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The story of Layers — shop and console — newest first, back to day one.

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Rebuild Customer storefront

The customer shop is rebuilt as one calm place — from first upload to a paid order. Materials, quote, checkout, orders, and messages live together on your shop domain, in your customer’s language, designed for a phone first.

New storefront on a phone, from upload to checkout

From model to payment

Register and sign in. Upload a model, preview and size it. Choose material, quality, color, and quantity. Add to the cart, check out with an address and payment, apply a code if you have one, and track the order — fewer hops, clearer price.

Printability checks, in the browser

Customers upload a model and see mesh health, size, and wall thickness before they quote. No desktop plugin. No waiting on email.

Orders you can actually scan

What needs attention is called out. Browse as a list or a board. Open an invoice and stay with that invoice — and the part you opened.

Conversations live beside the order

One thread per invoice, with files and history. A badge in the navigation opens the reply that is waiting. An email link opens that same invoice, with every part on it.

See the walkthrough

Fixes

  • Shop Shop owners no longer appear in a customer’s orders or chat
  • Messenger A message link opens the full invoice, not only the part that was mentioned
  • Sign-in Guest messages and sign-in errors are clearer
  • Sign-in A chat, a new print, or an invoice link still works after you sign in
  • Sign-in People stay signed in more often when something goes wrong briefly
  • Shop Part thumbnails show the whole model

Improvements

  • Home The shop opens on a new print; sign-in has its own page
  • Slicer Inspect the part in full screen — model, size, walls, support, and mesh health
  • Slicer The preview is calmer on phone and desktop; inspect details stay readable on small screens
  • Checkout Delivery choices are named clearly; you can see when an order is still being placed
  • Sign-in Temporary email addresses are not accepted
  • Shop The shop follows your branding and language; free plans show a small Layers mark

More control. Better workflows. Easier integrations.

Version 1.13.1 gives manufacturing teams more say over how Layers connects to other software, which print options customers can choose, when a quote should be manual, and how the team shares one order or one part.

Connect Layers with OpenAPI

Generate an API key in Settings → Integrations and exchange orders and customer information with the rest of your stack — accounting, ERP, CRM, or your own tools.

Export orders to Excel

Wherever you manage orders, download a spreadsheet of what is on the page — every order and every part — for reports, accounting, or your own analysis.

Layer heights you stand behind

For time-based materials, choose which layer heights customers may pick. Keep the combinations that meet your quality bar, and leave the rest off the quote.

Request for Quotation

Turn off automatic pricing on a material when the job needs a human review. One cart can hold instant-priced parts and RFQ parts together.

Share exactly what matters

Every order and every part has its own link. Send a colleague or a customer straight to the piece you mean — no more “open this invoice and find the third part.”

See the walkthrough

Manual quotation, clearer print issues, faster setup

Version 1.12.0 opens the door for customers without a ready model, helps workshops flag file and print problems, and shortens the work of building a catalog.

Ask for a quote when there is no model yet

Customers can upload for an instant price or fill a request form. Those inquiries land in Conversations on the admin — new leads without leaving Layers.

File error and failed print

Workshops can mark an order when the file is wrong or the print fails, so the customer and the shop see the issue in the same place.

Clone materials and clearer search

Duplicate a material or color with its settings. Order and customer search on the admin are rebuilt to find what you need faster.

See the walkthrough

More file formats, quantity discounts, and your shop theme

Version 1.11.0 lets people bring the models they already have, offers tier pricing by quantity, and lets you set a default light or dark look for the shop.

Rich 3D format support

Upload STL, OBJ, STEP, IGES, 3MF, 3DS, PLY, OFF, GLB, or a ZIP of models — on both the shop and the admin, across Free, Business, and Enterprise.

Quantity discounts

Set tier pricing per material and color. Customers see how the price falls as the quantity rises.

Default shop theme

Choose light or dark as the default for your storefront, so the ordering experience matches your brand.

See the walkthrough

A steadier Stripe path and a credit wallet

Version 1.10.1 strengthens card payments, adds a credit wallet for flexible settlement, and cleans up invoicing and roles.

Stripe, rebuilt

Card checkout is more reliable for everyday shop payments, including the checks that keep international cards safe.

Credit wallets

Each customer has a balance you can top up or adjust. They can pay from credit, add funds for an order, or combine both — useful when manufacturing needs more than one payment.

Invoices and roles

Add a tax code on a PDF invoice. Delete roles you no longer need. Automatic invoicing runs more smoothly.

See the walkthrough

Infill control and a one-click PDF invoice

March 2024 brings clearer FDM quotes with infill density, professional PDF invoices, and a simple way to share an order.

Infill in the quote

Admins and customers can set infill percentage for FDM prints, so the estimated cost matches how dense the part should be.

PDF invoices

Generate a professional invoice for an order from the admin — from the order’s financial details, in one click.

