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Changelog
We're always creating better. Stay updated on the newest features and fixes here.
Changelog
We're always creating better. Stay updated on the newest features and fixes here.
New features for September
You may have noticed a few improvements to our MicroStore product pages lately. These have been designed to streamline user experience and make checking out more intuitive for you and your customers. This month, we're spotlighting the most notable features and enhancements.
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Updating the PO instructions: Add instructions under a manual payment option improvement
To allow greater flexibility for your customers, this new feature allows you to display multiple payment instructions on every purchase order.
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Limit product quantity improvement
We've already introduced functionality that enables you to set minimum and maximum product limits. Now, you can define minimum or maximum order quantities and offer a reduced price for larger orders.
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Min and max product quantities at a catalog level new feature
With the functionality introduced in our redesigned product pages, we've enhanced the capability to set up the quantity limit for products within the master catalog of the account.
This setting can be inherited by the MicroStore product. However, you can override the limit quantity set at the MicroStore product level.
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Auto-sync of catalog-level product options improvement
We've introduced an automatic sync for catalog-level product options. In this demo, we showcased a product with hue, size, and color options. The given size and color values were displayed for a sales channel product directly originating from the catalog.
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Order status and changes new feature
This feature significantly modifies the present order process. We have transitioned from the existing fields:
- Payment Status
- Shipping Status
to the newly introduced:
- Order Status
- Order Stage
- Payment Status
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Base and additional item rate new feature
In the dashboard > shipping settings, you can now set a base shipping fee and an additional item fee.
Here's how it works:- Only the base shipping fee is charged if there's just one item in the cart.
- If there are more items, the base fee is charged for the first one, and an additional charge is added for each extra item.
The same setup is available in the MicroStore Shipping settings.
So:- For one item, only the base fee is charged.
- For more items, a base fee is applied to the first, and an additional fee is applied to every other item.
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Percentage-based shipping feesnew feature
In the dashboard's shipping settings, you can now set a shipping fee based on a percentage of the cart's total price. The same can be done in the MicroStore's shipping settings.
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Set fees for pick up locationsnew feature
You can now set a fee for each pick-up location. Each location can have its own fee. Once a pick-up location is chosen in the cart, this fee is the shipping fee. How this feature works
- Go to the Microstore and look for "Delivery and Pick Up Settings".
- Choose either "Pick Up" or "Allow Both."
- In the address book, you can either add a new address or change an existing one by clicking 'edit.'
- When the pop-up shows, decide on the shipping rate.
- This rate becomes the shipping fee for your customer.
New features for June
We hope the articles we've linked to make it effortless to configure and use this feature, but if you’ve got any suggestions for improvements, let us know in the comments below each article.
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Automatic opening and closing MicroStore cycles new feature
To make managing your store even easier, we’ve created a feature to automatically open and close your MicroStore. Simply set the times, start and end dates in the backend, and your store will automatically open and close accordingly.
You can also easily schedule multiple cycles for your store, ensuring effortless deployment in the future.
You can find these settings in Dashboard > Microstore > Availability tab.
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Bulk order update - shipping improvement
This update allows multiple orders to be selected at once, as well as payment and shipment status information in bulk.
- We’ve introduced an improved UI with color-coded statuses.
- The newly implemented action bar allows you to select and update the payment status, shipment status or export a document for the order.
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Using purchase orders as a payment method improvement
We’ve made several improvements to make purchase orders as a payment even easier.
Custom Titles
- You can now give your payment method a custom title, which will display to customers at checkout. This will enable you to distinguish between different PO options you may have for customers much faster.
Payment options
- You can add as many PO/manual payment options to your dashboard and choose which options are available in a MicroStore. You can also assign specific PO options to a MicroStore.
On the MicroStore Payments tab, select ‘Assign specific Payment Methods to this MicroStore.’ In the section below, ‘Payment Methods Available in this MicroStore’, add your desired payment methods via the dropdown menu.
Enabling more than one PO method in a MicroStore
You can enable multiple manual payment options at checkout to allow customers to select between them. This may be especially useful for customers with multiple PO types.
Collect PO numbers from customers during checkout:
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Customers will be prompted to input the PO number during checkout if a purchase order is selected as a payment method.
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This PO number will be stored as part of their order details and listed in any reports generated.
- You can now give your payment method a custom title, which will display to customers at checkout. This will enable you to distinguish between different PO options you may have for customers much faster.
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Configuring non-transactional payment methods in purchase order storesnew feature
You can now customize a non-transactional payment method in your purchase order stores, e.g., via payroll.
New features for May
This month, our new store credit feature is set to make payments so much easier. We hope the article we've linked to makes it effortless to configure and use store credits, but if you’ve got any suggestions for improvements, let us know in the comments below each article.
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Quote order stores new feature 🔥
This feature is incredibly useful for sales reps who want to send stores to customers, generate leads, and drive sales. You’ll need to set up the MicroStore as a quote store to use this feature. This allows your customers to place orders without making payments. A quote will be generated, which you can then pass on to your customer instead.
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Making personalization a required field improvement
You can now set personalizations as required fields on product pages or a MicroStore level. One of the benefits is that you can collect customer personalization field data at the point of transaction.
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How to set up password protection on a storefront homepagenew feature
You can now set up password-protected MicroStore storefront homepages. This allows an enhanced layer of security to be applied to your store.
New features for April
This month, we wanted to highlight some feature articles we’ve been busy refreshing! If you’ve got any suggestions on how you can improve them, let us know in the Knowledge Base comments below each article.
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Dynamic shipping ratesnew feature 🔥
Our new dynamic shipping rates feature allows you to use your carriers at your negotiated rate.
Shipping rates will adjust dynamically according to the total product weight in the customer’s cart, the address you’ll be shipping from, and your customer’s specified delivery address, all of which can be found in your account settings.
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Multiple personalization options across products improvement
We’ve improved our personalization feature to give your customers versatility and help streamline orders. You can now set up multiple personalizations for one product across different colorways. This is enabled when your customer selects multiple quantities of the same product.
Want access to this feature? Let your account manager know.
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Microstore countdown timer new feature
Setting up a countdown timer in your MicroStore allows your customers to clearly see that your store is open for a limited time. This can drive sales by incentivizing your customers to shop sooner rather than later.
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Store credit - auto renewal improvement
This update to our store credits feature released last month allows you to set monthly or annual store credit renewal.
The current version of this feature only allows you to renew credits annually or monthly. Credits are only set to renew on the first day of the month or year, depending on your preferred schedule.
Store credits will be refreshed monthly or annually according to the amount you’ve specified in Store Credit Value.
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Account manager roles improvement
Adding Account Manager roles allows user-specific permissions and access to certain features within the dashboard such as the ability to:
- View and manage customer accounts
- View customer order history
- View and manage customer designs
- Create and manage quotes for customers,
- View and manage payment history for customers
- Override base catalog information
In an account manager role, users cannot:
- Access administrative functions such as user management.
- Modify or cancel orders.
- Create designs or access other design features
- Create users
- Access dashboard settings
To set this up:
- Go to your dashboard > settings > user management > invite new user.
- Enter your new user’s details.
- Select ‘account manager’ as the role for your user.
- Once the invite is sent to the user, they’ll be able to access your dashboard as an account manager.
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Sales channel collections (assign and override) new feature
Our new sales channel collections assign and override feature allows you to customize collections for any MicroStore of your choice. This allows you to override the name, descriptions, and images of products contained in every collection to hyper-personalize your store.
Note: This feature enables modifications to be made to your sales channel collection while your base collection remains the same.
Speak to your account manager to enable this feature.
New features for January
This month, we wanted to highlight some feature articles we’ve been busy refreshing! If you’ve got any suggestions on how you can improve them, let us know in the Knowledge Base comments below each article.
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How to update product prices across multiple MicroStores updated article
If you're running multiple MicroStores, you may need to update the prices of one or more products across all of them. With Brikl, this is a straightforward process you can accomplish by updating the prices of your Master products.
When you update the prices of your Master products, the new prices will automatically reflect in your MicroStores. This is a quick and easy way to ensure that all your stores display the correct product pricing.
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How to set up sales tax calculations with TaxJar new feature
With ever-changing tax laws and regulations, it can be difficult to navigate the different rules and rates for each state while calculating and filing timely and accurate sales taxes. Fortunately, Brikl's TaxJar integration can automate the sales tax calculation process and ensure compliance.
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How do I localize languages? updated article
To add a new language to your store, go to Settings > Language and choose the language you want from the dropdown menu. Currently, Brikl supports twelve languages, but if you need to add a language that is not on the list, you can contact Brikl Support for assistance.
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Set up your domainupdated article
A domain is a URL or website address your customers go to find your store online. That's why choosing the right domain name for you is so important.
