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Product brands now have their own individual pages. Each brand can be set up to display all products associated with that brand on a dedicated page. In the product card, the brand name is now clickable, allowing customers to easily navigate to the brand's page and explore more products from the same brand. This enhancement improves product visibility and helps customers discover more of what they love from their favorite brands.

The new J&T shipping method integration is now available. Partners can install and configure the J&T app from the back office, enabling customers to select J&T for shipping, view costs, and track order status directly from the detailed orders page. The integration includes real-time delivery status updates, waybill generation and download, and shipping cost estimation.

The Footer Settings menu has been significantly upgraded with a new design and improved functionality. Key enhancements include a sleek loading animation, repositioning of the Save button for better accessibility, and a revamped footer visualization for a more organized layout. Tabs have been introduced for different sections, allowing for easy management of Content pages, Brands, Collections, Tags, Blog Articles, Products, Categories, and External links. This update streamlines the user experience, making it easier to customize and manage the footer content efficiently.

The listing pages for Tags, Brands, and Collections now include a view icon. This enhancement ensures a consistent and user-friendly interface across all three functionalities, allowing partners to easily preview and interact with these elements on their respective listing pages.

A new option for product collections as page filters is available. Collections allow partners to create dedicated pages with specific information and products, directing customers to these pages to boost purchases. In the Back Office, users can create and edit collections, link them to categories, brands, and tags, and set specific products to appear in collections. On the storefront, collections are now available as filters on pages, enabling customers to find products within active collections easily. This feature aims to improve product visibility and drive sales through targeted collections.

The Landing Page Builder now includes the ability to add a Product Card component to static pages designated as landing pages. This enhancement allows store owners to easily showcase specific products directly on their landing pages, providing a more dynamic and engaging experience for visitors.

We are excited to announce the new feature of automatic segmentation of customers into marketing groups. When a store owner creates a customer group based on order value, customers will now be automatically upgraded and transferred into the appropriate tier. They will receive corresponding benefits such as special promotions. For example, if a customer in the "Bronze" tier reaches the threshold for the "Silver" tier, they will be automatically upgraded to the higher tier. This ensures a seamless and rewarding experience for loyal customers.

Introducing a feature that allows products to automatically inherit the upper levels of their main category. Products will now be displayed correctly on the website without needing to be added as additional categories. For example, if a product is assigned to the "iOS" category, it will also appear in "Smartphones" and "Electronics." This ensures seamless visibility across all relevant categories, enhancing the customer experience. Existing products will be updated to reflect these changes, ensuring consistent and accurate category display on storefronts.

Partners can now manually create orders in the Back Office, allowing them to handle customer orders received via phone or email. This new feature includes a "Create Order" button on the Orders listing page and various fields to capture all necessary order details, including customer information, delivery and billing addresses, product specifics, and payment methods. Additionally, partners can upload and download files related to orders, and if the email used for the order is registered, it can be linked to the customer's profile. The functionality ensures seamless order management, including waybill generation for supported couriers.

Introducing a new feature that allows adding and formatting text on the homepage using a simple, intuitive WYSIWYG editor. This tool supports text styling, image insertion, and link creation without requiring coding knowledge. The text component can be dragged and dropped onto the page for immediate use. The content will appear as designed, ensuring consistency and a great user experience. Fully responsive, it maintains readability and layout across all devices. This enhancement simplifies the creation of visually appealing, customized pages.

We're excited to introduce the BillEase PayLater app, now available for installation from the Back Office. Store owners can easily install and configure the PayLater app, enabling it as a payment option at checkout. Customers will see the BillEase PayLater plan and can complete their payments seamlessly using this method.

Introducing a sleek and dynamic loading spinner for a smoother browsing experience. This enhancement provides visual feedback during page loads, ensuring customers know the content is on its way. This update not only improves the overall functionality but also adds a touch of modernity to the interface, making interactions with the platform more engaging and satisfying.

A confirmation pop-up has been added to the “Restore settings" button in the Theme options under the Shop tab. This enhancement ensures that partners can confirm their action before restoring default values. If changes are confirmed, the default values are restored without needing to click the Save button. If declined, the manually updated values remain unchanged. The confirmation pop-up text is correctly translated into all supported languages.

Enhancements have been made to the Promotions page on the storefront to improve customer experience and navigation. Customers can now easily access direct discounts through the Promotions page, where both special price and direct discount items are displayed. This change offers immediate, usable promotions without any conditions, making it easier for customers to find all promo items in one place. The new design encourages longer sessions on the site and increases the likelihood of sales conversions.

We've made changes to the email configuration in the Back Office to better support the inquiry feature. "Mail config" is now renamed to "inquiry configuration" across all relevant areas, including URL, menu name, and page text. Additionally, an info message has been added to guide users: “You should go to the Settings menu to activate the inquiry configuration".

