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# April 2026 Highlights

> Birthday rewards, loyalty tier entry rewards, and the Shopify storefront widget suite

## April 2026

April focused on closing the loop on rewards and the Shopify storefront widget suite. Birthday rewards auto-distribute, loyalty tiers now have entry rewards at each tier boundary, and four major Shopify-side widgets shipped: Loyalty Account, Ways to Earn, Refer-a-Friend, and Points at Checkout. A widget-performance pass took Lighthouse from 42 to 92+. The asset library and basketball 3D game also landed.

<Update label="April 2026" description="Rewards closure + widget suite">
  ### For Admins & Community Managers

  <CardGroup cols={2}>
    <Card title="Birthday reward distribution" icon="cake-candles">
      Automatically distribute a reward on each member's birthday (#2172).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Loyalty tier entry rewards" icon="crown">
      Each loyalty tier can now have an entry reward that auto-distributes when a member crosses into it (#2215, #2243).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Asset library" icon="folder-open">
      Centralised asset library for reuse across rewards, challenges, and brand assets (#1661).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Admin default templates" icon="clone">
      New default starter templates across the admin panel (#2416).
    </Card>
  </CardGroup>

  ### For Enterprise & Shopify Merchants

  <CardGroup cols={2}>
    <Card title="Loyalty Account Shopify widget" icon="user">
      Dedicated account-summary widget for Shopify storefronts (#2224).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Ways to Earn Shopify widget" icon="list-check">
      Storefront widget showing every way a customer can earn points (#2238, #2257).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Refer-a-Friend Shopify widget" icon="share-nodes">
      Embeddable referral widget for Shopify storefronts (#2253).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Points at Checkout widget" icon="cart-shopping">
      Inline widget that shows earnable points on the Shopify checkout page (#2387).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Referral widget consolidation" icon="users">
      Unified referral-widget surface across embed targets (#2240).
    </Card>
  </CardGroup>

  ### Platform capabilities

  <CardGroup cols={2}>
    <Card title="Widget perf — Lighthouse 42→92+" icon="rocket">
      A dedicated performance pass on the widget takes Lighthouse from 42 to 92+ (#2276).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Widget deep linking" icon="link">
      Deep links into specific widget states from external URLs (#2287).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Widget loading state" icon="spinner">
      Configurable loading-state treatment (#2355).
    </Card>

    <Card title="Live branding preview iframe" icon="eye">
      Live-updating iframe preview on the branding-config screen (#2305).
    </Card>
  </CardGroup>

  ### For Community Members

  <CardGroup cols={2}>
    <Card title="Basketball 3D game" icon="basketball">
      New basketball-themed 3D mini-game (#2407).
    </Card>
  </CardGroup>

  ### For Developers & Integrators

  <CardGroup cols={2}>
    <Card title="Action webhooks" icon="webhook">
      Outbound webhooks for action-level events (#2391).
    </Card>
  </CardGroup>

  ### In this period

  * 17 PRs merged.
</Update>

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="March 2026" icon="arrow-left" href="/whats-new/highlights/2026-03">
    Points expiration, referral pipeline, and the bohemian rebrand.
  </Card>

  <Card title="All releases" icon="list" href="/whats-new/all-releases">
    Full release history.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>