System Releases
We’re making constant continual improvements to our gift voucher shops and gift admin area (the gift app) that make a positive impact on site performance (including ‘behind the scenes’). The table below shows details of recent release updates.
| Date | Release | Notes |
| 04/12/2024 | Bug fixes | |
| 13/11/2024 | Error message improvements | |
| Bug fixes | ||
| 06/11/2024 | Bot protection enabled on Cloudflare | |
| User interface improvements | ||
| 30/10/2024 | New report added to the 'Reports' section | |
| Security upgrade of CRM | ||
| Improved resilience of checkout | ||
| 16/10/2024 | Big fixes and improvements | |
| 09/10/2024 | Report additions | |
| 25/09/2024 | Bug fixed and improvements | |
| 18/09/2024 | Discounted vouchers feature | |
| Checkout improvements | Update to order summary | |
| Partner group commission update | ||
| 11/09/2024 | Bulk order tool bug fix | |
| Optimisation of order importer tool | ||
| Various other bug fixes and improvements | ||
| 04/09/2024 | Stripe connect update | |
| 28/08/2024 | Discounted voucher feature | |
| Checkout improvements | ||
| Confirmation page improvements | ||
| Report fixes and updates | ||
| 22/08/2024 | Bug fixes and improvements | |
| 07/08/2024 | Checkout improvements | |
| 17/07/2024 | Bug fixes and updates | |
| 03/07/2024 | Sales report improvements | |
| 21/06/2024 | Improvements to refunds | |
| New optional fields added to checkout | ||
| 05/06/2024 | Updates to checkout | |
| 24/04/2024 | API - domains | |
| Improvments to images on the voucher detail pages | ||
| 20/03/2024 | Update to URLs | |
| 07/03/2024 | Sitemap fix | |
| 28/02/2024 | Update of SSL certificate | |
| Quick redeem updates | ||
| Improvements to QR scanner for iphones | ||
| PDF generator API | ||
| 14/02/2024 | Bug fixes and system improvements | |
| 24/01/2024 | Bug fixes and system improvements | |
| 03/01/2024 | Drag image reorder | |
| Improvements to site loading performance | Lazy load videos and image resizing optimisation | |
| 15/11/2023 | P5 checkout improvements | |
| 08/11/2023 | Bug fixes to the Gift App | |
| Labels/badges added to vouchers and promo codes to recognise states | P5 Gift App Version | |
| Partial redemption toggle | P5 Gift App Version | |
| 02/11/2023 | New payment methods | Stripe Our Gateway P4 have additional payment methods available |
| Checkout improvement | Delivery address (email or post) added to the order summary | |
| 01/11/2023 | Script run to update postage costs an prices in legacy | |
| 18/10/2023 | Promo code updates | |
| Security updates | ||
| 04/10/2023 | System updates and improvements | Dashboard and scheduled reports |
| 27/09/2023 | New reporting dashboard (P5) | |
| New payment methods | ||
| 13/09/2023 | CMS update | |
| 30/08/2023 | Payment gateway bug fix | |
| 23/08/2023 | Scanning with handheld scanner in P4 | |
| Bug fixes and system improvements | ||
| 16/08/2023 | Javascript update to csv reader | |
| Bug fix on QR code scanning on Apple products | ||
| Mobile friendly enhancement to Gift App login page | ||
| 09/08/2023 | QR Code - option to scan with handheld scanner rather than camera (P5) | |
| Promo codes feature (P5 Admins) | ||
| Web/print version of order receipt (P5) | ||
| 05/07/2023 | Login screen more user friendly | |
| 28/06/2023 | Payment provider fix | |
| Sale notification emails | Increased functionality | |
| 15/06/2023 | Bug fixes to enhance system | |
| 07/06/2023 | P5 version catalogue manager importer | |
| Cookie consent update | ||
| 01/06/2023 | Reports feature added to the Gift App P5 | |
| New descriptor added to Stripe | ||
| 31/05/2023 | Cookie consent update | |
| Campaign page update | ||
| 17/05/2023 | Cookie consent plugin - updates completed | |
| Gift shop improvements | ||
| Image carousel improvements | ||
| Footer branding change in checkout | ||
| 26/04/2023 | New image carousel design | Larger image option |
| Bug fixes and Stripe API update | ||
| 05/04/2023 | CMS update | |
| 15/03/2023 | Bug fixes | |
| Tool to migrate clients to latest version of our software | ||
| 22/02/2023 | GA4 code updates | |
| Tags editable in 'Quick Edit' | ||
