Changelog

In our recent sales webinar, we introduced the powerful new "Vendor" feature, designed to give you greater control and flexibility in product selection and customization.

Access an expanded product catalog, including the option to add your own custom products. Set up products for decoration, configure pricing, and instantly add them to the Brikl marketplace. Enable quick and easy sales by making custom products available for distributors and merchants right away.
Streamline the process of selecting, customizing, and selling products to deliver more options and value to your customers.

You can now add products from any supplier offering access to over 1,000 brands and 300,000 products, or easily upload custom products. Multi-currency support is included to streamline setup and management allowing you to sell worldwide.

Customizations at Scale

From master-level pricing and decoration settings to drag-and-drop layouts, Brikl’s tools make vendor catalog management fast and flexible.Tiered pricing setups and catalog-specific layouts create efficiency and boost customer engagement.

Enhanced Decoration Controls

Decoration setup is easier than ever, letting you configure methods and placement options at scale. Assign different decoration methods across products, manage logos, and save time with a centralized approach.

Publish your vendor catalog to the Brikl marketplace

As a decorator, you can publish your catalog of fully configured and priced products, ready for distributors and merchants to easily add to their stores and start selling. You'll receive an automatic notification when an order is placed, enabling you to download the purchase order and all associated design assets - completely ready for production.

What’s Ahead

Upcoming features like multi-location printing and inventory management will further enhance vendor capabilities. You will also be able to add finished products (which do not require embellishment) and publish your vendor catalog for private use only. Save time by uploading entire product lines using CSVtemplates, reducing errors, and streamlining updates. You can also quickly adjust stock, remove discontinued items, and keep catalogs current with minimal effort.

Our latest footer updates introduce a “Contact Us” section directly in the footer of each store, improving customer support accessibility. Customers can now easily reach out with inquiries or support needs from any page within the store. Additionally, we’ve standardized the footer across all stores to enhance consistency in the user interface and provide additional navigation options.

This uniformity supports a smoother shopping experience and creates a cohesive look across the platform, reinforcing brand presence and making it easier for customers to find essential information.

The catalog now features major performance enhancements, including faster load times and more responsive navigation. These improvements mean users alike can experience a smoother, more fluid experience when browsing or managing catalog items. Optimizing catalog speed is especially crucial for catalogs with extensive product selections, allowing users to quickly access products and details without delays.

Our latest updates include language and currency support, making it easier to cater to customers worldwide. International tax settings, including the EU, UK, and Mexico, and an integration with TaxJar for Canada, are also fully live, ensuring easy and accurate tax calculations. Additionally, Printful products are now available in multiple currencies, including USD, EUR, GBP, MXN, and CAD, offering dynamic pricing and detailed currency information in both orders and confirmation emails for a smoother customer experience.

Coupon calculation is now live, boosting your store's promotional capabilities and making it easier to manage discounts.

Now live, this feature offers enhanced customization and branding options for your order notification emails, allowing you to tailor each message to reflect your brand’s identity and provide a more cohesive experience. The biggest update is the addition of a tracking number and link as soon as the order ships, automatically updating the order status bar within the email. Customers now receive three notifications: when they place the order, when it ships, and when it's delivered.

This improvement not only keeps customers informed but also strengthens your brand presence.

Your customers expect transparency and timely information about their orders, and now, with our live real-time order status updates, you can keep them informed and engaged throughout their purchasing journey. We’ve also added a tracking number and link as soon as the order ships, providing instant access to shipping details. This feature applies to all orders from September 16th onward.

By offering real-time updates, you can reduce customer inquiries, build trust, and enhance the overall shopping experience, demonstrating your commitment to meeting customer needs at every step.

This feature is now live, offering greater flexibility in product presentation to showcase your offerings effectively. With the ability to add custom URLs directly to the Product Detail Page (PDP), you can guide customers to additional information, related products, or promotional pages, enhancing their shopping experience and driving more engagement.

One of the most valuable use cases for this new URL functionality is the ability to link directly to a size chart, ensuring customers have all the details they need to make informed purchases.

Pricing updates for "Set Margin To" and "Set Profit To" are now fully live at the product-color, product, and catalog levels, giving you unparalleled control over your pricing strategy. This multi-level pricing structure allows you to set prices on a product-color basis, at the individual product level, or across an entire catalog. These enhancements enable users to spend less time on product and pricing configurations, streamlining store management. Additionally, pagination within catalogs is now available, improving navigation and creating a smoother, more intuitive shopping experience for customers.

This feature, now available for Printful orders, provides accurate, real-time shipping rates, streamlining the checkout process for you and your customers. By displaying up-to-the-minute shipping costs, customers can make informed decisions, helping to reduce cart abandonment and enhance their overall shopping experience. Unlike other decorators who have a fixed shipping fee for the first and subsequent items, Printful's live rates offer a more cost-effective solution, ensuring the lowest landed cost and building trust while simplifying order fulfillment.

