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What's New

The features Aglyn shipped most recently, grouped by area. Each links into its section for the how-to.

August 2026 — the canvas, up close (newest)​

  • Style hover, focus and the other states — a row of chips under the breakpoint chip: Default, Hover, Active, Focus and Disabled. Pick one and the whole styles panel switches to that state, with the element held in it on the canvas so you can see what you are doing. Fields you don't touch keep inheriting, states combine with breakpoints, and Focus is :focus-visible — keyboard focus, so styling it can essentially only add an indicator, never remove one.
  • Text is edited on the element itself — double-click and you are typing into the real heading, at its real size and weight, with the page reflowing around you. The selection chrome stands aside while you type. Escape cancels, Enter commits a plain element, and a wrapped line of inline text is now outlined line box by line box instead of by one rectangle covering its neighbours.
  • Formatted text belongs to the canvas — once an element carries bold, links or lists, the panel's Text field shows it read-only and says why, rather than letting a plain edit silently throw the markup away. Remove formatting keeps every word and line break, drops the formatting, and is one undo step.
  • One box styler, on your theme's spacing ladder — margin, border, padding and contents in a single diagram, with the sides named in words rather than as mt / ml, and a value shown on each side once it is set. Space is set from nine named steps that follow your theme, or an exact amount whose unit is explained where you pick it.
  • Rooms are per version — co-editing pairs you with the people on the same version of a document, matching where the live edits actually flow. Two people on different versions no longer see an avatar promising a connection that isn't there.
  • See who's in a document before you open it — avatars on the row in the Screens and Layouts lists and the Components, Templates and Site emails cards.
  • User accounts are a switch per site — visitor sign-in is off until you turn it on, so a brochure site does not quietly serve /signin, /signup and /recover. Turning it on serves them and puts the Members elements in the editor; turning it back off hides the pages and deletes nothing.
  • Report an issue asks the right questions — the dialog says plainly what it is and is not for, then asks per-kind: what you were doing and whether it happens every time for a bug, what you are trying to do that you can't for an idea. A question is checked against the documentation first, and often answered without filing anything.
  • Assist shows its sources — every written answer now lists the documentation sections it drew on, as links you can follow.

August 2026 — knowing what happened​

  • Bandwidth, and what happens past it — every plan's monthly traffic allowance is now enforceable. On a paid plan the extra is metered and billed and your sites keep serving; on Free the site is paused until the start of next month, clears itself when the month turns, and comes straight back if you upgrade. Nothing is ever deleted.
  • Run history that says what happened — the Runs dialog is a real log: when it ran, what triggered it, whether it succeeded, and what each step did. A run stopped by an unmet condition is recorded as Skipped, naming the field — the answer to "why didn't my automation fire?".
  • An Inbox of people, not forms — a submission shows who sent it, how long ago, and where it went: chips under the fields say whether it also became a dataset record.
  • Count your recipients before you send — the campaign composer counts the audience while you are still writing, with duplicates, unsubscribes and your monthly cap already taken off.
  • Popups that cap once per session — show a popup at most once per visit, or hide it for a number of days after it is dismissed. Scheduled campaigns now actually send, every fifteen minutes.
  • Average time on a screen — beside a screen's views, how long visitors stayed. The Traffic card was rebuilt too, and its growth figure now follows the range you picked.
  • Download any asset — from the detail drawer or the card menu, for public and private files alike, and the drawer says which CDN variants that file actually has.
  • The Orders screen you were promised — a real table with a Channel column, coloured status pills, and revenue, order-count and average-order-value tiles against the previous 30 days.
  • Free listings say Free — the marketplace shows a price on every card, stars where a listing has been rated, and a What's included box on the listing page.
  • Make the platform yours — white-label now reaches transactional email: your logo in the header, your product name and support URL in the copy. Self-hosters can rename the product itself and serve every site from their own apex.
  • Report an issue — a bug report from any console page, on every plan, with the page, workspace and version attached for you.

