• 2023/2/15

    ProductsSubscriptionsThemesPayments

    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.

     

  • 2022/11/15

    CheckoutThemesStorefrontPaymentsProductsDashboard

    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

    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.

  • 2022/6/13

    SubscriptionsThemesPaymentsReportsOrders

    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.

  • 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.