### **Improved Empty States**

For internal users and client users, we now show helpful text and illustrations on pages where you have not created any entities yet.

### **Improved Email Notifications**

First, you can now send messages, share files, and create invoices/subscriptions for client users who you have not invited to your portal yet. When you do this, the email notification will prompt them to **Activate Account** and then redirect them to the relevant page.

Second, when a client user gets an email notification and clicks on a link, we automatically make the experiences as seamless as possible.

- If they are logged in to your portal, we redirect them to their destination directly.
- If they are logged out, we pre-fill their email and ask them to enter their password.
- If they have not been invited yet, we pre-fill their email and ask them to Active Account (which means they have to set their password).

### **Improvements and Fixes**

- Added the ability to drag & drop files into specific folders in the Files module.
- Redesigned the Messages and Files UI.
- Improved the sidebar design (we don't show section headers if you only have one section now)
- Fixed a bug in Messaging Settings that made it unclear who is included in Welcome Messages.
- Fixed a bug that prevented saving changes on the Customization page where you used special characters.

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