Autumn Sale on now See the offer →
Building affiliate stores since 2010

Changelog

What's new in FreshStore

New features, improvements, fixes and guides, newest first. Every entry has its own page and date.

New Stores Articles

Choose your store's countries and AI language

You can now choose which countries your store serves and the language its AI writes in. Visitors get a country menu to pick their country, and your AI content, from articles to product text, is written in the language you choose. Set both in your store settings.

Read the guide
New Articles Products

Create images with AI in your store

You can now create unique images with AI from your store admin. The AI Image Generator makes an image for an article, category or page in about 15 seconds, so you always have a picture that fits your content without searching for one.

Read the guide
Improved Articles

Smarter AI for SEO content

The AI engine now writes more accurate articles that understand their context better, with stronger titles, subtitles, keywords and meta content for search engines. You get it whenever you write or rewrite content with AI.

New Articles Products

Add free stock photos from your admin

You can now search a free stock photo library and add images to your articles, categories and pages without leaving your store admin. Find a photo, pick it, and it is added to your content, with no downloading and uploading.

Read the guide
Improved Articles Products

Faster, more human AI writing

The AI engine behind your store had a major upgrade. Articles now take about 30 seconds to write, and most other AI content appears almost instantly. The text is more accurate, more varied and sounds more human, and the AI knows about more recent products and events.

New Articles

Give AI articles a target SEO keyword

You can now set a target SEO keyword when you write an article with AI. The AI writer then uses your keyword throughout the article, so each article is aimed at the search you want it to rank for. Leave it blank and the writer works from your topic as before.

Read the guide
Fixed Articles Products

Improvements and fixes, April 2024

  • Fixed: currencies sometimes displayed incorrectly on stores.
  • Fixed: related products in articles did not always show correctly.
Improved Articles

Filter your articles by category

The article list in your store admin now shows each article's category, and you can filter the list by category. On stores with many articles, it is now quick to find everything in one topic and check what still needs work.

New Articles

RSS feeds for your store's articles

You can now share your articles through RSS. Your store publishes RSS feeds of its articles, so readers can follow them in a feed reader and social media tools can post your new articles for you automatically. The feeds update as you publish.

Read the guide
New Articles Products

Show related products inside your articles

You can now show products inside your articles. Pick a related category for an article and it shows matching products at the start or end of the page, or at the start or end of the article content. Readers who are ready to buy can go straight to the products without leaving the article.

Read the guide
Improved Articles

Cut, copy and paste from the editor toolbar

The content editor toolbar now has cut, copy and paste buttons. They sit with the other formatting buttons at the top of the editor, so you can move text around an article, product or page without reaching for keyboard shortcuts.

Improved Articles Products

Better AI articles, products and brand content

AI written articles now read better, with clearer subheadings that break the text into easy sections. The AI also writes better product titles and summaries, brand content and homepage titles, and it makes better category suggestions when you set up a store. You get the improvements whenever you create or rewrite content with AI.

Fixed Stats Products Articles Stores Merchants

Improvements and fixes, August 2023

  • Improved: your own admin visits and other automated traffic no longer count in your store analytics.
  • Improved: content fields hold more text, and slugs you type are made search friendly automatically.
  • Improved: the store admin sidebar can collapse, which helps on small screens.
  • Fixed: CSV files saved from Excel did not import correctly.
  • Fixed: disabled products still showed in product lists.
  • Improved: eBay offers update faster, and Etsy products show a notice about images.
  • Improved: when you change a slug, the old address redirects to the new one, and empty menu sections are hidden.
  • Fixed: Google product markup was invalid for products without a price.
  • Fixed: slug errors when many products were created at once, and products with blank slugs.
  • Fixed: errors when a new store was installed.
  • Fixed: store analytics did not record visits correctly.
  • Fixed: parent and child categories could loop and break category pages.
  • Fixed: links to disabled brands and subcategories still showed.
  • Improved: store pages load faster.
  • Fixed: products could get stuck in a locked state, and Update All Products Content did not work.
  • Heads up: contact message emails now start switched off for new stores. Turn them on in your store settings.
  • Fixed: articles with numeric slugs did not work, and a 404 page could redirect in a loop.
  • Fixed: sitemaps did not always follow your sitemap settings, included disabled items and did not refresh properly.
New Articles Products

Embed live products in your articles

You can now place product boxes inside your articles. The boxes update automatically, so prices and offers stay current without editing the article again. Readers can go straight from your advice to the product, which turns more of your content into sales.

