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What's new and better in Appcues: September 2026

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What's new
What's better in the builder
  • Selectors.
    The builder ignored
    data-appcues
    and
    data-testid
    attributes when generating a selector, so you had to rewrite it by hand to use them. It now picks them first.
  • Build URLs.
    Appcues AI didn't always ask for a build URL when it built an experience, so opening that experience from the extension could fail without an error. It now reuses the build URL of your last experience, or asks for one if you don't have one.
  • Builder panel.
    The floating side panel covered large modals and Embeds wherever you dragged it. It now collapses and docks to the left or right of the screen.
  • Page navigation.
    Sending users to another page from a button or image meant typing the page's URL. Navigation mode lets you browse to the page instead.
  • Icons.
    A large standalone icon meant using a rich text emoji. The builder has an Icon block, and you can upload your own icons as SVG.
  • Image sizing.
    New images default to Fit instead of Fill, and a Fixed mode sets an exact width.
  • Bullet colors.
    Bullets could inherit white from the step styling and vanish. They now match the text, or take a color you set in the Design tab.
What's better in your experiences
  • Large experiences.
    Flows 2.0 experiences and Embeds with many steps were slow to start: a 10-step Flow could take about 7 seconds. It now starts in under a second.
  • JavaScript actions.
    A snippet on a button, image or text had to be paired with moving to the next step or closing the experience. It can now be the only action, so the experience stays open.
  • Localization.
    Image actions, such as a link URL, can be set per language.
  • Launchpads.
    Flows 2.0 experiences can now be selected from the Launchpad's Flow list.
What's better in dashboards
  • Pages in charts.
    Funnel, Metrics and Retention cards could only count events. They can now count visits to a page.
  • Dashboard text.
    Add a text block to a dashboard to say what it's for and what each section shows.
  • Explain this chart.
    Pick it from a chart's menu and Appcues AI explains what the chart shows.
  • Shared dashboards.
    Teammates had no way to know a new team dashboard existed. They can now get an email or Slack notification when one is shared.
What's better in campaigns and Key Moments
  • Objectives.
    An objective's Key Moment and direction were locked once set, so a misconfigured objective meant starting over. Both are now editable. Readings from before the change aren't comparable with readings after it.
  • Event attributes.
    Setting an event trigger or Key Moment on an event attribute meant knowing its name. The field now suggests attributes seen in the last 30 days.
campaign dashboards
Once a campaign is live, you want to know how many of the users it reached went on to complete its Key Moment.
Every campaign and tactic has a Dashboard tab that shows you that. The top row runs from reach to objective: a reach-to-objective funnel, completions, drop-off and conversion rate, all counting only users who saw your content. Below that you get the objective's trend against its target, exposed versus unexposed users over time, and, on a campaign, objective completion split by tactic.
To have a card's numbers explained, open its ⋮ menu and click
Explain this chart
.
conditional surveys
Surveys were one of the last reasons to keep building in classic Flows. Survey blocks add Text input, Single Select, Multi Select and Rating questions to Flows 2.0 and Embeds. Build it by hand or ask AI to create your survey.
Sending different users different content meant building a separate Flow for each audience. With conditional actions, one button or image sends each user down their own path, based on a survey answer or a user profile property:
  • Users who rate onboarding 4 or 5 go to a step asking for a review. Everyone else gets a step asking what to improve.
  • Admins who click Get started go straight to workspace setup. Everyone else closes the Flow and carries on.
Survey blocks are in beta. Conditional actions need web SDK 7.32.0 or later.
MCP
Building an experience used to mean leaving your AI chat for the Appcues builder, even when the brief, the copy and the context were already sitting in the chat.
The Appcues MCP Server can build experiences. Describe one in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any client that accepts a custom MCP server, and it creates a draft in your account. You can also ask it to clone an existing experience and swap the copy, or to return a screenshot of a step so you can check the result without leaving the chat.
Everything it builds starts as a draft. Nothing goes live until you publish it or tell your agent to.
For the best results, add our context file to your AI client. Experience building is in beta. An admin turns the MCP Server on under
Settings > Appcues AI
.
AI
If the design already lives in a mockup, a landing page or a PRD, retyping it as a prompt wastes the work you've done.
  • Build from what you have.
    Upload a mockup or screenshot, or paste a public URL, and Appcues AI drafts the experience from its layout, copy and styling.
  • Start from an old Flow.
    Ask Appcues AI to convert a legacy Flow into Flows 2.0. You get a starting point to finish in the builder, so check the styling and every step.
  • Give it your source material.
    Attach a brief, a CSV or your event names, and @-mention a campaign, segment or Key Moment.
  • Set rules once.
    Admins add context rules, such as audience and tone, in
    Settings > Appcues AI
    . They apply to every conversation.
Open Appcues AI from the Home page of the Appcues App at app.appcues.com.
Journeys
A funnel tells you how many people dropped out of the path you designed. It can't tell you where they went instead.
User Journeys charts the paths people take through your product, built from the pages they viewed in each session. Pick a page and see sessions that start on it, end on it, or pass through it. Switch to page groups to trace whole areas of your product instead of single URLs.
No additional setup needed. Appcues builds your pages and page groups from your traffic.
Save a journey as a view your team can reopen, or ask Appcues AI to build one.
User Journeys is under Dashboards in the Appcues App.
notifications
To find out a teammate had published a Flow, or that Appcues had raised a new recommendation, you had to open Appcues and look.
Notifications bring those events to you. Pick the ones you want to hear about: an experience published or unpublished, or a new issue or opportunity on the Recommendations page. For each one, choose to hear about it immediately or in a daily, weekly or monthly digest.
Personal notifications go to your own email. Admins can also send account notifications to a shared inbox, a Slack channel, or both.
Account notifications take one email address per event. To reach several people, use a team alias or Slack.
Set them up in
Settings > Notifications
in the Appcues App, which is rolling out gradually. If you can't see it yet, ask your Appcues contact or support for access.