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How to route traffic from your domain to the Brikl platformupdated article
If you're not familiar with domain configuration, we suggest you contact your domain registrar to change your routing settings. They can make the changes for you and make sure that it does not affect any other records. This will make the process easier and safer.
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Introduction to embellishmentsupdated article
Embellishment is the process of decorating and enhancing products to make them more visually appealing and attractive to customers. This can include adding graphics, logos, patterns, and other designs to a product's surface.
One of the challenges of embellishment is the cost and time associated with applying decorations to each individual product. This can be particularly demanding when dealing with large quantities of products or a wide range of customization options.
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How to deploy a storefrontupdated article
If you've recently created or edited your storefront homepage, content pages, product pages, collection pages, or theme settings, you'll need to deploy your storefront to make these changes live for your customers.
To deploy your storefront, navigate to Sales Channels > Storefronts and select the storefront you want to deploy.
New features for December
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Assignment and Override Improvement: Accounting ID & Internal ID
Overriding the internal ID and Accounting ID allows you to fully control your product. You can update and edit the Product Name, Accounting ID, Internal ID, Custom URL, and Product Description, but these are optional fields.
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UX Improvement: Bulk Embellishment
'Apply Embellishment' to be on top of the screen, as seen in the image below. Users previously assumed that clicking this button applied the selected images to the active placeholder. In reality, the embellishment is applied to all selected product images and all placeholders in the MicroStore. This way, you only have to click the button once while streamlining the embellishment process when a product has more than one placeholder assigned to it.
New features for October
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Order timeline
In an effort to give you as much transparency as possible when it comes to your orders, we’ve been working on this new feature for the last 12 months. You can now view and update order status, view the timestamp of the updates made, and publish the updates to the timeline on the customer's order page.
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Improved coupon search and overall UX/UI
To help you generate and manage coupon codes easier, we’ve implemented a new, user-friendly design. Through our new search filter, you’ll now be able to sort, find, and manage coupon codes quicker.
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User Management
Adding users to your Brikl dashboard will allow other people to access your dashboard. However, you can choose which parts of your dashboard new users will have access to.
You can now have two types of users in your Brikl dashboard: Admin and Sales Representatives (Sales Rep).
The Admin is a user with full access to your dashboard. Contact Brikl support if you wish to add more Admin users to your dashboard.
The Sales Representative is a user with limited access to your dashboard and can be managed by you directly. In short, these are the allowed operations a Sales Rep can perform:
- Add and edit accounts for customers.
- Add and edit contacts and assign them to accounts.
- Assign contacts to MicroStores and create MicroStores under contacts.
Read more about this here and how to set up user roles and access to accounts here.
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Adding customer contacts
Contacts are the people from your customer network that will work closely with your sales representative on publishing new MicroStores.
To create a new contact, go to Contacts > (click "Add Contact"). Then type the new contact name in the modal window and select the account you want to assign the new contact to. Then click "Create Contact."
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Search and filter MicroStores by sales rep
As an admin, you can now see a sales rep's MicroStores by using the filter on the MicroStores listing page. Simply put the sales rep's name in the filter, and you will see the stores they are managing.
Please note:
- This filter will only be seen by admins.
- Other sales reps cannot use this filter as they will only see theirs.
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Adjust multiple placeholders
You can already adjust the placeholder position and dimension assigned to each product image, but previously, you could only do this one by one. This isn’t great if you have multiple product images per product and would like an adjustment to apply to all or most. Our new feature allows you to adjust placeholder positions and/or dimensions and then apply those changes to multiple images at once.
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Updated UI for refunds
When you refund an order, you send the payment back to the customer, either partially issuing a refund or a full one. We’ve updated the UI to make it easier for refunds to be issued.
Simply navigate to order details, and click on "Refund."
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Revised order payment flow
Have you ever wondered what happens after the customer clicks 'Pay Now'? There are two options:
- Payment failure: In case payment failed, the customer can click the “Retry Payment” button to go to the order summary page to try again.
- Payment success: A thank you message will appear at the bottom, and the customer will automatically be redirected to the order summary page.
See screenshots and read the article on our revised order flow here.
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Improve checkout address form
Last month’s release detailed how Brikl now selects the country for a customer's shipping address based on the geolocation of their IP address to help save time.
An improvement to this feature is that if the customer changes the shipping country, they will now see a warning message if the shipping method got changed from updating the shipping country. This means the customer will need to re-confirm the shipping method.
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Edit sort order for MicroStore images
You can upload an image by clicking the upload button or by dragging and dropping one or multiple images in for a product. But you can now also edit the sort order for MicroStore images. To reorder images, click the edit sort order button to set the table in a different mode.
You can change the image order in two ways:
- Changing the order number
- Dragging and dropping images
Once you’re ready, click ‘Save.’
New features for September
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Auto-filling shipping addresses
To offer your customers as seamless a shopping experience as possible, we’ve rolled out an automated address feature. Based on the geolocation of your customer’s IP address, we now auto-fill their shipping details.
- Customers can change the suggested country in the address form by clicking the dropdown button and selecting a different country.
- The shipping method will not change until the customer has saved the new address.
- If a customer is using a VPN or the IP geolocation is incorrect, the customer can change the country manually in the dropdown.
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Product package personalization at cart level
Previously, when product packages were added to the cart, no product details and product options were visible. We’ve rolled out an improvement to ensure that the cart now shows the list of the products under product packages and also allows the customer to change product options in the cart.
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Canceling an order and issuing refunds
It’s not just about conversion; how can you ensure the best experience possible when a customer wants to cancel their purchase? Our new features allow you to refund an order and send partial or full payment back to the customer directly through the platform.
This feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Apple Pay
We’ve added Apple Pay to checkout to help your customers benefit from a streamlined, friction-free checkout process, and secure transactions using a method they're familiar with. This level of confidence can help cart values, consumer trust, and loyalty increase across your site. For Apple Pay to be activated in the Brikl Dashboard, the merchant domain must be verified first. Please contact Brikl Support for more information.
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New Graph QL articles
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that works as an application layer. It is not a storage model or a database query language like SQL. Instead, GraphQL provides a complete description of the data in an API and allows clients to ask for exactly what they need. We’ve published a number of articles designed to guide you and your developers through GraphQL-related topics. Keep checking back for updates, and remember to check our Developer Portal for more documentation.
New features for August
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Personalization of product packages
Brikl merchants can already create options such as adding a player’s name and number. Shoppers can then personalize products by adding a numerical or text value into those fields. Our new feature allows personalization to be applied to product packages.
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Group images by color options
To give Brikl merchants more versatility when it comes to uploading product images or making optimal use of existing ones, you can now map images to present them as a color variant for a product.
On the front end, if a shopper selects a color variant, for example, red, it will trigger the website to display only the product images that the merchants have associated with red in the dashboard configuration.
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Managing product images (improvement)
We’ve improved the way our images are listed in the base catalog while introducing the functionality to set up default images for specific option values.
You’ll now be able to:- Reorder image lists
- Set up default images
- Set up a default image for each option value
Read more
New features for July
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Supplier integrations
One of the most time-consuming tasks when setting up MicroStores is creating and assigning products while checking inventory. With Brikl’s next-generation supplier integration, you’ll be able to:
- Import product and product information directly from your favorite supplier, including product titles, product descriptions, product images, product options, and product prices.
- Use Brikl's advanced search, sort, and filter options to quickly find the products from a supplier.
- Check supplier inventory in real-time before assigning your products to a MicroStore.
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Assign and override
We have introduced an assign and override feature to minimize the possibility of duplicate products appearing in your main shop catalog. This has four possible use cases:
- Override product information
- Change available product options
- Store duplication without duplicating products
- Assigning and overriding an embellishment
Read more about this feature in the articles above.
This feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Payment configuration
Setting up payment methods can be done at two levels:
- Shop level
- MicroStore level
Previously, when payment methods were assigned at a shop and a MicroStore level, the cart automatically applied and displayed all payment methods to both. Our new payment configuration feature enables payment methods assigned at a MicroStore level to override the shop setting.
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Product options, product option values, product variants
To ensure that you have the best user experience possible, we’ve updated our dashboard terminology to align with industry-wide e-Commerce naming conventions.
Product Options
Some products have multiple variations. Consider, for example, a t-shirt available in different colors and sizes.
Product Option Value
Each product option can contain one or more option values, which are the unique variations for that option. For example, sizes can have the option values S, M, L, and XL, and colors can have the option values Red, Green, and Blue.
A variant is a unique combination of option values, which can have its own SKU, accounting ID, inventory, or price associated with it. For example, GENDER Male + COLOR Red + SIZE XL.
