New Features

• Introducing "Apps" as the future of integrations into the 29 Next Platform. In the near future Apps will be open to the public to build and publish to the App ecosystem.
• Introducing Partner Reports which allow store admins to share pre-filtered Order Reports providing a way to share limited reports with third parties.
• Storefront pages and blog posts now support custom page templates allowing store designers to create multiple custom layouts in themes for more unique customer experiences.
• The Subscriptions Admin API now supports updating the payment gateway to provide Admin API users a way manage subscriptions.

Improvements

• The ticket detail layout has been improved with related order details, related tickets, and some ease-of-use enhancements.
• Orders by can now be filtered by Initial, Recurring, or Non-Recurring to more easily find orders from different subscription life-cycle scenarios.
• The Subscription Admin API now validates the card type for the selected gateway to prevent cases where the card type does not match the gateway accepted card types.
• Email addresses are now forced to lowercase by default for improved unique validation and support for creating customers through express checkout flows.
• We've now removed an old fallback feature that allowed us to support homepage content from a page instead of the theme's index.html page.

New Features

• Introducing OAuth 2.0 access to the Admin API, providing more secure and granular permissions for API users.
• Stock Records can now be created and updated over the Admin API, providing API consumers more direct access to stock record data.
• Orders, Transactions, Customers, Subscriptions, and Tickets now have Overview Reports which serve as the default view for reports, and where filtered reporting lists are pointed.
• All Order Reports now feature a unique customer count in the summary and detail table to help expose customer counts in the context of Orders.
• Subscription Reports now feature detailed reports for Subscriptions by Partner SKU and Cancel Reason for deeper insight into subscriptions.
• Store admins can now add their store contact information to be used for public facing templates to manage their store contact info from a single place.
• Store Dashboard users can now edit an order's Marketing Attribution data to correct or adjust as required.

Improvements

• Dashboard Subscription Detail View have been overhauled with the addition of address management and attribution.
• We've improved several links from dashboard reporting widgets to point to more appropriate reports, and carry the date filters from the dashboard through to the reports.
• Order Webhook events and the Order Admin API now feature related subscription information to show the current subscription lifecycle status of an order.
• Product attributes for subscriptions (interval, interval_count) are now validated to be correct to prevent misconfigurations.

New Features

• Orders now feature two statuses, an Order Status and also a Fulfillment Status which provide more flexibility in order management and added support for orders that do not require fulfillment.
• Products can now be set to not require shipping (ie digital products) through their product class which works along side the order fulfillment status. Orders can contain a mix of products that require and don't require shipping.
• Stores now feature an XML Google Merchant Feed for easy product import to Google Merchant Accounts and any platforms that support Google Merchant Feeds.
• Product Attributes and Options now support multi-language which provides the path for fully multi-language product variants in the store front.

Improvements

• We've now improved several fields on the Order and Cart API serializers and webhooks to support more robust workflows by integrated applications.
• Webhooks now include related store context so that webhook receiving applications can use the context to easily support multiple stores on the same webhook endpoint.
• Orders now include the card token in the response transactions allowing API users to use the card token in other API requests.
• A Store's Payments Environment Key used for card tokenization is now easily found in Settings > Payments.
• Subscriptions have a new action to update the Shipping Method and Shipping Price allowing this to be changed for future renewal orders.

Bugs Fixes

• Corrected an issue where Customers status was transitioned from Lead to Customer status after they had made a purchase.
• Fixed an issue with stock record search not including product variants in the results.
• Fixed an issue with a missing registered template tag in the password reset template.

New Features

• Subscriptions can now be set to not send order confirmation emails for renewal orders.
• Stand alone products can now be converted to a variant product allowing for additional variants to be added after a product already has a stock record.
• Customers, Orders, and Transactions report summaries now all feature percentage calculations for Upsells, Shipping, Refunds and Net Revenue for easier key metric monitoring.

Improvements

• Gateway Group is now stored on transactions where the a group was used for the routing of the transaction.
• Admin API endpoints for Orders, Carts, and Products have been significantly improved with reduced queries and faster response times.
• Theme settings are now validated for errors that would cause the dashboard settings views to error.
• Webhook request failure handling has been improved to properly log SSL and network connection errors instead of silently failing in the background.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an edge case where tax was miscalculated when tax is calculated with shipping.

New Features

• Offers and Vouchers have been updated with new features for increased flexibility for discounted pricing use cases and improvement management features.
• Open carts with a known customer and product are now browsable allowing merchants to view their open carts.
• Introducing a new Transactions by Funnel report allowing merchants to easily see a breakdown of their transaction performance by funnel.
• Orders that are Confirmed status can now be changed to Pending status to prevent the order from being automatically sent to fulfillment until the merchant is able to correct the order.

Improvements

• Card Token payment method now supports Gateway Groups for the gateway selection logic by card type.
• Admin API users can now pass a stockrecord_id in lieu of sku and currency for order line items when creating new orders.
• It is now possible to create a shipping address for an order in the rare case that an order was created without a shipping address.
• Shipping methods now follow the is_public logic as many other models that are customer facing. Non-public shipping methods cannot be used on the API so the available shipping methods in APM interfaces are consistent.
• Hovering over the humanized date on a ticket comment will now show the actual date in a tooltip.
• We've improved the MRR and MRR Growth charts to be show more accurate metrics and trend indicators.
• We've now updated many of the status enums to be lowercase for consistency across data models on the api.
• The initiator object on the transactions api is now trimmed down to have the user id, email, first and last name.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue of missing template code to populate the meta description of funnel pages.Fixed an issue of missing template code to populate the meta description of funnel pages.