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Product Updates & Enhancements

We listen to and anticipate the needs of our customers in order to provide an easy-to-use CRM that is filled with valuable features and doesn’t break the bank.

Keep reading below to learn more about our most recent updates and the value that they can provide to your company.

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Nutshell Chat

Nutshell Chat lets website visitors start conversations with your agents directly from your site using a customized chat widget, so you can quickly provide them with the answers they need.

And Chat’s automations enable you to send visitors through your sales funnel, gather information through forms, and track every conversation.

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Click-to-Call AI

AI-powered click-to-call further expands Nutshell’s AI capabilities, enabling your team to save time and stay organized.

Now you can use AI to generate transcriptions and summaries of your click-to-call phone calls from inside Nutshell, enabling your team to easily share critical details about conversations.

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Scheduler Round-Robin Assignment

Now you can create round-robin Scheduler meetings in addition to solo or co-hosted meetings, so you can maximize your team’s availability and book more appointments.

Assign a specific team to a meeting, and Scheduler will automatically rotate meeting assignments between team members based on who is available.

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Marketing Dashboard

Introducing your new hub for everything related to your Nutshell marketing efforts. In the marketing dashboard, see key metrics like email newsletter campaign open and click rates, website traffic, landing page views, and conversion rates across your Nutshell forms. Then optimize your strategies to boost engagement with your contacts.

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Nutshell SMS

Leverage text messaging to engage with leads and customers at every stage of the buyer’s journey. Now you can send SMS messages directly from inside Nutshell, assign text threads to the right sales rep, and leverage text automation at each pipeline stage to nudge prospects down the funnel.

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Marketing Email Templates

Now you can create marketing email templates to share with your team, ensuring that communication across your organization is branded and consistent.

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New REST API Documentation

We’re launching broad new swaths of API access via REST API, making it easier for developers to access, filter, and test REST API requests with Nutshell data.

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Custom Domains for Nutshell Forms, Scheduler, and Editions

Nutshell already lets your team add custom domains for hosting landing pages and tracking emails. Now you can also configure custom domains for your Nutshell forms, Scheduler links, and marketing Newsletter, Broadcast, and Drip editions.

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Log an Activity in Nutshell With the Zapier Integration

Nutshell’s Zapier integration just got an upgrade!

We’ve added the functionality to create/log a new activity in Nutshell when something happens in another app via Zapier integration. For example, now your team will be able to log phone call activities in Nutshell when completed through a communications app. 

For more information:

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Custom Fields Descriptions

Custom fields are an important part of organizing your CRM contacts and customizing Nutshell for your business.

You can now include descriptions with custom fields to give your team additional context about the purpose of each field.

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Nutshell Forms Separate Address Fields

Accurate address information is important if your company provides local services to customers, sends out physical mail, or just wants the most precise addresses for your contacts.

Nutshell forms now allow separate address fields, so you can get accurate addresses from the country and city down to the street and postal code.

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ProspectorIQ

Finding the right customers for your business can take a lot of effort. Introducing ProspectorIQ, your new solution for cold prospecting built right inside Nutshell.

With ProspectorIQ, your team has access to over 200 million people and companies from our third-party database. Create your ideal customer profile, filter to find contacts who match your criteria, and add them as leads to Nutshell in just a few clicks.

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Multiple Attendees for Scheduler Meetings

Some appointments, like introductory meetings or sales demos, just need the ability to include more than one attendee.  Scheduler now lets your meeting attendees add additional people to their bookings!

Your meeting participants can now invite other attendees by email address, and Scheduler will send conformation emails to each of the meeting participants.

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Nutshell Campaigns Privileges

Want to give your team more granular access to your marketing emails in Nutshell Campaigns? With new Campaigns privileges, you can choose which roles you’ve created in Nutshell have access to Campaigns—ensuring only the people who need access can view, edit, and schedule your marketing emails.

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Company Hierarchy

Simplify lead tracking leads and customer management using Nutshell’s company hierarchy feature. Easily create parent/child relationships between companies in your CRM to organize your leads and sales across subsidiaries of a parent company. 

