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Stay updated with the latest Big Cartel enhancements. Our changelog details all the recent updates to our platform, from new features to template improvements. Explore what's new to make the most of your shop. Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on what's new!

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September 20th, 2024

  • Added a new app store homepage to showcase all our apps and integrations available to Big Cartel sellers, include app store pages for each. Many apps have one-click installation to make getting going with an app easier than ever!

  • Added new apps for DropInBlog, Chatway, Common Ninja for our paid plans

August 29th, 2024

  • Improvements to the in-person checkout experience including make it easier to see which products were added to the cart, making it simpler to add multiple quantities of a variant to the cart when selecting, and making it faster to add a customers email address for receipts. We've also added Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android, so you can take cards and mobile wallets without an additional card reader.

August 21, 2024

  • For paid sellers that ship from Canada, you can now create and print shipping labels from within your Big Cartel admin as well as save up to 90% in shipping costs!

August 14, 2024

  • Abandoned Cart Recovery is now available exclusively for sellers on our Diamond plan. This can help dramatically boost sales with automatic cart reminder emails to buyers that start checkout but do not complete a purchase. Eligible sellers can head to their shop preferences to enable this.

  • Added a new enhanced product table view with improved bulk editing for paid sellers. This table view adds the ability to sort, filter and directly edit product attributes without needing to go into every product individually.

July 16, 2024

July 11, 2024

  • For our developers and partners, we have added the ability to update existing products in a given shop.

  • We've updated our Zapier app with this new capability giving shops more options to build powerful automations. Need ideas how to use this? Read more here!

June 28, 2024

  • Redesigned all our our email templates that are use in our seller's shops including order receipts and shipping notifications. These new designs are more modern, better for mobile devices and gives more information to your customers about their orders.

May 6, 2024

  • For developers and partners, we made improvements to the API for orders and products, including adding a new Pages API. This new API fetches all pages for a shop and will allow our partners to extend and add more advanced configuration for your apps. See our API changelog for more information and other improvements.

May 3, 2024

  • Added Fera.ai as an app integration to enhance shop's with ratings and reviews! It is a premium integration that does all the setup automatically, eliminating any need for you to manually add code to your shop.

April 15, 2024

  • Added express checkout for shops using Stripe as their payment processor. Express checkout provides a shop's customers with a way to breeze through checkout and avoid filling in billing and shipping information. Express checkout works with Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe Link.

April 12, 2024

  • A completely redesigned integration with Zapier has been launched with our "2.0" integration, automatically available to all paid plans. We've added a 6 new triggers and, for the first time, over 20+ actions for sellers to automate their shops.

March 20, 2024

  • Diamond shops now have ability to add up to 25 images for products

    • Shops using recent versions of Luna and Cosmos templates have been automatically upgraded to support the additional images on the product pages. Shops that weren't auto updated will need to manually update their template.

    • Using a print-on-demand integrations like Printful? We'll now import up to 25 mockups per product instead of limiting those to 5

  • iOS and Android apps have been updated to support managing additional images.

March 19, 2024

  • Hopscotch template updated to v1.6.0

    • Rebuilt header UI with new navigation behavior and improved mobile experience

    • New setting for “All products” button text

    • New setting for welcome image overlay opacity

    • New setting for announcement message

    • New setting for rounded corners

    • New setting to display product search

    • New setting for product image zoom

    • New setting for desktop product detail page image display (thumbnails, carousel, stacked 2 column, stacked full width).

    • New setting for mobile product detail page image display (show thumbnails, hide thumbnails).

    • New more intuitive Cart UI

    • Contact form accessibility improvements

    • New 2 column product page layout

    • Accent background setting is now Header & Footer background

    • Improved image grid and image gallery loading behavior, more consistent “staggered” grid effect

March 15, 2024

  • Nova template updated to v2.0.1

    • Rebuilt header UI with new navigation behavior and improved mobile experience

    • Home page allows you to have a Slideshow + featured products, no longer forcing just the slideshow or products

    • New setting for featured categories/products header text

    • New setting for announcement message

    • New setting for maintenance message

    • New setting for All products button text

    • New setting for rounded corners

    • New setting for grid image style

    • New setting for product image zoom

    • New product share button behavior

    • New setting for desktop product detail page image display (thumbnails, carousel, stacked 2 column, stacked full width).

    • New setting for mobile product detail page image display (show thumbnails, hide thumbnails).

    • New settings for Snapchat, TikTok, Bandcamp, and YouTube links

    • New more intuitive Cart UI

    • New more accessible search UI

    • Contact form accessibility fixes

    • New 2 column product page layout

March 5, 2024

  • Good Vibes template updated to v1.6.0

    • New preset style picker that was first introduced with Cosmos template

    • New setting for product image zoom

    • New setting for desktop product detail page image display (thumbnails, carousel, stacked 2 column, stacked full width).

    • New setting for mobile product detail page image display (show thumbnails, hide thumbnails).

