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.
- newSet your logo, cover image and theme colour for the customer booking page from your own settings.
- improvedThe 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.
- newPayment plans are managed directly, and a plan is chosen from the real list rather than typed in.
- newSort any list by clicking its column heading, and find every report under one menu.
- improvedClosing an account deactivates it and keeps its history, instead of deleting it.
- fixedSigned-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.
- newThe enquiries queue refreshes itself when something lands.
- improvedA failed domain verification says which record is wrong, and retrying genuinely retries.
- fixedAn 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.
- newThe reply composer is rebuilt: write, quote the original message, and send without leaving the thread.
- newDate and time format is a preference, set per person and per organisation.
- fixedTimestamps, replies, message bodies and search in the inbox each had a defect of their own.
- fixedDeleting one block in an email template could remove others with it.
- fixedEmail 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.
- newAn email from an address you have never written to opens an enquiry of its own.
- improvedSearching the inbox no longer slows down as your template library grows.
- fixedAn 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.
- improvedThe inbox, runs, suppressions and unsubscriptions all page properly.
- improvedScreen controls use a consistent icon set, and inbox search sits ahead of the view toggle.
- newA banner shows when someone from Fridgedoor is signed in as you to help with a problem.
- fixedRe-running a campaign could re-send to a whole group.
- fixedA send that failed could be reported as delivered, and a message that already went could go twice.
- fixedA 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.
- newThe shared enquiries queue, rebuilt — list view, conversation view, search in the top bar, and filters.
- newEmail suppressions and unsubscriptions have their own screens again.
- newEmail templates have a list screen and a code view.
- fixedHTML emails display as the customer sent them rather than as a clipped box.
- fixedRun 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.
- newThe SMS template list and editor, rebuilt to the approved design.
- improvedTemplates written in the old editor open and send exactly as they did.
- fixedThe unsubscribe link at the foot of an email is legible again.
- fixedTheme colours and link styling survive from the old editor to the new one.
- fixedAccess to SMS templates follows a person's role.
Settings, people, domains and tokens
The administrative half of the console, rebuilt screen by screen.
- newInvite people by email, and see and edit what each person is allowed to do from their own page.
- newSending domains, rebuilt — including telling you which record is wrong.
- newThe API tokens screen, rebuilt, with scopes you can read at a glance.
- newBooking preferences are a builder beside a live preview.
- improvedYour email signature keeps its colour and can be resized, and authored email is cleaned before sending.
- fixedOpening hours are read back exactly as they were saved.
- fixedThe 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.
- newEvery screen has its own web address, and the browser's back button works.
- newLocations gained a detail view of their own.
- improvedScreen actions moved into the top bar, in one place on every screen.
- improvedPermission 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.
- fixedAn email addressed to several of your addresses at once is stored for every recipient.
- fixedA message delivered twice is recorded once.
- fixedOne undeliverable recipient no longer takes the rest of the message down with it.
- improvedInbound 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.
- newAn activity log you can read, covering sign-ins and changes to your email and SMS templates.
- newRetention is measured per organisation from your own last activity.
- fixedThe 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.
- newRegister your interest and we set the account up with you before the first login.
- newOnce 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.
- improvedLocations, users, permissions, customers and message history are each scoped to your own organisation.
- improvedInbound email content is cleaned before it is displayed.
- improvedLong lists across the console return quickly on accounts with years of history.
- fixedThe spam check on the public forms had stopped working.
- fixedLinks 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.
- improvedMore 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.
- fixedThe password reset form works again.
- fixedActivating a user, and the domain verification step, both stopped failing.
- fixedName 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.
- newCustomers became a first-class record, with an import.
- newGroups, with their own columns, their own custom fields, and the runs sent to them.
- newA preview of a message before the run goes out.
- improvedThe mailbox screens were reworked, and search across lists was made usable on a long list.
- fixedAdding 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.
- newOne account can hold several sending domains, and access is set by role rather than by mailbox.
- newA sending domain can be set up during registration rather than afterwards.
- improvedReplies find their way back to the right conversation in the inbox.
- fixedSearch across reminders and email returned the wrong results on larger accounts.
- fixedThe 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.
- newEnquiries and the shared inbox, in one place, with email replies handled as part of the conversation.
- newSMS and email templates with merge fields, and runs sent from them.
- newSign in, forgot password, and a per-merchant view of what a month of SMS actually cost.
- newA 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 dayOne person, one email. No sequence, no drip, and no calendar link to negotiate with.