Light Store | Sell your software v20.2.1

Fixed light mode in creator dashboard

New Features:

• Added new "creator dashboard". The creator & admin dashboards have been split into separate dashboards.

Here's a brief list of reasons why this change was made:

• Accessing the admin panel no longer requires creating a store.
• Products, coupon codes, licenses and transactions can be easily scoped to the user: On the creator dashboard, you only see your items. On the admin dashboard, you see anyone's items. This eliminates the need for the "My Store" and "All Stores" tabs.
• It makes it easier to control the permissions.
• Simplifies development, since we no longer have to worry about scoping everything to the tenant (in this case the vendor).
• Makes a dedicated spot for non vendor-scoped items, like store-wide settings, logs, gateways and API tokens.
• Does not ever allow normal users into the admin dashboard, reducing the risk of unintended privilege escalation.
• Adds a distinct design to the user dashboard and does not break the user out of the overall store design language, like the old combined dashboard did.
• The code base is simpler as a result, which inherently means faster & better development.

INFO: The watermark removal addon now applies for the watermarks under the main page (publicly accessible) and in the creator dashboard (accessible to sellers on your page).

The admin panel has an irremovable product name + version watermark, but it does not link to the product page and simply displays a version.

• Products in the store now utilize soft deletes, which allow for recovery of deleted products from the admin panel. You may choose to permanently delete products from there as well.
• In the admin panel, choose "Filters" -> "With deleted records" to view soft-deleted products, and restore them or force delete them.
• You might need to add the products.restore and products.force-delete permission to your roles if they were made before this update.
• Some actions formerly available in the admin panel have been moved and are now only available in the creator dashboard, because of their irrelevancy to administrative management. These features include:
• Importing from BuiltByBit
• Similarly, some actions previously unavailable in the admin panel have been reinstated (or added). These include:
• Deleting products from table view
• Restoring and force-deleting soft-deleted products
• Added automatic backup generation. This backup contains the app state + a database dump. They are saved in the storage/private/store-backups directory and regenerated every day at 01:30am of your configured timezone.
• Added category icons and redesigned category navigation.
• Added "Recent Transactions" table widget to the creator dashboard.

Fixes & Changes:

• Removed redundant duplicate classes in app.css files.
• Fixed logs file cutting off some content at the end.
• GET /api/register will now redirect to /, which will avoid the possibility of a 405 error when refreshing the page after registering.
• Removed redundant info.view and theme.edit permission flags.
• Addon products, if hidden, no longer have a link to their page.
• Minor changes to the "check your inbox" text after registration.

Note: We've changed the way we version the store.
The store follows semantic versioning, which means the particular version numbers are called: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (e.g., v1.2.3).

The major version is now the former minor number and will be used for regular "feature updates". The minor version is now the old patch number, and will be used for updates categorized as "small updates". And lastly the new patch number will be used to hotfix / patches existing versions only.

For example, the formerly named version v1.12.2 would now be v12.2.0.

This is a minor update.


New Features:

• Added new "Thank you for your order" page. Users will see a link to redirect them to the licenses page, where they can download their bought products.
• Any themes utilizing the theme API should copy in the new page: pages/ThankYou.tsx to their own codebases.
• Authentication pages got a gradient accent that adjusts to your theme's primary color.

Fixes & Changes:

• Adjusted the behavior of total calculation in the earnings charts. The total amount at the time of payment is now saved & used (with discounts from sales & discount coupons included in the calculation), as opposed to using the current product's price at the moment of viewing the chart - whih might've meant the earnings chart would lie.
• Charts might have been reset due to this change. Data will return to being displayed for any further sales.
• Fixed stores getting credited amounts calculated without discounts.
• Fixed potentially duplicate licenses being granted.
• Improved vendor crediting logic with a DB-level transaction, which will revert changes in the case of insertion errors.
• Fixed products count not showing in the admin "Stores" table.
• Limited log file length on the "Logs" tab to prevent memory allocation size errors with very large log files.
• Fixed logs overflowing on the right side of the box.
• Fixed "Unverified email" error message not showing up when logging in.
• Refactored and improved the Docker setup to use supervisord for launching cron and the queue. docker-entrypoint.sh has also been relocated to docker/, and php.ini moved out of the php dir to docker/. This should result in less layers overall which inherently means smaller Docker images.
• Fixed Aurora overflowing a bit horizontally, creating the "x" scrollbar.

• Fixed "Free" button being the inverse of the actual state.
• The min and max price filters now filter according to the discounted total price, not original.
  
  

• Fixed possible app start error related to migrations.

New Features:

• Added the option to toggle "Free" products during creation.
• Implemented a new footer design, which allows for better visual composure when using a few (2-3) footer link columns.
• Added the discount field when creating.
• Product gallery images can now be reordered by dragging.
• Made custom links reorderable.
• Extended the size of the page container on the largest screens.

Fixes & Changes:

• Fixed ?free=1 flag getting set when setting min/max price on the search page.
• Fixed addons not showing under the "Available Add-ons" section in the product page when "Hidden" product flag is on, which was unintentional.
• Discount field now hides when the product is marked as "free".
• Fixed visibility of cover images in the product table.
• Greatly improved the "Prices" column in the products table, showing a red badge when pricing is not set and a green badge for free products. The discount column is also "-" when the product is free or there is no pricing available.
• Extended the product edit page container wider on desktop to fit more information.
• Removed permission override for legacy admin users.
• Added a toggle to disable the uploading the product file & consequently automatic creation of v1.0.0 when creating the product.
• All links and images in product descriptions are now opened in a new tab.
• Fixed potential error when sending webhooks during product events.
• Submitting the cover image is now optional during product creation.
• Adjusted the behavior of carousel images sizing, they now extend the entire width of the carousel box.

Small Improvements:

• Product titles, taglines and slugs are now automatically trimmed of leading and preceeding whitespace (mostly spaces).
• Fixed warning in console on product page.

Fixes & Changes:

• Fixed potential error on product page when tags aren't set.

New Features:

• Added product tags. Each product can have up to 5, and each tag can be up to 20 characters long.
• Added product links "sidebar" position to add product links under the product metrics.
• Added option to link external pages in the navbar using the custom pages tab on "External Link" mode.

Fixes & Changes:

• Removed theme editor in favor of using an editor like VS Code, over SSH mode, to edit the themes. The theme system itself remains.
  • "We've realized that making a sensibly good web editor for editing the code is not worth the development & maintenance time required to do so. It has caused the building process to run about 10x slower in full mode (due to the massive 4 MB Monaco Editor bundle), prolonging Docker deployments; moreover, development has been redirected to making a worse-than-existing web editor, from actual feature development."
  • A docs guide has been published on editing the themes in your editor of choice over SSH. Docs for SSH in VS Code • Docs for SSH in PhpStorm