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Zenler

EDTECH
Velocity0.0

All-in-one online course platform with funnels, webinars and memberships

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Zenler publishes version-numbered fix lists with the occasional real feature buried at the bottom.

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◆Current state
Every entry is a build stamp wrapping a long list of bug fixes, and the actual releases sit at the end of those lists. Reading past the fixes: the Community gained member search, username-scoped post search, language support, and a rule requiring a profile picture and bio before entry; billing gained self-serve plan changes and cancellation, invoice downloads for admins, retained access through the paid period, and instant refunds inside 30 days; reporting gained a student-wise quiz detail report with export. Gamification appears as a single line with no description. The feed stops at April 2026.
◆Where it's heading
The ratio tells the story — the bulk of each release is repair on funnels, emails, reports, cloning, and checkout, which is what a broad course-and-marketing platform costs to keep running. Where new work does land it clusters in two places: the Community, which is being built into a real social surface rather than a comment thread, and self-serve billing, which removes support from the cancel-and-refund path. The double opt-in rework touches both by making enrollment wait for verified email.
◆Prediction
Expect Community to keep accumulating the moderation and discovery features that make it usable at size, since search and mandatory profiles are the first two. The unexplained gamification line is the one thing the entries cannot support a read on.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4mo ago

    Community member search and mandatory profiles

    Under a long fix list, the Community gains member search by username, post search scoped to a user's mentions and authorship, and a requirement that members add a profile picture and bio before entry. Tag input also gets format validation that strips scripts and HTML. The Community items are the release; the rest is repair.

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  2. 5mo ago

    Instant refunds, retained access on cancel, per-student quiz reports

    Admins can download student invoices, cancelled plans retain access to the end of the billing period with an option to reinstate, refunds inside 30 days are instant, and a student-wise quiz detail report ships with export. Commercial and reporting work sitting behind roughly a dozen fixes.

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  3. 5mo ago

    Self-serve plan management and a reworked double opt-in flow

    The Billing tab starts showing current plan details with working cancel and change options, Google Analytics tracking covers subscription and cancellation events, and the double opt-in flow is revised so enrollment only happens after email verification. The verification change is the substantive one — it stops automations firing on unverified addresses.

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  4. 5mo ago

    Student dashboard branding and quiz question cloning

    A short release: student dashboard branding and quiz question cloning, alongside two funnel fixes. Small, but branding the learner-facing dashboard matters for a platform sold to people running their own school.

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  5. 8mo ago

    Double opt-in verification, community languages, scheduled blog posts

    Double opt-in verification arrives across signup, free purchases, funnel enrollment, and live registration; the Community gets language support; bundles appear on My Courses; blog posts can be scheduled; Stripe can be disconnected from integrations. A genuinely dense release under a version-number headline.

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  6. 9mo ago

    Gamification lands, plus checkout terms and self-serve account deletion

    Gamification is announced as a single undescribed line, alongside an optional terms-and-conditions checkbox at checkout and self-serve account deletion for students. The gamification entry carries no detail, so what actually shipped there cannot be read from this release.

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