Changelog

Publica.la is pleased to announce the launch of a new feature called "Promotional Prices." This tool allows bookstores and online stores to highlight their best deals in a clear and attractive manner.

Key Features

• Clear Display of Discount: Customers will be able to see both the regular price and the discounted price at a glance, thanks to visual indicators that highlight each discount.

• Campaign Scheduling: Businesses can schedule and plan their campaigns in advance, using special shelves that automatically sort offers from the highest to the lowest discount percentage.

• Direct Links and Enhanced Filters: It is possible to create direct links to all discounted books for more specific searches.

Additional Benefits

• Increased Conversions: By highlighting the best savings opportunities, an increase in conversions is expected.

• Universal Compatibility and Accessibility: All interface elements are designed to provide a consistent user experience on any device.

Availability

The "Promotional Prices" feature is now available to all Publica.la customers at no additional cost. Currently, promotional prices sent via ingestions with the ONIX protocol are being processed. Soon, this option will also be available directly in the publication editor or through batch updates in the settings section.

Start taking advantage of this new feature and highlight your best deals to attract more customers and increase your sales.

Hello to all users of Publica.la! We are excited to introduce the new version of our VITO AI assistant: VITO AI 2.0!

What is Vito? Vito AI Assistant is a multilingual, integrable chatbot designed to enhance the reading and learning experience for users interacting with digital publications on the Publica.la platform. With advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, Vito helps readers understand, summarize, and engage with complex content through a seamlessly integrated conversational interface within publication viewers, such as an iframe.

Vito empowers readers to:

• Instantly generate summaries of what they are reading

• Create self-assessment quizzes based on the book's content

• Ask free-form questions about the current section

• Interact in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, with the assistant automatically adapting

This assistant is ideal for educational, academic, and professional use cases, providing support to students, researchers, educators, and lifelong learners.

What’s new?

Some of the improvements and new benefits of VITO AI 2.0 include:

• Automatic localization in Spanish, Portuguese, and English

• Organic questions with detailed feedback

• Improved reliability of Vito’s LLM core

• Enhanced summary quality and intelligent request rejection

• Improvements in assessments and difficulty calibration

Additionally, the conversational flow has been optimized, performance has been enhanced, and faster load times have been achieved to provide an even better user experience.

Don’t have Vito yet? No worries! Contact your account manager to try it out and enjoy all these incredible features.

VITO AI 2.0 is here to provide you with a more enriching and interactive reading experience! Don’t miss out!

Searching content in your store is now easier, faster, and more effective.

We've released an enhancement to the search engine so your readers can effortlessly find what they're looking for. This update better understands search intent and delivers more relevant results, even if there are typos, missing accents, or inconsistent use of uppercase and lowercase.

This is a major breakthrough, especially if you have a large or diverse catalogue. By simplifying search, your users will discover what truly interests them, driving more sales and reads.

Try this new experience and let us know how it works for you. We're here to help.

More control to customize your store.

We've added a key enhancement to filters: you can now sort by sales volume using orderBy=sales and combine multiple criteria in a single URL. This new sorting highlights the best-selling titles in your store, making it easier to create more relevant links for your readers. Although it's not yet available in the interface, you can already use it directly through URL creation.

Additionally, with multiple filters, you can cross parameters like format, category, or keywords to achieve more precise searches. It's ideal for building menus, campaigns, or collections that cater to specific interests.

👉 Start testing it by creating custom URLs, or write to us if you need help implementing it in your store. Here's the article in our help center.

We've updated how recommendations are generated and displayed.

Now, we select publications based on their primary genre and sort them by popularity.

For this to work, your store must use genre classification (we use the BISAC nomenclature). If you haven't activated it yet, contact your Account Manager for assistance with implementation.

You can now launch your store in Polish and French, allowing you to expand your business and reach new markets with a fully localized experience.

With this update, you'll be able to offer store navigation, checkout process, and store management in these languages, providing a smoother and more accessible experience for your international customers.

At Publica.la, we're excited to announce the implementation of physical subscriptions, an update that will allow you to diversify your offerings and reach new markets. You can now sell printed publications—such as magazines, newspapers, and other products—on a recurring basis with automatic renewal.

With this new feature, your platform becomes even more comprehensive, enabling you to manage physical product sales effortlessly while maintaining the efficiency and simplicity you already enjoy.

We've integrated the subscription process into the shopping cart.

With this change, your end customers will enjoy a clearer and simpler purchase journey, while your business benefits from a more robust and streamlined experience.

This update enhances the cart’s reliability and efficiency, making navigation and checkout more intuitive for your customers.