if access is revoked

🎯 Impact:

Account owners gain granular control over AI Agent data access at both the account and individual collaborator level, supporting stricter governance and consumption policies.

🟢 Platform: Consistent Modal IDs Across React Elements

We've introduced a stable, predictable DOM hook on every Default UI modal — making customization, instrumentation, and automated end-to-end testing significantly more reliable.

✅ What's New:

  • Every Pelcro React Elements modal root now exposes a stable id of the form pelcro-modal-{viewId} (kebab-case, derived from the existing Zustand view key)
  • Backward compatible — existing modal-root ids are preserved; renames use deprecation aliases

🎯 Impact:

Developers can now reliably target modal roots for styling, analytics, and automated tests without depending on fragile selectors.

🟢 Platform: View Subscriptions URL Trigger

We've added deep-link support so renewal emails and external links can take customers straight to their subscriptions.

✅ What's New:

  • New #view=subscriptions URL trigger
  • Authenticated users land directly on the Subscriptions view
  • Unauthenticated users are redirected to login, then taken to Subscriptions automatically

🎯 Impact:

Renewal email flows convert better by removing the manual navigation step between login and the subscription page.

🟢 Platform: Configurable Authentication Token TTL

You can now configure the authentication token TTL from the platform — no code changes or SDK redeployments required.

✅ What's New:

  • New cookie lifetime key in site settings
  • The JS-SDK reads this value when setting or refreshing cookies
  • If the key is missing, invalid, or empty, the SDK falls back to the existing default cookie lifetime

🎯 Impact:

Session lifetimes can be tuned per environment to match security and user-experience policies, without engineering involvement.

🟢 Platform: Tax Breakdown on Invoice Exports

Invoice exports now expose individual tax types instead of a single aggregated total — improving clarity for financial reporting and compliance.

✅ What's Improved:

  • Tax amounts are now exposed as separate fields by tax type (e.g., GST, PST, QST, HST)
  • All new tax columns are appended to the end of the export file
  • The aggregated total tax, when present, is clearly derived as the sum of individual fields

🎯 Impact:

Finance and accounting teams can now reconcile taxes by type directly from exports — enabling accurate reporting and simpler compliance workflows.

🟢 Platform: Recipient Info on Invoice Exports

Invoice exports now include recipient details for marketing, operations, and reporting workflows.

✅ What's Improved:

  • New fields added to the end of invoice exports:
    • First Name, Last Name, Email
    • Address Line, City, State, ZIP

🎯 Impact:

Teams can generate accurate, recipient-aware reports and run targeted campaigns directly from invoice exports — no additional data merging required.

🟢 Platform: Hyphenated ZIP+4 in Invoice PDFs

Invoice PDFs now format US ZIP+4 codes with a hyphen between the 5-digit ZIP and the 4-digit extension.

✅ What's Improved:

  • ZIP+4 codes display as 06877-5415 instead of 068775415

🎯 Impact:

Recipient addresses on invoice PDFs are clearer, more readable, and aligned with standard US postal formatting conventions.

🟢 Platform: Cancel Modal Respects Cancellation Settings

Fixed a Default UI issue where the "Cancel immediately" option appeared in the cancellation modal even when disabled in the site's billing settings.

✅ What's Improved:

  • The "Cancel immediately" option is now correctly hidden when "Enable subscription cancellation options on customer UI" is disabled
  • Modal honors the site endpoint configuration in all cases

🎯 Impact:

Cancellation options shown to subscribers now accurately reflect each publisher's configured policy.