Flag Messages That Try to Take Payment Off-Platform
Buyers and sellers sometimes try to move a deal off the marketplace, “just Venmo me”, which cuts you out of the sale and strips away buyer protection. You can now switch on an owner-configurable prohibited-word filter under Listing Form → Buyer & Messaging Settings and supply your own word list (Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Zelle, a phone number pattern, whatever you like).
It's a soft filter, never a block. A matching message still sends, but the sender gets a gentle “keep it on the marketplace” nudge, and you see it flagged in Message Moderation, with a per-conversation badge, a “flagged only” filter, and the exact words that matched. The warning is translated into all 6 supported languages.
Ella V. ↔ Marcus T.
Matched: venmo
Nothing is blocked, the message goes through. You just get eyes on it.
A Short, Quotable Reference ID on Every Seller & Listing
When a seller emails support about “my listing” or you need to track down a specific account, there was never a clean ID to point at, only the opaque database identifier that lived nowhere in the UI. Now every seller and every listing shows a short reference ID (for example #7CE66C3) on seller cards, the dashboard, admin tables, and the edit-listing header.
The short code is read-only shorthand, but clicking it copies the full underlying ID to your clipboard, so you can paste it straight into admin lookup. And the search box on Seller Management and Seller Listings now matches the reference ID, so you can jump straight to the exact seller or listing someone is asking about. Nothing to migrate, it derives from data you already have.
Reference IDs are only visible to sellers and marketplace owners, they never show up on buyer-facing pages like public listings or checkout.
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Ella Vintage
Click the badge and the full database ID lands on your clipboard.
A Live Preview on the All Listings Page Settings
The All Listings Page has a lot of dials, layout, card display, search and filters, and it was hard to know what a change actually did without saving and hopping over to the storefront. There's now a live preview panel right in the settings tab that reflects your changes as you make them.
The preview also reflects out-of-stock behavior, so you can see exactly how sold-out listings appear with your current settings before anything goes live.
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Out-of-stock listings render just like they will on the storefront.
More Improvements
Other things shipped this week.
- Buyers can now save a shipping address in their account settings, so it's ready at checkout
- Owners can hard-delete clean-slate seller and buyer accounts (ones with no orders or history), plus paginate the seller/buyer cards and toggle deleted accounts into view
- The seller dashboard's listing-type filter now collapses behind a "show all" toggle on mobile, and the whole dashboard picks up your store theme color
- The seller application form now uses app-consistent required-field validation instead of the browser's native error bubbles, and scrolls to and highlights the missing custom field
Bug Fixes
Bug fixes shipped this week.
- Pagination on the seller and buyer cards no longer gets clipped inside the horizontal-scroll container
- Clicking a setting's title label no longer accidentally toggles the setting
- Custom fields are no longer stranded when their approval gate is hidden
Don't miss the next release
New features, improvements, and bug fixes shipped every Friday. One email per week.