Monthly Update: May 2026
Late April through May 2026 was a heavy build push across the platform. Three themes ran through everything that shipped: more ways to find the right design fast in a gallery that's only going to get larger, a second fulfillment provider so you're not locked to one factory, and store syncs that don't quietly fail. Here's what's new.
Design and create
Image gallery filters and search The image gallery and the Designer's image picker now share a powerful filter bar at the top. Type a few letters and the gallery narrows in on titles and AI prompts that match. Filter by which model generated the image, whether you've edited it, whether it's already on a product, and what aspect ratio it is. Sort by newest, oldest, or most used on products. The default sort is now newest first so the design you just made is always right where you expect it.
Background Removal: auto detect plus color picker The Background tool inside the image editor now has two ways to remove a background. Auto detect figures out the background color on its own for solid color backgrounds, which covers most AI generated designs. Pick Color lets you click any color in the image and remove just that color, which is useful for designs with mixed or textured backgrounds. The result is a clean transparent design ready to print without halos or fringe artifacts.
Image editor save options The editor now distinguishes between saving over your original image and saving the edit as a copy. Useful when you want to keep an original generation alongside several edited variants.
Print and fulfill
Printify joins Printful as a fulfillment option You can now connect a Printify account alongside Printful and pick whichever provider fits each product. Connect from the Merchandise Connections page using a Personal Access Token from your Printify dashboard, and Printify's catalog (blueprints, variants, mockups) shows up in the Designer right next to Printful's. Generated Designs and the product manager are now provider-aware so you can filter your mockup history by who made it, and orders route to whichever provider you chose at product creation. Useful if you want to compare prices on the same garment, expand your catalog beyond what a single provider stocks, or hedge against a single-provider outage.
Sell and operate
WooCommerce syncs now finish in seconds WooCommerce product syncs had been timing out for some merchants on the create call. We rewrote how the request is batched so it sends only what WooCommerce needs to receive. Most syncs now finish in 8 seconds or less. If your WooCommerce sync had been failing with a timeout, that path is fixed.
Wix orders surface even when webhooks aren't set up Wix doesn't give us a way to programmatically register order webhooks with an Admin API Key, which meant some Wix merchants weren't seeing orders arrive in apparelhub. We added a background poller that checks every connected Wix integration every 15 minutes and surfaces any new paid orders automatically. Webhooks still work if your Wix app is configured to send them. If not, the poller is a safety net.
Store Dashboard redesign The Store Dashboard products table now has two clean columns instead of one overloaded Status column: Fulfillment and Sales Channels. Each is its own chip with one of four clear states. The Sales Channels chip is also a tag picker, so you can click it to see exactly which stores have the product live and sync or unsync from one place. Orphan products get a recovery hint instead of a generic warning.
Behind the scenes
Background reliability improvements We tightened up how the Shopify integration responds to the first request that comes in after a quiet period, so webhooks land faster after low-traffic windows. We also added a structured audit trail across every store connect and disconnect event, so we can answer "who synced what, when, and was it successful" from a single query.