2022.3 Release 1

We're excited to bring you this release! It will be rolling out to customers over the next few weeks.

New Features 

Cart Shipping Labels
Brands enrolled in Cart Shipping can now purchase and print labels at commercial grade rates through their Storefront. You can buy labels for entire orders or individual items within the order. In addition, order statuses and email templates can automatically update customers of Shipped or Partially Shipped orders when labels are purchased.

Cart Shipping is currently in closed beta; learn more about the features at the Knowledge Center. For early access, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or submit a ticket here.

Auto-Cancel Reward Points

When processing a refund, you can now remove rewards or gift certificates associated with the order. We also added an audit log to the order view and order edit screen so you can see when rewards were added or removed from an order.

Google Analytics 4

We now support the next generation of Google Analytics. GA4 is a new property designed for the future of measurement:

• Collects both website and app data to understand the customer journey better

• Uses events instead of session-based data

• Includes privacy controls such as cookie-less measurement and behavioral and conversion modeling
  Predictive capabilities offer guidance without complex models.

• You can enable this feature in the apps and add-ons section of your storefront admin

Theme Scheduling

We introduced the ability to schedule your theme to go live at a future date and time. This will allow you to more efficiently manage your business by having themes scheduled with corresponding pricing, promotion, and other changes. In a future release, we'll provide a global scheduling calendar so you have clear visibility into all the scheduled changes across your business.

To use this feature, select and activate the theme to choose between scheduled or immediate activation. You can read more about the feature in our Knowledge Center here.

Signifyd Fraud Protection

Signifyd’s fraud protection solution leverages machine learning models to contextualize identity and intent insights from the Commerce Network with merchant- and vertical-specific data – delivering automated order decisions with unparalleled accuracy. Signifyd is a third-party fraud platform that will require a direct relationship between you and Signifyd to begin using. You can access Signifyd through the apps and add-ons page.

Feature Improvements

Blogs

• Blog Publishing - The experience for designing and publishing blogs has been updated for ease of use. Blogs will now default to a hidden state until they are published. If you schedule a blog for a future publish date, that will be reflected as a new status.

• Clone Blog Posts - You can clone blog posts so you don't have to create new ones from scratch. Cloned blog posts will be hidden by default. In a future release, we'll introduce default blog post templates.

SmartyStreets Integration

We updated the SmartyStreets integration to the newest API version. It is now available in the Storefront admin so both Admins and Shoppers can ensure addresses are correct for faster shipping and fewer returns.

Orders

• Collapsable Sections in Order Edit - Each section in the order edit screen is now collapsable so you can hide information that isn't relevant to your current task and work more easily.

• Item Level Refund to Gift Card or Original Payment Method - When issuing refunds, you can now issue refunds at the line item level.

• Payment Method Order Filter - You can now filter orders by payment method so supporting your shoppers is faster and easier.

• Order Channels - Order channels are now available via API including Chat, Phone, and Email.

Subscriptions API

• On the subscriptions API you can request more granular customer information to receive the subscription and customer in a single API call. To query this information add "includeLookups=" on the subscriptions API call:

  • Customer name

  • Customer email

  • Actual shipping address instead of the ID

  • Actual Payment Method name instead of the ID

  • List of products (from saved cart id) so that it is the active subscription's products

  • Subscriptions API: Get Subscriptions | Online Store API

Combined Color Swatch and Variant

You now combine the variant and color swatch selection, providing a better shopping experience. Please enable this in Theme Settings: Themes > Edit > Global Theme Settings > Variants Card > Enable "Include variant swatch in dropdown". 

Site Performance

• Lazyloading - Widgets and images such as reviews, hot sellers, and blog images are now lazy loading, so they don't impact page load time and shopper experience.

• Page Load - We completed various changes to Merge Codes, Storefronts, and Storefront Admin, resulting in faster page load times.

Other Feature Enhancements