Elastic Path Changelog

MINOR Support for Given Name, Family Name, and Middle Name Claims

We've enhanced Accounts and Single Sign-On (SSO) to support structured name fields, in addition to the existing name field, we've added:

• given_name – Stores the given (first) name of the user.
• family_name – Stores the family (last) name of the user, supporting cultures where family name comes first.
• middle_name – Stores the middle name of the user.

These values can be set directly by the API, but additionally will be populated during OpenID Connect authentication if your provider sets the Standard Claims, and

These fields can now be optionally set in user authentication info objects, and filtered in both user authentication info and account members.

For details see:

• Account Members API
• User Authentication Info API

BETA Try Cart Preview to Validate Promotions, Pricing, and Catalogs

We're launching Cart Preview in Commerce Manager as a beta feature—designed to help teams simulate real-world cart scenarios for validating catalog setups, pricing, and promotion evaluations.

What's New?

• Preview how your catalog and pricing will behave in a live cart environment.
• Test promotion rules and shopper-specific conditions before deployment.
• Gain confidence in your configurations without needing a separate storefront.
• Planned: Support for account tags, custom attributes and custom SKUs

Cart Preview is currently in beta and available for early feedback.

See Commerce Manager Cart Preview

MINOR Introduced Price Segmentation Support for Catalogs

Merchandisers can now deliver personalized pricing experiences at scale with the new price segmentation capability for catalogs.

What's New?

Added support for price-segmented catalogs, enabling association with hundreds of pricebooks, far beyond the previous 5 pricebook stacking limit.

Introduced the enable_price_segmentation attribute on catalogs:

• When set to true, all available pricebooks at publish time are included in the catalog.
• No need to define stacked pricebooks—simplifying catalog setup for personalized pricing scenarios.
• API responses now reflect rule-based pricing where available and fall back to catalog default pricing if no matching pricebook is found.
• Exposes multiple prices per product for search indexing and administration: meta.available_pricebook_ids and meta.available_prices are included in the hash file.
• Admin API can return all or filtered available prices using the EP-Pricebook-IDs-Of-Available-Prices-To-Show header.

This release significantly reduces catalog maintenance complexity while enabling large-scale personalized pricing.

For details see:

• Price Segmentation Guide

MINOR Expanded Taxation Support for Bundle Components

We've enhanced the way taxes are calculated for product bundles by enabling component-level tax support.

What's New?

• Taxes can now be applied individually to each product within a bundle.
• Each component item's tax is calculated separately, ensuring accuracy when items in a bundle are taxed differently.
• Supports compliance with regional tax rules where some products may be exempt or taxed at different rates.
• Supports bulk adding tax items to component items for bundles.

This update ensures that your bundled offerings remain tax-accurate across different markets.

For details see:

• Add tax to bundle component items API

INTEGRATIONS HUB Released a new Kount 360 Integration. This Integration makes it easy to integrate your Elastic Path store with Kount 360 for risk evaluation on carts. For details see Integrating with Kount 360.

MINOR Added support for the is_null search operator when searching for custom api entries.

MINOR Enhanced Date Parsing with Locale Support in PXM Product Import

We've added locale-aware date parsing to Product Template Date fields in PXM Product Import, reducing import failures and improving data accuracy by interpreting dates using region-specific formats.

What's New?

• Commerce Manager automatically detects your browser's locale and applies it to product import requests.
• API supports locale query parameter for en-US, en-GB, and en-CA date formats.
• Unsupported date formats fall back to default parsing, ensuring your imports continue to work.

See Product Import

MINOR New Promotions Builder Operator: Range Support for Cart Conditions

We’ve added a new operator to the Promotions Builder that allows you to define value ranges for cart-based conditions—giving you more flexibility when crafting targeted offers.

How to setup tiered promotion

MAJOR Introducing Account Tags for Promotions

We’ve introduced Account Tags, a flexible new feature that lets you dynamically group similar shoppers together, making it easier than ever to deliver targeted promotions.

Use Case Example Create a "VIP" tag to identify high-value customers and automatically offer them exclusive discounts that go beyond what regular shoppers receive.

What’s New

• Create and assign tags to customer accounts.
• Build promotions using Account Tags as conditions—any shopper with the assigned tag will receive the targeted offer.

