Changelog

See what's new in Zipchat.

Every feature, improvement, and fix we ship to the Zipchat AI platform, in one timeline.

Improvements Apr 11, 2025

Knowledgebase filters by type

  • You can now filter pages based on their type "PDF", "WEB", etc
Bugfixes Apr 8, 2025

Fix Whatsapp campaign creation not working for some locales

Features Apr 7, 2025

Search inside conversations

  • Merchants can now search for specific keywords inside the conversations
Improvements Apr 4, 2025

Conversations page speed optimisation

  • Drastically increases the speed of loading the conversations page for sites with many conversations
Bugfixes Apr 3, 2025

Fix localisation pattern mapping

  • Fixes a bug which would sometimes map the wrong locale to the wrong url
Bugfixes Apr 3, 2025

Fix Chat Settings crashing when shop misses permissions

  • Fixes a bug where older shops who haven't given us a read_themes permissions would see get an error when opening Chat Settings
Improvements Mar 31, 2025

Whatsapp - Log more errors

  • Adds logging for messages that fail to be even created in Whatsapp
Bugfixes Mar 28, 2025

Fix an issue of usage charges notification not showing properly

  • Makes sure there's a banner on the Dashboard if a user has reached the limit of their plan and is currently being charged usage charges
Improvements Mar 28, 2025

Localisations now support different welcome messages 🇪🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷

  • Localisations now allow you to add a separate welcome message for each locale
  • To add/change locale-specific welcome messages, Zipchat support needs to be contacted
Improvements Mar 28, 2025

Added a default rate limit to new chats

  • New chats will now have a 50 replies/week rate limit set by default
Bugfixes Mar 27, 2025

Bugfix on segment CSV import

  • Fixes an issue where adding "00" in front of numbers would result in bad phone number records
Bugfixes Mar 27, 2025

Fix chat bubble crashing in rare cases

  • Fixes an issue that would make the chat bubble crash if there is not current_url parameter sent for some reason
Bugfixes Mar 27, 2025

Small fixes on the AI replies

  • Prevent the replies crashing sometimes if our API requests timeout
  • Fix markdown symbols like "#" or "##" not being formatted properly
Features Mar 26, 2025

WhatsApp deliverability stats

  • We now monitor what's happening with WhatsApp. We listen if a message was "sent", "delivered", "read', or "failed"
  • Those statuses can be seen in the Conversation UI for WhatsApp conversations
  • We've added new stats for WhatsApp campaigns like, "Deliveribility rate", "Read rate" and you can now have a clear picture of how many messages were actually sent
  • New conversations that are started from a WhatsApp campaign will now be "Archived' until the customer replies, to avoid noise in the Conversations UI
  • "Beta" label removed from the Whatsapp channel
Improvements Mar 24, 2025

Changes to crawling rules

  • We no longer follow redirects, fixing an issue where a no-longer exiting page will be considered existing
  • We now delete any pages that don't have content on them ( redirects, 404, etc )
Bugfixes Mar 24, 2025

Fix: Whatsapp Cart Recovery not working on some Shopify configs

  • Fixes a bug that prevents abandoned cart messages from sending for some Shopify Checkout configs
Improvements Mar 24, 2025

Add no-caching attribute on our JS script

  • Tweaked our JS script installation instruction to prevent WP plugins from breaking our plugin
Bugfixes Mar 17, 2025

Fix CSV segment import

Improve segment leads importing from CSV. Fix instances where bad formatting of numbers would cause issues.

Improvements Mar 17, 2025

AI Experiments now run on the conversation level

AI experiments will now be split on the conversation level instead of the message level. The update provides a couple of advantages

  • Allows us to compare conversion rates between AI experiments
  • Reduces reply time/AI cost when running an experiment as it allows us to cache the conversation properly
Bugfixes Mar 14, 2025

Fix merchants upgrading their plan not clearing "Max pages reached" error

  • Fixes an issue where upgrading the plan doesn't update our flag if the max pages of the user were reached
  • Adds logic to resume crawling the site if you upgraded from a lower plan
Improvements Mar 13, 2025

Support wildcard URLs for proactive chat campaigns

  • We now allow mechants to add widcard URLs ( eg. shop.com/collections/* ) in order to make it easier to select all pages that match a certain rule
  • We also changed the URL selection interface, and now we can select pages that are not in the Knowledge base
  • Additionally, we've improved the campaign creation form to prevent creating invalid campaigns
Bugfixes Mar 12, 2025

Fix Zipchat not catching URL changes for SPA websites

Fixed a bug where "single-page-application" like sites would change their page without reloading the page in the browser, resulting in Zipchat not knowing the customer changed the page

Improvements Mar 10, 2025

Add messaging filters to Whatsapp messages

  • Implemented a new filter that allows merchant to block certain country codes from messaging to the chat
  • Implemented our rate-limit spam filter in WhatsApp
  • Implemented a filter for chats that are unsubscribed
Bugfixes Mar 10, 2025

Fix custom icon upload button not showing up

Improvements Mar 6, 2025

Whatsapp - Abandoned cart campaigns now support a recover button

Merchants can now set up a "Finish my order" button in their Abandoned cart messages, so the customer can click on this button and be redirected to the checkout page, even if they are not on the same device

Features Mar 4, 2025

Whatsapp - Abandoned Cart campaigns

  • Allow merchants to create campaigns for abandoned carts
  • Improve the event trigger selection UI and add a clear idea on the Meta costs associated with it
Improvements Mar 4, 2025

Add "Test channel" button for Whatsapp

Add a button for easy testing of Whatsapp in Chat Settings. Also added a new FAQ section that handles Channels that don't have their display name approved yet.

Bugfixes Feb 27, 2025

Fix Zipchat attributing the same order twice on rare occasions

Features Feb 27, 2025

Post-purchase campaigns for WhatsApp

Merchants can now create WhatsApp campaigns that are triggered dynamically whenever an order is created in their shop.

( Feature only available for Shopify, other platforms coming soon )

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