Updates
August Update: More Variant & Price Control, Shopify Metafield Types, and more
Aug 18, 2025
Our August release brings powerful Variant Selector upgrades and variant-aware images, making it easier than ever for customers to go from homepage to cart with less friction. You can now combine multiple selectors for fully custom layouts, let shoppers choose variants anywhere on your site, add to cart instantly, share variant-specific URLs, and browse cleaner, smarter galleries. This release also includes expanded Shopify metafield support, smarter pricing for partial variant selections, and more. Remix the free HYDRA template to explore the new features and read the full release notes below.
What's New:
Variant Selector Updates
Our Variant Selector is now more powerful and flexible, enabling advanced configurations and new use cases.
Product Listing Page Support: Use variant selectors directly in product cards on listing pages — perfect for letting customers interact with different options (like colors) to update images, prices, and discounts.
Quick Purchase: Let customers add to cart or buy now directly from product listing pages by selecting a variant (when purchase action is enabled)
Multiple Selectors per Page: Display different variant groups (e.g. Color, Size) using multiple components, each with their own filters, styles, and behavior.
Persist Selections: When a user selects a variant and clicks into the product page, their selection is retained — no need to reselect.
Variant-Specific URLs: Full variant selections now append the variant ID to the URL – great for sharing or bookmarking.
Out-of-Stock Support: Allow selection of out-of-stock variants with new optional strikethrough styling.
Layout & Styling Options: Choose between Stack or Grid layouts for buttons, new container background and radius controls
Variant Images Updates
Setting up product showcases is easier and more flexible, now with support for variant-specific images.
Variant-Specific Image Filtering: Enable “Filter Variants” on FC_ProductImageVariantStatic and/or FC_ProductImageSlideshow to only show images tied to the selected variant. Just add the respective variant title to each image’s Alt Text in Shopify and sync in the CMS.
More verstaile ImageVariantStatic component: FC_ProductImageVariantThumbnail is now called FC_ProductImageStatic and can be used to display images inline (to support variant-based image filtering) or optionally act as a thumbnail (now supports triggering scroll sections or tap events along with directly customizable hover/active states)
Simplified Gallery Setup: No need for nested galleries or complex interactions anymore – FC_ProductImageStatic and FC_ProductImageVariant now work seamlessly together
More Image Variables: FC_ProductImageSlideshow and FC_ProductImageVariant now handle more images and include explicit controls for the number of visible image fields
Pricing Updates
Pricing display now better reflects product and variant states.
Product Price: Products with multiple prices across variants now show a “from” price or price range when no or partial variant is selected
Compare Price: Added prefix text option, and now defaults to hidden unless the compare price is consistent across all variants or a full selection is made
Discount Badge Logic: Displays “from X off” when discounts vary across variants (configurable)
CMS Improvements
Expanded support for Shopify metafields, new custom fields, and improved import reliability.
Metafields: Now support field types and create multiple fields when applicable
Product Images: Alt Text is now imported from Shopify
Custom fields: Files (including videos) and Reference fields (for products) are now available as Framer-editable fields
Catalog Display Updates
Customization and layout options to improve design flexibility.
Responsive Instances: Use unique product cards for desktop vs. phone without duplicating the entire component
Gap Controls: Separate vertical spacing (Gap Y) prop for both Grid and Stack layouts
Container Styling: Background and border-radius controls for the whole component
Plugin Updates
General quality of life improvements.
Default Markets: Updating this setting now updates all canvas components to reflect the correct default country and currency
Store Management: On the Store Details screen, click Refresh to sync changes to your plan, domain, or token from the web app, or Disconnect from Project to remove the store
Permissions: Global permission checks added to the plugin for smoother experience across user roles
Cart Trigger: Brought all users to the latest version, now supporting component instances and optional empty states.
Data & Tracking
Google & Meta improvements, and new UpPromote tracking.
Google Analytics & Meta Pixels: Added more thorough event tracking and documentation
UpPromote Affiliate Tracking: sca_ref paramaters are now preserved through Shopify checkout
Fixed:
Misc fixes across plugin and components.
Catalog Display: Improved filtering stability and resolved an issue where next button would sometimes fail to disable on the last page
Portuguese Checkout: Resolved an issue where pt-BR and pt-PT would just get recognized as pt at checkout
CMS: Fixed issue where Images import would sometimes get capped
Purchase Button: Now shows active state in Framer Preview (still functional only in the browser)
Meta Pixel: Injection fix
Variant Selector, Search & Sort Improvements
May 26, 2025
This update brings some quality of life improvements along with new features across the Variant Selector, Sorting, and Search.