For details see:

• How to create promotion with Account Tags
• Account Tags Management
• Promotion with Account Tags
• Account Tags API

MINOR Enhanced Currency Support in Promotions Builder

We've expanded currency support in Promotions Builder to allow promotions to apply across all available currencies, providing greater flexibility for global merchants.

What's New?

• Added "All Currencies" option in the currency dropdown, allowing promotions to apply to all supported currencies
• Rule Promotions still default to the store's default currency, maintaining existing behavior
• Important note: All currencies option works best with percent discounts, as fixed discounts won't factor in exchange rates when applied to multiple currencies

MINOR Configure Auto Add free item with Promotions Builder

New! Gift with Purchase Promotions​

• You can now use our Promotions builder to create Gift with Purchase (GWP) promotions. Shoppers who qualify for a GWP offer will have the free gift automatically added to their cart, streamlining their experience and making it easier for them to claim their reward.

New! Promotion Carrots: Buy X Get Y (BXGY) Suggestions​

• We've expanded our Promotions builder to include Buy X Get Y (BXGY) product suggestions. For qualifying BXGY offers, our system can now provide front-end suggestions for the 'Y' products. This helps shoppers effortlessly find and add the discounted items to their cart, streamlining their purchasing journey.
• This feature can also be used for free-gift promotions when there is a choice of free-gift options, requesting the shopper to make a choice to add one to the cart.

For details see:

• How to Create Auto Add Free Item Promotion
• Create Auto Add Promotion with Promotions Builder
• Create Rule Promotion API

MAJOR Improvements to Subscription Offerings.

We’ve made some changes to the way subscription offerings are represented to more closely align with customer requirements and to increase the flexibility of offerings.

What's Changed?

• Subscription products are now called plans
• What was previously called a plan is now a pricing option
• Before these changes if more than one product existed in an offering they were treated as a bundle. Now a subscriber must pick a single plan from the subscription offering, increasing flexibility and reducing the number of subscription offerings that need to be maintained.
• Pricing options are assigned to plans so that each plan may have its own pricing options or a subset of pricing options.

For details see: Subscription Offerings

MAJOR Boost Average Order Value with Bundle Promotions in Promotions Builder

We’ve launched a powerful new capability in Promotions Builder: Bundle promotions. This empowers merchandisers to create compelling promotions that target groups of items to drive higher order values and increased conversions.

What's New?

• A new option in Promotions Builder allows you to define a group of items as a promotional condition, and apply a discount to the same or different group of items, making it easier to design bundle-based offers.

For details see:

• How-To Example
• Create Bundle Promotion with Promotions Builder
• Create Bundle Promotion API

MINOR Improvements Based on User Feedback

We've enhanced our Promotions Builder to be more user-friendly and to support more promotion conditions.

What's New?

• The notable update is that all the promotion limitations are now under the '+refine' section of the promotion configuration.

MAJOR In the multi-location inventories service we have added an import mechanism to allow bulk setting of stock positions. This feature allows for simpler synchronization between the inventories service and customer's own stock management systems.

See Imports.

MINOR Improvements Based on User Feedback

When applying filters to list views, Commerce Manager will now recall and default to the query type you most recently used. This capability is valid for basic filters using the is, contains, starts with, ends with and is one of query types.

MAJOR Semantic Search Service

• Neural Query Understanding: Integrated NLP-based entity and intent recognition to extract product attributes, use cases, and category signals from user queries.
• Dynamic Faceted Filtering: User-configurable facets with real-time filtering across vectorized results.
• Synonym Expansion Engine: Per-tenant synonym sets influence both keyword and vector searches for better semantic matching.

MINOR Improvements Based on User Feedback

We’ve made several usability enhancements to the Hierarchies & Nodes feature:

What's New?

• Jump to hierarchy – After searching, quickly jump to a hierarchy to browse its child nodes.
• Filter by hierarchy – Find specific hierarchies in a large list of hierarchies using this new filter.
• Toggle hierarchy badge option – Show or hide the hierarchy badge. It’s now off by default.
• Re-order button – Renamed for clarity—use it to reorder nodes.
• Node details default tab – The “Products assigned” tab now opens by default when viewing node details.
• Adding products to node – Expanded screen size and full table features make it easier to search and assign products to nodes.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), merchandisers can now gain greater control over Dynamic Bundles by configuring minimum and maximum purchase quantities for product options; for example, this makes it easier to design flexible curation boxes where customers can select their desired amounts of each included item.

See Dynamic Bundles.

