Hyvä Roadmap

Welcome to the Hyvä Product Roadmap, a transparent look at our journey to make eCommerce happy. Guided by our values of performance, trust, and collaboration, we continuously refine and expand our product offerings and every step we take is focused on creating a reliable, desirable, and customisable eCommerce platform that empowers developers, agencies, and merchants alike.

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Discover our recently released features.
Framework Improvements
Hyvä AI Providers & Framework

A standardised way to implement AI-powered features when working with Hyvä, offering out-of-the-box providers (OpenAI, Gemini and DeepL).

Merchant Benefits
  • Quicker implementation time for AI-powered features
  • Supports popular AI providers out-of-the-box
Technical Benefits
  • Reduces development time
  • Breeds consistency and standardisation of working with AI in Hyvä
  • Dependency friendly approach - no hard requirements on which provides to use, only the base framework module
Timeline
Focuses
Developer Tooling, AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Framework Improvements
Tailwind v4 Support

Support for Tailwind v4: improved engine/build performance, support for modern CSS features, container queries, automatic content detection, CSS-first configuration, design tokens as CSS variables and more.

Merchant Benefits
  • Keep your storefront up to date with modern tooling for smoother development output
Technical Benefits
  • Utilise the lastest Tailwind utilities and tools
  • Minimal impact to backwards compatibility
  • Clear migration paths and tools provided
Timeline
Focuses
Developer Tooling
Framework Improvements
Design Tokens & CSS Variables Support

Adds support for using design tokens and CSS variables (properties) to simplify the defining, and updating, of default values (e.g. colours/sizes) in your theme.

Merchant Benefits
  • Helps maintain design output consistency throughout the storefront
  • Cut down development costs drastically
Technical Benefits
  • Reduce implementation time
  • Improved frontend development experience
  • Aids standardisation/reduces duplication
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), Developer Tooling
Framework Improvements
Improved Accordion & Slider Implementations

New accordion and slider (carousel) implementations with improved UX (User Experience), performance, accessibility and developer experience.

Merchant Benefits
  • Improves UX (User Experience), performance and accessibility
  • Reduces development effort (cost)
Technical Benefits
  • Reduce implementation time
  • Improved frontend development experience
  • Aids standardisation/reduces duplication
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), Developer Tooling, Content Management, A11Y (Accessibility)
Design & UX (User Experience)
Cart Design Refresh

An updated and modern design refresh for the cart page, taking inspiration from Hyvä UI, and including support for Hyvä Enterprise.

Includes an improved 'empty cart' page output.

Merchant Benefits
  • More visually appealing designs
  • Much-improved user experience
  • Accessibility enhancements
  • Reduces development effort (cost)
  • Reduce abandonment from empty cart page visits
Technical Benefits
  • Reduce future implementation time
  • Improved frontend development experience
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), Developer Tooling, A11Y (Accessibility), Checkout
CSP (Content Security Policy)
Adobe Payment Services CSP Support

Full strict mode CSP support for Adobe Payment Services payment methods.

Merchant Benefits
  • Ensure your storefront is fully compliant for PCI-DSS 4.0 requirements
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Payments & Shipping
CSP (Content Security Policy)
Storewide CSP Support

Full strict mode CSP support for the entire storefront (excluding checkout). Note: third-party vendors will need to ensure their extensions are compliant.

Merchant Benefits
  • Ensure your storefront is fully compliant for PCI-DSS 4.0 requirements
  • For merchants that want to take no chances and ensure compliance on all pages, not just payment pages
Technical Benefits
  • Detailed documentation and guides will be provided to aid migration and assist building compatible extensions
Timeline
Focuses
Security, Payments & Shipping
CSP (Content Security Policy)
CSP In-Context Payment Buttons

A framework/mechanism for handling express payment buttons in a CSP-compliant manner. Includes support for the default PayPal shortcut button.

Merchant Benefits
  • Add CSP compliance for payments handled by express/shortcut buttons without needing to update the remainder of your theme
Technical Benefits
  • Detailed documentation and guides will be provided to aid migration and assist building compatible extensions
  • A more cost-effective and quicker solution to aid merchant decisions
Timeline
Focuses
Security, Payments & Shipping
Adobe Services
Express Payments Support

Full support for Adobe Payment Services in Hyvä Theme, including express (smart) payment buttons: PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo

Merchant Benefits
  • Utilise the native functionality without the need to invest in custom development to gain compatibility
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Payments & Shipping
Framework Improvements
Page Builder Image Lazy Loading & Dimensions

Admin controllable image dimensions (wdith/height) for Page Builder images and lazy-loading support for images and background images.

