We have updated Stripe’s payment options, bringing even more flexibility to your Pixpa store’s checkout process. These enhancements help provide a smoother, more localized payment experience for your customers.

Key Updates:

• Automatic Payment Method Display: Stripe now automatically shows the most relevant payment options based on your customer's location, making checkout faster and easier.

• Manage Payment Options: You can now customize and disable specific payment methods directly through your Stripe account for greater control over how payments are processed.

Available Payment Methods:

• Cards: All major debit/credit cards, Cartes Bancaires (France), JSB (Japan)

• Wallets: Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Amazon Pay

• Bank Redirects: Bancontact (Belgium), EPS (Austria), giropay (Germany)

• Buy Now, Pay Later: Klarna, Afterpay/Clearpay

This update enhances payment flexibility, ensuring your customers enjoy a more tailored and convenient checkout experience.

We have made it even easier for you to access your Pixpa Studio! You can now go directly to your Studio from any desktop or mobile browser by simply adding /admin to the end of your Pixpa subdomain or custom domain URL.

How It Works:

Simply type your website URL in the browser and append "/admin" to login to your account

• Pixpa Subdomain: https://example.pixpa.com/admi...

• Custom Domain: https://www.example.com/admin

This update streamlines your workflow, providing faster access to your Studio for managing your website content.

We have added options to help you style section headlines in Page Builder’s dynamic sections with more flexibility and control.

What’s new:

• Adjust the headline width to fit your layout

• Set headline text alignment (left, center, or right) for better design flow

• Add a divider below the headline to separate it from the content

• Customize the divider’s color, thickness, and style (solid, dashed, ridge, groove, and more)

• Add a CTA button aligned with the headline—automatically positioned left or right based on headline alignment settings

How it will help you:

• Create more balanced and polished layouts that match your design vision.

• Make your headlines stand out and guide attention to key sections.

• Improve visual hierarchy and content readability.

These tools help you design with more intent, making your website look cleaner, more professional, and more effective.

We have introduced a new feature on Pixpa—Packages for ecommernce enabled galleries and client galleries.
With Packages, you can now bundle multiple products together and offer them as a single purchase option. This is perfect for photographers, artists, and creatives who want to sell different items, like prints and digital downloads, as a combined offering at a single price.

What’s New:

• Create Bundled Products: Sell multiple items together in one package. For example, you can create a "Print & Digital Package" where your customers receive a physical print and a high-resolution digital download of the same image.

• Flexible Product Options: Add different items to your package and offer variations such as print sizes or framed versions.

• Easy to Add: You can add a Package product directly to any price list.

• Customizable Pricing: Set the price for the entire package, and customize what is included.

• Exclusive & Limited Edition Options: Restrict the purchase to one per checkout or allow the same image across multiple items in a package.

Key Benefits:

• Create Custom Packages: Combine various formats and sizes (prints, digital files, etc.) into one seamless offer.

• Fixed Pricing: Set a fixed price for the entire package, and let your customers select from the items you include.

• Flexible Restrictions: Choose whether customers can select different images for each product or only one image for the entire package.

We have introduced stylish shape masks to images across dynamic sections in the page builder giving your site a fresh, modern look.

What’s New:

• 50+ Shape Styles – Choose from a variety of geometric and organic shapes to match your site’s vibe.

• Stretch or Fit – Ensure your images fit perfectly, whether you need to stretch or crop them to match specific aspect ratios.

• Works Everywhere – Shape masks can be applied to Image Lists, Headlines, Product Listings, and Blog Listings, allowing for creative flexibility throughout your site.

• Smart Adaptation – The shape masks automatically adjust to your image size or alignment for a smooth, consistent look with option to also override the shape mask for individual items in image lists.

Add Instant Flair to Your Website:

These new shape masks bring a fresh visual appeal to your Pixpa site.
Start experimenting with them in Page Builder today and see how they can elevate the design of your images!

We are excited to introduce significant updates to Pixpa’s blog editor, designed to make your blogging experience more efficient and flexible.

A Smarter, More Flexible Blog Editor

The new Pixpa blog editor allows you to easily style your posts. You can now add line separators, create multi-column layouts with custom or preset splits (like 60:40), and arrange multiple images side by side. In addition, you can customize spacing, borders, and rounded corners, and rearrange content blocks with simple arrow keys.

Smarter Navigation with ToC + Anchor Links

Improving user experience, you can now add an automatic Table of Contents (ToC) with just one click. This makes it easier for your readers to navigate your posts, especially in longer articles. Plus, you can insert custom anchor links anywhere within your content for seamless navigation.

