Changelog

Fixed

• The Fresh Store Builder download is back in your account.
• A store is no longer flagged as down while a domain move spreads.
• New stores show product pictures from the first minute.
• Overflow, contrast, logo size and phone layout problems across all six templates.
• eBay alternatives show only listings of the same kind of product.
• The Product Finder pager follows the merchant's real page count.

Improved

• The Link Importer reads share text and explains failed links.
• Control the space between sections, and above and below each one.
• Changing your password is simpler, with a confirmation email.
• The country menu lists countries by name with a flag beside each.
• New stores on a FreshStore subdomain now use freshstores.co.
• Your store's llms.txt lists more categories and products for AI search.
• Filter Instant Stores by template.
• Automatic homepage bands show in stock products with pictures first.
• Remove a lapsed domain that someone else now owns.

Fixed

• Sitemaps list every product and page.
• Bulk actions no longer time out.
• Product clicks reach the right page.
• The Categories page loads on large stores.
• Homepage picks keep your order.
• eBay results match the visitor's country.
• AI builds keep enough AI Chips to finish.
• A plain message when AI Chips run out.
• Connected shows once a domain works.
• AI catalogues use your Amazon country.
• Instant Store copies are cleaner and faster.
• Per store affiliate IDs stay put.
• Store buttons always work.
• Article videos fit on phones.
• Cart quantities the retailer accepts.
• Header bar text stays centred.
• Restarting a plan keeps your free days.
• Fewer SSL problems when moving domains.
• One main heading per homepage.
• The account link opens this store.
• Savings show only when they are real.
• A clear message for an expired invite.
• Readable text on every colour skin.
• Every hero setting works on every template.

Improved

• Unsaved changes warning.
• Deleted pages leave search engines.
• Choose how images fit in product grids.
• AI Create resumes from a failed step.
• Your account and our website share one look.
• Upload images in the article editor.
• See a build's AI Chip cost first.
• Set how many subcategories show.
• The store admin fits phones.
• A separate hero image for phones.
• Affiliate ID fields catch mistakes.
• Your account works better on phones.
• Celebrations for store milestones.
• Tick off launch steps yourself.
• The not found page keeps your menu.
• A Contents box on longer articles.
• An optional back to top button.
• Filter products by merchant.
• Hide a category from the menu.
• More social links.
• Bigger store cards in your account.
• Undo and Redo in the content editor.
• A hero photo with no text over it.
• Hide any merchant image.
• Pages declare your store's language.
• Download your logo and store icon.
• Announcements inside your account.
• Store search results stay out of Google.
• Store Cleaner explains what it removes.
• Open external links in a new tab.
• Feature a product from its own page.
• Lists gain a Deleted tab.
• An optional affiliate disclosure line.
• Product embeds can link to the retailer.
• Buy links are marked sponsored.
• Better featured products for new stores.
• A footer logo on every template.
• Default store icons for each template.
• Published changes show sooner.
• Signed in straight after checkout.

• Why Amazon Prices Change on Affiliate Stores
• How to create an API key for your store
• Does FreshStore have an API for building your own tools?
• How do I get the link to my newsletter signup page?
• How to change your store niche
• Which Amazon Countries Work in an Affiliate Store

You can now choose your Amazon country in the Connect Amazon walkthrough. Open your Amazon settings page and click Walk me through it, then pick a country on the first step. The signup button opens that country's own Associates site. When you paste your tracking ID, FreshStore checks it ends with the right suffix for that country, such as -21 for the United Kingdom, and saves it to that country. The Amazon settings page also explains that you add a tag for each Amazon country you want to earn from.

Fixed

• Store pages no longer wait on slow currency rates.
• New stores show an installing page, not errors.
• New template options now reach every store.
• WordPress sites no longer serve the wrong cached page.
• You are told when a product import fails.
• Each store serves its own favicon.
• Shared articles show their own image.
• Merchant titles with an ampersand read correctly.
• Titles and descriptions in Google no longer show stray codes.
• AI summaries keep their opening quote mark.
• Rejected SSL certificates are re-issued automatically.
• Stores behind Cloudflare no longer show a disconnected domain.
• Domain extensions stay on sale when a registrar is unavailable.
• Review and fact sheet articles display properly.
• A new account email no longer breaks WordPress login.
• Less spam gets through store contact forms.
• Instant Store builds keep their logo and brand images.
• The Product Importer retries a blocked page instead of guessing.
• Renewals use a saved card that works.
• Product Importer links carry your affiliate tag again.
• AliExpress search buttons use tracked links that earn for you.
• Pages you create can be reached, found and deleted.
• A store's new owner gets their own login.
• Cached pages show each visitor their own prices.
• Switching off a merchant keeps a product's own photos.
• The Review Writer never publishes a blank article.
• Image conversions no longer fail.
• Preset placeholder text never shows on a live store.

