Introducing Checkout Links, making it possible to construct links directly to the checkout flow with defined products and vouchers applied to the cart to enable external sales channels to direct customers straight to checkout.
Stores now can be configured to use a WYSIWYG editor (or HTML) for all of the content areas in the dashboard to help content writers and store managers more easily add and edit content.
Store Dashboard users can now add products to existing subscriptions to enable more flexible options in assisting customers in managing their subscriptions.
Customers will now receive a notification when subscriptions has been canceled to confirm this action has been taken.
It is now possible to add custom Metadata to Customers through the API to support custom data that needs to be stored and be available for export with customers.
Order Payment Status changes are now tracked so changes can be easily seen and used for auditing order changes.
Improvements
Several improvements have been added to the Checkout flow including country geo-IP lookup, improved saved addresses UX, and dynamic form fields for localized address fields and labels.
Customer email logs now open emails in a popup to improve email display and remove styling conflicts.
Product reviews are now added through the Product List View template instead of the Product template to reduce complexity on the Product template.
Improved subscription event naming conventions for consistency and ease of future expansion.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an occasional edge case issue that raised a duplicate order number key during the order creation process.
Fixed an issue with Orders by Offers Report query properly supporting multiple offers applied to orders.
Fixed UX issue when canceling Order to more easily handle canceling a related subscription.
Fixed an issue with Product sorting inside of Product Ranges.
Fixed a minor display issue with an active class in the checkout flow breadcrumb.
2022/6/27
CheckoutSubscriptionsSettingsProductsOrders
New Features
A new and improved Order Confirmation page has now been added to support more complex fulfillment scenarios and also remove the burden from theme developers.
The Checkout Flow now supports dropdowns US states and Canadian provinces to improve the checkout flow UX for customers.
Stockrecords now support a default Subscription Price enabling simpler Subscribe & Save setup for merchants who want to offer a base discount on products on subscription.
Newly created stores now have a placeholder page while waiting for the first theme to be installed and activated.
Improvements
Shipping fee preview in the cart and order preview now show "Shipping calculated at next step" until the user chooses their shipping method for more clear UX.
The support email sending domain is now a dropdown of available sending domains that have been configured for the store.
Subscription charts have been improved to cut off the end for the current day as many of metrics are not yet not available and always zero which was resulting in poor UX.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue with the store switcher on the subscription list view.
Customer search is now more robust with the ability to search more freely (such as first and last name) and return expected results.
The new checkout flow now shows Express Checkout buttons for PayPal and Klarna allowing users to checkout completely in the external payment platforms.
We now have much more robust support for Product Variants with improved setup and configuration in the dashboard. Storefront Themes also now provide functionality for theme developers to create product option selectors.
Storefront Themes now feature dashboard "Settings" forms that allow theme developers to integrate options into the themes that can be controlled through settings, such as layouts, color pickers, additional text boxes, etc.
Transactions reports now feature all UTM reports to see a breakdown of transactions across UTM parameters.
Subscriptions Reports now have a new Subscriptions by Gateway report to show a breakdown of subscriptions across payment gateways.
Payment gateways now support multiple currencies which greatly improves and simplifies the setup of gateways for stores that sell in multiple currencies.
Improvements
Subscription Shipping Price has now been added to the subscription model so that it can be individually set per subscription changes to the shipping method pricing wont impact existing subscriptions.
The checkout flow now shows all countries when the store's configured shipping methods do not have any countries selected to restrict them.
The first comment on tickets created via the dashboard is now the actual agent who created the ticket making it easier to see the actual source of the ticket.
Several Product Class UI improvements were made in an effort to make the UX more clear when creating and editing product classes and their associated options.
The "Free Shipping" threshold field on shipping methods has now been removed in favor of only allowing merchants to setup Offers and Coupon codes for shipping discounts for more clarity and reporting of shipping discounts.
Bug Fixes
Corrected an issue with order serializer to ensure that all lines had the same currency and allow the order to be created.
Fixed an issue with theme template asset_url filter to allow asset files to use hyphens.
Introducing a completely new Storefront Checkout, designed to improve conversion rates and support more robust customization.
Avalara Avatax integration now supports setting specific currencies to use tax inclusive pricing, allowing a store to sell products in multiple currencies with different pricing/tax strategies.
Orders Reports now have UTM oriented reports for all UTM parameters; UTM Source, UTM Medium, UTM Campaign, UTM Term, and UTM Content.
It is now possible to trigger polling of fulfillment partners for older orders, to sync any orders that might have been late (past 7 days) being shipped.
Improvements
Order & Customer Notes have been revamped with a new UI layout for easier use.
Non-public products can now be chosen when updating or adding order line items in the dashboard.
Low stock alerts have been moved to the Stock Records section of products for improved UX.
The Order shipping price display has now been simplified to show the actual shipping price.
Updated the Order Shipments API to respond with the order shipment details when adding a shipment.
Bug Fixes
We've now corrected an issue where products with 0 available inventory could be purchased on the API, even if stock was tracked and no stock was available.
Fixed an edge case issue with the Admin Orders API caused by multiple cart recovery tokens for the same cart.
Fixed an issue where some stores could not create test orders due to the test card fingerprint not matching the expected card fingerprint.
Fixed an edge case issue that caused the Carts API to error when the product could not be found.
Fixed an issue to better handle when PayPal capture fails and creates an error when the user's PayPal payment method is declined.
Fixed an issue where multiple event logs were created for prevention.match
2020/11/16
CheckoutAdmin APIReportsSettingsOrders
New Features
Introducing a new Transactions by Response Code Report to quickly analyze transaction acceptance rates with filters and drill down into transactions list for further analysis.
Orders API now supports PUT requests to update orders for expanded API integration capabilities for API driven workflows for post order actions.
Orders API now supports Klarna Payments as a payment method with a redirect flow.
Klarna Integration Settings and Transactions can be viewed and managed via the dashboard.
Improvements
Currency Specific Stock Records can now be created to allow customers to sell a product in multiple currencies and fulfill from the same fulfillment partner.
Dashboard Permissions have now been improved for simplicity to make it more straight forward to manage users and permission groups.
Gateway Errors in the Checkout flow have been improved to surface the gateway specific errors to make it easier to debug gateway issues.