Changelog
What shipped, dated.
Every product update, in plain words, newest first. Dates are the day the change went live in the codebase.
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Contact uploads that just work
- Spreadsheet uploads find the sheet that holds the phone numbers, skip title rows and stream large workbooks.
- Owner alerts on the official API always find a route that lands — an approved template or a linked device.
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Front Desk: reviews, loyalty and insights
- Review funnel: happy customers get your Google review link; unhappy ones get a named person and you get an alert.
- Loyalty rewards driven by visit counts (“5th visit free”), “Log a visit” from the counter, and insights per moment.
- Design your own customer form, QR self check‑in, save to contacts and send a welcome on save.
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Broadcasts: every blank filled per person
- Fill template variables for each recipient from a spreadsheet column, right in the broadcast builder.
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Front Desk launches
- Counter console: find or add a customer and send a moment in one tap, with consent captured.
- Journeys: welcome on add, nightly win‑back for quiet customers, a readable send log.
- Moment API with idempotency and recipes, so your POS or booking tool can trigger messages.
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Broadcast suite, round two
- Retries, spending limits per broadcast, button analytics, automations, opt‑in keywords, a template gallery and a public API.
- Honest delivery: the report says why Meta did not deliver, test sends report real delivery, reports keep updating.
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Broadcasts and contacts
- Full address book, audience segmentation, broadcast builder, per‑recipient tracking, delivery ticks and auto‑pacing inside Meta’s limits.
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Tell your AI what to fix
- In‑product trainer edits the AI’s knowledge in place, with one‑click undo.
- “Check my AI” audits your memory with one‑click fixes; “What my AI knows” is a readable document of every fact.
- Dispute detection: when a customer argues with an answer, you hear about it.
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Security hardening
- Tenant isolation review, fail‑closed secrets, payment replay protection, SSRF and XSS fixes, login hardening.
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Reply accuracy engine
- Every reply is fact‑checked against your business facts before it is sent; the AI answers from your facts, never from its own memory.
- “Why this answer?” on every AI reply; “Wrong answer?” turns a correction into a permanent fact.
- Nightly AI accuracy score per business; an alarm when the AI provider refuses requests; measured cost per message.
- Replies formatted for WhatsApp, practice mode, a “Not delivered” list with send‑again, and the AI can send your own files (brochure, menu, price list, photos).
- The AI answers at every hour; opening hours describe the team. Times shown on the owner’s own clock.
- Webhooks: send leads, bookings and payments to your own tools with one web address.
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Owner alerts and Malaysian accounts
- Editable WhatsApp alerts to the owner for every moment that matters.
- Malaysian accounts speak DuitNow and RM, with +60 numbers and Kuala Lumpur time; ichatup.my goes live.
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Country licensee foundation
- iChatUp in Malaysia on ichatup.my with local billing, legal pages and hreflang; accounts directory and signup digest.
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Three plans
- Starter answers, Automator runs operations, Marketer sells — every plan starts with a free 7‑day trial.
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A global site
- Prices shown automatically in the visitor’s local currency; worldwide copy; a full /features page.
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Honest handoff
- Manual replies labelled by sender; replies from the phone app labelled “Team” and they take over flagged chats; the AI resumes when you enable it.
- Send failures tell the truth; flags can be resolved in one click.
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Simple mode and voice
- Paste your whole business in one box — the AI answers from it.
- “Test my AI”: the mock‑customer exam; voice replies for customers who talk; tap‑to‑pay UPI links in chat for India.
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Setup Assistant
- The AI interviews the owner — tap‑to‑answer setup; burst aggregation and memory fixes for better replies.
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Official WhatsApp API feature set
- Message templates synced with Meta, 24‑hour‑window handling, number health checks, campaigns, auto follow‑ups, weekly digest, voice‑note transcription, delivery truth.
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New public site and onboarding
- Rebuilt homepage, pricing, industry and use‑case pages, guides; a five‑step onboarding with connect‑in‑place and live preview.
- Channel‑aware routing: replies leave on the channel the customer used (official API or linked device).
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