New Features

• Stores can now setup and configure multiple Paypal accounts providing the way for merchants to maintain multiple configurations at the same time.
• Store content editing has received a major UX upgrade with a new WYSIWYG and code editor for a much smoother content editing experience.

Improvements

• Partner reports now have the ability to create Parnter Reports that follow Exclude data filters opposed to filters that Include data in the report.
• Customer and Order event timelines are now paginated when the list exceeds 50 events.
• Orders now feature a core read-only source attribute set at the time of order creation to know where the order was created from, ie admin_api, checkout, or subscription.
• The background subscription report generation process performance has been improved by 200x for faster processing and data generation.

New Features

• Customer Metadata fields can now be edited on the customer detail view providing more use cases for managing custom customer data.
• Apple Pay is now an available Payment Method filter on Orders, Transactions, as well as being populated in the Transactions by Payment Method report.

Improvements

• Removed tabs and counts on Orders, Customers, Subscriptions, and Tickets for more clear UX improved page load times.
• Product Categories are now available in storefront theme context for theme developers to create dynamic backend driven layouts with product categories.
• Dashboard navigation has been streamlined for less clicks and an improved UX flow.
• User lookup and validation on the Admin API has been improved to lookup existing customers by email (when passed) as the priority and ignoring the phone number to reduce the E.164 formatting requirements for API consumers.
• Cart Checkout Links expiration has been updated to 90 days extending the amount of time available for automatic cart recovery.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Support Emails not maintaining line breaks from the comment editor through to the email notification to users.
• Fixed an edge case where Attribution for Agents was not shown on orders if no other attribution was present.
• Fixed an edge case that prevented orders from being canceled if the product class had stock tracking setting changed since the order was created.

New Features

• Introducing Apple Pay as a new payment method available in the storefront checkout flow and on the Admin API.
• Introducing TaxJar as a new third-party tax calculation and tax reporting App to automate sales tax collection and reporting.
• Checkout Links now support adding attribution metadata to the cart and order by passing a querystring with the metadata key and value, ie attribution_metadata.KEY=VALUE
• The WYSIWYG editor now supports adding video embeds as a new toolbar option to easily embed videos into storefront content.

Improvements

• Improved the storefront checkout flow order summary totals to make them more clearly display applied discounts.
• Updated the Product Class Admin APIs to use the product class ID instead of slug as the reference point for consistency across the Admin API.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues where user's IP address wasn't automatically saved in the payment redirect flows for APMs.
• Fixed the order stats on Funnel overview page that weren't showing all orders associated to the funnel.
• Fixed the Total Spent metrics on the Customers List view to display correctly.
• Fixed the Subscriptions Dashboard New Subscribers chart to include all subscriptions created within the timeframe.
• Fixed missing validation for Attribution Metadata on the Carts Admin API to be consistent with the orders Admin API.
• Fixed a minor display issue for Apps that don't have a public version yet and installed on development stores.

New Features

• It is now possible, when using Auth/Capture payment flows on the Admin API, to authorize a higher value than the initial order amount by passing the authorize_value This allows for upsells to be added to the original order without additional transactions.
• The core user model now has a user_agent attribute that can be populated for syncing to external systems that leverage browser user agents as part of their attribution matching algorithms.

Improvements

• We improved the Carts Admin API to be consistent with the Dashboard > Customers > Open Carts view.
• We've now added support for the accepts_marketing attribute on the Carts Admin API, for specifying this when creating a user with a cart within a single API call.
• We've updated all gateway secure credential fields to use an obscured password field type for improved security.
• We've improved the WYSIWYG editor to have a max height, so long content doesn't overly consume Dashboard page vertical real estate.
• The Stock Records list view now shows the Subscription Price for improved visibility.
• Creating webhooks now validates that the target uses SSL on the Admin API and Dashboard, as SSL is required for webhook processing tasks.
• Added more validation/exception handling to safely handle improperly configured checkout links.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with failed subscription renewal transactions not properly being flagged as recurring.
• Fixed a UX edge case that prevented a user from creating a Product Class.
• Fixed an issue with Tax not showing in order confirmation emails.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible for a theme to have multiple preview tokens causing an error with theme previews.
• Fixed an issue with the Stock Record create form Product dropdown selector not properly showing Product Variant titles.
• Fixed a product image crop inconsistency on the storefront checkout flow.
• Investigated 500 errors we've been seeing on a few stores' blog views, and fixed pagination.

New Features

• Gateway credentials can now be updated through the dashboard allowing merchants to update existing gateway credentials without needing to create a new gateway.
• 3DS optimized transactions and standard transactions that were downgraded (from 3DS) now have filters and icons to identify them in transaction logs.
• Pages and Blog Posts now feature new SEO settings along with support using the {% seo %} tag in storefront theme templates allowing dashboard users to configure and optimize their on page SEO.
• The dashboard theme editor now supports custom templates creation for Products, Pages, Funnels, and Blog Posts.

Improvements

• Gateways can be added (or removed) from Gateway Groups on the Gateway Settings view making it easier to manage which groups a gateway is included in.
• Admin Order and Subscription APIs now support updating the shipping/billing addresses and attribution.
• App installations on development stores are no longer tracked in the App installation activity events.
• App name and version have been removed from App manifest.json as they are no longer required for the app installation flow.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a performance issue with blog post rendering to improve load times.
• Fixed a Product API serializer issue related to product images.
• Fixed an issue in the checkout flow showing card types that from inactive gateways.
• Fixed an issue with shipping price shown in the subscription preview bubble in the checkout flow.