    • New Snapchat, Bandcamp, YouTube, TikTok URLs

    • New announcement message text setting

    • New Featured header text setting

    • New and more accessible cart UI

    • Improved accessibility on Contact form

    • New more accessible Home page slideshow

    • Improved performance and layout of product grid & images

    • New more accessible navigation menu with full keyboard support

  • Roadie template updated to v1.6.0

    • New preset style picker that was first introduced with Cosmos template

    • New setting for product image zoom

    • New setting for desktop product detail page image display (thumbnails, carousel, stacked 2 column, stacked full width).

    • New setting for mobile product detail page image display (show thumbnails, hide thumbnails).

    • New settings for Snapchat and TikTok URLs

    • Social links in footer are always shown on mobile for increased visibility

    • Various fixes/improvements to padding & spacing of elements

February 28, 2024

  • Adjusted tooltips linger time on the site to improve accessibility

  • Small improvements to the way the dashboard chart displays for new sellers

  • Increased the allowable limit of custom CSS and template customization code by 50%

February 21, 2024

February 15, 2024

  • Added Facebook/Meta Pixel support. Platinum and Diamond sellers can configure their pixel ID in their account settings and automatically have Facebook pixel code added to their shop’s pages, including checkout.

  • Improved Google Analytics 4 (GA4) integration that improves reporting with item level cart details. Diamond sellers get a even more events such as add_to_cart, begin_checkout and more. These new events drive an even deeper level of reports in GA4.

February 5, 2024

  • Google Pay now shows as an instant checkout option on product details pages as an alternative to Apple Pay if a shop’s visitors is using a browser and device that supports it. Apple Pay continues to be supported and offered.

January 31, 2024

  • New free Cosmos template launched

  • Introduced a Style Picker functionality to make it easier to change fonts+colors on the template to presets.

January 30, 2024

  • Added support for 4 new currencies: UAE Dirham (AED), Bulgarian Lev (BGN), Croatian Kuna (HRK) and Romanian Leu (RON).

January 25, 2024

  • Improved the “Contact Us” email. Simplified wording and improved layout.

December 22, 2023

  • Added Post Italiane as a new shipping carrier option for shipment tracking and notification

December 7, 2023

  • Account API now supports returning time zone, first name and last name of the account.

November 22, 2023

  • To help checkout conversion for shops with limited inventory during periods of higher sales volume and traffic, we've added a note within checkout that reminds shoppers that products aren't reserved until they checkout.

November 15, 2023

  • All shops now have the most up-to-date and best code to support search engine optimization (SEO) using the JSON-LD standard. ensure Google and other search engines index and showcase your shops the best way possible. Curious to learn more? Read more on Google's site.

November 8, 2023

  • Neat template updated to v2.3.1

    • Setting for slideshow overlay opacity (removed hardcoded overlay image)

    • Setting for product image zoom

    • Setting for desktop product detail page image display (thumbnails, carousel, stacked 2 column, stacked full width)

    • Setting for mobile product detail page image display (show thumbnails, hide thumbnails)

    • Setting for “Shop now” button text

    • Setting for “Featured” header text

    • Settings for Snapchat, TikTok, Bandcamp, and YouTube social links

    • Added View all products button on Home page

    • Added Skip to main content link to improve accessibility

    • More accessible search and mobile navigation

    • More accessible image carousel libraries for Home and Product pages

    • Updated Cart page to improve usability and accessibility

    • Announcement message closing is per browser session.

    • Search is enabled by default.

    • Simplified and consolidated color settings (header hover and border colors are automatic, error styles are hardcoded).

    • Product form appears above the product description.

  • Lunchbreak template updated to v1.10.0

    • More accessible image carousel libraries for Home and Product pages

    • Setting for product image zoom

    • Setting for desktop product detail page image display (thumbnails, carousel, stacked 2 column, stacked full width)

    • Setting for mobile product detail page image display (show thumbnails, hide thumbnails)

    • Setting for “Featured” header text

    • Setting for controlling rounded corner styles on site elements

    • Setting for announcement message

    • Settings for Snapchat, TikTok, Bandcamp, and YouTube social links

    • Updated Cart page to improve usability and accessibility

    • More accessible search and mobile navigation

    • Simplified and consolidated color settings.

    • Product form appears above the product description.

October 23, 2023

  • Improve checkout experience to make discount code and order notes easier to find for shoppers on mobile

  • In the Shop Designer, we've made it clearer when a new version of your shop's template is available for upgrade. The button caption now reads "Upgrade to x.y" where x.y is the latest version number of the template. Prior to this, the button would always say "Reset".

October 5, 2023

  • Sidecar template updated to v2.1.0

    • Announcement message feature is updated, closing the message only lasts per browser session instead of 7 days

    • Added TikTok and Snapchat links and updated the sort order

September 26, 2023

  • Our completely redesigned checkout experience has been rolled out to all shops on the platform to improve conversion and offering more payment options including Buy Now, Pay Later options through Stripe such as Affirm, ClearPay and Afterpay. Read more here.

September 5, 2023

  • Re-designed experience for buying and connecting a custom domain to your shop. In only a few clicks you can get connected! Domains start as low as $1 for the first year.

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