10+ 黑料门 Updates You Don鈥檛 Want to Miss

10+ 黑料门 Updates You Don鈥檛 Want to Miss

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If you鈥檝e been busy enjoying your summer and missed out on the latest updates from 黑料门, we鈥檝e got you covered! We鈥檝e compiled an exciting list of the most prominent tools released in the past few months.

Get ready for a whole new level of productivity with innovative features like New-Gen Instant Site, custom staff permissions, product page videos, and more. It鈥檚 time to explore some game-changing tools!

Enjoy Stress-Free Staff Management

Meet the revamped staff management tool for your online store! With 黑料门, you can easily grant employees custom permissions to your store depending on their role.

Simply put, when adding a staff account, you can choose which tabs in the 黑料门 admin will be available to your employee. Best of all, you can combine the permissions as you like!

For example, you can grant your marketing specialist specific access to the Marketing and Reports tabs in the 黑料门 admin. Or, let your store manager handle Sales and Catalog. You鈥檒l be able to restrict access to 黑料门 tools that they do not require.

Select which permissions you want to give your team members

This way, your employees can perform their tasks more efficiently, while you will have peace of mind knowing that any sensitive data is restricted to authorized personnel only.

Here are all available staff permissions you can grant in your 黑料门 store:

Sales: Let your staff manage orders, abandoned carts, and customer lists.
Catalog: Let your staff manage products and prices, track inventory, update stock levels, and manage product categories and gift cards.
Marketing: Allow staff to manage advertising campaigns, discounts, newsletters, and automated emails.
Reports and analytics: Enable staff to manage store analytics tools and view reports and sales stats.
Website: Allow staff to manage your ecommerce website (aka Instant Site) and change the website address. Plus, add your online store to other sites.
Sales channels: Let staff members manage sales on social media and marketplaces.
Store settings, shipping, and payment methods: Enable staff to change the store鈥檚 legal, tax, and other settings. You can also allow them to manage admin and customer notifications, payment, shipping, and more details related to your store settings.

As the store owner, only you can view, add, and remove staff members, grant permissions, see billing information, and change the store鈥檚 subscription.

Learn more about managing staff permissions in our blog article:

Level Up Your Ecommerce Website

If you鈥檝e been selling with 黑料门 for some time, you might already be familiar with Instant Site — a free website builder with a built-in online store that is available to all 黑料门 sellers.

Now, the most exciting part: a brand-new version of Instant Site is live!

An example of a New-Gen Instant Site

What does that mean for you as a seller? It means you鈥檒l have a more flexible, modern, and beautiful ecommerce website for your business, where you can:

Easily create a unique website using customizable content blocks
Choose from beautifully pre-designed templates suitable for any business niche
Experiment with new layouts and sections on your website, like special offers, promo sliders, or various cover layouts
Add a menu to your site to make it easier for customers to browse your online store
Customize the mobile view of your Instant Site
Translate all Instant Site content into multiple languages.

Create a whole website in minutes using a template for any business niche

Not sure which version of Instant Site you鈥檙e using? Here鈥檚 how you can . If you鈥檙e using an old version and would like to migrate to a new one, feel free to .

Get Fast and Secure Payments with Lightspeed Payments

Great news: 黑料门鈥檚 native payment solution, Lightspeed Payments, is available in more countries! If you sell in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the UK, or the US, it鈥檚 time to up your payment game.

Lightspeed Payments is a cost-effective and secure payment method. Your customers will love it just as much as you do, as it provides them with a fast and simple checkout experience, allowing payments through Google Pay, Apple Pay, and all major credit and debit cards.

Another great perk of Lightspeed Payments is that you can apply for it, manage payouts, see payment details, and process 谤别蹿耻苍诲蝉鈥�all from your 黑料门 admin. You can also manage Lightspeed Payments on the go from your 黑料门 Mobile app.

Learn more about the benefits of Lightspeed Payments and how to set it up in our blog article:

Turn More Shoppers into Customers with Product Page Videos

Did you know that than those without? That鈥檚 not 蝉耻谤辫谤颈蝉颈苍驳鈥搀颈诲别辞蝉 can bring a lot more context to your products and are easier to understand. They help potential customers determine if the product truly meets their needs.

