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Added Stacking and Priority in Promotions Builder

MAJOR We have introduced a new stacking and priority feature in Promotions Builder within Commerce Manager. This feature allows you to assign priority levels to promotions and stack multiple promotions together. With priority settings, you can control the order in which promotions are applied, giving you greater flexibility and precision in managing discounts. For more information, see Stacking and Prioritizing Multiple Promotions.

External Payment Methods now Supported

MAJOR Subscriptions now supports external payment methods. External payment methods are payment methods not offered by Elastic Path Subscriptions (such as Elastic Path Payments powered by Stripe or Authorize.net), but they can still be integrated with Subscriptions, giving you more flexibility and choice when selecting payment methods. For more information, see External Payments.

Added Usages for Promotions Builder, Exclusion feature in Promotions Builder

MAJOR We have added Promotions Builder Usages to help you track and understand how promotional offers are utilized. With this feature, you can:

  • Retrieve the usage history of a specific promotion.
  • Track the history of a particular promotion code within a promotion.
  • Anonymize customer email addresses associated with promotion usages.

For more information, see Promotion Usages.

MAJOR We have introduced a new exclusion feature in Promotions Builder within Commerce Manager. This feature allows you to exclude specific products, categories, or attributes from promotions, providing more flexibility in setting up promotion rules. For more information on setting up a new promotion with exclusions, see Creating a Promotion in Promotions Builder.

Removing manage_stock field, obtaining details of component products

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, we have removed the manage_stock field from the response for the Get all Products in a shopper catalog endpoint. This field is still displayed in legacy catalog responses. For more information, see Get all Products in a Shopper Catalog.

MINOR You can now obtain details of component products of configured bundles when making an Add Product to Cart request. For more information, see Including Resources.

Prorations & Dunning Now Available for Subscriptions

MAJOR Proration and Dunning are now available for subscriptions.

  • Proration is the adjustment of charges or credits on a subscribers account based on the amount of time a service is used. Proration ensures that subscribers are only charged for the actual time they use the service, whether they upgrade, downgrade, start, or cancel their subscription partway through a billing cycle. This means fair billing for your subscribers and provides you with the flexibility to change your subscribers subscriptions at any time. For more information, see Proration Policies.
  • Dunning rules describe the process for collecting outstanding payments for recurring subscriptions and what action is taken after the defined number of payment attempts have failed to successfully take payment. For example, if a customer's payment fails, Subscriptions automatically retries the payment up to X times over Y days, reducing churn and increasing revenue recovery. For more information, see Dunning Rules.

Extend Product Prices with Custom Attributes, New Get all Prices Endpoint, Improved Bundle Builder, Improved Account Search

MINOR You can now extend product prices by adding custom attributes to a product price. This enables you to optimize your pricing data, enhancing your ability to respond to market dynamics and customer preferences. For more information, see Add a product price to a price book.

MINOR A new Get all Prices endpoint allows you to retrieve all prices for a product, irrespective of the different price books that include that product's price. For example, you can filter for all prices for a specified sku, or filter for all prices changed before or after a given date. This will retrieve prices from all price books. For more information, see Get all product prices.

MINOR Commerce Manager: A new and improved Bundle Builder is available. The new bundle builder features an upgraded visual design, making it easier to use and more intuitive, with a smoother interface that simplifies the bundle creation process. For more information, see Creating Bundles.

MINOR Commerce Manager: Improved account search functionality to enable more effective filtering by name, legal name, registration ID, and external reference. For more information, see Searching Accounts.

Support for HTTP Conditional Requests

MINOR When using Custom APIs, we have introduced support for HTTP Conditional Requests, using the If-Match header. Clients can use these requests to implement safe concurrent updates to the same resource by multiple writers. For example, this is useful in inventory tracking, as it prevents lost updates and other data consistency issues with the inventory amounts. For more information, see Update Custom API Entries.

Beta filtering added to price books

MINOR The following endpoints now support beta filtering.

Beta filtering uses a new syntax that is an evolution of the original syntax, allowing more characters and formats. For more information, see Beta filtering.

MINOR We have improved the application of cart-level promotions to ensure accurate discount distributions, addressing issues where discounts were incorrectly redistributed in certain situations involving exclusions.

New Card ID Attribute in Subscriptions

MINOR In Subscriptions, a new card_id attribute is available. You can use the card_id and customer_id attributes to program your front-end implementation to allow your preferred payment service provider to update a subscription with new card details, enabling you to easily manage your subscription charges. For more information, see Card Declines.

Storage of null values added to Custom API entries

MINOR We have added the capability to configure the storage of null values in Custom API Entries. For more information, see Null Values.

MINOR On October 18, 2022, we notified customers that the bundle_configuration object was misspelled as bundle_configuation in the cart, cart items, and order items, and has been deprecated. We recommend using bundle_configuration to create bundle configurations.

Enhanced cart side effect message, Algolia integration update

MINOR We have made an enhancement to cart side effect messages on promotion applications. Now, when a second promotion using the same code as an existing one in the cart is applied, the side effects provide more detailed messages, indicating the removal and addition of different promotions.

INTEGRATIONS HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V69 (US) - V54 (EU): This new version includes a fix for an intermittent issue with some dropped images during catalog sync. For more information, see Integrating with Algolia.

Algolia integration updated

INTEGRATION HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V68 (US) - V53 (EU): This new version adds concurrency checking to prevent catalogs from being published concurrently, which can cause issues if the same data is updated at the same time. For more information, see Integrating with Algolia.

Configure shopper bundle, authentication token expiry time, eCommerce Admin role

MINOR The Configure a Shopper Bundle endpoint now supports using the include parameter to retrieve key attribute data for the products in a product bundle. This is useful because, when your shoppers select the products in the bundle that they want to purchase in your storefront, you can then display all the relevant product information to your shoppers. See Configure a Shopper Bundle.

MINOR You can now configure the expiry time of Account Management Authentication Tokens to implement an idle timeout feature. For more information, see Implementing Idle Timeout.

MINOR We have Introduced a new eCommerce Admin role with capabilities for PXM, promotions, orders and account management. For more information, see Store Roles.

Algolia integration updated

INTEGRATION HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V67 (US) - V52 (EU): This new version adds debugging code for images collection to troubleshoot an intermittent issue with some dropped images during catalog sync. For more information, see Integrating with Algolia.

Commerce Extensions float field, events for Custom APIs, bundle defaults

MINOR We have introduced support for float field types in Commerce Extensions to support your business needs. For more information, see Custom Fields.

MINOR We have added events for Custom API entries. You can integrate Commerce Extensions with your external systems by observing the appropriate events. For more information, see Custom API Entries.

MINOR Shoppers can now select a bundle that has a default list of products. Shoppers can choose to have all the default products, keep some of the default products or change the default products completely. This is useful, for example, if you want a new addition fragrance in a fragrance bundle to appear as the default option. For more information, see Dynamic Bundles.

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