• 2022/3/30

    SubscriptionsThemesProductsOrders

    New Features

    • The Product Class of an existing Product can now be changed, enabling store admins to more easily manage their product catalogue.
    • Stores can now install Themes directly from the Dashboard, making it easy to install and setup themes during the initial store setup process, or switch to a new theme.
    • Themes can now be downloaded from the Dashboard, allowing users to download a theme from one store for backup, or for easy copying to another separate storefront.
    • Dashboard users can now bulk update Subscriptions' Gateway and Next Renewal Dates, improving bulk subscription management.
    • Canceled subscriptions can now be reactivated via the Dashboard, providing a simple way for merchants to recover subscriptions that may have been accidentally canceled.

    Improvements

    • Theme templates have now been restructured for consistency.
    • Order Line Item management logic and validation has been updated to be more clear, and to address issues related to the changing of a product class, and its shipping requirements, on existing orders.
    • The get_checkout_url model method is now available as an attribute in product templates making it available for integrations that use it for JS events.
    • Links to child products now redirect to the parent product, with the variant id as a querystring, which provides a simple way for theme developers to activate the variant on redirect.
    • Querystrings on cart checkout urls are now carried when redirecting into the checkout flow so that source attribution values are captured properly.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue related to order fulfillment pipelines causing orders to not transition to Complete status after being fulfilled.
    • Fixed duplicate issues with subscription webhooks, and improved the subscription lines serializer to be more consistent with cart and order lines.
    • Fixed an issue with Shipping State and Shipping Country not being rendered properly in export CSVs.
    • Fixed an issue on the Orders by Product report where product links were not properly drilling down to the Orders by Partner SKU report.
    • Product variant (child products) review links now redirect to the parent product to aggregate reviews onto the parent product.
    • Fixed an issue causing multiple order.created webhooks to fire for a single order.

  • 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.

  • 2022/2/14

    SubscriptionsAdmin APIPaymentsReportsWebhooksProducts

    New Features

    • Subscriptions can now be set to not send order confirmation emails for renewal orders.
    • Stand alone products can now be converted to a variant product allowing for additional variants to be added after a product already has a stock record.
    • Customers, Orders, and Transactions report summaries now all feature percentage calculations for Upsells, Shipping, Refunds and Net Revenue for easier key metric monitoring.

    Improvements

    • Gateway Group is now stored on transactions where the a group was used for the routing of the transaction.
    • Admin API endpoints for Orders, Carts, and Products have been significantly improved with reduced queries and faster response times.
    • Theme settings are now validated for errors that would cause the dashboard settings views to error.
    • Webhook request failure handling has been improved to properly log SSL and network connection errors instead of silently failing in the background.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed an edge case where tax was miscalculated when tax is calculated with shipping.

  • 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.

  • 2022/1/17

    SubscriptionsThemesReportsFulfillment

    New Features

    • Subscriptions can now be created on the Admin API which opens up many more use cases of creating and importing subscriptions.
    • Customer Reports now feature reports for all UTM source attribution parameters to support more UTM oriented reporting views.
    • Funnels have now been updated to use Theme Templates which gives Theme developers access to editing funnels from their local with Theme Kit as well as more robust template functionality.

    Improvements

    • It is now possible to indicate a cart line item is an upsell on the admin cart api.
    • Themes now support revision history providing a backup of previous versions to be available in any situation when a backup is needed.
    • Coupon search now supports searching by name or code making it easier to find coupons.
    • Shipping Countries lists in the tables has been improved when there are more than 5 available for better UX.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue that prevented changing the requester on a support ticket.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented canceling Orders if the ShipStation log had been deleted by the background extension cleaning
  • 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