Changelog · GetOptical

1.5 11 September 2026 Published

Labels next to the name, and nothing sold out gets sold

A release about stock, about themes and about how each option reads. The product-page button and the configurator know what can be sold before the customer picks it; when Shopify refuses an add, the drawer says which line failed and what to do; and Split joins the tested themes.

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A label next to the option's nameThe Choose label button, beside "Add benefit", opens a catalogue of ten ready-made ones — Recommended, Most popular, Best value, Bestseller, New, Premium, Limited stock, On sale, In store only and Fast delivery — each with its colour and translated into the customer's language. If none fits, write your own and pick its colour. One per option, on any options step.
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"Recommended" becomes one more labelThe checkbox is gone: if you had it ticked, it's already in place and there's nothing to do. And it's no longer limited to one per step or to single-choice steps.
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You write how a surcharge readsUnder Design › Interface texts › Prices and summary, the "Option surcharge" box. Empty, it shows "+$70.00" as always. With {price} extra it reads "$70.00 extra", and with Add {price}, "Add $70.00". It also covers colours with a surcharge, and it's written per language.
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Option images show wholeThey used to be cropped to fill the square, so a wide illustration lost its edges. Now it fits whole. If you prefer the crop, which usually suits photos better, it's under Design › Options › Image fit.
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Sold-out frame: the button says soWith the selected variant out of stock, the product-page button shows disabled with "Sold out", or hides if you prefer (block setting When the frame is sold out). It follows the variant live, like your theme's own button, and the configurator never sends a frame that can't be bought to the cart.
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Sold-out add-ons, colours and accessories show before they're chosenOn opening, the configurator checks the stock of everything the form offers. What can't be sold shows disabled with "Sold out"; for colours, the dot is struck through like your theme's variant picker. Under Design › Options you can hide it instead. And in the editor, Check prices badges whatever is sold out or in draft.
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When an add fails, the drawer says why"The frame X is sold out. Please choose another frame", "X is not available right now. Please let the store know" or "You already have the maximum available of X in your cart", in the store's language, instead of "Could not add to cart. Please try again". The wording is editable under Design › Texts, and Analytics counts these cases under "Add-to-cart errors".
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The button wherever you want it next to your theme's "Add to cart"New Position setting on the block: above or below your theme's button, or side by side half and half, left or right, with the gap you choose and stacked on mobile. Nothing to change in the theme: the app finds the button on its own in the tested themes, with an advanced selector for the rest.
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Split (KrownThemes) among the tested themesThe app recognises its cart drawer on its own: the frame and its add-ons land inside, nested, and deleting the frame takes them along. With Compact the add-on lines in the cart the add-ons lose their controls and the set is bought as one unit. Recipe in the docs.
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Opening a form and the Analytics tab, fasterThe editor no longer waits on Shopify to open and asks for each piece of data once; Analytics keeps the report for ten minutes, so the second visit answers at once. Figures are recalculated at most every ten minutes.
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Ten new spacing settings under DesignGap between the step title and its description; on each option, the space to the right of the text, the title-to-description gap, the space above the chips, the image gap and corner radius; the benefit chips' shape, padding and gap; the gap between color dots; and the accessory card's padding. All default to what you had: nothing changes until you touch them.
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"From" only when the price can still riseIn the Starting price mode, an option that ends the form, or is only followed by free steps, shows its total with no "From". The word follows each option depending on what is left to choose.
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"Remember a half-finished configuration" is now your callThe box under Design › Navigation now comes unchecked: turn it on if you want to offer "Continue where you left off". Whoever already had it on keeps it.

1.4 6 September 2026 Published

Where your customers leave, and how to win them back

A release about conversion. The app tells you on which step your customers leave and what to change; whoever closes the configurator half-way can pick up where they left off when they return; and you can flag the option you recommend with a mark instead of writing it into the title.

