Suggestions for improving EKM

Preview / Publish Mode (aka publish test shop)

So you could preview your shop and then when you are ready to publish your changes you simply press a button! No more copy and pasting from the test shop.
Suggested by: Antony (23 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 18
Planned Settings

Add-on Sales, Upsales & Extras

I think we should have an option where when the customer buys a product they have an option to buy add-on products and related products. I also think this should ...
Suggested by: Sarah (20 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 25 Jul, '25 Comments: 15

Stock Control for individual items not all

Stock control for individual items would be great, please. I imagine there are others on here like ourselves, who, should they sell out, can easily restock with an ...
Suggested by: Jenna Goodwin (17 May, '20) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 53
On-Hold Settings

MOQ - Minimum Order Quantity on a product.

A product option that enforces a minimum order purchase (i.e. minimum order quantity of 3 - if a customer tried to order 2 an error modal would appear advising to add ...
Suggested by: Rebecca Waite (05 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 19
On-Hold Settings

EU VAT changes

The specifics for VAT settings with the EU going forward from the 1st of July is that any business sending anything to the EU will need to register for VAT in one EU ...
Suggested by: Jim Barnes (11 May, '21) Upvoted: 13 Apr, '25 Comments: 12
Planned Settings

Auditing History

This was a suggestion that came up from some of the usability sessions. There should be a page within settings that shows the auditing history of a shop. This page ...
Suggested by: Michael Brownlee (03 May, '19) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 18
On-Hold Settings

More advance editor for order progress emails

The best sales email tool we have is order Statius updates email as they have a higher % open than direct marketing emails. The EKM email tool for marketing emails ...
Suggested by: Tom (11 May, '21) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 9
On-Hold Settings

Cart Flow Pop-up to increase individual spend

It would be good if we had a pop-up that compared the existing Delivery Methods to the customer's cart and was able to calculate how much more they had to spend to ...
Suggested by: Eve Bolan (10 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 13 May, '24 Comments: 4

Auto Send Monthly EKM Invoices

Monthly EKM Invoice Is Sent To Requested Email Address Automatically (Rather Than Manually Checking To See If It Is Available)
Suggested by: SecureFix Direct (07 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 11 Apr, '24 Comments: 8

Test Send for Outgoing Emails

Currently on the Outgoing Emails page within the back end of the EKM online shop platform, you can customise Outgoing Emails, but these do not have a Test Send ...
Suggested by: Eve Bolan (11 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 20 Jul, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration Settings

Reserving Products

We would like to see the functionality that would enable customers to reserve a Product within their Cart for a period of 5-10 minutes. Currently, if 2 customers add ...
Suggested by: Eve Bolan (11 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 4
On-Hold Settings

Add auto-email to ask for review of products

It would be very useful if there was an email we could send asking for product reviews and that linked the product pages of the items ordered to make it easy. This ...
Suggested by: Neil Molloy (15 Jan, '19) Upvoted: 08 Feb, '22 Comments: 3

make it impossible for stock to enter a minus situation,

please make it possible for my stock to enter a minus situation , in other words , if I have run out of stock make it impossible for anyone to buy once it hits Zero stock
Suggested by: shane russell varey (12 Jan, '19) Upvoted: 30 Apr, '22 Comments: 3

Ability to share cart publicly, both by shop owners and customers.

"Shared Cart" functionality, that would allow a customer to add their products to a cart and then share a link to their cart with another person to continue to order. ...
Suggested by: Katherine (02 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 20 Jul, '23 Comments: 5

ability to add an E.T.A date on out of stock products

Suggested by: Kelly Donaldson (24 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 13 Oct, '22 Comments: 1

Product Purchase Limitation - The ability to reserve a specific amount of items per address.

Currently, a shop that sells limited edition items is attempting to limit these to one per household, but the system allows customers to purchase multiples at a time ...
Suggested by: Eve Bolan (11 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 03 Dec, '25 Comments: 2
On-Hold Settings

Include picture into email templates

Would it be possible to enhance the email templates so a mini picture of the product customers have ordered is in the email? This is quite a common creature when I ...
Suggested by: Andy Plumb (26 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 20 Feb, '25 Comments: 1

Improvements to Email Templates -"Test" Email template Button

We cannot see what email content is being sent to customer without trying on Live site. This is bad practice. Even using Test Websites, one cannot create orders, ...
Suggested by: Doug (11 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 20 Jun, '24 Comments: 0
Planned Settings

Improved order status email templates

Create some better order status email templates which are more visually appealing and fit in with the stores theme.
Suggested by: Jon Willison (21 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 04 Mar, '21 Comments: 0

Turn off order received emails.

