• 2023/5/24

    New Features

    • Payment Gateways and Gateway Groups are now available on the Admin API to list and retrieve their details.
    • Shipping Methods are now available on the Admin API to list and retrieve their details.

    Improvements

    • The payment flow for Stripe APMs has been improved to reduce necessary steps for customers to input their name on the first step before proceeding for Klarna, Giropay, and Bancontact.
    • Belgium has been added as an supported country for iDeal payments due to it's commonality with Belgium users.
    • PayPal credentials are now validated when saving to reduce potential issues when creating or updating PayPal account details.
    • We've now updated the Subscriptions Admin API to allow updating a subscription to any renewal schedule for improved flexibility.
    • We've updated the language display names for Nederlands (Dutch) and Português (Portguese)
    • Added support for .url access in templates for files uploaded to metadata for consistency with all other media file access.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with Paypal refunds not saving a successful 1000 response code.
    • Fixed a localization issue with pluralization and Norsk language causing a 500 error in a few edge cases.
    • Fixed an issue where attribution was not saved on Subscriptions created through the add-line-items Admin API.

     

  • 2023/5/10

    New Features

    • Products have been overhauled, with the introduction of a more streamlined UX to simplify product variant management, product attributes, and overall product catalogue management.
    • The Admin API now has a full set of User Address APIs to create and manage addresses.
    • The PayPal integration now integrates PayPal FraudNet to provide expanded transaction and device data on PayPal transactions.

    Improvements

    • We've improved theme queries to improve storefront loading performance by ~20%.
    • The original Subscription UI has been removed as we have now fully transitioned to the new Subscription UX.
    • The original Carts UI has been removed as we have now fully transitioned to the new Carts UX.
    • Users can now create metadata objects with the same key for different objects.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with US Tax IDs where we limited the field to 9 digits and did not properly handle the - in the users input.
    • Fixed an edge case issue where Past Due subscriptions were updated but not automatically set back to active status to continue their renewal cycles.
    • We fixed an issue with Avg Value and Avg LTV calculations for Subscriptions Reports.
  • 2023/4/27

    New Features

    • Added support for Dutch and Portuguese languages in the storefront, checkout flow, and core email notifications.
    • Added support for "Description Phone Number" for Blue Snap gateways.

    Improvements

    • Added Email Marketing consent to the storefront checkout flow.
    • Product Images have a new layout for improved user experience and clarity when editing products.
    • Improved Admin API endpoint documentation grouping and descriptions.
    • The store switcher has been improved to search store schema names as well as activate the search box for improved user experience.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with Storefronts potentially returning a 404 to users based on their browser settings and configured languages.
    • Fixed a typo in the Order Confirmation email notification.
    • Fixed an issue with test orders and creating a subscription through the add-line-items API.
    • Fixed an issue with subscription exports erroring if there are no subscriptions available to export.
  • 2023/4/11

    New Features

    • Order Confirmation pages now feature a new Invoice link allowing customers to easily print an invoice for their order.
    • The new Subscription Forecast report summarizes subscriptions by their next renewal date to help merchants preview upcoming revenue and project recurring product demand.

    Improvements

    • The Storefront Checkout flow now creates new customer accounts and attaches their cart session to improve abandoned cart scenarios.
    • Address fields and formats have been improved for many European countries to reduce friction in the Storefront Checkout flow.
    • App Oauth settings have now moved to App settings in the Partner dashboard to ease the app development flow and reduce necessary steps for backend app integrations.
    • Legacy API Users have now been fully deprecated with the removal of the ability to create new API users and associated tokens.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed edge case issues that caused the Products List to be empty while updating a cart in the dashboard.
    • Corrected an issue where a Refund action was offered on already refunded transactions.
    • Fixed an issue with duplicate notes being created when updating user addresses in the dashboard.
    • Fixed errors caused by webhooks attempting to send even though the user was not actually created due to a validation error.
  • 2023/3/28

    New Features

    • Introducing a new Customer Notes API that allows adding Customer Notes by external services on the Admin API.
    • Subscription reports now feature a new Monthly Recurring Revenue metric to provide MRR breakdown across the reports.
    • We've now added new Metadata Field Types for Rich Text, File, and Multiline Text with the ability to set metadata on Products.
    • We've updated our Admin API schema generator to Open API 3.0 to provide the latest schema features.

    Improvements

    • We've updated our database instances and connection settings to use persistent connections, reducing overhead for a 40% improvement in database performance.
    • Webhook event retry payloads are now more consistent and no longer re-created at the time of retrying.
    • Improved Checkout, off-site payment redirect flow UI, and several minor UI improvements throughout the dashboard.
    • Improved several UX elements in Partners setup and App creation flow.
    • Store Dashboard is no longer available in multiple languages, adding more focus on checkout and notification translations.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue that showed an unlocalized time in order notification emails.
    • Fixed an issue with Dashboard users not being able to access products in the new product picker.
    • Fixed an issue with Order Overview Report Export not following the Order list view as expected.