Improved

• About page sections have their own switches.
• A reminder to finish your eBay Partner Network approval.
• Stores with Store Live off stay out of search engines.
• The footer can list article titles.
• Every FreshStore email shares one phone friendly look.
• You can turn off domain expiry reminders.
• Logging in to a store from your account is quicker.
• Store stats and billing pages load faster.
• Domain registrations are checked before you pay.
• A warning when your bank refuses your card.
• Hide any page from search engines.
• A warning when your Google property misses a store.
• Sort the articles table by any column.
• The card form handles 3D Secure checks.
• Affiliate payout requests show their status.
• Product Finder searches your store's country first.
• Richer product data for Google.
• New stores start with Amazon and eBay on.
• Instant Stores are ranked by popularity.

You can now earn from Amazon Ireland. Join the Amazon Associates programme for amazon.ie, then add your Irish tracking ID on the Amazon settings page in your account, or on a store's own Amazon settings page. Your links to amazon.ie then carry your Irish ID, so those sales earn you commission.

You can now pick a Preferred Network in your Offer Settings. The merchant you choose leads the offer list on each product, and its image is used when a product needs a fallback picture. Use it to put the network that works best for you first.

A step by step walkthrough now helps you join Amazon Associates and the eBay Partner Network. Once you have your tracking IDs, set them once in your account and every store uses them. A store that needs its own ID can still have one, and it overrides the account setting for that store.

• Why can't I add a store user with an email address I deleted before?
• Can I embed my store products on another website?
• How do I link to my store's sitemap?
• Do you offer phone support?
• What does the Support Tickets number on my account page mean?
• Can I transfer a store or my account to someone else?

Fixed

• Product codes in the Link Importer import from your store's own Amazon country.
• Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey pound prices display correctly.
• Logging in to a store from your account always opens the store admin.
• A store re-created on the same domain starts with clean analytics.
• Product data for Google uses your store's own country and return policy.
• The store admin loads even when analytics are down.
• A category's Add Products search finds products by their visible name.
• Offer prices no longer overlap the buy button on small phones.
• The Brands page loads on large stores.
• Products with only exact match offers now get images.
• Store preview screenshots no longer miss product images.
• Design changes reach visitors straight away.
• Live domains are no longer marked as expired by mistake.
• Product changes show on your store at once.
• Clear Cache in your account clears every store cache.
• A disabled article or product follows its redirect instead of an error.

Improved

• Each store has its own Store API limit.

Etsy buttons in your stores now send visitors straight to the product on Etsy. There is nothing to set up: every store with Etsy products uses the direct link automatically, and your Etsy products, prices and images keep showing as before.

You can now send visitors from countries without a local offer straight to the best matching Amazon product page, instead of an Amazon search page. Switch on Direct Product Link Fallback in your Amazon settings. Visitors land on a real product they can buy rather than a list of results.

You can now import AliExpress products with the Link Importer in your store admin. Paste AliExpress product links, product IDs or the short links the AliExpress app shares, and each one becomes a product in your store with its AliExpress offer. It works alongside the Amazon and eBay links the importer already handled.

New in the FreshStore guides this month:

• How do I download my store images?
• What are the UPC, EAN, ISBN and MPN fields on a product?
• Can I reset my store design or change theme?
• Which Amazon country does my store use?

• Fixed: eBay links in the Link Importer could hit a bot check and fail.
• Fixed: live offer updates stopped refreshing prices. The product CSV export now follows your admin list order.
• Fixed: category pages hid directly assigned products when Subcategory Products was off.
• Fixed: Start blank on the create store form kept the suggested store name.
• Fixed: some subdomain stores could stay offline after setup. They now repair themselves.
• Fixed: Create Image sometimes attached a stock photo instead of a new AI image.
• Fixed: the AI Chips remaining figure could be wrong, with a false low balance warning.
• Fixed: the announcement bar showed as a heading before the page title.
• Fixed: auto refreshed articles got wrong Updated dates. Dates are now correct, shown before Published, and in the sitemap.
• Fixed: bot blocking could catch RSS feeds, sitemaps and robots.txt, leaving feeds empty.
• Fixed: redirects between www and your root domain dropped the page a visitor asked for.

