# What's new in CubeSites

## 30/10/2026: Licences: buy the plan first, then make the website

A licence is one website’s plan. Buy as many as you need, choose one when you make a website, and move it between websites when things change.

- **The Licences page:** Licences, in the menu and in Settings, lists every licence with the website it is on, its price and its status. Buy Standard or Pro, monthly or annual, up to 25 at a time with the card on file.
- **A new website takes a spare licence:** New website asks which spare licence to use, and says how to get one when none is spare. Deleting a website frees its licence for the next one.
- **Move, change, cancel or resume:** Move a licence to another website, take it off, rename it, switch between Standard and Pro or monthly and annual, or cancel it at the end of the period and resume it until then.
- **A trial on Standard or Pro:** The trial gives one website and lets you try it as Standard or as Pro. It builds and previews everything, and a bought licence for the website lets you publish it.
- **Organisations and Managed websites:** An organisation can buy the licences of the workspaces it pays for, and Cube Systems arranges Managed licences for the websites we build and look after.

## 30/10/2026: Choose what goes live, and publish products on their own

Publishing shows everything waiting and lets you tick what goes live, so a half-built page can stay in the draft while a product change goes out.

- **Choose what to publish:** The Publish dialog lists each page added, changed or removed, the design and settings, and the product changes. Untick what is not ready, or publish everything. The first publish always takes the home page.
- **Publish products:** Publish products, in the products area, puts product changes live without touching any page. Prices, stock and offers are live as soon as they are saved, as before.
- **Waiting to publish:** The website overview lists what is waiting, and the websites list shows how many changes each website has in its draft.
- **Older versions keep today’s products:** Making an older version live brings back its pages, design and settings, and leaves the products as they are.
- **Assistants can make a website:** Through the CubeSites MCP server, an AI assistant can make a website on a spare licence, blank, from a template or from a website file, and show you a preview. It publishes only when you agree, and a ChatGPT or Claude connection leaves publishing to you.
- **SEO checks that know your shop:** The link check treats the shop and catalogue addresses as pages of the website, so links to products, categories, the basket and the checkout no longer show as broken.
- **Filter counts that add up:** Shop filters count against the filters already chosen, so every number matches what choosing it would show.
- **Folders that follow their product:** Renaming a product or category renames its media folder, and website files keep nested folders when a website moves between workspaces.

## 29/10/2026: Running a shop day to day

Refunds for any part of an order, a stock page, discount codes that combine, delivery that knows what can travel together, and tidier orders and messages.

- **Refund part of an order:** Refund some lines, the delivery or any amount, with or without putting the stock back. The order then shows as part refunded.
- **A stock page:** See on hand, allocated and available for every product, adjust stock with a reason, and read each product’s history.
- **Codes that combine:** Up to five discount codes in one basket, each set to combine with others or not, and codes that apply to full-price items only. The basket shows every code with its amount, or why it does not apply.
- **Delivery limits:** A product or category can say which delivery methods it may go by, and a method can be offered only when a product needs it. A basket that cannot travel together says so before checkout.
- **Orders after payment:** Edit contact details and the address, change the delivery method, add notes and read the order’s history. Move, tag or print many orders at once, and see what is due today or overdue.
- **A tidier inbox:** Newsletter sign-ups go to Subscribers rather than Messages, unread counts show on Messages, the website card and the menu, and a message can be deleted for good.
- **Search details for products:** The SEO tab starts with business details, including a price range from £ to ££££, and lists products and categories with their own search titles, descriptions and a switch to hide them from search engines.
- **Charts and right-click menus:** Charts show their values when you hover or move through them with the keyboard. Messages, orders, products, pages, media, posts, team and customers have right-click menus.
- **Folders inside folders:** Media folders can sit inside folders, and pictures uploaded on a product or category file themselves under Products or Categories.

