Hey folks,

Happy Friday!

Next week we have a nice update to the Love/Hate (also known as Preferences) feature. Before it goes live, I wanted to give you a little preview and see if you have any feedback or if there's anything I might be overlooking. Here's what it does:

1- When preferences are set to 'no' and the customer has an open order, the system will now update their order. Example: if a customer sets Lemons to 'no', and the customer currently has lemons in their open order, the system will instantly look for a replacement and sub out those lemons.

Hey Folks,

Thank you for the wonderful feedback! Had some awesome emails come in, so I wanted to build as quick as I could- I can't name names, but there was one person out there that had some really great feedback and I appreciate you (AG reference!)

Here are a few new settings now to customize how the Subscription Pause feature works:

For the emails, I wrote them in a pretty generic style so they can be used by anyone across the board (with a little help from our LLM friends), so you don't even have to edit the two new email templates if you don't want to. There are links on the 'Subscriptions Pause' page to get to them.

Hey folks!

It was a busy early winter here — I finished a huge update of the admin side (mostly for mobile), and that is now fully deployed. This was an enormous update that took far longer than I was hoping for, but I'm happy the admin is more mobile-friendly now.

One cool feature I’d like to point out is the ability to create a new product listing based on uploading an image. Just go to Products → Add Product, then upload an image — we use AI to try to generate as complete a listing as we can. Then you can edit the listing.

Coming up next, some customer-facing features to help reduce churn:

On the "our farms" page, sometimes called "farmers", sometimes called "vendors", when the user clicks on a farm to view the details, it used to look like this:

A long time ago, we added the section that displays produce from the farm that is available, then we added links to the shop where the customer could add it, and now, we bring the shop right to them:

There's been a 2px difference in the mobile navigation bar that's been driving me crazy. The padding around the hamburger menu is the same on the top and the bottom, but the way the other CSS is on the navigation bar, the height was coming out 2px shorter than it should be, making it look like the bottom of the navbar was too short, or slightly squished.

Today, that stops. The padding issue has been fixed and the navbar is a nice round 48px high.

The login and forgot password pages have been standardized a bit more, and on mobile some other measures such as removing the footer, cleaning up and 'above footer content', and moving some pixels and padding around has given it a much cleaner look. New is on the left, previous is on the right (thanks Doorganics, I'm using you as a screenshot example a lot lately):

We have had two pretty bad storms recently up here in Maine, both of which knocked out the power and internet here. Because of that, I've pushed back some updates that I had previously planned on pushing out around mid March.

Without further ado, here they are!

This allows your customers to add all or some of the products from their previous orders to their current order- saves them time, and will help increase per-order revenue for you.

Continuing on...

Perhaps the worst name for an admin page I have ever come up with is "Box Planner". When I launched version 2 of the Admin side, this was the name given to the page that everyone calls the "Menu Builder" or "Menu Planner". "Box Planner" is just the most blah, barely-accurate, crummy name for such an important page. So, as of today, it's now the "Menu Builder".

And there's a bunch of updates on it.

Greetings from the 2nd week of March.

The "Recurring Items" report has received an update:

You may have noticed that the blog has moved from kivalogic.com/blog to here, hosted on our HelpScout help desk. Why? It's just easier to update, and I'm hoping it will encourage more frequent posting and sharing of news.

You can see from the blog history, I can go a long time in between posts even though I'm still coding and building like crazy.

A lot of user interface continuity fixes/improvements, and a TON of styling updates. You ever see something that just doesn't quite line up? Well this update took care of a lot of those. For mobile, tablet, mid-desktop, and desktop, I went through each and every company logged in/not logged in, and improved a lot of the padding and margins for phone/tablet. I'm happy with how mobile is shaping up for 2024. I'm not going to list every change because it would just be too much.

🙈 The shop->product->details page, shop->cart, and the home->account->schedules pages are not being included in this deployment. Those three pages have other features that are not quite ready so I'm holding them back for now.