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“This is where they stop”: the step that loses customers, and what to doAbove each form's funnel, Analytics points at the step that loses the most customers in proportion to those who reach it (“41% of the 20 customers who reach this step close here”), with advice for that type of step and two buttons: Edit the form and How to improve it. It only shows with enough data — from 20 customers on the step and 25% leaving; otherwise it tells you why there is no signal. The strongest one also shows on the app's home page, below your forms, and can be dismissed.
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Continue where you left offIf the customer closes the configurator before finishing and comes back to the same product within 7 days, they see “You left a configuration half-way” with two buttons: Continue where you left off and Start over. Continuing brings back what they had chosen — at today's prices, and only the options that still exist — and lands them on the first step they still have to answer. The prescription, the reading Rx, contact lenses and files are never remembered: they enter them again. Everything lives in the customer's browser, not on our servers. Under Design › Navigation you switch it off or choose from how many completed steps it is offered (2 by default); the prompt's texts are under Design › Texts. Analytics counts how many resume.
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Recommended optionOn a single-choice step, tick Recommended option on the option you advise and the customer sees a “Recommended” mark next to it, alongside its price. One per step; it does not choose for them or change the order. The mark's text is edited under Design › Texts.
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“Reading the analytics” guideWhat every figure in the Analytics tab means, what the signal is and what to change in your form depending on the step that loses. Linked from the tab itself.
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For integrators: the opticalform:resume eventWhen a customer resumes a configuration, your theme or your analytics get an event with how many steps came back — never with what they answered. All nine events, with examples, in the documentation.
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Analytics per formEach form says how many customers used it and, when no step loses more than 25%, says so too instead of leaving you guessing.

1.3 August 30, 2026 Published

Colours, full screen and a prescription that reads itself

The biggest release since launch. The configurator gains selectable colours and a full-screen mode; the prescription explains itself, gets reviewed before paying and reaches the order with every value labelled; and the cart, the prices and the wording adapt to your store: your theme, your markets, your way of speaking.

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Selectable colours on an optionAn option can carry a row of colour swatches — a tint, a polarised lens — and the customer picks one; only that one is charged. The colours and their photos come from your product's variants, and each colour can carry its own help.
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Full screen on desktopA third position mode: the screen split in two, with the product photo and the summary with its total on the left and the steps on the right. With an opening animation of your choice. On mobile the side panel stays.
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Help per option and per groupA "?" next to the option title opens a longer explanation, so the description can stay short. With its own design section, "Tooltips and help".
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The prescription explains itselfEvery prescription field carries a "?" in plain words — what it is, which sign it takes, where it sits on the prescription — and the "How to read your prescription" link opens a sample prescription built with your own labels.
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Review the prescription before payingThe confirmation step shows the prescription as a table with your headers, one row per eye and the PD underneath — the same layout as the sample prescription, so nobody has to guess the order of the numbers.
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PD as a dropdownChoose whether the pupillary distance is typed or picked from a list that only offers plausible values.
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The prescription reaches the order labelledIn the cart, at checkout, in the confirmation email and on the order, every value carries its field name, in the customer's language: "OD: SPH -2.25 · CYL -0.75 · AX 90° · ADD +1.50". An eye without a cylinder has no axis: "AX —". Your practice software keeps receiving its usual format.
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Add-on prices per marketIf you sell with Shopify Markets, treatments and extras show at the visitor's market price — the same one the cart charges afterwards.
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Interface texts, your wayIn Design › Interface texts you rewrite "Next", "Add to cart", "Total" and the rest, per language. Empty the box and your store's wording comes back.
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A product tag switches the configurator offPut optical-form-off — or the tag you choose — on a product and it never shows the button, even inside an assigned collection. For display frames or models you only sell without lenses.
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Skip the single-option stepA checkbox per step: if a product is left with only one option, the app picks it and moves on, and the option reaches the order with its label.
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Space kept free at the right of the footerSo your chat bubble (WhatsApp, Tidio, Gorgias…) does not land on top of "Next".
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Frame-without-lenses noticeIf the customer removes the lenses from your theme's cart, the frame gets flagged with a notice before paying, and your theme receives an event in case you want to act. And while the cart rearranges itself right after an add, the pay button waits a moment.
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Browser BackGoes back one step, like the "Previous" button; on the first step it closes the panel without leaving the product page. The phone's back gesture does what the customer expects.
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AccessibilityThe panel is a real modal dialog: the rest of the page is inert while it is open, the progress bar announces the step, focus shows on any background, and anyone with "reduce motion" on sees everything without sliding.
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The cart, polished on Dawn and HorizonAdd-ons nested under the frame: on Horizon out of the box, on Dawn 15 and 16 with a ready-to-paste CSS. New "Tested themes" guide with what we verified on desktop and mobile, and the "After add to cart" setting does what it says on Dawn too: open the drawer, go to the cart or do nothing.
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The editor shows what your customer seesLabel boxes come up empty with your language's wording in grey: what you type replaces it, what you leave blank translates itself. Long help texts live in an ⓘ so the editor can breathe.
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What's new, one click awayAt the foot of every page in the app, next to the documentation link, a link to this very page: what changes in each release, without going looking for it.

