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How to use this guide?
1 | Find your release Jump to the release section matching your current cycle, or check the schedule table below. |
2 | Share the tricks with your team Each card has ready-to-use tips. Copy them into your internal updates, induction sessions, announcements, and/or ad-hoc training sessions. |
3 | Update Cadence From April 2026, Nexl is moving from quarterly release cycles back to monthly releases. This guide should be updated each month with the latest feature highlights, adoption tips, and relevant Help Centre links. |
May 2026 - Upcoming
May 2026 - Upcoming
April 2026 · Live Now
April 2026 · Live Now
Dynamic Lists, Visual Refresh & Permissions
Powerful Innovations
Powerful Innovations
Dynamic Marketing Lists - Always-Current Audiences
Dynamic Marketing Lists - Always-Current Audiences
Build rule-based lists that automatically stay in sync with your contact data. Every select/multi-select Marketing Preference now generates its own Preference List automatically — no manual maintenance needed.

Tips & Tricks:
Navigate to Marketing Lists → New List → Dynamic. Set your filters (practice area, region, preferences, etc.) and the list will self-maintain.
Don't try to add/remove individual contacts — instead update the contact's data or adjust the filter rules. The list follows the rules, not manual edits.
Check Preference Lists: every opted-in preference option now has an auto-linked list. These feed directly into EMS campaigns.
When scheduling a campaign using a Dynamic List, Nexl checks the rules at send time — so the audience is always fresh, not stale from when you drafted it.
Pair Dynamic Lists with the new Preference Manager (Admin) to create end-to-end, self-service subscription management.
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Quality of Life
Quality of Life
Nexl Visual Refresh
Nexl Visual Refresh
Updated logo, refreshed colours, typography and icons across the web app, login screen, and system emails. Same navigation just a sharper look.

Tips & Tricks:
Our look has been refreshed but nothing has moved to match our updated branding.
Recommendation to update any screenshots, and videos, your may in your internal training materials or employee onboarding decks.
Lawyers
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Business Development
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Marketing
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Admin
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Marketing Preference Manager
Marketing Preference Manager
Admins can now create and manage marketing preference fields directly in Admin Settings. No support ticket needed.
Each option auto-creates a linked Dynamic Preference List!
Tips & Tricks:
Go to Admin → Marketing Preferences to add new subscription topics (e.g. "ESG Insights", "M&A Alerts").
Use colour-coding on options to make the preference UI more scannable and firm relevant.
Archive preferences you're retiring — they disappear from the UI but data is preserved.
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Email Campaign Permissions & Locking
Email Campaign Permissions & Locking
Four permission tiers for campaigns — create, edit, lock rows, and lock modules. Template-level locks (e.g. legal footers) carry through into every new campaign.

Tips & Tricks:
Lock your legal/compliance footer at the template level (it will be locked in every campaign automatically).
Give editors "edit modules" permission but lock rows to prevent layout changes while allowing content updates.
Use this feature to empower regional teams to create campaigns while keeping brand guardrails in place.
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Phone Number Types
Phone Number Types
Label every phone number (Mobile, Direct, Fax, etc.) and call directly from Nexl via Browser or MS Teams. Consistent across web, Outlook add-in, import and export.

Tips & Tricks:
When importing contacts, include a "Phone Type" column in your CSV — it will be mapped automatically.
If Teams is enabled at your firm, look for the call icon next to phone numbers to dial directly from a contact record.
Audit existing contacts by exporting and checking which numbers have blank types — then bulk-update.
Lawyers
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Business Development
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List Mode Improvements — Board, Calendar & Timeline Views
List Mode Improvements — Board, Calendar & Timeline Views
Board, Calendar and Timeline views are now available in our Large List mode. Filtering, searching, and more bulk actions added across all views, including editing custom fields directly from All Contacts and All Opportunities.
Tips & Tricks:
Switch to Board view on Opportunities to see a visual pipeline stage overview with live counts per stage.
Use Timeline view on Key Activities to visualise your BD calendar across the team.
Use the new multiselect field bulk action: select contacts → Edit Custom Field → choose Add / Replace / Remove / Clear All depending on your use case.
Admin/Manager roles get the new bulk edit actions by default; we recommend that you review permissions before rolling out to wider teams.
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Opportunities Field Management
Opportunities Field Management
Self-service control over Opportunity custom fields, statuses, field ordering and required fields — all in Admin Settings without raising a support ticket.