What's New:
Real Variant Selector Data on Canvas: Connect the “Variants” variable to your CMS and see live product data directly in the canvas. When you update Swatches in the plugin, they’ll now be reflected in your components.
Variant Selector Images: Upload custom Image Swatches or display your CMS Images that are mapped to each variant. Configure your images and values from Store Settings, then style them in your component.
Initial Search State: Preload your Search modal with popular products or suggested searches to speed up discovery before users even type.
Sort Button: A new way to sort your products with custom radio buttons.
Centralized Sorting Defaults: Set your default Sort value once in your Store Settings to auto-update your components on the canvas.
Filters, Search, Sort & Favorite
May 7, 2025
Framer Commerce just leveled up. Enhance your customer’s search & browsing experience with our powerful new catalog components, all driven by live Shopify data.
What's New:
Filters: Custom filter buttons let customers drill down by variant, tags, prices, and more. All with instant, URL-stored results for easy saving & sharing.
Search: Build a tailored search experience that updates live as users type or directs them to a dedicated results page.
Sort: Add dynamic sorting options including name, price, best-selling, and recency.
Favorite: Let visitors save products for later with a single click. No account needed, and favorites persist on return visits.
Check out the updated OFFSIDE template to see it all in action. Remix OFFSIDE →
Updated:
Cart Trigger: The new Cart Trigger component connects to design instances for customized empty and populated cart states.
Quick Add Button
Apr 15, 2025
This release includes a new Quick Add button component.
What's New:
Quick Add Button: Let customers add products directly to their cart from any page with a single click. This button instantly adds the first available variant to the cart –– no selection necessary.
Fixed:
Resolved an issue where HTML tags were sometimes included when syncing the Description field
Colors
Mar 31, 2025
This release includes new Color Swatches UI for variants along with faster import, sync and in-browser loading speeds for stores that don't use their entire catalogue.
What's New:
Variant Color Swatches: Dynamically display product variant colors as swatches in your variant selector and configure your color hex codes in the plugin settings
Faster Store Loading with Filters: improved CMS speed for syncing products by filter (vendor, collection, tag, type), now also configurable in plugin settings for improved browser performance
Misc UI improvements
Fixed:
Fixed issue where images removed from Shopify wouldn’t get removed from CMS
CMS Optimizations
Mar 18, 2025
This release includes optimizations for the CMS.
What's New:
Added more CMS import filters: Collection, Product Type and Product Tag
Added support for all custom metadata namespace keys
Misc UI updates
Fixed:
Plan-specific product limits now get applied after any Filters, fixing an issue where a Vendor filter could return 0 results
Fixed an issue where some users would see a NextPage error when trying to sync CMS
Fixed an issue where deleted Shopify items wouldn't get removed from CMS on sync
Fixed an issue where deleted Shopify metadata would persist after getting deleted
Markets
Mar 13, 2025
This release includes Markets support to allow customers to shop in their preferred country and currency, new Shopify Cart API updates, new Smart Modal component, and more.
What's New:
Markets: Enable customers to shop in preferred country/currency with 7 new market components
Smart Modal: Display pop-ups that only show once or after a set amount of days
Shop Pay Button: Take customers directly to a pre-populated Shopify checkout
UI Improvements: Added component search and misc plugin enhancements
CMS: Import multiple Shopify Collections per product
Image Variants
Feb 18, 2025
This release includes Dynamic Image Variants that connects the variant selector component to a suite of components that update based on the selected variant.
What's New:
Dynamic Image Variants: Trigger image changes based on the selected variant
CMS Updates: Simplified UI with standardized Shopify field naming and smart image number detection
Fixed:
Fixed issue where default checkout language wouldn't save
Fixed issue where some Framer editable images would clear on sync
Speed Optimizations
Feb 10, 2025
This release improves in-browser loading speeds.
Updated:
Improved website performance by optimizing dynamic Shopify data loading and display
Fixed:
Fixed an issue where Home screen navigation would accidentally overwrite Store Settings configurations
Misc
Feb 1, 2025
What's New:
Added Formatted Text support for Description from Shopify
Added SEO Title and SEO Description fields from Shopify
Improved import & sync stability for stores with large # of products
Removed product limit for Diamond tier
Improved Meta Pixel stability
Improved Google Analytics stability
v2 Launch
Jan 9, 2025
Plugin is officially launched with dozens of new components, features and optimizations.
v1 Launch
Aug 14, 2023
Version 1 of Framer Commerce is launched