What’s new in Aventide

Add Aventide to your phone’s home screen from its browser. Chat with Sidekick, answer your inbox, talk with your team and approve drafts, for every business you run.

Read an email, check the reply Aventide drafted and send it, or approve a draft with the same review you see on your computer. Notifications are off until you turn them on. The app comes with every plan and the free trial.

Each client now has one conversation with your team. They can write from the Messages card in their portal, from their booking page, or by replying to an email you sent through Aventide.

Every message lands in your team inbox, where you reply as the business, assign it to a teammate or mark it answered. Your own Gmail stays private to you.

Your client can choose Send files in their portal. The files land in the From client card in their client room, and Aventide’s AI never reads them.

If you coach, teach or advise people who run a service business, you can now join the Aventide partner program from the partners page. You get your own referral link and a dashboard with your counts and what you’ve earned.

You earn 20% of the plan fee for the first 12 months of each new paying account you refer. It’s counted on paid invoices and held for 60 days on monthly plans and 90 days on annual plans. Your own subscription doesn’t earn a commission.

Team access now works business by business. The Owner opens every business and is the only one who can create one. Each teammate opens only the businesses the Owner ticks for them in Settings → Team, where you also invite people, change access, remove someone and see the history. Each person’s own Gmail and Google Calendar stay private to them.

Turn on Record this call for a Google Meet booking type and Meet records the call itself, on a Google plan that can record. Your client is told in the invite, with a link to opt out. Afterwards the recording and transcript land in your notes, private to you, and you can share the call to your client’s portal as video or audio only, with a short summary. Zoom calls record the same way, on a Zoom Pro plan or higher with Cloud recording turned on.

Tick other calendars your Google account can see, such as a shared calendar or one you see only as busy, and their busy times stop clients booking over them. If you connected Google Calendar before, reconnect it to choose more calendars.

Paste what ChatGPT or Claude knows about you and your business, during setup, on the Memory tab or in a chat. Aventide sorts it into business facts, how you like to work, standing rules, goals, to-dos and client notes, and you review what it keeps. The import itself doesn’t keep the text you paste, though a paste in a chat stays in that chat, and you can forget anything it kept.

Connect your own Google Drive and choose files with Google’s own picker. Aventide opens only the files you choose or the ones it made.

Read my Drive turns up to three Sheets or Docs into Business Hub suggestions you keep or skip. It uses 50 credits, and only when it finds something new. You can also import clients from a Sheet, export your clients, contacts, invoices and expenses to Google Sheets, and ask Think or Sidekick about a file you chose. Aventide changes a file only when you ask and approve that change.

A proposal saved as a PDF from the free proposal generator no longer prints your browser’s date, page title and web address in the margins. The only step left is to choose Save as PDF.

One button reads your website once and proposes your logos, colors, fonts, the words for your Foundations and a Style, plus photos you can pick. You keep or skip each item in one review. A read uses 50 credits, and nothing is charged when the site can’t be read or nothing new is found.

Besides every week and every two weeks, you can now book a client on the same date each month. A booking on the 31st falls on the last day of a shorter month.

Instagram now connects on its own when you sign in with an Instagram Business or Creator account, so you no longer need a Facebook Page linked to it. If you use Pages, you can still connect Instagram through the Page it’s linked to.

Sell a package of sessions as an offer. Clients buy it on your booking page, use one session per booking and see what’s left in their portal. You can also book a client every week or every two weeks, until a date or for a set number of times, and change one date or all the ones after it.

Write your booking policy once, and Aventide adds plain sentences from each booking type’s own rules, like notice and refunds. A booking type can ask clients to agree before they book or pay, once for each version of the policy, and their agreement is kept as proof.

The account owner can choose Email me everything in Your data, in the profile menu, and get a ZIP with spreadsheets, your signed agreements and your files. The download links arrive by email and work for seven days.

The free proposal generator makes a proposal in your brand and saves it as a PDF. It runs in your browser only: nothing you type is sent to Aventide, and you don’t need an account. The PDF carries no Aventide branding.

Once a client accepts a proposal, you can add a change order from their client room, for extra work or for work taken off. The client accepts with their typed name or declines in their portal, and the accepted proposal itself never changes.

A change that adds cost drafts its invoice for you to approve before it’s sent. A change that lowers the price shows a credit you mark as settled.

A proposal is now answered from your client’s portal, so every yes has a signed-in person behind it, and they type their name to accept. If the proposal has options or optional extras, the client picks them on the page and sees the total as they go.

What they saw is kept as the record. If you change the proposal after a yes, they’re asked to accept again, and you can open each acceptance as a printable record.

Forms are on for every business. Build a form in Aventide, then share its own page, embed it on your website, use it as the questions on a booking type, or send it to a client. Answers arrive in Aventide for you to read and reply to.

My inbox is your own Gmail, which only you see. Team is a shared mailbox connected with its own Google account, which every teammate sees and can reply from.

Inbox cards suggest which client an email belongs to, and nothing is linked until you click.