The Affino 8.0.29 release is very broad in scope, with over three hundred and fifty updates, but two areas stand out for how far they’ve come in this update: Ecommerce and Content. Affino can now better showcase and promote any product, subscription and event sale. The buyer onboarding and discovery journey are also greatly improved, as is every step of the sign-up and purchasing journeys they undertake.

The second big commercial evolution is that it is now possible to take Card (Stripe) and Direct Debit (GoCardless) payments through Affino in the Control Centre. This means it is significantly simpler to sell subscriptions offline, with Affino seamlessly integrating and reporting the sales throughout. 

Products can now have multiple different labels throughout (just one per product) and these are carried through the whole checkout and order process, e.g. Special Offer, Bespoke, Tailored. Behind the scenes we have done a great deal of work to improve Affino’s internationalisation and tax handling, for greatly improved international sales support. We have further enhanced Catalogue Item and Step imports for importing product catalogues, with improved identifiers, associated and related products, tax handling and much more.

For more details please read the release notes:

www.affino.com/blogs/social-commerce-blog/affino-8029---the-...

On the content side Affino now notifies users when someone else is editing the same content they are (for all articles, events, products, FAQs). Affino further notifies them if the other person saved the content. This should avoid any instance of two people overwriting each other’s updates.

Affino’s article (and article step) imports are transformed in this release. They now automatically pull in (and format) associated media, generate embed codes, add paragraphs for clarity, clean up comments, and update in-site URL references, all as part of a single import. We have extended this to include Article Step imports as well.

We have added alternative thumbnails to articles and events, added secondary covers and page-turner links to editions, and a host of enhancements on how they are listed throughout. There is even a new Edition Highlight Design Element for best showcasing the latest edition / issue linking through to download a PDF version, or page-turner or even on-site advanced version.

There are hundreds of other enhancements (and fixes) throughout Affino in this release, with many focused on making the page designs even more stylish, and improving the overall performance of Affino in dozens of different contexts. For more detail see below.