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153 releases
48 features
47 improvements
51 fixes
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13–24 of 51 releases

August 2026

19 releases
FixAll plansAug 5, 2026

Customer profiles now show returns, refunds and photos properly

A customer's Recent Activity now correctly labels their returns, refunds and cancellations, instead of showing them as an unlabelled bullet point. Refund amounts now display correctly, and return reference numbers appear too, which is what you need to find a return in Shopify. When a customer sends a photo along with a return, you can now see it on their profile, along with what Arbyn read in the picture, so if the agent acted on a wrong reading of a photo, you can catch that. The Refunds count on a customer profile now works as well; it had always shown zero.

FixAll plansAug 5, 2026

Your notification bell in the admin now works

The bell icon in your Command Center now lists conversations waiting on a person to answer and agent actions waiting on your approval, with an unread count, and clicking a listed item opens it directly. It deliberately leaves out billing issues, which still show as a banner, and service level breaches, since there is not yet an honest number behind those to show you. Uploading a knowledge document now uses the same uploader everywhere in Arbyn, so it behaves consistently and accepts the same file types wherever you use it. A shopper's thumbs down on a reply is now picked up immediately rather than through a weekly batch job, matching how quickly your own ratings in the inbox are already picked up.

FixAll plansAug 4, 2026

Read receipts now work in your inbox

The "seen" tick on a customer's chat message could never actually appear, because opening a conversation never triggered it. Opening a conversation now correctly marks the customer's messages as seen, and the customer's own widget shows the tick.

FixAll plansAug 4, 2026

The save bar now clears properly

The save bar could stay visible after you had already saved, and could follow you onto pages where there was nothing to save. It now clears correctly.

FixAll plansAug 4, 2026

Onboarding no longer shows a finished step as unfinished

Turning on the chat widget used to show as incomplete in your Command Center for up to six hours, until a background check caught up. It now checks live and shows the step as done immediately.

FixAll plansAug 4, 2026

Your notifications dropdown now shows real activity

The notifications dropdown in your admin used to open to an empty panel, which read as "nothing needs your attention" when it actually meant the panel had never been connected to anything. It now lists real escalations and actions waiting on your approval, with an unread indicator.

FixAll plansAug 4, 2026

Data requests from customers are now complete

When a customer asked what data Arbyn holds about them, the response only covered their conversations and quiz entries, while Arbyn's own deletion process already covered two further kinds of record. All four are now reported together, so what a customer is told matches what Arbyn actually holds.

July 2026

31 releases
FixAll plansJul 30, 2026

Arbyn never tells a shopper a request was sent when it was not, in any language

Arbyn does not cancel, refund, return or re readdress an order by itself. It passes those requests to you. So the one thing it must never do is tell a shopper the request is filed when nothing was filed, and there is a guard that checks every reply for exactly that before it goes out. That guard only understood English. A reply written in French, German, Spanish or Japanese could make the identical claim and pass straight through, which meant the protection your English speaking shoppers had did not exist for anyone else. It now reads the reply in whatever language it was written in, and it is careful about the difference between saying a request was sent and simply offering to send one or explaining how. Two things changed in what the shopper actually reads. In email, a reply like that was already never sent, and that is unchanged. In chat, the reply used to reach the shopper anyway while the conversation was flagged for you, so you could see the warning while the shopper had already been told the wrong thing. Now the shopper gets a short honest line instead: a person has their request and there is nothing more they need to do. That is true, because the handoff really has happened. The original draft is kept in the conversation so you can see what Arbyn had been about to say.

FixAll plansJul 29, 2026

Arbyn asks for an email instead of implying one was wrong

When a shopper asked about an order without having given an email, Arbyn refused correctly but explained itself badly. It said the email did not match the one on the order, even though the shopper had never provided an email at all. Nothing was ever revealed, but the wording described a check that had not happened, and a shopper who noticed would have been right to. Arbyn now tells the two situations apart. With no email yet, it simply asks for the one used when the order was placed. If a shopper has given an email and it genuinely does not match, it can still say so, because then it is true. The security behaviour is unchanged: an order is never shown until the email matches.

FixAll plansJul 29, 2026

A teammate is always told when Arbyn cannot answer

If Arbyn ever could not draft a reply at all, it sent the shopper a message saying a teammate would follow up. Two things then went wrong together. The conversation was marked as needing a human but without the details your escalation report filters on, so the one moment you most needed to see could not appear in it. And the handoff itself began by writing a summary, which failed for the same reason the reply had, taking the timeline note, your alert and the shopper confirmation down with it. Both halves are fixed. The summary is now a nice to have that can fail on its own, and the handoff never does. A shopper who is promised a person now gets one.

FixAll plansJul 29, 2026

Your edits to customer emails now actually send

You can rewrite the subject and body of the emails Arbyn sends your customers. Saving those edits worked, and reading them back worked, but nothing connected the two, so the email that went out still used the original wording. Your edits now reach the customer, and the preview shows exactly what they will receive.

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