Changelog

You can now duplicate customisers on your store. This feature allows you to create a copy of an existing customiser and make changes to the new one without affecting the original. This is major quality of life improvement for merchants who want to create similar customisers with minor changes.

We have also improved our support process to make it very easy to duplicate customiers from other stores, what used to take hours now takes a couple of seconds, this will greatly help with merchants wanting to copy over the same customiser data from one store to another that they both own. Just ask our support team and they will be able to help you with this.

We have been able to decrease the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) score by 95% on average. This is a significant improvement from before and may provide a boost in SEO as search engines such as google factor in CLS as one of the performance metrics for page speed ranking. This improvement will also provide a better user experience for your customers while the app is loading.

The new fixed height model is similar to our fixed width model in terms of options to control the letter price and sizes, but with the key difference being that the height of each line is set to a desired value measured in centimeters and the overall width of the sign is variable.

The fixed height model, like the fixed width model, allows you to set a minimum and maximum amount of text characters per size and also set a maximum amount of lines per size.

Pricing for the fixed height model is a based on a price per letter and a price per line.

Since the introducion of this new model, we have renamed the previously called “simple” model to “fixed width” model.

Several new options have been added to the advanced pricing rules that allow you to control the shipping price and how it is calculated. Our Advanced pricing model now includes the ability to select between a flat (cm2) or Volumetric weight calculation for the shipping price.

Volumetric weight

Volumetric weight is a pricing method used by couriers to account for the density of a package. It is calculated by multiplying the length, width, and height of the package and then dividing by a volumetric factor. This allows you to charge more accurately for the space that a package takes up in a delivery vehicle such as a plane.

Up untill now we could not determine a length of a sign, this update now allows you to set a length to each size range in the advanced pricing rules.

The width and height of a sign are automatically calculated by our app, however you can now add additonal padding to these two values to account for the packaging material.

Option 1. Add volumetric weight price to final product price

This option will calculate the volumetric weight in kilograms and multiply this value against a unit price that you set. This will then be added to the final product price.

Option 2. Let Shopify handle the shipping price (shipping price calculated at checkout)

This option will pass the calculated weight to the product in Shopify and let Shopify handle the shipping price. This is useful if you have a shipping app that can handle volumetric weight calculation.

Improved admin experience

Adjustments have been made to made our advanced pricing merchant admin UI to make it easier to use and see the changes you are making.

You can now set how the price multiplier is applied to either the final product price or the letter price subtotal. This new feature allows for more accurate control over the pricing for all the exisitng options that current support a price multiplier e.g. colors, materials, backboards, mountings etc.

You can now add a description to an individual color.

We are now using our new sign renderer to generate the product images, this new version of our sign renderer comes with a lot of visual improvements to create more realistic looking signs.

Product images generated by our app are now 1000px by 1000px, which increases the quality of the main product image and provides a 1x1 dimension which may display better for certain themes. Previous dimensions were 492px wide x 354px high.

Create your sign customiser for free while you startup your new store; it can take some time to create a new customiser that is unique to your store, there are lots of options to add you might need to source some quotes from manufacturers to get the pricing just right.

Starting today, you can now completely manage all your customiser data without having to be subscribed to one of our plans. You can use our admin to quickly preview all the changes you make to your customiser and get right back to updating the data all in the same interface.

This new update will help give you the time and confidence you need to get everything setup up and ready for launch!

We will also be there every step of the way to help you on this exciting journey.

Visiting the merchant admin of our app will feel a little bit different next time you visit. That is because we have updated the interface to the latest version of Polaris, Shopifys core admin experience.

This update allows us to unify our apps admin with the rest of Shopify and also incorporate all the latest new components that will improve the day-to-day workflows for merchants. We have also improved two workflows, the customiser list found on the home page and also the customiser creation workflow.

You can now easily find the customiser you wish to manage using our preset filter options to reduce the list of customisers. This new feature helps when you working with many different customisers in one store.

You can now quickly preview, edit and delete a customiser all from the home screen, to do see just click on the three dots … found on the right handside of each customiser in the list.

We have updated our plan offerings for Sign Customiser with the addition of a new plan called “Standard” that allows your store to create unlimited customisers and also include forms on your customisers.

This new plan is cheaper than our existing “pro” plan which includes the ability to use our advanced letter sizing and pricing model and also features that help with automating the logistics of building and shipping custom signs.

For a further explanation of features and plans check out our pricing page.