• 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.
  • 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.
  • 2022/7/25

    New Features

    • When using Auth/Capture payment flow, payments can now be set to automatically capture on order fulfillment.
    • Filters UX has been overhauled throughout the Dashboard to make the active filters applied to the current view easier to see and clear.
    • Orders List View now supports generic searching by number, name, email or any address text.
    • Subscriptions List View now support generic searching by number, name, email or any address text.
    • Orders and Transactions Admin APIs now feature capture methods to capture authorized payments.
    • Webhooks can now be created to subscribe to Dispute events, to notify external systems when disputes are created and updated.

    Improvements

    • Checkout Links now support subscription based parameters to add items to the cart on a recurring interval.
    • The Product Details View has been completely overhauled for an improved UX when creating and managing products.
    • The public Order Status Pages now include a Google Map with a geolocated pin to designate the expected delivery address for the order.
    • Improved the Transaction Reports to better support Auth Capture flows including Voids so it is more clear how these transactions are flowing through the system.
    • Subscriptions connected to an inactive gateway will now transition to Past Due status with an event indicating the gateway is inactive allowing store admins to manually resolve the issue.
    • Orders that have a fulfillment tracking code but do not have a designated carrier (likely because the carrier is unsupported), will use a generic tracking page that can detect the carrier from the tracking code.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where the billing address in the checkout flow showed all countries instead of matching to the shipping address countries list.
    • Fixed an edge case calculation issue with Net Revenue on Order reports.
    • Fixed an edge case where it was possible a customer had two open carts at the same time.
    • Fixed an edge case where re-activated subscriptions still showed in subscription canceled reports.
  • 2022/7/11

    New Features

    • 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

    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.