Product updates

With the release of Environments, you can now create, preview, and troubleshoot your notifications in a test environment before going live.

Every tenant has two environments: Test and Production. Each environment has two API keys – Draft and Published – which you can map to your own development workflow. For example, you might use the Published key in the Test environment for testing and the Draft key in the Production environment for staging.

With Environments in Courier, you have the ability to:

• Support test and production API keys for all your integrations.
• Copy templates, brands, tags, and more from test to production.
• Use all of Courier’s features, including Lists, in both environments.

Learn more about Environments in our Help Center.

If you’re on our Business or Enterprise plans, you can now assign roles to teammates in your Tenant. Assigning roles will limit your teammates’ permissions and ability to make changes to your templates, brands, integrations, and settings.

To learn more about assigning roles and their associated permissions, see our Help Center.

New year, new integrations! It’s an onboarding tradition at Courier for new engineers to ship an integration as their first project. With three new teammates joining this month, we’re dropping three brand new integrations: AWS SNS (SMS & Push), Discord, and Telnyx. 🎉

To get started, head to our integrations catalog or check out our developer docs below.

Mobile push

• Amazon SNS

Direct message

• Discord

SMS

• Telnyx

• Amazon SNS

🛠️ Is there an integration you’d like to see built? Let us know!

This update to the webhook notification designer lets you configure the payload of your webhook integration using a Jsonnet code editor. This improvement is backward compatible with existing webhook integrations.

With the release of v1.7.0, the Courier Python SDK has hit full parity with the Courier API. Check out the Courier Python SDK on Github for details and install from PyPI via pip.

You can now set the color of the text in a Text Block. Simply highlight the text and choose from a list of preset options or use a hex value to set a custom color. You can even use a variable in the hex field to dynamically set the color via the JSON payload in your send command.

📣 Announcing the public release of the Courier and Segment integration, the ability to add internal notes to your notifications and Python Library support for Lists API.

New: Lists API Create lists, subscribe recipient profiles, then notify every user on the list with a single Send API call.

New: Inline images and highlighted text Email Text Blocks now allow inline images and highlight text with colors from your brand or custom hex codes.

New: Conditional text Show or hide text within any Text Block by filtering data from the data or profile objects in the Send API call.

Improved: Conditional logic Toggle between Hide/Show When logic when building conditionals based on user and profile data.

Improved: Numbered list blocks List blocks can now be numbered as well as bulleted.

☀️🌧🌱Series A Funding: Courier has raised a $10.1M Series A funding roundRead more in Troy’s post announcing the round.

☁️🚀 Forbes 20 Rising Stars for 2020: We’re honored to be one of Forbes’ 20 Rising Stars in this year’s Cloud100 Rising Stars list.

📤 New: Send Tab Easily test and integrate your notifications with the Send tab.

📬 Blog: How we built our universal message status Courier Engineer, Tony, discusses how we created our universal message status.

New Courier Live: No code Notifications powered by Segment. Watch as Danny and Aydrian show you how to use the new Courier Segment beta destination to send no-code notifications.

New feature: API Key Overrides for Send Grid, Mailgun, AWS SES let you change the request body that Courier uses to send an email. New: Instagram social link in the footer of the Brands email template builder.

New blog post: Why Event Driven Architecture Works for Courier. Dive into Event Driven Architecture, why it fits Courier’s engineering needs, and our experience with it.