## 29/10/2026: Shop operations: VAT, dispatch dates and documents

What a shop needs once orders arrive: VAT recorded properly, dispatch dates, printable documents, bundles and a welcome offer for subscribers.

- **VAT classes and VAT invoices:** Standard, reduced, zero and exempt classes for products, categories and delivery. A VAT registered shop records the VAT on every order line and sends numbered VAT invoices.
- **Dispatch dates:** A cut-off time, dispatch days, closed days and bank holidays give every paid order a dispatch-by date, so orders show as due or overdue.
- **Invoices, receipts, packing slips and despatch notes:** Every order has its documents as PDFs, for one order or a batch, with tracking and an order status page for the buyer.
- **Bundles:** Sell a set at its own price. A bundle takes stock from each item in it.
- **A welcome offer for subscribers:** New subscribers can get a welcome email with a shared or single-use discount code.
- **Codes for chosen products:** Discount codes can apply to chosen products or categories, and products or categories can be left out of every code.
- **Shop-only access:** Give a colleague the shop, or only the orders, without access to the rest of the website.

## 29/10/2026: A complete online shop on your own website

Products in every size and colour, a checkout on your own website, order emails in your own design and insights into what sells. The new Shop guides in Help walk through it, from setting up the shop to the first order.

- **Options:** Products come in sizes, colours or anything else, each combination with its own price, code, stock and picture.
- **Products on any page:** New blocks show featured products, a category, a collection or one product in the spotlight. Categories go three levels deep, and collections and offers have pages of their own.
- **A checkout on your website:** Buyers give their details, choose a delivery method or collection and add a discount code on your own address, then pay on Stripe’s secure page.
- **Order emails in your own design:** Each website designs its own order emails: logo, colours, fonts and pictures, with each email’s wording, a live preview and a test send to yourself.
- **Shop insights:** Sales, top sellers, customers, abandoned baskets and the products left in them, low stock and discount use, in one place.
- **Back in stock emails:** Visitors can ask to hear when a sold out product or option returns. Products can also show hand-picked related items and what the visitor looked at recently.
- **Shop guides in Help:** Help has a Shop section, at cubesites.co.uk/help/shop, covering setting up the shop, products, stock, prices and VAT, delivery, discount codes, orders, refunds, emails and documents, insights and publishing products.

## 28/10/2026: A shop that sells from your catalogue, and orders that move

One place for your products, a basket that slides in, money off codes, and a board for orders with your own stages and your own emails.

- **Products live in the catalogue:** Prices, offer prices, stock, low stock warnings and tags are set once on a catalogue item, and the shop sells it. A shop you already have can bring its old product list across in one step, keeping its addresses.
- **A basket that slides in:** Adding something opens a basket from the side with the real totals from the server. It can be a page instead if you prefer, and it has its own address: /basket on a new shop, or the old /cart on one you have moved over.
- **Money off codes:** Add a percentage or a fixed amount, with a minimum spend, a date window and a limit on how many orders can use it. The code is checked on the server and the discount comes off the goods, never the delivery.
- **Stock that looks after itself:** A paid order takes stock off the item. When it reaches your low stock level you get one email about it, and restocking starts that warning again. Sold out products stay on the website marked sold out, or hide, whichever you choose.
- **Orders you move along your own stages:** Orders open on a board: To pack, Packed, Sent, and any stages you add. Each move can email the buyer, and the stage that sends an order sets the sent date and carries the tracking number.
- **Order emails you can word yourself:** The confirmation, the new order notification, the tracking email, and the emails for your own stages are all editable in plain words, with tokens for the order number, buyer, items, totals and tracking. The order shows which emails went and when, and anything that failed can be tried again.
- **Refund from the order:** A paid order has a Refund button. The whole amount goes back to the buyer’s card, the order shows as refunded, and the refund email goes out if you have switched it on.
- **Payouts without a Stripe login:** Payments opens Payouts, so you can see what Stripe has paid into your bank account and what is on its way. Setting up payments and changing bank details happen in the app too.

