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.
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.
2022/6/27
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New Features
A new and improved Order Confirmation page has now been added to support more complex fulfillment scenarios and also remove the burden from theme developers.
The Checkout Flow now supports dropdowns US states and Canadian provinces to improve the checkout flow UX for customers.
Stockrecords now support a default Subscription Price enabling simpler Subscribe & Save setup for merchants who want to offer a base discount on products on subscription.
Newly created stores now have a placeholder page while waiting for the first theme to be installed and activated.
Improvements
Shipping fee preview in the cart and order preview now show "Shipping calculated at next step" until the user chooses their shipping method for more clear UX.
The support email sending domain is now a dropdown of available sending domains that have been configured for the store.
Subscription charts have been improved to cut off the end for the current day as many of metrics are not yet not available and always zero which was resulting in poor UX.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue with the store switcher on the subscription list view.
2022/6/13
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New Features
It is now possible to configure gateways to use an Auth / Capture payment flow to delay the actual capture of the funds. This also introduced a new Payment status for orders to track payment statuses more granularly.
Our PayPal integration now supports Digital Goods to support the sale of items that do not require fulfillment and tracking codes to be uploaded.
We now have several new Subscription reports fro Subscriptions by UTM, by Funnel, by Affiliate to assist store admins with understanding subscription performance by marketing channels.
Improvements
Theme Kit now uses Oauth to access the Admin API to support more robust and granular access to the API for theme development purposes.
Order Attribution data has now been denormalized to separate it from subscriptions so that editing a single order's attribution will not affect (unexpectedly) the subscription or other orders related to the subscription.
We've improved the Order Cancel action to support orders with mixed fulfillment requirements so that dashboard users can more easily manage these orders.
Support Macros can now be deleted allowing store admins to better manage their support macros.
Bug Fixes
We've fixed an issue with tickets being created and not properly being stripped of all of the extra html content for the initial comment.
We've now removed the Subscriptions by Cancel Reason report in favor of relying on the Subscriptions by Cancelation dashboard widget which has been improved to have drill down links from the widget.
We've now revamped the webhook deactivation logic to be more robust and accommodating of real life scenarios where there is low volume of events or handle failing webhooks that start working again.
We've fixed an issue that allowed Oauth Tokens to be accessed more than once after they were created.
Fixed an issue funnel pages not showing the next page properly in the dashboard.
Fixed/improved the handling of orders with Paypal accounts that do not have an associated email address.
Fixed an issue with emails not showing properly on mobile devices.
Fixed an issue with store template variables not rendering in several places throughout the storefront.
File uploades are now validated on the themes admin api to prevent 500 errors from occuring when file sizes are too large.
Fix a UI bug that prevented products from being removed from ranges.
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.