MINOR INTEGRATIONS HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V71 (US) - V56 (EU) We’ve optimized how execution results are retrieved by limiting queries to specific time ranges. This change makes results load faster and improves reliability, especially for high-volume environments.

MAJOR Content Management Service

Initial Release – Intelligent Content Management System (CMS)​

We’re excited to announce the v1.0.0 launch of our next-generation Content Management System, purpose-built to power flexible, scalable, and API-first digital experiences across multiple storefronts.

Key Features​

• Flexible Content Modeling: Define custom content types, relationships, and taxonomies using an intuitive schema builder.
• Visual Page Builder: Drag-and-drop interface to create and preview pages with real-time content rendering and responsive layouts.
• Media Library: Centralized asset management with tagging, previewing, and optimization tools.
• Localization & Internationalization: Full support for multi-language content and locale-specific variants.
• Headless API-first Design: RESTful APIs to fetch structured content on any device or channel.
• Webhooks & Integrations: Trigger external systems on content changes, with plug-and-play support for key services.

MINOR We have added the ability to filter orders by Order Number. The Order Number column can be set to visible on Orders page, and individual orders now reflect their Order Numbers, if available.

See Filtering Orders.

The Order Number value is not auto-generated. To find out how to set the Order Number in the order, see Checkout API.

MINOR We have added the ability for customers to supply custom tax amounts for cart items.

You can now choose to pass in tax values for cart items as amount or rate. To learn more see Add Tax Item to Cart API.

MINOR New setting for deferred inventory checks in carts.

We've introduced a new setting to allow products to be added to cart without any check of their stock levels. These checks still happen on checkout. This setting can be applied to individual carts or applied to all new carts via the cart settings.

For details see:

• Create a Cart
• Update Cart Settings

MINOR Bug fix.

A bug has been resolved with the bundle component pricing breakdown in carts/orders. The breakdown will now show component prices matching the bundles pricing model, including sales pricing where applicable.

MINOR New endpoint to delete a cart shipping group

We've introduced a new endpoint to delete a cart shipping group by the shipping group ID. Notably, cart shipping groups must not be associated with any items in order to be deleted.

Please see Delete Cart Shipping Group for more details.

MAJOR 🚀 A Revamped Hierarchies & Nodes Experience.

We've completely redesigned the Hierarchies & Nodes experience in Commerce Manager, making it easier and more efficient to organize, group, and manage your products into hierarchies.

What's new?

• Powerful search – Quickly find nodes without manually browsing the hierarchy.
• New table view – A familiar file-system-like structure for easier node management.
• Hierarchy indicators – Instantly see if a node has children while browsing.
• Two-pane layout – Browse the hierarchy and edit nodes side by side.
• Deep links to product list page – Jump directly to product lists for maximum efficiency.
• Custom attributes – Store additional metadata for hierarchies, nodes, and pricing.
• View preferences – Customize how you interact with the hierarchy.
• Fresh visual design – A modern, streamlined interface for better usability.

🔎 Explore the new experience now in the "Hierarchies" section under "Merchandise" in Commerce Manager.

MINOR New navigation experience in Commerce Manager.

We've introduced a new sidebar navigation for Commerce Manager that improves the overall user experience and makes it easier to navigate between different sections. Key improvements include:

• Streamlined menu structure with clearer section grouping
• An easier way to switch between stores and organizations
• Improved visual hierarchy for better readability
• Collapsible sections to reduce clutter

MINOR Enhanced SKUs and SKU-less Item Handling in Promotions Builder.

We've improved SKU and SKU-less item handling in the Promotions Builder. While this change is more noticeable in API requests, the Commerce Manager experience remains unchanged.

• Merchandiser can handle SKU and SKU-less items within a single condition using the new item_identifier strategy.
• The item_identifier strategy is supported in both promotion conditions and actions, providing greater flexibility.
• All existing promotions using item_sku OR item_product_id will remain supported.
• New promotions created in the Commerce Manager Promotions Builder will automatically use the new item_identifier strategy.

See Create a Rule Promotion API Examples

MINOR Improved List Pages. We've enhanced the table functionality on our list pages with the following:

• Select which headers show on the table with customizable headers
• View up to 100 items on the page
• Hover over dates to see the date and time details for your location's time zone as well as UTC time zone
• Dynamic search that shows all results with related terms
• Select filters and bookmark the page to return and view the page with selected filters again.

We are making similar changes on list pages across Commerce Manager in the upcoming days.