What's new on Shopamine

We’ve added some great new features that our valued customers have been asking for. They may seem simple, but they eliminate a lot of manual work and keep your pages looking fresh every day!

• Automatic Display of New Items: Newly added products are showcased automatically in the store.
• Automatic Display of Recently Purchased Items: Recently bought items are highlighted for easy browsing.
• Automatic Display of Items by Category: Products from a specified category or node are featured automatically.

Use Multi Promo Box to configure the automatic displays mentioned above.

Some other new feature and enhancements:

• Scrollable Submenu: we added a new scrollable_submenu sys-tag. When applied to a menu element, this enables vertical scrolling for menus with content that exceeds the window height.
• Subpages Links Box: Introduced a new shadow option, allowing customization for a more distinct appearance.
• Background Box: Added a new option for the entire element to open a popup upon clicking, enhancing interactive functionality.
• Post List Box: Updated the feature to allow custom color settings for numbers in post lists, giving more design flexibility.

Optimizations and Improvements

Improved page performance and SEO by removing reloads after GDPR consents. We also refactored Stock & Availability display for consistent settings across lists and product pages for the One Template.

Additionally, we made refinements to the Tabs, Accordion, and Full-screen Mobile Menu components, as well as optimizations in the Configurator box.

New Features

1. Account Locking: Added the ability to lock user accounts, providing admins with more control over user access.
2. Re-send Confirmation Email: Introduced an option to resend confirmation emails for users who haven’t verified their accounts.
3. Stickers for Promo Items and List View: Users can now add stickers to promotional items and list views, enhancing product visibility and customization.
4. Label Customization for Product Codes: Added a new option in the Skin settings to customize product code labels.
5. Custom Login Page for New Accounts: Users creating accounts can now be redirected to a custom login page, offering more flexibility in account management.
6. Fluid Fonts: Fonts are now responsive and fluid, ensuring a better user experience across various screen sizes.
7. Full-Screen Mobile Menu: A new version of the mobile menu has been introduced, now featuring a full-screen layout for improved navigation on mobile devices.

Optimizations and Improvements

Fixed issues with elastic search, Klaviyo integration, seller notes in notifications, product options display, and header layouts.

AI For Products Descriptions & SEO   [TAG_DEPLOYED]

The latest AI upgrade allows our users to leverage Chat GPT AI to effortlessly create descriptions, meta descriptions, alt tags, and more using predefined keywords while adhering to Google's SEO standards.

New Features

1. Batch Functionality for Changing Tax Class on Items: We’ve introduced a new batch functionality that allows you to change the tax class on multiple items at once. 
2. Address for Pickup on Orders with Parcel Shipping: For orders that are shipped to a parcel shop, the store admin will now see three addresses in the order details: the delivery address, billing address, and the newly added shipping address. This addition of the “Address for Pickup” in the administration panel ensures that all relevant shipping information is easily accessible, improving order management and reducing the potential for errors.

Optimizations and Improvements

This update includes fixes for order filtering by user type, item export stability, variant creation in the admin panel, PayPal integration, and promotion popups.

Updates

• Back-in-Stock Notification Expansion: We've significantly expanded the Back in Stock notification feature to support all different website settings and configurations. This enhancement ensures that users can now receive notifications seamlessly, regardless of their online store's specific setup or customization. This update aims to improve user experience by providing timely and accurate stock availability alerts across a wider range of e-commerce platforms.

Optimizations and Improvements

We addressed several Elastic Search bugs to improve search functionality and reliability and made some smaller improvements in our administration panel.

New Features

Slovenian Lemmatization and Mobile Special Characters in Elastic Search:

• We’ve enhanced our Elastic Search functionality with support for Slovenian lemmatization. This means the search engine can now recognize different forms of Slovenian words and match them correctly, improving the accuracy of search results.
• Additionally, we’ve added a feature to handle mobile special characters. Users can now search for terms like "čebela" or "voziček" even if they type "cebela" or "vozicek" without special characters. This makes search more intuitive, especially for mobile users who might find it cumbersome to type special characters.

