--- title: "Content blocks, discount codes and files from metafields for Shopify Flow emails - Code Creation Labs" description: "What shipped in late September 2026: thirteen email content blocks, unique discount codes, invoices from metafields and marketing emails in Workflow Transactional Email, five apps in your language, and the new Workflow Suite." canonical: "https://docs.codecreationlabs.app/blog/content-blocks-marketing-emails-and-workflow-suite-september" --- # Product cards, discount codes and invoices from metafields in your Shopify Flow emails, and all five apps in your language A lot shipped in the last two weeks, most of it in Workflow Transactional Email, so this post is a list rather than a story: the feature, one line, and a link to the guide. ## What is new in Workflow Transactional Email ### Thirteen new content blocks New blocks in the visual builder. Every field takes a Flow variable, and the canvas shows each block with your test variables. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/build-an-email-layout#block-reference) ![A shipping update layout in the visual builder: view in browser line, heading, order tracking with a progress stripe and a Track your package button](https://cdn-dev.eu.codecreationlabs.cloud/crm-tool/uploads/SjJ78gKLnLlocopCui3Cs62dJbGZ7F1n/ea752351b2843486.png) *A layout built from the new blocks: view in browser, order tracking, a product card, a countdown and a discount code, rendered with the test variables.* - **Product card**: image, title, description, price and button from your variables. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#product) - **Product grid**: two or three cards per row from a list variable. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#product-grid) - **Price** with a struck-through compare-at price. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#price) - **Discount code box**, with a code you have or a **unique single-use code created in your store for every email**. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#discount-code) - **Live countdown**, animated in the inbox, four styles. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#countdown) - **Order tracking**: carrier, tracking number and a progress bar that follows the shipment status. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#order-tracking) - **Star rating** from a number, with a link to your review page. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#star-rating) - **Testimonial**: quote, author and photo. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#testimonial) - **Social links**: a row of network icons. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#social-links) - **Video**: thumbnail with a play button, linked to the video. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#video) - **Signature**: photo, name and contact details. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#signature) - **Table** for order facts or specifications, every cell takes a variable. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#table) - **View in browser**: a web copy of the email that was actually sent. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#view-in-browser) - **Columns**, two to four side by side. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#columns) - **Show if**: a section sent only when a condition on your variables is true. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#show-if) - **Blocks made of parts**: open a product card, discount box, testimonial, signature, video or tracking block and edit or hide each part with the full settings of that block. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/content-blocks#blocks-made-of-parts) ![The product block selected in the visual builder, its settings panel listing the parts Image, Title, Description, Price and Button](https://cdn-dev.eu.codecreationlabs.cloud/crm-tool/uploads/SjJ78gKLnLlocopCui3Cs62dJbGZ7F1n/add885cd1ae7b0f6.png) *A product card, opened: its parts on top, each with an eye icon to hide it, then the settings of the card itself.* ### Attach the invoice from a metafield - **Attach a file from a metafield** of the order or customer: the invoice PDF your invoicing app saves on the order, or a link to it, attached when the email is sent. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#how-it-works) - **Shopify files and links** both work; a list metafield attaches every entry. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#files-and-links) - **In the visual builder**: switch an attachment block's source to Metafield. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#visual-layouts) - **In rich text and HTML layouts**: Add from metafield in the Attachments card. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#rich-text-and-html-layouts) - **Order and Customer fields** on the Send Transactional Email and Send Marketing Email steps tell the step which order or customer to read. Steps added before this release need to be re-added to get them. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#set-it-up) - **File name** override with Liquid, for example `invoice-{{ variables.order_name }}.pdf`. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#file-name) - **Empty metafield?** The email waits until the file is there, or is sent without it when the attachment is optional. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/attachments-from-metafields#when-the-metafield-is-empty) - **Permissions page**: the app still asks for nothing at install. Reading metafields and creating discount codes are granted in place and can be withdrawn at any time. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/permissions) ![The dialog Attach a file from a metafield with the Resource select for Order or Customer](https://cdn-dev.eu.codecreationlabs.cloud/crm-tool/uploads/SjJ78gKLnLlocopCui3Cs62dJbGZ7F1n/a6561e8001ca92c0.png) *The metafield picker: Order or Customer first, then the definitions of that resource.* ### Marketing emails with unsubscribe - **Marketing layouts**, a type you choose when creating a layout; every layout you have stays transactional. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/marketing-emails#transactional-or-marketing-the-email-type) - **New Flow action: Send Marketing Email.** Your existing steps keep running unchanged. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/marketing-emails#the-flow-action-send-marketing-email) - **One email per recipient with its own unsubscribe link**, your unsubscribe sentence and company details in the footer, per language. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/marketing-emails#the-unsubscribe-footer) - **Unsubscribes page**: customers who unsubscribed are skipped automatically; search, resubscribe, CSV export. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/marketing-emails#the-unsubscribes-page) - **Shop-wide email defaults**: CC, BCC, Reply-To, From name and test recipients, set once. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/settings#email-defaults) - **Brand colors** in every color picker of the builder. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/settings#brand-colors) - **Sending health** on the dashboard: broken links and images, sender problems, failure rate, unsubscribes. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/sending-health) - **History as CSV**, with the filters you have set. