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  • 2024/07/17

    FulfillmentSubscriptionsThemesPayments

    New Features

    • Stripe payment gateway now supports configuring a Soft Descriptor allowing merchants to customize the descriptor shown on customer bank statements.
    • Theme Settings now supports configuring a page setting type allowing dashboard users to select a page to link to instead of needing to configure the page url manually.
    • Theme Settings now supports configuring a richtext field type for settings fields that expect to have formatted html text.
    • Fulfillments can now be exported through the Fulfillments overview report allowing merchants to work with their data externally.

    Improvements

    • The Subscription Payment Method update form now shows a warning to suggest to customers that their payment method is failing and needs to be updated.
    • The Theme Customize view now warns users when they have unsaved changes that won't be applied if they exit the view.

    Bug Fixes

    • We've fixed an edge case issue where it was possible to send a duplicate fulfillment request while there was an existing fulfillment request pending acceptance.
    • We've fixed an edge case issue with adding a dashboard user without first and last name failed to register with dashboard single sign-on.
    • We've corrected the order line items response to always include variant product titles.
    • We've corrected an edge case with saved settings not being set when re-installing a previously uninstalled app.
  • 2024/06/19

    FulfillmentSubscriptionsAdmin APIPaymentsWebhooks

    New Features

    • Introducing server-side Meta Conversion API integration to connect your orders to your Meta advertising campaigns for orders created on the storefront checkout flow and Admin API.
    • Subscriptions that fail renewal will now automatically send an email to the customer with a one-click link to update their payment method for an automated subscription recovery flow.
    • The Admin Add Line Items API now supports passing a payment gateway or payment gateway group to override the initial payment gateway used for the order for deeper payment orchestration in the order flow.
    • Gift Cards can now be created and retrieved through the Admin API allowing deeper customized flows to create Gift Cards for customers.
    • External applications can now subscribe to fulfillment activity through the fulfillment.created and fulfillment.updated webhooks to be updated when new fulfillments are created and as their delivery statuses are updated.
    • The Transactions Admin API now includes a new external_id property as a reference to the external payment provider's ID for the payment, also includes support to filter by external_id.

    Improvements

    • Product detail view queries have been improved resulting in faster load times for products in the storefront.
    • We've added a new Disputes by Resolution report to help merchants better understand their dispute outcomes.
    • The product creation flow UX has some slight improvements to reduce clicks and form validation errors.
    • Test subscriptions now don't auto-renew themselves to prevent cases where test subscriptions continuously create new orders forever.
    • Storefront theme file settings can now be cleared to support cases where you no longer want to utilize the setting.
    • It is now possible to send non-public shipping method IDs on the Admin API to prevent accidental validation errors caused by making a shipping method private.

    Bug Fixes

    • We've fixed a rare edge case issue where it was possible to create an order with the end result not matching the intended quantity.
    • Fixed an issue with the querystrings when using All Time date range that prevented reports from loading.
  • 2024/04/10

    FulfillmentCampaignsDisputesPaymentsReports

    New Features

    • Fulfillment Events now show directly in the dashboard on the fulfillment order as a timeline for ease of tracking
    • Transaction reports now include summary metrics indicating the number of transactions that were disputed to help merchants have improved visibility into dispute sources.

    Improvements

    • Improved clarity of Transaction Statuses by removing legacy statuses that are no longer used or applicable.
    • Campaigns App API now accepts specifying the Gateway Group or Gateway directly in the API request to override the campaigns settings for more complex campaign flows.
    • Oauth App create flow in the dashboard has been improved for clarity to no longer require associating with a dashboard user.
    • Improved the Product selector for campaigns to improve support for stores with large product catalogs.
    • Fulfillment locations and fulfillment apps are now prevented from removal if the locations have active fulfillments in progress to protect against situations that could leave orders stuck in fulfillment processing status indefinitely.
    • Improved order refund events to stamp the Oauth App if created over the Admin API.
    • Campaigns API docs now support testing the campaign calls through the interactive console for faster exploration and testing.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with support macros duplicating the response text when using.
    • Fixed an edge case issue where it was possible to create a 500 error due to attempting to add the same customer to a block list multiple times.
    • Fixed an edge case issue with changing the fulfillment location when the order also has digital products.

     

  • 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.
  • 2024/1/4

    WebhooksCampaignsDisputesPayments

    New Features

    • Store admins will now receive a notification if a payment gateway is rejecting transaction attempts, to more quickly surface potential gateway issues that require attention.
    • Webhooks product.created and product.updated events are now available to be subscribed to by external systems for monitoring products in a store, and to enable deeper integrations.

    Improvements

    • The background Paypal carrier tracking upload logic has been overhauled and improved to use a bulk upload API, and to upload tracking numbers for "other" shipping carriers that are not mapped.
    • The Campaigns API order response details now includes the order_status_url making it possible for campaigns to leverage the storefront order confirmation page and invoice views.
    • Disputes can now be filtered by the related gateway in the Dashboard and Admin API.
    • Google Pay accounts are now validated for their uniqness to prevent accidental adding duplicates.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with block counts on Block Lists not incrementing in all cases.
    • Fixed an edge case where a customer's IP address was not saved when the customer record was created through the storefront checkout flow.