| Audit logs available for vouchers | ||
| 15/02/2023 | Bug fixes | |
| Clone user functionality | ||
| 25/01/2023 | Stripe gateway release | |
| Gift App and Google Analytics 4 | ||
| e-voucher bug fix | ||
| 09/11/2022 | Server upgrade | For the Festive period |
| 26/10/2022 | Address autocomplete fix | |
| Dispatch emails fix | ||
| 05/10/2022 | New currencies added | |
| 21/09/2022 | Styling update to QR codes on e-vouchers | |
| 14/09/2022 | Dispatch emails (stage 1) | |
| 31/08/2022 | Bug fixes and system improvements | |
| 24/08/2022 | System improvements | |
| 27/07/2022 | Software updates | |
| Database split | ||
| 03/08/2022 | Gift shop bug fixes | |
| 01/08/2022 | Security work | Legacy server split |
| 13/07/2022 | Update to quick redeem | Update to wording if a voucher was purchased less than 72 hours ago when viewing the item(s) in quick redeem |
| 29/06/2022 | Bug fixes to enhance system | |
| SEO improvments to gift shops & CMS | ||
| New currencies added | ||
| 08/06/2022 | New campaign page layout | |
| Checkout and notification changes for a new project | ||
| 11/05/2022 | Update to the bulk edit feature in Catalogue Manager | Update validity in bulk |
| 27/04/2022 | USync fix | |
| 20./04/2022 | Meta data page per gift shop | |
| Single sign on development | ||
| 30/03/2022 | Gift shop improvements | |
| 21/03/2022 | Partial Redemption bug fix/improvement | |
| Limited Availability enhancement | ||
| 23/02/2022 | Bug fix for partial redemption | |
| 16/02/2022 | Price slider fix | |
| 10/02/2022 | Google search fix | Page title displays as intended |
| 02/02/2022 | Enabled MOTO payments on Stripe | |
| 26/01/2022 | Partial voucher redemption (beta release) | |
| 12/01/2022 | Update to user invite email | |
| eVoucher PDF improvements | ||
| 01/12/2021 | Bug fixes | |
| 24/11/2021 | iPhone payment fix | |
| Gift App enhancement to voucher scheduling | ||
| 10/11/2021 | E-vouchers, custom domains, bug fixes | |
| 01/11/2021 | New feature to enable voucher download | |
| Various bug fixes | ||
| 20/10/2021 | Gift App word count warning | |
| 20/10/2021 | New tile options added to Gift App | |
| 14/10/2021 | New online payment software refunds activated | |
| Changes to Gift App to enable Google Merchant Center | ||
| 06/10/2021 | New currency | |
| 29/09/2021 | Payment integration | Testing |
| 22/09/2021 | Gift App updates | Better user experience. |
| 16/09/2021 | Updates to the bulk order tool | Delivery methods and cost |
| 09/09/2021 | Update to the bulk order tool | |
| 02/09/2021 | Cookie Policy | Updates |
| Voucher currency update | In Catalogue Manager | |
| 30/08/2021 | User timezone displayed | In Quick Edit feature when scheduling gifts |
| 18/08/2021 | Bug fixes | |
| 12/08/2021 | Bulk action within the new 'quick edit' feature | |
| 04/08/2021 | Quick Edit | This new section allows the user to complete actions for vouchers all in 1 section quickly, without having to go into each individual voucher |
| Voucher Scheduling | Ability to set active and deactive dates and times | |
| Image Manager | No need to edit images prior to uploading to gift shop | |
| 22/07/2012 | Checkout update | Error message added |
| Quick redeem improvement | More obvious when redeeming a voucher using Quick Redeem that the redemption has actually worked | |
| Gfft App update | Broadcast message, listing heading and listing description now can be scheduled separately from main nodes | |
| 08/07/2021 | Gift App updated to the latest version | |
| 08/07/2021 | Right to left text direction - to accommodate Arabic | |
| 09/06/2021 | Characters added to whitelist | |
| 02/06/2021 | New branding section for the 'unwrapping' of the e-voucher | Allows user to set a separate text colour for the unwrapping piece |
| 27/05/2021 | Google search issue fix | Fix for how certain gift shops appear in search results |
| Ability to send e-voucher emails from a client's own email address | ||
| Gift App Catalogue Manager | Vouchers in catalogue manager now shows either green or grey depending on if it's live or inactive | |
| 19/05/2021 | Dates in American format | |
| Image 'whitelist' created for CMS | ||
| 05/05/2021 | Database work | |
