• 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.
  • 2022/11/1

    New Features

    • Introducing a new Klaviyo integration that now supports Klaviyo subscription ecommerce event tracking as well as adding customers to an SMS subscribers list.
    • The Orders Add Line Item Admin API now supports adding items on subscription as an upsell to the original order.
    • The Tickets Admin API now supports filtering tickets by order number to look up tickets related to specific orders.

    Improvements

    • Improved database queries on Carts and Orders Admin APIs for improved response times.
    • Improved the Order pipeline to allow "completed" status to change back to "confirmed" on the Dashboard and Admin API.
    • We've improved the stock record form to not include stock allocation fields for products that don't have stock tracking enabled.
    • App Webhook failures now send notifications to store admins and the app developer.
    • Permissions label for access to managed installed Apps has been updated from the old label Extensions to match with current label Apps.
    • Improved the checkout flow "Back to Information" and "Back to Shipping" links logic on the Payments step to adapt properly when there are shipping options available or not.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a missing validation point to prevent rendering issues on storefront.
    • Fixed an issue where improperly named templates caused a 500 error.
    • Fixed an issue with the funnel field on the Admin API not being null-able.
  • 2022/9/8

    New Features

    • Gateway credentials can now be updated through the dashboard allowing merchants to update existing gateway credentials without needing to create a new gateway.
    • 3DS optimized transactions and standard transactions that were downgraded (from 3DS) now have filters and icons to identify them in transaction logs.
    • Pages and Blog Posts now feature new SEO settings along with support using the {% seo %} tag in storefront theme templates allowing dashboard users to configure and optimize their on page SEO.
    • The dashboard theme editor now supports custom templates creation for Products, Pages, Funnels, and Blog Posts.

    Improvements

    • Gateways can be added (or removed) from Gateway Groups on the Gateway Settings view making it easier to manage which groups a gateway is included in.
    • Admin Order and Subscription APIs now support updating the shipping/billing addresses and attribution.
    • App installations on development stores are no longer tracked in the App installation activity events.
    • App name and version have been removed from App manifest.json as they are no longer required for the app installation flow.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a performance issue with blog post rendering to improve load times.
    • Fixed a Product API serializer issue related to product images.
    • Fixed an issue in the checkout flow showing card types that from inactive gateways.
    • Fixed an issue with shipping price shown in the subscription preview bubble in the checkout flow.
  • 2022/8/22

    New Features

    • App Framework is now in public beta paving the way for third-party developers to build reusable apps to extend storefronts and core platform logic, see Apps documentation.
    • We now have an App available on Make.com to easily integrate 100s of services and create custom workflows.
    • Transactions list view and reports can now be filtered by Card Brand to improve workflows for card brand transaction reporting.
    • The phone_number field on the Admin API now accepts local numbers and will automatically convert them to E.164 format based on the user's first address country.

    Improvements

    • We've improved the default sorting direction for all reports to default to descending (highest to lowest) which is more in line with user expectations when sorting by report columns.
    • We've updated the layout of Page, Blog Post, and Support article editing views to use a two column layout for more UX consistency for content editing views.
    • We've improved the UX for managing Fulfillment Partner linked integrations.
    • We've improved the Admin API Product Class serializer to include the id, slug, and name so it can be used as a reference point for other APIs.
    • Updated the Order Status Page link from the dashboard to use the store's primary domain.
    • Product Attributes File Input fields now have improved UX formatting.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with new store creation not completing and getting stuck in the initialization state.
    • Fixed an issue with Omnisend orders not being able to sync when they don't have a shipping address.
    • Added better error handling for an edge case where a user's PayPal address does not match the country of their chosen shipping method.
    • Fixed an edge case where it was possible that PayPal returned more than one user.
    • Fixed an issue with Product Attribute file uploads producing a 500 error.
    • Improved validation logic to better handle postcode validation errors to properly return a 400 level response code.
  • 2022/5/31

    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.