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.

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.

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.

Fixed: some real visitors were being turned away by the store's bot protection, mostly shoppers on mobile and home networks. The rules are now looser for real people, and link previews and feed readers get through too, so your links show a proper preview when shared.

• 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.

Fixed: updating a record through the store API now accepts the same fields as creating one, so a field you could set on create can also be changed later.

• Fixed: Content Checker flagged products as missing content just because the meta keywords field was empty.
• Fixed: breadcrumb and organisation data for search engines used the wrong URLs, product data could go stale on cached pages, and the cart page showed up in search results. All three are now correct.

• 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.

• Fixed: domain search offered some extensions whose price could not be found, which led to failed checkouts. Those extensions are now hidden.
• Fixed: new stores showed a blank card in your account instead of a preview image of the store.
• Fixed: some Instant Stores did not finish installing, and stores built from an older template missed later updates. Both now install fully.
• Fixed: some category pages showed the same product twice. The sitemap settings and category tree in the store API work again too.

• 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.

• Improved: you can now delete subcategories straight from their parent category.
• Improved: if a store fails its regular loading check, an automatic repair now starts straight away.
• Fixed: sorting the product list in your store admin did not work.
• Fixed: storefront breadcrumbs sometimes showed the wrong titles.
• Fixed: language and locale settings did not save.
• Fixed: duplicate user accounts were sometimes created in stores.
• Fixed: the store admin showed wrong PageSpeed scores.
• Fixed: saving review settings showed validation errors.
• Fixed: a redirect got in the way of Google Search Console verification.
• Fixed: a notification about content delivery appeared in the store admin in error.

• Improved: new stores that have not finished installing after 20 minutes are now repaired automatically.

• Fixed: stores on FreshStore subdomains did not always come back properly after a suspension was lifted.

• Improved: a store that is still being set up now shows a friendly installing page instead of an error.
• Fixed: store error pages showed another company's branding.
• Fixed: suspended stores sometimes did not show the store suspended page.
• Fixed: domains with correctly set nameservers were sometimes shown as not registered.

• Improved: subscription names on your account summary now link straight to the page for managing that subscription.

• Fixed: brand pages and brand aliases did not work as expected.
• Fixed: AI content was sometimes regenerated when it should not have been.
• Fixed: updated images did not always show straight away.
• Fixed: product imports sometimes failed.
• Fixed: editing articles failed on stores with lots of content.
• Fixed: problems on the store search page.
• Fixed: duplicate products appeared in Special Offers.

• Fixed: custom content around the deals box did not display correctly.
• Fixed: the homepage hero button linked to the wrong place.
• Fixed: IndexNow did not run on newly created stores.
• Fixed: stray images appeared in the store template.

• 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.

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

• Fixed: the store admin did not display properly on phones.
• Fixed: page slugs were not always created correctly.

• 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: changing your password asks for your current password, and for the new one twice.

• Improved: the website and your account area show friendly pages for common errors.

• Improved: the store wizard explains what a subdomain is and when you need one.

• Improved: if you already have an account, checkout asks you to log in instead of creating a second account.

• 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.

• 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.

• Fixed: some members could not log in to the store admin.
• Improved: the store contact form blocks more spam.
• Fixed: bulk actions in the store admin did not work.
• Fixed: moving a store to another domain did not work.
• Fixed: the login link in contact message emails did not work.
• Fixed: the hero button on mobile and the footer layout looked wrong.
• Improved: emails from your store show your store name as the sender.
• Improved: our uptime checks no longer count as visits in your traffic reports.
• Fixed: buying AI Chips without a saved card, or with a failing card, gave no clear message. It now asks you to update your payment method in the billing portal.

• 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.