• 2023/4/11

    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

    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.
  • 2023/2/15

    New Features

    • Introducing Klarna and iDeaL Payments through Stripe as alternative payment methods.  These methods can now be enabled on the store checkout and Admin API payment flows.
    • Storefront Themes have been migrated to use a new GraphQL Storefront API, with the storefront sidecart now able to be controlled by themes, unlocking it for customization.
    • Product Variants (child products) can now be created and managed through the Admin API.

    Improvements

    • Content "excerpts" have been removed across the platform in an effort to make the UI more clear and easier to use.
    • The subscription renewal process has had several improvements to handle more edge case scenarios preventing renewal orders being created incorrectly.
    • All "Advanced" search buttons have now be renamed to "Filters" for improved UI clarity and consistency.

    Bug Fixes

    • Improved Checkout CSS to fix minor display issues on Firefox.
    • Fixed an edge case that caused an Order to not be created after a successful PayPal transaction.
    • Fixed an issue causing the available Apps to not show all.

     

  • 2023/2/3

    New Features

    • A new Subscription detail layout is now available to improve UX and consistency with the new Order detail. Store admins can enable the new layout in store settings.
    • Product filters have been added to the dashboard and Admin API to more easily filter large catalogues of products by Category, Product Class or Range.

    Improvements

    • Product Categories have been improved to simplify their setup and management through the dashboard and Admin API.
    • Company Public Contact Details form store settings now populate contact details in all transactional emails.
    • Improved tax display handling for Canada and other international tax scenarios.
    • The Admin API docs now show the internally handled carriers that can be mapped to for tracking links and PayPal tracking uploads.
    • Added mapping for Expert from BizzyBee and for Evri International in Shipstation.
    • We've now added a new step to reset the ID sequencing on all tables when new stores are created so the IDs are sequential.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue with Source Type not being properly populated for all transactions.
    • Fixed error handling for some HTTP error response codes that were not previously handled and saved properly.
  • 2022/7/25

    New Features

    • When using Auth/Capture payment flow, payments can now be set to automatically capture on order fulfillment.
    • Filters UX has been overhauled throughout the Dashboard to make the active filters applied to the current view easier to see and clear.
    • Orders List View now supports generic searching by number, name, email or any address text.
    • Subscriptions List View now support generic searching by number, name, email or any address text.
    • Orders and Transactions Admin APIs now feature capture methods to capture authorized payments.
    • Webhooks can now be created to subscribe to Dispute events, to notify external systems when disputes are created and updated.

    Improvements

    • Checkout Links now support subscription based parameters to add items to the cart on a recurring interval.
    • The Product Details View has been completely overhauled for an improved UX when creating and managing products.
    • The public Order Status Pages now include a Google Map with a geolocated pin to designate the expected delivery address for the order.
    • Improved the Transaction Reports to better support Auth Capture flows including Voids so it is more clear how these transactions are flowing through the system.
    • Subscriptions connected to an inactive gateway will now transition to Past Due status with an event indicating the gateway is inactive allowing store admins to manually resolve the issue.
    • Orders that have a fulfillment tracking code but do not have a designated carrier (likely because the carrier is unsupported), will use a generic tracking page that can detect the carrier from the tracking code.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where the billing address in the checkout flow showed all countries instead of matching to the shipping address countries list.
    • Fixed an edge case calculation issue with Net Revenue on Order reports.
    • Fixed an edge case where it was possible a customer had two open carts at the same time.
    • Fixed an edge case where re-activated subscriptions still showed in subscription canceled reports.