New Features

• Twint Payment Method Now Available: Merchants can now accept TWINT through NEXT Payments, enabling local payment support for customers in Switzerland.

• Admin API: Order Line Item Management: You can now add, remove, or swap order line items via the Admin API, unlocking more flexibility for external systems managing orders.

• Localized Metadata Support: Metadata on public objects like Products can now be localized, allowing storefront developers to deliver fully translated and region-specific brand experiences.

• New Converge Integration: Next Commerce now integrates with Converge, an enterprise-grade marketing attribution and conversion tracking platform.

• Meta Pixel Upgrade for Subscriptions: The Meta Conversion Pixel app now excludes subscription renewals by default for cleaner and more accurate Meta reporting.

Improvements

• Customer Export Enhancements: Customer first and last purchase dates are now included in exports, helping merchants better identify and target returning customers.

• Faster Campaign API Queries: The campaignRetrieve API has been optimized, with up to 2x faster response times.

• Improved PayPal Reporting: The PayPal transaction list view and export now include account-level filters and columns, making it easier to manage multiple accounts.

• Checkout UX for Non-Postcode Countries: Storefront checkout now better supports countries that don’t use postal codes (e.g., UAE, Qatar, Hong Kong) for a smoother customer experience.

• Delivery Tracking by Fulfillment Date: Shipment views can now be filtered by fulfillment date, helping teams quickly locate shipments by dispatch date.

• ShipStation API Key Alerts: The ShipStation integration now notifies merchants if their API key is invalid, preventing silent failures when sending fulfillments.

• Improved Multi-Select UX: Multi-select dropdowns now remain open after selection, improving filtering workflows and usability.

• Filter Support for Campaigns and Packages: Campaigns and packages can now be filtered in the dashboard, streamlining merchant workflows.

• Klaviyo Sync Performance Upgrade: Webhook handling and sync logic for Klaviyo have been refactored for better reliability and performance under load.

• Attribution Field Naming Consistency: Naming conventions for core attribution fields have been standardized across the platform for better clarity and consistency.

Bug Fixes

• Customer Default Address Fix: Resolved an issue where the customer’s default shipping and billing addresses were not correctly set when different addresses were used during their first order.

• Checkout Logo Display Fix: The store logo is now properly contained within the layout when full-width checkout is enabled.

New Features

• Reuse Saved Payment Methods in Dashboard Orders: The dashboard order creation flow now supports using a customer’s retained payment methods, enabling faster and more efficient support workflows when placing orders on behalf of existing customers.

• Simplified Product Management: The concept of stand-alone products has been removed, streamlining the product setup process and making catalog management more intuitive.

Improvements

• Subscription Line Item Handling: Subscription line item behavior now mirrors that of cart and order line items for a more consistent and intuitive experience.

• Single Page Checkout Enhancements: Several updates have been made to the single page checkout flow, improving the end-customer experience and aimed at boosting conversion rates.

• Improved Checkout Settings UX: The checkout settings interface has been refined for easier customization of the checkout experience from the dashboard settings.

• More Accurate Payment Response Codes: Payment response code 2003 has been renamed to Issuer Declined, and additional network response mappings have been updated for improved clarity and reporting.

• Apple Pay Express Display Logic: Apple Pay buttons are now more intelligently handled on devices that do not support them, reducing display inconsistencies.

• Shop Sync Currency Defaults: Shop Sync now automatically sets USD as the default currency if none is configured in the connected Shopify store, preventing product sync failures and improving first-time setup.

Bug Fixes

• Unexpected Redirect Fix: Fixed an edge case where logged-out dashboard users were incorrectly redirected to the storefront.

• Gateway Routing Fix: Resolved an issue where bankcard transactions didn’t always follow expected gateway group routing configurations.

• Order Attribution Field Fix: The order attribution funnel field is now correctly configured as a text input.

New Features

• Dashboard Support for Line Item Metadata: Line item metadata can now be viewed and edited directly in the dashboard for Carts, Orders, and Subscriptions.

• Revamped Order Refunds API: A new two-step Order Refunds API flow is now available, allowing you to preview and calculate refunds before creation. This flow supports line-item level refunds and aligns with the dashboard’s refund experience.

• Split Fulfillment Orders Filter: Orders list can now be filtered by “Has Split Fulfillment,” making it easier for merchants to identify orders with multiple fulfillment records.

Improvements

• Digital Product Fulfillment Enhancements: Digital products now follow an improved order management and auto-fulfillment flow. This allows upsells to be added during order creation, even when the order begins with digital products only.

• Updated Apple Pay SDK: We’ve updated to the latest Apple Pay SDK, which now includes support for Apple Pay on non-Apple devices and browsers.

• Campaigns App Pinning: Users can now pin campaigns to keep important or frequently accessed campaigns at the top of the Campaigns App list view.

