Cycle Updates

Seaside Cycle Update 1: Smart Branding, stronger communities

Updates that save you time, strengthen your brand, and help you scale

SEASIDE
January 2026

Fully Launched (100% GA)

Community Improvements

Instant Community Badges Recognize members in real time with on-the-spot badges that reinforce progress, status, and momentum. Visit any member's profile and manually award a badge to celebrate contributions, milestones, or achievements.

What this means for you: Build stronger member engagement by recognizing contributions as they happen. Badges create visible status markers that motivate members to stay active and engaged in your community.

Audio Files in Posts Share audio content directly in community posts. Audio files now play inline—no more popup windows or disrupted browsing experiences.

What this means for you: Share voice notes, audio lessons, or podcast clips seamlessly within your community. Members can listen without leaving the conversation, creating a smoother, more engaging experience.

Calendar Views for Events View your scheduled community events in monthly, weekly, or daily calendar formats instead of just a list view.

What this means for you: Manage live events, meetups, and scheduled programming more effectively. The visual calendar makes it easier to plan, spot conflicts, and communicate schedules to your members.

Learn more: Community Help Center Article

Every Kajabi subscription includes a community so you can create a space for people to gather and connect.

Global Brand Settings

Set your brand colors, fonts, and styling once and watch it flow consistently across your entire Kajabi presence including your site, emails, checkout pages, and member areas.

What this means for you: No more updating the same brand elements in multiple places. Make one change and it updates everywhere, saving you time and ensuring your brand always looks cohesive and professional. In a world where trust is the differentiator, consistent branding reinforces your credibility at every touchpoint.

Where to find it: Settings > Global Brand Settings

Learn how to use Global Brand Settings

Gift Offer Delivery Management

Reschedule or cancel pending gift offer deliveries on behalf of your customers. When someone purchases a gift offer, you now have full control to adjust the delivery timing or cancel the delivery if plans change.

What this means for you: Handle last-minute changes without complicated workarounds. Perfect for managing holiday gift timing, corporate bulk purchases, or any situation where customers need flexibility after purchase.

Where to find it: Manage gift deliveries from the Sales > Orders section in your dashboard, or directly from the customer's contact record.

Learn more: Gift Offer Management Help Article

Rolling Out

These features are currently dialing up and have reached over 25% of accounts. You can expect to see them in your account soon if you don't have access already.

Transaction and Payout API Updates

Adds additional tax, fee, and settlement information into Transactions API and introduces new Payouts API.

What this means for you: If you're building custom integrations or need advanced transaction tracking, the API now provides more detailed financial data and better control over payout workflows. Enhanced visibility into fees, taxes, and settlements makes reconciliation and reporting more accurate.

Learn more: API Changelog

Offer Pricing Option Automations

Trigger specific automation actions based on which pricing option a customer selects at checkout.

What this means for you: Create personalized follow-up experiences based on whether someone chose monthly, annual, or payment plan options. Tailor your onboarding, content delivery, and communication to match their commitment level.

Learn more: Automations Help Article

Receipt Improvements

Bulk download receipts, send PDFs with receipts, edit receipt number sequences, and choose not to send receipts for free purchases.

What this means for you: Better record-keeping for you and your members with professional, numbered receipts. Bulk downloading saves time during tax season or audits. Skipping receipts for free offers creates a cleaner experience for trial sign-ups and promotional access.

Learn more: Receipt Management Help Center

Download 1099 from Dashboard

US Heroes using Kajabi Payments can now download their 1099 tax forms directly from the Kajabi Dashboard.

What this means for you: Tax season just got easier. Access your 1099 forms instantly without waiting for mail or making support requests. Stay compliant and keep your financial records organized in one place.

Learn more: 1099 Tax Forms Help Article

Coming in the Next Two Weeks

These features will begin rolling out before our next product update on February 2:

Comment-to-DM Functionality

Trigger a reply when a word or phrase is used on any Facebook or Instagram post. Turn social media engagement into private conversations that build deeper relationships.

What this means for you: Catch important keywords and phrases on your social posts and automatically move those conversations into direct messages where you can provide personalized guidance. Perfect for turning casual engagement into real client relationships.

Course Drip by Specific Date

Release content on real calendar dates so everyone in your cohort progresses together.

What this means for you: No more weekly manual publishing or relative timelines. Set real calendar dates and everyone moves through your content together, making live calls and group discussions easier to coordinate.

Smarter Automation Branching

Build real segmentation flows in one automation instead of duct-taping five together.

What this means for you: Cleaner logic, fewer workarounds, more powerful personalization. Create complex customer journeys without the chaos of managing multiple separate automations.

Improved Automation Wait Nodes

Trigger messages and actions at the right moment by date, day, or time—not just "X days later."

What this means for you: Schedule communications around real-world timing like business hours, specific dates, or optimal engagement windows. Send messages when they'll actually be read, not just when a timer expires.

Multi-Line Item Invoicing

Allow multiple offers to be added to a single invoice, creating more detailed, professional invoices.

What this means for you: Send comprehensive invoices that bundle multiple products or services together. Perfect for agency work, consulting packages, or any situation where clients purchase multiple offers at once. Professional invoicing builds trust and makes accounting easier for both you and your clients.

Cart Post-Purchase Settings

More control over what happens immediately after checkout.

What this means for you: Customize the post-purchase experience to match your brand and guide customers to their next step. Control redirects, messaging, and the immediate next action after someone buys.

Affiliate Challenges

Incentivize affiliate engagement and sales with structured challenge programs.

What this means for you: Reward top performers, create competition, and drive partner growth with gamified incentive structures. Turn your affiliate program into an engine for motivated, consistent promotion.

What This Means for You

Everything we ship exists to help you move faster, serve deeper, and build with confidence. Whether it's strengthening your brand presence, improving client relationships, or automating the work that slows you down—these updates give you more leverage.

You bring the expertise. Kajabi brings the system.