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CREEM Changelog - June: Getting Ready for Summer!

June was about momentum that compounds. We launched a brand-new way to get rewarded for spreading the word, made sure no good payment ever silently fails, brought checkout inside your product, let your customers pay with a tap and we went to France living alongside the builders we exist to serve!

🇫🇷 UNEED Residency: A Week With the Builders

This month we packed our bags for Nantes, France and the UNEED Residency — a full week living and shipping shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the sharpest indie hackers and bootstrapped founders in Europe. 🚀

This is exactly why Creem exists. Not slide decks and conference badges,real builders, in one house, betting on themselves and shipping real products. We sponsor these residencies because the energy inside them is the company: founders helping founders, late-night debugging, launches going live over coffee, and the kind of honest feedback you only get face to face.

We came back with a notebook full of ideas (several of which are already in this changelog), a bunch of new friends, and a deeper conviction in who we're building for.

Want to experience UNEED for yourself? Use code CREEMXUNEED for 50% off.

To everyone in Nantes who made it unforgettable — thank you. 💜 This is the beginning of a lot more time on the road with our community.

🎁 Introducing the Creem Referral Program

Get paid to grow the family. Invite other builders to Creem and earn real cash when they get going.

  • Grab your link — once your store is verified and you've taken your first payout, your referral link unlocks in Balances → Referrals

  • They build, you earn — when a merchant you referred crosses $1,000 in paid-out volume, they qualify

  • $50 per qualified referral, credited to your Creem balance after a 30-day clearing window

  • Track every invite, its status, and your earnings right from your dashboard

Share Creem, help another founder win, get rewarded. 🍦

Read the docs →

🔁 Smart Retry — Stop Losing Revenue to Failed Renewals

A failed card shouldn't mean a lost customer. Every subscription now runs on an intelligent 14-day retry schedule (6 attempts, smartly spaced) instead of giving up after one decline.

  • Automatic recovery — we keep retrying on a proven cadence before a sub ever lapses

  • "Retry Payment" button — when a customer updates their card on a past-due subscription, they can charge it immediately instead of waiting for the next retry window

  • Clean exhaustion — subscriptions only cancel after the full retry schedule is genuinely spent

Less involuntary churn, more revenue recovered on autopilot.

💳 Apple Pay & Google Pay Are Live

The wallets you asked for are here. Customers can now check out with Apple Pay and Google Pay — one tap, no card typing, higher conversion on mobile. First wave of new payment methods riding on our new orchestration engine, with more rolling out next.

Smooth Updates🍦

Here’s a visual flashback to a Thursday in May when we parked our truck in the middle of a world-famous tech conference. And handed out FREE ☕️ and 🍦 to founders.

🧩 Embedded Checkout — Sell Without Sending Customers Away

Embed Creem checkout directly inside your own product — no redirect, no drop-off.

  • Framework SDK wrappers for React, Vue, and Svelte — drop checkout in with a component

  • iFrame-native flow built for conversion, with affiliate tracking that survives the embed

Keep customers in your flow, in your brand, all the way to "payment complete."

🌍 Localization — Everywhere, In Their Language

  • Dashboard Localization — manage your store in your language

  • Customer Portal Localization — your buyers manage subscriptions in theirs

  • Custom checkout locale — set the checkout language per session

Set it once. Sell everywhere, in the right words.

✨ Smoother Payments & Billing

  • $0 payment-method updates — updating a card no longer triggers a confusing temporary $1 charge; it's now a clean $0 verification

  • Payout visibility — clearer status for payouts currently being processed

⚡ Payment Orchestration — The Migration Is Done

The orchestration upgrade from May is fully in place.

🛡️ Trust & Safety — A Cleaner Platform for Real Builders

Most of you will never see this — and that's the point. We shipped a full risk-monitoring layer that catches fraud and drift before money moves: chargeback protection in the payment flow, device-level checkout signals (FingerprintJS) + redirect-chain fraud detection, and per-store risk scoring. Fewer bad actors means faster approvals and cleaner payouts for the honest builders Creem is built for.

🔗 Developer Experience

  • Public OpenAPI spec — fetch the full machine-readable API at /open-api/json and /open-api/yaml and auto-generate typed clients

  • Discount data now exposed across all webhooks and APIs — accurate revenue attribution for every promo

  • More reliable outbound webhooks (transient-error retries) and a faster public transactions search API

  • Fixed: API-key modal copy, checkout breaking under browser auto-translate, CLI login pointing to a dead link

🚀 What's Next

  • Pay What You Want pricing

  • Wallets inside embedded checkout + more new payment methods

  • Full CRUD API for products, discounts, and prices

More shipping soon… stay tuned!

Lots of love,
— The Creem Team

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