Merchant Benefits
  • Improve page stability (layout shifts) by having dimensions automatically output for images
  • Ability to override with custom dimensions where needed
  • Improve page performance by deferring the download of non-visible images on page load
Technical Benefits
  • Help keep merchant's sites performant
Timeline
Focuses
Content Management, Performance
Framework Improvements
CMS, Catalog & Product Link Widget Support

Compatibility for the CMS, Catalog & Product Link widgets for Hyvä Theme

Merchant Benefits
  • Utilise the native functionality without the need to invest in custom development to gain compatibility
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for projects that require theee feature
Timeline
Focuses
Content Management
Framework Improvements
View Transitions Support

Adds support for creating view transitions between pages with default/demo implementation added for the product media gallery.

Merchant Benefits
  • Helps reduce perceived page load times
  • Adds visual cues on transitions to improve user experience
Technical Benefits
  • Experimental feature to create impressive transitions
  • Disabled by default but easily configurable from the admin panel
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience)
CSP (Content Security Policy)
Full Checkout CSP Support

Full strict mode CSP support for the entire checkout. Note: third-party vendors (e.g. payment providers) will need to ensure their extensions are compliant.

Merchant Benefits
  • Ensure your storefront is fully compliant for PCI-DSS 4.0 requirements
Technical Benefits
  • Detailed documentation and guides will be provided to aid migration and assist building compatible extensions
Timeline
Focuses
Security, Payments & Shipping
CSP (Content Security Policy)
Default PayPal CSP Support

Full strict mode CSP support for the inbuilt PayPal payment methods.

Merchant Benefits
  • Ensure your storefront is fully compliant for PCI-DSS 4.0 requirements
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Payments & Shipping
Design & UX (User Experience)
Checkout Design Refresh

A fresh design for Hyvä Checkout focused on UI, UX and accessibility.

Merchant Benefits
  • A more visually appealing and user-friendly checkout experience
  • Improved accessibility
  • Reduced implementation and maintenance time/costs
Technical Benefits
  • Better frontend development experience and greater control over styling and form field output
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), A11Y (Accessibility), Developer Tooling
Design & UX (User Experience)
Autosave Enhancements

Removal of checkout wide autosaving in favour of a per field directive-based approach.

Merchant Benefits
  • Fixes instances were form field data was not correctly updated/saved or overridden improving UX
  • Reduces the frequency and amount of data being updated to aid performance
Technical Benefits
  • Puts control over how form fields are saved in the hands of developers
  • Fixes edge cases where data updates caused UX problems, ensuring better stability
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Developer Tooling, Performance, UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience)
Adobe Services
Adobe Payment Services at Checkout

Compatibility for all Adobe Payment Services payment methods in Hyvä Checkout: Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo

Merchant Benefits
  • Utilise the native functionality without the need to invest in custom development to gain compatibility
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Payments & Shipping

Current

Features we're currently working on and aim to include in one of our upcoming releases.
Framework Improvements
Custom Attribute Handling Improvements

Enhancements to how attributes are handled in shipping and billing address forms, including removing customer attributes and utilising the built-in EAV attribute settings.

Merchant Benefits
  • Simplified address form attribute management in the admin panel
Technical Benefits
  • Removes complication and confusion over how attributes are included within address forms
  • Backwards compatible with migration tools provided
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Customers, Developer Tooling
Framework Improvements
Magewire v3 support

Support for v3 Magewire, which brings a range of new features and performance improvements that will enhance Hyvä Checkout under the hood.

Merchant Benefits
  • Brings further performance improvements to make your checkout even faster
  • New features further reduce development time and cost
Technical Benefits
  • Provides the latest features for developers to utilise, such as request bundling
  • Make building extensions, integrations and customisations easier
  • Makes maintaining performance easier
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Developer Tooling, Performance
Design & UX (User Experience)
Product Detail Page (PDP) - Improved Gallery & Swatches

A visual refresh and code overhaul for two of the key parts of product detail pages: the main image gallery and swatches.

Both are getting not only a design update but also completely refactored code that significantly reduces JavaScript and improves performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

Backwards compatibility and migration tooling included.

Merchant Benefits
  • Much improved visual output
  • Improved performance
  • Reduced development/maintaince time for customisations
Technical Benefits
  • Improved frontend development experience
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), Developer Tooling, Content Management, A11Y (Accessibility), Catalog, Performance

Next

Features we're planning to focus on after our current items are completed.
Event Tracking
Event Tracking Framework

Improve the performance of your storefront by offloading resource blocking and intensive scripts to the server with a server side implementation that provides multiple storefront triggers and events to ensure integration with the most popular tracking, analytical and other services. Some additional client side tracking improvements may also be included (TBD).

Note: base implementation will occur in Hyvä Theme, but some events and features will only be included in Hyvä Commerce, such as Customer Segmentation and Admin Dashboard reporting.

