Product Update: May 2024
Here's a summary of new features, improvements, and bug fixes released in May.
by Jess Neve
Improve SEO
- An image ALT tag field is now available in Link Galleries.
- A last modified date has been added to sitemaps to inform search engines when a page was last updated. This is used to encourage search engines to re-crawl a page faster due to the content being seen as updated.
- We have added a Discernible Link Text field to Link Galleries to enable users to add descriptive text of where the link button leads. This assists site crawlers and vision-impaired users.
Group Sites
- Group order emails are now sent to the location an order was purchased from and the main group website's email address.
End-User Improvements
- We have enabled beta features Cart Prompt Improvements and Product Page Improvements on all sites.
- Changed the cart shipping estimation section text to state, ‘Postage and handling, if applicable, will be calculated in the checkout.’
- Users cannot connect to new suppliers through the Suppliers page in the Manage area.
- Error changing product display Maximum results from 250 to 500 in /manage/products when Google Merchant Center integration is enabled.
- Some lower-level (BRICK) product classifications are not saved when added to products.
- Storbie cannot use an ampersand '&' in Storbie Broadcasts Facebook captions.
- Insights Unique Visitors graph has no data after 3 April (note: still got some data missing and there is another bug blocking a refresh of data.
- 'Edit' does not allow user to change the selected ProductSku in the cart
Technical Bug fixes
- Provet supplier company codes are evaluating to null
- Duplicate Key during supplier sync (GuidGraveyard table causing duplicates)
- Elastic search version updated
New features or improvements
- Incoming docs API