April Updates include enhancements to StoreFronts, Order Management, Rest API, Analytics, Integrations, and Affiliates.
StoreFronts
- MyAccount - adjust the order's payment method when the customer does an update to a new credit card and was on Apple/Google Pay
- MyAccount - re-enable auto order when the customer update's their card
- Checkout - Venmo support for shipping address and shipping method callbacks so it can function as an express checkout method
- StoreFront - add support for Rekognition generated description for page multimedia (beta)
- Communications - emails now support external generation of content variables to facilitate AI generation workloads
- StoreFront - method to get date without time from the DateManager
- StoreFront - more comparison methods in the Date object
- StoreFront - option to pass UC Analytics ID as the GA4 user_id value
- StoreFront - register one time use coupons to customer profiles (beta)
- StoreFront - some fixes related to HTTP/2 status text response codes being handled properly
- StoreFront - unsubscribe page will hide archived lists from being displayed to the customer
Analytics and Reporting
- Analytics - adjust the collection framework to use a newer high throughput FIFO queue system
- Analytics - classify traffic from ClaudeBot as bot traffic
- Reporting - Auto Order and Sales Rep reports migrated over to BigQuery as the underlying source of data
- Reporting - Dashboard limit the number of rows populating into certain metrics when the values have high cardinality
Order Management
- Auto Order - search migrated over to new search engine that is substantially faster
- Auto Order - search result new column for item summary
- Order Management - add column for payment method to view all orders result
- Order Management - email delivery screen will now display when an email was opened and/or clicked by the customer
- Order Management - more aggressive handling of already manifested tracking numbers for EasyPost ScanForm generation
- Order Management - new option to require refund and reject reason codes
- Order Management - new transactional merchant note when a user moves an order to a shipping department
REST API
- REST API - add calculated_next_shipment_date to the AutoOrderItem object (also in Bigquery)
- REST API - add merchant_id to REST AutoOrder object (also in BigQuery)
- REST API - improved validation of item cost field
- REST API - new item method to update a single attribute to make updates from AI generation workloads easier to program
Integrations
- EDI - 997 fix for certain complex document acknowledgements
- FedEx / FreightQuote - now generate carrier log details to make LTL freight packing solutions more transparent
- Hubspot - integration updated for 64-bit identifiers
- Maropost - respect the mailing list opt in flag
- ZIP+4 - standardization for Saddle Creek integration
- Kount - adjustments related to email requirement and PayPal orders
- eBay - fixed for GetOrderTransactions deprecation
- Member Mouse - migrate logging over to the unified Integration Logs sub-system
- Amazon - new FBA SP-API integration to replace Amazon FBA MWS which has been deprecated by Amazon
- FedEx - new FedEx REST API to replace the old FedEx SOAP API. Merchants will be required to upgrade to continue using FedEx API based rating and label printing
- Active Campaign - option to update existing contacts
- ONTRAport - send over the website name in the contact
- Shopify - some fixes to the import routines
Configuration
- Configuration - fix for tags on free item with item purchase coupon
- Configuration - item editor will perform additional validation to make sure a kit component is not a kit
Affiliates
- Affiliate - support for server-to-server refund notifications to a separate URL