• Topics
  • Admin API
  • Apps
  • Campaigns
  • Checkout
  • Customers
  • Dashboard
  • Disputes
  • Fulfillment
  • Gift Cards
  • Metadata
  • Notifications
  • Offers
  • Orders
  • Payments
  • Products
  • Reports
  • Settings
  • Storefront
  • Storefront API
  • Subscriptions
  • Support
  • Taxes
  • Themes
  • Webhooks
  • 2023/4/11

    CheckoutSubscriptionsReportsApps

    New Features

    • Order Confirmation pages now feature a new Invoice link allowing customers to easily print an invoice for their order.
    • The new Subscription Forecast report summarizes subscriptions by their next renewal date to help merchants preview upcoming revenue and project recurring product demand.

    Improvements

    • The Storefront Checkout flow now creates new customer accounts and attaches their cart session to improve abandoned cart scenarios.
    • Address fields and formats have been improved for many European countries to reduce friction in the Storefront Checkout flow.
    • App Oauth settings have now moved to App settings in the Partner dashboard to ease the app development flow and reduce necessary steps for backend app integrations.
    • Legacy API Users have now been fully deprecated with the removal of the ability to create new API users and associated tokens.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed edge case issues that caused the Products List to be empty while updating a cart in the dashboard.
    • Corrected an issue where a Refund action was offered on already refunded transactions.
    • Fixed an issue with duplicate notes being created when updating user addresses in the dashboard.
    • Fixed errors caused by webhooks attempting to send even though the user was not actually created due to a validation error.
  • 2023/3/28

    CheckoutSubscriptionsAdmin APIReportsWebhooks

    New Features

    • Introducing a new Customer Notes API that allows adding Customer Notes by external services on the Admin API.
    • Subscription reports now feature a new Monthly Recurring Revenue metric to provide MRR breakdown across the reports.
    • We've now added new Metadata Field Types for Rich Text, File, and Multiline Text with the ability to set metadata on Products.
    • We've updated our Admin API schema generator to Open API 3.0 to provide the latest schema features.

    Improvements

    • We've updated our database instances and connection settings to use persistent connections, reducing overhead for a 40% improvement in database performance.
    • Webhook event retry payloads are now more consistent and no longer re-created at the time of retrying.
    • Improved Checkout, off-site payment redirect flow UI, and several minor UI improvements throughout the dashboard.
    • Improved several UX elements in Partners setup and App creation flow.
    • Store Dashboard is no longer available in multiple languages, adding more focus on checkout and notification translations.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue that showed an unlocalized time in order notification emails.
    • Fixed an issue with Dashboard users not being able to access products in the new product picker.
    • Fixed an issue with Order Overview Report Export not following the Order list view as expected.
  • 2023/1/17

    PaymentsReportsOrdersDashboard

    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.
  • 2023/1/4

    CheckoutAdmin APIReportsOrdersMetadataFulfillmentStorefront API

    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.
  • 2022/8/22

    ReportsDashboardApps

    New Features

    • App Framework is now in public beta paving the way for third-party developers to build reusable apps to extend storefronts and core platform logic, see Apps documentation.
    • We now have an App available on Make.com to easily integrate 100s of services and create custom workflows.
    • Transactions list view and reports can now be filtered by Card Brand to improve workflows for card brand transaction reporting.
    • The phone_number field on the Admin API now accepts local numbers and will automatically convert them to E.164 format based on the user's first address country.

    Improvements

    • We've improved the default sorting direction for all reports to default to descending (highest to lowest) which is more in line with user expectations when sorting by report columns.
    • We've updated the layout of Page, Blog Post, and Support article editing views to use a two column layout for more UX consistency for content editing views.
    • We've improved the UX for managing Fulfillment Partner linked integrations.
    • We've improved the Admin API Product Class serializer to include the id, slug, and name so it can be used as a reference point for other APIs.
    • Updated the Order Status Page link from the dashboard to use the store's primary domain.
    • Product Attributes File Input fields now have improved UX formatting.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with new store creation not completing and getting stuck in the initialization state.
    • Fixed an issue with Omnisend orders not being able to sync when they don't have a shipping address.
    • Added better error handling for an edge case where a user's PayPal address does not match the country of their chosen shipping method.
    • Fixed an edge case where it was possible that PayPal returned more than one user.
    • Fixed an issue with Product Attribute file uploads producing a 500 error.
    • Improved validation logic to better handle postcode validation errors to properly return a 400 level response code.