AI for Product Descriptions & SEO:

• We've introduced an AI-powered tool that helps users generate product descriptions, meta descriptions, alt tags, and more using Chat GPT AI. This tool allows you to input predefined keywords, ensuring all content adheres to Google’s SEO standards.
• Note: This feature is still under development. While it is visible in the administration panel, it is not yet fully functional.

Optimizations and Improvements:

This week, we resolved the PayPal checkout bug and improved Admin UI/UX.

Shopamine CSS Editor   [TAG_DEPLOYED]

We’re excited to introduce the Shopamine CSS Editor, which allows advanced users to write their own CSS directly at the Skin level or Node level. This means you can easily change or override existing CSS for any specific page of your website or globally for the entire Skin. 

The sky is the limit! Whether you’re a developer, a team, or an agency, you can customize websites built in Shopamine to achieve a cutting-edge design and stand out from the competition. Our template, TheOne, combined with the CSS Editor, offers all the customization you will ever need.

New Features

1. User-Friendly Variants for Items

Description: We’ve revamped how items with variants are displayed and managed, making the interface more intuitive and user-friendly.

Details:

• Added support for displaying either a variant chooser image or a specification image on the variants chooser.
• Introduced the ability to select variants from a grid view.
• Optimised the user experience for selecting variants with multiple specifications, such as colour and size, ensuring that the stock display updates according to the selected variant.

2. Recently Viewed Items: 

We have introduced a new feature that displays recently viewed items to store users. You can enable this feature on both the single-item page and in the basket.

3. Compare Items Feature: 

We’ve developed a compare option that allows customers to compare two items before making a purchase. This tool allows your users to compare the specifications of various items on a single page, helping them decide which product is best suited for their needs. By enhancing the customer experience, the Comparator also has the potential to boost your sales.

Optimisations and Improvements: Fixed a bug in our API when creating users and a bug on awaiting payment notifications.

New Features

We've integrated the newest PayPal API, providing enhanced payment options. This integration supports both the PayPal checkout button and card payments directly in the checkout process, offering a more convenient and versatile payment solution for our users.

Users can now see stock levels for multiple warehouses directly from the product page. By using our API, accessible at Warehouse API, you can fill different warehouses and enable the display in the skin settings to showcase which store items are available for pickup. This feature enhances inventory visibility and helps users manage stock more efficiently.

We've added a new API function that allows filtering orders by their status. This new feature can be accessed via the endpoint /api/v1/purchases/list?limit=100&status=[status], making it easier to manage and organize orders based on their current status.

Optimizations and Improvements:

This week, we resolved the Stripe auto-capture bug, fixed the GLS same-day delivery issue, and corrected the notification condition boxes.

New Feature: Shopamine Stickers

We are excited to announce the new Shopamine Stickers functionality. These are labels/stickers that you can now create yourself and add to the product list or product page. Read more about Shopamine Stickers here.

Bug Fixes:

• Promotion Conditions Deletion: Resolved an issue where users were unable to delete conditions from promotions. This fix ensures that conditions can now be removed as expected, providing better control over promotion configurations.
• GLS Address Change in Checkout: Fixed a bug where users were able to change the GLS address during checkout. This correction prevents unauthorized address changes, ensuring accurate delivery information.
• Set of Options Specification Bug: Addressed a bug affecting set of options specifications. This fix improves the performance and reliability of multispec operations.
• Supplier Item Data Duplication: Fixed an issue where supplier item data was not present when duplicating an item. This resolution ensures that all relevant data is retained during item duplication, improving data consistency.
• Image Import Bug: Resolved a bug related to importing images. This fix ensures that image imports are processed correctly, enhancing the media management experience.

Header Settings

In the Skin Settings, we've added even more options to customize your header. Now you can mix and match different header styles depending on whether you use a full-screen banner or video on the homepage, unlike on collection pages and other landing pages. 