Our Printful integration is designed to enhance your store’s capabilities, making it easier to manage and offer a diverse range of products.

• Access to 52 New Products: This integration gives you access to 52 apparel products through Printful, giving you more variety to offer your customers.
  
  
• Direct-to-Garment (DTG) Printing: One key feature of this integration is the availability of DTG printing, which allows you to easily create custom designs on demand. This ensures that your customers receive unique, high-quality products with every order.
  
  
• Coming soon: Embroidery and Hard Goods: The second phase of our Printful integration is on the horizon. This phase will introduce even more customization options, including embroidery and a selection of hard goods. This will further expand your product offerings and allow you to cater to a broader audience.
  
  

We're excited to introduce a powerful new feature to Brikl: coupon management. This addition to our platform is designed to give you more flexibility and creativity in your promotional strategies, helping you to attract new customers, reward loyal ones, and drive more sales.

• Create and Customize Coupons: You can now easily create discount codes tailored to your specific needs. Whether it’s a percentage off or a fixed amount, you can set up coupons that align with your sales strategy.
  
  
• Control Coupon Usage: Set rules for how and when coupons can be used. You can limit the number of times a coupon can be redeemed and set expiration dates to ensure your promotions are targeted and effective.
  
  
• Track Performance: Our new feature also includes analytics, allowing you to monitor how each coupon is performing. This data is invaluable in understanding what types of promotions resonate most with your customers, enabling you to refine your marketing efforts.
  
  

We’re excited to unveil the updated Embellishment Tool Interface, packed with enhancements that make designing and managing your products easier than ever. Here’s what’s new:

• Simplified Design with Cleaner Layout: We've streamlined the interface to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience, making it easier to navigate and use.
  
  
• Improved Logo Library and Management: Our enhanced logo library makes organizing and accessing your logos more efficient, allowing you to manage your assets more easily.
  
  
• Enhanced Preview and Zoom Functionality: With improved preview and zoom features, you can get a closer look at your designs and ensure that every detail is perfect before finalizing your products.
  
  
• New Placeholder Tool and Adjustment Indicators: We've added a placeholder tool and adjustment indicators to give you more control over design placements and ensure precision and accuracy in your customizations.
  
  

Our localization efforts aim to help you reach a broader audience and provide a seamless shopping experience for customers, no matter where they are.

• Language Options Added to Store Interface: You can now offer your customers a more personalized shopping experience by selecting from a range of language options directly within your store interface. This enhancement is significant in making your stores more accessible to a global audience.
  
  
• Manual Translation Process Available: Translations are managed manually, giving you complete control over your store's content's accuracy and cultural relevance. This ensures that your brand voice and message remain consistent across different languages.
  
  
• Enhanced Preview and Zoom Functionality: With improved preview and zoom features, you can get a closer look at your designs and ensure that every detail is perfect before finalizing your products.
  
  
• Coming Soon: Auto-translation: We're working on integrating automatic translation powered by Google Translate in future versions. This feature will streamline the localization process, allowing for even quicker and more efficient expansion into new markets.
  
  

• Logo Size Editing in Embellishments: Resolved an issue where users were unable to edit the logo size in embellishments for certain items when using non-DST files. Now, logo resizing is fully functional across all file types.
  
  
• Deleting Unassigned Logos: Fixed a bug that prevented users from deleting unassigned logos from the library. Users can now clean up their logo library without any hassles.
  
  
• Embellishments Placement: We corrected an error where embellishments appeared on the wrong side of some items. Embellishments will now display correctly as intended.
  
  
• Product Auto-Selection: Addressed a problem where the system was auto-selecting the wrong products when adding them to a catalog. Product selections should now be accurate and match the user's intended choices.

Uploading PNG files for artworking has never been easier or more convenient with our latest updates. PNG files maintain their quality without any compression loss, ensuring that every detail of your artwork is preserved, making your designs look crisp and professional. Additionally, PNG files support transparent backgrounds, allowing you to easily layer images without unwanted backgrounds. This is especially useful for creating complex designs or adding logos to various products. Our system seamlessly integrates PNG uploads with FE, HIT, and Printful, streamlining your workflow and saving you time and effort. Whether you’re designing for digital or physical products, PNG files ensure your artwork looks great.

We've made enhancements to the store layout to provide a seamless shopping experience across all devices. Whether your customers are browsing on a desktop, tablet, or mobile phone, the store's design is now more intuitive and visually appealing. These updates ensure that navigation is smoother, load times are faster, and the overall user experience is more engaging, leading to better customer satisfaction and higher conversion rates.

We've introduced a new configuration tool that improves the quality of data within your store. This tool allows for more accurate color management, detailed product descriptions, and other essential data points. As a result, your product listings are now more precise, which helps reduce errors.

To streamline operations and maintain security, we've added a feature that allows you to limit catalog access based on user roles. This means you can now control who has the ability to view and manage specific catalogs, ensuring that sensitive information is only accessible to authorized personnel. This update is especially useful for larger teams where role-based access control is crucial for maintaining organizational efficiency.