Tips & Tricks:
Go to Admin → Opportunities to create custom fields that reflect your firm's pipeline vocabulary.
Mark key fields as required on the form to improve data quality, without blocking API or AI workflows.
Reorder fields to put the most important ones at the top of the Opportunity form.
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Under the Hood
Under the Hood
Workspace Task Editing by All Members
Workspace Task Editing by All Members
Any workspace team member can now edit tasks, not just the creator or assignee. Reduces blockers for large client teams.

Tips & Tricks:
For active client workspaces, remind your team that anyone can now update task details, statuses and notes with no need to ping the original creator.
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Flexible Key Activity Participants
Flexible Key Activity Participants
Key Activities can now be scoped to Companies, Contacts, or both — enabling internal-only team activities and company-level BD tracking.

Tips & Tricks:
Create internal planning activities (e.g. "BD Strategy Session") scoped to team members only — no contact needed.
Create a Company-only Key Activity for account-level relationship milestones that span multiple contacts.
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January 2026
January 2026
Mobile, Imports & Engage Upgrades
Powerful Innovations
Powerful Innovations
Nexl Mobile App — Revamped & AI-Powered
Nexl Mobile App — Revamped & AI-Powered
The mobile app received a major overhaul with AI-powered news feeds, a faster homepage, and a better business card scanner. This is the flagship feature to lead with in client communications.

Tips & Tricks:
Open the app and tap the News Feed — it's now personalised and AI-summarised. Use it before a client call for instant company intel.
At events, use the Enhanced Business Card Scanner — improved OCR means fewer correction loops after scanning.
If your firm has French-speaking users, switch the app language in Settings → Language. Multi-language is live from this release.
Tap any company profile on mobile to see the redesigned layout — key data is surfaced higher so you spend less time scrolling.
Access Contact Notes on the go by opening a contact record → Notes tab. No more switching to desktop for follow-up context.
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Business Development
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Quality of Life
Quality of Life
Smarter Import & Export
Smarter Import & Export
AI-powered data transformation now normalises your data automatically during import, reducing errors before reaching your dataset.

Tips & Tricks:
Before importing a new contact list, run the AI Transform step — it standardises company types and formats automatically.
Use the new bulk find-and-replace to clean up inconsistent values (e.g. "Law Firm" vs "law firm") in one action.
Watch for the red inline validation alerts — fix errors in the import tool itself rather than reimporting.
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Nexl Engage Enhancements
Nexl Engage Enhancements
Export individual campaign analytics, improved spam-handling compliance, and faster load times for the Sent Campaigns page.

Tips & Tricks:
After each campaign, export the analytics CSV and drop it into Power BI via the new OData feed for deeper reporting.
Check the reclassified high-risk list during your next clean — you may be able to recover contacts previously written off.
Spam unsubscribes are now automatic — no manual list scrubbing needed for compliance.
Marketing
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Global Navigation Refresh
Global Navigation Refresh
Cleaner, more compact navigation reduces visual noise so users can focus on their work — not the interface.

Tips & Tricks:
Walk users through the new nav layout in your next onboarding session — most items are in the same place with less visual clutter.
No features were moved, just visually tidied.
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Outlook Add-in: AI Summary + French
Outlook Add-in: AI Summary + French
The AI contact summary previously only on mobile is now available directly in the Outlook add-in. French language support also added.

Tips & Tricks:
When composing an email in Outlook, open the Nexl pane and check the AI Summary for the recipient before hitting send.
French-speaking users can switch language in the add-in settings panel.
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Business Development
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Under the Hood
Under the Hood
Employee Profiles — More Tabs & Search
Employee Profiles — More Tabs & Search
Admins can now add Opportunities and Engagement tabs to Employee profiles, and employees are findable via the primary search bar.

Tips & Tricks:
Go to Admin → User Roles and add Opportunities/Engagement tabs to relevant custom roles.
Use the search bar to locate employees by name useful for larger firms or quick lookups during client meetings.
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