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Know when a live experience breaks

issue spike
You publish an experience, confirm it works, and move on. A change to your site breaks the selectors it depends on, and the experience quietly stops reaching users. It can sit like that for weeks until someone opens the Flow's analytics.
Appcues now watches your live experiences and raises a recommendation when one starts failing for users — a sudden spike, or a slower climb over several days. Open it to see what's going wrong and what to do, and apply an AI action if one's available to fix it in place.
Set up email notifications so you hear about a spike without having to check the Recommendations page.
Available in the Appcues App, which is rolling out gradually. If you can't see it yet, ask your Appcues contact or support for access.
retention
Working out whether users came back to a feature meant exporting events to a spreadsheet or rebuilding the question in a separate analytics tool.
A
Retention
card groups users into cohorts by the event that started them, then shows how many of each cohort came back and did a second event in the periods after. Put the same event in both the
Start
and
Return
slots and you get "of the users who tried this, how many used it again?" Read it as a cohort grid, one row per cohort, or as a trend over time showing how fast retention falls off.
Cohort by start date, or by up to 10 segments or accounts, at daily, weekly or monthly granularity.
Retention cards are part of the Appcues App, which is rolling out gradually. If you can't see them yet, ask your Appcues contact or support for access.
campaigns
Every experience used to stand on its own. Now group them around the outcome they're actually chasing.
A
Campaign
is a top-level container built around one measurable objective — usually a Key Moment like "completed setup" or "activated a paid seat." Inside it,
Tactics
are distinct approaches that each attack the same goal from a different angle: awareness, blocker removal, follow-up, whatever the moment needs.
Structure:
Campaign → Tactics → the Flows, Pins, Checklists, Embeds, and Banners your users see.
What you can do
  • Give each Tactic its own audience and messaging without losing the shared objective
  • Track reach, objective progress, and per-segment performance on the Campaign Dashboard
  • Let Appcues build one for you — describe the goal and it proposes a name, objective, and starting Tactics
  • Include a single experience in multiple Campaigns when it serves more than one goal
Grouping an experience into a Campaign doesn't change its targeting, frequency, or runtime behavior — Campaigns are for planning and measurement.
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