What's New at IndieMade

New this week of March 6, 2018

Text Area Attribute - Store Owners now have the option to have a Text Area attribute. This is similar to a text field attribute, however it has multiple rows!

New this week of March 27, 2018

Spam protection on the contact form - A lot of you have noticed an increase in spam coming from your contact form. Spammers are increasingly more persistent, but we are fighting back! Messages on your contact form are now run through a spam filter.

In fact, you don't need to receive contacts in your e-mail inbox at all! Contact form submissions are now saved to a list under Website > Contacts. There is a settings tab where you may turn off e-mail notifications from your contact form. You won't be notified either way if spam is caught though!

Did spam slip through? You can click "Submit Spam" on the message on your Contacts list page. Or, if you are worried there have been false positives, there is also a spam tab you can look through.

New February 9, 2018

Anonymous product reviews - You know we added customer product reviews right? But now we allow anyone to leave a review for a product even if they are not a customer. These reviews will require a captcha and arrive in your dashboard as unpublished. Our main concern here is spam! https://www.indiemade.com/indiemade-user-guide/using-your-store/indiemade-product-reviews

Customer Product Reviews are a great way to promote your product and new content on your product pages helps with SEO as well.

Beta Features

These features are in beta, if you want to test them contact IndieMade support and we will install them for you!

  • Calculated shipping through USPS! Calculated shipping retrieves shipping quotes from USPS based on product dimensions and weight.

  • ShipStation Integration - Send your orders for fulfillment at ShipStation and return quotes based on your carriers at ShipStation

  • New integration with ShipStation for managing and printing shipping labels, orders on IndieMade can be synced to ShipStation.

  • Added a Cart Hold feature, which prevents customers from adding an item to their cart if another customer has it and the stock is not high enough. The hold time lasts a certain amount of time, let us know how much you want!

  • Stripe payments can now be enabled on your site under Website Settings, and may be used instead of or in addition to paypal.

  • Product Reviews are now available, enable them under Website Settings. This allows your customers to leave reviews of products they have purchased!

General Features

  • Option to disable mouse right clicks for customers or store viewers

  • Sitewide vacation mode! This disables the 'add to cart' ability and allows any message to be displayed on every page for whatever reason. (Colors of the message box are customizable.)

  • Option to have customers confirm their email upon checkout

  • We now provide SSL Certificates for Custom Domains (free of charge)

  • Optimized dashboard for faster page-loading

  • Store owners now have option to password-protect a page

  • Improved event organization on the dashboard, as well as added sorting by date.

  • Added a star on orders page for repeat customers

  • New Meta Tags that allow you to choose what shows up when you share your website link to social media.

Themes and Visuals

  • We have released two new themes: Rose and Onyx.

  • Product image rollover option for Mallard, Onyx, Rose, and Bolt theme.

  • New option to select aspect ratio for photos, for product image and category image (in dashboard>design>basics)

  • Larger, upgraded font sizes for legacy themes

  • Sitewide search box (all themes)

  • New possibility to add URL to photos in gallery  ( < style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> used to redirect customer to the product page of the image)

  • New feature: sorting store section menu alphabetically

  • Improved layout for order page, and enabled search by customer name

  • New ability to have Category Landing pages

Product Features:

  • New "reviews page" which allows users to showcase reviews of previous items

  • For pro and plus plans, up to ten photos per product may be added

  • Added image settings for categories and product photos

  • New option to sort products according to category as well as whether it is visible

  • We no longer count sold out or unpublished products towards product limit

  • Option to display remaining stock on product page

  • Product attributes may now be added and modified in bulk

  • Added new option to add products into a sold section

  • We now support discount conditions, such as buy 1 get 1 free

  • new option to edit coupons in bulk

  • new 'Set Product Attribute' setting for bulk edit

Blog Posts and Comments

  • Option that lets you filter comments before they appear on your public site.

  • Option to change date on blog posts added

  • New and improved blog layout for Mallard, Rose, and Onyx (For those who have been using Rose or Mallard, simply switch to another theme and switch back to update the blog layout for those sites.)

  • Option to disable blog comments

  • New comments section under News story (in addition to blog posts)

Shipping

  • Option to provide free shipping after a set minimum purchase

  • Added settings for Canadian provinces in shipping profiles