| 28/04/2021 | Bug fixes | |
| 31/03/2021 | Chinese gift shop URL issue fix | |
| 17/03/2021 | Support tasks | Including .exe files cannot be uploaded to the media section - reducing the risk of viruses being uploaded |
| 10/02/2021 | 'Notes' searchable in Gift Manager | |
| 02/02/2021 | Bulk order tool | |
| 27/01/2021 | New currencies added | |
| 22/01/2021 | Updated user-friendly text for users in the Gift App | When editing a voucher |
| 31/12/2020 | 3DSv2 update | An upgrade of 3DS |
| Facebook Shop - meta tag option for verification added to CMS | ||
| 22/12/2020 | Buying options | Clients can now created & edit buying options |
| 16/12/2020 | Branding bugs on custom domains | |
| 09/12/2020 | Checkout | The local phone number prefix auto populates to the local country if the site has a country code set |
| 02/12/2020 | Promo code release | URL pre-populated with promo code |
| Filters update | Filters now work together to give more relevant results. | |
| 18/11/2020 | Bulk activate/deactivate vouchers tool | |
| 11/11/2020 | MP4s work on iphones | |
| 05/11/2020 | 'Promoted' Vouchers | Able to select order in which gift vouchers appear on gift site |
| 07/10/2020 | Catalogue Manager moved to the new environment | |
| 29/07/2020 | Set default for drop down country list in checkout | |
| 09/07/2020 | Logout after 15 minutes of inactivity implemented | |
| 13/05/2020 | Mp4 videos on campaign page headers | |
| 15/04/2020 | Gift site amendment | |
| 25/03/2020 | Dictionary item added | |
| QR code | Toggle off/on on e-Voucher | |
| e-Voucher amendment | ||
| 18/03/2020 | Quick redeem feature | Testing phase released |
| 27/02/2020 | Promo basket fix | |
| Payment express update | ||
| 12/02/2020 | Tweak to payment page to reduce errors | |
| 05/02/2020 | e-Vouchers released to various clients | |
| 29/01/2020 | e-Voucher unwrapping experience | |
| New currencies added | ||
| 22/01/2020 | Stability fix for CMS | |
| 15/01/2020 | FDMS error fixes | |
| SagePay error fix | ||
| High volume basket performance | Stability feature | |
| 18/12/2019 | Address field bug fix | |
| PDF for Evoucher release | ||
| 11/12/2019 | New dictionary item added | |
| Fix in place for delivery of invalid / incorrect / blocked email addresses | ||
| Limited Availability bug fix | ||
| 27/11/2019 | Bug for checkout field | |
| Personal message added to e-voucher (when printing only). | ||
| FDMS gateway fix | ||
| 25/11/2019 | Fix to real time reporting tool | |
| 13/11/2019 | E-Vouchers 'live' | |
| 11/11/2019 | E-Voucher tweaks | |
| Buying options card tweaks | ||
| Filter bug fix | ||
| 06/11/2019 | Real time sales report (Currently for internal use only) | |
| E-Voucher bug fix | ||
| 23/10/2019 | E-Voucher tweaks | |
| Gift App devices fix | ||
| Fix implemented for multiple users using one PC | ||
| 16/10/2019 | Checkout bug fixes & Improvements | |
| Limited Availability fix | ||
| 02/10/2019 | Bug fix to 'Print' button | |
| 25/09/2019 | Redirect to New Gift App | |
| Bug fix to campaign page | ||
| Improvement to basket validations | ||
| 18/09/2019 | Improvements to user management section in new gift app | |
| Media and branding CSS transfer to new, improved storage | ||
| Added logging to FDMS gateway transactions | ||
| 12/09/2019 | MOTO Update for Payment Gateways | |
| E-Voucher tweaks | ||
| 04/09/2019 | Bulk User Upload | Ability to upload a batch of users - enhancement |
| 28/08/2019 | Bulk User Upload | Ability to upload a batch of users |
| E-Voucher print issue fix | ||
| 21/08/2019 | Gift App upgrade | To latest version of the software |
| Gift App password bug | Password character length warning bug fixed | |
| E-Voucher | First new E-Voucher design went live |
|
| 14/08/2019 | Gift App password policy | Meeting clients requirements |
| Bug fix in Gift App | Process order site clarity | |
| Google Analytics fix | ||
| E-Voucher fixes | ||
| 07/08/2019 | E-Voucher fixes and improvements | |
| Continued work on new checkout | ||
| 31/07/2019 | Branding fix | New email voucher design |
| Bug fix | Images on static pages | |
| 24/07/2019 | New language added to Gift App | Hungarian added |
| Continued work on the new E-voucher | ||