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Nutshell Notetaker

Make note-taking easier with Nutshell Notetaker, our voice-to-text tool that generates highly accurate text from your voice.

Use Notetaker to write notes on logged sales activities, remember important details in your Person, Company, and Lead timelines, and craft engaging emails in half the time. Notetaker expands Nutshell’s conversational AI abilities to make you and your team more efficient than ever!

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PeopleIQ

Struggling to find the right point of contact at a company in your book of business? With the PeopleIQ add-on, your team can proactively identify and reach out to the most relevant stakeholders, so you can get your message to the right people.

PeopleIQ scours the internet to find contact information about the people who work for companies you already have in Nutshell, helping you quickly find the sales representatives or C-level executives you need to talk to so you can reach out.

And with filters for you to zero in on people by management level, job field, and what contact information is available, you’re in control of which people Nutshell finds for you!

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Form Spam Prevention

Protecting your forms from spammers is important for boosting team productivity and maintaining clean customer data.

With new spam prevention features, your team can opt in to add spam prevention settings for all your new Nutshell forms. Your human form submitters will easily be able to submit forms, while Nutshell keeps bots out!

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Email Booster and Chrome Extension Updates

As of November 2024, Revenue Booster has been rolled into our CRM plans. Learn more here.

Email Booster is the second half of our Revenue Booster add-on, helping you send and customize Nutshell email templates from Gmail. With the power of Email Booster, your entire team will be able to view and select pre-built Nutshell email templates in their Gmail composer to send consistent communications with leads and customers.

And with updates to our Chrome extension, you can track email opens and clicks, create new contacts and tasks in Nutshell, and more!

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New Email Sync Controls

To keep private messages private, you and your team need complete control over how your email communications are shared in Nutshell.

Nutshell’s improved email sync controls allow you to block emails from certain domains, remove all emails from a domain right from your timeline, and add a domain to your company-wide blocklist in just a few clicks!

For more information:

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Customizable Lead Board View

Customizable lead board cards enable Nutshell Pro customers and above to tailor what information displays on lead board cards. Now you can customize cards with the most important fields, reorder fields to suit your preferences, and adjust lead cards for different pipelines!

This new feature also brings several updates to the user experience of the lead board view, including a faster way to sort your leads.

For more information:

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Three Free Marketing Seats

Want to get more of your marketing team on your CRM and email marketing platform, but don’t want to pay for a full seat? Nutshell Pro customers and above can now add three marketing seats for absolutely free.

Add any three team members to your free marketing-only role to get your sales and marketing teams working better together!

For more information:

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Colored Tags

Tags in Nutshell have leveled up. Now you can pick from 14 color options when adding tags, so you can easily spot your most important tags when viewing your Person, Company, and Lead pages, filtering your lists, and setting drip sequence goals.

In addition, you can now hover over tags on your Person, Company, and Lead pages to see who added the tag and when.

For more information:

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A/B Testing in Nutshell Campaigns

We’ve launched a major enhancement to Nutshell Campaigns: the ability to run A/B tests on your marketing emails. A/B testing lets you create two versions of a campaign and test which one results in more conversions from your audience.

You can now experiment with email design and copy to determine which subject lines, preview text, and content increases your email open and click rates. You choose how Nutshell decides a winning email, then let Nutshell ‘s automation handle the data collection and sending for you!

For more information:

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Landing Pages

Landing Pages is an add-on that helps streamline your digital marketing campaigns by making it easier to create and customize webpages, keep visitors engaged and generate more conversions.

It’s a breeze to design landing pages for your campaigns with our drag-and-drop builder. Then connect them to your domain, manage your pages — without any coding — and start filling your pipeline with high-quality leads.

For more information:

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Nutshell Zapier Enhancements

With new updates to our Zapier integration, which lets customers connect Nutshell to thousands of their mission-critical applications, you can now perform even more actions to automate your most essential workflows. You’ll have the ability to automatically update people and companies in Nutshell based on triggers from your other tools.

We’ve also introduced the ability to update your Nutshell lead confidence, tags, assignee, priority, due time, and closed time through Zapier. And you can now search by phone number in the Find Person action in Zapier so you can avoid creating duplicates.