Read more
New features for May
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Backend migration
Our backend migration is now complete and delivering the horsepower we need to keep enabling leading-edge features. Here are just some of the benefits you can take expect from the migration:
- Increased speed: Reduced loading times across the platform mean you can access features and areas you need faster.
- Increased stability: Brikl prides itself on providing a stable and reliable experience. Our backend migration will only enhance this further.
- Increased access to new features: Our engineering team is always looking for ways to improve customer experience and ensure scalability.
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Developer portal
Integration between apps is important in ensuring that your business's existing systems play well with Brikl. To give you control of how this works and keep pushing the limits of what we can achieve together, we're excited to announce the launch of our developer portal!
Brikl's Developer Portal is an extension of our mission and values to empower our merchants. Our continuous spirit of collaboration means that we want our technology to be as transparent and intuitive as possible, and importantly, we want to inspire conversation.
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Assigning products to a MicroStore
The last thing you want to do as a busy business owner or employee is search endlessly for products you want to add to your MicroStore. That's why we've made it easy to search, filter, sort, and find what you're looking for quickly.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Search for a MicroStore
When you have hundreds of MicroStores to manage, having a powerful search, filter, and sort feature to find the MicroStore you want will save you a considerable amount of time.
You can:
- Search by MicroStore name
- Search by MicroStore internal name
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Filter MicroStores
You can also narrow down the list of MicroStores by using filters.
Click the 'Filter' button. A drawer will open that allows you to filter by MicroStore status: Close, Open, Schedule, Inactive. You can select more than one status to filter.
If the “inactive” status is selected as a filter, the search result will show MicroStores that have no cycle set.
To apply the filter, Click “Apply”
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Sort MicroStores
Aside from searching and filtering, you can also sort by by internal name, title, and last edited date
Read more
New features for March
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New and improved checkout and cart flow
Making it easy for your customers to convert is essential to ensuring a great customer experience and generating as many sales as possible. That’s why we’ve made a number of conversion-boosting improvements to our cart and checkout flow:
- Information across the UI has now been broken down into bite sized
- pieces of information and system feedback to improve navigation and troubleshooting.
- Brikl’s mobile experience at checkout has been improved for optimal performance across devices. Your customers will now find it fully responsive across tablet and mobile.
- A sticky button "checkout" button ensures that your customers always see an option to purchase.
- Information across the UI has now been broken down into bite sized
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How to set up discounts and promotions
A noteworthy new feature for our US merchants is the addition of a promotion application feature that allows you to select whether you want to apply for a promotion before or after tax. This ensures that any discount that is applied does not affect the tax rates you've set up.
Go to discounts > promotions > behavior to set this up.
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How to add variants
We've made some refinements to the user interface to enhance your experience, create time savings, and allow you to charge for variants:
- A new drawer UI has been added to create and manage variant settings
- You can now add an upcharge to a variant
- You can now sort variant options by dragging and dropping them
- Our variant listing page features new columns
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Setting open and close dates for a team store, club shop or MicroStore
To make it easier to create and manage cycles, you may notice that cycles have shifted from inactive to active by default. This feature also now includes morevalidations to guide users on managing cycles.
For example, if you set the opening time in the future:
- A prompt will now say "Save and Schedule".
- If opening times are set to the past, the prompt will say "Save and Close.
- Deactivating a cycle will provide an alert.
More examples are available in the Knowledge Base article under "Create your first cycle."
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Creating a product
You may notice some UI changes reflected in the dashboard due to the new backend. All changes have been updated in our most recent Knowledge Base article. Here's a summary of the most notable changes:
Product information
- An internal ID is now optional.
- We've merged the "product active" toggle with the "product scheduling" checkbox to create a new status dropdown selection:
- You can now change the status to active, inactive, or scheduled.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active, an "Active" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active, an "Active" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active orscheduled, an "Inactive" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active or scheduled, an "Inactive" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you set the status to scheduled, you can select the start/end date.
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Store hierarchy
MicroStores are no longer assigned a storefront as default anymore; this now needs to be manually assigned by you.
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Setting up a MicroStore
Drawing on some of the changes above, you may also notice a change to how you set up a MicroStore: You can now add an internal name to your MicroStore for ease of management and reporting.
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Adding fundraising and fees
You can now choose whether fundraising or fees should be set at cart or item level to ensure greater flexibility. But please be aware the most common use case is to charge fundraising on a cart item level and fees on a cart level.
- How to add variants is going to the wrong page
- Creating a product is going to the wrong page
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High-Quality Render Mode - New UI
The backend migration has created a few UI changes for our High-Quality Render Mode. Now, the option to render in high-quality appears when a GLB file is uploaded.
You can adjust details and export, which allows you to:
- Set image quality and lighting
- Set a background
You also have the option to save the image as a PNG file on your computer.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
New features for January
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Fixed light setting
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A fixed light setting in the studio is where just one preset applies to all products in the store. This isn't always ideal, especially if products look unnaturally lit i.e. one product may be too bright while another can appear as if it's in shadow.Brikl has a preset for lighting that can act as a default. You can also customize the light settings to ensure that your products are always seen in the best light possible.
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High-Quality Render Mode
To ensure you benefit from more realistic images for enhanced visualization, try using our High Quality Render Mode feature. This ensures greater visibility of product features, such as stitching detail, while allowing you to capture and download the 3D model.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
New features for November
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The Design Room and Studio Editor 👉🏾 Design Studio 🔥 Hot new feature
To improve studio performance and reduce confusion around the difference between the Design Studio and Studio Editor in the Dashboard, we've decided to consolidate the two.
We're excited to introduce you to our all-in-one Design Studio, where you can expect to see your studio settings, share, and export functionality in one place.
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Download invoices in bulk
Instead of having to manually download individual invoices, this new feature allows you to download order invoices, created under one cycle, from the order page in bulk. The download file will be a zipped file (to reduce the file size). Simply click into the zip folder to view individual PDF invoices.
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Expose branding
You can now assign a brand to products. This feature makes it a lot easier for promotional businesses to manage their products effectively, for example, when syncing ERPs and creating reports.
Simply go to Catalog, then Products, then Product Brand to use this feature.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Unassign color palette
Prior to this feature improvement, there was no way to remove an assigned palette aside from going one step back, closing the modal and deleting the color palette from the list. This was longer than necessary, which is why we've now made it possible to remove an assigned color palette with one click.
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Setting admin portal permissions
You may want more than one team representative to access the team's admin portal. To restrict access to specific users, assign team store admin portal permissions.
Setting up admin access can be done in one of two ways:
- Through merchants who want to grant someone admin access to the admin portal.
- Through admins of the admin portal who want to grant someone else admin access.
New features for October
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Light setting 🔥Hot new featureRead more
A fixed light setting in the studio is where just one preset applies to all products in the store. This isn't always ideal, especially if products look unnaturally lit i.e. one product may be too bright while another can appear as if it's in shadow.
Brikl has a preset for lighting that can act as a default. However, we've just rolled out customization to ensure that your products are always seen in the best light possible:
New features for September
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Admin portal 🔥Hot new feature
Whether you're a coach, a CEO or a sales representatives, you'll now be able to see how well your group store is converting when your store is open and active. Keep track of how many orders have been created, how much you have sold, raised, and what products you have sold, at-a-glance.
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Real-time deployment
From today, group store changes can be made and viewed in real-time. This means that all group store pages, such as homepages, product and collection pages, will show the most recent data at all times - deployment is no longer required.
Non-group store collection pages and content pages will still require deployment for updates to be publicly visible.
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Set store open and close cycles
Imagine being able to set up a store in literal seconds without having to duplicate an existing store. This can now be a daily reality by using the cycles settings accessed from the availability tab in your team store dashboard menu.
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Fee setting
You can now set fees for within your team or group stores. These are then automatically applied to all customer transactions. The advantage of this is that setting a fee gives you the opportunity to pass on charges you may incur on your side to customers.
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Duplication
To save you even more time when it comes to duplicating a store, you can now clone more than just products and collections. You can now duplicate content modules, discounts, fundraising, fees, and even group store level personalization.
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Coupon usage
Our new coupon usage feature has been created to help you track how many times an active coupon code has been applied at checkout.
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Downloading order invoices
To make it even easier to keep track of your accounting and reporting, you can now download order invoices from the dashboard.
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Replace 3D image viewer with GIF
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Color picker
There's now a new way to pick a color and apply it across your storefront. Our new color picker feature allows you to drag and pick shades from a color palette, allowing you to find the perfect shade to fit your content or object.
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New features for August
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New team store dashboard structure
Log into your dashboard and you'll notice it looking better than ever! In an effort to streamline your user experience across the platform, we've consolidated dashboard features to:
- Better address your needs.
- Direct you to the features and functions you're looking for faster.