## 06/10/2026: A 404 page you design yourself

Missing addresses can now show a page you have built, in each of your website’s languages, with the language switcher still there to help.

- **Your own page for missing addresses:** Open Pages and choose Add the 404 page, or turn on "Use as the 404 page" in any page’s settings. The page is kept out of the menu and out of search engines, and every language can have its own. The language switcher now stays on a 404 too, so a visitor can try the same address in another language.

## 06/10/2026: A language can lend its pages to another

A country that reads another language can have its own address, its own flag and the same pages, with nothing to keep in step.

- **Share pages between languages:** In Languages, set a language to show another one’s pages instead of its own. Belgium then serves the French pages from its own address, keeps its own flag, and needs no translations of its own to maintain.

## 06/10/2026: Analytics your way, folders for your media, and past versions you can see

Add the tracking you already use, file images into folders, look at any published version exactly as it was, and write blog posts in your website’s own fonts.

- **Analytics you choose:** Site Settings now has one Analytics card: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Plausible, Fathom or Cloudflare Web Analytics. Each one loads only after a visitor accepts cookies, and none load in the editor or a preview.
- **Folders in your media library:** Make folders, file an image into one from its details, and choose a folder wherever you pick an image. Removing a folder leaves its images in the library.
- **See a past version:** Each version in History has a Preview button. It opens that published version on the website address, just as visitors saw it, without touching what is live or what you are editing.
- **Your website in the blog editor:** Posts are written in the fonts of your website, not the CubeSites app, so what you type is what readers will see.
- **Image settings only when there is an image:** The description and caption boxes for an image in the editor now appear only when you have an image selected.

## 05/10/2026: Easier editing, right on the page

Right-click anything on the page for what you can do with it, drag a section to resize it, and click the header or footer to type over its words.

- **Right-click anything:** Right-click a section, a single card, the header or the footer to duplicate it, copy and paste it to another page, move it, hide it on phones or delete it.
- **Drag to resize:** Drag the handle at the foot of a selected section to give it more or less space, or the bars at its sides to make its content narrower or wider.
- **Click the header and type:** The header, the bar above it, the announcement bar and the footer can be picked on the page like any section, and their words typed over where they are. Settings most people never change are tucked under More options.
- **What you see is what goes live:** The editor draws a see-through header over your photo, the language flags and the cookie settings link just as visitors see them, and empty text only shows its placeholder in the section you are editing. Section settings are now just Content and Design.
- **Different on phones:** Choose which screens each section, part, header button and phone number show on: phones, tablets or computers. For example, a round phone button on phones and the Contact button everywhere else.
- **Click straight to the setting:** Click a menu link, the header button, a social link or one card or icon in a section, and its own setting opens and lights up on the right.

## 05/10/2026: Video heroes, any language and a tidier place to manage each website

Play a short video behind your hero, add any language with its own address and wording, and find every part of a website in one list down the left.

- **Bring an existing design across:** A header that sits in one row on wide screens and drops its links underneath on smaller ones, an icon on the header button, an announcement bar that stays at the top, a footer without the logo and with up to six columns, links beside the legal line and social links pinned to the side, logos as tiles, a picture beside a contact form, and a heading size for the whole theme.
- **Video behind your hero:** Upload a short MP4 or WebM and it plays muted behind your hero, with a pause button. Phones and visitors who prefer less motion see the picture instead. Add key points under the buttons too.
- **Any language, each at its own address:** Choose from 87 languages. Each one gets its own address, such as your-site-fr.cubesites.site, or your own domain, and you can reword the words your website writes itself. The language switcher can show flags.
- **One list for each website:** Pages, blog, messages, SEO, redirects, languages and settings are now in a list down the left. Forward each form to the right people, see visitor stats per language, and keep blog settings with the blog.
- **Mapbox maps:** Use your own Mapbox account for street, outdoor, dark or satellite maps, or your own Mapbox Studio style, with a choice of pins.

