2024-03-12
Enhanced Video Integration in Product Feeds: We have upgraded our video support to offer more flexibility in how videos are added to your product feeds. Now, videos can originate from three distinct sources:
- Default: All videos linked to a product are now automatically included in the feed.
- Preferred for Custom Videos: For a tailored approach, videos can be specified using metafield to attribute mapping rules. This update supports both single file and file list metafields, as well as comma-separated lists of URLs, offering unparalleled customization.
- Variant-Specific Videos: Utilize the variant metafield 'flexify.video' to assign videos specifically to product variants. This method supports comma-separated URLs, allowing for precise video assignment.
Furthermore, videos that are included in the feed will now be visible on the Flexify product detail page.
2024-01-31
Enhanced Additional Images Feature: We have updated the feature to include or exclude all additional images in the feeds for various types of products, including those with single/no variants, or multiple variants.
2024-01-06
Updated Character Limits for Meta Attributes Implemented: In response to Meta's recent changes, we've updated the character limits for key attributes in our system. The 'title' attribute limit has been increased from 150 to 200 characters, and the 'description' attribute limit has expanded from 5000 to 9999 characters.
2023-11-13
Manual Setup Option for Meta Supplementary Feed Released: Now, our customers can choose between setting up the feed in our App via Meta API or opting for direct setup in the Meta Commerce Manager.
2023-11-03
Bug Fix for Large Plan Onboarding: We addressed a bug affecting customers with over 9000 products (>
Large plan) during the onboarding process. For these shops, the suggested plan was empty, and the app subscription attempted with an empty charge text, leading to an error. This issue has now been successfully resolved, ensuring a smoother onboarding experience for all our users.
2023-10-20
Improvement in Localization Feed Crawler: In this update, we have enhanced the efficiency of our feed crawler for localization feeds. The update includes fetching data for each language and currency separately, resulting in more accurate and tailored information. Additionally, we have adopted a new method to extract feed item URLs in the currency feeds, leading to improved data management and synchronization.
2023-10-19
In this recent release, we have successfully updated the App to the latest Shopify Design.
2023-10-17
In this update, we have resolved an issue pertaining to category-specific attributes in the feed. Previously, attributes such as skirt_length or sleeve_length were causing complications, resulting in the rejection of the entire feed if not provided correctly. To mitigate this, we have made adjustments to our feed creation service, ensuring that the feed is accepted again. However, this may result in the probable consequence of these attributes
not being recognized by Meta.
2023-10-16
In this release, we have addressed the following issue: Earlier, our permissions check incorrectly referenced more permissions in the database than were available in the Facebook API. This discrepancy resulted in issues on the Product Detail Page, where the read_products permission was erroneously believed to be assigned. With this fix, users can now expect a smoother experience on the Product detail page.
2023-10-12
In this release, we have implemented the following enhancements:
- Product Detail Page Improvement: The MPN has been set as non-editable. Users can now utilize the variant flexify.mpn metefield efficiently to overwrite the MPN.
- Product Feed Generator Update: We have made changes to the feed generator by enclosing the value of the variant metafield flexify.video within
<video><url></url></video>, ensuring Meta's acceptance of the result.
2023-10-06
Small improvement to our app: We have enhanced the way we handle Google product categories, now following the Unicode specification. This means that we have implemented accent normalization, ensuring better accuracy and consistency in your product categorization.
2023-10-05
New feature: we now officially support metafield-to-attribute mapping for 'image_link' and additional_image_link.' This includes metafield definitions with file reference or list of file reference types for these metafields.
2023-09-21
In this release, the following issues have been resolved:
- Improved Collection Selection: We've fine-tuned our collection selection process to ensure it works seamlessly, even when the shop has more than 250 collections.
- Bug Fix: Previously, when a shop had an extensive list of collections, our app could sometimes mark them as invalid due to a query limit issue. We've addressed this problem, so you can now access all the collections without any hiccups.
2023-08-28
A new onboarding experience has been released.
2023-08-14
In this release, we have addressed the following issues:
- Resolved an app proxy problem causing Internal Server Errors on Shopify.
- Corrected variant settings that were reflecting incorrect states.
- Fixed the display issue where image usage wasn't being shown.
- Rectified a scaling problem during feed creation for the free plan.
2023-07-27
Bugfix in our tag parser is released: the number in the option part of tags like custom_label_3 : value did cause tags not to be recognized for our tag mapping rules.
2023-07-13
Custom labels are now included in our supplementary feed export, supported by Meta for seamless integration.
2023-06-26
A bug fix has been released: the key and value for the attribute "additional_variant_attribute" will now be normalized:
- commas and colons in the label and value have been removed
- the key will now only contain all other characters.
2023-06-12
Updates to the User Interface (UI) of the Flexify Quality page and Flexify Settings (Product sets) page are released:
- the buttons for the mapping rules settings are now displayed independently from the checkboxes
- the checkboxes of the mapping rules now control a button for the Shopify bulk editor
- a minor fix has been implemented for the custom labels that were previously set to 'custom_label_0' for both settings (Tags and Collections) by default.