August 2026 — editing together​

  • A visual editor for long documents — the Markdown element's Content attribute is a WYSIWYG editor, not a text box: headings, bold, links, lists, quotes, images, code and tables from a toolbar, pasting from a Google Doc keeps its formatting, and a Markdown switch shows the raw source when you want it. Editing a whole policy page no longer means preparing one long paste.
  • Live co-editing — open the same screen, layout, component, template, or designed email as a teammate and edit it together: presence avatars in the toolbar, each collaborator's cursor and selection on the canvas in their own color, and element-level live changes that never disturb your undo history.
  • Concurrent-save protection — if someone else saves the document you're editing, the besigner pauses saving and tells you the moment it happens, keeping everything on your canvas until you reload. No silent overwrites, in either direction.
  • Local draft recovery — the besigner keeps a local draft of unsaved work in your browser; after a crash or an accidental close, it offers the work back with Restore / Discard.
  • Apex custom domains — connect the bare example.com, not just www: an ALIAS/ANAME to sites.aglyn.app (or an A record, where your registrar has no ALIAS) verifies in the same Verify & connect click as a CNAME.
  • Edit from the live site (rolling out) — an admin bar on your published site that jumps from any live page straight into the besigner for the screen serving it.

Besigner copy & paste​

  • Copy and paste elements — copy any element with its children and paste it somewhere else, including into a different screen, layout, component or template. Available from the ⋮ menu on the canvas and in the hierarchy, or with Cmd/Ctrl + C / V. Multi-selections copy in document order, and a paste that would bring in an element the target document doesn't have is refused with a message instead of landing half-finished.
  • Cmd/Ctrl + A now selects every element at the same depth as the current selection.

Scalable audience pricing​

  • Unlimited member accounts on every plan — visitors who sign up to your published site are never metered, capped, or charged per account, on any tier including Free.
  • Contact audience bands — your contacts CRM is priced as an included band per tier. On paid plans, growing past the band never drops a record: extra contacts will bill as small metered overage ($0.25–$1.00 per 1,000/month, cheaper on higher tiers). The billing page has a new Contacts meter with a live estimate. Overage is not billed yet — the Contacts page is still rolling out, and nobody is charged for an audience they can't open.
  • Clearer seat language — what plan cards used to call "members per host" is now site collaborators: per-site teammate seats. Member accounts were never seats.
  • Platform fees on the plan cards — each tier now shows its declining transaction-fee ladder, including the digital rate that applies to paid memberships and gated content.

Marketplace at the organization level​

  • One Marketplace for the whole organization — browse, install, manage and publish marketplace items from a single Marketplace destination in the organization navigation (Browse, Installed, and Publish tabs), instead of a per-site Marketplace tab. Old per-site links redirect here.
  • Marketplace is the market; Plugins is the switchboard — the two live side by side in the organization navigation and do different jobs. Marketplace is where you browse, install and publish. Plugins is where you turn things on and off: an Installed from the marketplace card and a Built in card, each row with a switch and its per-plugin settings. Look for a plugin's on/off switch under Plugins, not under Marketplace. The seller area is its own set of marketplace sections — Publish, Publisher Profile, Listings, Payouts and Sales. Old per-site links redirect into the matching organization section.
  • Install targeting — when you install, choose All sites (organization-wide, and any sites you add later) or Selected sites. Site-scoped artifacts (components, templates, layouts) install onto every current site and note that new sites aren't added automatically.
  • Publish from any site — the Publish tab picks a source site, then a component, a layout, or the whole site as a template. The per-site Publish shortcuts still work.
  • Dataset schemas and email templates are publishable — share the field model of a dataset (structure only — records never travel) or a transactional email you've designed. A schema installs as a new empty dataset with its reference fields relinked by name; an email installs as a draft version, so it never replaces an email a site is already sending.

REST API & API keys​

  • The Aglyn REST API — programmatic access to your organization's datasets and records (full CRUD), contacts, sites, and form submissions, authenticated with API keys you create under Organization → Settings → API keys. Keys are scoped, shown once, and Business-tier; the API supports cursor pagination, per-key rate limits, idempotent writes, and a consistent error envelope. See the new API reference.
  • Record a shipment over the API — the new Orders — record shipments key permission lets a 3PL, a warehouse system or a label printer mark an order fulfilled or delivered and attach the carrier and tracking number, so a store can be both sold from and shipped from outside the console. It obeys the same order-status rules the console does, and sending the same request twice records the parcel once.