| Improvements to Gift App | ||
| 17/07/2019 | Continued work on the new E-voucher design | |
| Improvements to the functionality of carousels | ||
| Improvements to test emails | ||
| 10/07/2019 | Update to voucher 'status' | 'Cancelled' voucher status now changes to 'expired' on expiry date |
| Update to Gift App login page | ||
| 'Buying Options' branding improvements | ||
| GTM enhancement | To differentiate between public and private users on Google Analytics | |
| System monitoring improvement | Further alerts created | |
| 03/07/2019 | Private user UX improvements | |
| 'Buying Options' improvements | On Group gift sites | |
| Error message enhancement | Users will now be shown a useful message when there is an error due to them attempting to use an unsupported card (rather than 'unknown error') | |
| Robustness code added to critical infrastructure | ||
| 26/06/2019 | Updates to 'Invite User' & 'Reset Password' emails | |
| Campaign page improvements | ||
| 19/06/2019 | New private checkout | Updated |
| Front end system release | Stability improved | |
| Campaign page improvements | ||
| 12/06/2019 | Improvements to user admin in new gift app | |
| New data layer variable for GTM | For private sales | |
| New gift app compatible with IE11 | ||
| 05/06/2019 | AB test 'live' | On the 'You may also like' feature on voucher details page |
| Improvements and fixes to users in new gift app | ||
| 29/05/2019 | New gateway integration with FDMS | |
| Campaign page improvement | ||
| New gift voucher email logo improvement | ||
| 22/05/2019 | Gift voucher emails | Added dynamic logo and bug fix |
| Campaign page improvements | ||
| Cookie policy & broadcast message bug fix | ||
| Migrated www.whatireallywanted.com to our new hosting | ||
| 15/05/2019 | Improvements to gift voucher emails | Recipient Experience Project - Phase 1 |
| Campaign page improvements | ||
| Added in Address line 2 in checkout | ||
| Carousel navigation dots re-instated | ||
| Buying option display on iphone bug fix | ||
| 01/05/2019 | Cross basket sharing functionality | Enabling cross device re-targeting of customers who have abandoned their basket in the checkout (using Salescycle software) |
| Promotional code improvements | Min Basket Value / Minimum Spend and a value off has now been enabled | |
| Buying Option improvements | ||
| Campaign Page improvements | ||
| Checkout improvement | Telephone Number field - spaces and dashes are now auto removed if a buyer enters them | |
| 24/04/2019 | Campaign page fixes | |
| USplit new A/B test started | ||
| Removed unnecessary errors from error logs | ||
| 17/04/2019 | Buying options | Fixes x 5 |
| USplit set up in our new gift app and first A/B test running | ||
| Improved payment logging | ||
| Campaign page | Fixes x 3 | |
| 10/04/2019 | Buying options | Trialing on demo |
| Trailing slash fix | Consistency for Google Analytics | |
| 03/04/2019 | Payment page Validation | |
| Fix for date label non payment card section | ||
| Fix for bug on private checkout | ||
| 30/01/2019 | Move API code from phase 3 to phase 2 | |
| Sites for live Wed 30th Jan 8am + Category mapping | ||
| Remove 'tags' on Voucher detail page | ||
| [mobile] The "View voucher" buttons in the carousel items with a long title are hidden and not clickable below the site title | ||
| New on/off button for noindex | ||
| Toggle on/off hotels filter by site | ||
| 23/01/2019 | Stability improvements | |
| 09/01/2019 | Fixed: Daily imports are scheduled many times, causing the services to run out of memory and restart | |
| Make 'Valid for X months' or 'Valid from X to X' editable in dictionary in Umbraco - to enable translations. | Updated translations |
|
| Performance improvements on the order number pooling system | Implemented support for snapshots on the OrderNumberPooler |
|
| Refunds timing out on legacy system | The timeout for the refund API increased from 6 seconds to 30 seconds SagePay contacted regarding the long response times |
|
| Remove the search icon from Checkout pages | ||
| Offline notification does not go away after reconnecting | ||
| 18/12/2018 | Sites for live + Category mapping | New sites going live |