- Create a cleaner and more compact look that doesn't require side scrolling.
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Email configuration
Now you can funnel and define which contact email you want to use for different purposes. And just like payment configuration, setting your contact email works at a shop level but can be overridden at team store level.
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Payment configuration
The new and improved payment configuration you see here is shown on a shop level - but remember to configure them in your Stripe account first. You then need to enable them in your settings.
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Reset button for color fillRead more
Color fill is a predefined area in the design studio where color can be applied by selecting from a palette.
It's now easier than ever to reset colors. Simply select the color from the palette to fill the color zone you specify and click again to reset it.
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Image quality setting
Brikl supports the uploading of PNG, JPG, SVG, AI or PDF formats with a maximum file size of up to 20MB. Once an image has been uploaded, it can be added to the 3D model.
Setting a higher image quality setting also means that image performance and loading speed times may decrease due to the 3D image's increased file size and loss of compression.
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Terms of Service acknowledgement
Just in case you missed it, we have just released a Terms of Service acknowledgement to the Brikl platform.
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Font library
The Brikl platform now features the option to disable default fonts in the studio. You can now choose to only use fonts you have uploaded, allowing an enhanced level of personalization across the platform.
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New features for July
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Bulk paste orders 🔥 hot new feature
Brikl's merchants, coaches, and team representatives often spend extensive amounts of time going back and forth on email to gather together orders on Excel spreadsheets - up to 4 hours a day in some cases.
Merchants now have the ability to paste orders in bulk, saving them up to 80 hours a month.
Find out the benefits of this feature and how to use it here.
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Customizable shipping 🔥 hot new feature
You will now be able to add shipping methods and set shipping rates at a shop and sales channel level. This allows your customers and you as a merchant complete flexibility and a more tailored experience at checkout.
Creating a shipping zone allows you to add and edit shipping methods with descriptions to clarify each, e.g., 2-3 day working day delivery times, carbon-neutral transport, and shipping to EU countries.
💡Top tip: This feature can be defined on a shop level and overwritten on a team store level, as shipping methods can be different for team stores, e.g., free in-store collection or from a consolidation point.
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Addition of Apple Pay to checkout 🔥 hot new feature
With an iPhone user increase of about 23% in 2020 alongside the growth in Apple Pay mobile payments, Brikl has now added Apple Pay payments to checkout.
This allows your customers to benefit from a streamlined, friction-free checkout process and secure transactions using a method they're familiar with. This level of confidence can help cart values, consumer trust, and loyalty increase across your site.
Read moreAdd more information to print files.
The quality of your products heavily relies on your print files. This is why ensuring that information is clearly laid out in your print files and designs is so crucial.
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- HEX
- Pantone
- Internal code
- Internal name
- Code
- CMYK
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Tax by state 🔥 hot new feature
You can now set tax rates on a state level for the US and Canada. Go to the dashboard settings, head to 'Tax' then 'Tax rates for specific countries and states.' Choose your country and state, then add. Tax rates can be defined below.
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Adjust image and text opacity
Merchants can now adjust image and text opacity in the Design Room and Design Studio for a greater degree of personalization.
- Slider bars can adjust the opacity of text and images from 10%-100%.
- This feature works with any image or text as long as neither is deemed as default.
- This feature is not a legally permissible watermark.
Head to the design studio now to try this feature yourself.
Custom image on stock items hot new feature
This feature, specially engineered for company sales representatives, allows customer logos to be added onto a flat product image when setting up a team store.
Customers will then be able to view and buy the product in the storefront.
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Edit customer orders
You can now edit customer orders when:
- A variant or multiple variants need to be updated, for example, sizes. You will be alerted if the variant you supply has a different value from the original one.
- A shipping address needs to be updated before the orders have been shipped. You will be alerted if the shippingstatus is already "Shipped."
Read moreWhen adding a new discount or coupon, you now have the option to exclude specific packages while including them on others. This allows you as a merchant more flexibility to set discount codes against selected product lines and collections.
Read more about Brikl's discounts and promotion features here.
New features for June
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Export by size 🔥Hot new feature
This feature allows you to upload design templates for product sizes and export their print files.
To upload design templates:
- Prepare individual design template files for each size and navigate to the studio editor.
- Select the upload button in the Studio Settings, then go to upload design templates. Designers can upload their design templates by size (S, M, L, XL).
To export print files:
- Navigate to the Design Room.
- Select the export button, then select the size you'd like to export (the ability to download your size depends on the uploaded templates).
- Export your print file - the final product will be downloaded to your computer in your selected size.
🔧Update: Now, when you duplicate a team store and select which products you want copied over with it, selected products will be active as default. This saves you time on having to set the product status individually.
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Set transparency of text and images 🔥Hot new feature
We've just released a new feature to Brikl's platform that allows you to adjust the opacity of images and text.
To use this feature:
- Navigate to the design studio.
- Select an image to upload or enter your desired text into the text box.
- Place this image or text onto the product.
- Go to 'Edit' and adjust the opacity slider from 10% to 100%.
- The image transparency will adjust to the selected range.
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Edit customer orders 🔥Hot new feature
As a merchant, you'll now be able to edit customer orders in the dashboard before the order is shipped and add internal notes for your reference.
You can make following edits when:
- A variant or multiple variants need to be updated.
- A shipping address needs to be updated.
Before an order is shipped, select the requested variant on the product, or change the shipping address in the order detail page to change them.
Create a note to reference a change in the 'internal notes' section. Only the creator of the note can delete it.
💡Top tip: When you try to change the variant on the product or change the shipping address, there will be a message warning that this order can't be updated as it has been shipped.
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VAT (Tax) overrides 🔥Hot new feature
To extend our new VAT for specific collections feature further, you now have the option to set a VAT rate for your products and collections of your choice which will be visible to customers at checkout.This will be particularly useful for kids' products that require 0% VAT rate and multiple products with different VAT rates.
New features for May
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My designs 🔥Hot new feature
Clicking near the settings button to the right of the design studio will give you access to 'My Designs'.
This area allows customers and designers:
- to come back to the latest iteration of their design without the hassle of having to start again, thanks to an autosave functionality.
- select a saved design to load into the studio, giving people the ability to work on multiple designs at once.
- streamline the process of sharing designs, increasing collaboration, engagement, and lead generation.
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Content builder 🔥Hot new feature
A long-awaited feature! We've improved the UI of our content builder. Content pages are created by specifying requirements before pages can be built. However, user testing was proving that this part of the process was unclear. Now, the first time you create a content page, you'll automatically be directed to the settings page to set up SEO details, assign a page to a sales channel and define your custom URL.
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Sales channel price 🔥Hot new feature
B2B retailers need to differentiate between the base price (wholesale price) inside product pages and sales prices (Manufacturing Recommended Selling Price (MRSP)) inside the sales channel. Our new sales channel price feature allows you to set a sales price at the product or team store level and override the base price.
💡Top tip: For team stores, this feature can be used in a different way. The base price can be the price you’re charging the team, while the sales price can be the base pricing plus the fundraising fee to allow you to set fundraising fees on a product level.
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Additional information at checkout 🔥Hot new feature
You can now create or overwrite the content below the checkout page. Click on 'all content types to checkout' to access this feature.
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Email quote notification 🔥Hot new feature
Whenever a customer goes inside a merchant's design studio hosted on their website, they will be able to create a design and receive an email quotation for what they've created, streamlining the conversion process. Merchants will receive notifications requested for quotes.
Role-based access controls 🔥Hot new feature
Multiple users require different layers of permissions. This new feature allows access to certain controls and not others. As part of phase I of the rollout of this feature, you can now request Brikl to restrict permissions to orders, leads and quotes for certain users. Over the next few months, more role-based settings will be created to give merchants admin access to everything inside the dashboard, while staff can access certain parts of the dashboard as defined by the merchant.
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Duplication prevention
Before this feature, merchants were flagging that personalization at the team store and product level could result in customers accidentally adding the same number to cart multiple times. Thanks to our new duplication prevention feature, this will be flagged, minimizing returns and customer service emails, messages, and interactions.
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Content builder updates
We've made some UX improvements to our team stores. If you're editing a team store within the content builder, opening a preview leads you to that page, minimizing the number of clicks it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be.
Other features
- Added team store headline to Team Store tab
- US and Canadian addresses have a state dropdown instead of free text input to ensure a 2-character state format for TaxJar
- Localized VAT ID to Tax ID
- Added reversible designs, allowing garments to be designed inside and outside.
New features for April
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Font configurator 🔥 Hot new feature
To keep your brand as consistent and eye-catching as possible, you can now upload as many fonts as you like inside the font configurator. Those fonts can be applied both in the studio and the storefront itself.
