2022.2 Release 1

New Features 🤩 

• Google Pay - Brands using Braintree as their payment processor can now offer Google Pay to their shoppers

• Gorgias Integration - Offer better customer experience with Gorgias

  • From looking up the most recent orders to sending out an update to some of your most common questions, Gorgias makes it easy to automate up to 20% of your customer support tasks

  • Gorgias uses advanced machine learning to detect the intents and sentiments of each message. By learning about tracking updates, return policies, and urgency, we help you set priorities and categorize tickets based on what they're about.

• Order cancellation grace period - If enabled, customers will be able to automatically cancel orders in the time period you specify. Orders will be set to a 'Grace Period' order status to ensure warehouse and fulfillment facilities have visibility into this setting. Settings > Orders > Cancel Requests.

• Refund to gift certificate - When processing refunds, you can now refund directly to a gift certificate so shoppers can easily re-use the funds at your store.

• Item level shipping - In checkout, you can display shipping methods for each line item in an order so shoppers have more flexibility and control over the price and speed of their deliveries.

Feature Improvements 🚀

• My Account, Order History and Wishlist

  • My Account and Order History pages have been updated so shoppers can see product names, product images, and delivery addresses in their order histories using:

    • $$PRODUCTNAME$$

    • $$PHOTOWITHLINK$$

    • $$PHOTO$$

    • ##ITEMPHOTOURL##

    • ##ITEMSECONDARYPHOTOURL[2]##

    • $$SHIPPINGADDRESS$$

  • Updates to wishlist pages including support for retail and was prices, rating stars, product flags, and editing wishlist names using:

    • $$AVERAGEVIEWRATINGSTARS$$

    • $$RETAIL$$

    • $$WASPRICE$$

    • $$EDITNAMEBUTTON$$

• Discounts

  • Shoppers can now delete discounts to apply them when desired

  • Added ability to set whether a discount is stackable with other discounts in discount settings

• Cart and Checkout

  • Remote cart can now add multiple subscription items in one API call

  • You can now Capture or Refund payments via API. Please contact Cart’s support team to enable this feature

  • We added the following merge codes to small cart so shoppers have more visibility into discounts

    • ##COUPONCODE##

    • $$COUPONCODETEXTBOX$$

    • $$ADDCOUPONCODEBUTTON$$

    • $$COUPONCODEERROR$$

• Storefront Search

  • Shoppers will not be taken directly to the relevant Product, Category, or Manufacturer page when selecting the respective option in search options. Previously, shoppers were taken to a search results page when they selected a product

• Categories

  • Category is now auto-selected in the filter widgets for shoppers already browsing a particular category

  • The Carousel Widget now supports Category merge codes

• Products

  • Support for ItemNrSortOrderField added to the Product Variant API

  • First available variant is now displayed by default in the Foundation theme for products that use variant inventory and are marked “In Stock”

  • Added $$RETAIL$$ to the product header on the Product Compare page to only show comparison with retail prices when retail prices are higher

  • Price range - shoppers can now see a price range of variants when they are viewing a PDP with unselected variants

• Admin Search

  • Added ability to filter for visible products in product advanced search

  • Added ability to search for Carts by Customer Name or Email

  • Added ability to filter orders by country

  • Search for Widgets - Added the ability to search for widgets on the Theme Widget page

• Emails

  • Introduced email categories to the admin console to help more efficiently manage email templates. Default categories are provided, with the ability to create your own as well

  • Email statuses added so you can understand what templates are active or inactive

• User-Generated Content

  • Blog posts can now appear in the carousel widget

  • You can now control reviews images via API

    • Get Product Reviews | Online Store API

• Other

  • Contact Us URL - You can now specify your Contact Us URL in account settings and use it’s merge code in emails. ##CONTACTUSURL##

  • Store Logo Merge Code - We created a store logo merge code so you can more easily manage where and how your logo shows on your Storefront. ##STORELOGOURL##

  • We added the ability to copy a file URL in the file manager so you don’t have to load the URL to copy it.

  • Custom settings now available for the login page of the Foundation theme

  • Custom theming can now be applied to widgets using the ##THEMESETTINGS## merge code in widget settings

  • When sending an email from within “Tools”: “Send Email”, there is an option to Send to a Mailing List. There will now be an unsubscribe link so shoppers can opt-out of marketing emails

Bug Fixes 🐛 

• Fixed bug in editing product upsell settings

• Fixed issue with Place Order API endpoint throwing a 500 error

• Fixed issues with errors not being displayed properly

• Fixed subscription pricing problems when adding/removing products on orders and when variant level inventory is enabled

• Fixed problems with CategoryLookup when categories are created via API

• Fixed issue with product review URLs returning an error

• Fixed issue with contact forms not saving changes

• Fixed issue with Blog Post alt text referencing the wrong Help ID

• Fixed bug in microstore creation process

• Fixed issue with updating small carts with a blank variant selected

• Fixed issues around the checkout button disappearing when PayPal is the payment method

• Fixed issue with deleting price calculators

• Fixed bug with merging customers

• Fixed issue with email notifications after product imports

• Fixed issues with reward points discrepancies

• Fixed bugs in the live design screen

• Fixed product pricing discrepancies when changing the price on variants

• Fixed issue of not displaying declined transaction when using Coinbase for payments