What’s new in Choosebox

The latest improvements to Choosebox. We ship often, here’s what’s changed recently.

18 October 2026, Latest

See what your boxes bring in

The Last 30 days card on the home screen, and each box’s own numbers in its editor, now show box sales in money and your average box, next to loads, starts, adds and orders.
Only the box lines count, after the box discount, never the rest of an order. Counted from today.

18 October 2026

More layouts: List and Side panel

Under Appearance there is now a Layout choice: Grid (what you have today), List and Side panel.
List shows one product per row with the button on the right, which suits a long list of flavours.
With Grid or List you can tick Keep the add button in view while shoppers scroll to pin the count and the add button to the bottom of the screen.
Side panel keeps a “Your box” column beside the products on wide screens.
Each item gets a slot that fills with its photo as the shopper picks, with a remove button, and the add button stays in view while they scroll a long product list.
On phones the picks, the count and the add button stay pinned to the bottom of the screen while shoppers scroll.
Nothing changes until you switch. The panel’s words are yours to change under Storefront wording.

17 October 2026

Let shoppers choose a box size first

On a box with tiered pricing you can now show each tier as a tile above your products, such as “Box of 2 · 10% off”, “Box of 4 · 20% off” and “Box of 6 · 25% off”.
The shopper picks a size, then fills it. The discount is visible before the first pick instead of being discovered on the way.
Turn it on under Pricing, with Let shoppers choose a box size first. Tiers outside your minimum and maximum are left out, it needs at least two, and it is not used on a box with steps.
Going down a size keeps what fits. The tile wording is yours to change under Storefront wording.

16 October 2026

Clearer wording on boxes with steps

On a box split into steps, the line under the step counter used to repeat the box prompt, so shoppers read “Pick 1 items to build your box” on every screen.
It now says how many to choose from that step, for example “Step 1 of 6 · Choose 1 from this step”. You can reword it under Storefront wording, as “How many to choose in a step”.
The counter next to Next now counts the step you are on. Screen one of a box that takes one item per step says “Pick 1 more” instead of the whole box’s “Pick 4 more”.
On a box with steps, the gift message box now sits on the last step, next to the Add button, instead of on every screen. Anything a shopper types is kept as they move between steps.
When your steps fix the size of the box, the prompt and progress bar now say so. Six steps of exactly one item each is a box of six, so it now reads “Pick 6 items” rather than the box’s own “Pick 4–6 items”.
A box of exactly one item now says “Pick 1 item” instead of “Pick 1 items”, unless you have written your own prompt.

12 October 2026

Started building now counts

Since 27 September your box has had a shoppers who started building number, but the builder on your store was never sending it, so it read zero everywhere.
That is fixed and it counts from today. Give it a few days of real traffic, then the editor can tell you whether shoppers are not finding your box or are finding it and stopping.
Loads, adds to cart and orders were always counted correctly.

8 October 2026

See your box on your store the moment it goes live

Every live box already has its own page on your store, but the editor used to send you to your theme editor first.
Now, once a box is live, the editor leads with a See my box on my store button that opens that page, with your header, colours and fonts, exactly as a shopper sees it.
Adding the box to a product page through your theme is still one click away, as the second option.

7 October 2026

Your cart shows your box’s own name again

Since late September the hidden container behind each box carried “(Choosebox bundle - do not delete)” in its name, so you could tell it apart in your Products list.
Many themes show that product name on the cart page, so shoppers saw it too. It now has your box’s own name again, and the cart reads the way you named the box.
In your Products list it is still marked by its type, Choosebox Bundle, and opening it explains what it is for. If it is ever deleted, Choosebox now recreates it on its own.
Existing boxes are renamed automatically the next time they are viewed. Nothing to do.

6 October 2026

Optional email updates

There is a new Email updates box at the bottom of the home screen. Add an email if you would like a heads-up, or leave it empty and you will never get an email from Choosebox.
With an address added, you hear from us when your boxes have used 80% of your plan’s monthly box sales, and again if they reach the limit, so a busy week never hides your builder without you knowing. If your admin is in Spanish, the emails are too.
Otherwise we only write when there is a major update. Every email has an unsubscribe link.

