New features, improvements, fixes and guides, newest first. Every entry has its own page and date.
Domains you register through FreshStore can no longer be deleted from your account by mistake. If you try, a message explains why the domain is protected, so you never lose a domain you own.
Store images are now converted into optimised sizes automatically, so pages load faster and use less data on phones. A new tool lets you see and manage every image in your store.
New stores now always load over a secure HTTPS connection and are delivered faster to visitors around the world. Images, styles and scripts stay cached in visitors' browsers for a year, so repeat visits load quicker.
When you create a store, the subdomain is now optional and defaults to your store name, so there is one less thing to choose. The form also explains the free vanity domains you can use while you decide on a custom domain.
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.
AliExpress support has been rebuilt. Your AliExpress affiliate links are more reliable, and product details such as titles, prices and images come through more accurately.
Your store now warns you more clearly when your Amazon affiliate tag is missing or wrong, so you can fix it before you lose commission on clicks.
Store analytics now load faster and show more. Stats are stored as daily summaries, so pages open quickly even on busy stores, and you get more detail about your visitors and a longer history to compare against.
Stores are quicker to load. They now cache their key files, need fewer lookups to build each page, and turn away more junk traffic from bots and spam before it slows your store down.
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.
The AI Chips page in your account now labels each pack with its expiry date, or No Expiry, so you know which chips to use first.
Every store's monthly AI Chips allowance has doubled. You get twice as many chips each month for writing products, brands and articles, generating images and running the other AI tools, with nothing to change on your side. The extra chips arrive with your next monthly top up.
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.
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.
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.
New Instant Stores now generate their own unique articles instead of sharing the same ones, and they start with better products, offers and eBay auctions. Each new store begins with content that belongs to it alone.
The Amazon Link Importer now accepts both short and long Amazon link formats. Paste links as you copy them, including short share links, and the importer turns each one into a product.
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.
You can now add every social link and profile for your store in the Traffic section, so your store links out to all the places you post and your profiles are managed in one place.
A set of smaller improvements went out to every store:
Busy stores and the store admin now run quicker after a round of speed work behind the scenes. Offer buttons now load once when a page opens, and the activity log tidies itself so it no longer slows your store down over time.
Each domain page in your account now shows the nameservers currently set on the domain. If something does not look right, the page points you to Refresh DNS, which checks your nameservers or CNAME again so you can confirm a change has taken effect.
When you buy a domain through FreshStore, it is now registered automatically as soon as checkout finishes and added to your account, ready to connect to a store. Domain searches also now reject restricted words, so you only see names you can register.
The account area header now has a More menu for the pages you use less often, a clear My Account button, and a better menu on mobile, so it is easier to find your way around your account.
Guide links in your store admin now open in a sidebar, so you can read the help while you work instead of switching tabs. The Offer Settings page also shows its guides in place, right next to the settings they explain.
New Instant Stores are now set up with more unique articles and content, so each store starts out more different from others built on the same niche and is ready to go sooner.
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.
When you edit a product, brand, category, article or page, your store now clears its cache for you automatically. Your changes show to visitors straight away, with no need to clear the cache by hand.
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.
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.