In-console help​

  • Documentation from the console — the account menu now has a Documentation entry that opens this site in a new tab, and feature pages grew a small ? icon next to their titles: hover for a one-line summary, click through for the full docs page.
  • Help everywhere — the same ? affordance now covers cards, form fields, table headers, the staff console, and the Besigner's style and attribute panels, each deep-linking to the exact docs section it explains.
  • Dropdown Panel preset — a primitive-built hover panel (Stack + Button + hidden panel) that inserts with its hover choreography pre-wired as editable interactions: show on hover with Esc/outside-click dismissal, hide on leave with a 250ms grace delay. Show/hide steps themselves gained Delay and Close on Esc / outside click options in the interaction builder.
  • Menus & navigation — a Dropdown Menu, a Mega Menu with a free-form wide panel, a slide-in Drawer with a Menu Button, and a one-insert Mobile Nav preset. Every menu click-toggles out of the box; hover opening (and anything fancier) is authored as an interaction. Interactions gained hover enter/leave triggers, a repeatable every time frequency, element show/hide actions with a canvas element picker, and menu and drawer open/close actions; the styles panel gained a per-device-band Visibility control.

Designed content collections​

  • First-class blog pages — collection list and entry routes render through your site theme and shared layout. Pick a List template screen and an Entry template screen per collection in Content, drop the new Collection Entries block (repeats title, date, excerpt, Read more per published entry — works on any screen via its collection-slug attribute), and render markdown with the themed Entry Body block. With no template set, the built-in pages still compose inside your theme and default layout.

Self-serve add-ons​

  • Add-ons — buy manager and member seats, extra datasets, extra sites, POS registers, and the Event Calendar straight from Billing → Add-ons: prorated previews before every change, hard caps where your plan tops out, and quantities that re-price automatically on plan switches. No more asking support to enable an add-on.

Designer & email wave​

  • Responsive styling — the artboard preview mode now scopes style edits per breakpoint (XS–XL), the box stylers are fully interactive with side/axis/all fan-out and units, and every element takes custom classes plus a CSS builder (builder / raw CSS / raw JSS) on its sx.
  • Designed emails — build campaign emails in the besigner with email-safe blocks and merge tokens; campaigns pick templates by id and support test sends.
  • Rename-safe references everywhere — products, collections, categories, datasets, and screens are picked from lists and stored by id; the reference-health audit flags anything dangling.
  • Console reorganization — site users and analytics get their own sections, the dashboard gains commerce and campaign glance widgets, and the Products/Marketing/Workflows hubs are tabbed with ?tab= deep links. Notifications + Manage Account live under a personal Manage area.
  • Redirects v2 — prefix and regex match modes with capture substitution ($1), priority ordering, and an inline tester.
  • Org & team v2 — organization logo + contact details, a team member detail page with role/title editing and per-member activity, personal marketplace profiles, and profile images for every user.
  • Staff console v3 — impersonate a user or an org's owner (audited, bannered), edit orgs and user identities directly, and paginated, card-styled admin lists.

Ecommerce platform​

The biggest wave yet turns every Aglyn site into a full store, competitive with Shopify and Squarespace:

  • Product catalog — variants and options, categories, tags, smart collections, Shopify-compatible CSV import.
  • Storefront blocks — product grids with facets, product pages with variant pickers, cart drawer + checkout with wallets, customer accounts, wishlists, newsletter capture. All designable in the besigner.
  • Digital goods — secure downloads with automatic update re-delivery, license keys, subscription products, members-only content and video.
  • POS & reservations — a console register (cash, QR card, room folios) and date-range stays with deposits.
  • Growth tools — discounts engine, gift cards, abandoned-cart recovery, verified reviews, related products, back-in-stock alerts, and a commerce analytics dashboard.
  • New pricing — Starter $16, Pro $39, Business $99, and the new Advanced $299 (annual), with platform fees that drop to 0% as you upgrade. Pricing and the features included in each tier are provisional during pre-release and may change at any time.

