• 2025/03/19

    Admin APIPaymentsReportsProductsMetadataCampaigns

    New Features

    Simplified PayPal Account Setup: The PayPal connection and authorization process has been completely redesigned for a more seamless and user-friendly setup experience.

    Expanded Admin API Metadata Support: Carts, Orders, and Subscription Line Items now accept metadata via the Admin API, enabling deeper platform integrations and external tracking of line items.

    Improvements

    More Accurate AOV Metrics: Order Report AOV calculations now account for order totals inclusive of returns and refunds, for improved accuracy in merchant reporting.

    Flexible SKU Management: Product SKUs can now be duplicated across multiple products, providing greater flexibility in product catalog management.

    Persistent Orders List Date Range Selection: The date range selection in Orders List view now persists across sessions, enhancing the merchant user experience when monitoring order activity.

    Improved Email Domain Setup Instructions: Email sending domain setup instructions have been refined to minimize user errors when configuring DNS entries.

    Optimized Campaign Package Image Handling: Large campaign package images are now validated and compressed to ensure proper thumbnail generation.

    Consistent Storefront Branding: Storefront customer account branding logos now follow the same sizing rules as those in the checkout experience for a more cohesive appearance.

    Enhanced Storefront Event Tracking: A new init() method has been introduced, providing event tracking integrations with additional context when firing events.

    Storefront Catalog Filter Warnings: Users are now alerted if a catalog filter source has been deleted, prompting them to resolve potential filtering issues.

    Bug Fixes

    Fixed Low Stock Alert Links: Low Stock Alert notifications now correctly direct users to the new inventory management views.

    Resolved Unexpected Event Tracking in Checkout Customization: Storefront Event Tracking no longer fires unintended events in the Checkout Customization flow.

  • 2025/03/05

    New Features

    NMI - Apple Pay & Google Pay Support: The NMI gateway integration now supports Apple Pay and Google Pay.

    PayPal Integration Overhaul: Our PayPal integration has been upgraded to use the Orders V2 REST API flow and vaulted payment methods for improved functionality.

    Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): We’ve introduced two-factor authentication with support for OTP authenticator apps, enhancing platform user account security.

    Enhanced API Support for Product Images: The API now supports creating product images via source URLs, allowing for larger image file sizes.

     

    Improvements

    Optimized Product Image Handling: Large product images are now automatically downsized and compressed to ensure proper thumbnail and storefront image generation.

    Expanded Fulfillment Carrier Support: We’ve added many new fulfillment carriers to our core mappings, including tracking links, PayPal tracking uploads, and delivery tracking.

    Refined Ticket Email Styling: Support ticket emails have been redesigned for a more consistent and polished experience, aligning with other ticketing systems.

    Improved Outbound Email Handling: We’ve enhanced our integration with our outbound email provider and introduced better logic for automatically handling bounce notifications.

    Enhanced Shop Sync Product Sync: Shop Sync’s product sync logic has been improved to better handle Shopify’s product update webhooks, ensuring inventory consistency between both systems.

     

    Bug Fixes

    Fulfillment API Error Handling: The Fulfillment API now raises a clear error message instead of a 500 error when the same fulfillment request is sent multiple times.

    More Accurate Braintree Payment Response Codes: Payment response code mappings with Braintree have been refined for more precise error reporting.

    Admin API Payment Method Fix: Fixed an issue where a new payment method token was not always properly verified and retained when updated through the Admin API.

    Delivery Tracking Address Fix: Resolved an issue where missing address details in delivery tracking could result in a 500 error.

  • 2025/02/19

    CheckoutStorefrontProducts

    New Features

    Configurable Product Filters: The Storefront Product Catalog now supports configurable filters, allowing customers to refine product searches by attributes, price, and availability.

    Bulk Inventory Management: Inventory can now be updated in bulk via an Export and Import process, making stock management more efficient.

    Enhanced ShipStation Integration: ShipStation now supports Partner API Keys, providing higher API rate limits for high-volume accounts.

    Expanded Storefront GraphQL API: The products query now includes filters for product node IDs and PKs, enabling theme developers to create richer customer experiences.

    Improved Meta Pixel Integration: Meta Pixel now leverages our Storefront Event Tracking framework for a more robust and future-proof tracking integration.

     

    Improvements

    Checkout Customization Previews: Merchants can now preview customer account screens with mock data, allowing them to see exactly what customers experience when logging into their storefront accounts.

