DRIVE Marketing App v26.5.0 - Release Notes

Modified on Tue, 28 Jul at 1:36 PM

DRIVE Marketing App v26.5.0 – Release Notes

July 30, 2026

This release focuses heavily on stability, security, user experience improvements, marketing automation enhancements, and social media integrations. Alongside dozens of bug fixes across Campaigns, Dashboards, Activity Log, Email Templates, Social Accounts, and Invoicing, this release introduces new capabilities for follow-up call visibility and opt-in campaign targeting while also strengthening security throughout the platform.

New Features

Follow-Up Call Contact History Visibility

Service advisors now have greater visibility into previous customer outreach activity when working follow-up call queues.

Added visibility into previous follow-up call activity.

Displays the customer's most recent follow-up contact date.

Shows which campaign generated the previous follow-up.

Helps advisors avoid duplicate outreach when customers qualify for multiple campaigns.

New Customer Targeting for Opt-In Campaigns

Opt-in campaigns can now be configured specifically for new customers.

New Filter Options

New Customers Only

First Visit Within X Days

Configurable timeframes for new customer identification

Persistent Table Pagination

Pagination controls are now displayed consistently across application tables.

Platform Reliability & Administration Improvements

This release includes a variety of improvements designed to create a more consistent and reliable experience across the Drive Marketing App platform.

Improvements Include

Enhanced user access management across account and location-level experiences.

Improved consistency of permissions throughout the application.

Resolved various access and usability issues across administrative screens.

Improved reliability when viewing and managing Marketing App records.

Streamlined administrative workflows to reduce unnecessary errors and interruptions.

Marketing & Campaign Improvements

Smarter AI-Generated Text Messages

The text message content generator has been updated to create SMS-friendly marketing messages.

Service Recommendation Email Validation

Service recommendation emails will now only send when valid recommendations exist.

Appointment Reminder Compliance Improvements

Enhanced validation prevents marketing-style content from being used in operational appointment reminder campaigns.

Campaign Reliability Improvements

Fixed issues affecting:

Last Activity Date reporting.

Time zone handling for campaign sends.

Campaign performance reporting.

Happy Birthday campaign icon display.

Follow-up campaign accessibility.

Campaign creation workflows.

Email template selection during campaign setup.

Email & Deliverability Improvements

Several fixes were implemented to improve email reliability and reporting accuracy.

Email Sending Improvements

Fixed marketing emails displaying incorrect sender addresses.

Improved sender identity consistency.

Resolved campaign failures related to location sender configuration.

Improved email authentication and delivery processing.

Email Reporting Fixes

Corrected email open tracking discrepancies.

Improved campaign engagement reporting.

Resolved inaccuracies between SendGrid tracking and application reporting.

Email Template Enhancements

Corrected Published and Draft tab counts.

Removed unsupported archive-related controls at the account level.

Fixed permission-related issues for template management.

Resolved multiple template access and view authorization issues.

Activity Log Enhancements

The Activity Log received several performance and usability improvements.

Improvements

Improved loading performance.

Resolved incomplete loading behavior.

Fixed company-contact display issues.

Corrected message viewing errors.

Improved application filtering options.

Fixed dark mode visibility issues for:

Invoice emails

Payment receipt emails

Additional Fixes

Corrected marketing activity reporting.

Improved message rendering reliability.

Fixed null-data viewing errors.

Dashboard & Reporting Improvements

Dashboard Accuracy Fixes

Resolved several reporting inconsistencies including:

Sales Dashboard

Corrected Service Type Breakdown percentage calculations.

Marketing Dashboard

Restored missing campaign icons.

Fixed date range handling when using "Today" filters.

Reputation Dashboard

Fixed Facebook and Yelp icons.

Corrected PDF export icon rendering.

Reporting Consistency

Standardized decimal formatting.

Improved percentage display consistency.

Improved monetary value formatting across dashboards.

Social Media Improvements

Resolved multiple issues affecting:

Twitter

Images now display correctly in scheduled posts.

Authorized accounts now appear correctly after connection.

Improved account relinking reliability.

Fixed account creation errors.

Google Business Profiles

Improved account connection reliability.

Fixed location retrieval failures.

Improved grouped account handling.

Resolved authorization errors.

Social Calendar Improvements

Added validation warnings for oversized images.

Improved file upload feedback.

Fixed scheduling-related issues.

Corrected URL handling errors.

Customer, Invoice & Lead Management Improvements

Customer Enhancements

Fixed missing customer list column data.

Improved company contact display handling.

Corrected permissions for view-only users.

Invoice Improvements

Added Total $ column option in column chooser.

Fixed invoice viewer errors.

Corrected marketing campaign date display.

Improved company contact handling.

Lead Management

Fixed layout inconsistencies.

Resolved access validation issues.

Improved lead detail security controls.

Platform Stability & Performance

We've made a number of behind-the-scenes improvements to enhance overall platform stability, user management, and administrative workflows. These updates help ensure a more consistent experience throughout the Marketing App while improving reliability across key areas of the application.

This version is what I'd personally put in a customer release note because it communicates value without drawing attention to security vulnerabilities, authorization issues, or internal permission problems that clients never experienced firsthand.