Built-in AI Writer — Your Personal Content Assistant

Pixpa's built-in AI Writer is here to assist you in generating content instantly. Whether you need to shorten, expand, rephrase, correct grammar, or translate text, the AI tools are now fully integrated within the blog editor for a smooth and fast writing process.

Take Your Blog to the Next Level

These updates are designed to make it faster and easier for you to create well-structured blog posts. Take advantage of these features to enhance your blogging experience and deliver great content effortlessly.

We have introduced the AI Text Writer, a new feature designed to help you generate brand-specific content quickly and effortlessly. This tool empowers users to focus on their creative work while AI handles the bulk of content creation, from titles to descriptions, across your website. You can customize the AI’s output to match your brand voice and style by setting up your brand profile.

What is included

• Brand Profile Setup: Define your brand title, add a detailed brand description, and choose your preferred tone of voice (options like neutral, professional, friendly, funny, inspirational, and more).

• Content Generation: Use the AI Text Writer to generate titles and descriptions for galleries, pages, folders, as well as SEO titles and SEO descriptions for better search engine optimization.

• Generate content specifically for password protection page in the website.

What you can achieve

• Dynamic Content Creation: The AI Text Writer is integrated into the Page Builder, allowing you to easily generate titles, subtitles, and descriptions for dynamic sections of the pages.

• Quick Edits: Enhance and refine AI-generated text using quick commands like rephrase, shorten, simplify, or correct grammar for polished, professional content.

How it helps

• Saves Time and Ensures Consistency: The AI Text Writer quickly generates content across your website, from galleries to SEO fields, saving you hours of work. With the brand profile setup, it ensures that all content consistently matches your brand's tone and voice.

• SEO and Professional Refinements: Automatically generate SEO-optimized titles and descriptions, improving your site's search rankings. You can also use quick commands like rephrase, shorten, and correct grammar to polish the content effortlessly.

• Enhances User Experience: By quickly generating well-written, relevant content for various sections, you ensure that your site visitors have a seamless and engaging experience. High-quality copy paired with beautiful design ensures that your message is conveyed effectively to your audience.

Our new update brings new layouts and customization options to the page builder that will make creating websites easier than ever.

What's New?

1. New Image List Layouts:

   • Accordion-Based Layout: This layout allows for a collapsible image list with advanced styling options. You can choose to open the first item by default, allow multiple open items, customize dividers (thickness, color, placement), and tweak icon styles and element spacing.

   • Hover-Based Image Layout: This layout introduces a fresh, interactive element, where images are revealed when hovering over items.

2. Headline Dividers and Extra Large Font:

   • Add dividers to section headlines with customizable thickness, color, and style (solid, dashed, double, etc.). We’ve also introduced an "Extra Large" font option for a bolder, more impactful look.

How Will This Help You?

These new features give you more control and creativity in designing your website. The accordion and hover-based image lists add interactive elements, while the extra-large font option ensures that important headlines stand out and grab attention.

We have added a new feature that lets you add a tipping option during the checkout process in your store and client galleries.

What’s new?

You can now enable tipping as an optional feature at checkout. This allows your customers to add extra monetary compensation as a gesture of appreciation for your work.

How can it help?

Offering a tipping option can help you:

• Increase earnings with voluntary contributions from customers.

• Enhance customer satisfaction by allowing them to support you beyond the listed prices.

Customization options

• Add a title & disclaimer: Personalize the tipping section with a title and any additional information.

• Set up to 3 tip values: You can offer fixed amounts for easy selection.

• Custom tipping: Enable this option to let customers enter a tip amount of their choice.

New footer layouts designed to enhance the look and functionality of your website have been added in footer option in Design section. These layouts offer a more modern and intuitive approach to customizing your website's footer, allowing you to make it truly your own.

Footer Navigation

The new footer layouts have the option to show footer navigation section. This feature allows you to display important links, such as your privacy policy, terms of use, and other essential pages, directly in the footer. You can add your footer menu items from the Footer Navigation option from the Website Menu.

Extensive Customization Options

These new footer layouts come with a wide range of customization options. You can:

• Add a separate logo specifically for the footer and adjust the logo width for both desktop and mobile versions separately.

• Customize the footer border to suit your design preferences.

• Include your social links, with options to change their size, spacing, and color (menu or brand colors).

• Adjust footer width and manage top and bottom padding to achieve the best aesthetic look for your site.

Additional Footer Features

• Include a short footer text or a right-aligned copyright text for added personalization.

• Utilize layouts with autofit texts to display your site title in full width, ensuring your brand is prominently showcased.

• Enable or disable the footer according to your site’s needs.

We have introduced a new feature in our page builder—Autofit Text Layout in the headline section.

In Autofit text layout, the text scales edge to edge based on the browser width and the number of characters in the line without line break, ensuring your headlines always look their best.

