What’s new in Consently
The latest improvements to Consently. We ship often, here’s what’s changed recently.
28 October 2026, Latest
Sharper text
- A status line on the home page shows whether your banner is on your store, with a pulsing green dot, how often it showed this month and when a shopper last chose. Notices no longer carry a “!” tile, and not-live ones are amber so they stand out.
- Analytics: the four number tiles are tinted and centered, with the number first.
- Sharper text: the app now uses Inter, the same font as the Shopify admin, on every page, button and menu.
25 October 2026
A tighter admin
- The admin is tighter: thinner cards, smaller buttons and text, so more of each page fits on the screen. Your shoppers’ banner is unchanged.
24 October 2026
A shorter home screen
- The Send consent to Google Consent Mode v2 setting now works: turned off, Consently leaves Google’s consent settings alone.
- The consent log download no longer stops at 50,000 records. It holds your newest 200,000 and says so if there are more.
- The privacy policy link takes a web address or a store path like /policies/privacy-policy, and banner colours take colour values only. Anything else is named when you save instead of being dropped quietly.
- Fixed: when no banner is shown (banner off, Nowhere, or EU / UK only for visitors outside Europe), Google Consent Mode is now told tracking is allowed, so Google Analytics and Ads record normally. EU / UK only also shows the banner to visitors whose browser hides their location.
- Auto by region now does what it says: opt-in banner in the EU, EEA and UK, tracking on with a Cookie settings link to opt out in the US. Cyprus, the Canaries, Madeira, the Azores and Iceland are now treated as EU/EEA.
- Visitors are asked again when you change your categories, banner text or policy link. Turning a category off after allowing it now removes its cookies and reloads the page, so tracking stops at once.
- Stronger tracker blocking. Consently now holds Meta, TikTok, Klaviyo, Hotjar and the other known trackers before they can run, instead of after the page had loaded. A visitor who rejects stays rejected on every page, and your own extra block domains now apply to returning visitors too. Nothing to set up.
- The home screen in the app is shorter. The setup steps now link to the help guide, which has the full instructions, and What’s new shows only the latest changes, with a link to this page for the rest.
5 October 2026
Keyboard behaviour on the banner
- Pressing Escape in the preferences panel now takes a shopper back to the banner.
- While the preferences panel or a popup banner is open, Tab stays inside it rather than moving into the page underneath, which a shopper cannot reach anyway while it is covered.
- The banner itself still does not close on Escape, and that is deliberate. A consent prompt that disappears without an answer looks like a choice was made when none was.
- Nothing looks different and none of your settings changed.
26 August 2026
Saving that follows you down the page
- Banner settings now saves from Shopify’s own save bar. It appears at the top of the screen the moment you change something and stays there as you scroll, so Save is never out of reach. The old Save row at the bottom is gone, because two Save buttons on one page is one too many. Shopify also warns you now if you navigate away using its own menu, which nothing inside the app could catch before.
- Discard sits next to Save. It puts every field back to what is currently saved, and the live preview with it. Nothing to confirm, and the page does not reload.
July 2026: Consent log & audits
A cleaner audit trail
- Excel consent-log export. Your consent log now downloads as a formatted Excel file with clear Yes/No columns, bold headers, filters, and a consent-version stamp that records which notice a visitor saw, exactly what auditors and data-protection authorities ask for.
July 2026: Banner polish
A sharper banner & preferences experience
- Preferences modal. A centered preferences panel with on/off toggles per category, and a clear “saved” confirmation when a visitor makes a choice.
- Centered popup. The popup layout now sits properly in the center of the screen.
- Live previews. Banner settings now show a live preview of both your banner and the preferences panel in your own colors, so you can see it before you save.