Everything We Added to Fourthwall in 2023

2023 was an eventful year when it comes to product updates. In this blog we’re going over all of the improvements our team has made this past year, from making it easier to design your website, all the way to API & Webhooks.

Website Designer

• We added the ability to create nested menus that make it easier for supporters to navigate your site, and made it easier to create nested dropdown menus in your navigation.
• You can now duplicate themes, rename themes and delete unused themes.
• We added a visible dropdown menu in the theme editor so you can now quickly change and add new pages to your site.
• Emojis are now fully supported throughout your Fourthwall shop 🥳
• The ability to add multiple pages to your site became available.
• You can now customize the image that shows up when someone shares your link which is super cool.
• We added a quick link to the admin dashboard, making creating products and promotions easier than ever. 
• The site builder team took a lot of time this year to improve the reliability and speed of our website, causing over a 30% improvement for load speeds.
• We improved the experience of adding new sections to your page with a dedicated window that categorizes the sections, making it easier to navigate.
• You can now edit your account name after your account is created.
• In June we also added support for Kick, Ko-Fi and Patreon links in our website design.
• We added a new admin bar, making it easier to manage your site.
• We added default personalized Favicons. 

Product Catalog

• All over print pillows, pint glasses, flags, swimsuits, aprons, posters, knitwear, jewelry, mousepads, and so much more.
• We also made a lot of previously requestable products available for design. 
• Not only did we add so many new products, we have a new filter added to the catalog, filtering by brands. 
• We have a refreshed product catalog display. 
• We added the ability to see the production methods that are available for each product without having to click into them.
• You can now see all available printing techniques under the product, rather than separate listing for each technique. 
• You can now order samples straight from the product details page.
• We also added the ability to download templates for requestable products.
• Now, out of stock and back in stock emails are sent out so you can keep track of your products.
• You can now duplicate products easily in your products page.

Product Designer

• In the product designer, you can now set an exact size for your art, duplicate art and change the order in which your art appears.
• All products now have multiple photography angles that you can use for your product listing, as well as new model photography on dozens of products. 
• We’ve made it easier to see which colors and sizes are out of stock in the product catalog.
• We added support for printing transparency/fades on apparel.
• We upgraded the product design experience with faster photography generation, the ability to rearrange fabric/product colors, and better thread color management for embroidery.
• Product designer speed has been improved and there were a lot of performance bug fixes.
•  If you update a digital product, you have the ability to send the new file out to all previous buyers.
• Creators no longer need to choose a specific printing technique. Our system will automatically select the best printing technique based on your fabric weight, artwork size and colors. (You can still select this manually if you’d like)
• We are now launching product templates that can be downloaded in the designer, currently only available for knitwear, but we plan to support this in all complex products.
• We added compare-at pricing.

Integrations

• ShipStation, which makes it easy to import and manage self-fulfilling orders and print shipping labels.
• TikTok Shop, allowing you to connect your Fourthwall shop to TikTok.
• YouTube Merch Shelf, super useful for YouTubers, promote your products directly under your videos.
• The Beehiv app, so you can automatically sync your Fourthwall newsletter signups and emails. 
• Klaviyo, allowing past buyers to opt in to receive promotional emails during checkout. 
• Laylo app, which is a tool that helps you to announce and promote your drops directly to your supporters.
• We also refreshed the look of the apps page.

Mobile App

• We added the ability to sign up for Fourthwall on the app.
• You can also now easily access your memberships page, manage your memberships content, and create membership promotions all directly from the app. 
• We made it so you can view your profit balance, add payment methods, and set monthly spending limits. 
• We added the ability to create new promotions for specific products, generate multiple promo codes, archive old promotions, and edit live promotions.
• In the app you can now set your site status, as well as view your sample credit.
• Lastly, we have made a beautiful visual upgrade to the mobile view, making it a bit more compact.

Twitch Gifting

• You now have the ability to choose how the shipping costs are covered. You can have the costs covered by the recipient, by you, or can set it so you pay up to a certain amount and the rest is covered by the recipient. 
• The ability to redo giveaways if there was no winner selected or the winner did not redeem their gift.
• We’ve updated the algorithm that powers Twitch Gifting, improving the randomness of the winner selection.
• We made it super easy to see what gifters are paying for shipping by adding a separate line item on the order summary.
• You can now receive links to Twitch gifting moments after each stream.

Memberships

• This year memberships became available to everyone and we updated the memberships onboarding checklist. 
• We added the ability to add multiple images to a memberships post (up to 50 on a single post)
• We added the option to pin one message per post in your member’s only area, and members are notified with an email whenever one of their comments is pinned by the creator.
• We created the Discord Memberships channel. 
• The ability to offer custom discounts to your Twitch subscribers on any memberships tier.
• We made it so you can use promo codes to give discounts on memberships.
• There is now a stream alert for memberships.
• We added the ability to shadowban disruptive members. 
• You’re able to publicly display how many members you have in each tier (if you want to).
•  If you’re logged into your admin dashboard and you visit your members only area, you’ll now be automatically logged in!
• You can now search through your members and posts on your dashboard.
• We improved support for vertical photos and videos.
• We added the ability to preview your perks tab to see it the same way your members do. 
• highlight your recent membership posts on your homepage to show people what they’re missing.
• Infinity scrolling was launched in the memberships feeds, for both desktop and mobile.
• There’s a new memberships upselling feature, which lets you offer shop supporters a free month of membership with their shop order.
• The memberships video player had some updates: automated closed captions, previews that make it easier to skip through the video, and background playback. 
• Advanced tag filtering for memberships was added- allowing you to use multiple tags at once for a post. 
• And we now have Vimeo and Streamable embeds for memberships posts.

Creator Dashboard 

• We improves promotion options: You can now combine free shipping and % off discounts, limit free shipping promotions to specific products and limit promotions to only be redeemable in specific countries.
• You can now create promo codes that give discounts to current members who upgrade their membership tier.
• This year we introduced our new Agency Dashboard. This was built for people who work with multiple creators and need a way to keep track of all of the sites they manage. In this dashboard there is an analytics tab, a small graph to the websites tab that shows your profit, you can add a payout bank to your dashboard.
• To the agency dashboard we also added a few new graphs: top products sold by unit, sales by country and members.
• In the analytics tab you can now clearly see twitch gifting and profits, twitch gifting redemption status, order quantities, average sales and average profit, discounts, cancels and refunds.
• We introduced some new team member roles and permissions (like the thank you note sender), allowing creators to invite people to administer their site while only giving them certain permissions. 
• Twitch gifts and donations are now included in downloaded order data, we now correctly label sample orders, and the downloaded spreadsheet is now sorted by transaction date.
• We added an awesome support bot within the dashboard and updated the onboarding checklist for new creators. 
• Supporters now have the ability to change their shipping address.
• We have added a manage notifications link at the bottom of emails you receive from Fourthwall, to give you more control over what emails you receive.
• Transactions that would result in a negative profit that cannot be covered by your account balance are now blocked to protect you from negative balances. 
• Last but CERTAINLY not least, we introduced a new fully branded mobile app for memberships. 

The team has been working really hard to take your guys’ feedback into consideration and make Fourthwall the best option for creators. We have so many exciting changes coming next year as well. We want to thank you all for an amazing year, and we’re so excited to work with you in 2024 🥳