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Preview, publish and share
We've made it easier to see your team store URL and effortlessly share the link with customers and clients. This was quite a manual process previously: you'd have to put your domain name in slash, your team store, name or slot, and your language of choice.
Now, you can click on the 'share' link and send it to whoever you like.
Heads up…
The 'copy store' function is now 'duplicate store'. The preview function has also moved into the 'publish' button.
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SEO language box
You spoke; we listened. This feature was requested by some of our merchants who wanted the ability to edit and optimize their pages for search.
We've integrated SEO details within every content builder to make it easier for you to optimize content pages and control how you appear in Google – just head to 'settings'.
Read moreUpcharge at the product level
Price is a major factor in a customer's purchase decision, which is why it's essential to make them aware of additional payments they'll have to make at checkout.
We've made upcharges more visible at checkout for enhanced transparence
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New features for September
You may have noticed a few improvements to our MicroStore product pages lately. These have been designed to streamline user experience and make checking out more intuitive for you and your customers. This month, we're spotlighting the most notable features and enhancements.
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Updating the PO instructions: Add instructions under a manual payment option improvement
To allow greater flexibility for your customers, this new feature allows you to display multiple payment instructions on every purchase order.
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Limit product quantity improvement
We've already introduced functionality that enables you to set minimum and maximum product limits. Now, you can define minimum or maximum order quantities and offer a reduced price for larger orders.
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Min and max product quantities at a catalog level new feature
With the functionality introduced in our redesigned product pages, we've enhanced the capability to set up the quantity limit for products within the master catalog of the account.
This setting can be inherited by the MicroStore product. However, you can override the limit quantity set at the MicroStore product level.
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Auto-sync of catalog-level product options improvement
We've introduced an automatic sync for catalog-level product options. In this demo, we showcased a product with hue, size, and color options. The given size and color values were displayed for a sales channel product directly originating from the catalog.
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Order status and changes new feature
This feature significantly modifies the present order process. We have transitioned from the existing fields:
- Payment Status
- Shipping Status
to the newly introduced:
- Order Status
- Order Stage
- Payment Status
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Base and additional item rate new feature
In the dashboard > shipping settings, you can now set a base shipping fee and an additional item fee.
Here's how it works:- Only the base shipping fee is charged if there's just one item in the cart.
- If there are more items, the base fee is charged for the first one, and an additional charge is added for each extra item.
The same setup is available in the MicroStore Shipping settings.
So:- For one item, only the base fee is charged.
- For more items, a base fee is applied to the first, and an additional fee is applied to every other item.
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Percentage-based shipping feesnew feature
In the dashboard's shipping settings, you can now set a shipping fee based on a percentage of the cart's total price. The same can be done in the MicroStore's shipping settings.
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Set fees for pick up locationsnew feature
You can now set a fee for each pick-up location. Each location can have its own fee. Once a pick-up location is chosen in the cart, this fee is the shipping fee. How this feature works
- Go to the Microstore and look for "Delivery and Pick Up Settings".
- Choose either "Pick Up" or "Allow Both."
- In the address book, you can either add a new address or change an existing one by clicking 'edit.'
- When the pop-up shows, decide on the shipping rate.
- This rate becomes the shipping fee for your customer.
New features for June
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Automatic opening and closing MicroStore cycles new feature
To make managing your store even easier, we’ve created a feature to automatically open and close your MicroStore. Simply set the times, start and end dates in the backend, and your store will automatically open and close accordingly.
You can also easily schedule multiple cycles for your store, ensuring effortless deployment in the future.
You can find these settings in Dashboard > Microstore > Availability tab.
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Bulk order update - shipping improvement
This update allows multiple orders to be selected at once, as well as payment and shipment status information in bulk.
- We’ve introduced an improved UI with color-coded statuses.
- The newly implemented action bar allows you to select and update the payment status, shipment status or export a document for the order.
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Using purchase orders as a payment method improvement
We’ve made several improvements to make purchase orders as a payment even easier.
Custom Titles
- You can now give your payment method a custom title, which will display to customers at checkout. This will enable you to distinguish between different PO options you may have for customers much faster.
Payment options
- You can add as many PO/manual payment options to your dashboard and choose which options are available in a MicroStore. You can also assign specific PO options to a MicroStore.
On the MicroStore Payments tab, select ‘Assign specific Payment Methods to this MicroStore.’ In the section below, ‘Payment Methods Available in this MicroStore’, add your desired payment methods via the dropdown menu.
Enabling more than one PO method in a MicroStore
You can enable multiple manual payment options at checkout to allow customers to select between them. This may be especially useful for customers with multiple PO types.
Collect PO numbers from customers during checkout:
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Customers will be prompted to input the PO number during checkout if a purchase order is selected as a payment method.
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This PO number will be stored as part of their order details and listed in any reports generated.
- You can now give your payment method a custom title, which will display to customers at checkout. This will enable you to distinguish between different PO options you may have for customers much faster.
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Configuring non-transactional payment methods in purchase order storesnew feature
You can now customize a non-transactional payment method in your purchase order stores, e.g., via payroll.
New features for May
This month, our quote order store feature is set to make selling easier. We hope the article we've linked to makes it effortless to configure and use this feature, but if you’ve got any suggestions for improvements, let us know in the comments below each article.
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Quote order stores new feature 🔥
This feature is incredibly useful for sales reps who want to send stores to customers, generate leads, and drive sales. You’ll need to set up the MicroStore as a quote store to use this feature. This allows your customers to place orders without making payments. A quote will be generated, which you can then pass on to your customer instead.
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Making personalization a required field improvement
You can now set personalizations as required fields on product pages or a MicroStore level. One of the benefits is that you can collect customer personalization field data at the point of transaction.
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How to set up password protection on a storefront homepagenew feature
You can now set up password-protected MicroStore storefront homepages. This allows an enhanced layer of security to be applied to your store.
New features for April
This month, we wanted to highlight some feature articles we’ve been busy refreshing! If you’ve got any suggestions on how you can improve them, let us know in the Knowledge Base comments below each article.
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Dynamic shipping ratesnew feature 🔥
Our new dynamic shipping rates feature allows you to use your carriers at your negotiated rate.
Shipping rates will adjust dynamically according to the total product weight in the customer’s cart, the address you’ll be shipping from, and your customer’s specified delivery address, all of which can be found in your account settings.
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Multiple personalization options across products improvement
We’ve improved our personalization feature to give your customers versatility and help streamline orders. You can now set up multiple personalizations for one product across different colorways. This is enabled when your customer selects multiple quantities of the same product.
Want access to this feature? Let your account manager know.
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MicroStore countdown timer new feature
Setting up a countdown timer in your MicroStore allows your customers to clearly see that your store is open for a limited time. This can drive sales by incentivizing your customers to shop sooner rather than later.
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Store credit - auto renewal improvement
This update to our store credits feature released last month allows you to set monthly or annual store credit renewal.
The current version of this feature only allows you to renew credits annually or monthly. Credits are only set to renew on the first day of the month or year, depending on your preferred schedule.
Store credits will be refreshed monthly or annually according to the amount you’ve specified in Store Credit Value.
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Account manager roles improvement
Adding Account Manager roles allows user-specific permissions and access to certain features within the dashboard such as the ability to:
- View and manage customer accounts
- View customer order history
- View and manage customer designs
- Create and manage quotes for customers,
- View and manage payment history for customers
- Override base catalog information
In an account manager role, users cannot:
- Access administrative functions such as user management.
- Modify or cancel orders.
- Create designs or access other design features
- Create users
- Access dashboard settings
To set this up:
- Go to your dashboard > settings > user management > invite new user.
- Enter your new user’s details.
- Select ‘account manager’ as the role for your user.
- Once the invite is sent to the user, they’ll be able to access your dashboard as an account manager.
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Sales channel collections (assign and override) new feature
Our new sales channel collections assign and override feature allows you to customize collections for any MicroStore of your choice. This allows you to override the name, descriptions, and images of products contained in every collection to hyper-personalize your store.
Note: This feature enables modifications to be made to your sales channel collection while your base collection remains the same.
Speak to your account manager to enable this feature.
New features for March
This month, our new store credit feature is set to make payments so much easier. We hope the article we've linked to makes it effortless to configure and use store credits, but if you’ve got any suggestions for improvements, let us know in the comments below each article.
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Store credits new feature
You can now issue store credit codes. These allow your customers to make MicroStore purchases and redeem credits as payment. Store credits can be used against the full total of a cart or as part payment. Simply generate the store credit coupon code and send it to your customer as you would a discount code. Store credits can also be combined with other coupons and discount codes.
🎉 Coming soon!
The ability to set store credits on a MicroStore level and auto-renewal on a monthly or yearly cycle. Store credits can also soon be applied to shipping fees and taxes.
