May 5, 2026v0.4.0Engine
Razorpay UPI Lite + intent flow
Engine now ships UPI Lite as a first-class checkout method, with a fast intent flow for repeat shoppers under ₹500. Median confirmation 920ms → 410ms across 14 pilot stores.
- New `payments.upi_lite` capability flag on the Razorpay adapter
- Sub-second confirmation for tokenised devices (median 410ms p50, 980ms p95)
- Automatic fallback to standard UPI for unsupported handles — transparent to the merchant
- Telemetry split across UPI, UPI Lite, and Cards in the admin Decisions feed
- BHIM Pay added in parallel; Paytm Postpaid behind a feature flag
April 22, 2026v0.3.6Studio
GST invoice templates v2
Re-designed invoice templates that pass CA review on the first try. CGST/SGST/IGST split is now derived from buyer state, not store state. 41 pilot merchants reported zero re-issues in the first 30 days.
- Three template presets: Minimal, Branded, and Compliant
- HSN/SAC code lookup powered by a built-in 27,000-entry dictionary
- Reverse-charge toggle per line item with audit trail
- PDF export uses store fonts and brand colours, generated in <180ms
- Tally and Zoho Books CSV export, scheduled or on-demand
April 9, 2026v0.3.5Studio
Theme editor — live mode
A new in-browser theme editor that compiles changes on every keystroke. No more rebuild loops. Median save-to-preview cycle 4.2s → 280ms.
- Section-level drag and drop with keyboard nudge
- Inline copy edits with one-click rollback (last 50 revisions retained)
- Mobile (375), tablet (768), desktop (1280) split views
- Diffable JSON export for git-based version control
- Time-travel preview: scrub through saves over the last 24 hours
March 28, 2026v0.3.0Platform
OTP login for shoppers and admins
Phone-first login is now the default across every store. Pilot stores saw 23% lift in repeat-customer login completion.
- WhatsApp + SMS OTP through Razorpay and MSG91 — auto-routed by deliverability score
- Per-store rate limits and lockout windows (default: 5 attempts / 15 min)
- Magic link fallback for desktop sessions
- Audit log entries for every OTP issued, retained 13 months
- Trusted-device opt-in cuts repeat OTPs by ~70%
March 12, 2026v0.2.9Marketplace
First-party plugin pack
Four official plugins land in the Marketplace, each free on every paid plan.
- Reviews — verified-buyer ratings and photo uploads
- Gift Cards — multi-currency balances and partial redemption
- Delivery Tracker — Delhivery, Shiprocket, Bluedart out of the box
- Invoices Pro — bulk download, financial-year archives
February 27, 2026v0.2.5Engine
MySQL is now the default database
After a quarter on Postgres, we re-targeted Engine at MySQL 8 to match the hosting reality of Indian D2C teams.
- Drizzle schema rewritten across 25 tables
- Migration tool for existing Postgres-backed stores
- Connection pooling tuned for shared hosting
- No change to the public REST API
February 4, 2026v0.2.0Platform
One-click deploy
A single zip you upload to your cloud host spawns the API, dashboard, marketing, and developer apps behind one domain.
- Built-in reverse proxy with health checks
- Children supervised with stderr piping
- Auto-migrate on first boot
- No Docker required
January 18, 2026v0.1.0Platform
Aeonzap launch
We opened up signups to the first 500 founders. Studio and Engine are both live, on the same admin.
- Free to start, no card
- Public roadmap on GitHub
- Discord for early adopters
- Founding-member pricing locked for life
December 14, 2025v0.0.9Engine
Checkout p95 cut by 47%
Three weeks of profiling and a rewrite of the order-finalise path brought checkout p95 from 1.21s to 640ms across the pilot cohort.
- Removed N+1 queries on shipping rule evaluation (24 queries → 2)
- Razorpay order-create runs in parallel with cart-lock acquisition
- Idempotency keys on all retry paths
- Added load-test harness: 14k orders/min sustained on 4 vCPU
November 8, 2025v0.0.8Marketplace
Courier integration round
Added 23 new courier integrations — bringing total carrier coverage to 31 across India and the UAE.
- Delhivery, Shiprocket, Bluedart, DTDC, Ekart, XpressBees, Ecom Express
- COD reconciliation auto-imports remittance files daily at 6am IST
- RTO probability scored per order using carrier + PIN + cart history
- Per-PIN serviceability cache refreshed every 4 hours
October 6, 2025v0.0.7Studio
Decisions feed v1
Replaced the home dashboard with a queue of ranked actions. The "12 charts you don’t read" page is now a deeper layer.
- Each card shows expected revenue impact and effort estimate
- Decisions ranked by p(impact × ease − ignored)
- Snooze, dismiss, and "tell me why" affordances on every card
- Shipped after 31 founder interviews and 4 prototype rounds
September 2, 2025v0.0.6Platform
Multi-warehouse + state allocation
Engine now supports unlimited warehouses with state-level inventory allocation. Critical for brands shipping FSSAI-regulated goods.
- State-level allocation rules with overflow-to-nearest fallback
- Bonded-warehouse SKU support for import-side merchants
- Negative-stock guards with admin override + audit log
- Tally and Zoho Books sync extended to per-warehouse stock
August 11, 2025v0.0.5Engine
TypeScript SDK + lifecycle hooks
Engine now exposes 47 lifecycle hooks via a typed Node SDK. PHP SDK feature-parity shipped two weeks later.
- Hooks across cart, order, payment, fulfilment, refund, customer
- Generated types from the schema — zero runtime parse cost
- 120ms p95 hook dispatch → 65ms after switching to async fan-out
- First-class plugin sandbox: hooks run in isolated workers
July 4, 2025v0.0.4Studio
Custom domain + free SSL
Point a domain at Aeonzap and get HTTPS in under a minute. Wildcard, subdomain, and apex all supported.
- Let’s Encrypt rotation, fully managed
- CAA record auto-check at setup, with copy-paste DNS instructions
- Apex via ALIAS / ANAME / flattening, depending on registrar
- Migration tool detects and re-issues mid-flight