5 October 2026

The editor now warns you when colours are hard to read

If your Text colour is too close to your Card background, or your Button text is too close to your Accent, the editor now says so and shows you the number.
The usual minimum for body text is a contrast ratio of 4.5 to 1. Below that, shoppers with low vision and anyone reading on a phone outdoors will struggle.
Nothing is blocked and nothing changes on its own. It is a note while you are choosing, not a rule.
You only see it when you have set both colours in a pair. A colour left to follow your theme is supplied by the theme, so there is nothing for us to measure.

4 October 2026

The builder now works with screen readers and keyboards

The progress bar reports how many items are in the box and how many it holds, so it is readable by assistive technology rather than being a shape on the screen.
The “Pick 2 more” prompt is announced as it changes. It is the one thing telling a shopper why the Add button is not available yet, and it used to be visible only.
The options popup, the one that opens for a product with sizes or colours, is now a proper dialog. It takes keyboard focus when it opens, closes on Escape, and a screen reader no longer reads the page behind it.
Nothing looks different and nothing in your settings changed. This is for the shoppers who were quietly unable to use the builder at all.

27 September 2026

You can now see how many shoppers start building

Until now your box reported two numbers: how many times the builder loaded, and how many boxes reached the cart. The gap between them covered two completely different problems and looked the same either way.
Your box now also counts shoppers who started building — anyone who picked at least one item, counted once however many they went on to choose.
That splits the two. Lots of loads and almost nobody starting is a placement problem: the builder is appearing somewhere shoppers are not looking to build a box. Lots of people starting and few finishing is the box: usually the price, the minimum number of items, or what is in it.
Both the app home screen and each box's own editor show it, and the editor says which of the two it is reading rather than leaving you to work it out.
Counting starts today. Give it a few days of real traffic before reading anything into it, and expect the number to be blank on boxes until then.
Nothing about a shopper is recorded. It is one more counter per box per day.

24 September 2026

A box with no image of its own now keeps the one it picked

Leave the Box image field blank and your box borrows a picture from one of its own products, so the box line in cart and checkout is never blank.
That choice used to be made again on every storefront request. It could land on a different product after you edited the box, and it moved on its own when the product it was using sold out, so a box could change its picture with nobody touching it.
The choice is now made once and kept. It is only reconsidered if you take that product out of the box.
Setting your own Box image still overrides all of this, and nothing changes for boxes that have one.

24 September 2026

The hidden container product now says not to delete it

Every live box needs a hidden container product behind the scenes. It is what lets a box check out as one line instead of a pile of separate items.
It used to carry exactly the same name as your box, so in your Products list it looked like a duplicate the app had created by accident. Some stores tidied it away, which quietly stopped their boxes merging in the cart.
It is now named “Your box name (Choosebox bundle - do not delete)”, and opening it explains what it is for and how to remove it properly, which is to delete the box inside Choosebox.
Nothing your shopper sees changes. The box line in cart and checkout still uses your box’s own title and image, and the container’s page still sends anyone who finds it to your builder.
Boxes you already have are renamed on their own, with no action needed from you.

17 September 2026

A fixed box price now shows you its worst case

A fixed price sells the whole box for that amount whatever goes in it. That is the point of it, and it works well when your items cost about the same. It works badly when they do not.
Quantities count toward your maximum, so a shopper can take your maximum number of your most expensive item. Set a box at $20 for up to 3 items with a $68 cake on the list, and someone can take three cakes.
The editor now works that out for you. Under Total box price it shows what the box costs you at its worst, and says how far below your own prices that lands.
If the discount is steep, or your maximum sits above your minimum so the extra items are free, it says so and suggests matching the two or switching to % off, which scales with whatever the shopper picks.
Nothing about pricing changed. The shopper always saw the saving on the builder. Now the person setting the price sees it too.

15 September 2026

Pick your box image instead of pasting a link

The Box image field used to be an empty box asking for a Shopify CDN address, which meant going to Content, then Files, finding your image and copying its URL. Almost nobody did it, so most boxes had no image at all.
The products already in your box now show as thumbnails right under the field. Click one to use it. There is also a button to pick any other product’s image.
Pasting a URL still works, under “Or paste an image URL”.
If you set no image, the box now borrows its first in-stock product’s image, so the box line in the cart and at checkout is never blank.

