Changelog
Documenting our journey of creating a custom sign builder.
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Backlit glow for cut-out metal signs
Sign Customiser now lets you offer a backlit glow on cut-out metal sign customisers. Add a backlight option and your customers can switch the lighting on, pick a colour, and watch the preview update live — light blooming around the panel edge and through the inside of every cut-out shape, just like a real LED-backlit sign lit up against a wall.

The same glow follows any design. Whether your customer types their own text or uploads a logo through the AI Sign Designer, the shape is cut from the panel and lit around every edge.


What’s Changed
- New backlight option - Add a backlight selection to any cut-out metal customiser so customers can choose to light their sign up.
- A range of glow colours - Offer warm white, amber and other single colours, or multi-colour RGB and Flow effects — each with its own optional price adjustment.
- Works for text and logos - Customer-typed text and AI Sign Designer logos are both cut from the panel, with the glow tracing every edge of the design.
- True-to-life glow preview - The light blooms softly out from the panel edge and the inside edge of every cut-out shape, with see-through centres, instead of a hard painted outline.
- Carried right through to the order - The selected backlight and its price flow into the live quote, the product image, the cart and the manufacturer’s order details.
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Metal cut-out signs
Sign Customiser now ships a dedicated Metal Cut-Out Signs product type. Customers pick a panel shape and type or upload their design, and the sign is rendered as a clean negative-space cut-out from a metal panel — ready to send straight to the laser cutter.

What’s Changed
- New Metal Cut-Out Signs product type — Pick “Metal Cut-Out Signs” in the customiser create flow alongside neon, channel letters, lightbox, wood, and address numbers. Onboarding seeds a complete starter customiser with panels, panel colours, mountings, and an outdoor finishing extra so the new product is ready to sell as soon as it’s created
- Six pre-built panel shapes — Rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, oval, classic plaque, and banner panels are included out of the box, each with sensible text padding so the cut-out design always sits comfortably inside the panel edge
- AI Sign Designer support — Customers can upload a logo or describe the sign they want and the AI Sign Designer generates clean stencil-style artwork shaped to the selected panel, ready to be cut from metal in a single piece
- Panel colour and material library — A starter library of panel finishes — including raw steel — applies across the visualiser so shoppers see their cut-out design on the actual material they’ll receive
- Mounting and finishing options — Wall standoffs and pre-cut hanging holes ship as mounting choices, with an optional outdoor clear coat extra for signs that need extra protection against the weather
- Frame fit pricing built in — Cut-out signs use area-based frame fit pricing, so quotes scale naturally with panel size using the same pricing model already powering backboards and lightbox signs