62 posts tagged with "Carts & Orders"

MINOR Cart Custom Attributes Limit Increased to 100 and Automatic Promotion Quota Added

What's New?

• Expanded attribute capacity - Carts can now support up to 100 custom attributes, up from the previous limit of 20, supporting additional business-specific information and sophisticated promotion conditions.
• Automatic promotion quota - rule promotions now support a maximum of 50 active and future automatic rule promotions per store.

Custom attributes remain persistent throughout the cart lifecycle and automatically carry over to order objects upon checkout, maintaining consistency across the purchase flow.

For details see:

• Create a Cart - Custom Attributes
• Creating Custom Attribute Conditions in Promotions
• Promotions Builder API

MINOR Search Carts by Name for Client Admin Users

Client Admin users can now search for carts associated with an Account or Customer using cart name filtering.

What's New?

• Cart name search - Filter Account- or Customer-associated carts using the ilike operator to search by cart name.
• Combined filtering - Search using a combination of cart name and account ID.

Note: Carts without shopper associations are not currently searchable. Support for searching all carts will be added in a future release.

For details see:

• Get all Carts

MINOR Search carts by account ID

We've added filter support for searching carts by associated account IDs.

For details see:

• Carts API

MAJOR Updated Order Insights Dashboard

We’ve updated Order Insights Dashboard, giving merchandisers a powerful way to analyze order data with flexible, customizable views.

What’s New

• Aggregate order data by product SKU, product ID, promotion ID.
• View total sales ($), order count, and discounts ($) for filtered results.

For details see:

• Order Insights Dashboard

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 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

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.

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.

MINOR A cart.updated event is now emitted whenever any tax-related operation occurs on the cart, such as adding, updating, deleting, or performing bulk actions on tax items. For more information, see Observable Events.

MINOR We have now introduced a new optional field, order_number, which serves as an alternative to the existing order_id. For Authorize.net transactions, order_number will be sent instead of the order_id, and will appear as the invoice number. For more information, see Update an Order.

MINOR We have added the ability to configure string Custom Fields for use_as_url_slug, allowing you to use the value of that Custom Field to access your Custom API Entry in a way that is well-known to you and your processes rather than an auto-generated identifier. For more information, see Update Custom API Entries.

Additionally, we have also added a checkbox in Commerce Manager to enable a Custom Field for use as the URL of entry record. See Creating Custom Fields.

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.

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.

MINOR You can now contact Elastic Path Support team to increase the custom discount limit. For more information, see Custom Discounts.

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.

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].

MAJOR You now have the ability to create an association between an account and one or more carts. For more information, see Account Cart Associations.

MAJOR We have introduced the Cart Payment Intent feature, which allows you to generate a Stripe Payment Intent specifically tied to a shopping cart and its subsequent order. This feature enables you to track payment details from the cart stage and seamlessly maintain consistency in payment information throughout the order stage. For more information, see Cart Payment Intent.

MINOR We have introduced a new optional field to the Orders API, known as external_ref. This field is designed to store external references from other company systems, enhancing seamless integration between our platform and external entities. For more information, see Update an Order.

Additionally, in Commerce Manager, we have also introduced a new field called External Reference ID, both on the order page and when filtering an order**.** For more information, see Orders.

MINOR The Shipping Groups or Split Shipping feature is no longer in Beta. For more more information, see Shipping Groups.

MINOR Algolia – Full/Delta/Large Catalog Integration: The integration now supports option indexing of inventory status and stock amounts through use of the stockAmount and stockBoolean flags.

MAJOR You can now use the preview cart feature to set a future date for your shopping cart and view the promotions that will be available during that period. This feature enables you to validate your promotion settings and observe how they will be applied in the cart. For more information, see Create a Preview Cart.

MINOR Fixed a bug in PayPal Express Checkout payment gateway where payments in certain currencies were incorrectly formatted.

MINOR Fixed a bug where orders placed or modified between July 5th and July 23rd, 2023, displayed incorrect formatted values.

MAJOR We have introduced the beta release for Shipping Groups. Now, you can easily organize and manage cart or order items into distinct shipping groups. This feature allows you to split shipping, enabling you to tailor shipping concepts to your eCommerce offerings based on your specific business requirements. For more information, see Shipping Groups.

Additionally, we have updated the Order details page in Commerce Manager. You can now see the following information within a shipping group:

• Shipping Group ID
• Shipping Details
• Tracking
• Delivery Instructions

For more information, see Orders.

MINOR You can now use include query parameter to show condensed promotions on both carts and orders. For more information, see:

• Get a cart
• Get cart items
• Get an order
• Get order items

Major Commerce Manager: You can now add AND/OR conditions on attributes and hierarchies or nodes to be included and excluded from a promotion based on multiple conditions at the same time. See Promotions.

Major As announced on February 1, 2023, we have now seamlessly migrated all the existing legacy keys to a corresponding Application Key. In Commerce Manager, the migrated keys will now appear on the SYSTEM > Application Keys page. For more information, see Application Keys.

Minor Commerce Manager: When you checkout a cart with bundle configuration including multiple options from each bundle component, you can now view all selected multiple options for each bundle component on the Order details page. For more information about bundle configuration, see PXM Bundles in Commerce Manager.

Minor On November 24th, 2022, we deprecated the shipping_name and billing_name fields for filtering orders. For more information, see Filtering.

Minor The bundle_configuation object was misspelled in the cart, cart items, and order items. Therefore, on October 18, 2022, we have deprecated bundle_configuation and recommend that you use bundle_configuration to create a bundle configuration. See Carts.

Minor You can now pay using Stripe Payment Element. For more information, see Elastic Path Payments Powered by Stripe.

Minor You can now void an authorization when an order with one payment transaction is in an authorized state. You can also void or cancel a payment if the order is cancelled.

Major payflow_express and paypal_express endpoints are no longer supported. We recommend to use PayPal Express Checkout gateway. For more information, see Configure PayPal Express Checkout and PayPal Express Checkout Payments.

Major Split Payments (Beta Release) are now available. For more information, see:

• Split Payments
• Paying for an order
• Refund a Payment
• Inventory

Major You can now add amount and paymentmethod_meta as optional fields for the payment methods. See Manual Payments.

Major You can now include or exclude variation options when building your child products. See Build child products.