10 September 2026

The progress bar now shows where the Add button unlocks

If your box takes 3 to 5 items, a shopper who had picked 3 saw a bar that was only part filled. The bar was measuring against the maximum, so a box that was ready to buy still looked unfinished, and nothing on screen said the button had gone live.
There is now a mark on the bar at your box’s minimum, and the fill turns green once a shopper passes it. The count next to it still reads out of the maximum, so the number never changes meaning halfway through.
On a fixed-count box, where the minimum and maximum are the same, nothing changes. The minimum is the end of the bar, so there is no mark to draw.

10 September 2026

Plainer wording on your storefront

The default prompt used to read “Nice, your box is ready”. That is our voice, not yours, and it appears on your storefront next to your products. It now reads “Your box is ready”.
Same for the add-to-cart failure message, which used to open with an apology from us.
If you had already reworded either one, your version is untouched. Every string is still yours to change under Storefront wording.

10 September 2026

The prompt keeps talking once a box is ready

It used to stop at “Nice, your box is ready” and say nothing about the slots left, at the exact moment a shopper wants to know whether they can add more.
It now names them, and says when the box is full. Both lines are yours to reword under Storefront wording, alongside every other string a shopper can see.

1 September 2026

Support is on every plan, including Free

It always was. There is one inbox, support@dropfeed.io, and the person who builds Choosebox reads it. A merchant on Free gets the same answer, at the same speed, as one on the top plan.
So the plan cards no longer list support as something a paid plan adds, and there is no reply-time promise on any plan. Listing something everyone already has as a paid feature is not a difference, it is just noise on the card.
Nothing changed about what you get. Every feature is still on every plan, and what the plans meter is box sales a month.

28 August 2026

A page for your box, with no theme editing

Every live box now has its own page. It sits at /apps/choosebox/build on your own store. To add it to your store menu, go to Content → Menus in your Shopify admin, add a menu item, and paste that path into the Link field. Open any box in the app and there is a Copy path button for it, next to a Copy link button with the full address for emails and ads.
Nothing to add to your theme. The page is drawn inside your own theme, so it arrives with your header, footer, fonts and colours already on it. If you would rather have the builder sitting inside a product page, the theme block still does that and has not changed.
More than one box live? Shoppers choose first. The plain link shows a card for each live box with its picture, its name and how many items it takes. With a single live box it goes straight to the builder instead. Adding ?id= and a box ID always targets one particular box, whatever else is live.
The page follows your store’s colours. The buttons, the progress bar and the quantity badges take your theme’s own text colour rather than Choosebox blue, so the builder reads as part of your shop.
An Appearance section on every box. Accent, text, card background, card border and button text colours, corner roundness, border width, overall width, the add-to-cart wording and a Custom CSS field. Leave a colour cleared and it follows your theme, which is still the default.
Six layout presets. Default, Minimal, Compact, Rounded, Sharp and Wide, each setting roundness, border width and width in one click. They deliberately do not touch colour: the builder is meant to take your store’s colours, and a preset that painted it something else would undo that on most themes.
One appearance, both places. What you set on the box applies to its own page and to the theme block. Anything you have already set in the theme editor still wins on that block, so nothing you have styled by hand changes.
Gift messages. Switch it on per box and shoppers get a message field while they build. You choose the wording, the placeholder and how long a message can be, and whether it is required. Off by default.
Run as many boxes live as you like, on every plan. The Free plan used to allow one live box at a time. That limit is gone.
Plans now count box sales, not box orders. Free covers up to $500 of box sales a month, and only the box lines count, never the rest of an order. Twenty-five orders meant something different to a candle shop than to a cake shop; a dollar figure does not.
Two new tiers above Starter, for shops that outgrow it, and support from the person who builds Choosebox rather than a queue.
Boxes can be split into steps. Name each screen, say how many items it takes, and choose which products appear on it. Shoppers move through them in order with a progress trail along the top. Good for a bigger box where one long grid is a wall.
Off unless you turn it on. Every box you already have keeps the single grid, which is still the right answer for a small box. Steps are available when you pick products by hand; a collection changes on its own, so pinning products to screens would quietly lose them.
You can see whether it is working. A Last 30 days card on the home screen counts builder loads, boxes added to cart and orders containing a box, with the two rates between them. Every box also shows its own numbers in its editor.
The rates are the point. A box that loads plenty and never reaches the cart has a different problem from one nobody ever sees, and the two needed telling apart.
Every word in the builder can be changed. Open a box and expand Storefront wording. Seventeen fields covering the prompts, the buttons, the sold-out label, the discount tag and every message a shopper can hit. Leave one empty and it keeps the English. This is on every plan, because a store that cannot read the builder cannot use it at all.
Numbers stay in place when you translate. Curly brackets such as {n} are filled in for you, so “Pick {n} more” works in any word order.
The message sits with the box. It is attached to the box line as a line item property, not to the order, so it reads as part of the box on the order instead of sitting under Additional details. It appears under your own wording, so a florist who calls it “Card message” gets that. Shopify’s built-in packing slip prints neither line item properties nor order attributes without a template edit; because the message is on the line item, a short Liquid snippet under Settings → Shipping and delivery will print it. Email support@dropfeed.io and we will send it to you.

