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  • 2024/03/13

    SupportFulfillmentDashboardStorefront API

    New Features

    • Dashboard users can now create orders on behalf of customers manually. These orders are classified as Dashboard orders in the reports filter Source.
    • Fulfillment locations can now be restricted to only ship to a specified list of countries enabling a simpler path to more complex fulfillment routing scenarios.
    • We now have dynamic IP address filtering to prevent continuous failed transaction attempts and card testing attacks.

    Improvements

    • We've improved support ticket filtering to prevent inbound spam emails from creating duplicate tickets.
    • The Storefront GraphQL API integrated explorer has gotten a full overhaul with a new UI and faster load times for documentation, see /api/graphql/.
    • Storefront customer accounts now follow the store brand color settings for a more immersive customer expereince.
    • When Apps create notes over the API, the App name is now shown as the note creator in the customer or order timeline to more easily see the source of the note.
    • File type metadata objects now show with a link to the uploaded file for easier access and viewing.
    • We've fixed Maxmind warnings due to empty values passed for address fields when not present instead of null.
    • Bankcards with an expiration date that has already passed are now automatically filtered from storefront checkout flow, given they are deemed to be ineligible for new payments.
    • We've improved our address handling logic for APMs to prevent invalid addresses from being accepted through APM payment flows.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed an issue with subscription timeline gateway change event detail to track the changes correctly.
    • Fixed an issue where it was possible to double-click storefront account action buttons while they were processing and cause a 500 error.
    • Fixed an issue with drag and drop image uploading into content WYSIWYG editors.
  • 2024/02/29

    FulfillmentCheckoutAdmin APIThemesPaymentsSettings

    New Features

    • Introducing support for AirWallex, a new payment gateway for bankcard payments specializing in cross-border payments around the world.
    • Tracked shipment events can now be uploaded to a new Fulfillment Events API that broadens order life-cycle tracking and reporting capabilities all the way to delivery.
    • Theme developers can now query store objects with a more flexible and powerful where template tag that allows object types, lookup expressions, and variables to passed into.
    • Merchants can now configure storefront Customer Accounts to enable or restrict customers from self-managing their subscription next renewal dates or recurring schedule. 
    • The storefront checkout flow now has a more optimized flow for digital only orders that do not require shipping addresses or shipping methods.

    Improvements

    • Email sending domain setup flow has been simplified and improved to ease the setup of new email sending domains.
    • Subscription action modals have been updated to be standard modals for improved UX and consistency.
    • Campaigns App now uses the latest Admin API version 2024-04-01 for all of its interaction with the store platform when creating orders.
    • We now track events on subscriptions when the associated payment method is updated by the customer in their storefront account.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed a few edge cases with Campaigns API rate limiting to improve rate limit handling while under attack.
    • Fixed a typo in store API for correctness.
    • Fixed an issue with cloning campaigns to always select the proper gateway group.
  • 2023/11/8

    PaymentsProductsOrdersFulfillmentCampaigns

    New Features

    • Paypal Commerce Platform is a new fully integrated bankcard payment gateway enabling merchants to use PayPal Advanced Credit & Debit bankcard processing.
    • Orders now feature the ability to filter by "source" to isolate orders from the Checkout Flow, Subscription, or the Admin API, to assist merchants in analyzing their order sources.
    • Campaigns App packages now feature the ability to set an "initial" and "recurring" price on subscription packages, allowing merchants to easily discount the initial order for subscription plans.

    Improvements

    • We've now added DHL Global Mail and Yun Express to our fulfillment carrier mappings for tracking links and PayPal tracking number uploads.
    • Products can now be filtered by their public status in the dashboard.
    • Campaign package quantity has now been changed to an integer input to support larger package quantity sizes.
  • 2023/10/11

    PaymentsFulfillmentApps

    New Features

    • Payment attempts that soft decline can now be automatically retried once on an alternate gateway by configuring a re-attempt gateway group.
    • Order Fulfillment Location can now be changed through the dashboard, allowing merchants to move a fulfillment of order items from one location to another.

    Improvements

    • Orders list exports now include the shipping amount, to make this data more readily available for custom reporting purposes.
    • Storefront Assets list view has been overhauled to improve overall UX.
    • Internal Apps now follow our App UX, making them available to pin to the navigation sidebar and offer an overall more clear UX.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Stripe Payment Intents transactions that use a 3DS flow now properly save the flow performed on the transaction.
    • Fixed a UI issue with duplicate product name badges showing in the report detail header.
    • Fixed an issue with express checkout flows to properly route fulfillment location.
    • Fixed an edge case with assets that prevent previously deleted assets from being re-uploaded with the same name.
    • Fixed an edge case where rapid order submission could cause a 500 error when the order already exists.
    • Fixed an edge case that incorretly consumed stock twice.
    • Fixed an issue with email attachments in support tickets expiring, causing them to be inaccessible.
  • 2023/9/26

    Admin APIPaymentsFulfillmentSupportCampaigns

    New Features

    • A Product's Fulfillment Location is now automatically assigned to optimally route fulfillments to:
      • Minimize split fulfillments to reduce shipping costs
      • Stay within country of origin to reduce cross-border shipments
      • Prioritize shortest physical distance to reduce time to home
    • Declined bankcard transactions are now throttled to allow a maximum of 4 attempts within a 10 minute window, to prevent customers from continuously trying a failing bankcard.
    • Introducing a new Inventory view that summarizes the available inventory per product across all fulfillment locations, to help merchants more easily monitor stock levels.

    Improvements

    • Support Ticket Macros have now moved to the main Support section to make them available to create and maintain by all users with access to Support.
    • Product stock records can now be deleted through the dashboard. Note, legacy usage of stockrecord_id on the Admin API is still currently supported but we recommend all API users to update to using product_id instead.
    • Customer first and last name fields are now optimistically populated from the names on shipping address information, if they are blank.
    • Orders on the Admin API now feature report_values that are a foreign exchange conversion to the store reporting currency (USD), allowing external platforms to pull the same reporting values.
    • Campaigns App shipping methods are now available on the Campaigns API allowing campaign developers to dynamically pull and populate these into campaign frontends.
    • Campaigns App cartCreate and orderCreate API calls now return product_sku in line items to support event tracking integrations that require product_sku in the event details.
    • Campaigns App packages now support a "Retail Price" to makes it easier for campaign developers to pull this into their designs to show a discount to customers dynamically.