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Garnet Product Releases
28 January - Sanitize product descriptions from integrations
Product descriptions imported from external integrations are now sanitized to remove potentially unsafe HTML before being synced to Shopify.
27 January - Vendor directory supports registration metafield images
The vendor directory component can now display images from vendor registration form metafields. Select "Collection metafield" as the image source and enter the metafield key (e.g. profile-picture) to use the vendor's uploaded profile image instead of the collection image.
27 January - Faster integration product approval
Reduced the cooldown between integration product approvals from 1 hour to 10 minutes. Vendors can now approve new batches of products more frequently.
27 January - Fix refunded orders showing as unfulfilled
Fixed an issue where fully refunded orders were incorrectly displayed as unfulfilled in the dashboard. These orders are now correctly treated as completed.
26 January - Search in admin panel
You can now quickly find settings in the Admin Panel using the new search feature. Press Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K on Mac) or click the Search button to open the search modal. Results navigate directly to the matching section.
26 January - Admin panel design improvements
We made several improvements to the Admin Panel design to prepare for upcoming features. The panel now has better navigation with hierarchical breadcrumbs, improved form layouts, and a more polished overall appearance.
26 January - Vendor invitation documentation
New video tutorial explaining the 3 ways to invite vendors to your marketplace: manual invitation, application form, or custom authentication form.
23 January - WooCommerce integration now supports unlimited products
The WooCommerce integration no longer has product limits. Previously limited to around 3000 products, now all large store can now fully synchronize their catalog with the marketplace.
23 January - View integration product details
You can now click "Open" on any product in the integration products list to view all its details in a modal. This includes the external ID, price, stock, status, and all metadata fields from the vendor's store.
23 January - Vendor self-registration custom code
Marketplaces can now allow vendors to register directly using a custom HTML form with Cloudflare Turnstile verification. Enable "Custom onboarding form" in Admin Panel > Applications `and configure your Turnstile keys. The form supports collecting vendor profile fields during registration.
22 January - Custom authentication forms documentation
New documentation for marketplaces that want to build their own login UI using simple HTML forms. Includes code snippets for custom login, password recovery, and registration forms.
22 January - Fix variant dimensions saving to wrong variant
Fixed an issue where variant dimensions (length, width, height, unit) were incorrectly saved to the first variant instead of the currently edited variant.
21 January - Export integration products to CSV
You can now export your integration products to a CSV file. The export includes product details, metadata, and approval status, making it easier to review and manage your catalog outside of Garnet.
21 January - Attach existing images to variants
When editing a variant, you can now attach an image from the product's media panel instead of uploading a new one. This reduces duplicate uploads when multiple variants share the same image. Learn more.
21 January - Faster documentation page loads
Improving documentation page load performance and reducing layout shifts.
20 January - Vendor pages now default to newest products first
When a vendor page is created, products are now sorted from newest to oldest by default. This helps showcase the vendor's latest products to customers.
20 January - Vendor notification when order is cancelled
Vendors now receive an email notification when an order is cancelled. This helps vendors stay informed about cancelled orders without needing to constantly check the dashboard.
19 January - Product integration now supports over 5000 products
The ecommerce product integration now supports synchronising over 5000 products from vendor stores. This allows larger vendors to fully integrate their catalog with the marketplace.
16 January - Improved shipping rate slider for complex setups
The shipping rate slider now works better for complex shipping configurations, making it easier to test and visualize shipping rates across multiple carriers and zones.
16 January - Easier specification management
It is now easier to reorder and upload large quantities of product specifications. Use the "Add multiple" option to paste multiple values at once, one per line.
16 January - Improved refund handling
Garnet now supports more edge cases when it comes to refund splitting, including order-level refunds where the entire order is cancelled without specific line items being refunded.
13 January - Stripe balance no longer displayed
The Stripe balance is no longer shown in Garnet. This allows operators to process payouts with privacy.
8 January - Vendor details better display
We improved the design on the vendor details to include more advanced fields.
