Changelog

Built in the open. Shipped when it works.

What's new and what we fixed. Customer feedback drives most of what we build next.

v2.8.0
9 October 2026

Sell-ready round

  • Help centre: twenty four articles covering the whole loop from importing customers to refunds and credit notes.
  • Time tracking page, and labour and commission shown on the order view with links from the production board.
  • Blog imagery with credits, and a social card plus share buttons on every storefront page.
  • Legal pages rewritten around the configured entity, the real subprocessors and the deletion window, plus an accessibility statement and a cookie banner that gates analytics.
  • A sign in chooser for staff and customers, branded error pages, www redirects to the apex, and a request a demo page.
  • Marketing copy brought in line with what ships: mockups, the designer, exports, team stores, Demi and board updates every fifteen seconds.
v2.7.1
28 August 2026

Hero email capture

  • The home page hero takes an email address and banks it as a lead before handing off to the signup form.
  • Home hero screenshot recropped so no column is clipped.
v2.7.0
25 August 2026

Regional pricing and the content round

  • Prices quoted and charged in USD, AUD, GBP and EUR, chosen from the visitor's region with a currency switcher in the footer.
  • Stripe Checkout charges the eurozone in EUR.
  • Compare pages corrected against each competitor's own pricing page, with the date checked shown on the page.
  • Real product screenshots on the feature pages and a screenshot tour.
  • Every transactional email branded, and signup and payment alerts to the admin inbox.
  • Self-hosted webfonts on every surface, and the external font hosts dropped from the content security policy.
  • Region pages annotated as a reciprocal hreflang set; long-tail pages indexed; guides dated.
  • Self-hosted, cookieless analytics on the public site.
v2.6.0
12 June 2026

Completion round

  • Design to order: a saved design becomes the mockup and artwork version one when its quote is accepted.
  • Guest checkout on team stores and campaign pages, with optional card capture through a signed link.
  • Cycle counts with variance posting to the stock ledger.
  • Stripe Connect for customer payments, plan limit enforcement, and webhook replay for stuck events.
  • Purchasing pipeline: suggested purchase orders from sales velocity, job costing, real barcodes on work orders.
  • Demi answers from live lookups, quote follow-ups on a schedule, marketing opt-out on every channel, and role based access in the back office.
  • Photos and an asset library, a proof room for artwork review, staff messaging and portal usability fixes.
v2.5.0
10 June 2026

Production readiness

  • Tax engine: GST, US sales tax and VAT calculated per region on quotes, orders and invoices.
  • Refunds and credit notes with stock writeback.
  • Team management UI: invite, deactivate and re-role staff from the admin.
  • GDPR tooling: data export and account deletion flows.
  • Public status page with live service checks.
  • Sentry error monitoring and nightly encrypted backups behind the scenes.
v2.4.0
20 May 2026

Demi assistant goes general

  • Plain-English questions such as "Which orders are late?" answer from live data.
  • New Demi widget on the dashboard with quick prompts.
  • Anthropic Claude integration behind a monthly cap per plan.
v2.3.0
4 May 2026

Production batches and floor scan

  • Group orders into a single batch run by decoration method.
  • Production floor barcode scan: tap to advance a job stage on any phone.
  • Per-batch work orders and packing slips.
v2.2.0
22 April 2026

Team stores

  • Create a branded team store under {yourshop}.printersfriend.com/store/{slug}.
  • Member orders arrive as draft quotes and can be ganged into one batch run.
  • Three layout styles: classic, bold, minimal.
v2.1.0
8 April 2026

Regional groundwork

  • Regional pages for AU, US and UK.
  • AS Colour catalogue import (more suppliers on the roadmap).
  • CSV catalogue import for any other supplier.
v2.0.0
15 March 2026

Customer portal v2

  • Online designer in browser.
  • Branded portal in customer org colours.
  • Wishlists and stock notifications.
v1.8.0
26 February 2026

Suggested purchase orders

  • Auto-calculated POs from sales velocity.
  • Email PO directly to supplier.
  • Stock auto-credits on receipt.

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