• 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
  • 2021/6/14

    ThemesPaymentsSettingsTaxesFulfillmentDisputes

    New Features

    • The Avalara Avatax Extension automates tax calculation and filing for orders placed on the storefront checkout and through the API.
    • Dashboard Extension Management now allows store admins to enable or disable extensions from the dashboard.
    • Checkout.com Gateway is now available for bankcard payments, supporting both standard and 3DS2 payment flows.
    • Support Ticket Reports offer greater visibility into customer service inquiries, user actions, and outcomes.
    • Expanded Support Macro Actions automate additional support ticket fields using macros, allowing for more efficient ticket handling workflows.
    • Introducing Storefront Themes, a new way to build and manage your store's theme design from the Dashboard, and Theme Kit, a local development tool for developers to build and maintain themes from their local machine.
    • Added a new Admin Transactions API for direct access to payment transactions, with the ability to search and filter by the same filters available in the dashboard. Store admins can now also setup Transaction based Webhooks to send transactions.created events to external systems.

    Improvements

    • Shipping Methods now support multiple currency pricing and multiple languages, allowing the same shipping method to be used across multiple markets.
    • Order Payment Events now show the associated User who triggered the event for greater visibility into customer service workflows and associated payment transactions.
    • Disputes are now visible on Orders that have transactions with associated disputes, to improve visibility for dashboard users.
    • Several extensions settings forms, that previously did not allow a user to easily clear existing settings, have now been improved to allow deletion of existing settings.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue related to errors being thrown when attempting to create and update the same user in rapid succession.
  • 2021/5/17

    PaymentsReportsSettingsSupport

    New Features

    • Introducing a new Orders by Partner SKU report which breaks down orders by fulfillment SKU to provide metrics for inventory sales and fulfillment forecasting.
    • Support Ticket Types can now be managed from the dashboard under Settings > Support > Ticket Types.

    Improvements

    • Support Tickets can now be more easily created from the Customer Detail view under "Actions" as well as the top of the Support Tickets table to make the ticket creation process much easier for dashboard users.
    • Orders List view and Orders Reports Partner SKU filter now uses a dropdown field, making it more intuitive and easier to use.
    • Settings UX has been revamped with a new Settings "Index" view with category cards, making settings easier to navigate and discover.
    • Paypal and Klarna payment methods can now be toggled on and off as available payment methods in the checkout flow and API.
    • The Everflow S2S Postback can now be delayed up to 10 minutes allowing merchants to include upsells in the postback order data for more complete reporting in Everflow.
    • Product Classes (or Types) naming conventions have been clarified to reference Product Classes and also move "Options" to be inside the Product Classes section for clarity.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Corrected some inconsistencies between the dashboard and orders report queries and fixed an issue with upsell report values not being calculated correctly.
    • Fixed an issue of not validating an incorrect phone number in the shipping address form correctly which caused a 500 error instead of a form validation error.
  • 2021/1/18

    StorefrontPaymentsSettings

    New Features

    • Introducing Braintree support for bankcard payments, you can add your Braintree merchant account as a Gateway and use it for your store checkout flow or on the API.
    • The PayPal integration now supports PayPal "Reference Transactions" with ability to use the Add Line Items API on orders with PayPal as the initial payment method.
    • The PayPal integration now supports automatically uploading shipment tracking data after orders have shipped from the warehouse.
    • Dashboard Localization Settings now support adding Additional Languages to your site dynamically as needed for store owners to manage their storefront content and dashboard languages.
    • Introducing Tax handling for refunds on orders to create a "Tax Credit" of the appropriate amount when a refund is given on an order to ensure that Tax Reports accommodate payment refunds.
    • A new Order Action has been added to allow dashboard users to resend an order confirmation email to the customer.

    Improvements

    • Storefront "Add to Cart" success messages on the Product Details page have been moved to the side cart simplifying the Product Detail template and template customization process.
    • Maxmind minFraud support has been added to the API to protect against fraudulent orders.
    • Fulfillment related settings for Fulfillment Partners and Shipping Methods have been unified into a single "Fulfillment" settings section.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue preventing additional products added to an order from not showing in the Top Selling Products dashboard widget.
  • 2020/12/14

    SettingsFulfillment

    New Features

    • Introducing ShipStation extension to support automated fulfillment processing with ShipStation
    • New dashboard settings to configure available Currencies.

    Improvements

    • Many improvements to the dashboard settings views for more clarity.
    • Improved Klarna integration to send more product data to support their system communication.
  • 2020/11/16

    CheckoutAdmin APIReportsSettingsOrders

    New Features

    • Introducing a new Transactions by Response Code Report to quickly analyze transaction acceptance rates with filters and drill down into transactions list for further analysis.
    • Orders API now supports PUT requests to update orders for expanded API integration capabilities for API driven workflows for post order actions.
    • Orders API now supports Klarna Payments as a payment method with a redirect flow.
    • Klarna Integration Settings and Transactions can be viewed and managed via the dashboard.

    Improvements

    • Currency Specific Stock Records can now be created to allow customers to sell a product in multiple currencies and fulfill from the same fulfillment partner.
    • Dashboard Permissions have now been improved for simplicity to make it more straight forward to manage users and permission groups.
    • Gateway Errors in the Checkout flow have been improved to surface the gateway specific errors to make it easier to debug gateway issues.