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October 2026

Design

See what changed in every version of a page#

The site builder's Version history now says what each version changed, like a section added or hidden, or a header setting switched. And when your team shares a page, Publish tells you first if it would also put live changes a colleague drafted and never published.

Design

Add your own blocks to a section#

Sections in the site builder now have Add block: put an extra heading, paragraph, button, icon, trust badge, figure or a little space after a section's own words, edit it on the page, and move it up or down.

Design

Bring your pages to life with Motion#

A new Motion setting in the site builder's Design panel. Subtle fades each section up as shoppers scroll and zooms competition pictures a little on hover. Expressive brings cards in one after another, lets hero pictures drift and fills buttons on hover. Shoppers who ask their device for less motion never see it.

Design

Choose what your header does when shoppers scroll#

Your header can stay at the top, scroll away with the page, or slip out of the way as shoppers scroll down and come straight back when they scroll up. Find it in the site builder under your header's settings. It works on phones too.

Design

Style a single heading or paragraph#

Click any heading, small line or paragraph in the site builder to give it its own size, alignment and colour, without changing the rest of the section. Auto puts it back to match your theme.

Design

Choose how many competitions sit side by side on a phone#

Your competition list has a new Columns on Mobile setting: one card per row or two. Columns now sets the most cards across on a big screen, so a list set to two stays at two on desktop instead of spreading wider.

Design

Website editor: click anything to edit it, and try themes on#

Click a button, a headline, a badge or a picture on your page and the panel shows just that, with its link and style. Add a section above or below any other right on the page, switch a section's layout from thumbnails, and use Change theme to try a new look on your site before you pick it.

Open the website editor
Design

Winners ticker: skip the small prizes#

Set a minimum prize value on the Announcement Ticker and its recent winners only include prizes worth at least that much, so your best wins are not buried under small credit wins. Leave it blank to show every winner.

Open the website editor
Design

High Street: a new template, and catalogue cards#

A new High Street template gives your site the busy catalogue look UK players know: a grid of every competition, a countdown strip under each picture that turns red in the last day, the cash alternative, and a basket button on every card. Catalogue cards are also a Theme panel choice for any template.

Open the website editor
Design

A new website editor, with templates made for competitions#

Website now opens a full-screen editor: pick a template built for prize competitions, change its colours, fonts and corners in one Theme panel, and edit text right on the page. Changes save as a draft as you go, with undo and a version history, and nothing reaches your live site until you publish.

The template gallery in the website editor, showing the Neon Arcade and Prestige templatesOpen the website editor
Checkout and payments

Pay by bank with Fena#

Players can now pay straight from their bank app through Fena open banking, with no card involved. Add your Fena terminal details under Payment Gateways and it appears at checkout beside your card provider.

Open payment gateways
Competitions and draws

Grand prize draws now include a public random number#

Every grand prize draw now mixes in a random number that drand, a public service run by independent organisations, publishes only after sales close. Nobody, including us, can know the winner before the competition ends, and anyone can check the result on the competition's verification page.

How FairLock works

Draw seals are timestamped in Bitcoin#

The fingerprint we publish when a competition is sealed is now also timestamped in the Bitcoin blockchain, so anyone can prove it existed before the first ticket sold, without having to trust us.

How FairLock works
Marketing

Trustpilot: paste your TrustBox code#

In Settings › Integrations, paste the TrustBox embed code Trustpilot gives you and we fill in the IDs it needs, instead of you hunting for them.

Open integrations
Reports

Orders export includes billing city and postcode#

The orders CSV now has billing city and postcode columns, so you can see where your players are without a second export.

Open orders
MarketingDesign

Banners and pop-ups#

Run announcement bars, draw countdowns and email sign-up pop-ups across your site, each on its own schedule, from Marketing › Banners & Pop-ups.

Creating a message bar, with a live preview of the banner across the top of the siteCreate a banner
Marketing

A Halloween look for the daily game#

The creature battle daily game has a Halloween theme with its own soundtrack, ready for October.

Open the daily game

Sell-out forecast for every live competition#

Your dashboard now forecasts how much of each live competition will sell by its draw date, based on how competitions really sell (slowly, then a rush near the end), and lists the ones at risk of falling short. Each competition's page also shows how many of its visitors go on to buy.

Open your dashboard

Analytics: payment success rates and which channels bring players back#

Analytics now shows the payment success rate for each gateway, the reasons cards are declined, and an alert when payments suddenly drop. A Channel value view shows whether the buyers each channel brings come back to buy again.

The payments section of Analytics: success rate, paid, declined and abandoned payments, and success rate by dayOpen analytics

A slide-out basket on your site#

Adding tickets now opens a basket that slides in from the side, with a floating basket button on every page, so players keep browsing instead of being sent to a separate basket page.

Marketing

A new email campaign editor with a writing assistant#

Type straight into your email as it will look, upload pictures in place, and ask the writing assistant to draft or tighten your copy.

Open email campaigns
Design

A redesigned dashboard, with dark mode and quick search#

The dashboard has a new look, a dark mode, a sidebar you can collapse and a search you open with Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) to jump to any page, order or customer.

The redesigned dashboard in dark mode, with revenue, orders and player figures and their trends

Plinko: reveal up to 500 tickets in one drop#

The Pachinko instant win reveal is now a Plinko board. Players can drop up to 500 tickets at once and watch where each one lands, with a speed toggle and sound they can mute.

Try the games
Customers and support

Every prize on an order, and a timeline for each player#

An order's page now lists every prize it won and what happened to each one, with a CSV. Each customer has an activity timeline showing their sign-ins and which version of your terms they accepted, and when.

Open orders
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