6 January - Marketplace name in the browser history
Garnet Marketplace has a better footprint on the browser. When a user visited Garnet, they can find back the link using the name of the marketplace.
4 January - Add your custom domain favicon
If you set your custom domain, you can now change your favicon. The image will show in the browser tab.
3 January - Customize email addresses
You can now customize your sender and recipient email. Use the recipient address to receive admin emails on a specific mailbox. Use the sender address if you want vendors to reply to a specific email address.
28 December - Integration products can be filtered by custom information
On the ecommerce product selector you can now filter the list of products by title, sku, and other variables. Based on the integrations, more fields will be available.
23 December - Simpler commission picker
We revamped the commission picker to make it easier to read and to set.
There are now 3 types:
- percentage commission, like
20%of the amount, - simple commission, like
$10 + 10%of the amount, - advanced commission, with different stages such as
20%for items below $100 and15%for items above.
23 December - Improved order split for marketplace discounts
We improved how orders are split by vendor to better handle edge cases with marketplace-wide shipping discounts. This ensures that discounts applied to shipping are now correctly distributed proportionally across multiple vendors based on their shipping contribution, rather than being duplicated.
Also we now show all shipping discounts to vendors.
23 December - More precise product count
Product counter is no longer capped to 10k on the vendor page. If the vendor has over 10k products, the displayed count will be accurate.
22 December - Custom vendor profile documentation
Admins can now add a custom documentation link to help vendors complete their profile. Configure the URL and link text in the vendor profile settings, and it will appear in the vendor's profile page alongside the profile approval section.
22 December - Faster vendor list
We made some internal improvement to drastically improve the speed of loading vendors. Marketplaces with +5k vendors or +30k products will see a significant improvement.
22 December - More efficient price/stock integration update
Our eCommerce integrations now offer 3 types of integrations:
- Full Synchronization will synchronise all products from the vendor to the marketplace. Title, description, images, price, compare price, SEO.
- Price and Stock Only will synchronise the price and stock. It is the default settings.
- Stock only, useful when the price on the marketplace can change arbitrarily.
- Synchronise all products is enabled by default. When turned off the marketplace can select which product will be accepted in the marketplace.
19 December - Add GTIN/barcode in Shopify integration
When synchronising products from a Shopify integration, the GTIN/barcode is now included. This ensures product identifiers are properly transferred to the marketplace.
18 December - Integration, select your products
Vendors can now select which products to synchronise from their eCommerce platform. When "Synchronise all products" is turned off, vendors can pick specific products to import into the marketplace.
18 December - Integration view revamp
We revamped the integration settings. Once the integration is live, the vendor and the marketplace can configure what information is sent to the marketplace.
18 December - Order notes display in orders
You can now show/hide the order notes to vendors.
17 December - Rename "Warehouse address" to "Ship from"
In live shipping rate, the term Ship from is more suited for most marketplaces.
10 December - Split release per year
We have a lot to show and this release page is becoming slow. We added another page for last year's release.
9 December - Rename "approve" to "move to live"
We had several wordings to mention live and pending products. We unify this wording by removing the terms approve and unapprove on products.
9 December - Number, integer and price metafields
We now have 3 more metafields integrated: number, integer and price. Here are a few usage example
Number: set the dimension of a frame in inch or centimeter.Integer: set MOQ (minimum order quantity) to incentivize customers to buy more items.Price: set a volume discount price and pair it with another app.
9 December - MVP for auction integration
We'll be releasing an auction integration soon, stay tuned. If you are interested we can give you early access.
8 December - More images can be added with a link
When uploading a product, a vendor can now add several images using a link.
4 December - Validate all specifications in one click
Garnet now validates all mandatory specifications in one go. If the vendor has several fields with missing or wrong values, all errors will show.
4 December - Default stock to 1
When most of your vendors have one item to be sold, simplify their product entry by prefilling the quantity to 1 every time. By default the quantity is missing and must be set.
