Releases

27 June 22

Major Release: Machine Learning Search As of today, your Lifeboat store leverages the power of machine learning!

04 March 22

Product Import Updates A few key changes on how the product import function works.

04 March 22

Bug Fixes / New Features - 04-03-22 Bug fixes as reported by 4th March 2022

17 February 22

VAT Changes We've performed changes as to how B2B VAT rates are applied.

17 February 22

Introduction of GeoIP What is GeoIP and why is it such a big deal?

08 February 22

Automated Collections Sorting As of today, you may now decide how automated collections are sorted by default.

08 February 22

Bug Fixes - 08-02-22 Bug fixes as reported by 8th Feb 2022

07 January 22

Search Performance Fix No more to slow loading search pages.

03 January 22

Sales Log Get a clear picture of your sales through the new sales log.

03 January 22

Refund/Void Orders Refunding and voiding orders are now possible.

05 December 21

Related Products Improvement Related products section gets "smarter" through the use of natural language search.

05 December 21

Search Filtering Ordering Fix for search and collection page when the user changes sorting.

30 November 21

Re-ordering of Locations Re-ordering of Locations enables you to prioritise which location is used to fulfill orders.

30 November 21

Shipping Providers Advanced Settings Is Local Courier in combination with Flat Rates, now Shipping providers can also be used when performing local deliveries as to be able to control rates by delivery zone and shipping class.

19 November 21

New Settings Dashboard The new settings dashboard is, for the most part, a re-design of the navigation to enable a better user experience however, it also brings some added functionality.

19 November 21

Stock, Locations & Checkout All your products are now assigned to at least one location. This enabled us to improve performance and improve the locations feature by adding local delivery & local pickup fulfilment methods.

19 November 21

Local Delivery & Local Pickup Lifeboat now natively supports Local Delivery & Local Pickup.

19 November 21

Integration: EyeSel EyeSel business suite can now be used in conjunction with Lifeboat to sync inventory and track sales.

19 November 21

Shipping Providers & Shipping Classes Shipping providers and Shipping classes get a major redesign both in terms of UI and functionality.

19 November 21

New Orders Dashboard The new orders dashboard allows for much visualisation of the orders being created, processed and their fulfillment status.

01 November 21

Dev & Bug Fixes Resolved caching issues, could not save error, admin UI bugs & improved admin UI on mobile. Also added support for certificate file uploading & moved cart and wishlist to be cookie based.

01 November 21

Update Profile Dashboard Updated accounts.lifeboat.app to support new pricing and added various features.

01 November 21

Checkout Updates Reworked the address book system and updated notification emails to reduce chances of going to spam, and improved email client compatability.

01 November 21

2 New Integrations Added support for Global Payment Wep Pay & PayStack payment gateways.

01 November 21

Automated Collections, Store Visibility & Redirects You can now create automated collections, put your store into password-protected mode, and create redirects all within the Lifeboat admin dashboard.

10 September 21

New Lifeboat Theme - Charm A theme designed for the retail of jewellery and other beauty items.

10 September 21

Admin UI Improvements We've introduced a skippable tutorial, new help dashboard and general UI/UX improvements.

10 September 21

Loyalty System The loyalty system enables merchants to reward points to their customers based on actions performed on their stores. These actions include; Subscribing, Registering an account, Ordering, on the customer's birthday, and more.