Share an order by link

Every order has an address you can copy and send to a customer or a colleague, so they open the right invoice immediately.

See the walkthrough

Zip uploads, Brazilian Portuguese, and a steadier view

2023 finishes language coverage for another market, lets the shop upload a zip of models, and steadies the 3D view when the browser drops it.

March — Brazilian Portuguese

The customer shop and the admin both speak Brazilian Portuguese.

May — Files and recovery

Admins can upload a zip of models in one go. Onboarding is clearer. A counter on conversations shows what still needs a reply. On the customer side, the 3D view recovers when the browser drops it.

Workshops, Stripe, PayPal, and a clearer catalog

2022 is the year workshops become real operations, the shop takes Stripe and PayPal, and the catalog learns maximum part size — with more languages along the way.

January — Pay, workshops, and staff

PayPal finishes on the customer shop. Stripe arrives the same week. Italian lands. Workshops gain managers and operators; shipping becomes its own settings; admins can add customers, create invoices, and edit discounts.

February and March — Size and privacy

A maximum size for a part. Workshops see the work, not the customer’s bill. More languages; German later in the year, then Brazilian Portuguese.

Languages, online payment, and the running shop

The second half of 2021 turns Layers into a shop you can pay in and run across languages — with permissions, integrations, and workshops taking shape.

September to October — Language, payment, and your domain

More languages and a rebuilt customer dashboard. Layout can run in either direction. Online payment arrives. A shop can use its own domain. Currency sits on either side of the price.

November to December — Admin depth

The admin slicer gains detail for placing an order for someone. Integration settings and permissions arrive. French, Finnish, and Arabic on the customer shop. Workshop invoices and PayPal on the admin close the year.

Comments on the order

June 2021 puts the conversation on the part itself — so the shop talks about a file where the work already lives.

Talk on the back of a card

Open a part and leave comments for your team or the customer. A yellow mark shows when something new is waiting — no more hunting through email for the right file.

See the walkthrough

Bulk upload and a journey you choose

May 2021 helps multi-part orders and lets the shop decide when a visitor must sign in — before upload, after upload, or only when they order.

Bulk mode

Drop many models at once. Layers opens a quote for each, so you can compare prices on a multi-part job without uploading one by one.

Custom user journey

In Store Settings, choose whether people register before they upload, after they upload, or only when they check out — more leads, or a freer path to order.

See the walkthrough

Identity, plans, and the first chat

Early 2021 shapes how people sign in, how the shop presents itself, and how the team begins to talk beside an order.

January to March — Sign-in

Terms on both sides. Google sign-in. Sign-in grows into the ways a shop works — before upload, after upload, or before checkout. The product is renamed and given a white logo.

April — Plans

A plans page for the shop tier — see what you are on, and what comes next.

Day one — the shop and the console open

September 2020. The admin console and the customer shop both connect to the server for the first time. Layers becomes one product: a place to order a print, and a place to run the shop.

September — Connected

Both apps speak to the server. That is day one.

October — A shop on your address

The customer shop opens on the business’s subdomain. Models load when needed. Print qualities are rebuilt. Before anything else, the shop checks which business it belongs to.

November — A console that answers

Confirmations when something is saved or fails. Loading states on settings, orders, discounts, and customers. Materials move into settings.

December — Checkout, slicer, and the first dashboard

Materials appear in the shop. Checkout becomes steps. The slicer is rebuilt. Admins get customer addresses, factory and order management, onboarding, and the first dashboard.

What the Layers changelog covers

What's new is the product changelog for Layers.app — the customer shop and the admin console for 3D printing businesses. Releases are listed newest first, from the rebuilt storefront back to the day both apps first connected to the server in September 2020.

Use the All, Releases, and Fixes filters to scan major launches or jump straight to bug fixes. Sticky dates keep the timeline readable while you scroll. When a release has a deeper walkthrough — like the new storefront — you can open it from the entry.

Layers is software for running a 3D print shop: quotes, orders, customers, workshops, and production workflows. This page is for owners and operators who want a clear record of what changed in the product, not a marketing blog.

FAQ

What is the Layers What's new page?

It is the official product changelog for Layers.app. Releases are listed newest first and cover the customer shop and the admin console — materials, slicer, messaging, checkout, workshops, payments, and related fixes for 3D printing businesses.

What is the new storefront in Layers?

The new storefront is the rebuilt customer shop experience: mobile-first upload, in-browser printability checks, invoice messenger, and a continuous path from slicer configuration to payment on your shop domain.

How far back does the changelog go?

To September 2020, when the admin console and the customer shop both connected to the server for the first time. Each year since then is summarized with the features that shipped for people who order and people who run the shop.

Can customers see the Layers What's new page?

Yes. The page is public on layers.app. Shop owners often share a specific release or the new storefront walkthrough when explaining new shop features to their team or customers.

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