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Softbook LMS gets a full new marketing section. Learning, sales, and communication are upgraded across the board. A knowledge base builder is now part of the platform. Softbook Cloud is noticeably faster. Plus other improvements to stability and security.<\/span><\/p>\n Until now, a typical online school ran a separate stack of services alongside Softbook. Landing pages over there. Email marketing somewhere else. Automations on yet another platform. Each with its own subscription, its own logic, its own way of breaking at the seams. With this release, all of it moves inside Softbook LMS.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We\u2019ve switched to year-based versioning. It\u2019s called 26 because this is the version of Softbook for 2026. It\u2019s easier for everyone: the Softbook ecosystem is growing, and a year instead of a sequential number immediately tells you which release we\u2019re talking about. This is how it\u2019ll be going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Four separate tools: a landing page builder, an email editor, campaigns, and automations. All working with the same student base and the same analytics inside each school.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Build landing pages, course registration pages, and promo offers like you would in any visual builder \u2014 by dragging, dropping, no code involved. The library has dozens of ready-made blocks: hero sections, pricing, testimonials, FAQs, forms, calls to action. Plus a Soft block canvas for free-form layouts when the standard blocks aren\u2019t enough.<\/span><\/p>\n Each section is configured separately \u2014 background, width, padding, font. Before publishing, preview the page across five screen sizes, from desktop to mobile. Save your favorite blocks to a personal library: build an \u201cabout the school\u201d or \u201ctestimonials\u201d section once, and reuse it on any page. \ud83d\udcbe<\/span><\/p>\n A page can be duplicated with one click. Handy for A\/B tests or similar landings for different courses.<\/span><\/p>\n For every page, you can set a custom URL, SEO title, meta description, and social preview image. Custom scripts plug in counters, pixels, and chat widgets \u2014 useful when you\u2019re running ads and want to track the whole funnel.<\/span><\/p>\n And the key part \u2014 you can embed a form for an existing product directly on the landing. The student fills it out right there, goes straight to checkout, and gets immediate access to the course. No separate checkout page, no redirects to third-party services \u2014 the path from interest to access closes on a single screen. \u26a1\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n School emails used to all look the same \u2014 Softbook\u2019s standard template. Now you have your own editor.<\/span><\/p>\n Build emails from scratch or replace system notifications \u2014 course enrollment, access details, the standard scenarios. The builder is block-based: text, images, buttons, timers, custom HTML. Recipient variables are inserted automatically \u2014 first name, last name, course name, login link.<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83e\udd16 AI works at the layout level. Describe what you need, pick an accent color and a language \u2014 you\u2019ll get a welcome email, a promotion, or a course completion message. From there, you tailor it to your school.<\/span><\/p>\n A single template runs in eight languages at once: Ukrainian, Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Portuguese. Each locale is styled separately \u2014 the email arrives in the language set by the course or school, never machine-translated.<\/span><\/p>\n Before publishing, send a test email to yourself or a teammate \u2014 see how it looks in the recipient\u2019s inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Campaigns section sends emails and Telegram messages to your school\u2019s students.<\/span><\/p>\n You pick recipients by groups. If several groups overlap, Softbook automatically removes duplicates \u2014 no one gets the same message twice. Send immediately or schedule for later.<\/span><\/p>\n Email quota is tracked in real time. Before launch, you can see whether your remaining quota covers the audience. If you run out mid-send, the campaign pauses with a clear message about how many emails fell short. There\u2019s a quota log and the option to top up with extra packages.<\/span><\/p>\n Telegram messages now support interactive buttons. A button can open an external URL or trigger a chatbot flow when pressed.<\/span><\/p>\n Stats live on a dedicated page. Delivered, opened, clicked. For Telegram, you also see clicks per button. Filter recipients \u2014 for instance, view everyone who didn\u2019t open the email, or everyone who clicked a specific button.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Until now, automating processes in a school meant a request to a developer. Now you build the scenario yourself, with a mouse, on a canvas.<\/span><\/p>\n It works like a flowchart: a trigger event, a sequence of actions, conditional branches. Triggers cover the main events \u2014 form submission on the website, a new deal or contact in CRM, a new order on a course or product and its payment, student enrollment, adding or removing from a group, lesson start and completion. Actions \u2014 send an email, enroll in a course, move between groups, push data to an external system via webhook or any HTTP request.<\/span><\/p>\n The scenario branches by conditions. Values that come in with the trigger get compared and route the student into different paths \u2014 for example, depending on which course they enrolled in or where their request came from.<\/span><\/p>\n On the same canvas where you built the scenario, you can see how it\u2019s running. How many people passed each step. How many are stuck waiting. This shows immediately where the scenario is losing students and where to add another touchpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Landing pages, email, automations, analytics \u2014 all inside one interface now. No integrations, no seams, no additional subscriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI course generation got significantly deeper. Where it used to produce a skeleton you\u2019d have to flesh out yourself, it now gives you a version complete enough that you mostly just refine the details in the author\u2019s tone of voice.<\/span><\/p>\n Tests gained six new question types \u2014 from filling in blanks and matching to sentence construction and categorization. Useful for language courses, step-by-step practice, anything where classic multiple-choice isn\u2019t enough. Long tests can now be displayed one question at a time \u2014 a question navigation bar appears at the top, with unanswered questions highlighted, so the student doesn\u2019t lose their place.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When a student writes \u201cmy lesson won\u2019t open,\u201d it used to mean diagnosing blind \u2014 you have one interface, they have another. Now there\u2019s a \u201cview the platform as this student\u201d button on the student profile. You see exactly what they see, and you immediately know which course or lesson they can\u2019t access. Right next to it \u2014 the full history of emails sent to this student: whether the access email arrived, which campaigns they received.