New features for January
This month, we wanted to highlight some feature articles we’ve been busy refreshing! If you’ve got any suggestions on how you can improve them, let us know in the Knowledge Base comments below each article.
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How to update product prices across multiple MicroStores updated article
If you're running multiple MicroStores, you may need to update the prices of one or more products across all of them. With Brikl, this is a straightforward process you can accomplish by updating the prices of your Master products.
When you update the prices of your Master products, the new prices will automatically reflect in your MicroStores. This is a quick and easy way to ensure that all your stores display the correct product pricing.
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How to set up sales tax calculations with TaxJar new feature
With ever-changing tax laws and regulations, it can be difficult to navigate the different rules and rates for each state while calculating and filing timely and accurate sales taxes. Fortunately, Brikl's TaxJar integration can automate the sales tax calculation process and ensure compliance.
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How do I localize languages? updated article
To add a new language to your store, go to Settings > Language and choose the language you want from the dropdown menu. Currently, Brikl supports twelve languages, but if you need to add a language that is not on the list, you can contact Brikl Support for assistance.
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Set up your domainupdated article
A domain is a URL or website address your customers go to find your store online. That's why choosing the right domain name for you is so important.
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How to route traffic from your domain to the Brikl platformupdated article
If you're not familiar with domain configuration, we suggest you contact your domain registrar to change your routing settings. They can make the changes for you and make sure that it does not affect any other records. This will make the process easier and safer.
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Introduction to embellishmentsupdated article
Embellishment is the process of decorating and enhancing products to make them more visually appealing and attractive to customers. This can include adding graphics, logos, patterns, and other designs to a product's surface.
One of the challenges of embellishment is the cost and time associated with applying decorations to each individual product. This can be particularly demanding when dealing with large quantities of products or a wide range of customization options.
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How to deploy a storefrontupdated article
If you've recently created or edited your storefront homepage, content pages, product pages, collection pages, or theme settings, you'll need to deploy your storefront to make these changes live for your customers.
To deploy your storefront, navigate to Sales Channels > Storefronts and select the storefront you want to deploy.
New features for December
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Assignment and Override Improvement: Accounting ID & Internal ID
Overriding the internal ID and Accounting ID allows you to fully control your product. You can update and edit the Product Name, Accounting ID, Internal ID, Custom URL, and Product Description, but these are optional fields.
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UX Improvement: Bulk Embellishment
'Apply Embellishment' to be on top of the screen, as seen in the image below. Users previously assumed that clicking this button applied the selected images to the active placeholder. In reality, the embellishment is applied to all selected product images and all placeholders in the MicroStore. This way, you only have to click the button once while streamlining the embellishment process when a product has more than one placeholder assigned to it.
New features for October
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Order timeline
In an effort to give you as much transparency as possible when it comes to your orders, we’ve been working on this new feature for the last 12 months. You can now view and update order status, view the timestamp of the updates made, and publish the updates to the timeline on the customer's order page.
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Improved coupon search and overall UX/UI
To help you generate and manage coupon codes easier, we’ve implemented a new, user-friendly design. Through our new search filter, you’ll now be able to sort, find, and manage coupon codes quicker.
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User Management
Adding users to your Brikl dashboard will allow other people to access your dashboard. However, you can choose which parts of your dashboard new users will have access to.
You can now have two types of users in your Brikl dashboard: Admin and Sales Representatives (Sales Rep).
The Admin is a user with full access to your dashboard. Contact Brikl support if you wish to add more Admin users to your dashboard.
The Sales Representative is a user with limited access to your dashboard and can be managed by you directly. In short, these are the allowed operations a Sales Rep can perform:
- Add and edit accounts for customers.
- Add and edit contacts and assign them to accounts.
- Assign contacts to MicroStores and create MicroStores under contacts.
Read more about this here and how to set up user roles and access to accounts here.
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Adding customer contacts
Contacts are the people from your customer network that will work closely with your sales representative on publishing new MicroStores.
To create a new contact, go to Contacts > (click "Add Contact"). Then type the new contact name in the modal window and select the account you want to assign the new contact to. Then click "Create Contact."
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Search and filter MicroStores by sales rep
As an admin, you can now see a sales rep's MicroStores by using the filter on the MicroStores listing page. Simply put the sales rep's name in the filter, and you will see the stores they are managing.
Please note:
- This filter will only be seen by admins.
- Other sales reps cannot use this filter as they will only see theirs.
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Adjust multiple placeholders
You can already adjust the placeholder position and dimension assigned to each product image, but previously, you could only do this one by one. This isn’t great if you have multiple product images per product and would like an adjustment to apply to all or most. Our new feature allows you to adjust placeholder positions and/or dimensions and then apply those changes to multiple images at once.
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Updated UI for refunds
When you refund an order, you send the payment back to the customer, either partially issuing a refund or a full one. We’ve updated the UI to make it easier for refunds to be issued.
Simply navigate to order details, and click on "Refund."
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Revised order payment flow
Have you ever wondered what happens after the customer clicks 'Pay Now'? There are two options:
- Payment failure: In case payment failed, the customer can click the “Retry Payment” button to go to the order summary page to try again.
- Payment success: A thank you message will appear at the bottom, and the customer will automatically be redirected to the order summary page.
See screenshots and read the article on our revised order flow here.
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Improve checkout address form
Last month’s release detailed how Brikl now selects the country for a customer's shipping address based on the geolocation of their IP address to help save time.
An improvement to this feature is that if the customer changes the shipping country, they will now see a warning message if the shipping method got changed from updating the shipping country. This means the customer will need to re-confirm the shipping method.
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Edit sort order for MicroStore images
You can upload an image by clicking the upload button or by dragging and dropping one or multiple images in for a product. But you can now also edit the sort order for MicroStore images. To reorder images, click the edit sort order button to set the table in a different mode.
You can change the image order in two ways:
- Changing the order number
- Dragging and dropping images
Once you’re ready, click ‘Save.’
New features for September
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Auto-filling shipping addresses
To offer your customers as seamless a shopping experience as possible, we’ve rolled out an automated address feature. Based on the geolocation of your customer’s IP address, we now auto-fill their shipping details.
- Customers can change the suggested country in the address form by clicking the dropdown button and selecting a different country.
- The shipping method will not change until the customer has saved the new address.
- If a customer is using a VPN or the IP geolocation is incorrect, the customer can change the country manually in the dropdown.
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Product package personalization at cart level
Previously, when product packages were added to the cart, no product details and product options were visible. We’ve rolled out an improvement to ensure that the cart now shows the list of the products under product packages and also allows the customer to change product options in the cart.
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Canceling an order and issuing refunds
It’s not just about conversion; how can you ensure the best experience possible when a customer wants to cancel their purchase? Our new features allow you to refund an order and send partial or full payment back to the customer directly through the platform.
This feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Apple Pay
We’ve added Apple Pay to checkout to help your customers benefit from a streamlined, friction-free checkout process, and secure transactions using a method they're familiar with. This level of confidence can help cart values, consumer trust, and loyalty increase across your site. For Apple Pay to be activated in the Brikl Dashboard, the merchant domain must be verified first. Please contact Brikl Support for more information.
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New Graph QL articles
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that works as an application layer. It is not a storage model or a database query language like SQL. Instead, GraphQL provides a complete description of the data in an API and allows clients to ask for exactly what they need. We’ve published a number of articles designed to guide you and your developers through GraphQL-related topics. Keep checking back for updates, and remember to check our Developer Portal for more documentation.
New features for August
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Personalization of product packages
Brikl merchants can already create options such as adding a player’s name and number. Shoppers can then personalize products by adding a numerical or text value into those fields. Our new feature allows personalization to be applied to product packages.
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Group images by color options
To give Brikl merchants more versatility when it comes to uploading product images or making optimal use of existing ones, you can now map images to present them as a color variant for a product.
On the front end, if a shopper selects a color variant, for example, red, it will trigger the website to display only the product images that the merchants have associated with red in the dashboard configuration.
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Managing product images (improvement)
We’ve improved the way our images are listed in the base catalog while introducing the functionality to set up default images for specific option values.
You’ll now be able to:- Reorder image lists
- Set up default images
- Set up a default image for each option value
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New features for July
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Supplier integrations
One of the most time-consuming tasks when setting up MicroStores is creating and assigning products while checking inventory. With Brikl’s next-generation supplier integration, you’ll be able to:
- Import product and product information directly from your favorite supplier, including product titles, product descriptions, product images, product options, and product prices.
- Use Brikl's advanced search, sort, and filter options to quickly find the products from a supplier.
- Check supplier inventory in real-time before assigning your products to a MicroStore.