For more information:

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Nutshell’s AppConnect

Nutshell’s newest update is AppConnect, an exciting add-on that takes your company beyond default integrations and gives you control over how well your mission-critical applications work together.

With an AppConnect plan, Nutshell’s integration experts will set up and maintain the integrations your company needs to keep data flowing smoothly between your CRM and your tech stack. AppConnect ensures your data and workflows are always synced, even if your applications have complex requirements. AppConnect is also free for most teams.

For more information:

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Email Report

The new email report lets you know exactly the types and numbers of emails your teams are sending. See which email templates are getting the most mileage and compare email activity between departments and Nutshell users to gain insight into your emails’ impact.

We also released better ways to organize your email templates. Group templates by categories like “Initial outreach,” “Renewal reminders,” or whatever else your team frequently sends. Then access all your templates from one easy-to-use hub and organize them however works best for your company.

For more information:

Email report in Nutshell

Nutshell Scheduler Enhancements

With these Scheduler updates, we’re introducing the ability to create meetings with multiple hosts. Scheduler will check the availability of all co-hosts and only allow bookings when everyone is available. That means you can easily book meetings that require multiple team members, such as vital onboarding calls.

And there’s more great news! We’re also integrating Scheduler with Google Meet so that you can schedule meetings on Google Meet directly from Nutshell.

For more information:

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Competitor Spy – Early Access

This exciting new feature will empower you to understand your competitors’ website traffic and strategies. With Competitor Spy, you can easily track your competitors’ website traffic, uncover what marketing channels are driving their success and see how their traffic and market share are trending over time. These insights will help you make informed decisions and stay ahead of the market.

For more information:

CompetitorIQ was renamed to Competitor Spy and became apart of our Marketing Software offerings in late 2024.

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Customized ‘Add New’ Dialogs

Your CRM data collection process is at the core of your sales and marketing efforts. It’s how you gather crucial information about your leads, contacts, and companies.

With customized ‘add new’ dialogs, administrators can now take full control of this process and ensure that the right information gets collected every time someone on your team adds data to Nutshell.

For more information:

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Role-Based Access Control

Traditionally, Nutshell has operated with two basic access levels: Standard and Administrator. Role-based permissions introduce a dynamic layer of control within Nutshell. It’s your key to creating tailored roles like “Marketer” or “Operations,” each equipped with its own unique set of permissions. This means you have finer control over who gets access to what, ensuring the right people have the right level of access.

For more information:

Customizing user permissions in Nutshell

Power AI

As of October 2024, the Power AI plan has been renamed to Business. Learn more here.

In addition to increased product limits from Pro, Power AI’s main features include access to and harnessing the power of artificial intelligence:

  1. AI timeline summarization: use AI to concisely summarize a timeline on demand. For example, you can quickly recall what products a company or person is interested in, review a lead’s purchase history, or bring new colleagues up to speed on an account.
  2. Zoom transcription summarization: use AI to summarize Zoom meetings to make note-taking and follow-ups a breeze.

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Nutshell Scheduler

Scheduler is a calendar management tool that works in Nutshell to simplify meeting planning, connect your appointments, and sync meeting information with contact information.

And—unlike Calendly or other standalone tools—Scheduler is fully integrated with Nutshell, so the activities you schedule are automatically tracked in your CRM, with forms that can collect contact information and custom fields.

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Native Zoom Integration

Our native integration with Zoom went live in August 2023 and is available for free for customers with a Pro, Business or Enterprise subscription.

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Audit Log

Audit log launched for Enterprise customers in June 2023.

Audit log allows you to track information like logins and exports from the lists pages as needed, and see when they occurred.

Audit Log tracks users’ IP addresses to create a tabulated view of what actions they’ve taken in your Nutshell account. You can access the following information in your Audit Log:

  • User name
  • IP address
  • Date and time
  • Type of action (login, bulk edit, export)
  • Number of edits
  • Session details
  • Status
  • Device type

For more information:

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Company Enrichment

This new update gives your team access to data that will enhance your understanding of and interactions with your customers.

