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##  [ Offer gift wrapping in your HikaShop store ](/blog/gift-wrapping-with-hikashop)

Details     Published: 30 October 2026

Gift wrapping is a small extra that customers like and that costs you very little to add: during the checkout, the customer chooses whether the order should be wrapped as a gift, and a fee appears in the cart when the answer is yes. HikaShop does this without any extra code. A custom field asks the question, and the [Cart fee plugin](https://www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/279-cart-fee.html) turns the answer into a fee. This article walks through the setup from start to finish.

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##  [ HikaAuction 6.0.5 and the Heritage & Hearth template ](/blog/hikaauction-6-0-5)

Details     Published: 12 October 2026    October 12 2026

HikaAuction 6.0.5 brings to your sales what an auction house expects: **bidders approved before they bid**, a **Buy it Now price** on a lot, and fixed bids for the customers who do not know what a proxy bid is. To show them at work, we built **Heritage & Hearth**, a new template for an auction house, for Joomla and WordPress, with a live demo you can bid on.
Here is what is new.

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##  [ HikaShop 6.7.0 ](/blog/hikashop-6-7-0)

Details     Published: 10 October 2026    October 10 2026

HikaShop 6.7.0 gives your emails a new look: two modern templates, a gallery to pick one with your own order in it, and ready-made blocks for your contact details, related products and social networks. The mass actions were fixed throughout and redesigned, with a clearer interface, precise schedules, coupons and discounts, and room for HikaMarket and HikaSerial to add their own. The release also handles withdrawal requests from start to finish, lets your customers save their card with PayPal Checkout, shows what each customer has spent, and speaks the latest version of the protocol AI shopping agents use. In total this release brings 58 new features, 85 improvements, and 164 bug fixes.
Here is a look at the highlights of this release.

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##  [ Our new website, from the ground up ](/blog/our-new-website)

Details     Published: 08 October 2026

On 25 September 2026, hikashop.com moved to a brand new home. If you have visited the site, the [forum](https://www.hikashop.com/forum) or the [marketplace](https://www.hikashop.com/marketplace) since then, you have already seen the result: a new design, faster pages and a forum that keeps up with you. What you have not seen is everything underneath, and that is what this article is about: why we rebuilt, how we moved sixteen years of data across, and where the site now lives.

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##  [ New on the marketplace ](/blog/marketplace-september-2026)

Details     Published: 10 September 2026    September 10 2026

Five more plugins have arrived on the marketplace since our last round-up, four of them free, one putting your products in your customers' living rooms, and the plugin which draws your PDF invoices has been rebuilt on a maintained library. Here is what is new, and what changed under you.
Everything below is on the [marketplace](https://www.hikashop.com/marketplace.html).

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1. [ HikaShop 6.6.0](/blog/hikashop-6-6-0)
2. [ Security advisory: unsigned payment notifications accepted by the Bambora (Beanstream) plugin](/blog/security-advisory-bambora)
3. [ New on the marketplace](/blog/marketplace-august-2026)
4. [ HikaShop 6.5.2](/blog/hikashop-6-5-2)

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