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**New Feature** Commerce Extensions Custom APIs released

MAJOR We have now introduced a new feature, called Commerce Extensions that supports the creation of Custom APIs according to your business needs. These Custom APIs support a variety of field types, including:

  • String with customizable length limits and regex validation
  • Integer with minimum and maximum value constraints
  • Boolean

Moreover, Commerce Extensions offers the ability to apply filters to all fields, enabling multidimensional data retrieval. Additionally, we've enhanced sorting and filtering capabilities based on creation and last update dates. For more information, see Commerce Extensions.

You can also create new Custom APIs within Commerce Manager. For more information, see Commerce Extensions in Commerce Manager.

Subscription events are now observable

MAJOR In Subscriptions, events are now observable. Events are actions that occur in Subscriptions such as a subscriber changing their address or a subscription changing from active to inactive. This enables you to integrate Subscriptions with external systems like enterprise resource planning, fulfilment and other systems. For more information, see Subscriptions API Documentation.

Promotions Builder general availability, get all products and promotions added to beta filtering

MAJOR We have introduced a new feature, called Promotions Builder, powered by our Rule Promotion engine. This feature offers you the flexibility in providing diverse discounts to shoppers, supporting discounts of varying complexities, ranging from code-based customer discounts to Buy X Get Y discounts, fixed price promotions, cart fixed discount, and many more based on your business needs. Moreover, it is compatible with our existing legacy promotions capability, ensuring a smooth transition to the new Promotions Builder. For more information, see Promotions Builder in Commerce Manager. To create promotions using API, see Rule Promotions. To apply Rule Promotions API in carts and orders, you must enable the use_rule_promotion field in Cart Settings.

MINOR The Get all Products and Get all Promotions endpoints now support beta filtering. The new syntax is an evolution of the original syntax, and allows more characters and formats. For more information, see Beta Filtering.

Subscriptions general availability

MAJOR Elastic Path Subscriptions is now available. Elastic Path Subscriptions allows you to offer your customers subscriptions and recurring billing for your products and services. Elastic Path Subscriptions gives you the flexibility to pause, update, or reactivate your subscription offerings, change billing cycles, and apply discounts. You can create subscriptions using the Elastic Path Subscriptions API or Commerce Manager. For more information see Subscriptions.

Product tags for key word association against a product or service, count attribute added to published releases in catalog

MAJOR You can now use product tags to store or assign a key word against a product or service that you sell in your store. For example, you could tag the products that you sell by color. This allows your shoppers to search your products by color, enabling them to quickly find what they are looking for, increasing the likelihood of a purchase, and boosting conversion rates. For more information, see Product Tags.

MINOR A new count attribute maintains the published release count of catalogs in the catalogs Release object. For more information, see Catalog Releases.

Variations with sort order now sorted in descending order in catalog, Elastic Path JSON Schema component added to Builder

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, now, when a parent product that has variations and/or variation options with a configured sort_order is published in a catalog, the response displays the sorted variations and variation options. Variations and variation options are displayed in descending order according to their sort_order values. For more information, see Get all products in a catalog release, Get a product in a catalog release, Get all products in a hierarchy, and Get all products in a node.

BUILDER COMPONENT Released a new Elastic Path JSON Schema component V1 (US & EU). This component allows validation of a JSON object against a given JSON schema using the jsonschema library. For more information, see Elastic Path JSON Schema.

Added unrounded unit values for line calculations, template exports now include slugs

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, when you export products that have templates, you can now use template slugs instead of IDs to export templates associated with products. For more information, see Product Export API****.

MINOR We have now updated our system to calculate line finances based on unrounded unit values, ensuring accuracy and reducing rounding errors during the order calculation process.

Algolia integration update, created at and updated at added to variations and variation options

INTEGRATION HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V64 (US) and V49 (EU): The new version includes a fix in the validation process for sale price currencies. Previously, an issue arose where currencies were provided as present but null. This update introduces additional validation steps to rectify the errors resulting from this issue.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, when you create variations and variation options, two new attributes, created_at and updated_at, allow you to see when variations and variation options were created or updated. For more information, see Variations API and Variation Options API.

Algolia integration update, product template import with slug

INTEGRATION HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V63 (US) and V48 (EU): The new version includes bug fixes that address potential occurrences of errors within the category search attributes when a product is assigned to multiple nodes. Additionally, a bug was fixed to ensure that the ep_name_plus_slug_categories option defaults to false.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, when you import products that have templates, you can now use template slugs as well as IDs to import templates associated with products. This makes it easier to see that data is being imported into the correct template fields. For more information, see Importing Custom Data (Flows).

Product exports, coupon code search

MINOR When exporting products in Product Experience Manger, new fields in the exported CSV file capture the date and time a product and a template was created and/or updated. For more information, see Export Products.

MINOR Commerce Manager: When you navigate to Store > Promotions, a new Search coupon code field allows you to filter a promotion code across all promotions. For more information, see Searching a Promotion Code.

New integrations builder design, gift item currency matches eligible item currency

MAJOR Commerce Manager: We have introduced a new Integration Builder design. This enhanced Builder experience allows you to:

  • Build integrations faster and easier in a low-code environment.
  • Streamline designer canvas that optimizes space usage.
  • Add and configure integration steps with improved efficiency.
  • Navigate seamlessly with introduction of new panning and zooming features.

MINOR When automatically adding free gifts in the shoppers cart, you now have to ensure that the currency of automatically added gift items matches with the currency of the eligible items. Additionally, the free gift item must be within the same catalog as the eligible items. In case of a currency mismatch, the cart response includes an error section addressing the issue with free gift items. For more information, see [Promotions].

Algolia integration upgrade, jsonl batch streaming in Builder

INTEGRATION HUB: Released Algolia - Full / Delta / Large Catalog V62 (US) - V47 (EU): The component that splits catalog updates into batches has been updated to automatically split batches that result in a payload larger than 4,000,000 bytes into 2 batches. This helps to alleviate client occurrences of HTTP 413 errors that prevent successful indexing due to fluctuations in client product data size.

BUILDER COMPONENT: Released jsonl-batch-steam V6 (US & EU): The component that splits catalog updates into batches has been updated to automatically split batches that result in a payload larger than 4,000,000 bytes into 2 batches. This helps to alleviate client occurrences of HTTP 413 errors that prevent successful indexing due to fluctuations in client product data size.

Promotion code filtering, API & Commerce Manager, node product association, import node product associations

MINOR Added new filtering attributes to facilitate searching for a promotion code within a specific promotion and filtering advanced promotion usages. For more information, see Get all Promotions and Get Promotion Codes.

Additionally, in Commerce Manager, we have added a new Search coupon code field to filter a promotion code within a specific promotion. For more information, see Searching a Promotion Code within a Specific Promotion.

INTEGRATION HUB: Released Elastic Path Commerce Cloud Node Product Association Import V5 (both US & EU). The number of node-product relationships that are created in a single API call has been decreased from 100 to 20. Inbound records that specify more than 20 relationships are split into multiple API calls.

BUILDER COMPONENT: Released Elastic Path Import Node Product Associations V6 (both US & EU). The number of node-product relationships that are created in a single API call has been decreased from 100 to 20. Inbound records that specify more than 20 relationships are split into multiple API calls.

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