3 December - Change the collection product sorting
Vendors can change the product order of their vendor profile. The products can be sorted by best selling (default), alphabetically, by price, and even manually change the product order.
When you are changing the order manually, all products will display and the page. You can drag and drop them to define the new order. Once saved, the order will appear on the product page right away.
3 December - Always show shipping weight
If a weight is defined on Shopify, we'll always display it to the vendor even when shipping is disabled.
2 December - New product creation documentation
We have aggregated all information regarding the product creation in one page.
2 December - Product export includes the barcode/ISBN
Product exports now includes the barcode or ISBN data of products.
1 December - Translation supports rich text
When using translations on products, vendors can now also edit the product's description and specifications as rich text.
26 November - Garnet vendor application revamp
We revamped the whole vendor application workflow. It is now more customizable, it has all the features that the specifications have.
Among others, here what you can now do in vendor application and in vendor profile:
- Additional fields supported: rich text, multi images, list of free text, character limitations, metaobject
- Support conditional display: a field can be visible based on another field's value.
- Split fields in sections, to make it more comprehensive for the users.
25 November - Garnet in Polish
Garnet is now translated in its 7th language! Welcome Poland!
25 November - Specifications updates
We setup a few stores and found ways to improve the admin's life. Here are a few updates:
- Easier to add large list of fields. Press enter to save, and scroll long lists.
- Better consistency between vendor profile and specifications.
- New fields are added at the top of the list, not at the bottom.
- We now allow fields title over 80 characters.
24 November - Vendor profile, request a review
We added an additional step to the vendor profile. Marketplaces tend to be more and more overwhelmed with vendor profile updates, the vendor can now request a review only when they are done with the updates.
22 November - Vendor can export up to 20k products
The vendor can now export more products and with less delay.
21 November - Character limitation
Going to Shopify > Metafields > Products, the admin can add a validation constraint to limit the number of characters. Garnet will show and validate minimum and maximum character limitations.
21 November - Physical products only
We renamed the "Physical products" wording to "Allow digital products". Easier to understand.
19 November - Metafield support metaobject
19 November - Checkboxes fit on several columns
18 November - Vendor export, more information available
18 November - Stripe Connect Publishable key
It is now easier to set the Stripe Connect Publishable in the Stripe onboarding. It allows the vendor to see all their payouts made via Stripe.
14 November - Specifications tag input
Vendors can add multiple value as a free text. Usually used to replicate a "tag" feature.
14 November - Drag and drop images
Images can also be drag-and-dropped from the file system to Garnet Marketplace.
13 November - Chat images are bigger
The chat images were a bit small, we doubled their size. The user can always click on the image to see them in full resolution.
8 November - Vendor profile completed notification
There is now a new marketplace notification triggered when a vendor completes their vendor profile.
8 November - See vendor page approved/pending
The Admin Panel now contains color to tell whether a vendor page has been approved or if it is still pending for the admin approval.
8 November - Support rich text
Rich text allows the user to add formatted text. The content is fully managed by shopify and will respect the storefront design and font.
8 November - Product metafield sections
Product specifications sections have been upgraded to look nicer. You can choose the name of the section and reorder them at will.
7 November - Hide the order tab
You don't need the order tab? Hide it. This is useful when fulfillment is managed by a third party or when the vendor is a warehouse vendor.
7 November - SEO form revamp
We have redesigned the SEO form in the product page. It is now clearer to the vendor they can edit this section.
6 November - Cleaner order customer view
We clearly separated the customer, shipping, and billing information.
4 November - Product export improved
Can now export +10k products from the product tab.
4 November - Variant options can now be dragged and dropped
You can now reorder variant option values by dragging and dropping them.
4 November - "Comments" have been renamed to "Guidelines"
We renamed product comments to Guidelines, and added a few more options for the marketplace to guide vendors. The marketplace can add text on:
- Product title, description, images
- Product price, variants
- On the vendor profile
2 November - Vendor rename also move messages
Messages are now properly ported when you change the vendor name.
