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.

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.

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.

New Features

• Storefront event tracking now has new events for deeper tracking in the checkout flow; checkout_contact_info_submitted, checkout_shipping_method_submitted, and checkout_shipping_address_submitted, see event tracking docs.
• Storefront Single Page checkout can now be customized through the dashboard Checkout settings to apply deeper branding styles.
• Coupon share links now feature a dropdown selector to choose the redirect destination when the coupon is applied.
• Shopify customer updates are now synced automatically to the 29 Next customer user account when using Shop Sync.

Improvements

• Inventory Low Stock alerts has now been consolidated into the inventory view to improve inventory management user experience.
• Partial fulfillment logic has been improved to not create a new fulfillment order for the remaining products to simplify fulfillment integration logic.
• We've improved our payment flow handling when payment processors are unavailable.
• We've improved the SKU filter logic to be exact match to prevent cases where of matching multiple SKUs.

Bug Fixes

• We've fixed an issue with 3DS frictionless flow that intermitently failed depending on the user/browser behavior.
• We've fixed an issue with custom shipping prices not being applied with Stripe APM payment flow.
• We've fixed an issue with Partial Fulfillment Requests not sending the correct fulfillment order line items.
• product.updated webhooks were not triggered when removing product categories.
• We've fixed an issue with product out of stock messages not being shown in the side cart when adding product fails.

New Features

• Introducing Shop Sync, a new app to sync your products from Shopify to 29 Next, and to sync orders placed in 29 Next to Shopify for fulfillment.  
• Inventory management is now easier with the ability to update inventories for all SKUs directly on the inventory list view within a single interface.

Improvements

• We've improved 3DS2 Optimized and our automated retry logic to reduce the number of false failed authentications on transactions reports, and we now retry additional decline reasons to improve payment acceptance rates in some cases.
• We've now removed the PayPal Digital Products feature which was previously required when selling digital products with PayPal, reducing the complexity of configuring PayPal.
• Products can now be set to a price of 0.00, essentially making them free products, which is desired in some merchant use-case scenarios.
• The Top Selling Products widget on the Analytics dashboard now follows the Orders by Product report structure summarizing product sales by their parent instead of showing individual variants.
• We've improved Offers discount rounding logic to be more predicatable following "round up half" logic.
• The subscriptions summary table on the customer details view has been improved for more clear and consistent UX.
• We've improved the public display of tax rates to customers in order confirmation pages, emails, and APIs.
• Campaigns App logs are now localized to the store timezone.

Bug Fixes

• We've now fixed an issue where product reviews were improperly moved when converting a product from a stand-alone to variant product.
• We've fixed an issue with sorting disputes by date range in 29 Next Payments UI views.
• We've fixed an edge case where it was possible to create a 500 error on the products Admin API when not passing a Location ID.
• We've fixed logic related to passing a customer's email address incorrectly on the customers Admin API.
• We've fixed an issue that prevented users from removing a package's image in Campaigns App.