We've made it easier to manage product variations by introducing the ability to set a default color in the DST (Design Selection Tool). This feature simplifies the setup process for products with multiple color options, ensuring that your preferred default is automatically selected during the configuration. This saves time and reduces the likelihood of errors when setting up new products.

A significant number of new products have been added to our FAST catalog. Previously, this was hindered by issues with broken images, but with the recent fixes, we've been able to expand our product offerings substantially. This means you now have more options to choose from when setting up your store, allowing for greater flexibility and variety in your product listings.

• New Products in Master Catalog: We've added 48 new products front Printful to the master catalog, expanding the options available for your stores.
  
  
• Placeholder Images: Implemented placeholder images in the master catalog to ensure a more cohesive and visually appealing browsing experience.
  
  
• Product Settings and Search Improvements: We’ve Made various improvements to product settings and search functionalities to enhance user experience. These include:

Finding and managing products is now more efficient and intuitive.

We’ve tackled and resolved 23 bugs, focusing on urgent and high-priority issues to ensure a smoother user experience. Notably, we fixed a critical bug that had been affecting product display, ensuring that all products now appear correctly and consistently across the platform. Additionally, we addressed performance-related bugs that were causing errors in price calculations and loading issues. These fixes enhance our system's overall stability and reliability, making your interactions with our platform more seamless and efficient.

Embellished items are now prominently displayed on your store's homepage. This update makes it easier for customers to visualize your customized products at a glance, enhancing their shopping experience and driving more sales for your business.

Our latest update introduces a robust shipping configuration feature, allowing you to set shipping rates at store and catalog levels and flat rates. This flexibility enables you to tailor shipping costs more accurately to your needs. We’ve also explained the default shipping rates and their priorities, ensuring you can set them up correctly from the start.

Enhancements to global default shipping rates and flat rates at the store/catalog levels will be rolled out soon to optimize your shipping setup. These improvements will help streamline your shipping processes, offering greater control and clarity over shipping costs for your customers.

We’re excited to announce significant performance improvements, resulting in faster loading times across the platform. This means you’ll experience quicker access to all features and functionalities, enhancing your overall productivity.

We’ve introduced new filters at the master catalog level, making it easier to navigate and manage large inventories. Enhanced search functionality and product configuration options have been highlighted, allowing for more precise and efficient product management. These updates are designed to improve your user experience, making it easier to find, configure, and manage products within our platform.

We are excited to announce that our FAST Platform integration is complete! This integration allows you to seamlessly access and utilize a wide range of FAST products within your store, enhancing your offerings and streamlining your operations. Stay tuned, as we will be introducing even more FAST products in the near future, providing you with an expanded inventory and more catalog options. 

One of the most notable features from this month is the ability to have store banners. This new functionality allows you to enhance the visual appeal of your store. You can display a banner that adds an aspirational or promotional angle to your store by uploading a single image. Alternatively, you can upload multiple images to create a dynamic banner carousel showcasing various internal collections and promotions. This feature not only makes your store more engaging but also provides a convenient way to highlight specific products or special offers, driving more traffic to key areas of your store.

One of the most notable features from this month is the ability to have store banners. This new functionality allows you to enhance the visual appeal of your store. You can display a banner that adds an aspirational or promotional angle to your store by uploading a single image. Alternatively, you can upload multiple images to create a dynamic banner carousel showcasing various internal collections and promotions. This feature not only makes your store more engaging but also provides a convenient way to highlight specific products or special offers, driving more traffic to key areas of your store.

We have introduced a feature that enhances the visibility and management of stores within an organization. Now, individuals at the admin or owner level can see a comprehensive list of all stores associated with the organization. This increased visibility allows for better oversight, easier management, and streamlined operations. Meanwhile, users in other roles will have a limited view, ensuring that sensitive information is kept secure and only accessible to those with the appropriate permissions. This feature improves organizational transparency and efficiency, helping teams to collaborate more effectively while maintaining secure access.

We’ve introduced enhanced shipping fee settings for your convenience. You can now set shipping fees for the first and subsequent items, customize fees for different decorators, and apply these settings at the organization and catalog levels. This flexibility allows you to tailor shipping costs to meet your business needs better and provide a more seamless experience for your customers.

We have updated the pricing feature in the dashboard to provide better guidance for merchants. This enhancement shows a product's total cost, including the blank product and embellishments. Additionally, it calculates the profit you will make based on the markup you set. 

Our upcoming selection of premade store templates will enhance how you design your store. These templates are crafted to highlight your branded products effectively, ensuring that your store looks professional and cohesive. With a variety of styles to choose from, you can easily find a template that matches your brand's identity and aesthetic. This feature will save you time and effort in designing your store layout from scratch, allowing you to focus more on your products and sales. Stay tuned for the release of these templates, as they will make it easier than ever to create a polished, engaging store.