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What's new in Joomni

New features, improvements and fixes across the website builder, online store, POS, bookings and developer platform. Updated with every release.

Latest releasev1.18.0

A redesigned, fully themeable checkout

October 25, 2026

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October 2026
v1.18.0Latest

A redesigned, fully themeable checkout

The checkout page is now a Liquid section you can design end to end, while Joomni keeps running the form, delivery prices, discounts and payment inside it.

  • Storefront
  • Themes
  • Online Store
New
  • New default checkout: secure-checkout bar, clear steps, the form in a card, an order summary with product images, discount box, live totals, trust and payment badges and a help line
  • Every part of the design is a setting or editable Liquid, and colours follow the theme
  • On phones the order summary can collapse at the top, open at the top or move below the form
Improved
  • Theme designers in Joomni Studio can ship their own checkout design with their themes
Security
  • The order logic stays outside the template: a broken or edited design can never stop a store taking orders
v1.17.1

Bookings API and webhooks

Appointments & Bookings is now on the public REST API, its webhooks fire, and every bookings surface follows the extension install.

  • Bookings
  • Developers
New
  • /api/v1/bookings: services, free slots, appointments, and booking, rescheduling and status changes with bookings:read and bookings:write
  • bookings/create, bookings/updated and bookings/cancelled webhooks for bookings made anywhere
  • The documentation API console can try leads, bookings and reviews requests
Fixed
  • Booking endpoints, AI booking tools and the staff schedule worked on stores that never installed the extension
v1.17.0

Review requests, photo reviews and the reviews API

Product Reviews now asks customers for a review after delivery, takes photos, lets shoppers vote, imports your old reviews, and is open to the API, webhooks and AI Connections.

  • Online Store
  • Email
  • Storefront
  • Developers
  • AI
New
  • Review request emails after delivery, with one-tap stars per product and an optional reminder; reviews from them are verified purchases
  • Photo reviews: up to four photos per review, shown once the review is published
  • Helpful and Report buttons on every review; enough reports send a review back for moderation
  • Import reviews from a Judge.me, Shopify Product Reviews or Daraz CSV export
  • REST API: /api/v1/reviews with reviews:read and reviews:write scopes, plus reviews/create and reviews/published webhooks
  • AI Connections tools to list reviews, read review stats, reply and moderate, each confirmed by you first
Improved
  • Review settings show how many request emails were sent and how many became reviews
  • Filter reviews by photos; the side panel shows photos, helpful votes and reports
Security
  • Review emails carry a one-click unsubscribe that is honoured for that store from then on
  • Review photos are raster images uploaded through the store only; links typed into a request are ignored
v1.16.0

Product Reviews extension

Collect star ratings and reviews on every product page. Install it from Extensions and the reviews section and a Reviews page appear on their own.

  • Online Store
  • Storefront
  • Themes
  • Dashboard
New
  • Product Reviews extension for online stores: average rating, star breakdown, the newest reviews and a review form on every product page
  • Verified-purchase badge for reviewers with a delivered order, matched through their account or order-tracking link
  • Sales & Marketing → Reviews: pending, published, hidden and spam tabs, bulk actions, public replies and CSV export
  • Review settings: who can review, which reviews publish automatically, how names are shown and the minimum length
  • Star ratings on product cards and Google review stars from structured data on product pages
  • A themeable Liquid reviews section, added to your product page when you install the extension
Improved
  • The Today card lists reviews waiting for approval
  • New staff permissions for viewing and moderating reviews
Security
  • Review text is stored as plain text and escaped everywhere it is shown; email addresses are never public
  • Spam protection: hidden trap field, minimum fill time, link checks and per-shopper limits
v1.15.1

Dashboard notifications, cleaned up

Fewer, clearer messages. A failed action now shows one notification instead of two stacked on top of each other.