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Assign and override
We have introduced an assign and override feature to minimize the possibility of duplicate products appearing in your main shop catalog. This has four possible use cases:
- Override product information
- Change available product options
- Store duplication without duplicating products
- Assigning and overriding an embellishment
Read more about this feature in the articles above.
This feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Payment configuration
Setting up payment methods can be done at two levels:
- Shop level
- MicroStore level
Previously, when payment methods were assigned at a shop and a MicroStore level, the cart automatically applied and displayed all payment methods to both. Our new payment configuration feature enables payment methods assigned at a MicroStore level to override the shop setting.
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Product options, product option values, product variants
To ensure that you have the best user experience possible, we’ve updated our dashboard terminology to align with industry-wide e-Commerce naming conventions.
Product Options
Some products have multiple variations. Consider, for example, a t-shirt available in different colors and sizes.
Product Option Value
Each product option can contain one or more option values, which are the unique variations for that option. For example, sizes can have the option values S, M, L, and XL, and colors can have the option values Red, Green, and Blue.
A variant is a unique combination of option values, which can have its own SKU, accounting ID, inventory, or price associated with it. For example, GENDER Male + COLOR Red + SIZE XL.
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New features for May
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Backend migration
Our backend migration is now complete and delivering the horsepower we need to keep enabling leading-edge features. Here are just some of the benefits you can take expect from the migration:
- Increased speed: Reduced loading times across the platform mean you can access features and areas you need faster.
- Increased stability: Brikl prides itself on providing a stable and reliable experience. Our backend migration will only enhance this further.
- Increased access to new features: Our engineering team is always looking for ways to improve customer experience and ensure scalability.
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Developer portal
Integration between apps is important in ensuring that your business's existing systems play well with Brikl. To give you control of how this works and keep pushing the limits of what we can achieve together, we're excited to announce the launch of our developer portal!
Brikl's Developer Portal is an extension of our mission and values to empower our merchants. Our continuous spirit of collaboration means that we want our technology to be as transparent and intuitive as possible, and importantly, we want to inspire conversation.
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Assigning products to a MicroStore
The last thing you want to do as a busy business owner or employee is search endlessly for products you want to add to your MicroStore. That's why we've made it easy to search, filter, sort, and find what you're looking for quickly.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Search for a MicroStore
When you have hundreds of MicroStores to manage, having a powerful search, filter, and sort feature to find the MicroStore you want will save you a considerable amount of time.
You can:
- Search by MicroStore name
- Search by MicroStore internal name
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Filter MicroStores
You can also narrow down the list of MicroStores by using filters.
Click the 'Filter' button. A drawer will open that allows you to filter by MicroStore status: Close, Open, Schedule, Inactive. You can select more than one status to filter.
If the “inactive” status is selected as a filter, the search result will show MicroStores that have no cycle set.
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Sort MicroStores
Aside from searching and filtering, you can also sort by by internal name, title, and last edited date
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New features for March
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New and improved checkout and cart flow
Making it easy for your customers to convert is essential to ensuring a great customer experience and generating as many sales as possible. That’s why we’ve made a number of conversion-boosting improvements to our cart and checkout flow:
- Information across the UI has now been broken down into bite sized
- pieces of information and system feedback to improve navigation and troubleshooting.
- Brikl’s mobile experience at checkout has been improved for optimal performance across devices. Your customers will now find it fully responsive across tablet and mobile.
- A sticky button "checkout" button ensures that your customers always see an option to purchase.
- Information across the UI has now been broken down into bite sized
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How to set up discounts and promotions
A noteworthy new feature for our US merchants is the addition of a promotion application feature that allows you to select whether you want to apply for a promotion before or after tax. This ensures that any discount that is applied does not affect the tax rates you've set up.
Go to discounts > promotions > behavior to set this up.
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How to add variants
We've made some refinements to the user interface to enhance your experience, create time savings, and allow you to charge for variants:
- A new drawer UI has been added to create and manage variant settings
- You can now add an upcharge to a variant
- You can now sort variant options by dragging and dropping them
- Our variant listing page features new columns
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Setting open and close dates for a team store, club shop or MicroStore
To make it easier to create and manage cycles, you may notice that cycles have shifted from inactive to active by default. This feature also now includes morevalidations to guide users on managing cycles.
For example, if you set the opening time in the future:
- A prompt will now say "Save and Schedule".
- If opening times are set to the past, the prompt will say "Save and Close.
- Deactivating a cycle will provide an alert.
More examples are available in the Knowledge Base article under "Create your first cycle."
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Creating a product
You may notice some UI changes reflected in the dashboard due to the new backend. All changes have been updated in our most recent Knowledge Base article. Here's a summary of the most notable changes:
Product information
- An internal ID is now optional.
- We've merged the "product active" toggle with the "product scheduling" checkbox to create a new status dropdown selection:
- You can now change the status to active, inactive, or scheduled.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active, an "Active" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active, an "Active" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active orscheduled, an "Inactive" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you change the status in the dropdown to active or scheduled, an "Inactive" label will be added to the top of your screen.
- When you set the status to scheduled, you can select the start/end date.
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Store hierarchy
MicroStores are no longer assigned a storefront as default anymore; this now needs to be manually assigned by you.
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Setting up a MicroStore
Drawing on some of the changes above, you may also notice a change to how you set up a MicroStore: You can now add an internal name to your MicroStore for ease of management and reporting.
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Adding fundraising and fees
You can now choose whether fundraising or fees should be set at cart or item level to ensure greater flexibility. But please be aware the most common use case is to charge fundraising on a cart item level and fees on a cart level.
- How to add variants is going to the wrong page
- Creating a product is going to the wrong page
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High-Quality Render Mode - New UI
The backend migration has created a few UI changes for our High-Quality Render Mode. Now, the option to render in high-quality appears when a GLB file is uploaded.
You can adjust details and export, which allows you to:
- Set image quality and lighting
- Set a background
You also have the option to save the image as a PNG file on your computer.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
New features for January
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Fixed light setting
A fixed light setting in the studio is where just one preset applies to all products in the store. This isn't always ideal, especially if products look unnaturally lit i.e. one product may be too bright while another can appear as if it's in shadow.Brikl has a preset for lighting that can act as a default. You can also customize the light settings to ensure that your products are always seen in the best light possible.
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High-Quality Render Mode
To ensure you benefit from more realistic images for enhanced visualization, try using our High Quality Render Mode feature. This ensures greater visibility of product features, such as stitching detail, while allowing you to capture and download the 3D model.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
New features for November
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The Design Room and Studio Editor 👉🏾 Design Studio 🔥 Hot new feature
To improve studio performance and reduce confusion around the difference between the Design Studio and Studio Editor in the Dashboard, we've decided to consolidate the two.
We're excited to introduce you to our all-in-one Design Studio, where you can expect to see your studio settings, share, and export functionality in one place.
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Download invoices in bulk
Instead of having to manually download individual invoices, this new feature allows you to download order invoices, created under one cycle, from the order page in bulk. The download file will be a zipped file (to reduce the file size). Simply click into the zip folder to view individual PDF invoices.
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Expose branding
You can now assign a brand to products. This feature makes it a lot easier for promotional businesses to manage their products effectively, for example, when syncing ERPs and creating reports.
Simply go to Catalog, then Products, then Product Brand to use this feature.
Read moreThis feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
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Unassign color palette
Prior to this feature improvement, there was no way to remove an assigned palette aside from going one step back, closing the modal and deleting the color palette from the list. This was longer than necessary, which is why we've now made it possible to remove an assigned color palette with one click.
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Setting admin portal permissions
You may want more than one team representative to access the team's admin portal. To restrict access to specific users, assign team store admin portal permissions.
Setting up admin access can be done in one of two ways:
- Through merchants who want to grant someone admin access to the admin portal.
- Through admins of the admin portal who want to grant someone else admin access.
New features for October
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Light setting 🔥Hot new feature
A fixed light setting in the studio is where just one preset applies to all products in the store. This isn't always ideal, especially if products look unnaturally lit i.e. one product may be too bright while another can appear as if it's in shadow.
Brikl has a preset for lighting that can act as a default. However, we've just rolled out customization to ensure that your products are always seen in the best light possible:
This feature is in early access. If you want this feature or any others in this changelog to be enabled on your dashboard, hit the button below. And thank you, your insights help our tech team deliver the best experience possible. Once the form below has been submitted, an account manager will reach out to you to ensure you have access and we'll follow up to collect your feedback.
New features for September
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Admin portal 🔥Hot new feature
Whether you're a coach, a CEO or a sales representatives, you'll now be able to see how well your group store is converting when your store is open and active. Keep track of how many orders have been created, how much you have sold, raised, and what products you have sold, at-a-glance.