2023-05-05
A bug fix has been released: we do not use the myshopify domain as fallback for the shop domain in currency feeds anymore, but the shop domain as it is given by our feed info request.
2023-05-05
We support the short_description attribute:
- it can now be set with our mapping rules
- the value can be seen and set on the product action page.
2023-04-26
A bug triggered re-optimization of images is fixed: Updated liquid templates resolve CDN host to shop URL correctly, preventing unintended re-optimization caused by Shopify's image URL changes.
2023-02-15
We extend our list of possible tag separators. Now we support the following basic cases:
- gender:male
- gender-male
- gender_male
- gender=male
Tag separators can also appear multiple times in sequence:
- gender--male
If tag separators occur in more than one place, we take the last:
- product_gender=male
- product_gender_male
2023-02-14
We support the "status" attribute:
- it is available for selection in our mapping rules
- we show a warning if an unsupported value is used
- it can be edited on the product action page.
2023-02-06
Since Facebook expects a country code, not the country name, we now map country names (only English for now) to country codes for the corresponding attributes.
2023-01-26
"Use SEO Titles and Description" settings are split into two new fields:
- Use "Seo Titles"
- Use "Seo Descriptions".
2023-01-04
With the new image picker on our product action page (the "Flexify Product Feed Preview" tool), we allow the selection of the desired image for each product variant. Specifying the featured image is also available with the free plans as well.
2022-01-06
Filing the custom labels metafields is now accessible for the free plan too.
2022-01-03
Additional images are now available for the free plan as well. They will be filled automatically if a product has more than one image.
2022-12-19
We allow custom labels and custom numbers to be filled via the attribute mapping rules:
- Custom labels can now be set by using option, metafield or tag to attribute mappings.
- Custom numbers are now supported and can be set by using option, metafield or tag to attribute mappings.
2022-12-07
If the Facebook supplementary feed could not be set up, we now show detailed error messages to our users.
2022-11-07
A new translation feature is released: the app translates now automatically option names and attributes values which are listed as option mapping rules. The translations get applied during feed creation and the applied attribute value translations are shown on the product action page.
2022-10-24
A feed that gets created with the "myshopify" domain as app proxy domain uses the "myshopify" domain for product links as well. Under certain circumstances, it should be valid to replace the "myshopify" domain with another domain.
If there exists a single domain in addition to the "myshopify" domain in the Shops domain settings, we will replace the "myshopify" domain with the other domain.
2022-09-29
Localization bug when the shop default language is different than the domain default language is fixed. The default language in our Frontend is changed to the default language of the primary domain that is configured for a shop on Shopify.
2022-09-09
The bug in the error log (0 products shown), if there is a colon (:) in a product type and it is not mapped to a google product category is fixed.
The bulk editor link in our deprecated "tag to Facebook product category" wizard has been changed to one that is working.
2022-09-01
Instead of the myshopify domain, we are now using the default shop domain for product links in the currency feeds, when no domain for a country has been found.
2022-08-31
The GTIN errors on the Flexify Feed Quality page are grouped
2022-08-29
There are 2 updates in this release:
- merchants receive a warning e-mail when the product limit for a plan is exceeded
"Set sale price" feature is now available with the free plan
2022-08-18
There are 2 changes in this release:
- merchants are able to provide custom email addresses for our notifications
a weekly status report will be sent to the merchants
2022-08-15
Importer attributes for selling in India are released
2022-08-01
Notifications settings with the Flexify admin panel are released
2022-07-15
The GTIN validator and "GTIN overwrite" feature with variant.flexify.gtin metafield, as well as metafield to attribute mapping rules, are released
2022-06-16
An editable product action page is released
- the permission 'write_products' is requested as soon as the product action page is visited
- it is possible to edit the Google product category, all Attributes, and all Custom labels on a variant level
- unsupported attributes for a variant can be deleted
- we allow the set any attribute for a variant to empty by internally saving a '-' in the metafield
2022-05-09
An extension mode is released. The whole app's interface is redone
2022-04-07
Support Shipping information in metafields
2022-02-04
Introduction of new mappings rules
- Shopify product type to Google product category mapping rules have been introduced
- Shopify product type to Facebook product category mapping rules are now deprecated
- Any product or variant metafield can now be mapped to feed attributes
- Multipart product tags can now be mapped to feed attributes
Revision of category specific attributes for Facebook product feeds
- Based on the Shopify product type, or more specific the mapped Google product category, we now derive a few rule for category specific attributes.
- Recommended, required, additional and not supported attributes are now detected.
- Better support for value unit attributes
2022-01-31
Stability release feed generation services.
2021-10-08
Various bug fixes and improvements:
- We did change character escapes inside the feed. Where possible we only use CDATA from now on and avoid the escaping of characters entirely.
- Our feed quality check for predefined values in now case insensitive.
- The title and description overwrite only works for our main feed from now on. Sadly we do not yet have a possibility to override title or description in the language feeds, there we currently use the values directly from Shopify's translate API.
2021-10-01
There are three major changes in this release:
- The design of the App is now more compact.
