• Topics
  • Admin API
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  • Checkout
  • Customers
  • Dashboard
  • Disputes
  • Fulfillment
  • Gift Cards
  • Metadata
  • Notifications
  • Offers
  • Orders
  • Payments
  • Products
  • Reports
  • Settings
  • Storefront
  • Storefront API
  • Subscriptions
  • Support
  • Taxes
  • Themes
  • Webhooks
  • 2022/9/8

    Admin APIThemesStorefrontPaymentsApps

    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

    SubscriptionsAdmin APIStorefrontReportsOrdersSupportApps

    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

    OffersSubscriptionsThemesStorefrontWebhooks

    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.
  • 2022/2/3

    CheckoutSubscriptionsStorefrontPaymentsReportsProductsCustomers

    New Features

    • Customer search is now more robust with the ability to search more freely (such as first and last name) and return expected results.
    • The new checkout flow now shows Express Checkout buttons for PayPal and Klarna allowing users to checkout completely in the external payment platforms.
    • We now have much more robust support for Product Variants with improved setup and configuration in the dashboard. Storefront Themes also now provide functionality for theme developers to create product option selectors.
    • Storefront Themes now feature dashboard "Settings" forms that allow theme developers to integrate options into the themes that can be controlled through settings, such as layouts, color pickers, additional text boxes, etc.
    • Transactions reports now feature all UTM reports to see a breakdown of transactions across UTM parameters.
    • Subscriptions Reports now have a new Subscriptions by Gateway report to show a breakdown of subscriptions across payment gateways.
    • Payment gateways now support multiple currencies which greatly improves and simplifies the setup of gateways for stores that sell in multiple currencies.

    Improvements

    • Subscription Shipping Price has now been added to the subscription model so that it can be individually set per subscription changes to the shipping method pricing wont impact existing subscriptions.
    • The checkout flow now shows all countries when the store's configured shipping methods do not have any countries selected to restrict them.
    • The first comment on tickets created via the dashboard is now the actual agent who created the ticket making it easier to see the actual source of the ticket.
    • Several Product Class UI improvements were made in an effort to make the UX more clear when creating and editing product classes and their associated options.
    • The "Free Shipping" threshold field on shipping methods has now been removed in favor of only allowing merchants to setup Offers and Coupon codes for shipping discounts for more clarity and reporting of shipping discounts.

    Bug Fixes

    • Corrected an issue with order serializer to ensure that all lines had the same currency and allow the order to be created.
    • Fixed an issue with theme template asset_url filter to allow asset files to use hyphens.
  • 2022/1/14

    CheckoutStorefrontReportsTaxesCustomersFulfillment

    New Features

    • Introducing a completely new Storefront Checkout, designed to improve conversion rates and support more robust customization.
    • Avalara Avatax integration now supports setting specific currencies to use tax inclusive pricing, allowing a store to sell products in multiple currencies with different pricing/tax strategies.
    • Orders Reports now have UTM oriented reports for all UTM parameters; UTM Source, UTM Medium, UTM Campaign, UTM Term, and UTM Content.
    • It is now possible to trigger polling of fulfillment partners for older orders, to sync any orders that might have been late (past 7 days) being shipped.

    Improvements

    • Order & Customer Notes have been revamped with a new UI layout for easier use.
    • Non-public products can now be chosen when updating or adding order line items in the dashboard.
    • Low stock alerts have been moved to the Stock Records section of products for improved UX.
    • The Order shipping price display has now been simplified to show the actual shipping price.
    • Updated the Order Shipments API to respond with the order shipment details when adding a shipment.

    Bug Fixes

    • We've now corrected an issue where products with 0 available inventory could be purchased on the API, even if stock was tracked and no stock was available.
    • Fixed an edge case issue with the Admin Orders API caused by multiple cart recovery tokens for the same cart.
    • Fixed an issue where some stores could not create test orders due to the test card fingerprint not matching the expected card fingerprint.
    • Fixed an edge case issue that caused the Carts API to error when the product could not be found.
    • Fixed an issue to better handle when PayPal capture fails and creates an error when the user's PayPal payment method is declined.
    • Fixed an issue where multiple event logs were created for prevention.match