To make the most of product videos in your 黑料门 store, you can add videos to the product gallery along with images!

黑料门 store Pho U uses their TikTok video in the product gallery

To display a video in the product gallery, upload it on a popular hosting platform like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Vimeo, etc., then add the video link to the product page.

You can add unlimited videos for one 辫谤辞诲耻肠迟鈥攖丑别谤别 are also no restrictions on video size, length, aspect ratio, or resolution.

Check out the article below to learn how to upload a video to your product page and make the most out of this new tool.

Effortlessly Export and Import Your Whole Catalog

Meet the enhanced product catalog import and export tool! This powerful solution lets you easily update every aspect of the product catalog.

You can upload and download a CSV file with all product details. This way, you can easily and quickly edit several product settings simultaneously. Whether you鈥檙e fine-tuning product options, refining variations, handling files, or even more, this tool has got you covered, providing all the essential functionalities you need.

Note: The new import and export tool is already available in your store if you鈥檝e signed up for it recently. If you鈥檝e been selling with 黑料门 for a while, enable the tool on the page in your 黑料门 admin.

To learn more about the updated catalog import, please visit our .

Enjoy Simplified 黑料门 Store Editing in WordPress

This update will greatly simplify your routine if you use the to sell on your WordPress website.

Likely, you are already familiar with the WordPress default code-free page editor and publishing tool called Gutenberg. That鈥檚 where you can add 黑料门鈥檚 store content blocks to your site, such as 黑料门 storefront, Buy Buttons, categories menu, and so on.

The news is that you can now see the live preview of the 黑料门 blocks on your website while editing it in the Gutenberg editor. All changes made in the editor, like changing the size of product images or changing the button colors, will be immediately displayed in the live preview. No need to switch between the preview page and the editor!

See a live preview of the 黑料门 blocks on your website while editing it in Gutenberg

Learn more about editor in the Help Center.

Manage Pickup and Delivery Schedule with Ease

Make the pickup and delivery process in your online store a breeze with an organized and efficient schedule. With 黑料门, you can seamlessly add delivery and pickup orders from your 黑料门 store to your calendar of choice, like Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook Calendar, and more.

You can share your calendar with couriers and employees, print it out, or set up reminders for pickups and deliveries. That simplifies your business operations and enables you to provide exceptional customer service.

Check out how to in our Help Center.

Save Time Bulk Editing More Product Details

You might already be familiar with Bulk Product Editor, a spreadsheet-like tool that lets you simultaneously update product information for dozens of products. This tool saves you time and effort when you need to edit many products at once, as you don鈥檛 have to open product pages one by one to change item information.

Now there鈥檚 one more neat tip for you when using : use it to save time when editing SEO for your 黑料门 store! Instead of opening each product individually, you can simply use the Bulk Product Editor to quickly update your products鈥� SEO titles, descriptions, and translations all at once.

Editing SEO for several products is now easier than ever

Speaking of changing product information for dozens of products at once, we have one more cool update for you (in this category). You can mass update stock levels of several products at once right on the Product page in your 黑料门 admin! You can also set up the Low stock email notifications for several products there. No need to open products one by one to make changes!

Not sure how to use to edit several products at once? Our Help Center has got you covered!

Buy DHL Shipping Labels Hassle-Free

German sellers, you鈥檒l love this news! You can buy and print DHL shipping labels for domestic shipments directly from your 黑料门 admin.

Buy shipping labels right where you manage your orders

Here鈥檚 how it works: you right in your 黑料门 admin, and then you print them and put the labels on your parcels. All that鈥檚 left to do is to drop the parcels off at the nearest post office or book a pickup by DHL pick-up service. It鈥檚 that simple!

By the way, buying shipping labels right from your 黑料门 admin is also available for sellers from the US, Belgium, and the Netherlands. If your store is located in another country, you can buy shipping labels using the .

