Our customers made these suggestions for improving EKM. Suggestions for improving EKM.
Drag and Drop items on category page (moving product positions)
Right now we can only use left, right, first and last. We should have the option to drag and drop as it's more efficient.
Product Scroller
The functionality for an optional Product Scroller to be added to the homepage, which allows nominated Products to display in a feed which can be navigated through by ...
Ability to schedule banners and images to change.
When having a sale event it would be so much easier to upload new banners before hand and be able to schedule when you want them to go live on the site, at the moment ...
next gen image types
trying to speed up the mobile sites load times and google page speed is suggesting saving the images as next gen image types like, "JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP" ...
New In Category and Special Offers
"Would it be possible to be able to set a new product to automatically be
placed in a 'NEW' category for a certain length of time?
"I have many customers asking ...
Scroll To Top of Pages From The Bottom Of Pages
I can't comment on the availability of other themes, but the one I'm using doesn't have the ability to scroll to the top of the pages once you're at the bottom. As a ...
Number of items per page
Customer gets to have the option to select the number of items per page their shown. For example 12, 24, all, etc.
Aerial Theme Mobile Site - Products listed in rows of 2
On the mobile site - are we able to have the products listed in rows of 2? Currently there is 1 product in each row, and takes a long while to scroll through all the ...
Enable customers to filter out products that are not currently in-stock via the product filter
When a customer wishes to the use the product filter. It throws up a set of results which qualify for the attributes they wish. However if their requirement is also ...
Photo Gallery
Being able to add photo albums which show designs available for each item would make life simpler. For some items there are so many choices that I either have to ...
Ability to customise the 404 Product Not Found page
It would be beneficial and assist conversion if we could customise this page with our own branding and copy
Improvements to Email Notifications - Anti SPAM
EKM should send Webform emails from a different email, so rest of the legitimate notification can be whitelisted more easily. Email filter rules are easier to apply ...
A cookie bar that automatically prevents 3rd party cookies from firing until consent is given
A cookie bar that automatically prevents 3rd party cookies from firing until consent is given making use of facebook pixels and google analytics etc GDPR compliant.
Clear Filters option
Enable a button to allow a user to clear all filters so they do not have to manually uncheck everything to search again
Choosing a New Theme Requirements Filter
On the new theme selection screen have a filter which allows you to choose what you want from your selected theme. For example : Full width hero image, Megamenu, Wide ...
Seasonal Theme Modifiers
It could be possible to insert style and scripts that would modify any theme, adding seasonal touches. It would mean you don't have to complete change your theme to ...
More Fonts on Themes
It really adds to the customisation of the shop and would allow themes to become even more adaptable. Please not comic Sans though ;)
Carousel or Automatic Slider in Aerial
Is it possible to enable the slider to slide automatically? Could a carousel feature be added to Aerial? On the subject of sliders, is it possible to add links to the ...
Logo Builder High Resolution
Update logo builder so logos are downloaded in high resolution. So that the logos can be used for marketing materials, and not just for the shop logo
Add 'Copy Product' to drop down on product edit button on category page
So that instead of having to go in to edit a product, then scroll down to the 'copy' button, you can choose 'copy' from the list on category page (current list is ...
Ability to move featured products' positions on home page.
Can we please have the ability to move products in the special offers section as you can in the categories.
Dark mode for people with conditions that make them sensitive to bright lights.
The ability for a customer to put the website in darkmode if they are sensitive to the light.
Shop By Brand
To introduce an easy way to add a "Shop By Brand" page to EKM. This is currently possible by hacking it into the category management but it would be much nicer if we ...
Product weight as an attribute - be able to set this as show/hide
Some Merchants use the weight to decide which shipping method the order will receive, this weight isn't necessarily the weight of the item so they don't want this to ...
More detailed Theme Descriptions
Is it possible to have a more detailed catalogue of themes. We need a theme that can handle a very large number of categories / sub-categories and have images with ...
Tweaked Themes
Once you have a theme tweaked it should be saved into your purchased themes, as I wasn't aware that once I had changed my theme I couldn't reinstate my original ...
Change the way product images are shown on mobile so customers are not diverted to a new window
Either add minimise options or just maximise the picture as opposed to opening this in a new window when customers want to look at additional product images on the ...
the most popular sort by to actually sort by most popular
sort by "most popular" is currently just the default. but given that analytics can show us the most popular product, could this not be used for the sort by also?
Allow more consistent customisation of Themes - specifically text colour
The Themes are great, but they lack the consistent capabilities to change the colour of all the text on the site, and require EKM Designer (sometimes at a cost to the ...
Allow customers to toggle VAT on shops throughout the front-end.
This is to allow customers to be able to toggle the VAT on product prices across the merchant's store. They can do this by toggling between including VAT and ...
Colour swatch should be made available on category page
The available colours should be shown underneath the products on every category page. Right now customers do not know whether the item has variants or not - the only ...
Text Background or Shadow - Category Promo Grid - Aerial
Text on category image grid images can get lost in the image. At the moment, the only solution is to add a colour filter to the image. Is it possible to add a text ...
Aerial theme - moving over the description to sit under the add to cart buttons to help coversion
I've fed this back a number of times but now have evidence that doing this will help convert customers.
Heatmaps of where customers are looking when they visit a ...
Single add to cart button.
The functionality for buyers to scroll down a list of products adding the number of each they require before clicking one button at the bottom to add all to cart.
Specific Alt Text Fields on the Aerial Theme
Would it be possible to add specific Alt Text fields on sections of the Aerial Theme? Although any overlaid text is listed as Alt Text already, this would allow for ...
aerial theme - logos footer
The ability to add logos for example to the footer please ie FSB logo example or payment gateway logos or associations to your company.......................
Larger Cookie Bar - avoid loosing customers
Make the new cookie bar larger!
Whilst the new cookie bar is GDPR compliant, its to easy to avoid it. By ignoring the bar and not clicking it, customers are not ...
Product Filter display options
The Product Filters always display depending on what theme is being chosen. We could have a feature so a customer can choose the layout of how they would like the ...
Ability to hide weight - without entering custom mode theme
There is no option to hide the weight at present and keep your theme in default
Aerial Theme - Info Bar
The ability to move the info bar.
The ability to close up the white space.
New photos to get added to the top of categories
When uploading a new product rather than getting sent to the last item in the category page they should be added to the first page and top of the list rather than ...
Include Hide button in Edit Product Shortcuts
Having a Hide button added to the Product edit shortcuts.
Instead of having to go into Edit the product page to make the product Hidden.
Edit short cut options: ...
Ability for shop owner to chose between drop down and flags on currency converter
While you can change this through the display type in the multicurrency tag, this could potential mean putting someone in custom mode for something that feels like it ...
Number of items in the Shopping Cart
Have the shopping cart on all templates display the number of items a customer has added.
Ability to split test new designs
The ability to split test a design change or tweak
More functionality in the image builder
Having more basic functionality in the in-built image builder, to do things like rotating images and removing backgrounds from imported images. Removing the need to ...
The ability to display product quantities
We sell alloy wheels that are supplied as a set of four. Customers are always asking the price is per wheel or for a set of four. It would be great to be able to ...
Re-size Youtube videos
Vimeo videos automatically resize to fit desktop/tablet/mobile devices whereas youtube videos do not. However, it is possible to add some code to some EKM shop ...
aerial theme - copyright space at the very bottom
Please make this space editable, i would prefer from and to years for example, and also to add LTD
Out of stock - button colour
On the shop page, please can you make the colour of the 'Out of stock' field editable? At the moment it is a red/pink colour which doesn't fit with the rest of the ...