## 05/10/2026: Street maps, photo cards and more ways to match your style

The places map can be a real map you can zoom, with groups of places to switch between. Cards can put their words on the photo, and the theme, header, footer, forms and blog have new choices.

- **A street map you can zoom:** Show your places on a real map with name labels, buttons to switch between groups such as Regions and Rivers, and zoom, reset and full screen controls. The map tiles come from OpenFreeMap: no key and no cookies.
- **Words on the photo:** Services and page lists can show each card as a photo with its title and tags on top, and the latest posts can show the newest beside a list of the rest.
- **More of your style:** Buttons in your accent colour, headings in your main colour, menu links in capitals, a light footer with addresses and badges, recent posts beside each blog post, and contact forms in two columns with a tick box for your terms.

## 05/10/2026: The Managed plan: our team builds and runs the website for you

A new full-service plan: we build the website from your brief, keep it up to date, make changes when you ask, and build bespoke widgets and code, with priority phone and email support. You can still change anything yourself.

- **A plan with our team behind it:** Managed includes everything in Pro and adds the service: we build the first version for you, keep it up to date, make changes when you ask, and build bespoke widgets and custom code where your website needs them.
- **Priority support:** Priority phone and email support, with agreed response times. You can still edit anything you like yourself; leave the rest to us.
- **Arranged with us:** Managed is set up by our team rather than bought on the page: talk to us and we will get you started. The pricing page has the details.

## 05/10/2026: Your own fonts, richer headers, a places map and longer forms

More of a brand carries over: any Google font or your own font files, a header that sits over the first photo, drop-down menus and new blocks for sites with many pages.

- **Any font, including your own:** Choose any Google font by name or upload your own font files, and pick a third accent font for taglines and the odd heading. Any heading or line of text can switch to the accent font.
- **Headers that sit over a photo:** The header can sit over the first section with its own logo, turn solid as visitors scroll, show drop-down menus and carry a top bar with a phone number, email address, links and the language switcher.
- **A places map:** Pin destinations, offices or venues on a dotted world map, link each one to its page, and list them underneath for visitors who cannot see the map.
- **Breadcrumbs and pages in a section:** Show the trail of pages above the current one, and list every page under an address, such as each destination, with its search description and share image.
- **Tags and filters on service cards:** Tag each card and let visitors filter the cards by tag.
- **Your own questions on contact forms:** Add up to fifteen questions to a contact form: short or long answers, numbers, dates, phone numbers, a single choice, several choices or a list.
- **Redirect a whole section:** A redirect from an address ending in /* covers everything under it, and can keep the rest of the address, which helps when moving from another website.
- **Languages on Pro:** Websites in more than one language are part of the Pro plan.
- **SVG logos keep their colours:** Logos exported from design tools keep their colours and size when uploaded.

## 05/10/2026: Websites in more than one language, and richer blog posts

Give a website versions in English, French, Welsh, German or Spanish, each at its own address, and write posts with images, videos and tables.

- **One website, several languages:** Add a language and give any page or post a version in it. Each language can have its own domain and its own header and footer, and the words the site writes itself, such as form labels and the cookie notice, appear in that language. Search engines are told which page is which.
- **Images, videos and tables in posts:** Place images with captions, YouTube and Vimeo videos and tables anywhere in a post or text section, and centre or right-align text.
- **Tags and a better post list:** Give posts up to ten tags, reuse categories and tags with one click, and search and filter the post list by status, language and category.
- **Nunito Sans and WhatsApp:** Nunito Sans joins the font list, and WhatsApp joins the social links.

## 05/10/2026: Website backups, service area pages, gallery filters and more

Download a website file to back up or move a site between workspaces, alongside local landing pages and new block options.

