New Features

• Storefront country localization settings now allow merchants to configure automatic pricing forex rules so all products get prices set in all currencies even as new products are imported via API.

Improvements

• Order confirmation pages and invoices now show payment and refund details for more clarity and transparency to end customers.
• Order management "Mark as Paid" action is now restricted to Admin users to prevent unauthorized users from marking orders as paid.
• Next Payments exports now have both a Date Created and Last Event date allowing for deeper analysis on payment activity over time.
• Tax Jar integration has been updated as a correction to only apply in the US and allow all other countries to use internal Next Tax Regions.
• Webhook events can now be searched by object ID making it possible to find webhook events related to a single object for debugging and troubleshooting.
• Subscription search has been overhauled with the introduction of a new search index for faster and more accurate search filters.
• Export CSV processes have been improved to show more visual feedback to the user while the background is in progress to make the user feel more confident their export is in progress and will eventually finish.

Bug Fixes

• An edge case with directory names and spaces has been fixed with Next App Kit local development tool.
• We've fixed an edge case that allowed a customer email to change through the Admin API unexpectedly.
• We've fixed an edge case that allowed a dashboard user email address to be changed through Admin API.
• We've fixed an edge case issue with SEPA payment method that prevent customers from using it as their payment method at checkout.
• We've fixed an issue with Campaign Analytics that did not always load the current day of data into the charts.
• We've fixed an edge case validation issue that allowed creating an order without a customer.

New Features

• Next Payments merchants can now manage their bank accounts that payouts are sent to through the payments dashboard.
• Webhooks now have analytics to track receiver response times to provider deeper visibility into receiver performance that can cause downstream operational issues.

Improvements

• Global order search across stores performance has been significantly improved for faster and more accurate results.
• Bankcards that have a temporary decline are no longer hidden on dashboard order create flow allowing merchants to re-attempt a payment.
• We've improved the Admin API search functionality to allow partial phone number search matching across all users.
• Pagination UX has been improved across all views to show the last page link in cases where the count of objects is known.
• Store payment details now link the Next Payment details as an easier workflow to get to the Next Payments detail view.
• Payment filters have been improved for faster response times and improved user experience to return expected results.
• Failing Paypal accounts now show a notificaiton on the store dashboard landing page to improve failing account visibility.

New Features

• Introducing Campaigns App Offers & Discount Codes, a new robust solution for offering discounts on multiple items, with API support to dynamically display discounts on external campaign pages.

Improvements

• We've overhauled the Shop Sync setup flow to support Shopify's new dev dashboard API access token flow.
• PayPal shipment tracking uploads now wait for the order to be fully fulfilled, improving our ability to always upload tracking numbers to PayPal in mixed fulfillment scenarios.
• We've improved database queries on the dashboard card list view for faster load times and improved UX.
• We've improved webhook deduplication workflows to be much more efficient and reduce the overall load on databases for all background processing.

Bug Fixes

• We've fixed an edge case caused by duplicate product category key paths not being able to resolve for products created through the Admin API.
• We've fixed an issue with Offers combinations saving unexpected combinations when updating existing site offers.
• We've fixed an issue with Stripe 3DS to be compatible with new changes from the authentication flow.

New Features

• Introducing Link (by Stripe) as a new payment method available to merchants through their Stripe gateway.

Improvements

• Single Page Checkout flow shipping methods have now been improved to load the shipping methods earlier in the flow based on the customer's shipping address country, resulting in improved UX in the checkout flow.
• Apps can now inject custom header and footer scripts into the Customer Accounts portal for advanced customization of views and actions.
• Upsell transactions that fail are now associated with the order, to better surface these within the order detail view, and provide visibility to customer service staff and store admins.
• Order line item fulfillment status has been deprecated as a legacy field, as we have moved to fulfillment orders and associated workflows.
• Dashboard users (customers) list view has been optimized for faster load times, especially relevant on stores with larger customer data sets.
• We've improved app manifest validation to check that requisite files exist, providing real time feedback to app developers in cases their manifest contains issues with snippets and file paths.

Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue with non-public products showing as out of stock on the storefront, where they were in fact in stock.

New Features

• Storefronts now have full page caching with up 10x faster response times for improved customer experiences.
• Merchants can now pass a custom statement_descriptor on each order to more accurately reflect the order on customer bank statements to reduce disputes.
• Merchants can now configure campaigns to use send a custom statement_descriptor that matches their campaign flow for improved charge recognition by the customer.

Improvements

• We've corrected several missing transtions and also improved translations across customer accounts for improved customer experience in non-english markets.
• We've improved the logic for campaign sales calculations to be more accurate and taking into account more scenarios with different payment flows and possible order management actions.
• Next Payments now has improved handling of the rare case of a failed refund and will show correctly in the dashboard.
• Shop Sync now sends payment information for orders sync'd to shopify to improve the order management views, reporting and also prevent possible duplicate payments.

Bug Fixes

• We fixed an issue with order confirmation pages showing non shippable products across multiple fulfillments.
• We fixed an edge case with App Kit wherein the manifest referenced a path that does not exist and was not providing validation error back to the developer.