You can also fine-tune the appearance by setting a maximum font size, text alignment and adjusting the line height, providing additional control over your design. This customization is in addition to choosing a font style that complements your page settings.

Why You Will Love It: This feature is perfect for short titles or headlines, making it ideal for creating concise and impactful text. The autofit functionality ensures a consistent and professional appearance across all devices. It automatically adjusts the text size to fit the width of the section, maintaining a clean look without breaking lines, regardless of the browser size.

Where You Can Use It: The Autofit Text feature is versatile and can be used across various sections of your website. On homepages, it helps make a strong first impression with dynamic headlines. In portfolios, it showcases your work with adaptable and stylish text.

To see in action, check out the Footloose template

We have introduced the option to crop your website logo from the Pixpa studio itself.

Logo Cropping Capabilities
You can crop your website logo right after uploading it. Choose from different crop ratios such as square, landscape (3:2, 4:3, 16:9), portrait (2:3, 3:4, 9:16), or create a custom crop to suit your design needs.

Flexible Zoom and Reset Function
In addition to cropping, you can now zoom in and out on your logo for precise adjustments. If you're not satisfied with your changes, simply reset the crop before saving to start over.

Comprehensive Cropping Options
This cropping feature isn't just for your primary logo. You can also crop alternate logos, system logos, and favicons. This ensures all visual elements of your website are perfectly tailored to your brand.

Right-click protection is available across your entire website, preventing unauthorized copying of your images and text. This safeguards your creative work and intellectual property.

Additionally, we've implemented extra security features to further protect your website content.

What's Included

• Disable AI Crawling: We’ve added the option to disable website crawling by AI bots. This means your website content will not be scanned for AI training purposes by AI crawl bots, giving you more control over your content’s privacy and security.

• Prevent Embedding by Malicious Sites: Now you can protect your website from being embedded by malicious sites. This feature ensures that your website cannot be used or displayed without your permission, keeping your content safe from misuse.

Simple and Easy to Use

All these new security options can be enabled with single clicks, making it effortless to enhance your website's security.

We have added the option to add marquee sections in the page builder.

How You Can Use It

The Marquee section can be added to any page on your website, making it a versatile tool for various uses. Whether you want to highlight a new product, share a special offer, or make an announcement in the page, the marquee section makes sure it gets noticed.

Dynamic and Engaging Visuals

With the Marquee section, your website becomes more interactive and engaging. The dynamic visuals and animations will capture your visitors' attention and keep them engaged.

By integrating visually appealing and dynamic content, you can reinforce your brand identity and create a memorable experience for your site visitors.

Customization Options

The Marquee section offers a variety of customization options to fit your brand's style and needs:

• Adjust Spacing: Create a clean and organized layout by adjusting the spacing between individual items.

• Control Direction and Speed: Customize the marquee direction and speed to suit your content.

• Pause on Hover: Enable the pause on hover feature for better user interaction.

• Fading Effect: Add a fading effect on the sides for a more polished and professional look.

This flexibility allows you to create a unique and engaging visual experience that aligns perfectly with your brand identity.

Our new search-based header layouts are designed to enhance your website’s engagement!

New Headers Optimized for Site Search

We have launched search-based header layouts for both desktop and mobile views. Now, you can feature a dedicated search box in your website header, putting the search function front and center.

These layouts ensure a consistent and user-friendly experience for all your visitors, regardless of the device they're using. This enhancement is especially beneficial for photographers, designers, and users running stores on their websites.

New UI for search box and results page

We've improved the search interface to be more seamless and user-friendly. Finding information on your site is now easier than ever! Our upgraded search page UI displays all search results in a horizontal tabbed format for better organization. You can decide what to include in the search results—products, images, blog posts, and pages—so your visitors can find exactly what they need.

The new search panel gets aligned with the website header showing the content below with focus on the search.

Flexible Search Options

Pixpa gives you the flexibility to customize your search type. Choose between exact matches for precise results or broader fuzzy matches. This way, your visitors get the most relevant search results based on their needs.

Pixpa's image border feature lets you enhance your website’s visual appeal by adding stylish borders around images.

Why You Will Love It

Adding borders to your images is now super easy. With just a simple toggle switch, you can enhance your visuals effortlessly.
This feature works seamlessly in page dynamic sections, galleries, folders, album listings and product listings in your store.

Multiple Customization Options

• Personalize your borders with a range of colors, styles, and widths.
• Choose from seven border styles: solid, dashed, dotted, grooved, double, ridge, inset, and outset.
• Customize different border widths for each edge of your image for a unique touch.

Mobile Responsive View

Our image borders feature includes options to customize border widths specifically for mobile views. This ensures your images maintain their visual appeal and integrity, no matter what device your audience uses.