This update also includes the rollout of a new integration with Stripe, aimed at streamlining payment processing. Moreover, we have made several bug fixes and improvements to our GLS integration, which is now fully integrated with the Metakocka platform, enhancing its functionality and reliability.

Shopamine Promotions Engine   [TAG_DEPLOYED]

After some delays, we have finally completed a major feature: the Shopamine Promotions Engine. This tool is user-friendly and offers a plethora of options for creating promotions to boost sales. The features of the Promotions Engine include the Shopamine Condition Editor, which allows you to set the validity of promotions, as well as options for exclusive promotions and conditions to apply discounts to selected items, brands, categories, shipping, or the entire basket. Additionally, you can combine existing item discounts with promotions and stack multiple promotions at once. The engine is intelligent and will always select the best combination of discounts for your users.

We're thrilled to announce our latest update, which introduces a significant new feature and several key improvements and bug fixes aimed at streamlining operations and enhancing usability. Here's everything you need to know about what's new and improved:

GLS Integration   [TAG_DEPLOYED]

We're excited to introduce GLS Integration, which will add an option for website customers to select in which Parcel machine or pickup location their order should be delivered. Additionally, we will add a same-day delivery option. This feature will later support other shipping providers as well, offering you more flexibility in your shipping options.

Orders Table Update

To provide more detailed insights into order processing, we've added "Shipping Type" and "Payment Type" columns in the Orders table within the new admin interface. This enhancement offers a clearer overview of order specifics, aiding in better order management and tracking.

Bug Fixes

• Custom Menus Saving Issue: Resolved an issue where custom menus were not saving correctly upon making changes. This fix ensures that alterations to custom menus are now retained and applied as expected.
• Filter Views Navigation: Fixed a critical bug where switching through filter views could result in invalid filters returning a white screen. Users can now seamlessly navigate through different filter views without encountering disruptions.
• Styled Error Message for County Deletion: Introduced a styled error message to inform users when they cannot delete a county, improving the clarity and user experience during such operations.
• User Deletion Bug: Addressed and fixed the bug that previously prevented users from being deleted. This resolution ensures that user management within the platform is more reliable and straightforward.

We are excited to announce the latest updates to THE ONE, focusing on substantial performance enhancements and feature additions. This release targets key areas to optimize user experience, streamline store management, and bolster security measures. Here's what's new:

• Performance Enhancements: Engine Optimization: We've made significant improvements to the engine behind THE ONE, enhancing overall efficiency and response times.
• Configuration Caches for Box Option Processor: Added caching for box option processing, eliminating the need for options to be recalculated with every request. This update significantly reduces load times and improves system performance.
• Database Access Optimization: Optimized database interactions by batching sequences of requests into a single database query. This change minimizes database load and speeds up data retrieval processes.

In our latest update, we've added new features and made improvements for a more intuitive and user-friendly experience:

New Features and Enhancements

• User Experience Improvements in Notifications: Enhanced the overall user experience within the Notifications module, focusing on usability and interaction.
• UI Enhancements for Blog and Post Lists: Upgraded the user interface for blog posts and post lists, including new layout options like full width, custom, and wrap.

Bug Fixes

• Notification Module Stability Improvements: Fixed issues in the Notifications module to ensure better stability and functionality.
• Corrected Data Display in Order Boxes: Addressed and resolved data display issues in the Order Data boxes.

In our latest update, we've added new features and made improvements for a more intuitive and user-friendly experience:

New Features and Enhancements

• Enhanced Widget Customization Options: Introduction of advanced settings for Leanpay widget to allow detailed customization.
• Improved Popup User Interface: Redesign and relocation of the popup close icon, along with added functionality to change its color.
• Content Box Background Settings: New feature to anchor content boxes to the bottom of the header, ensuring consistent positioning.
• Advanced Menu Navigation Control: Implementation of settings to control the number of visible submenu levels in dropdown menus.

Bug Fixes

• Order Data Box Localization: Added localized sample data in Order data notifications for regional relevance.
• Mobile Optimization for Blog Posts: Introduction of mobile-specific spacing for optimal readability on smaller screens.