HighLevel's Big News: Supercharged AI, Domains, Payments & More! 🚀 (May 7, 2025)

Hey HighLevel Heroes! Ready to level up? Grab your digital cape—today's update is packed with awesome new features, smoother experiences, and even some price tags you’ll actually want to read. Let’s dive in and see what’s new (and have a little fun along the way)! 😄

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1. Voice AI Gets Superpowers: Custom Actions & Real-Time Webhooks 🤖

Ever wanted your AI agent to do more than just talk the talk? Now it can walk the walk—or at least, call the API!

What’s New:

• Custom Webhooks in Voice AI: Make your Voice AI talk to other software mid-call using POST webhooks. Zapier, your CRM, field service tools, you name it!
• Automation Magic: Update customer info, check reservations, fetch medical data—while on the phone!
• Dynamic Data: Your bot can now grab names, numbers, even emails from a conversation and use them instantly.
• Test Before You Stress: Try out your webhook before you save it—no accidental detours to tech support! 😅

Coming soon: Voice AI will even be able to understand responses and act on them during the call!

If your AI agent starts asking for a promotion, blame this update. 🤐

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2. Multi-Year Domains = Less Renewal Stress 💡

Who wants to remember to renew their domain every year? No one! Now you can buy up to 10 years at checkout (5 for .co’s, and .ai with 2+ year increments). More time for world domination, less stress about expiring sites.

How It Works:

• Pick your domain, select "Pricing Option" for 1–10 years (or 2/4/6/8/10 for .ai)
• See your final price instantly (so your wallet won’t get a surprise)
• Pro Tip: You can now also snag those snazzy .ai domains direct in HighLevel!

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3. You Can Now Buy .ai Domains (Not Just For Robots!) 🧠

Launch your next-world-changing AI tool? You should probably own mycoolproject.ai!

• .ai domains are now available right from your dashboard
• Registration only in 2-year steps (because AI thinks in even numbers, apparently)
• Saves time, makes you look super techy, and helps your brand stand out

Bring on the robots—I mean, startups!

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4. Payments Upgraded: More Control & Less Hassle 💳

Good news for everyone who loves smooth checkouts (so, everyone):

• Save Cards with Custom Payment Providers: Customers can store cards and pay even faster.
• Charge Off-Session: You can bill customers even if they’re not online (late pizza night, anyone?)
• Easily View & Manage Saved Payment Methods: Less confusion, more sales.

Sidenote: Not all payment providers are created equal, so check which features your gateway supports!

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5. Speedier Websites, Webinar & Store Pages ⚡

Raise your hand if waiting for pages to load is your hobby. (No hands? Thought so!)

• Lazy Loaded Thumbnails: Images only show when you need them = zippy page views
• Fewer Data Requests: Large sites, meet faster loading times (no more 17 API calls to load a few pages!)

Your audience will never know the technical wizardry behind the curtain, but you’ll definitely notice the speed!

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6. Webinar & Store Thumbnails Are Back in Style 🖼️

No more "mystery boxes" for your new webinars or stores—thumbnails now appear every time, whether built from scratch or template. Consistency never looked so good!

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7. Calendly Import Gets Time-Turner Magic 🕰️

Connect Calendly and HighLevel, and—POOF!—not just your future, but your last 180 days of events are imported too. No more awkwardly missing half your meetings in the calendar!

• Future & past events for the last 180 days imported at connection
• Automate marketing, follow-ups, and more using all those synced meetings (workflows only trigger for new & upcoming events, so you won’t re-email past clients by mistake)

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8. Sole Proprietor A2P Registration is Back—with a Superpower (Live Selfies!) 📸

Flying solo or running a tiny business? You can now register for A2P messaging again—just bring your face (literally).

• Identity Verification Added: Before final submission, you’ll take a quick selfie and show your government ID
• Keeps your messages compliant and spam-free
• Process stays familiar—just with one extra (very photogenic) step

Is this the one time you get to take a selfie for work? Absolutely!

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9. Watch Out! SMS & MMS Price Changes (May 12, 2025) 💬💰

Nobody loves the fine print—but you deserve to know in advance! Carrier costs for SMS/MMS are changing in select countries:

• Outbound SMS: Nepal ($0.3022), Suriname ($0.2350), Mauritius ($0.1896), Angola ($0.1789), Montenegro ($0.1375), Trinidad & Tobago ($0.2992)
• Inbound SMS: PR & USA ($0.0083)
• Outbound MMS: Canada ($0.0220)

What you need to do: Nothing! HighLevel updates these automatically—just keep an eye on your usage if you text A LOT.

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That’s a Wrap! 🎉

With every update, HighLevel is working to make your business (and your life) just a little bit easier. Faster websites, smarter AI, easier payments, safer messaging, and less calendar chaos—that’s a pretty good day in SaaS-land, wouldn’t you say?

Have questions, need tips, or just want to show off your selfie from the A2P registration? Jump into the comments!

Stay tuned for even more power-ups next time. Until then, keep leveling up!