Merchant Benefits
  • Remove the impact of third-party scripts on storefront performance
  • Allow easier integrations with external systems/providers
Technical Benefits
  • Provide a clear and consistent approach to managing external scripts server side
  • Extensible to alllow customisation by adding support custom scripts/implementations or additional storefront triggers and events
Timeline
Focuses
SEO & Analytics, Performance, Developer Tooling, Marketing & Reporting, Search & Personalisation
Design & UX (User Experience)
Additional Out-Of-The-Box Layouts & UI Updates

More beautifully designed layout options to help provide more choice over how your checkout looks and flows, without the need for additional development effort.

Layouts designed for different verticals and use cases, such as welcome steps, delivery-focused (e.g. home and garden) and gifting-oriented (billing address first) checkouts.

In addition, an design overhaul of UI elements across all layouts/steps will provide a more modern and clean look.

Merchant Benefits
  • Select from multiple new, beautifully designed layouts
  • All built with UX and accessibility in-mind
  • Improved checkout field UI
Technical Benefits
  • Provides a standard set of approaches that reduce implementation time while remaining extensible
  • Improved frontend developer experience
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Customers, UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience)
Design & UX (User Experience)
In-Checkout Login/Register Workflows

Adds the ability for customers to register for an account without having to leave the checkout. Configurable different login and registration customer journeys from the admin panel.

Merchant Benefits
  • Gain full control over whether customers need to log in or register at checkout without directing them away from the checkout to another page (reducing abandonment risk)
Technical Benefits
  • Provides a standard set of approaches that reduce implementation time while remaining extensible
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Customers, UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience)
Design & UX (User Experience)
Improved Address Handling

Updates to how addresses are saved during the checkout process.

New addresses are only saved to a customers address book on order placement, not during checkout.

Ensure that manually entered addresses are persisted (not lost), when changing to another previously saved address (i.e. be able to revert to the manually entered address).

Merchant Benefits
  • Improved UX and simplification of address saving at checkout
  • Helps speed up in-checkout actions of saving addresses
  • Customers never lose previously entered addresses at checkout
Technical Benefits
  • Simplified, consistent and expected approach (aligns with default Magento)
  • Reduction in database transactions when updating addresses during checkout
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Customers, UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience)
Magento Open Source Features
reCAPTCHA Support at Checkout

Compatibility for Magento's reCAPTCHA implementation for Hyvä Checkout.

Merchant Benefits
  • Help reduce spam/automated account creation in relation to the checkout customer login feature
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for Adobe Commerce projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Security
Magento Open Source Features
Multi Store Inventory (MSI) - Pickup In Store Support

Compatibility for Magento's Pickup In Store implementation for Hyvä Checkout.

Merchant Benefits
  • Buy Online and Pickup In Store (BOPIS) helps increase conversion by providing convenience and reducing shipping costs
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for Adobe Commerce projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Payments & Shipping

Planned

Features we've identified as future priorities with no fixed timeline.
Magento Open Source Features
Vault Compatibility - use Stored Payments at Checkout

Compatibility for Magento's Vault functionality for Hyvä Checkout. Allows logged in customers to save and reuse payment details to speed up future purchases.

Merchant Benefits
  • Helps to increase conversation rate, customer retention, repeat orders and customer lifetime value
Technical Benefits
  • Reduction of implementation time for projects that require this feature
Timeline
Focuses
Checkout, Payments & Shipping
Design & UX (User Experience)
Layered Navigation (Filters) Design Refresh

An updated and modern design refresh for the layered navigation (filters), taking inspiration from Hyvä UI, and including support for Hyvä Enterprise.

Final design updates and improvements TBD.

Merchant Benefits
  • More visually appealing designs
  • Much-improved user experience
  • Accessibility enhancements
  • Reduces development effort (cost)
Technical Benefits
  • Reduce future implementation time
  • Improved frontend development experience
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), Developer Tooling, A11Y (Accessibility), Catalog
Design & UX (User Experience)
Customer Register, Login & Account Area Design Refresh

An updated and modern design refresh for the customer registration, login and account areas, taking inspiration from Hyvä UI, and including support for Hyvä Enterprise.

Final design updates and improvements TBD.

Merchant Benefits
  • More visually appealing designs
  • Much-improved user experience
  • Accessibility enhancements
  • Reduces development effort (cost)
  • Increase customer signups and improve retention
Technical Benefits
  • Reduce future implementation time
  • Improved frontend development experience
Timeline
Focuses
UI (User Interface) & UX (User Experience), Developer Tooling, A11Y (Accessibility), Customers

Disclaimer: this roadmap and its topics are subject to change and are not guaranteed to be delivered.