Ben
August 20, 2025, 7:20pm
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It’s crazy how so many new features have been prioritized and released over an essential function like onboarding. On a customer portal product like Softr, none the less, that used to have additional fields on sign up already. Perhaps Softr should have simply included additional fields six months ago with their new release so everyone waiting to launch their migrated apps, finally with email authentication, could have done so already.
@Ben we will do it but now prioritising onboarding…
We need extra sign up fields and navigation styling back, at least for legacy pro and business plan builders so we can use “The New Softr” as well:
That is what I figured. Just wanted to confirm.
Hopefully Softr adds more fields to the new sign up to avoid unnecessary user onboarding steps and admin workflows, which is what all of this “new account management” should be about anyway.
Thanks and admire your initiative!
Hey @Jjenglert and @artur . This is why I suggested extra sign up fields in the first place. Pretty reasonable, considering they were on legacy sign-up blocks already.
This will have to occur after sign up, adding extra onboarding steps for users. These flows add another step to onboarding which is unnecessary when extra fields at sign up capture user credentials that can send them to the appropriate page immediately based on their pre-defined user group.
This seems like an oversight, espec…
Softr is not planning on adding additional fields to sign up. Also, the proposed “new onboarding experience ” won’t be released until the end of the 2nd Quarter of 2025, at the earliest. It’s not even on Softr’s Roadmap yet.
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Legacy apps have relied on additional sign up fields for years. It was the only way to onboard users to their appropriate user groups without workarounds. @Artur , perhaps Softr could prioritize onboarding so builders can sign up users to their legacy apps with …
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