Latest polish wave​

The newest round tightened every marketing, billing, and operations loop:

  • Overlays now track per-overlay views, clicks, and dismissals — mirrored into your GA property as aglyn_overlay events.
  • Campaigns gained {{firstName|there}}-style merge tags and scheduled sends with cancelation.
  • Experiments can end on a date or auto-declare a winner at your chosen confidence level, and exposures/conversions mirror into GA as aglyn_experiment events.
  • Automations picked up frequency controls: once per session, once per visitor, or a cooldown window.
  • Workflows log every run with outcome and duration; the Logic page's Reference health card flags automations pointing at deleted workflows, datasets, or functions.
  • Dataset imports can upsert on a key field instead of appending duplicates.
  • Billing added the Stripe Billing Portal for payment methods, a past-due banner during retry windows, and usage-threshold notifications to org admins.
  • The Marketing hub opens with an at-a-glance rollup of live overlays, email engagement, and experiment states; commerce orders now notify site managers in-app.

Build & design​

  • The Besigner — multi-select across hierarchy and canvas, whole-selection multi-drag, reliable reparenting with placement markers, inline and basic rich-text editing, and clearer "why this drop was rejected" messaging.
  • Screens & layouts — hierarchical routing with cascading slug rewrites, shared layouts with slots, reusable components, and named versions with scheduled publishing.
  • Theme builder — site theme editor with live preview and light/dark schemes, supplied to the canvas so previews match the live site.
  • Templates, blocks & content — starter template gallery, save-site-as-template, a section & block library, and a blog with collections and RSS.

Data​

  • Datasets & dynamic content — typed model builder, typed document editor, relations (including many-to-many), a query layer, repeatable components, and CSV/JSON round-tripping.
  • Bindings, variables & functions — rename-safe id tokens, a picker-first insert experience, a no-code function builder, and a where-used safety scan.
  • Site search — search across pages and dataset records.

Media​

  • Media library & CDN — folders as grid cards with drag-and-drop organizing, one shared picker everywhere, metadata (including your own custom key/value pairs) and bulk edit, image transforms, replace-in-place, an on-demand Used on audit, large video uploads, and CDN delivery with WebP variants (paid). Media URLs are stable: replacing a file or moving it between folders never breaks an existing embed or a link you already copied.

Grow​

  • Forms & lead capture — form components, an inbox reader, and dataset-backed submissions.
  • Contacts CRM (rolling out) — unified ingestion from forms, members, orders, and bookings, with tags, notes, CSV export, and segments. Capture and the REST API are live; the console page is still on its way.
  • Email campaigns — audiences, tiered send caps, and unsubscribe handling.
  • Marketing overlays — a site-wide announcement bar and promotional popups v2 with triggers, capping, scheduling, email capture, and metrics.

Sell​

  • Commerce — starter selling plus commerce v2 (receipts, inventory, coupon codes) and an orders page with filters and CSV export.
  • Bookings & scheduling — services, availability, a booking widget, Stripe payments with slot holds, and reminder emails.

Reach & measure​

  • SEO toolkit — per-screen SEO, sitemap/robots, JSON-LD, and Open Graph/Twitter cards.
  • Analytics — pageview beacon, insights (referrers, devices, ranges), and per-screen traffic (Pro+).
  • Multilingual — locale variants, hreflang, and a language switcher (v1).

Extend & automate​

  • Plugins & marketplace — a plugin registry with install/upgrade, a sandboxed runtime, per-plugin config, a network bridge, and marketplace monetization.
  • Workflows, actions & webhooks — event-to-action automation, workflows on site events, and outbound/inbound webhooks.
  • AI assist — copy assist for any text prop and AI Generate Section.

Operate​

  • Teams, roles & membership — custom roles with per-member overrides, and members-only site areas.
  • Billing & plans — aligned tiers, entitlement gates, usage meters for every quota, and seat add-ons.
  • Custom domains and redirects — self-service domain setup with DNS verification, and a redirect manager with loop checks and hit metrics.
  • Site protection & error pages — per-screen passwords, custom 404/401/403/503 screens, and maintenance mode.
  • Staff console (Aglyn staff only) — tenant management, entitlement editor, users admin, suspension, and an audit viewer.
  • Feature flags (Aglyn staff only) — Remote Config–backed release gating with percentage rollout; staff preview unreleased features with warnings.
  • Organization workspaces — orgs own multiple sites with shared billing, role-based membership with per-site access, and Slack-style workspace subdomains (architecture).