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Cody

E-COMM
Velocity5.0

Ecommerce store builder with drag-and-drop page builder, checkout, and payments.

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Cody now builds promotions from a plain-language request, ahead of Black Friday.

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◆Current state
Cody is a white-label ecommerce platform for retailers in New Zealand and Australia, built around a POS-linked promotions engine. A batch of ten releases landed at once: promotions set up from a typed description, Afterpay Express Checkout, rule-based upsells, loyalty deals shown to logged-out shoppers, and ex-GST pricing for B2B sites. Smaller fixes cover reCAPTCHA bot blocking, page-builder layout jumps, app offer targeting and OnTempo imports.
◆Where it's heading
The promotions engine is the center of the product, and this batch makes it easier to configure and more visible to shoppers. Most of the work aims at conversion and order value in the run-up to Black Friday: faster checkout, smarter upsells, loyalty sign-up prompts. Typing a promotion in plain words is Cody's first AI-assisted setup tool in these entries, next to the earlier checkout API groundwork for agentic commerce.
◆Prediction
Expect more peak-season conversion features and natural-language setup reaching other modules. The entries still don't date the Agentic Checkout Protocol work or the final checkout API.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    ✍️ Set up promotions just by describing them

    Merchants can type a promotion such as "20% off all red shoes over $100" and Cody picks the promotion type, builds the criteria and picks up brand or range names, including full free-gift and tiered setups. It is the first AI-assisted setup tool in these entries and lowers the skill needed to run the promotions engine, the product's core.

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  2. 5d ago

    💳 Let shoppers check out faster with Afterpay Express Checkout

    Shoppers on NZ and AU sites can pay with Afterpay straight from the cart or checkout, skipping the usual steps. It is one of several conversion moves timed for Black Friday and extends the checkout rebuild to a third-party express flow.

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  3. 5d ago

    🚚 Smarter upsells that show the right products to the right shoppers

    Free Shipping and You May Also Like upsells now take rules by locale or department, and a Smart mode suggests only products priced to reach the free-shipping threshold, read live from freight settings. It applies the same rules-based targeting as the promotions engine to order-value tools.

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  4. 5d ago

    👀 Show loyalty deals to shoppers before they sign in

    Logged-out shoppers now see loyalty-only promotions with a caption prompting them to sign in or join, and the price applies only once they qualify. It builds on the promo captions added to cart and checkout and turns the promotions engine into a member acquisition tool.

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  5. 5d ago

    🧾 Show "ex GST" next to prices for business customers

    B2B sites can show "ex GST" after prices across cart, checkout, confirmation pages and order emails, including sale pricing. It is an opt-in setting that widens Cody's fit for wholesale storefronts.

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  6. 5d ago

    🛡️ Stronger protection from bots on your site forms

    Forms using reCAPTCHA v3 now reject submissions Google scores as likely bots, matching the older tick-box behavior. It is a protective fix for sender reputation with no change for real shoppers.

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