Digital Downloads

Sell your digital products by sending the links after the purchase to the customer’s email address. And make sure your links are always protected by hiding them from public view. 

The hidden columns won’t be visible anywhere on the website even if mapped to website elements like Title, Specifications, or buttons.

Help: How to set up digital downloads

More data in the Email Receipts/Notifications

The title, SKU, and variations used to be the only information about the purchased item in the email receipt and email notifications. Now you can provide your customers (or a store owner) with more details about the items ordered.

Add specifications, detailed descriptions, or any other necessary information by including more columns from your Sheet in the email templates of email receipts/email notifications. Select the necessary columns and choose whether to display them as a list or a table.

Help: How to add more data to the email receipts
Help: How to add more data to the email notifications

Tips in Checkout

Using this feature, you can collect tips or any other custom fees. Unlike Taxes&Fees feature, you can use Tips to add any non-mandatory charges to the order form and give your customers the choice to pay or not to pay.

 

You can also customize the title of this section to adapt it to your business needs. For example, you can change the title to Donations and offer your customers a way to support you or a charity fund.

Help: How to set up tips in checkout 

Item Quantity Limit 

This feature allows you to limit the number of items added to the cart to 1. So your customers can purchase only 1 item at a time.

Or you can disallow changing the number of items already added to the cart. This can be useful for cases when you are not selling physical items but services, tours, etc.

These features allow you to use the order form not only for e-commerce but also for other cases, for example, auctions.

Help: How to limit items in cart

Three new templates

Three new templates are already available in your workspace. 

Google Sheets Templates Store

This template showcases our newest feature — digital downloads and shows how you can sell your digital products via a SpreadSimple website. Customers can browse through the catalog and find the necessary Sheet templates, learn more about their features on details pages, and add them to the cart. After checkout, a customer will receive an email containing the links to the purchased templates. The links are securely hidden and cannot be found anywhere on the website.

The template also comes with a little HTML hack that you can use to place custom buttons on the website pages or items’ descriptions.

Check out this template

Travel Agency

The Travel Agency website lists various tours that can be sorted and filtered. Each tour has its dedicated details page where you can learn more information, select the number of people going on the tour using item variations options, and see the destination point on the map. 

This template can be a good choice for anyone who wants to build a tourism or travel website.

Check out this template  

Community Center Template

This template is an example of a non-commercial website where people can see events or activities scheduled and sign up for various classes using the order form. We customized the order form using the CSS code to hide all the e-commerce-related information such as Total, Item quantities, etc so the order form can be used for signing up. 

If you are planning to create a website where you can list events and allow your visitors to register online, the Community Center template can be a good starting point for you.

Check out this template

Mollie payment

One of the most used payment providers in Europe is now available for your SpreadSimple websites. 

Just enter your API keys and start accepting payment via Mollie.

Please be aware that on October 19th from 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM GMT, we will be performing scheduled maintenance. This maintenance is necessary for our major update on SpreadSimple infrastructure.

This update will allow us to improve the loading speed and performance of our websites, especially on websites with large amounts of data.

During the maintenance, all the websites will be up. However, you may experience a delay in the content updates on your website, as we will be updating our caching system. During this time, the synchronization between the website and its source Google Sheets may slow down.

Any desynchronization should be fixed as soon as you save your website in the editor or as soon as somebody enters your website.

In case you experience any other issues, please contact us via our support chat.

Thank you for understanding!

Website limits

As announced, we released the new limits for website quantity. The new limit allows to create 3 Free websites + 1 website for each Pro license. This way each user has their own limit depending on the number of Pro licenses they have. 

You can see the number of available websites in your workspace. 

 Help: Website Quantity Limit

Unpublish website 

Make your website unavailable for visitors during setup or maintenance works. All the website settings including the domain/subdomain will be saved. 

You can unpublish your website in your workspace. 

Scroll to Top button

Make your website more user-friendly by adding a Scroll to top button to the home page.

Help: Enable Scroll to Top button

Sticky header & sticky filters, sort & search bar

Improve the navigation on your website by fixing your header and menu buttons as well as filters, sort, and search on scroll.

New template: Video Catalog 

A template that shows how to display a video on a SpreadSimple website.

Use this template to create a catalog of your YouTube or Vimeo videos. The template Sheet comes with a formula that automatically extracts links to YouTube videos’ cover images.

Check out the new template!

Social share buttons

Add social share buttons to your details pages to make and allow your visitors to share their favorite products or content pieces on social media and messengers in a few clicks. 