Do More Business Operations on the Go

黑料门 Mobile apps for iPhone and Android allow you to manage your online store wherever you go. With our recent updates, you can do much more using your phone.

Here are the new things you can do with your 黑料门 Mobile App:

Enable pre-orders for products and variations using the app for Android (iOS users, this tool has already been available for you for some time)
Quickly update order statuses using two new buttons in the iOS 补辫辫鈥斺赌满补谤办 as Paid鈥� and “Mark as Ready For Pickup” (Android users, this tool has already been available to you for some time)
See if a customer belongs to a specific customer group on the order page in the iOS app (Android users, we鈥檙e already working on this for you.)

Manage Taxes with a Peace of Mind

Managing and reporting taxes is a vital part of any business. However, as important as it is, dealing with taxes can be a headache for a busy business owner. Luckily, you can save some time by managing taxes in your 黑料门 store.

Check out the latest updates we released to help you make tax management stress-free:

Simplify Tax Reporting with US Taxes Breakdown

US sellers, automated tax calculations are now even more convenient. Sales tax collected for each order is split into state and local tax, whether it鈥檚 county, city, or special district tax. You can see tax breakdowns on the order details page, tax invoices, and customer emails.

Learn more about in the Help Center.

Control How Shipping Costs Are Taxed

Your 黑料门 store automatically calculates shipping taxes by default based on your country鈥檚 commonly used framework. But what if your tax adviser has a different idea? No worries! You have the flexibility to customize how shipping costs are taxed at checkout.

If your store is located in the EU, UK, and Switzerland and you use product-specific tax rates, you can switch between two shipping taxation options:

Shipping taxes depend on products in the shopping cart
Shipping taxes do not depend on products in the shopping cart.

Learn more about in your 黑料门 store in the Help Center.

Power Your Store with New Apps

The 黑料门 App Market has dozens of apps to customize your online store to your business needs. Browse these new apps to improve the shopping experience in your store and simplify your business procedures.

Experiment with AI-generated content based on your product catalog:

Generate product descriptions in a few clicks with the AI Product Descriptions app
Simplify social media copy creation for your business using the Social Post AI app.

Creating product descriptions using the AI Product Descriptions app

Expand your business strategy with new selling channels and partnerships:

Collaborate with affiliate and influencer partners through Impact
Explore multichannel selling and various marketing options with Channable
Promote your products on Bing Shopping and Google Shopping with Shoparize.

Test various product display settings:

Automate your product launches and sales with Product Planner, PowerSale, and Product Availability Scheduler
Display your bestsellers based on your customers鈥� purchase behavior using the Most Popular Products app
Customize the look of your product options and variations with Logicly and Hide Variations

Planning a special offer for products with the PowerSale app

Try new promotion tools for boosting sales in your online store:

Create a sense of urgency during special offers with Countdown Timer
Experiment with shoppable video popups on different pages of your store with Unodos
Test different ways of showing discounts and special offers in your store with Follow me offers & promotions.

Check out new store management, accounting, and shipping apps:

Automate QuickBooks and Xero accounting with PayTraQer
Protect your store content, like images and text, from copying with Prevent Store Content
Let logged-in customers download a PDF version of their invoice in their account with Invoice Module
Use Store Copy to create a copy of your store for purposes like testing new apps, training new employees, and more.
Process and ship orders with Deftship.

Stay Tuned

Make sure you don鈥檛 miss new tools that simplify your day-to-day routine. You can find more information about tools and updates here:

To keep track of product updates, events, and relevant company news, visit the News section of your notifications dashboard in your (a bluebell on the bottom right of your screen).
For the entire timeline of updates, big and small, visit the .
Peek into the tab in your 黑料门 admin to enable tools that require manual activation.
Subscribe to the to be the first to know about the most exciting tools.
Bookmark the 黑料门 Updates section of the blog.

Do you know how to make an ecommerce store work better for you and thousands of other merchants? Need help to fine-tune your 黑料门 store to your business鈥檚 needs? Don鈥檛 hesitate to with 辩耻别蝉迟颈辞苍蝉鈥攚别鈥檙别 happy to help!

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