All email notifications are now stored in a new "Notification Outbox" tab within the E-mail Management section. Partners can filter notifications by event name, receiver type, notification type, and date. Each email can be opened to view its details and body, ensuring full transparency and easy access to notification records.

The onboarding process now features updated designs, improved navigation, and enhanced user engagement across all key steps. New designs and texts are available in multiple languages for both desktop and mobile. The overall flow has been streamlined, removing unnecessary pages and introducing better pop-up notifications. Key updates include modernized steps for logo upload, product addition, payment method installation, and delivery methods. The "Congratulations!" screen is now a full page with integrated contact options. A new guide for the onboarding steps ensures an intuitive and seamless user experience.

Introducing a new feature that hides product prices until customers log in. Available in store settings under "Product Price Visibility Management.” When turned on, prices will be hidden across the site. Customers can still add items to their cart but must log in to see prices and check out. Labels and tooltips will guide them to log in for full access. This feature ensures only registered users can view prices.

Customers can now sign up for sale alerts to receive email notifications when their followed products go on sale. A new "Set Sale Alert" button is available beside the product price, allowing customers subscribe to sale alerts. When a product goes on sale, subscribed users will receive an email notification. This feature ensures that customers stay informed about discounts on their favorite products, enhancing their shopping experience. Additionally, a new email template for sale alerts has been integrated into the email management module, providing clear and timely updates.

A new feature allows partners and users to efficiently manage order fulfillment by generating waybills for multiple orders at once. Users can select multiple orders on the Orders page and click the "Request Waybill" button to initiate waybill generation. The system checks the eligibility of each selected order, ensuring only eligible orders proceed. Orders that are already fulfilled or have shipping providers that do not support waybill generation are excluded, and appropriate notifications are displayed. Successful waybill generation is confirmed with a success message, while errors are logged for easy tracking and resolution.

We are excited to introduce a new zoom functionality for product images on the product detail page. This feature allows users to hover over images to see product details more clearly, with the zoomed-in view following the cursor for a detailed look. The zoom effect is smooth and integrated seamlessly into the browsing experience, indicated by an icon showing the image is zoomable.

The checkout page now displays the logo of the selected payment method for easy identification. Logos are sourced from the app library, ensuring clear, high-resolution images. If a logo isn't available, a default fallback image is shown. This enhancement ensures a more intuitive and visually appealing checkout process without affecting page load time.

We have improved how postal codes are handled for InOut deliveries. The rule that changes postal codes from 1100 to 1*** will now only apply to orders in Bulgaria. This prevents delivery issues in other countries.

The new partner onboarding has been updated with two new fields: "Phone number for customers to contact your online shop" and "Physical address of the warehouse." Required fields now include the email and phone number for NEXT BASKET staff to contact, pre-filled from registration but not shown on the storefront. Optional fields, visible on the storefront, include the email and phone number for customer contact and the office address. These updates improve contact information management and storefront clarity.

Now, when editing product variants, the canonical link field is disabled and displays an informative message: "Product variants will use the canonical value of the main product." This message is translated into all supported languages. The field will display the canonical link value of the main product, and the edit form will function as usual, allowing submissions without any issues.

We've made significant updates to the pop-up notifications during the onboarding process. All notifications are now translated into additional languages for a more inclusive user experience. Additionally, several notifications have been updated to utilize the new, streamlined designs, enhancing clarity and visual appeal.

We've extended the homepage builder to display real data, making it easier to use. Instead of containers, the editor now displays real-time product maps, category images, and banners. Real-time updates ensure that changes to product pricing, headlines and key images are reflected immediately in the builder. If a banner or category is unavailable, it will not display, improving accuracy. These updates provide a clearer and more intuitive representation of your store content directly in the editor.

Adyen is now installable directly from the admin panel, with all necessary settings and configurations available on the dashboard. This integration enables customers to choose GCash (Philippines) as a BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) payment option during checkout, providing a smooth and user-friendly experience.

Adyen can now be installed via the admin panel, featuring comprehensive settings and configurations that appear on the dashboard. This integration allows customers to select Atome (Malaysia and Singapore) as a BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) payment method during checkout, ensuring an easy and convenient user experience.

Introducing the Welcome Greeting component for the Theme Builder, which allows the Welcome Greeting section to be added, rearranged, and customized within theme configurations. Displayed as a separate component, it can be easily managed alongside other components in the Theme Builder. Changes are reflected on the Homepage when saved. If no Welcome Greeting is set, the component is skipped, ensuring a seamless and dynamic homepage layout.

Introducing the option to create custom canonical tags for category and subcategory pages, which improves SEO management in the SEO section of the Categories module. This new feature provides better control over page indexing and search engine visibility.

Introducing the ability to set Custom Canonical URLs for blogs, enhancing SEO management and available in the SEO tab for each blog. This new feature allows store owners to define custom canonical URLs through a text field, ensuring proper SEO handling for blogs.

