July Patch Notes: Open API, Webhooks, And More!

Is it really August already?! We made a lot of progress in July, including launching our open API and webhooks, improving product creation tools, and dozens of other improvements and fixes.

This month we’re organizing the Patch Notes around the product teams (Core Platform, Memberships, Product Catalog, Mobile Apps, and Site Builder) that were responsible for releasing the new features and improvements. Let me know what you think of the new structure by messaging me @walkeriwilliams!

CORE PLATFORM TEAM

The Core Platform team is responsible for your admin dashboard and management experience, from payouts to inviting new team members. They also manage the checkout experience. Here are some highlights from July.‍

Open API and Webhooks

I am so so excited to announce the launch of our open API and webhooks, which you can check out at docs.fourthwall.dev!

An open API will enable you to build unique experiences on top of our core platform – we’re so excited to see what you build and we plan on opening up more and more of the platform in the coming months.

If you have questions or requests for the API or webhooks, join us on Discord in the #API channel!

Ability to edit live promotions

You can now edit promotions you’ve already created! This is another long-requested feature that the team was excited to be able to get done.

MEMBERSHIPS

We’ve been hard at work on improving the memberships experience. Here are a couple of July highlights:

Search posts and members

You can now search through your Members and Posts on your dashboard, making it faster and easier to manage your members’ experience.

Improved support for vertical videos and images

Vertical videos and photos now look beautiful in the feed!

How vertical video is handled as your browser resizes A single (adorable) vertical image post How multiple vertical photos look in a post (also adorable but I'm more of a dog person)

Ability to preview your Perks tab as your members will see it

You can now preview your Perks tab to see it exactly as your members do!

PRODUCT CATALOG

The Product Catalog & Order Management team handles the entire Fourthwall.com/products experience, from the tools to design products all the way through to how orders are sent to manufacturers and shipped out to your customers.

New & improved artwork control in our product designer

You can now set an exact size (in cm or inches) for your art, duplicate artwork, and change the order in which your art appears (which artwork should be in the foreground/background).

These new controls are live today for many products (posters, pillows, etc.), and we’ll be making them available on all the products in the product catalog over the next month or two!

All products now have multiple photography angles

We added more mockups and angles of products for dozens of products in our catalog, with the goal of making sure every product has 3+ photography angles for you to use in your product listing.

Improved out-of-stock communication and visibility

We’ve made it easier for you to see which colors and sizes are out-of-stock (or completely discontinued) in our catalog, so you can have confidence that the products will work for you and your community.

MOBILE APPS

We know many of you primarily use our mobile apps (both iOS and Android) to manage your websites, and we’re continuing to make progress on making these experiences great. Here’s a quick recap of what the team got done in July:

Payment methods support

You can now manage your payment methods via the Fourthwall app! Both adding new payment methods and changing existing payment methods are supported!

Editing live promotions is also available on mobile

Matching the new desktop functionality, you can now edit live promotions on mobile as well!

SITE BUILDER

The Site Builder team is responsible for the tools you use to customize the look & feel of your website, as well as the rendering engine that actually brings it to life each time someone visits your site!

Major speed and reliability improvements

The Website Builder team spent the month doing deep engineering work to improve the reliability and speed of our website rendering engine. The results were amazing, including a 30% improvement for load speeds as well as better support and load speeds for shops with 1,000+ products (yes, there are a few folks who have now crossed into having thousands of products on their shop).

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... and that's a wrap for July! Look out for some big announcements in August, we've got a couple big product launches coming as we gear up for the holiday season.