| 13/12/ 2018 | Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse)& category mapping | |
| Make postal delivery add address text more prominent | ||
| Checkout IDs | Prepare environment for new sites going live |
|
| Disabled Google AutoComplete | In order to reduce postal address errors and give time to evaluate alternatives |
|
| 11/12/2018 | Sites for live + Category mapping | |
| Returning to a stale basket: remove discontinued items & update prices | ||
| 'Own fulfillment' items coming into JEMs feed | The legacy integration for the new checkout doesn't differentiate between 'SKC fulfillment' and 'customer fulfillment'. This is causing our clients own fulfilment (so in the seller level delivery methods we set these as 'dispatch by: customer' because it will be the customer, not JEM, fulfilling it) items to appear in JEM's feed since the clients go live on new checkout |
|
| 06/12/2018 | Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | |
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| 04/12/2018 | Fix SEO fields (meta and description tags and search engine indexing) | |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| 'you may also like' voucher detail page - area toggle to show/hide | ||
| Add an ability to have the global broadcast message not show on some sites | ||
| 29/11/2018 | Performance update | Significant performance gains across all sites. Includes image optimisations and improved caching. |
| UX updates around postal deliveries | ||
| 22/11/2018 | Refunds not working on latest deployment | |
| Crude vouchers sold report | ||
| 20/11/2018 | Fix logging on legacy system | |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse)& category mapping, one for onboarding | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| Card expiry field entry formatting and error message | ||
| Card number field polishing | ||
| 19/11/2018 | Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| 12/11/2018 | Daily import missing some sellers | returning sellers that don't belong to a group |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| 05/11/18 | Daily import missing some sellers | Legacy catalogue import was not returning sellers that don't belong to a group |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| CSS file being published on releases causing site to lose branding | ||
| 29/10/18 | GA datalayer change | Resolve ‘duplicate page view’ and ‘purchase event’ error messages happening for some of the sites with FB pixel in place |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| 22/10/18 | Fix for newly discovered Failed payment reason | SagePay occasionally responds with "paRes contains invalid characters" - e.g. all cards from Czech bank Ceská Spořitelna) |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| 15/10/18 | Serialize access to the legacy integration website to prevent flooding it with orders | Fix identified from Load testing |
| Copy sites & media folders from phase 2 to phase 3 | ||
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| Email placeholders not pulling through from phase 3 sales | E.g. ‘you have bought a voucher from ##SellerName##’ |
|
| Add scrollbar to ‘Payment Method’ page in CMS | No scrollbar was causing difficulties for us when creating more Sales Channels for the checkout |
|
| 08/10/18 | Fix daily import on Phase 3 | |
| Sites released to Phase 2 (new browse) | ||
| Sites released to Phase 3 (new checkout) | ||
| 01/10/18 | Delivery prices not showing on legacy sites | Fix for an issue caused by change in last release |
| Improve how deliveries are imported into Phase 3 | Fixes a bug where changing delivery method details in admin might cause issues on Phase 3 checkout |
|
| 14 sites migrated to Phase 2 | ||
| 4 sites migrated to Phase 3 | ||
| Display new ‘tags’ under ‘Category’ in reports for Phase 3 orders | Phase 3 checkout changes that way vouchers are “tagged” for display to buyers, this is now shown in reports |
|
| Fix for Phase 3 orders may fail due to delivery method changes in admin | ||
| Performance update to Phase 3 data import | Improves the way that voucher data is updated between admin and Phase 3 |
|