1 November - Specifications display upgrade on the product page
The specifications now looks better to the vendor:
- You can choose any name your sections, corresponding to your business needs
- Specifications looks better to mobile users
- We aligned all pickers for consistency and to save space on the page.
1 November - Specifications settings revamp
Specifications can be reordered with drag and drop. It is possible to move specification from one section to another, within the same section, and reorder sections themselves!
30 October - Product creation improved on mobile
Product creation is now simpler for administrators, and we move the save button at the end of the page.
29 October - Improvement to the Prestashop integration
We worked with a French marketplace to improve our Prestashop integration. It now supports variant images, custom prices, additional shipping cost, order payment, order status, and tracking forwarding. In short, everything you need to be professional with your vendors.
Supported Prestashop versions: 1.7.x, 8.x, 9.x.
27 October - More options for Garnet Embedded
There are now more options for the theme component Garnet Embedded, you can now hide/show the menu, change the default behavior when the seller is logged out.
27 October - Application and login theme components
The Garnet Team worked on 3 new theme components: Login, Application, Application & Login:
LoginandApplicationallow the marketplace to move the login and application form anywhere in your theme.Application & Loginshows both form on the same page and is responsive.
27 October - Specification country picker
Garnet has a new text picker for countries. If you expect someone
25 October - Multiple media upload for specifications
How about several media? This specification can be used to display portfolio images or another set of images related to the product or its manufacturing. Again it is fully integrated with Shopify metafields so you can use it in your storefront.
23 October - Payout more than 25 orders in one go
When running a manual payout, the marketplace can now pay more than 25 vendors in one payout:
22 October - Vendor page collection customizable
Before you had to contact us, now you can change the default collection for vendor pages directly in Admin Panel > Vendor profile > Collection template.
21 October - Clearly show when emails are disabled
Now when all email notifications are disabled, we hide all available option so the marketplace can ensure all emails are disabled.
20 October - Hide specific order fields
In Admin Panel > Orders > Visible fields, the marketplace can configure the fields visible to the vendor. Garnet's default works for most marketplaces and you change it based on your business. Based on your industry, you might want the vendor to see or not see information like the customer email, phone number, or even their full name.
17 October - Mobile friendly menu
The Garnet Team improved the menu on mobile. When there are many tabs available in Garnet, the menu becomes a nice popup taking the whole page.
We also worked with other marketplaces to make the product creation and order fulfillment workflow simpler on mobile
16 October - Show vendor fields in Admin Panel
The marketplace can have a quick look at the vendor's information present on the vendor page.
14 October - Garnet Marketplace change its domain
We migrated our whole website from domain https://garnet.center to https://garnetmarketplace.com. The old domain is still active and will redirect to the new one. Merchants using Garnet Marketplace have nothing to do.
13 October - Up to 20k variants per product
Garnet now supports up to 20,000 variants per product for Shopify Plus stores. If you are on a regular Shopify plan, we recommend using specifications instead.
10 October - Send messages as admin
The marketplace can also jump in the conversation to reply on behalf of the vendor, buyer, or even send a message as an administrator.
Messages sent as an admin will be sent to both the vendor and the buyer.
If the marketplace has custom notification templates, they'll need to edit their templates to include the proper styling for admin messages.
4 October - Membership trial days
In Garnet > Admin Panel > Membership, the marketplace can now set a number of trial days for all membership plans. The trial days are fully managed by Stripe and can be edited in the Stripe dashboard.
3 October - Live rate for all orders
With Garnet's live shipping rates, vendors are now able to print a shipping label for any orders.
Shipping labels are directly fetched from Shippo, and prices are not displayed to vendors.
We took this opportunity to revamp the fulfillment view as it has now more available options.
There is more to see, click here to see the detailed documentation.
1 October - Membership amount in the vendor list
For marketplaces using the membership add-on, Garnet now shows in the Admin Panel an active membership and the membership amount directly in the vendor list.
The column can be sorted by clicking on it.