FridgedoorChangelog
What has changed
Every release, newest first. Anything that changes what you see or what you can do is written up here; the rest — the plumbing — is not.
This log covers the current Fridgedoor web application, first built in April 2022 and substantially rebuilt over August and September 2026. Earlier versions of Fridgedoor predate it. The years between were quieter, and are grouped into periods rather than listed release by release.
Your branding on the booking page
The page your customer opens can now be made yours — logo, cover image and colour — without asking us to do it.
- new Set your logo, cover image and theme colour for the customer booking page from your own settings.
- improved The booking screens are grouped in the sidebar, and only one group opens at a time.
Plans, reports and a safer sign-in
Account administration you can do without asking us, and a session that is harder to steal.
- new Payment plans are managed directly, and a plan is chosen from the real list rather than typed in.
- new Sort any list by clicking its column heading, and find every report under one menu.
- improved Closing an account deactivates it and keeps its history, instead of deleting it.
- fixed Signed-in sessions carry stronger protection against being read or reused from another site.
The inbox keeps itself up to date
New messages arrive on their own, and setting up a sending domain finally tells you what went wrong.
- new The enquiries queue refreshes itself when something lands.
- improved A failed domain verification says which record is wrong, and retrying genuinely retries.
- fixed An inbound email could be rejected in an uncommon case instead of reaching the queue.
Replies, templates, and your own time format
The reply composer rebuilt, and dates that read the way you write them.
- new The reply composer is rebuilt: write, quote the original message, and send without leaving the thread.
- new Date and time format is a preference, set per person and per organisation.
- fixed Timestamps, replies, message bodies and search in the inbox each had a defect of their own.
- fixed Deleting one block in an email template could remove others with it.
- fixed Email templates and their addresses are visible only to the organisation that owns them.
A stranger's email becomes a thread
Mail from someone not yet on your list stops being a dead end.
- new An email from an address you have never written to opens an enquiry of its own.
- improved Searching the inbox no longer slows down as your template library grows.
- fixed An email that arrived for one organisation cannot be reassigned to another.
Long lists that stay quick
Paging through everything that grows, a consistent icon set, and five repairs to sending.
- improved The inbox, runs, suppressions and unsubscriptions all page properly.
- improved Screen controls use a consistent icon set, and inbox search sits ahead of the view toggle.
- new A banner shows when someone from Fridgedoor is signed in as you to help with a problem.
- fixed Re-running a campaign could re-send to a whole group.
- fixed A send that failed could be reported as delivered, and a message that already went could go twice.
- fixed A slow reply from a message carrier no longer holds a send open indefinitely.
The new enquiries queue
The inbox rebuilt around one shared list, with the customer's email rendered as they sent it.
- new The shared enquiries queue, rebuilt — list view, conversation view, search in the top bar, and filters.
- new Email suppressions and unsubscriptions have their own screens again.
- new Email templates have a list screen and a code view.
- fixed HTML emails display as the customer sent them rather than as a clipped box.
- fixed Run timestamps show in your own timezone.
SMS and email templates, rebuilt
Both template libraries on the new console, with every existing template carried across untouched.
- new The SMS template list and editor, rebuilt to the approved design.
- improved Templates written in the old editor open and send exactly as they did.
- fixed The unsubscribe link at the foot of an email is legible again.
- fixed Theme colours and link styling survive from the old editor to the new one.
- fixed Access to SMS templates follows a person's role.
Settings, people, domains and tokens
The administrative half of the console, rebuilt screen by screen.
- new Invite people by email, and see and edit what each person is allowed to do from their own page.
- new Sending domains, rebuilt — including telling you which record is wrong.
- new The API tokens screen, rebuilt, with scopes you can read at a glance.
- new Booking preferences are a builder beside a live preview.
- improved Your email signature keeps its colour and can be resized, and authored email is cleaned before sending.
- fixed Opening hours are read back exactly as they were saved.
- fixed The dark theme had colours missing on a few screens.
A console you can link into
Every screen has a real address, so a link to one is a link someone else can open.
- new Every screen has its own web address, and the browser's back button works.
- new Locations gained a detail view of their own.
- improved Screen actions moved into the top bar, in one place on every screen.
- improved Permission checks are enforced on the screen itself, not only by hiding the button.
Inbound email that does not lose anything
A fortnight of work on the one part of the system a customer notices only when it fails.
- fixed An email addressed to several of your addresses at once is stored for every recipient.
- fixed A message delivered twice is recorded once.
- fixed One undeliverable recipient no longer takes the rest of the message down with it.
- improved Inbound mail keeps working under a burst, and a restart no longer drops a message mid-delivery.
An activity trail on the account
Who did what, and when, kept for as long as your organisation needs it.
- new An activity log you can read, covering sign-ins and changes to your email and SMS templates.
- new Retention is measured per organisation from your own last activity.
- fixed The activity log never records a password, and the billing report counts SMS units rather than rows.
Accounts set up before anyone logs in
Open signup is gone, and a registered interest becomes a configured account.
- new Register your interest and we set the account up with you before the first login.
- new Once your account is approved, you set your own password. Nobody sends you one.
Tighter access control
A round of work making sure a record can only ever be reached by the organisation it belongs to.
- improved Locations, users, permissions, customers and message history are each scoped to your own organisation.
- improved Inbound email content is cleaned before it is displayed.
- improved Long lists across the console return quickly on accounts with years of history.
- fixed The spam check on the public forms had stopped working.
- fixed Links from retired tracking addresses resolve again, and only ever to an ordinary web address.
Room for the busy days
Nothing changed on screen. Fridgedoor simply stopped being slow at month end.
- improved More headroom for the days when several branches send their monthly reminders within an hour of each other.
Two quiet years of upkeep
A small team keeping a working product running. Few changes, and each one a repair.
- fixed The password reset form works again.
- fixed Activating a user, and the domain verification step, both stopped failing.
- fixed Name fields on the users and locations screens complete as you type again.
Customers, groups and imports
The period Fridgedoor stopped being a place you typed a list into and became a place you brought one to.
- new Customers became a first-class record, with an import.
- new Groups, with their own columns, their own custom fields, and the runs sent to them.
- new A preview of a message before the run goes out.
- improved The mailbox screens were reworked, and search across lists was made usable on a long list.
- fixed Adding and removing a group, and giving a group's permissions to a user, both stopped failing.
Several branches, several domains
The change that made Fridgedoor fit a business with more than one front door.
- new One account can hold several sending domains, and access is set by role rather than by mailbox.
- new A sending domain can be set up during registration rather than afterwards.
- improved Replies find their way back to the right conversation in the inbox.
- fixed Search across reminders and email returned the wrong results on larger accounts.
- fixed The sender name on an email run, role selection, template image upload, and the password reset page.
The web application Fridgedoor runs on today
The current application's first release, replacing the version that came before it.
- new Enquiries and the shared inbox, in one place, with email replies handled as part of the conversation.
- new SMS and email templates with merge fields, and runs sent from them.
- new Sign in, forgot password, and a per-merchant view of what a month of SMS actually cost.
- new A run that failed part-way can be retried rather than rebuilt.
Talk to us
See it against your own reminder volume.
Tell us your branches, your channels, and roughly how many customers come due each month. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
- A mapped plan for your locations, domains and templates
- A written quote covering seats, SMS volume and sending domains
- An account set up with your own templates before anyone logs in
One business day One person, one email. No sequence, no drip, and no calendar link to negotiate with.