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/history-and-troubleshooting) - **Header and footer presets per language**, with a live preview. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/header-and-footer-presets) - **Attachments per language** on rich text and HTML layouts. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/layout-languages) - **An alert when your mail server stops answering**, after three connection failures in a row. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/notifications-and-alerts) - **The new Shopify admin design**, and a link to the matching guide at the end of every Flow step configuration page. Everything above, in detail, in the [release notes](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/changelog). --- ## All five apps now speak your language **Workflow Transactional Email, Workflow Trigger Extensions, Workflow Webhooks, Workflow Functions and Workflow Suite follow the language of your Shopify admin.** English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). - **Every page, dialog and message**, the settings and previews of our steps in Shopify Flow, and our workflow templates. - **Everyone on your team sees their own language**: the app follows the preferred language in each person's Shopify account profile. - **The help centers are translated too**, every guide, in the same languages: [Transactional Email](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app) - [Trigger Extensions](https://docs.workflow-trigger-extensions.app) - [Webhooks](https://docs.workflow-webhooks.app) - [Functions](https://docs.workflow-functions.app) - [Suite](https://docs.workflow-suite.app) Trigger names and the fields inside Shopify Flow steps stay in English, because Shopify Flow shows them exactly as the app defines them. Your emails are never changed: to send customers an email in their language, [add translations to a layout](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/layout-languages). Release notes: [Transactional Email](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/changelog#entry-cmuffalgl0178ud0woev4ay37) - [Trigger Extensions](https://docs.workflow-trigger-extensions.app/changelog#entry-cmudx74pn000byf0whjyzow68) - [Webhooks](https://docs.workflow-webhooks.app/changelog#entry-cmuhgdann02ir1a0w86hf5xd2) - [Functions](https://docs.workflow-functions.app/changelog#entry-cmujqaqvu02c3uq0xg23ucyo5) ### Also new in the other apps - **Workflow Trigger Extensions: Monitoring.** Watch any trigger and get one email when it goes quiet, when a workflow did not confirm, or when a failure needs you. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-trigger-extensions.app/changelog#entry-cmudx74pn000byf0whjyzow68) - **Workflow Webhooks: scheduled webhooks.** Fetch any API every 5 minutes up to once a day and run a Flow workflow on the result. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-webhooks.app/scheduled-polling) - **Workflow Webhooks: seven ready-made workflows** to import into Shopify Flow. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-webhooks.app/workflow-templates) --- ## Meet Workflow Suite, our fifth app Our four apps extend Shopify Flow. **Workflow Suite is something different: our own automation platform**, with its own visual editor and its own engine. It brings together what the four apps do, in one place. Pick what starts a workflow, add conditions and steps, test it on real data and turn it on: - **Nearly 300 triggers.** Every Shopify event, plus triggers that know what changed: tags added, price decreased, status changed, back in stock, a metafield edited, with the value before and after. Schedules, incoming webhooks from other systems and storefront behaviour too. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/shopify-events) - **Every Shopify Admin API mutation and query as a step**, next to ready-made actions with simple forms. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/shopify-actions) - **Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, files over SFTP, HTTP requests and your own JavaScript** in the same workflow. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/run-code) - **Test before it touches your store.** A preview run shows what every write would do without doing it, and a debugger steps through a run one step at a time. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/test-preview-and-debug) - **160+ templates** to start from: order tagging, low stock alerts, fraud handling, reports, ERP sync. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/start-from-a-template) - **Works with Shopify Flow in both directions.** Send events from Workflow Suite to your Shopify Flow workflows, or start a Workflow Suite workflow from Shopify Flow. Nothing you have built so far is lost. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/send-events-to-shopify-flow) - **Hosted in the EU**, like all our apps. You pay for runs, not steps: a workflow with twenty steps costs the same as one with two, and test runs are free. There is a free plan with 1,000 runs every 30 days. [Read in docs](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/plans-runs-and-extra-runs) **[See Workflow Suite](https://workflow-suite.app)** - [Build your first workflow](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/build-your-first-workflow) - [App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/workflow-suite) It is brand new, so your feedback shapes it more than anything else. If you try it, tell us what you built and what was missing. --- ## The five Workflow apps If you are not running all of them yet, here is what each one does. More detail on [Our apps](https://docs.codecreationlabs.app/our-apps.md). **Workflow Suite** - automate your store in a visual editor: every Shopify event, every Admin API action, email, files and code. [Website](https://workflow-suite.app) - [Documentation](https://docs.workflow-suite.app) - [Release notes](https://docs.workflow-suite.app/changelog) **Workflow Trigger Extensions** - 98 triggers Shopify Flow does not have natively, including your storefront, plus your own. [App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/flow-trigger-extensions) - [Documentation](https://docs.workflow-trigger-extensions.app) - [Release notes](https://docs.workflow-trigger-extensions.app/changelog) **Workflow Transactional Email** - branded transactional and marketing emails and HTTP requests from Shopify Flow, in your customer's language. [App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/flow-action-extensions) - [Documentation](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app) - [Release notes](https://docs.workflow-transactional-email.app/changelog) **Workflow Webhooks** - trigger Shopify Flow from any external system or on a schedule, and send a reply back. [App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/flow-webhooks) - [Documentation](https://docs.workflow-webhooks.app) - [Release notes](https://docs.workflow-webhooks.app/changelog) **Workflow Functions** - run your own JavaScript or TypeScript from Shopify Flow, on a schedule or from your ERP. [App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/workflow-functions) - [Documentation](https://docs.workflow-functions.app) - [Release notes](https://docs.workflow-functions.app/changelog) --- If something is not working, or there is a trigger, block or action you wish existed, write to [support@codecreationlabs.com](mailto:support@codecreationlabs.com). It reaches us directly.