  • Dashboard
Improved
  • One notification system across the dashboard that follows light and dark mode, with a close button and at most three on screen
  • Every delete in the store dashboard asks for confirmation in an in-app dialog instead of the browser’s pop-up
Fixed
  • Errors could appear twice when a screen and the network layer both reported the same failure
  • Some deletes, such as purchase-order suppliers, ran without any confirmation
v1.15.0

Themeable order tracking and order history

The track-order page and the customer’s order history are now theme pages, built from Liquid sections you can restyle like any other page.

  • Storefront
  • Themes
  • Accounts
New
  • Order status section: a progress tracker (icons, numbers or dots), shipments with tracking events, items, totals and the delivery address
  • Order history section with filter tabs and card, list or table layouts
  • Order and customer Liquid drops, documented in the editor and over AI Connections
Improved
  • Track-order pages render on the server, so they load faster and never expose internal order fields
  • Stores that haven’t synced their pages keep the built-in design until they do
v1.14.0

Open-source starters and integrations

Build your own storefront or connect your tools. Every starter talks to the same Joomni store, so products, stock and orders stay in your dashboard.

  • Developers
New
  • Next.js commerce starter: a headless storefront with cart drawer, variant picker, cash on delivery and Scan & Pay, on the keyless Storefront API
  • Expo / React Native storefront: browse, cart, guest checkout, QR payment and order tracking, with offline support
  • Laravel commerce starter for PHP teams
  • Google Sheets sync for orders, products and customers, and a CSV / Shopify product importer with a dry-run mode
Fixed
  • Storefront collection pages could include draft or archived products
  • Product webhooks now fire for edits made in the dashboard, not only through the API
v1.13.0

Today briefing, command palette and smarter tables

The dashboard tells you what needs attention, finds anything in a keystroke, and lists orders and products in a grid built for daily work.

  • Dashboard
  • Online Store
  • Themes
New
  • Today card: COD orders to verify, QR payments reported, orders to fulfil, low stock, new leads and upcoming appointments, each linking to a filtered list
  • Command palette (⌘K, Ctrl+K or /) for pages, settings, orders, products, customers and help, with recent searches per store
  • Data grid on Orders and Products: filters, saved views (shared or private), column choice and order, density, page sizes up to 250 and CSV export
  • A new all-Liquid starter theme for online stores, with warm neutral colours and every page editable
Improved
  • The daily briefing is rules-based, so it is instant and never fails when an AI provider is busy
Security
  • Dashboard search now respects staff permissions for orders and customers
v1.12.1

Account lifecycle and security hardening

Owners can deactivate, delete or export their account themselves, and several sign-in and API paths were tightened.

  • Accounts
  • Developers
New
  • Settings → Account: deactivate, delete with a 30-day grace period, restore, and export your data
Fixed
  • Password reset rebuilt: single-use links that expire after one hour, and a clear “link expired” state
Security
  • Password changes and resets sign out every other session and send a security email
  • Rate limits on password-reset requests by email and by IP
  • Public API and webhook order payloads use one serializer that only ever includes public fields
  • Webhooks carry a versioned envelope and an event ID header for safe de-duplication
  • Image imports from a URL only reach public addresses and re-check every redirect
v1.12.0

Search page, cart drawer overlays and barcode labels

More of the storefront is themeable, new stores start with a realistic catalogue, and printed labels scan at the till.

  • Storefront
  • Themes
  • POS
  • Online Store
New
  • Themeable search results page with type, price, stock and sale filters and sorting
  • Cart drawer and quick-add as Liquid theme overlays, previewed live in the theme editor
  • New online stores start with 10 sample products and 5 collections in NPR, removable in one click
  • Add images by upload, from the media library or from a URL, which is copied into your library
Improved
  • Barcode labels print EAN-13, UPC, EAN-8 or Code 128 on thermal rolls and A4 / Letter sheets, with “skip N” for part-used sheets
  • Product search matches barcodes, variant SKUs, type, vendor and tags
Fixed
  • Printed labels didn’t scan at the POS; labels now encode the barcode or SKU the till looks up
v1.11.0

POS for real shops

Registers, shifts and branch stock for shops with more than one counter or location.