Make sure to add meta tags to your details pages first to get nice-looking preview cards. 

Help: How to set up Social Share buttons

Old Price

Map the column with prices to this element and display them cross-stricken on a card or details page. Compare the prices to make the discounts even more attractive for your customers. 

Change the sender’s name in Email receipts

Customize the sender’s in the email receipts that your customers get after they place an order. 

Access the website by email

A new way to collect your visitors’ emails is available now. Set an opt-in form and allow visitors to see the content on your website in exchange for their email addresses. 

Please note this add-on requires using one of the available email marketing add-ons.

Disallow widget mode

Enable this option to restrict your website from being embedded. With the widget mode off, your website can be accessed only as a website.

Universal Email Subscription Add-on: Webhooks (POST)

Now you can use UES add-on with your favorite automation tool and pass the data submitted by your visitors via webhook. 

Redirect Rule: spread.name -> custom domain

Now it is possible to set redirection from a spread.name subdomain to a custom domain for your website, so your website will be available only at your custom domain. You can request such redirection via our support chat or email, and we will set it up for you.

Website Traffic Reports

In these new weekly emails, you will find out how many unique visitors and page views your websites are getting, and see how website traffic is changing from week to week.  And of course, there will be some quick tips that might be helpful for your digital marketing.

We started by sending the reports only to a group of our users based on their website traffic, so if your website gets more than 30 views a week, you will get our traffic report every Monday.

Unique H1 and home page content for aliases

Make your aliases (aka “category” pages) more SEO- and user-friendly by adding more unique content before and after the cards, as well as unique titles and subtitles. 

Help: How to set up aliases

Redirect Rules

Now you can set up redirection rules for your website using the path for your custom domain. 

For example, if you have already indexed your website and then decided to move your website to SpreadSimple, you can use the redirects feature to set up a redirection from your old page that was already indexed to your new page like this: example.com/page-1/ to example.com/page-1 

Or set a redirection from one page to another one: example.com/page-1 to example.com/page-2

Help: How to set up redirects

Other improvements

New languages: Croatian, Farsi, and Telugu are now available for website localization in the Settings tab.

Read-only form fields: disallow your customers to fill some of your fields in the order form. 

No coordinates for listings on Map View: leave some listings without the coordinates to not display them on the map.

Improved RSS feed and Sitemap structures

New templates

Three new templates are already available in your workspace.

Dental Clinics Directory

A hand-picked list of the best private dental clinics in London. Search by address, sort by rating, and see the results marked on the map. This directory showcases the Map View used both on the main page and details pages, and the Disqus add-on that allows your visitors to add comments and reactions on the details pages.

Eco Store

Online store with soft and clean design and various e-commerce features like a shopping cart, an order form with custom fields, promo codes, and a workaround for category pages made with URL aliases feature.

This template also offers you minor design customizations like round-shaped images made with custom CSS snippets. You can find the code in the Settings Tab -> Inject custom code -> <head>, then copy and use it on other websites of yours.

Clothes Store

Another example of an e-commerce website with multiple item variations that differ in color and size, and multiple colorful badges. The Clothes store also showcases the stock-limitation feature that won’t let your customers order items that are out of stock.

New add-ons

You can find the following add-ons in the Add-ons Tab.

• Mailerlite Add-on offers an easy way to create an email subscription form and connect it to Mailerlite, a popular email marketing service.
• Disqus Add-on will allow your website visitors to share their thoughts, feedback and reactions.
• Google Adsense Add-on (Beta) will help you monetize your website by adding ads to it using this Google Adsense integration. Please note that this add-on is in beta so if you encounter any problems, please report them to us.
• Hubspot Add-on is a simple way to create an email subscription form and connect it to Hubspot, a powerful CRM tool great known.
• Aidaform Add-on will help you embed your form built with Aidaform to your SpreadSimple website.
• Pabbly Connect Add-on allows you to connect your website to more than a thousand apps and automate your workflows. All kudos to the Pabbly Team for their great work on building this integration.

Table of Contents in Markdown

Create a table of contents on your Content page by adding [[toc]] in the editor.

SEO enhancement: sitemap for websites embedded as widgets

Now if you are using a website as a widget, you can get its sitemap URL that includes the base path to your host website domain. The URL will look like this: https://food-delivery.spread.name/sitemap.xml?basePath=https://example.com/%23/

What you need to do is to add ?basePath=your_host_website_domain/%23/ to the sitemap URL of your website embedded as a widget.