“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, claimed Da Vinci, and at iPaper, we believe that simplifying our products, without compromising on functionality, leads to higher user adoption and greater ease of use.

We’ve simplified our checkout options by merging Email sharing and Email checkout into one, unified checkout option, called Email.

As Email checkout already achieves the same task as Email sharing—allowing you to share your basket contents via email—while being much more customizable, it’s a no-brainer to merge them into one. Any existing Email sharing options have automatically been migrated to the new, Email checkout option.

With Email checkout, all the fields are fully customizable, meaning you can tailor it to exactly how you want.

The options available to you are quite broad:

• Single line of text
• E-mail field
• Multiple lines of text
• Dropdown menu
• Checkbox
• Checkbox list
• Multiple choice
• Email list
• Consent checkbox

You can get a full rundown of the Email checkout option, as well as how to implement it in your shop configuration, in our guide, below:

You can add as many, or as few, fields as you need to make sure your visitors provide you with the data you need to complete the transaction.

Now, you only need to implement 1 Email checkout option, to allow your Flipbook visitors to check out to a vendor’s email address, or share their basket with someone else by entering another email address in the field. Simple!

Of course, if you have any questions about the new Email checkout option, just reach out to our Customer Care team via the messenger bubble in the corner, and we’ll be happy to help. ✌️

The world and the Internet are changing, with more focus on browsing privacy. In a recent survey, 68% of respondents expressed that they wanted to control the conditions in which their data was collected online.

To support this, we have chosen to enable every customer with the ability to use the Cookie Consent Manager they already use on their website, in their Flipbooks.

We’ve got great news: Custom Scripting is no longer restricted to higher tiers, but available on every iPaper account 🥳

Our Custom Scripting allows you to inject third-party, or completely customized scripts into your Flipbook, and can be managed by anyone with Administrator-level access.

It’s this feature that allows you, for example, to show the same cookie banner in your Flipbook, as you do on your website.

The possibilities are vast! For example, you can use Custom Scripting to:

• Implement tracking and analytics solutions other than our direct integrations with Google and Adobe
• Display the same cookie consent banner as you use on your website or other parts of your online business
• Inject a chatbot to offer your visitors direct access to your customer support, straight from your Flipbook, and so much more!

To find out more about, and how to get started with Custom Scripting, check out our guide, below:

When processing your PDFs to Flipbooks in iPaper, you can now select to use RGB blending space, instead of the default CMYK.

By default, iPaper uses the CMYK blending space, which is used primarily for PDFs designed for print. However, if you've designed your PDF specifically for digital use, you can select this option so that any images in your PDF are processed using the RGB blending space.

This means you can minimize the risk for visual differences when processing your PDF in iPaper.

Simply select the ‘Use RGB blending space’ checkbox when creating, or updating, an existing Flipbook. Easy!

We’ve updated how we present the cookie consent banner to visitors browsing your Flipbook, to improve how we collect statistics.

Previously, visitors were able to interact with your Flipbook without giving, or declining consent through the cookie consent banner. Without consent, we aren’t allowed to collect statistics from the user’s session.

We’ve introduced a ‘veil’ behind the cookie consent banner, meaning that visitors are now unable to interact with your Flipbook without having given, or declined consent in the cookie banner. This allows us to collect more accurate data from visitors, right from the beginning of their browsing session.

This update to our consent banner now means visitors must make an active choice before they can browse your Flipbook, in turn meaning more accurate statistics for you!

To increase the security of your iPaper account, we've now made it a requirement to enter your current password when changing to a new one.

As part of our eternal quest to facilitate optimal Flipbook browsing experiences, we’ve added support for the WebP format. 🎉

The WebP format essentially aims at creating smaller, better looking images and typically achieves an average of 30% more compression than JPEG, without loss of image quality. It delivers the magic combination of high quality with a low file size—perfect for your Flipbooks!

Take a look and see for yourself:

Above, you can see a beautiful fjord, in classic JPEG format. It's 45 KB in size.

Below, however, you've got the same beautiful fjord in WebP format, and it's only 33 KB in size!

Another main advantage of WebP is its versatility—it incorporates both transparency and animation, meaning you can keep your Flipbooks looking as snazzy as they would with GIFs.

In short, using WebP instead of JPEG can offer:

• Faster loading Flipbooks
• Less media storage in your Media Library
• Support for transparency and animation, without the drawbacks of GIFs.

If you use a shop integration in your Flipbooks, you’ll be happy to hear that we’ve revamped how quantities are handled in the basket. Now, every item has a minimum quantity value of 1, meaning customers cannot remove an article by accident by changing the quantity to 0.

Of course, your customers will still be able to remove items from their basket by clicking the delete icon beside each item.

Item quantity fields now also support 4-digit values, for anyone buying a lot of items at once, and any manually inputted quantities, that aren’t supported, result in the field reverting to the last entered, valid quantity.

Using really large files isn’t great when it comes to user experience: it can result in files that take too long to load, and use up too much bandwidth.

But how big is too big? We answer that, here, but we’ve also improved how we inform you, in-app, of both files that exceed our file size limit, and those which are still within the limit but could cause a suboptimal user experience.

You’ll be presented with errors when a file cannot be uploaded, and warnings when a file might result in a poor experience, along with all the information you need on how you can optimize your files.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could see a preview of a CTA you’ve clicked on in the Editor? You’re in luck! Each file, when clicked, displays a preview in a handy new thumbnail. This gives you a much better overview of what asset you’ve selected for a particular CTA.

We’ve made selecting the right branded domain for your Flipbook easier by listing all your available domains in a dropdown menu. Whereas previously, manually entering a branded domain in a free-text field opened the option for misspelling errors, we’ve simplified the process, allowing you to quickly select the right branded domain for your Flipbook.