- **AI drafts with real layout choices:** AI website drafts now use section layouts and design styles. A whole-page draft shows the proposed changes before you apply them as one step you can undo, and never changes your words.
- **Keep page sections in sync:** Save a section as synced, then edit it once to update every draft page that uses it. Published pages change only when you publish again.
- **Manage organisation billing:** One card, invoice history and agency volume discounts now cover websites across every client workspace in an organisation.
- **Back up or move a website:** Download a versioned website file from Settings, then import it into another workspace. Pages and image files come across; messages, domains, analytics IDs, integrations and plan details do not.
- **Build and manage sites with JSON:** Use the renderer-generated schema to validate a complete website file, import a new site or apply updates to an existing draft through the API.
- **More accessible sites and editing:** Published sites now have clearer navigation and form feedback, while the editor adds keyboard alternatives for rearranging sections and content.
- **Cookie-free visitor statistics:** See daily page views, visitors, referrers, devices and form conversions for a published website. No cookies are used and visitors are not identified.
- **Service area pages on Pro:** Choose one of your pages as the pattern, list the services you offer and the places you cover, and each pair gets its own page under /areas. Pages for places without a local introduction stay out of search until you write one.
- **Filter gallery photos:** Give gallery photos a category and visitors can filter them. Every photo still shows for anyone without JavaScript.
- **Numbers that count up:** Figures in the Numbers block can count up as they scroll into view. Visitors who prefer less motion see the final figures straight away.
- **Monthly and annual prices:** The Prices block can show a monthly and an annual price for each package, with a switch between them.
- **A moving logo strip:** The Logos block can scroll slowly. It pauses on hover and stays still for visitors who prefer less motion.
- **Add section, always in reach:** In the editor, the first Add section button no longer sits under the site header.
- **More ways to arrange sections:** Move or hide parts in more blocks, choose new layouts for testimonials, galleries and questions, and drop supported blocks straight into a Columns section.

## 03/10/2026: Plans per website, a new Overview page and a faster editor

A big round of changes to how websites are priced, how they open, and how the editor works.

- **Each website has its own plan:** Plans are now per website, Standard or Pro, so you can mix them in one workspace and only pay for websites that are live. People are unlimited, and agencies get a discount off the whole bill as more websites go on a plan.
- **A new Overview page for every website:** A website now opens on its Overview: whether it is live, a next-steps checklist, a map of its pages, the latest messages from its forms and its recent changes.
- **A step-by-step start:** A new website starts with your business name, a look from the templates or an AI draft, then your colours, fonts and logo with a live preview, and goes straight into the editor.
- **Three panels in the editor:** The editor now has Add (blocks, patterns and saved sections), Navigator (every page and its sections) and Design (colours, fonts, header and footer).
- **Layouts and a Columns block:** Choose a ready-made layout for a block, change the order its parts appear in or hide some, and build your own section with the Columns block.
- **Textures, edges and style groups:** Give a section a texture, a gradient from your colours or a shaped edge, and save looks you like as style groups that update everywhere they are used.
- **Your own templates:** Save a website as a template and keep it to your workspace, share it with your other workspaces, or offer it to everyone after a check by Cube Systems.
- **Saved sections:** Save a section you like and add it to any page in the workspace.
- **Click through:** Press Click through, or P, to follow links between your pages as a visitor would, without publishing. Editing pauses until you leave it.
- **Quick add:** Press / in the editor to search every block, then the Pattern Book, and add one where you are.
- **Easier dragging:** While you drag a block, a placeholder shows exactly where it will land, and the page scrolls when you move near the top or bottom.
- **A getting-started checklist:** New websites show a short checklist in the editor: change the main heading, pick your colours and fonts, check every page with Click through, and publish.
- **Advanced SEO on Pro:** Pro websites include Advanced SEO: redirects, structured data and SEO checks.

## Coming next (planned, not available yet)

- **Selling templates:** Set a price on a template you offer to everyone, and other CubeSites customers can buy it for their own websites.

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