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Release Notes

BigCommerce lets you attach a short callout sentence to an automatic promotion. The theme now shows that sentence where shoppers decide, instead of leaving the offer hidden until checkout.

  • Product cards show the highest-priority promotion, plus a +N more offers count when a product qualifies for several
  • The product page and quick view list every promotion the product qualifies for, in priority order
  • Callouts appear across the storefront: category, brand and search pages, related products, homepage sliders and category sections, quick search, and cart cross-sell
  • Theme Editor → Products → Featured promotions: turn callouts on or off, and set the background and text color. The two color pickers appear only while callouts are enabled
  • Each variation ships its own callout palette, tuned to stay legible against that variation's accent color

Callouts appear automatically once you feature a promotion in your BigCommerce control panel — no per-product setup in the theme. Products without a featured promotion render exactly as before, with no empty space.

Backorder and stock messaging

  • Product pages show backorder availability alongside the stock level, so a shopper knows an item is orderable before adding it
  • The cart and account order details carry the same messaging, so the status stays consistent from product page through to order history
  • The shipping expectation now appears in the cart drawer and on the Shipping row
  • Out-of-stock products no longer show a duplicate sold-out line

Fixes

  • Out-of-stock banner no longer duplicates and overlaps the Add to Cart button on the product page
  • YouTube videos play correctly in Safari
  • Account edit page form fields use BigCommerce's backend translations

1.0.0 — Initial public release (May 2026)

  • Brand-new eShopping layout: top bar + sticky main nav + sidebar + 4-zone footer
  • 4 built-in variations: Industrial, AutoParts, Electronics, Packaging — selecting a variation applies its color palette; the AutoParts, Packaging, and Electronics variations also apply fonts, trust-strip text, newsletter copy, promo text, SEO copy, and cart-goal tiers (the Industrial variation only overrides badge, rating, and price colors)
  • Drag-and-drop content via BigCommerce's built-in Page Builder and widget regions
  • Quick-search keyword suggestions (CSV-driven autocomplete + inline completion)
  • Frequently Bought Together bundles with optional discount
  • Bulk-order mode for B2B catalogs
  • Urgency strips on PDP (configurable ranges)
  • Recent-sales toasts (configurable per page)
  • Cart drawer with progress bar + suggested products
  • 3 popup types: Newsletter, Promo, Exit-intent
  • Mobile sticky Add-to-Cart on PDP

Performance

  • Optimized for Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP), with lazy-loaded below-fold imagery and skeleton placeholders to minimize layout shift

Known limitations

  • Recent-sales toasts show "Someone in {location} just purchased {product}" using real products (fetched live). Locations and time-ago labels are both optional; when a time is not specified, the theme generates a random "X minutes/hours/days ago" label at display time. These toasts do not reflect actual order data.

Older versions, if any, will be listed below as they are released.