Would it be possible to have it so shop owners can turn off order placed emails, or allow them to sent the emails to a separate address as stock level and enquiry ...
Suggested by: danny (29 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 29 Mar, '21 Comments: 2

Advanced Stock control

add the option to have bundle products made of more than one SKU. We sell toy soldiers - you can buy a unit of crossbow men and a until of swordsmen - you can also ...
Suggested by: jamie loft (09 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 20 Nov, '20 Comments: 2

Low stock warning emails

When I get a low stock warning email it very kindly sends me a link to that product. However, the link is to the live shop rather than the back end, which renders it ...
Suggested by: Heather (05 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
On-Hold Settings

Improvements to Emails to Customers / Templates

Presently unlike all other event emails there is no TEMPLATE for the "Send Customer Email" for ad-hoc emails ( in customer section) . So have to manually a paste a ...
Suggested by: Doug (05 May, '21) Upvoted: 02 Sep, '21 Comments: 1

Order View - Daily & Weekly

I have been a customer for EKM for almost 10 years now. One of the frustations I have had during this time is the order view. Depending on the number of orders ...
Suggested by: Rob McPhee - FastColours (04 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 04 Feb, '20 Comments: 0

Free delivery threshold based on VAT inclusive basket total

Retailers supplying goods are unable to set a free delivery threshold for chosen delivery options based on the VAT-inclusive value of customers' baskets. Currently, ...
Suggested by: Peter Newson (11 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 1
In Development 2025 Settings

Improvements to Data Retention and Deletion Visibility of Backups - GDPR Compliance

Have on shop backend, information viewable as to when last Backup has occured e.g.: Your Server XX was Backed-up at 02.32Hrs Tuesday 22/6/2021 This will allow ...
Suggested by: Doug (22 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 1
On-Hold Settings

out of stock plugin

adding a plugin of sorts to show all product that are out of stock completely in all variants only and a hide/ show feature or delete to managing product more efficiently
Suggested by: Maria (01 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 17 Jun, '21 Comments: 1

Set Default for Dashboard Stats

Is it possible that we could have the functionality to set the default for the Dashboard Stats, as opposed to the default of 30 Days?
Suggested by: Eve Bolan (06 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 05 Dec, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Settings

Configure Outgoing Email to Different Email Addresses

Problem: EKM shop settings only allow a single email address to be entered for all outgoing email to be sent to (for the shop owner) and show as being sent from (for ...
Suggested by: Kiron Berrill (03 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 20 Jun, '22 Comments: 0

Bulk stock level change within a category

We would like the ability to change the stock level on all products within a category to the same number. For instance, reset everything to 'zero' when we are doing a ...
Suggested by: Meg Leach (21 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 1

Reset outgoing email templates

If someone accidentally deletes your outgoing emails templates is not an easy job to reset them. It would be good to have a reset button or even an undo button.
Suggested by: Mark Gilbertson (07 May, '21) Upvoted: 11 May, '21 Comments: 0

The option to set sub total to exclude VAT

A shop does business to business sales (along with B2C). It has a cart but it shows subtotal including Tax, and then total. Could we have the ability to set if you ...
Suggested by: Eve Bolan (11 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 02 Dec, '25 Comments: 0

Ability to switch the default variant automatically when default variant out of stock

For the purposes of the product feed and PPC if the default variant goes out of stock we would need EKM to have the ability to switch to another default variant or ...
Suggested by: Rebecca (03 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 11 Nov, '22 Comments: 1

Ability for customer to back order specific products based on stock due in

If EKM created a section where you can add stock due in, and date due in. This could be shown to the customer on the order page. The product will show out of stock, ...
Suggested by: James Cruickshank (07 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 22 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
On-Hold Settings

Shop email address UX improvement | Messages with multiple addresses in From: header are not accept

Clearer field separation or a warning if multiple addresses are set as the sender field for "Shop Email Address". If multiple email addresses are used in this ...
Suggested by: Dean James (13 Oct, '25) Upvoted: 13 Oct, '25 Comments: 0
In Development 2025 Settings

ability to set the shops prices in one currency while base currency is set to another

The ability to have the prices show as default in Euros for example, while setting the sites base currency to dollars, as that is the country you business is actually ...
Suggested by: Danny (27 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 31 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Settings