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Real-time deployment
From today, group store changes can be made and viewed in real-time. This means that all group store pages, such as homepages, product and collection pages, will show the most recent data at all times - deployment is no longer required.
Non-group store collection pages and content pages will still require deployment for updates to be publicly visible.
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Set store open and close cycles
Imagine being able to set up a store in literal seconds without having to duplicate an existing store. This can now be a daily reality by using the cycles settings accessed from the availability tab in your team store dashboard menu.
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Fee setting
You can now set fees for within your team or group stores. These are then automatically applied to all customer transactions. The advantage of this is that setting a fee gives you the opportunity to pass on charges you may incur on your side to customers.
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Duplication
To save you even more time when it comes to duplicating a store, you can now clone more than just products and collections. You can now duplicate content modules, discounts, fundraising, fees, and even group store level personalization.
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Coupon usage
Our new coupon usage feature has been created to help you track how many times an active coupon code has been applied at checkout.
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Downloading order invoices
To make it even easier to keep track of your accounting and reporting, you can now download order invoices from the dashboard.
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Replace 3D image viewer with GIF
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Color picker
There's now a new way to pick a color and apply it across your storefront. Our new color picker feature allows you to drag and pick shades from a color palette, allowing you to find the perfect shade to fit your content or object.
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New features for August
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New team store dashboard structure
Log into your dashboard and you'll notice it looking better than ever! In an effort to streamline your user experience across the platform, we've consolidated dashboard features to:
- Better address your needs.
- Direct you to the features and functions you're looking for faster.
- Create a cleaner and more compact look that doesn't require side scrolling.
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Email configuration
Now you can funnel and define which contact email you want to use for different purposes. And just like payment configuration, setting your contact email works at a shop level but can be overridden at team store level.
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Payment configuration
The new and improved payment configuration you see here is shown on a shop level - but remember to configure them in your Stripe account first. You then need to enable them in your settings.
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Reset button for color fillRead more
Color fill is a predefined area in the design studio where color can be applied by selecting from a palette.
It's now easier than ever to reset colors. Simply select the color from the palette to fill the color zone you specify and click again to reset it.
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Image quality setting
Brikl supports the uploading of PNG, JPG, SVG, AI or PDF formats with a maximum file size of up to 20MB. Once an image has been uploaded, it can be added to the 3D model.
Setting a higher image quality setting also means that image performance and loading speed times may decrease due to the 3D image's increased file size and loss of compression.
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Terms of Service acknowledgement
Just in case you missed it, we have just released a Terms of Service acknowledgement to the Brikl platform.
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Font library
The Brikl platform now features the option to disable default fonts in the studio. You can now choose to only use fonts you have uploaded, allowing an enhanced level of personalization across the platform.
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New features for July
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Bulk paste orders 🔥 hot new feature
Brikl's merchants, coaches, and team representatives often spend extensive amounts of time going back and forth on email to gather together orders on Excel spreadsheets - up to 4 hours a day in some cases.
Merchants now have the ability to paste orders in bulk, saving them up to 80 hours a month.
Find out the benefits of this feature and how to use it here.
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Customizable shipping 🔥 hot new feature
You will now be able to add shipping methods and set shipping rates at a shop and sales channel level. This allows your customers and you as a merchant complete flexibility and a more tailored experience at checkout.
Creating a shipping zone allows you to add and edit shipping methods with descriptions to clarify each, e.g., 2-3 day working day delivery times, carbon-neutral transport, and shipping to EU countries.
💡Top tip: This feature can be defined on a shop level and overwritten on a team store level, as shipping methods can be different for team stores, e.g., free in-store collection or from a consolidation point.
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Addition of Apple Pay to checkout 🔥 hot new feature
With an iPhone user increase of about 23% in 2020 alongside the growth in Apple Pay mobile payments, Brikl has now added Apple Pay payments to checkout.
This allows your customers to benefit from a streamlined, friction-free checkout process and secure transactions using a method they're familiar with. This level of confidence can help cart values, consumer trust, and loyalty increase across your site.
Read moreAdd more information to print files.
The quality of your products heavily relies on your print files. This is why ensuring that information is clearly laid out in your print files and designs is so crucial.
That's why Brikl has added color details such as:
- HEX
- Pantone
- Internal code
- Internal name
- Code
- CMYK
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Tax by state 🔥 hot new feature
You can now set tax rates on a state level for the US and Canada. Go to the dashboard settings, head to 'Tax' then 'Tax rates for specific countries and states.' Choose your country and state, then add. Tax rates can be defined below.
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Adjust image and text opacity
Merchants can now adjust image and text opacity in the Design Room and Design Studio for a greater degree of personalization.
- Slider bars can adjust the opacity of text and images from 10%-100%.
- This feature works with any image or text as long as neither is deemed as default.
- This feature is not a legally permissible watermark.
Head to the design studio now to try this feature yourself.
Custom image on stock items hot new feature
This feature, specially engineered for company sales representatives, allows customer logos to be added onto a flat product image when setting up a team store.
Customers will then be able to view and buy the product in the storefront.
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Edit customer orders
You can now edit customer orders when:
- A variant or multiple variants need to be updated, for example, sizes. You will be alerted if the variant you supply has a different value from the original one.
- A shipping address needs to be updated before the orders have been shipped. You will be alerted if the shippingstatus is already "Shipped."
Read moreWhen adding a new discount or coupon, you now have the option to exclude specific packages while including them on others. This allows you as a merchant more flexibility to set discount codes against selected product lines and collections.
Read more about Brikl's discounts and promotion features here.
New features for June
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Export by size 🔥Hot new feature
This feature allows you to upload design templates for product sizes and export their print files.
To upload design templates:
- Prepare individual design template files for each size and navigate to the studio editor.
- Select the upload button in the Studio Settings, then go to upload design templates. Designers can upload their design templates by size (S, M, L, XL).
To export print files:
- Navigate to the Design Room.
- Select the export button, then select the size you'd like to export (the ability to download your size depends on the uploaded templates).
- Export your print file - the final product will be downloaded to your computer in your selected size.
🔧Update: Now, when you duplicate a team store and select which products you want copied over with it, selected products will be active as default. This saves you time on having to set the product status individually.
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Set transparency of text and images 🔥Hot new feature
We've just released a new feature to Brikl's platform that allows you to adjust the opacity of images and text.
To use this feature:
- Navigate to the design studio.
- Select an image to upload or enter your desired text into the text box.
- Place this image or text onto the product.
- Go to 'Edit' and adjust the opacity slider from 10% to 100%.
- The image transparency will adjust to the selected range.
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Edit customer orders 🔥Hot new feature
As a merchant, you'll now be able to edit customer orders in the dashboard before the order is shipped and add internal notes for your reference.
You can make following edits when:
- A variant or multiple variants need to be updated.
- A shipping address needs to be updated.
Before an order is shipped, select the requested variant on the product, or change the shipping address in the order detail page to change them.
Create a note to reference a change in the 'internal notes' section. Only the creator of the note can delete it.
💡Top tip: When you try to change the variant on the product or change the shipping address, there will be a message warning that this order can't be updated as it has been shipped.
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VAT (Tax) overrides 🔥Hot new featureTo extend our new VAT for specific collections feature further, you now have the option to set a VAT rate for your products and collections of your choice which will be visible to customers at checkout.
This will be particularly useful for kids' products that require 0% VAT rate and multiple products with different VAT rates.
New features for May
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My designs 🔥Hot new feature
Clicking near the settings button to the right of the design studio will give you access to 'My Designs'.
This area allows customers and designers:
- to come back to the latest iteration of their design without the hassle of having to start again, thanks to an autosave functionality.
- select a saved design to load into the studio, giving people the ability to work on multiple designs at once.
- streamline the process of sharing designs, increasing collaboration, engagement, and lead generation.
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Content builder 🔥Hot new feature
A long-awaited feature! We've improved the UI of our content builder. Content pages are created by specifying requirements before pages can be built. However, user testing was proving that this part of the process was unclear. Now, the first time you create a content page, you'll automatically be directed to the settings page to set up SEO details, assign a page to a sales channel and define your custom URL.
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Sales channel price 🔥Hot new feature
B2B retailers need to differentiate between the base price (wholesale price) inside product pages and sales prices (Manufacturing Recommended Selling Price (MRSP)) inside the sales channel. Our new sales channel price feature allows you to set a sales price at the product or team store level and override the base price.
💡Top tip: For team stores, this feature can be used in a different way. The base price can be the price you’re charging the team, while the sales price can be the base pricing plus the fundraising fee to allow you to set fundraising fees on a product level.
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Additional information at checkout 🔥Hot new feature
You can now create or overwrite the content below the checkout page. Click on 'all content types to checkout' to access this feature.