  • POS
New
  • Registers and staff shifts with opening and closing cash and end-of-day (Z) reports
  • Branch tills that sell from and restock their own location’s stock
  • Split payments across cash, card, eSewa, Khalti, Fonepay, QR and bank transfer
  • POS analytics for sales across registers, staff and payment methods
Improved
  • Price overrides and manual discounts need a permission and a reason, with a per-staff discount cap
Security
  • Every POS line is checked against the catalogue price; offline sales keep their price and record any difference
v1.10.0

AI on your own key, and operations for AI Connections

Store AI tools now run on your own Gemini or Claude key, and assistants connected to your store can work with stock and purchase orders.

  • AI
New
  • Settings → AI Features: a master switch and per-feature toggles for the dashboard agent, content writer and editor AI
  • AI Connections can read stock locations, purchase orders, returns, draft orders, order timelines and email campaigns
  • Assistants can transfer stock and receive purchase orders, after you confirm
Improved
  • Store AI uses no Joomni credits, and AI features are available on every plan with your own key
Fixed
  • Marking an order paid or refunded through AI now updates the payment status correctly
v1.9.0

Order management and redesigned emails

Create, edit and track orders the way a busy shop actually works, and every email Joomni sends now shares one clean design.

  • Online Store
  • Email
  • Themes
New
  • Draft orders for phone and walk-in sales, completed into real orders when ready
  • Edit an order after it was placed, record full or partial payments, add internal notes
  • Order timeline showing every change, payment and status update
  • Trial reminder emails three days and one day before a trial ends
  • Custom logo width and height on every header
Improved
  • All emails use one responsive layout with your store’s logo and colours, plus a plain-text version
Fixed
  • Theme install counts now count each store once, whichever way the theme was installed
Security
  • Storefront orders are priced from the catalogue on the server, never from what the browser sends
v1.8.0

Customer accounts and the public API

Shoppers can sign in to your store, and developers can build on Joomni with API keys and signed webhooks.

  • Accounts
  • Storefront
  • Developers
New
  • Customer sign-up and sign-in with email or Google, order history and delivery tracking
  • Choose whether checkout is guest-only, optional sign-in or account required
  • Themeable sign-in, register and password pages that follow your theme
  • REST API with API keys and signed webhooks for orders, products, inventory and customers
Improved
  • Joomni moved to a PostgreSQL database for stronger consistency and faster reports
Security
  • Customer sessions use an httpOnly refresh cookie, and emails are verified before guest orders are linked

September 2026

September 2026
v1.7.0

Theme store with live previews

Browse every theme at joomni.com/themes, preview it on a real demo store, and install it in a click.

  • Themes
  • Studio
New
  • Public theme store with live previews running on demo stores
  • Online Store and Business Website theme families with subcategories
  • Install from the theme page, including after signing up
Improved
  • Joomni Studio redesigned, with theme screenshots uploaded right in the listing
  • Product documentation rebuilt to match the dashboard section for section
v1.6.0

FAQ, embeds, breadcrumbs and checkout sections

Four sections rebuilt with the granular, mobile-aware controls the rest of the library has.

  • Themes
  • Storefront
New
  • Embed section for YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, Google Maps, Calendly, Spotify, SoundCloud, TikTok and Instagram
  • Breadcrumb section with five layouts and four phone modes
Improved
  • FAQ section: four layouts and four item styles, categories and a call to action
  • Checkout form: split or stacked layouts, summary-first on phones, and a real order number on the confirmation
Fixed
  • List settings saved through AI Connections could be stored as text instead of items
v1.5.0

Bookings and appointments

A full booking module for any business: services, staff and resources with their own hours, and a booking widget on your website.

  • Bookings
New
  • Services, staff and resources with working hours, buffers, capacity and date overrides
  • Booking widget with live availability and confirmation emails with a manage-booking link
  • Calendar and appointment management, including check-in and no-show
  • Booking tools for AI Connections
Improved
  • One availability engine checks every booking, from the widget, the dashboard or AI, so slots never double-book
v1.4.2

Glass section family

All nine frosted-glass sections rebuilt on one shared design vocabulary, with the granular and mobile controls the rest of the library already had.