With Company Enrichment, you can access information including:

  • Company name
  • Industry
  • Address
  • Website
  • Annual revenue
  • Number of employees
  • Phone
  • Email

For more information:

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VisitorIQ

VisitorIQ is a prospecting tool within Nutshell that automatically tracks visitors to your website and their company data.

Instead of randomly contacting companies and crossing your fingers for a sale, you can see the companies that may be more receptive to your pitch because they’re browsing your site, helping you sell more effectively.

For more information:

VisitorIQ company visitor table

Emails on Lead Timelines

Emails on lead timelines keeps emails better organized by allowing your team to route project-specific emails to the correct lead timelines.

A few helpful ways to use emails on lead timelines:

  • Assign a unique BCC email address for every lead
  • Select a related lead to associate with an email from your timeline
  • Choose related leads from inside Nutshell’s email composer

For more information:

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Lead Attribution

Lead attribution enables you to identify where your business’s leads come from. With lead attribution technology, you can determine which channels (such as online ads and organic search) and sources (such as specific ad campaigns and websites) drove potential customers to your business.

For more information:

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Pinned Notes

You can now pin a note to the top of the timeline for any person, company, or lead timeline. The note will remain at the top of the timeline no matter what other activity occurs in the timeline so it’s easily visible any time someone views the timeline.

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Acquired by WebFX

A digital marketing agency to help drive qualified inbound leads and a CRM to help you close them.

In the past, B2B companies needed to juggle multiple sales and marketing tools to manage their pipeline, and outsource their SEO, digital advertising, and social media efforts to various agencies with different points of contact. Now, you can invest in an end-to-end services and software solution that places everything you need to grow your business under one roof.

For more information:

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Notifications for Nutshell Forms

Get notified every time a form is submitted.

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Additional Nutshell Campaigns Templates

Over 15 templates to choose from when sending a broadcast, newsletter or drip-sequence from Nutshell Campaigns.

For more information:

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File Uploads for Nutshell Forms

In the form editor, when adding a new block, you’ll find the option for ‘File upload’ for your contact and lead pages. With this new field, you can ask your customers to upload screenshots when requesting technical support, submit resumes for job applications, collecting images for contests or features for newsletters, or any other occasion where a file would provide important context.

For more information:

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Nutshell Campaigns Notifications

Link tracking gave Nutshell Campaigns users a closer look at the effectiveness of their marketing content and CTAs, displaying both total and unique clicks for each link in each message.

Now, when links within your marketing messages are clicked or when drip sequence goals are met, we’ll let you know via notification alerts.

For more information:

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Create Multiple Leads Instantly from Any Contact List

Within every list view, you will now see a Create lead button at the bottom of the page that lets you create a lead for each selected contact in just one click.

For more information:

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Nutshell Campaigns Link Tracking

Having engagement data about specific links within your outreach shows you which content and offers your readers are most interested in, and the effectiveness of how you present your CTAs, all of which helps you improve future marketing emails.

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Nutshell Campaigns Drip Sequences

A drip sequence, also known as a drip campaign, is an automated series of messages designed to send to contacts over a specific period of time, at predetermined intervals.

Drip sequences are customizable and enable you to get information to your audiences at the right moment, without having to send any emails manually.

For more information:

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Nutshell Campaigns Shareable Links

Nutshell Campaigns’ shareable links help you deliver your email content to wider audiences and relieve the pain of limited shareability. Time that would be spent on reformatting, redesigning, or recreating your content simply to make it shareable, is yours again.

For more information:

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Gmail Chrome Extension

2018’s release of Nutshell for Gmail chrome extension made it possible for you to manage your Nutshell contacts and leads directly from your Gmail inbox.

A CRM has to sync with your email in order to be effective, which is why Nutshell has made Gmail integration a top priority since day one.

For more information:

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Mail Sync for Google Workspace

Easily track the emails you send and receive in Nutshell with two-way mail sync.

Note: also available for Office365 users.

For more information:

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Product Roadmap

Want to know what’s coming next? View our Product Roadmap. We update our Roadmap every quarter, so be sure to check back in regularly.

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