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  • Storefront
  • Storefront API
  • Subscriptions
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  • 2024/06/05

    NotificationsFulfillmentProductsThemes

    New Features

    • New customer notifications have been added when orders are Out for Delivery and Delivered to keep customers updated on their shipment statuses. This is supported for stores with Delivery Tracking app installed. 
    • Theme settings now feature a live preview to see your changes while you edit, to make the storefront theme editing experience more intuitive and interactive for users.
    • Product cost per item can now be added to calculate COGS on orders so that merchants can integrate their raw costs into external services to track ROI.

    Improvements

    • Shipping carrier names have been improved system-wide to display more friendly names.
    • FirstMile has been added as a core fulfillment carrier with mapping support from Shipstation to map to external services such as PayPal and Delivery Tracking.
    • 4PX has been added as a core fulfillment carrier with mapping support from Shipstation to map to external services such as PayPal and Delivery Tracking.
    • Product SKUs are now shown on the order detail view to more easily surface exactly which product SKU has been purchased by the customer.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where we ocassionally get multiple delivered events from providers and create multiple fulfillment delivered events.
    • Fixed a UI issue when creating offers when using the Discount is a fixed amount off of the product's value incentive.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the order confirmation email not to be sent if the order was completely digital.
  • 2024/02/14

    CampaignsAdmin APISettingsProductsOrders

    New Features

    • We've now released a new Admin API version, 2024-04-01, which has much improved schemas for better performance and consistency.
    • Duplicate orders are now detected and blocked to prevent customers from accidentally creating multiple orders with the same products within a short timeframe.
    • Admin API reference documentation now features the capability to send example requests to quickly test API requests/responses.

    Improvements

    • Test orders no longer impact product inventory counts to improve product inventory tracking.
    • Storefront asset uploading has been significantly improved from a UX perspective to be more intuitive.
    • Fulfillment event timeline details now include tracking information to surface shipment tracking information within the context of order history for more clarity.
    • Product titles shown in Campaigns app are now automatically updated when the source product is updated to keep these in sync.
    • Campaign API users can now pass a language in the user object to override the campaign default language if selling in multiple languages.
    • Store domains now have improved validation to prevent invalid domains from being added to stores.

    Bug Fixes

    • The list of available locations to move a product to has been fixed to not include deleted locations.
    • Returns export errors caused by unsafe handling of null values have now been fixed.
    • Edge case issues with Apple Pay default account country have been fixed.
    • Subscription list views and reports incorrectly offered sorting by total which has now been corrected.
  • 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.
  • 2023/9/12

    Admin APIProductsDashboardFulfillmentCampaigns

    New Features

    • Product inventory management has been overhauled to unify SKUs per product as well as allowing backorders to continue selling when stock has run out.
    • Introducing a new Orders by Country report allowing merchants to see a breakdown of their orders by their respective shipping country.
    • Packages can now be deleted from Campaigns on the Campaigns App.
    • It is now possible create refunds on the Admin API that are not processed with the original payment integration, to log refunds that happen externally.  This helps to keep store reports in sync for scenarios such as RDR alerts.
    • Product prices are now available as a nested object on the Admin API to complete the transition away from prices on stock records.

    Improvements

    • Dashboard user permissions UX has been overhauled to ease the setup and clarity of giving users access to the Dashboard.
    • Fulfillment Locations settings list now shows a Returns column to easily see which fulfillment locations are configured to accept returns.
    • 3DS Merchant Profiles now have a Name field to use for reference to improve clarity for merchants with multiple 3DS merchant profiles with the same Merchant Name.
    • We've now deployed a solution for handling a rare payments error where Spreedly closes the connection before a payment is completed. We now recover and import the transaction successfully.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed a few edge cases where the save bar was not showing even though content inside the WYSIWYG editor had been modified.
    • Fixed an edge case where an order was not created after a successful 3DS redirect flow with Stripe Payment Intents.
    • Fixed an edge case where voided fulfillments in Shipstation could create multiple fulfillment orders for the same order.

     

  • 2023/8/30

    StorefrontProducts

    New Features

    • A completely new Dashboard home view includes high level store sales data as well as action items to help merchants stay on top of their store performance and operations.
    • Product Pricing and Inventory (stock records) have been split, providing more flexibility for merchants to sell in multiple currencies and fulfill orders from multiple fulfillment locations.
    • Fulfillment service apps and API users can now create partial fulfillments to handle cases where the entire Fulfillment Order cannot be fulfilled.
    • Danish (Dansk) and Finish (Suomi) have been added and are available to configure in  Localization settings.

    Improvements

    • We've improved the core logic to automatically save a phone number on the customer level if it's empty, and a phone number has been added to a shipping or billing address.
    • Funnels (legacy) have now transitioned to an App that is installed on stores that previously used it. Moving forward we recommend all merchants use Campaigns App.
    • We've improved the UX in Partner Marketing Reports list view.
    • Added support for accepts_marketing flag on users details on the Campaigns API to properly set this on new users created.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with the back button going to a login screen in campaigns app.
    • Fixed an edge case with Paypal to improve handling when user language is not found.
    • Fixed an edge case with app uninstall flow that created a task loop.