  • Themes
New
  • A “Glass” tab in the section library that lists only the glass family
Improved
  • Shared glass controls on every glass section: pane presets, blur, tint, border, highlight, shadow, corner radius and backdrop mood
  • Per-section phone controls: swipe carousels, phone column counts, collapsible footer columns, drawer or full-screen menus
  • Glass hero gains split, centre and right layouts; promo strip gains a live countdown and marquee
  • Every glass setting is described to AI Connections, so an assistant can restyle a glass page without guessing
v1.4.1

Checkout, inventory and offline POS reliability

A round of fixes for the money path: orders place when no online gateway is configured, stock is read from one ledger everywhere, and the offline POS no longer loses sales.

  • Online Store
  • POS
Fixed
  • Checkout skips the payment step and places the order directly when no payment method is enabled
  • Product pages, checkout and storefront caches all agree on stock after an order
  • Order confirmation shows the real order number instead of a placeholder
  • Offline POS: stuck “syncing” sales recover, and a sale is never recorded twice after a restart
v1.4.0

Conditional sections and product page rebuild

One product template can now serve different sections to different products, and the product page itself has far finer control.

  • Themes
  • Storefront
New
  • Visibility rules on any section: show by product, collection, tag, vendor, type, price, sale or stock state, or by device
  • Liquid product-details preset with a CSS-only variant picker, quantity control and stock display
Improved
  • Product details section rebuilt with 90+ settings: gallery, buy box, stock messaging, trust rows and mobile layout
  • SEO moved to per-page settings in the page editor

August 2026

August 2026
v1.3.0

AI Connections

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-capable assistant to your store and let it manage products, orders, pages and analytics, with scoped, revocable access.

  • AI
New
  • Sign in once and choose exactly which permissions an assistant gets; revoke any connection from Settings
  • Tools for the catalogue, orders, customers, POS, blog, media, navigation, redirects and store settings
  • Page building over AI: add, reorder and update sections against strict schemas
  • Included during the free trial

July 2026

July 2026
v1.2.0

Joomni Studio for theme designers

Designers build themes in the same editor merchants use, publish them to the theme store and earn a share of every install.

  • Studio
  • Themes
New
  • Studio workspace with free sandbox stores seeded with demo products, never billed and never indexed
  • Submission checks on publish, then a human review of design quality and originality
  • Builder profiles at joomni.com/b/your-handle with live install counts
  • Liquid authoring guide, worked examples and presets to start from
v1.1.0

Liquid sections and storefront widgets

Write your own HTML and CSS with live store data, and opt into cart, search, wishlist and contact behaviour with plain data attributes.

  • Themes
  • Storefront
New
  • Liquid page sections, headers and footers with a schema block that drives the settings panel
  • Product, collection, blog and navigation drops with live listings
  • Drag-and-drop navigation builder with typed links, available to Liquid as linklists
Security
  • Sandboxed rendering with source, output, time and memory limits

June 2026

June 2026
v1.0.6

Password-protected pages

Quality-of-life work across the public site and the page editor.

  • Storefront
New
  • Gate any page behind a password from the page settings
Improved
  • The public assistant captures leads in conversation instead of asking for details up front
  • Redirect manager and sitemap improvements for stores on a custom domain

February 2026

February 2026
v1.0.5

AI website builder and code editor

Build full websites alongside your online store, starting from a description.

  • AI
  • Themes
New
  • AI Code Agent generates custom sections from a text prompt
  • Full-screen HTML, CSS and JS editor with live sync
  • Guided theme onboarding tour
v1.0.4

Websites for service businesses

The dashboard and public site now support freelancers, agencies and service businesses, not only shops.

  • Dashboard
Improved
  • Business websites alongside online stores in one dashboard
  • Public chat with contextual quick prompts
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