What's new at Stride

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Saving inside a dialog saves only the dialog.
• Image descriptions save in every language.
• The image cropper fits the image.
• The event date picker accepts typed dates.
• Businesses with several locations edit their social links in Website editor › General.
• Event venues get their own QR code.
• Connections › Tracking checks the format of your Google Analytics, Google Ads, Tag Manager and Meta Pixel IDs.
• On iPhone, dialog buttons stay visible when the keyboard is open.

Your website

• Dropdown menus stay inside the screen.
• Swedish booking and opening hours texts are reviewed.

Free cover pages

• Google shows your business name instead of "cover.page".

Domains

• A new domain is secure (https) within the hour.

Signing in

• Password managers fill in the login email.
• Signing in with Google asks for fewer permissions.

Take a review off your website

When a featured review no longer fits your website, take it off from the reviews inbox. Your reply now shows under each review.

• Press Remove from website: the review leaves your site but stays in the inbox, and you can feature it again later.
• Read a review and your reply as one conversation, with how long you took to answer.
• Edit a reply, or delete one you posted on Google.

Your website opens faster on phones

Visitors on a phone see your pages sooner, and booking and ordering forms are ready faster.

• Pages show sooner on a phone, because there is less to download first.
• When we update Stride, your visitors still get your page straight away.
• Booking, ordering and gift card forms (TheFork, Covermanager, EasyBooker and others) start loading sooner and show a short message while they do.
• YouTube videos only load when a visitor presses play.
• Slider dots and arrows are bigger, easier to tap.

Check your plan and pay invoices yourself

See what your plan includes and when it renews, open any invoice, and pay one that's due.

• Your plan on one card: the locations it covers, your options, and the next renewal or invoice.
• Open an invoice to see what it's for and its VAT, download the PDF, or pay it with Pay now.
• Keep your invoice email, VAT number and e-invoicing IDs up to date.
• Upgrade your plan in four steps, on the same page.
• Recommend Stride to another business and get a discount on your next invoice.

See what needs an answer as you log in

When you log in, the dashboard shows what needs an answer and how many people visited your site. Help, chat and calls with us are on the support page.

• Needs your attention shows what is waiting in Inbox, Reviews, Reservations and Appointments.
• See your page views over the last 30 days, your team, your partner and your next meeting.
• Shortcuts start with what is missing, such as connecting Google or completing your legal notice.
• A Special hours tile tells you how many of next month's public holidays have no hours yet.
• On the support page, search the help centre, chat with us, or book, move or cancel a call with a specialist.

See every location’s bookings on one list

With several locations, you see all your bookings on one list, day by day, and you can stop table bookings for a day from there.

• Each day shows its totals, for example "4 reservations · 13 guests". Filter by location when you need one.
• Show today, the next 7 days, your own dates, or one status.
• Close or reopen table bookings for a coming day.

Google gets your holiday hours from your website

Your website now tells Google your holiday hours and closures, and describes each of your locations on its own.

• Holiday hours and closures reach search engines. Past ones are removed.
• With several locations, each one is described with its own name, phone, photos and page.
• Addresses include the street number.
• Blog posts carry their date for search engines.
• Pages that list your locations no longer create duplicate addresses in Google.

Fixes and small improvements

Your website

• Phone fields recognise the country code, with or without spaces.
• Forms send without reloading the page.

The app

• Leaving a page or closing a dialog with unsaved changes asks first.
• Pasted "fancy text" that your site's font can't show gets a warning.

Google

• An unpublished business keeps its address off Google and Facebook.

Domains

• Older and premium domains show their real renewal price.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Removing a section's cover image is saved.
• Editing a menu item takes one tap in Safari on iPhone.
• The cover picture can be set per location.
• Photo credits can be added to menu images.

Your website

• The French data protection page is reviewed.

Google

• After a temporary error at Google, the sync retries instead of stopping.

Fixes and small improvements

Your website

• Map pins on the store locator open their details.

The app

• Turning off the hero's second button removes it.
• The legal details form saves with optional fields empty.

Google

• Google sync can't be set up on an unverified Google location.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• When Instagram needs reconnecting, the feed page says so, and anyone on the team can press Reconnect.
• You can add a second article to your blog.
• Website statistics explain when a browser blocker hides them, instead of showing a blank panel.
• The preview hides the cookie banner.
• The contacts list shows your real number of contacts.
• A YouTube link that can't be played on other sites gets a warning before you save it.
• Adding a photo to a menu keeps its name.
• In opening hours, the Open/Closed box leaves the first time slot visible.
• The reviews page opens faster.

Your website

• Your site's icon shows in browser tabs every time.
• Google Analytics and Google Ads count visits from outside Europe.
• On cover pages with a notice banner, the logo stays centred.
• The event venue booking form asks for a valid number of guests and refuses past dates.

Google

• Your booking link reaches Google even when your listing already has one from another site.

Getting started

• Choosing your free cover page address always shows suggestions.
• A new business's first description is written in your language.

Plan & billing

• Moving to a plan with a commitment applies it at checkout.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• On a phone, one tap opens a menu item for editing.
• The dashboard shows your real number of clients.
• The dashboard opens without waiting for your review and inbox counts.
• New team invitations show on the dashboard straight away.
• Opening hours fit in narrow panels.
• You can add a blank line at the end of a text, and no empty line is added for you.
• Long descriptions in lists keep the buttons in view.
• Uploading a PDF menu is quicker.
• Page titles show your location names as you wrote them.

Your website

• With several intro slides, each button opens its own link.
• SVG logos have the right size, also in Safari.
• The menu page offers ordering or booking only when that service is on.
• Opening and closing notices say their dates in plain words.
• Blog tags are readable on coloured backgrounds.
• The cookie banner leaves the cookie settings page readable in languages such as Greek.

Your site stays up while we update Stride

Visitors no longer wait for the whole page before seeing anything, and an update on our side no longer shows them an error.

• Pages start to show before their heaviest parts, such as a large photo gallery, are ready.
• The page no longer jumps down while it loads, including cover pages with a holiday notice at the top.
• When we update Stride, visitors still get your page instead of an error.
• Visitors who turned off animations on their phone or computer see your sections without the scroll effect.