For course creators, Thrive Apprentice<\/a> now lets you create a Stripe customer portal for your students and members. We’ve also given you more control over how an assessment contributes to your students’ course progress.<\/p>\n Read on to learn more about these exciting features!<\/p>\n Before we get into the new features included in this release, let’s talk briefly about some changes happening under-the-hood at Thrive Themes.<\/p>\n The latest release is Version 10.0 <\/strong>across all<\/em> of our plugins \u2014 which those of you with a keen eye will have noticed is a big leap in version numbers from our last, and brings all of Thrive Suite to the same number.<\/p>\n This is a reflection of some significant internal improvements we’ve been working on.<\/p>\n We’ve aligned all versions to 10.0<\/p>\n This is the culmination of a ton of work that we’ve put into improving our deployment pipelines \u2014 that is, the way we can provide you with plugin updates, bug fixes, new features and functionality onto your websites faster, <\/em>and with less conflicts.<\/p>\n We’ll have more news about this later in the year, but we’re working to:<\/p>\n We are making this a priority ahead of major updates in our future, because after-all, we know that you are building your businesses with our tools and it’s important that we are in the best position help you achieve success.<\/p>\n But enough of that! Let’s talk about what is new in version 10.0<\/em><\/p>\n Keeping spam off your website used to be simpler, but now it feels like a constant<\/em> struggle. <\/p>\n Google ReCAPTCHA was the go-to option for most business owners, but with Google’s recent change to their pricing model, it\u2019s become harder (and more costly) to use effectively.<\/p>\n At the same time, you’re seeing more sophisticated bots hit your site every day, filling your database with spammy submissions \u2013 which is super<\/em> frustrating and time-consuming. <\/p>\n When you look into paid spam protection services, the prices make you cringe. It almost feels like you’re being pushed to choose between leaving your site vulnerable or overspending on security. <\/p>\n And that\u2019s why we\u2019ve ramped up our spam protection functionality to save you a lot of stress, time, and money.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve now integrated with CloudFlare\u2019s Turnstile<\/a>\u2014 a more user-friendly and free alternative to ReCAPTCHA for your website.<\/p>\n Turnstile will be available under API connections<\/p>\n Once you follow through the CloudFlare Turnstile setup (which is a thousand times easier than Google ReCAPTCHA), you’ll be able to enable Turnstile spam protection on any lead generation forms built with Thrive products.<\/p>\n Then enable turnstile in one click.<\/p>\n This will add a spam check through CloudFlare, who are industry leaders in content delivery networks (CDNs), DNS, and Cyber Security. CloudFlare will check visitor signals to see if they match with spam patterns and, if they do, it will block form submission.<\/p>\n But for your human users, they’ll see an auto-loading verification check just under your forms where you have it enabled.<\/p>\n CloudFlare Turnstile will check the user is not a bot before permitting form submission.<\/p>\n But that’s not all…<\/em><\/p>\n If you don’t want to use CloudFlare and just need a quick spam solution right out-of-the-gate, we\u2019ve got you covered. We have released our very own native honeypot spam prevention system \u2013 Thrive Spam Protection. <\/strong><\/p>\n And here\u2019s how it works\u2026 <\/p>\n When you are creating a form in our Visual Editor\u2014 whether that’s in Thrive Architect<\/a>, Thrive Leads<\/a> or any of our plugins\u2014 under ‘spam prevention’, you can select ‘Thrive Spam Protection’.<\/p>\n No APIs needed, this works straight away.<\/p>\n You’ll notice that on your form… nothing changes<\/em>.<\/p>\n Behind the scenes, this creates a hidden form field that can’t be seen by real users but is visible to bots that may be crawling your site looking to fill in your forms with spam entries.<\/p>\n Those spam bots can’t help<\/em> but interact with those hidden fields, and that’s a sure-sign that it wasn’t a real user. <\/p>\n As a result, your Thrive-made lead generation form returns a successful form submission response, so the bot thinks<\/em> it was successful… when in reality, the form submission is cleverly rejected. <\/p>\n Both CloudFlare Turnstile and Thrive Spam Protection are GDPR compliant and give you an easier way to protect your forms without having to break the bank.<\/p>\n Thrive Tip: <\/strong>And you can check out this guide<\/a> to learn how to set up either of these spam protection options on your website.<\/p>\n We\u2019re excited to share another highly-requested feature: a custom Number<\/strong> field to make collecting numerical data on your forms so much easier. <\/em><\/p>\n Look for the new ‘number’ field type<\/p>\n Here’s what you can do with this field. You can:<\/p>\n You’re in charge with your number field.<\/p>\n This new field makes collecting any kind of numerical data really<\/em> easy. <\/p>\n From financial figures to survey responses, you’ll get the precise numbers you need without the hassle. This form field will reject entries that are not<\/em> numbers, and will provide error responses if users try to submit numbers that are not within the min\/ max.