New in the FreshStore guides this month:

• Walmart affiliate dos and don'ts: keep your Walmart affiliate account in good standing
• 30 minutes a week is enough: a weekly routine for running your store, on the blog

The Link Importer now takes many eBay item links or item IDs at once.

Paste a whole list and each item becomes a product in your store, so building out a category of eBay items no longer means adding them one at a time.

• Improved: stores keep serving pages if a background service has a problem, instead of going offline.
• Fixed: visitor stats on busy stores could be incomplete because the background sync timed out.
• Fixed: store login, sign up and password pages had no proper titles or descriptions, and the store name did not fill in on account page titles and llms.txt.
• Fixed: AI image prompts that the safety filter rejected still cost chips. They are now free and retried once with reworded text.
• Fixed: on some stores the per category Subcategory Products switch did not save. It now works on every store.
• Fixed: affiliate tracking links longer than 250 characters were cut short.
• Fixed: small logos looked blurry because they were stretched, and large logos could spill out of the header. Logo uploads now show the recommended size.
• Fixed: store login links stopped working after you changed your account email.
• Fixed: some domains showed the wrong registration or nameserver status.
• Fixed: Clear Cache did not refresh settings and header scripts, and could get stuck on Clearing.

You can now turn any product page link into a product in your store.

Paste up to 20 links at a time into Product Importer, and each one becomes a product with a custom offer, AI written content and up to eight gallery images. Use it for merchants outside your connected networks, or to add a few products fast without searching.

You can now create a custom offer with no price.

Shoppers see a "Click for price" label in place of a price, and you can edit that text to suit your store. Use it for products whose price changes often, or where you would rather send visitors to the merchant to see the current price.

You can now show your own logo on a custom offer in place of the Recommended badge.

Add a logo to the offer and visitors see that brand instead of a general badge. Offer rows on product pages and in the cart also show each merchant's logo now, so visitors can tell at a glance where they are buying from.

You can now connect your own Amazon Associates API access to FreshStore. Once connected, your stores use your own access for Amazon product details. It is optional, and the guide walks you through adding it step by step in your account settings.

Amazon is switching off its old product API on 15 May and replacing it with a new one.

FreshStore is moving every store to the new Amazon API ahead of that date, so your Amazon products, prices and images keep updating as before. There is nothing you need to do. The guide answers common questions about the change.

You can now check any affiliate link with AffiliateLinkTest.com, a free tool from the FreshStore team.

Paste a link and the tool follows every redirect to the final page, then confirms your affiliate tag is still there at the end. Use it when you add a new merchant, or when clicks stop turning into commissions. It is a separate free site, so you can share it with anyone who runs affiliate links.

The guide How do I test my affiliate links? walks through it.

You can now recheck every offer that shows Out of Stock in one go.

The Offer Checker tool asks for fresh availability on all your out of stock offers straight away, instead of waiting for the next routine check. Offers that are back in stock return to your store as soon as the check finds them. Use it when a lot of offers show Out of Stock at once.

• Improved: visitors now see a short confirmation message when they add a product to the cart.
• Fixed: some stores were suspended while their subscription still had paid time left.
• Fixed: category RSS feeds listed the wrong products.
• Fixed: disabled article categories still appeared on the storefront.
• Fixed: longer Amazon tracking IDs were refused in settings.
• Fixed: PNG files would not upload as the store icon or logo.
• Fixed: links shared on social media showed visitors a verification page.
• Fixed: store pages sometimes showed the wrong results for searches and category filters.
• Fixed: storefront popups stopped working.

FreshStore now finds more exact matching offers for each product in your store.

The matching was improved so the same product is recognised in more merchant listings. Visitors get more offers to compare on each product page, and you get more ways to earn from each visit, with nothing to set up.

• How to change your store name
• Does FreshStore work on mobile phones and tablets?
• How to add ClickBank products to your store
• Profit Playbook, rewritten as a step by step series:
  • Thinking long term
  • Improving your brand
  • On page SEO
  • Other income streams
  • The right approach to traffic
  • Your store is never finished
• Video tour of the store dashboard
• How to change the featured products, articles and categories on your homepage
• Affiliate Disclaimer feature guide
• Do I need a business permit or license to run an affiliate store?
• Do my stores have a prewritten Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, etc.?

Each merchant now has its own settings page in your store admin. Go to Settings > Affiliate Settings and pick Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart or AliExpress to set that merchant's tracking details and link options in one place, without scrolling past the others. Amazon also has its own Advanced Settings section.

Product Finder has been rebuilt. Search merchants straight from your store admin, tick the products you want from the results, and import them into one or more categories in one go.

Only the products you select are added, so you stay in control of what appears in your store while still filling categories quickly.