- We introduced new mapping rules for product categories and changed the existing mapping rules for feed attributes a bit.
- It is now possible to exclude specific additional images from the feed.
2021-09-09
The "inventory" attribute for the Facebook product feed becomes "quantity_to_sell_on_facebook".
2021-08-20
Our feed quality rules are released. The new Feed quality tab in the App lists quality issues we have detected within the feed. Currently, we have only enabled a very small subset of rules, which will be extended in the future.
2021-08-16
New language and country limits for our paid plans.
2021-08-06
In order to confirm with the product feed specification for XML feeds we did change the output format for additional image links from a comma separated list to multiple additional_image_link tags. This format is supported by Facebook and Google.
2021-07-23
We fixed a bug for the localised feed. In some cases we did not recognise the correct shop domain for shops in a specific language.
2021-07-16
For paying customers we extended the "Segment your products" settings.
- We do not limit the number characters anymore for the whitelist of tags or collections that should be included in the product feed.
- It is now possible to just use all tags or collections.
Basically the feature got more powerful, but it is now in the responsibility of the merchant to ensure that character limit enforced by Facebook.
Additionally we changed to price formating a bit - the whitespaces before and after the price value have been removed.
2021-06-30
The feed generation has been improved - the causes for generation failures are now more specific.
2021-06-22
We now support unit prices for Facebook product feed. Unit prices will be included automatically in the feed for all our paying customers, if they are configured for product variants at Shopify.
2021-06-21
We increased the product limits for our enterprise plans. Enterprise plans are only available on request.
2021-06-20
We now support hourly feed generation for most of our enterprise plans. We can only enable it on request, though, as we can not ensure for all shops that the feed generation can be finished within one hour.
2021-06-17
We deployed a workaround for a bug in the Shopify templating engine, that caused missing and duplicated feed items in most feeds.
2021-05-31
We now support unit prices for Google product feeds. Unit prices will be included automatically in the feed for all our paying customers, if they are configured for product variants at Shopify.
2021-05-17
Our currency feeds do now include a link the the product as well.
2021-05-14
The product action page is now online. It gives a detailed overview how a product or product variant will look in the product feed. It is linked on the Shopify product page, in the "More actions" dropdown.
2021-05-07
We decided to make the settings "Include ALL variants" and "Only include CHEAPEST available variant" available for all customers.
2021-03-15
The new setting "Include all product images for each variant" has been introduced - when using this setting, all product image will be included as additional images for each product variant.
2021-02-11
For the generation of our localised feeds we now recognise the international domains, that have been configured in Shopify.
2020-11-30
Merchants can now map variant options against product category specific feed item attributes.
2020-11-16
Country and language feeds are possible with one of our standard plans. The "Large" plan allows 1 additional language and 1 additional currency to create localised catalogs at Facebook. More languages and countries are available on request.
2020-09-30
Facebook Shops is officially supported by Flexify - product categories are assigned to products with the use of Shopify product tags and category specific attributes can be assigned to product variants with the help of the Shopify bulk editor.
2020-09-22
Flexify supports localisation for Facebook product catalogs. We are now able to generate separate feeds for different languages and currencies. For now this feature will only be available on request.
Version 2.4.4 - New Features (April 24, 2020) Hourly Sync
- Hourly Sync: you can now opt-in to hourly instead of daily feed updates.
Version 2.4.3 - New Features (March 16, 2020) Product Segments
- Product Segments: better UI to build segments based on tags & collections that can used to target ads on Facebook/Google.
- Inventory Override: set inventory value to a custom amount.
Version 2.4.2 - Bug Fixes (February 21, 2020) Collection Handling
- Bugfixes: better collection handling & page refresh.
Version 2.4.1 - Bug Fixes (February 7, 2020) Pricing Update
- After a long grace period the new pricing is now live for all NEW customers.
- Updated UI for collection selection: all collections now selectable
Version 2.4 - Public Beta - Bug Fixes (January 16, 2020) Bugfix for wrong geolocation-based prices
- Bugfix for a change on Shopify's side thqt caused some feeds to show wrong prices.
Version 2.3.1 - Public Beta - Performance Improvements (November 25, 2019)
- Minor change to improve generation of large feeds.
Version 2.3 - Public Beta - Bug Fixes (October 14, 2019)
- Bugfix for empty catalogs, UI improvements
Version 2.2 - Public Beta - New Feature (September 29, 2019)
- Premium customers can choose to only show first available cheapest product variant.
Version 2.1 - Public Beta (September 25, 2019)
- Version 2.1 "SuperFeed" made available to all customers for testing.
- Customers can switch between Version 1.0 & 2.0 in the Flexify Admin.
Version 2.0 : Private Beta (September 1, 2019)
- Version 2.0 "SuperFeed" made available to select customers for testing.
Version 1.0 : Deprecated (September 1, 2019)
- Starting today Version 1.0 is deprecated. We recommend users switch to the SuperFeed (Version 2.0) if possible.
- New features will be developed for Version 2.0 only.
- Version 1.0 remains available to all customers.