    Faster Storefront Tracking Events: The performance of tracking events on the storefront catalog has been optimized for improved response times.

    Stronger Subscription Restrictions: Blocklisted customers are now prevented from reactivating their subscriptions through their customer accounts.

    Faster Order Detail Views: Order detail views now load more efficiently with optimized queries and improved data storage for fulfillment event dates.

     

    Bug Fixes

    Subscription Renewal Fix: Resolved an issue where subscription payment method updates failed due to the subscription product being out of stock.

    Order Search Fix: Fixed a bug that prevented users from searching for orders via accounts.29next.com, even when they had the necessary permissions.

    Cart Error Handling Fix: Attempting to add a product without a price to the cart now correctly returns a 400 error instead of a 500 error.

    Login Throttling Enhancement: Login attempts are now more gracefully throttled with a dedicated 429 error page when brute force login attempts are detected.

  • 2025/02/05

    Admin APIPaymentsDashboardFulfillment

    New Features

    Apple Pay Overhaul: Apple Pay has been revamped and can now be enabled with a single click in your payment gateway settings.

    Two-Factor Authentication: Secure your dashboard user accounts with two-factor authentication for enhanced security.

    Advanced Fulfillment Services: Partial order fulfillment is now supported, allowing remaining items to be automatically reassigned to another fulfillment location when needed.

     

    Improvements

    Faster Fulfillment Automation: The fulfillment delay setting can now be reduced to as little as 10 minutes, providing better support for merchants syncing orders to external fulfillment systems.

    Enhanced Payment Decline Handling: 29 Next Payments now integrates more deeply with card issuer merchant advice codes, improving decline processing and reporting.

    Upgraded Code Editors: All code editors across the dashboard have been updated with a modern syntax highlighter for an improved user experience.

    Improved Dashboard Filtering: The Payments and Disputes dashboards can now be filtered by store, streamlining workflows for merchants managing multiple stores.

    Expanded 3DS Authentication for Upsells: Upsells now attempt 3D Secure (3DS) authentication when possible, increasing overall coverage and security.

    UPC Management Update: UPCs are now assigned to individual product variants, ensuring SKU-specific UPC accuracy.

    Shop Sync Fulfillment Flexibility: The Shop Sync app now allows merchants to specify the fulfillment location address, enhancing fulfillment routing options.

    Refined Delivery Tracking: Delivery tracking events in Mandarin are now ignored, reducing unnecessary notifications for merchants shipping from China.

    3PL Central Integration Update: The 3PL Central integration now follows our latest fulfillment APIs and workflows, improving order management and fulfillment processes.

    Optimized Shop Sync Image Sync: Shop Sync’s image synchronization has been enhanced following recent improvements to our Product Image Admin APIs.

     

    Bug Fixes

    PayPal Express Fulfillment Rules Fix: Fixed an edge case where fulfillment routing rules were not correctly applied through the PayPal Express flow.

    500 Error Fix for External Payments: Resolved an issue that caused a 500 error when external payment method details were missing.

  • 2025/01/22

    StorefrontFulfillmentApps

    New Features

    • Apps can now use storefront Event Tracking which brings the path for all existing apps to upgrade from App Snippets to Event Tracking.
    • Product image API has been improved to fully support syncing product images from external catalogues with the ability to set the display order and have endpoints for managing existing images.

    Improvements

    • All production databases have been updated to PostgreSQL 16, providing enhanced query performance, improved parallelism, and stronger security enhancements.
    • Fulfillment orders can now be marked as incomplete to handle scenarios where an entire fulfillment order could not be fully fulfilled with the assigned fulfillment location.
    • We've now implemented improved logic to prevent duplicate orders when using alternative payment methods that redirect externally.
    • Shop Sync app now properly handles partial fulfillment from Shopify in cases the order was not fully fulfilled.

    Bug Fixes

    • We fixed a performance issue related to store metrics on the accounts global dashboard.
    • We fixed an issue that caused email subject and content to not always be fully translated and localized to the customer's preferred language.
  • Topics
  • Admin API
  • Apps
  • Campaigns
  • Checkout
  • Customers
  • Dashboard
  • Disputes
  • Fulfillment
  • Gift Cards
  • Metadata
  • Notifications
  • Offers
  • Orders
  • Payments
  • Products
  • Reports
  • Settings
  • Storefront
  • Storefront API
  • Subscriptions
  • Support
  • Taxes
  • Themes
  • Webhooks