{"id":1194,"date":"2022-09-02T06:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2022-09-02T06:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:54:49","slug":"sweepwidget-2020-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/blog\/sweepwidget-2020-updates","title":{"rendered":"SweepWidget 2020 Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recap all SweepWidget features, updates, and highlights from 2020!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 15, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget <> Klaviyo integration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now send user emails from SweepWidget directly to your\u00a0Klaviyo<\/a>\u00a0email list when they enter the \u201cSubscribe to newsletter\u201d entry method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 30, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget <> Drip integration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now send user emails from SweepWidget directly to your\u00a0Drip<\/a>\u00a0email list when they enter the \u201cSubscribe to newsletter\u201d entry method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 15, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget <> GetResponse integration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now send user emails from SweepWidget directly to your\u00a0GetResponse<\/a>\u00a0email list when they enter the \u201cSubscribe to newsletter\u201d entry method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 8, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Add custom SMTP to your SweepWidget emails<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We added a SendGrid.com API integration which allows you to send transactional emails from your custom domain name. These emails are for welcome confirmation emails, verification code emails, and instant reward\/coupon emails. You can have the email come from you@your-domain.com instead of noreply@sweepwidget.co. Read more about custom SMTP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 3, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Require a certain amount of entries for a user to win<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While randomizing a winner, you can now create a filter to have a min\/max amount of required entries for a user to be eligible to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 1, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Add A Custom Icon To An Entry Method.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now choose from 2,000+ custom icons to use for you entry method! We built a fontawesome.com<\/a> integration which allows you to choose from their complete library. Additionally, you can pick a custom background color to go with the icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 15, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget <> Campaign Monitor integration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now send user emails from SweepWidget directly to your\u00a0CampaignMonitor<\/a>\u00a0email list when they enter the \u201cSubscribe to newsletter\u201d entry method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 3, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edit and translate any language in your giveaway.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can still choose from 103 different languages<\/a> to translate your giveaway into. But, now we added a wiki style editor which lets the community edit the default language snippets in the giveaway. For example, if you see something can be translated better, you can make a suggestion to change it. If approved, it will update the default text for that language for everyone. Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 12, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Auto-enter user from your website\u2019s logged in user session\/cookie data.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can now pre-fill the name\/email of a user. You can either do it as a custom data-attribute in the embed code (this allows you to pre-fill the name\/email if the giveaway is embedded in your website) or you can pre-fill it on the hosted landing page (you can add custom get parameters to the address bar). This option is especially great if the giveaway is a second-step from a form on your website and you want to pre-fill the forward carried data. You also have an option to auto-enter the user with their name\/email to make it a seamless process. Read more about this feature here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 1, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget <> Zapier integration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SweepWidget has an approved app on Zapier.com<\/a>! Zapier is an amazing tool that lets you connect SweepWidget to over 4,000+ apps. It lets you easily automate countless tasks and workflows across all of your favorite tools. Read more about how SweepWidget integrates into Zapier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 10, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget <> Google Fonts integration<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now choose from over 900+ Google fonts for your giveaway. Read how to set it up on your Giveaway here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 8, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manually add entries for a user.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can now manually add entries\/points for a user in the entry management area. So, you wanted to give them 50 extra entries, for example, you can easily do that now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 27, 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SweepWidget API launched!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SweepWidget now has a robust custom API which lets you do all sorts of custom integrations. We currently support the following API methods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n