July 2025

This release includes meaningful upgrades to how you manage plans, design emails, filter contacts, and track domain health – plus helpful UI enhancements throughout.

Smarter Plan Management

What’s new: You can now seamlessly manage your plan directly from the Plans & Billing tab in your settings.

Why it matters: Whether you’re upgrading, downgrading, or managing usage across users and contacts, we’ve made the experience more intuitive with:

• In-app notifications for upgrades and downgrades
• Alerts when you’re approaching plan limits
• Guardrails that prevent contact imports if they exceed your plan

Richer Font Styling in the Email Builder

What’s new: You can now apply different fonts, sizes, and alignments within a single text block using the in-line toolbar.

Why it matters: You no longer need multiple text blocks to achieve professional layouts—customize everything in one place for faster, more flexible design.

More Intuitive Contact Filters

What’s new: We’ve improved how contact filters are visually grouped, making AND/OR logic easier to follow.

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After:

Why it matters: Targeting the right segment is faster and more accurate – plus the repositioned buttons (Clear All and Apply) are now easier to find.

Clearer Email Footer Guidance

What’s new: If your footer design is incomplete, the email checklist now shows an error message rather than switching buttons to a previously confusing “Resolve Issues” button.

Why it matters: It’s now easier to know exactly what to fix, without unnecessary confusion – especially helpful for new users.

Other Fixes and Enhancements

• Improved email builder load time with a new loading screen
• Hover tooltips added to email checklist and list names for better visibility of long names
• Better domain authentication guidance when a subdomain is already in use
• Smarter contact import: Prompts you to select the correct number format for inconsistent data columns
• Manual unsubscribes are now accurately tracked in contact activity logs
• Visual display fixes for ampersands in the contact list
• My Emails tab now shows only Sent or Scheduled emails – drafts excluded to reduce clutter and confusion
• Japanese language improvements: New “Zen Old Mincho” font and updated translations
• Unlayer email builder upgraded to ensure compatibility with Benchmark’s custom features
• Verified domain deletion timeout extended to 30 days for improved troubleshooting