We’re pleased to introduce Pixpa Prime, a new offering for members who manage two or more paid websites on their account.

What is in it for you?

Pixpa Prime is designed for creative agencies and freelancers looking to streamline their website-building process. With Pixpa Prime, you’ll unlock additional benefits to enhance your productivity and creativity:

• Additional Contributors: Enjoy the advantage of two contributors included in the Basic plan for all websites under your Prime account, including trial websites. Collaborate seamlessly and bring your projects to life with ease.

• Extended Trial Period: Benefit from a generous 90-day trial period for all new websites added to your account. This gives you ample time to perfect your sites before committing.

Why You Will Love It

Pixpa Prime offers a range of features that make it an indispensable tool for professionals:

• Lifetime Discounts: Get ongoing discounts on all website plans, helping you manage and expand your clients' websites more economically.

• Branding Control: Replace Pixpa's footer branding with your own for a fully customized, professional appearance.

• Priority Support: Enjoy priority live chat and email support for quick resolutions and consistent, high-quality service.

• Enhanced Collaboration: With the added contributors, working on projects with your team becomes more efficient, allowing for greater creativity and productivity.

• Flexibility and Time: The extended trial period gives you the flexibility to experiment and refine your websites, ensuring they meet your highest standards before going live.

Timeline layouts in page builder are designed for anyone looking to present their projects, processes, or achievements in a clear, chronological sequence.

Usability

Perfect for a variety of uses, our Timeline Layouts offer you the flexibility to:

• Track Projects: Visualize the progression of your projects from inception to completion.

• Demonstrate Processes: Ideal for outlining step-by-step procedures or workflows in a clear, logical manner.

• Highlight Achievements: From awards to significant milestones, display your successes in a timeline that tells your story.

Extensive customization options

Personalize your timelines to match your style or brand identity with our robust customization tools:

• Content Styling: Control the look and feel of your timeline by adjusting grid spacing, content order, and the spacing between individual elements like other page dynamic sections

• Directionality Choices: Choose the flow of your timeline, either from left to right or right to left to suit your narrative.

• Line Customization: Set the timeline's line width and color to enhance readability and aesthetic appeal.

• Interactive Elements: Incorporate interactive cards, add shadows, apply hover effects, and customize buttons to make your timeline more engaging.

Announcement bars are a dynamic and effective way to highlight essential information on your website. Perfect for launching new products, running promotional campaigns, or simply boosting visitor engagement, these bars are designed to capture attention and drive action.

Customizable for Your Brand

Create announcement bars that align perfectly with your brand identity:

• Choose Your Color: Set the preferred background color of your bar.

• Style Your Text: Select from different font styles, adjust size, color, and letter spacing for optimal readability and appeal.

• Flexible Display Options: Choose between an edge-to-edge or contained view by adjusting the width of your announcement bar.

Advanced Features for Enhanced Control

To make your website management seamless, the announcement bars come with advanced control features:

• Schedule Visibility: Set specific start and expiration dates and times for your announcement bars.

• Reset Visibility: Reset visibility quickly if you make changes to the bar's content.

• Keep it visible: Disable the close icon to keep your announcement bar visible indefinitely, ideal for ongoing campaigns or important alerts.

Boost Engagement with CTA Links

Enhance your visitor engagement by adding CTA links to your announcement bars. You can use the CTA links to

• Enhance Social Media Presence: Link to your social media pages to grow your following.

• Direct Traffic Internally: Guide visitors to new product pages, booking sessions, or other important internal pages.

• Promote Physical Locations: Lead visitors to your store location for increased in-person visits.

Streamlined Sharing Options for Client Galleries

Pixpa has upgraded the Client Gallery sharing options to enhance your experience and interaction with clients. You now have multiple ways to share your creative albums: whether it’s via a direct email invitation, a straightforward album link, or a convenient QR code for instant access.

Using Invite Email Templates

To further streamline your workflow, Pixpa introduces customizable invite email templates. Tailor your invitations with different templates designed for various client interactions. With this feature, you can quickly apply your preferred template when sharing an album, ensuring a consistent and professional approach every time.

Email Customizations

• Customise Your Cover Image: Choose how your cover image appears in your emails, either as full bleed or image fit for a contained look.

• Select Your Email Color Mode: Opt between light or dark modes for your email background, aligning with your brand or the preference of your audience.

• Incorporate Social Media Links: Enable your social media profiles in your emails to boost your online presence and engagement with clients.

Email Delivery Tracking
You can review your invite email history to ensure that your emails are not only delivered but also opened by your clients. This feature provides peace of mind and enhances your ability to track engagement.