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dynamic-date schedules got more flexibility. You can now choose when the next lesson opens: when the student starts the current one, or when they finish it. Before, only the second scenario worked \u2014 now there are two, for different course structures.<\/span><\/p>\n The certificate builder is more flexible too. You used to have to fit certificate backgrounds into rigid proportions \u2014 now you can upload any image and it sits right. QR codes can be styled to match your school\u2019s look: dot shape, solid fill or gradient, logo in the center. The grid now snaps elements into place for more precise positioning.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The headline of the learning update. Webinars now run inside the platform \u2014 a separate Zoom or OBS streaming setup is no longer needed.<\/span><\/p>\n Two modes. The first is host camera only, for short talks, Q&As, or announcements. The second is camera plus presentation: upload a PDF in the webinar settings, and during the stream you flip through slides in real time for all viewers. Chat can be enabled or disabled depending on the format.<\/span><\/p>\n It runs on YouTube under the hood, so stream quality and stability match what you\u2019d get with an external setup. Only now it\u2019s part of the platform, not a separate pipeline with its own settings, links, and integrations.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Softbook LMS now has a knowledge base builder \u2014 a dedicated section for everything that isn\u2019t part of a course but that students need to have on hand: reference articles, instructions, answers to common questions, descriptions of school processes.<\/span><\/p>\n The structure is simple: categories, with entries or subcategories inside. Entries can have preview images and either a \u201cdraft\u201d status or immediate publication.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Subscriptions are clearer now. Before, when a recurring payment failed, the school only saw the fact of it \u2014 now you see the reason. For example, the payment processor doesn\u2019t have a card token to charge. You know what to do and who to contact right away.<\/span><\/p>\n The subscription card now shows what\u2019s in it \u2014 which courses are included and what level of access the student has. The subscription period and course access can be adjusted manually, with all changes saved in the history.<\/span><\/p>\n The product checkout page is now edited like a regular landing \u2014 same blocks, same logic. You can add a banner, a video, an extra button, a custom text. Set it up for one product, then export the configuration to others with a click.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Discounts got more flexible. You can now create multiple promo codes for a single product \u2014 each with its own discount, for different channels or campaigns. And, importantly, a promo code now stacks on top of a regular product discount, not instead of it.<\/span><\/p>\n The terms of service can be configured per product. If your school has its own global terms, you can override them for a specific course. If there are no global terms, you can enable a local one for just one product. The content can be an external link or a popup with formatted text.<\/span><\/p>\n A small but useful fix: the product edit page now works correctly on mobile. The status toggle and primary buttons no longer break on narrow screens.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The messenger feels more like the messengers you\u2019re used to. You can reply to a specific message, reactions are reworked, important messages get pinned to the header with a quick jump.<\/span><\/p>\n The main thing in the messenger is group chats. Assign admins, invite students with a unique link or directly from the interface. And in the Student Groups section, there\u2019s now a \u201ccreate chat\u201d button \u2014 all students in that group are added to the new chat automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The school feed has changed too. Paid posts are now possible: set a price, a currency, and a payment system, and the post opens only to those who paid. The feed itself is now real-time \u2014 new posts, reactions, and comments appear without a page refresh.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The same reply-to-message, reactions, and pinning features from the messenger are now in support conversations too.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Analytics is more flexible. In widgets where it makes sense, you can now set a custom date range instead of the fixed breakdown.<\/span><\/p>\n The Discount effectiveness widget used to show stats across all time. To compare two campaigns, you\u2019d have to do the subtraction by hand. Now you pick the period you need and see clean numbers for that specific campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n The same logic applies in widgets for active students, lesson completion, course duration, the course funnel, UTM source revenue, and deal closing speed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The API documentation has been rewritten. There\u2019s now a v2 with new methods for developers. v1 is marked as deprecated but continues to work \u2014 existing integrations won\u2019t break. New integrations should be built on v2 from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Softbook Cloud got its own dedicated performance work. All pages load faster, especially the directory of inactive files. Plus a refreshed design.<\/span><\/p>\n P.S. A quick note on design. Alongside the interface update, we\u2019ve removed dark mode \u2014 for stable, predictable rendering across all sections and products.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Everything described is already live. Open Softbook and take a look.<\/span><\/p>\n Open the platform \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Share what you know.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/softbook.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/marketing_features-1.png\")
<\/p>\nWhy 26<\/b><\/h2>\n
Marketing \u2014 now inside Softbook LMS \ud83d\udce3<\/b><\/h2>\n
Landing page builder \ud83c\udf10<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nEmail editor \ud83d\udce7<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nCampaigns \ud83d\udcc8<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nAutomations \u2699\ufe0f<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nFewer services, fewer invoices<\/b><\/h2>\n
Learning \ud83c\udf93<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nWebinars right inside Softbook LMS \ud83c\udfa4<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nKnowledge base builder \ud83d\udcda<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nSales and subscriptions \ud83d\udcb3<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nSchool as a community \ud83d\udc65<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nSupport<\/b><\/h3>\n
Analytics for any period \ud83d\udcca<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nAPI \ud83d\udcbb<\/b><\/h3>\n
Softbook Cloud \u2014 noticeably faster<\/b><\/h3>\n
How to try it<\/b><\/h2>\n