1.2 August 23, 2026 Released

Every order leaves with the full prescription and with your codes

Everything in this release pushes the same way: what your customer writes down reaches whoever makes the lenses, intact. One thing asks two minutes of you; the rest is already running in your store.

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Your practice software codes travel with the formWhen you import a form, the codes your software expects for each option come inside it and arrive complete. If you imported a form before August 21, 2026, import it again and check the Integrations tab: earlier imports don't carry them, and without them the order reaches your lab without the reference it needs to manufacture.
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Integrations tells you if the prescription won't reach your softwareWhen a form isn't set up to send the prescription through to your practice software, the Integrations tab says so and points at the step, before the first order goes out. You agree that detail with your provider; making sure it doesn't slip past you is the app's job.
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The axis is asked for when it matters, and only thenOn each eye, the axis field stays inactive while that eye carries no cylinder. The moment it does, choosing the axis is required to continue: no order is completed with an axis nobody chose.
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Each eye starts blankSphere, cylinder and axis wait empty for your customer to copy their prescription across, with no number set in advance. And the axis reads the way it does on their paper, unsigned: «90°», not «+90°». Dioptres keep the sign: there it tells two opposite lenses apart.
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Your theme can react to the configuratorSeven events so your analytics, your help chat or your cart recovery know when the configurator opens, which step your customer is on, and whether they finished or dropped out. If you don't use them, nothing changes. Documented at docs.getoptical.app, under For developers.

1.1 August 16, 2026 Published

Contact lenses, with the manufacturer's real catalogue

Selling contact lenses stops being a hand-written form: the step reads the catalogue of combinations your product can actually be built in, and offers only those.

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Contact lens stepPack, the eyes the customer is ordering and a prescription per eye. Only the powers the manufacturer actually makes are shown.
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Manufacturer reference on the orderThe app resolves the exact catalogue combination and sends it on the line, so your lab can order without translating anything.
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Boxes per eyeThe customer orders three boxes for one eye and one for the other, and the total reflects exactly what gets charged.
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Template and sample formInstalling already leaves you a contact lens form in draft, and "Create form" ships its template.

1.0 July 31, 2026 Published

First public release

Sell prescription eyewear on Shopify without leaving the product page: the shopper configures their lens, the prescription travels with the order, and your lab receives it exactly as entered.

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Multi-step configuratorLens type, index, treatments and add-ons. You define the steps, options and prices — no code.
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Prescription captureShoppers type their prescription or upload a photo, with value validation so no unmakeable order reaches you.
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Pupillary distanceA single value or one per eye, whichever your lab asks for.
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Grouped cartTreatments and extras sit nested under the frame instead of loose. Remove the frame and they go with it.
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Assign by product or by collectionAssign a form to a collection and products added later inherit it on their own — nothing to sync.
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Multi-languageSteps, options, labels, add-ons and the button text, with a value per language. The storefront resolves the visitor's.
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Appearance, per screen size48 style variables with independent values for mobile and desktop: header, width, type, options, navigation and summary.
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Import and export formsOne file. Clone a form, move it between stores, or keep a copy before you edit it.
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Works with your themeUses Shopify's standard layer where the theme supports it, with adapters for Dawn, Horizon and custom themes. No developer needed.
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Setup guideThe app checks what's missing — block not active, no form assigned, products left unconfigured — and takes you where to fix it.

Missing something?

Only what's already shipped and running in your store shows up here. What comes next is largely decided by the merchants who ask for it: if you sell something Optical Form can't configure yet, tell us. Knowing who's waiting for what is what changes the order of work.

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