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Checkout Subscriptions Admin API Reports Webhooks

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.

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.

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.

Webhooks Subscriptions Admin API Products

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.

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.

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.

Checkout Admin API Webhooks Orders Apps

Introducing a new Klaviyo integration that now supports Klaviyo subscription ecommerce event tracking as well as adding customers to an SMS subscribers list.
The Orders Add Line Item Admin API now supports adding items on subscription as an upsell to the original order.
The Tickets Admin API now supports filtering tickets by order number to look up tickets related to specific orders.

Improved database queries on Carts and Orders Admin APIs for improved response times.
Improved the Order pipeline to allow "completed" status to change back to "confirmed" on the Dashboard and Admin API.
We've improved the stock record form to not include stock allocation fields for products that don't have stock tracking enabled.
App Webhook failures now send notifications to store admins and the app developer.
Permissions label for access to managed installed Apps has been updated from the old label Extensions to match with current label Apps.
Improved the checkout flow "Back to Information" and "Back to Shipping" links logic on the Payments step to adapt properly when there are shipping options available or not.

Admin API Payments Webhooks Dashboard

It is now possible, when using Auth/Capture payment flows on the Admin API, to authorize a higher value than the initial order amount by passing the authorize_value This allows for upsells to be added to the original order without additional transactions.
The core user model now has a user_agent attribute that can be populated for syncing to external systems that leverage browser user agents as part of their attribution matching algorithms.

We improved the Carts Admin API to be consistent with the Dashboard > Customers > Open Carts view.
We've now added support for the accepts_marketing attribute on the Carts Admin API, for specifying this when creating a user with a cart within a single API call.
We've updated all gateway secure credential fields to use an obscured password field type for improved security.
We've improved the WYSIWYG editor to have a max height, so long content doesn't overly consume Dashboard page vertical real estate.
The Stock Records list view now shows the Subscription Price for improved visibility.
Creating webhooks now validates that the target uses SSL on the Admin API and Dashboard, as SSL is required for webhook processing tasks.
Added more validation/exception handling to safely handle improperly configured checkout links.

Fixed an issue with failed subscription renewal transactions not properly being flagged as recurring.
Fixed a UX edge case that prevented a user from creating a Product Class.
Fixed an issue with Tax not showing in order confirmation emails.
Fixed an issue where it was possible for a theme to have multiple preview tokens causing an error with theme previews.
Fixed an issue with the Stock Record create form Product dropdown selector not properly showing Product Variant titles.
Fixed a product image crop inconsistency on the storefront checkout flow.
Investigated 500 errors we've been seeing on a few stores' blog views, and fixed pagination.

Subscriptions Admin API Reports Settings Webhooks Dashboard

Introducing OAuth 2.0 access to the Admin API, providing more secure and granular permissions for API users.
Stock Records can now be created and updated over the Admin API, providing API consumers more direct access to stock record data.
Orders, Transactions, Customers, Subscriptions, and Tickets now have Overview Reports which serve as the default view for reports, and where filtered reporting lists are pointed.
All Order Reports now feature a unique customer count in the summary and detail table to help expose customer counts in the context of Orders.
Subscription Reports now feature detailed reports for Subscriptions by Partner SKU and Cancel Reason for deeper insight into subscriptions.
Store admins can now add their store contact information to be used for public facing templates to manage their store contact info from a single place.
Store Dashboard users can now edit an order's Marketing Attribution data to correct or adjust as required.

Dashboard Subscription Detail View have been overhauled with the addition of address management and attribution.
We've improved several links from dashboard reporting widgets to point to more appropriate reports, and carry the date filters from the dashboard through to the reports.
Order Webhook events and the Order Admin API now feature related subscription information to show the current subscription lifecycle status of an order.
Product attributes for subscriptions (interval, interval_count) are now validated to be correct to prevent misconfigurations.