• 2023/4/27

    New Features

    • Added support for Dutch and Portuguese languages in the storefront, checkout flow, and core email notifications.
    • Added support for "Description Phone Number" for Blue Snap gateways.

    Improvements

    • Added Email Marketing consent to the storefront checkout flow.
    • Product Images have a new layout for improved user experience and clarity when editing products.
    • Improved Admin API endpoint documentation grouping and descriptions.
    • The store switcher has been improved to search store schema names as well as activate the search box for improved user experience.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with Storefronts potentially returning a 404 to users based on their browser settings and configured languages.
    • Fixed a typo in the Order Confirmation email notification.
    • Fixed an issue with test orders and creating a subscription through the add-line-items API.
    • Fixed an issue with subscription exports erroring if there are no subscriptions available to export.
  • 2022/11/15

    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.
  • 2022/9/8

    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.
  • 2022/5/31

    New Features

    • Introducing "Apps" as the future of integrations into the 29 Next Platform. In the near future Apps will be open to the public to build and publish to the App ecosystem.
    • Introducing Partner Reports which allow store admins to share pre-filtered Order Reports providing a way to share limited reports with third parties.
    • Storefront pages and blog posts now support custom page templates allowing store designers to create multiple custom layouts in themes for more unique customer experiences.
    • The Subscriptions Admin API now supports updating the payment gateway to provide Admin API users a way manage subscriptions.

    Improvements

    • The ticket detail layout has been improved with related order details, related tickets, and some ease-of-use enhancements.
    • Orders by can now be filtered by Initial, Recurring, or Non-Recurring to more easily find orders from different subscription life-cycle scenarios.
    • The Subscription Admin API now validates the card type for the selected gateway to prevent cases where the card type does not match the gateway accepted card types.
    • Email addresses are now forced to lowercase by default for improved unique validation and support for creating customers through express checkout flows.
    • We've now removed an old fallback feature that allowed us to support homepage content from a page instead of the theme's index.html page.
  • 2022/3/14

    New Features

    • New Offer Condition type to the set exact quantity of products within the range to be in the cart for the offer to be applied which greatly simplifies quantity based tiered discount scenarios.
    • Storefront Themes can now be uploaded through the dashboard UI with a zip file making it easier for Theme developers and store admins to bootstrap store themes.
    • Webhooks now feature two new events; ticket.created and ticket.updated allowing webhook subscribers to listen for support related events.
    • Store sitemap.xml feeds now properly support multiple languages configured by the store's public languages.
    • Subscription address handling has been improved to better support digital products which do not require shipping and would result in digital subscriptions.

    Improvements

    • Subscriptions UI has been overhauled to be more consistent with Orders and other areas of the platform.
    • We've improved the carts list view to exclude anonymous carts and and removed the owner object which was deprecated in favor of the user object.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where multiple subscriptions were created for a single line item through the admin api.
    • Corrected the CORS setting for media file handling on storefront themes.
    • Fixed an issue with Order Reports failing to generate when trying to filter by Partner SKU.