Ever want to quickly check and see what the email formatting looks like in various email clients before activating your Advanced Automation? You can now with the new Send Test feature in the new Advanced Automations builder experience!

The new experience for Advanced Automations (previously Actions) and therefore this new feature is still going through a staged roll out and not yet available for all Advanced companies. It will be soon though.

For any email automation when you are in the email editor you will see a new button at the top of the screen labeled .

Clicking on this button will open a small window where you can enter up to 3 email addresses (comma separated) and select a recent inspection to use for filling placeholder values.

Once those fields are filled out click and the email that you have configured in the editor will be sent to each of the entered addresses.

This does not send to any email addresses other than those entered in the Send Test window even if the To, Cc, or Bcc fields have values in them so this will not be sent to external recipients unless that address is manually entered for the test. Attachments configured in the editor will also not be included in the test emails.

The latest V10 improvements and fixes are now live. Here’s what changed!

V10 transition updates are now available to 50% of users. You can now:

A new iOS version (10.23.2) is now available for all users

🔧 Fixes:

🚀 Improvements:

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If you have any questions, let us know!

We recently started releasing a new experience for the internal (New Inspection Form) with a cleaner UI and improved mobile browser experience. It also paves the way for several new features including some customization controls for Spectora Advanced users that will be released in the near future.

The new form will be available for most non-Advanced companies starting tomorrow (3/7/25).

Using this new version of the Order Form is optional and only available to companies not using Spectora Advanced at this time. Reinspections are not yet supported via the New Order Form.

Now your clients don't have to exit the client portal to receive a quote from our trusted partner, Acrisure. Once they click "Request a Quote", they can complete the form within the client portal for a more unified experience.

We recently added another rule to help with Actions configurations. This time it is a new rule called .

This new rule option allows you to filter the sending of the action based on whether or not the service or add-on that was added or removed after scheduling was in the specified category.

You want the message to only be sent when a client adds a standalone or add-on Mold service after having booked the inspection. This new rule will allow to do this without multiple rule configurations or possibly even multiple action configurations.

This new rule option only shows up when the trigger is one of the following:

We recently released a few improvements to the experience to make the tasks clearer, so your clients can feel more confident in knowing what is next.

To learn more about the Client Portal, click here.

We just recently sent out an update for Actions to allow you to now use the inclusion or exclusion of a Service Category as a rule in Actions.

This will work similar to the Service or the Service Add-On rule. If applied then the action will not send unless the inclusion or exclusion (depending on using Has or Does Not Have) of a services or add-on that is in the specified category is associated on the inspection order.

If you have primary Radon service and several Radon add-on services associated with other primary services and all of those are configured with the Service Category "Radon" you might setup your Action rule for an upsell email as .

This would allow the Action email to be sent for inspection orders that do not have any of the Radon services already associated.

These updates will be released soon and may already be in place by the time you read this.

The Service Categories feature has been released for a while now but we have built it out a bit more to make it easier to leverage by including a pre-built list of categories (you can still create and use your own if you like).

We are also making the feature available to all companies not just those using Spectora Advanced.

You will also notice that any new service or add-on being created will now have the Service Category field right after the name.

This is a required field just like the name field. The same will be true of any edits to services or add-ons that do not already have an associated Service Category.

For non-advanced users or others that have not used Service Categories before you may adjust any pre-built categories and/or add your own by going to your Services & Fees page and clicking on the Service Categories button at the top

Check out the article here for more information.

When you click the "Client View" or "Client/Agent View" buttons on the Inspection Details page, you'll now see an accurate preview of how your client portal appears to your customers.

This update ensures you see the complete client portal interface exactly as your clients see it, including all available features and functionality, such as add-on request options.

To help you navigate these preview modes more effectively, we've also added clear status messages in the client portal that indicate when you're viewing it as a client or agent. These messages remind you that any actions taken while in preview mode will be performed on behalf of that user. Please note that these status indicators are currently only available in our new client portal interface.