May Patch Notes: New Features & Product Updates

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Hi everyone! My name is Walker and I’m one of the co-founders at Fourthwall. The monthly patch notes blog is a way for us to show off all the improvements and fixes that are made to the Fourthwall platform on a monthly basis. If you have any thoughts on how we can improve the format, let us know on Discord or by tweeting me @walkeriwilliams.

New YouTube Merch Shelf App: Making it way easier to show products below your YouTube videos

One of our big releases this month was our new YouTube Merch Shelf app, which makes it far easier to show off your products below your YouTube videos. We also added support for connecting multiple YouTube channels to a single store, and a system for keeping you informed on Google’s product review process. You can get all the details in our release article!

Team member roles and permissions: A big improvement to managing your team​​

We also released our new team member roles and permissions feature, which lets you invite other people to administrate your Fourthwall website while controlling what they can see and change. This allows you to do things like invite a designer into your account to create new products, without letting them see your sales history or change your payout details. Get the full story in our release article.

Promotions improvements: Combine Free Shipping with %-off Discounts (and More)

The engineering team released a few improvements to our promotions tools in May, including the following:

• You can now combine free shipping and %-off discounts into a single promo code
• You can now limit free shipping promotions to specific products
• You can now limit promotions to only be redeemable in specific countries

Read our full write-up for more details

Memberships improvements: Stream alerts, shadowbans, and clickable + searchable tags

The Memberships team has been hard at work these last few months, and in May they shipped dozens of improvements. Here are three of the bigger ones:

Stream Alerts

You can now use our existing StreamElements and Streamlabs integrations to configure alerts for when a supporter becomes a member! Full support for SE and SL event feeds is also included, so you can easily access your purchase history, stay up to date, and thank members for their support. For more details and configuration instructions, check out our help center article. 

Clickable tags & tags in search

We made it easier for members to navigate through your posts with the ability to click tags on posts (which will bring them to a page showing all other posts with that tag), as well as including tags in search results (so if a member searches for “Comic”, all posts tagged with “Comic” will show up).

Shadowbans

We know moderating a large group can be hard, especially when one a members starts being disruptive. You now have the ability to shadowban disruptive members, preventing their comments from being viewable by you or other members.

Mobile app improvements:

We also made a number of improvements to our iPhone and Android apps.

Improvements to the Fourthwall iOS App: 

• You can now create memberships promotions directly from the app
• You can now view your profit balance
• You can now view payment methods from the app (used for samples ordering, giveaway codes, etc.)
• You can also set a monthly spending limit to your payment methods

Improvements to the Fourthwall Android App: 

• You can now create memberships promotions directly from the app
• You can now create new promotions for specific products
• You can now generate multiple promo codes at once
• You can now archive old promotions

A faster way to create new products and promotions from your dashboard

We added a quick link to the top right of your admin dashboard that makes it faster than ever to create new products and promotions:

Giveaway links can now be deleted

A small but often requested improvement: Giveaway links can now be deleted!

Added a resources link to the homepage

We added a Resources tab to the homepage to make it easier to find our support center and community:

Production methods are now visible on product cards

You can now see the production methods that are available for any products in our product catalog from the product browsing experience, without having to click into the product. This makes it easier to understand what products are available for embroidery, DTFx, etc. If you want to learn more about the different production methods Fourthwall supports, check out this blog on production techniques.

Twitch gifting: Making it easier to understand what was collected for shipping

We’ve made it much easier to understand what gifters paid to cover shipping when purchasing a Twitch gift by making it a seperate line item on the order summary:

Added support for Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

Google is ending support for their Universal Analytics (UA) tracking on July 1st in favor of the new Google Analytics (GA4) solution. Be sure to update your Google Analytics 4 ID in the Analytics tab under the site editor in your Fourthwall dashboard to take advantage of this new system!

Improved emoji support

For those of you trying to add emojis to the name of your site or product names, we have some good news: Emojis are now fully supported throughout your Fourthwall shop, app, and dashboard! 🦸🎉🎉

A major push to solve bugs and release small experience improvements (>100 bugs fixed)

Our engineering team made a huge effort this month to reduce bugs and improve the Fourthwall experience, with hundreds of bug reports solved and dozens of small experience improvements released. We want to make using Fourthwall magical, and we’re committed to continuing to solve bugs and issues as you all report them on Discord, Twitter, and via email!

And that's our May roundup! See you all next month for June's Patch Notes.