Read the guide
New Articles

Previous and next buttons on articles

Articles now have previous and next buttons, so readers can step through the other articles in the same category. It keeps readers moving through your content and helps them find more of what interests them, without going back to a list.

Fixed Account Stores Articles Products

Improvements and fixes, July 2023

  • Fixed: AI Chips sometimes showed as expired too early, and chips were not always allocated correctly.
  • Improved: settings changes show straight away, because the cache clears when you save. Automatic meta creation is also better.
  • Improved: you can delete an AI article before it finishes generating.
  • Improved: product imports finish faster.
  • Fixed: logging in on stores hosted on a subdomain did not work.
  • Fixed: saving offers, and pages for expired products, did not work properly.
  • Fixed: two pages could end up sharing the same URL. Slugs are now tidied and kept unique.
New Articles

Schedule articles to publish later

You can now set an article to go live on a future date. Write several articles at once and let them publish over the following days or weeks, so your store keeps adding fresh content without you logging in. Articles now also show their published date.

New Articles

Set hero, social and listing images for articles

You can now give each article three images: a hero image at the top of the article, a social image used when someone shares it, and a listing image for article lists. You can also set a default listing image, so articles without their own image still look good in lists.

Read the guide
New Products Articles

Lock products so AI keeps your edits

You can now lock a product to protect your own changes. When a product is locked, automatic AI updates skip it, so the titles and descriptions you edited by hand stay exactly as you wrote them. Unlock it any time you want AI to refresh the content again.

New Articles

Organise articles into categories

You can now group your articles into categories. Each article category has its own page, can have AI written content, and can be linked from your store menu. The All Articles page has a new design that shows your categories, so readers find articles on the topics they care about.

Read the guide
New Articles

Related articles linked automatically

Each article in your store now links to related articles automatically. Readers who finish one article see others on the same subject, so they stay longer and visit more pages. You do not need to add or update the links yourself.

New Articles

Share buttons on every article

Every article in your store now has social share icons. Readers who like what they read can share it on their favourite social networks in one click, which brings new visitors to your store for free. There is nothing to set up.

Fixed Articles Products Stores Merchants Domains Templates Account

Improvements and fixes, May 2023

  • Fixed: switching an article on or off did not work.
  • Fixed: problems in the category builder.
  • Fixed: homepage featured categories showed twice.
  • Fixed: footer links to disabled pages still showed.
  • Improved: offer, eBay auction and exact match updates and imports run faster.
  • Fixed: some countries were mapped to the wrong locale.
  • Fixed: disabled subcategories still appeared in menus.
  • Improved: article lists show the newest articles first.
  • Improved: the Offer Importer shows the status of each import.
  • Fixed: prices were wrong for products with several offers, and currency conversion sometimes failed.
  • Improved: adding a domain explains when a subdomain is needed and when a root domain is already in use.
  • Improved: the article writer no longer adds an "In Conclusion" heading, and makes shorter slugs.
  • Fixed: the colour scheme settings page did not display properly in dark mode.
  • Improved: better heading tags and image alt text on store homepages.
  • Fixed: members with a plus sign in their email address could not log in. Amazon settings are now marked optional.
  • Fixed: prices did not update after a locale change, and minimum and maximum prices were sometimes wrong.
  • Fixed: store search sometimes showed old results.
Improved Articles

Choose if new AI articles go live

When you generate articles with AI, you can now choose whether they are switched on as soon as they are finished. Leave them off if you want to read and edit each article before visitors see it, or switch them on to publish straight away.

New Stores Articles

A new editor for all your content

You can now write and format store content in a new editor. It has a floating toolbar, an HTML view for direct editing, and image uploads in every content area. It also adds text sizes, underline and highlight. Use it anywhere you edit larger blocks of content, such as articles, pages and product descriptions.

Read the guide
New Stores Articles Products

Describe a niche and AI builds your store

You can now build a complete store by describing your niche. Tell the store wizard what your store is about and give it a name, and AI does the rest: it creates your categories from a list, fills them with products, adds brands and writes articles. You get a working store in minutes, ready for you to review and make your own.

Read the guide
New Articles

Write a full article from one topic

You can now give the AI article writer a topic and get back a complete, formatted article for your store. Each article comes with its own meta title and meta description, so it is ready for search engines as soon as it is written. Review it, make any edits you want, and publish it alongside your products. It is a fast way to add helpful content that brings visitors to your store.

Read the guide

Follow along: RSS, JSON Feed or Markdown.