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Changelog

What's new in FreshStore

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

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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.

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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.

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Improved Products Merchants

Offer prices update instantly when needed

Offer prices now update instantly when they need to, rather than waiting for the next routine check, and offer imports keep retrying for longer, so fewer products end up without an offer.

Fixed Account Products Stores

Improvements and fixes, July 2024

  • Fixed: suspended stores did not always show their notice page, or come back cleanly once restored.
  • Fixed: logging in to the store admin by email failed.
  • Fixed: the All Products list did not page through correctly.
  • Fixed: visitors could not create an account on a store.
  • Fixed: searching the redirects list found nothing.
  • Fixed: plan status, trial dates and amounts charged in your account area did not always match your billing.
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 Products

Choose whether AI rewrites product titles

You can now decide whether AI writes your product titles. A new product setting controls whether titles are rewritten automatically when products are imported. Leave it on for short, readable titles, or turn it off to keep each product's original title from the merchant.

Improved Products

Product CSV import takes more fields

The product CSV import now accepts more fields, so you can bring in more detailed product information in one go instead of adding it by hand after the import.

Improved Products

Delete products and offers where you see them

You can now delete products straight from the edit category and edit brand pages, and delete offers from the edit product page. No more going back to the main lists to tidy up.

Improved Products

Better offer buttons on mobile

Offer buttons on phones now use smaller icons and can have their own text, separate from the desktop button text. Short labels fit better on small screens, so mobile visitors see a clean, clear button.

Improved Stores Products

A round of smaller store improvements

A set of smaller improvements went out to every store:

  • eBay products that go out of stock are handled better.
  • Page elements carry HTML IDs, so custom CSS is easier to target.
  • New merchant logos on offers.
  • A faster currency selector.
  • Richer price markup for search results.
  • RSS feeds update instantly.
  • Breadcrumbs on the edit product page.
New Stores Products

Export your store data to spreadsheets

You can now download your store's data as spreadsheets. The new Exporter page exports your categories, products, articles, brands and users, so you can keep a backup, review your content in a spreadsheet or prepare bulk edits. Each export downloads straight to your computer.

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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.
New Products

Change the text on your offer buttons

You can now rewrite the call to action text on your product offers, so the buttons say what suits your store, such as Check Price or See Deal. The offer buttons also have a new design built to get more clicks.

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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.

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New Products

AI writes your brand pages

You can now fill your brand pages with AI written content. When you edit a brand, the AI writes content for it that fits your store's niche and tone, so brand pages become useful pages for visitors and search engines instead of plain product lists. You can edit the text afterwards or ask the AI to write it again.

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New Products Merchants

Paste Amazon links to add products

You can now add products by pasting Amazon links. The new Link Importer takes a list of Amazon product links and creates a product for each one, so you can stock a category with products you have already picked without searching for them one by one.

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New Products Merchants

Add your own offers to any product

You can now add your own offers to any product. A Custom Offer has your own price, details and link, so you can promote a merchant we do not import from, another affiliate program, or your own products, right beside the regular offers. It was one of the most requested features on the roadmap.

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Fixed Merchants Products Stores

Improvements and fixes, January 2024

  • Fixed: some members could not log in to their store admin.
  • Fixed: importing products from AliExpress failed.
  • Fixed: Walmart product images did not show.
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.

Improved Products Merchants

Product prices and eBay auctions update live

Offers, prices and related eBay auctions on your product pages now update live. Visitors see current prices and auctions that are still running, so the buttons they click lead to what they expect.

Improved Products Merchants

Cleaner product pages with one offer per merchant

Product pages now show one offer per merchant. Instead of a long list with several offers from the same shop, visitors see each merchant once, which makes it easier to compare prices and pick where to buy.

New Products

Show or hide subcategory products per category

You can now choose, for each category, whether it also lists the products from its subcategories. Turn it on for a broad parent category that should show everything beneath it, or off when you want the parent page to show only its own products. You find the setting when you edit a category.

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Improved Merchants Products

Offer prices stay fresh more reliably

Offers are now checked on a smarter schedule, so the prices and availability in your stores go stale less often. Visitors are more likely to see the same price when they click through to the merchant, which builds trust and helps sales.

Improved Products

AI writes product meta in one go

AI can now write a product's meta title and meta description together, in one step. Both are written to match each other and the product, which saves a click and gives search engines a clean, consistent summary of every product page.

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 Products

Choose whether AI writes new products

You can now decide whether AI content is created automatically when a product is added to your store. Leave it on to have every new product written for you, or turn it off if you prefer to write product content yourself or add it later.

New Products Merchants

Control reviews, auctions and merchant buttons

You can now choose how product reviews and related eBay auctions appear on your product pages. You can also pick which merchant search buttons show when a product has no offers, so visitors still have a useful way to find the item.

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.

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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.

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