• 2023/7/4

    New Features

    • Introducing Sofort as an available alternative payment method for the European market.
    • When collecting additional payment for an order, it is now possible to send an updated invoice notification to the customer to inform them of the additional charges for their order.
    • It is now possible to pass a "package quantity" to line items on Campaigns Cart and Order APIs to simplify package creation and allow more complex bundling scenarios.

    Improvements

    • The Admin API now returns a supports_post_purchase_upsells to indicate if the order supports adding additional upsell items to the order, based on the original payment method.
    • We now show a tax percentage on order confirmation emails and order status/invoice views.
    • Klaviyo App - Test orders are now not sent by default, to avoid Klaviyo counting test orders as real revenue in their reporting metrics.
    • We've improved order reporting calculations to address some inaccuracies introduced when editing orders.
    • Webhooks that receive a 410 (Gone) error response will now automatically deactivate as the endpoint has indicated that it is no longer available.
    • We've improved the Product Metadata UX to save when the full product details are saved, for a more clear user experience.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed an issue where the Billing Address in the checkout flow did not automatically show in a localized format for the chosen country.
    • Fixed an issue for handling the available subscription billing cycle options in the customer account subscription Change Schedule action.
    • Fixed an issue where a 500 error was created when incorrect address booleans were passed when creating an order.
  • 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.
  • 2023/1/4

    New Features

    • Introducing a new Order Detail layout view that greatly improves order management UX.
    • Metadata fields can now be enabled as Search Filters, making them much more useful as data points throughout the system.
    • The Admin API now allows passing a custom shipping_price to override the default price for the passed shipping_method to simplify order creation on the Admin API.
    • The Storefront GraphQL API now includes Products for cart line items, subscription properties to preview the subscription that will be created after checkout, and support for adding and removing vouchers.

    Improvements

    • Report date pickers now include a "Last Month" date range.
    • Improved the checkout flow to maintain an anonymous user's email address when going back to the shipping information step.
    • Improved PayPal transaction logging to redact the password so it's not available in logs.
    • order.updated and customer.updated webhook events are now triggered when updating metadata on orders and customers.
    • Improved the Blog Posts dashboard list view by adding the Post Date which is most relevant for blog posts.
    • Optimized subscription list view queries for more reliable page load times.
    • Improved customer ip_address validation to prevent invalid IP address from being passed into this field and failing downstream.
    • Improved the ShipStation Cancel Order logic to handle cases where the order has already been removed from ShipStation.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with Orders Overview Report showing user's email instead of the associated user account.
    • Improved the subscription renewal logic to check for subscriptions that have had a payment event within the last 24 hours, and exclude them from being considered for renewal.
    • Fixed an issue with Partner Reports where the Funnel field was expected to be exact but it was icontains causing the report to show unexpected results.