• Improved Event Tracking Setup: Event tracking setup now links directly to developer documentation for easier access to event guides and usage examples.

• Overhauled Gorgias App: The Gorgias integration has been rebuilt with significantly improved multi-store support, allowing smoother loading of the 29 Next widget inside Gorgias.

• Upgraded Klaviyo App Integration: The Klaviyo App now uses the latest Storefront Event Tracking framework for more accurate and flexible customer activity tracking.

• Improved Shipping Discount Calculation: Shipping discount logic has been improved for Google Pay and Apple Pay within our 3-step checkout flow.

Bug Fixes

• 3DS Test Card Fix: Resolved an issue where the 3DS test card was not functioning as expected.

• Fulfillment Location Move API Fix: Fixed a bug where a successful fulfillment location move could incorrectly return a 500 error.

• Refund Error Handling Fix: Attempting to refund an uncaptured transaction now correctly returns a validation error instead of a 500 error.

• Product Variant Attribute Fixes: Addressed several edge cases related to editing and saving product variant attributes.

• Apple Pay Order Creation Fix: Fixed an issue where Apple Pay orders could occasionally fail to create.

• Returns Reporting Correction: Corrected report values related to returns that were sometimes calculated incorrectly.

• Checkout Customization Flow Fix: Fixed a 500 error that could occur when viewing the storefront via Checkout Customization.

• Improved Shopify Sync Error Handling: Enhanced handling for intermittent errors received from Shopify during order syncing.

New Features

• Order refunds now automatically allocate a line item refund to the corresponding original payment transaction to improve UX and merchant reconciliation.
• Themes now feature a Image Picker setting to select from all of the existing uploaded assets to improve the theme customization experience.
• Products are now automatically synced to Klaviyo for an easy and seamless setup flow when installing the app.
• Meta Pixel conversion events now send the store primary domain as the event source by default.  Meta Pixel app now also supports passing a custom domain via order attribution metadata.
• Coupons can now be shared with a link to automatically apply a discount in the checkout of the shopper's session.

Improvements

• We've made several improvements to the chargeback defense document submission flow for improved UX.
• Fulfillment Orders sent to Shipstation now are properly localized to the Shipstation system time zone (PST) and also use the date of the Fulfillment Order to improve workflows.
• We now automatically set the State field value when available based on the ZIP / postcode to improve data consistency across selling channels.
• We now validate email sending domains, to improve store setup and monitoring workflows.
• We now detect and map UniUni as a fulfillment carrier, and have enabled this carrier for delivery tracking integrations.
• Product Admin API variant create flows have been improved for a more straightforward API consumer perspective.
• Product Variants now support metadata for more robust integrations with external platforms that require mapping product data.
• The new customer registration email has now been removed as its core functionality is redundant and no longer necessary with email OTP login flow for customer accounts.

Bugs Fixed

• We corrected issues with decline code mapping for 3DS2 transactions.
• We fixed support ticket timeline events that showed an incorrect event for sending notifications to the dashboard user.

New Features

• Introducing a new Orders Summary widget providing a quick view of recent order activity to help monitor order KPIs.
• Campaigns Upsell Create API now supports passing additional payment detail to specify a gateway or gateway group for more complex campaign flows.
• Transaction reports now include a new Approval Rate metric to assist merchants in monitoring the rate payment attempts are approved as an indicator of gateway health.
• Theme and App Settings now feature new html, css, and javascript settings types for code snippets users may want to include in their theme.
• Meta Pixel app now features a logs of server side events to assist in monitoring and troubleshooting any issues.
• Order Exports now feature COGS values for both order total COGS and order line items for viewing and working with COGS data externally.
• Disputes now feature the ability to set a happened_at date allowing external service providers to more accurately set the dispute date in the past when the dispute actually happened.
• Gift Cards can now be sold through "Gift Card Products" on the storefront and APIs enabling merchants to sell gift cards to customers as part of promotional offers.

Improvements

• Order Address update actions now create events with improved details for more consistency with order events and actions.
• We've improved the UX of order line items that are related to subscriptions and order editing actions so this detail is not missed in order management workflows.
• Meta Pixel app now fires events on the storefront for PageView, AddToCart, ViewContent, and InitiateCheckout.
• We've updated Stripe 3DS flow to favor the frictionless when possible to reduce friction in the payment flow.
• We've now removed the coupon from from the storefront sidecart platform wide to focus the cart on getting customers to the checkout flow where coupon and gift card application is available.
• We've now added Return Tracking information to Returns Exports which was previously not included.

Bug Fixes

• We've fixed an edge case issue with the storefront checkout flow that caused attribution metadata to be unnecessarily cleared.
• We've fixed an edge case where it was possible to create a 500 error when passing an unparseable string to the phone number field on user API.