<\/p>\n And yes, it works with our custom field integrations across popular mailing list tools meaning you can pass that data into your service of choice.<\/p>\n It’s perfect for everything from generating accurate quotes to analyzing survey results. See this example below, with an up\/down increment clicker that helps your visitors enter their chosen value.<\/p>\n Users can easily enter and validate their number.<\/p>\n Adding a number field to your forms might seem like a small change, but it unlocks a handful of powerful use cases.<\/p>\n Now, when you ask for age, quantity, or any other number, you’ll get clean, usable responses without the headache of sorting through text entries or fixing input errors.<\/p>\n This simple feature will save you hours of data cleanup and make your forms much easier for people to fill out. It’s all about getting the information you need, hassle-free.<\/p>\n Managing your online course and membership customers in Thrive Apprentice<\/a> just became even easier for Stripe users.<\/p>\n If you head to the backend settings in Thrive Apprentice, you\u2019ll see a new feature:<\/p>\n If you’re selling with our free Stripe integration, look here for the new Customer Portal option.<\/p>\n With this feature, you can create a dynamic button (or text link) in Thrive Architect<\/a> and link it to a Stripe page where your customers can manage their payment and profile details with your business. <\/p>\n Add a dynamic portal link from buttons and text.<\/p>\n This button will magically be hidden from users that have not<\/em> bought a product from you through Stripe, and for those that have\u2014 it will dynamically link them to their own<\/em> management portal, with their subscription and card data.<\/p>\n They can cancel or renew their subscriptions, add new credit cards, modify their billing information, and see a list of all of their past invoices.<\/p>\n So how would you use it?<\/p>\n On your course pages or in any custom membership area that you build, you can drop a button on the page and add the dynamic Stripe Customer Portal link, like we have in this example below:<\/p>\n Your customer’s unique portal will be accessible when they click this button.<\/p>\n Then, when a customer with an active purchase history or subscription on your website clicks that link, they’ll be taken to a secure Stripe management area, off of your website, that looks like this example below.<\/p>\n See how they can edit their card, cancel plan, or update their information? This is all done on Stripe’s end where it’s very<\/em> secure, but changes will affect their access to your Thrive Apprentice products.<\/p>\n Now customers can easily edit this payment information in Stripe.<\/p>\n By giving your customers more control over their subscriptions, you get to save time by not having to handle this aspect of your business yourself.<\/p>\n If a customer needs to verify information with their subscription, or change their payment method, they can easily hop in and do it themselves without needing to consult you.<\/p>\n Neat, right?<\/em><\/p>\n Thrive Tip: <\/strong>Learn how to set up your Customer Stripe Portal<\/a> here.<\/p>\n Course creators, you\u2019re going to love this.<\/p>\n Remember our Assessments Feature? The one which lets you add assessments to your courses in Thrive Apprentice<\/a>, either as file uploads, video URLs, external links or entire quizzes built with Thrive Quiz Builder<\/a>?<\/p>\n Thrive Apprentice lets you accept assessment submissions easily.<\/p>\n Yeah, the assessments feature which lets course creators view, grade and provide feedback to their students from an easy-to-use backend assessment inbox.<\/p>\n Isn’t it awesome? Here’s a view of the backend grading inbox.<\/p>\n Easily view and grade your student’s submissions.<\/p>\n Well, up until now, when someone completed an assessment, by default that assessment would immediately count towards progress on their course.<\/p>\n But we’ve added more flexibility to suit your teaching style and course goals.<\/p>\n Now, you have the power to control how and when an assessment contributes to your students’ progress.<\/p>\n Set your preferences upon assessment submission.<\/p>\n You can let assessments count towards student progress with:<\/p>\n This new feature puts you in control of how students progress through your course. <\/p>\n You decide if credit is earned only for top performance, for every attempt, or simply for submitting work. It’s a simple way to reinforce your course goals and keep students on track. <\/p>\n Whether you want to emphasize quality, effort, or timely completion, you can now easily pick the option that suits you.<\/p>\n And this improvement is laying the foundation for an even more<\/em> powerful feature coming to Thrive Apprentice in the coming months, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n We’ve joined forces to work with the team at AIOSEO<\/a> (All-In-One SEO) to bring a seamless SEO integration to Thrive Architect.<\/p>\n And it’s awesome!<\/em><\/p>\n If you install AIOSEO (which is free\u2014 download it from the WordPress Plugin Directory), and you open Thrive Architect<\/a> to edit a page, you’ll notice a new SEO score at the top and the AIOSEO icon on the right hand side.<\/p>\nVersion 10.0…? What does that mean?<\/h2>\n
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6. Thrive Architect integration with AIOSEO<\/h2>\n
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