Introducing a new confirmation pop-up for the Theme Options sections when saving values in the Header and Footer tabs. This feature ensures that partners can confirm their actions before changes are applied. When the Save button is clicked, a confirmation pop-up will appear. If changes are confirmed, the values are saved immediately. If declined, the current values remain unchanged. This pop-up is translated into all supported languages.

We are pleased to announce a new enhancement to the Back Office order screen for our users in the Philippines. The shipping address form will now include a Barangay field, displayed after the City and before the Address fields. This addition allows for more precise address information. Users can easily edit this field when updating the shipping address, ensuring smoother and more accurate deliveries

A new SEO tab has been added to the tag create/edit page! This enhancement allows for easy access to SEO settings, including follow/no follow options, meta title and description fields, and a Google search preview. Tags can now be optimized for better search engine visibility and improved user experience.

Introducing an exciting enhancement to the feature of grouping customers based on their orders over a certain period! Store owners can now create groups of customers with multiple tiers depending on order value. This allows for better and dynamic customer segmentation. Store owners can set different order values for each level (e.g. Bronze, Silver and Gold levels) depending on the total value of orders made. End customers are automatically assigned and when their order value changes, they are dynamically updated and fall into the level corresponding to that value. This enhancement ensures precise and efficient customer management, offering powerful new tools to optimize marketing strategies and the opportunity to drive customer engagement.

We have updated the buttons on all guide navigation pages during the onboarding process. These changes have been applied across all supported languages, ensuring a consistent and improved user experience.

We have updated the Success Guide texts on the Product screen during the onboarding process. These changes have been applied across all supported languages, ensuring a consistent and improved user experience.

We've added a caching mechanism for Alert bars, ensuring faster data loading. Now, any changes made will be reflected even more quickly in the store, enhancing the user experience.

We've updated the configuration for GrapesJS in the Page Builder to allow file uploads to cloud storage instead of using base64 images. This enhancement ensures efficient design and publishing of static content on the website. Confirmation alerts for image deletions and error popups for upload failures, including translations, have been implemented.

We've improved our code to prevent a user with a given role and permissions from creating a new role that includes more permissions than the user creating it has. This ensures higher security and proper management of roles and users in each Partner's store.

Now, direct promotions can be tailored for specific customer groups on the storefront. Store owners can create direct discounts for targeted groups, applying them seamlessly across the homepage, category pages, cart, checkout, and product pages. This ensures personalized promotions for different customer segments, enhancing the shopping experience.

We are excited to announce that the Filipino language (FIL) is now enabled as a content and default language. This enhancement allows users to experience our platform in Filipino, ensuring a more inclusive and localized experience for our Filipino-speaking community. Enjoy seamless navigation and content in your preferred language.

We have updated the onboarding process to improve the creation of business lines and demo products. The "Other" business line will no longer be created by default unless no business lines are selected by the user. Additionally, the demo product will now include assigned business lines, categories, and sub-categories based on the Partner’s selection. This enhancement ensures a more customized and relevant setup experience for new Partners.

We are excited to announce the addition of new business lines in the onboarding process. Partners can now select from the newly added business lines for „Supplements“ and „Pharmaceuticals“.

Introducing the Customizable advantages option! This new feature displays key benefits or features of selected elements in the shop, enhancing its value proposition. Admins can now set and customize titles and sub-titles with rich text editing, specify optional URLs to make advantages clickable, and select icons from a predefined dropdown list. This provides greater flexibility and clarity in showcasing shop features.

Introducing an exciting new feature in the Customers module: creating groups of customers based on their order value over a specific time period. This functionality allows the creation of groups, such as "customers with the highest total order value". Groups can also be created for promotional purposes - this allows partners to reward loyal customers (separated into a group) with exclusive discounts. Partners can define total purchases for certain periods, set subgroups with a range of purchases and manage these groups automatically. This allows them to improve their targeted marketing efforts.

The custom canonical tags for products are now available in the Back Office. This new feature allows for precise SEO control at the product variant level. A new "Canonical URL" field has been added to the SEO tab in the product editing form. This text field lets partners specify the canonical URL for each product variant, improving search engine optimization.

Now, special delivery prices can be set based on product categories. Whenever a product from the specified category is added to checkout, the special delivery price is automatically applied. During checkout, if a product from another category is added, the highest fixed fee from the selected categories is applied. The checkout page displays a note explaining why the higher fee was applied, ensuring customers see clear and transparent delivery charges. This enhancement offers a seamless shopping experience, ensuring customers receive the best delivery rates tailored to their chosen products.

Customers can now use their email or phone number with their password to log into their account. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and convenience when accessing accounts. Both existing customers and new customers can add their phone number by editing their profile. Updated phone numbers can also be used, providing a seamless login experience.

Introducing an update to the product card styles! Changes made in the Back Office are seamlessly applied to the store design.