26 August 2026

Saving that follows you down the page

A box now saves from Shopify’s own save bar. It appears at the top of the screen the moment you change something and stays there as you scroll, so Save is never out of reach on a long box. The old Save button at the bottom is gone, because two Save buttons on one page is one too many. Shopify also warns you now if you navigate away using its own menu, which nothing inside the app could catch before. Cancel and Delete stay where they were.
Discard sits next to Save. It puts every field back to what is currently saved, including your products, pricing and item limits. Nothing to confirm, and the page does not reload.
Hidden container products are no longer offered as items. Every live box creates a hidden product so it can check out as one line, and those were turning up in the product picker and inside boxes. They are filtered out everywhere now, and any that were already saved into a box are cleared the next time you save it.

August 2026: Getting live, without the busywork

No more copying a Box ID

Leave the Box ID field empty. The Choosebox builder block now shows whichever box is live, so adding it to your theme is just: Add block → Apps → Choosebox builder → Save. No clipboard, no pasting. If you run more than one box and want a specific one on a specific page, fill the field in, that still works exactly as before.
A setup checklist in the app. Three steps (build a box, make it live, add the block to your theme) each showing whether it’s done. The theme step ticks itself the first time we see your box render on your storefront, so you can tell at a glance whether it’s actually working rather than guessing. It disappears once you’re set up.
The app proxy path moved to Advanced in the theme editor. It was never a setting anyone should have had to look at.
A heads-up when more than one box is live. An empty Box ID follows whichever live box you edited most recently, fine with one box, ambiguous with two. Choosebox now tells you the moment a second box goes live, and points you at giving each block its own ID.

August 2026: Plans, simplified

Every feature on every plan

Tiered “buy more, save more” pricing is now free. It used to be a Pro feature. Every discount type (percentage off, a fixed box price, and tiered) is now available on every plan.
Free runs one live box. You can still build as many boxes as you like and switch which one is live from the Boxes list. Pro runs as many at once as you want.
A clearer monthly limit. Past 25 box orders in a calendar month on Free, the builder pauses on your storefront until the count resets on the 1st. Your product pages are otherwise untouched, you keep full access to the editor the whole time, and Choosebox warns you in-app from 20 orders on. Previously the limit locked the editor instead, which stopped you fixing your store at exactly the wrong moment.

July 2026: Easier setup & preview

See your box before it goes live

Box preview in the editor. Click products right in the editor to build a sample box and watch the item count and discounted total update live, so you can check the whole thing before it’s live on your store.
“Try a sample box” button. Brand-new to Choosebox? One click builds a ready-made example box from your own products, so you can see how it works in seconds, then customize or delete it.

July 2026: Plans & billing

Clearer Pro plan

The 7-day free trial now shows right on the Plans page, and upgrading (or cancelling) is smoother. Compliance and your live boxes are never affected by a plan change.

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