Elastic Path Changelog

INTEGRATIONS HUB Released Klevu Integration V6 (US) - V5 (EU): This new version adds the ability to use Product ID instead of Slug in URLs.

MINOR Commerce Manager: We have added the capability to copy exclusions between the Conditions and Actions sections in the Promotions Builder. For more information, see Creating a Promotion 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.

Overview​

Mainly bug fixes in this release.

Complete List of Resolved Items​

Advanced Graphene​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where the product ID and SKU were not displaying correctly in the product_id and product_sku fields in the GrapheneHCClient.

Landing Pages​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where a draft website page's editor was unreachable.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where some integrations were not included on account pages causing errors on the pages.

Proxy Sites​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where resetting a cart did not redirct correctly for proxy sites.

Media​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where media sections were not respecting video sizes.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where the media editor did not match the preview or published page.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where on some product display pages, some or all of the thumbnail images were intermittanly missing.

Style Guide​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where hover text was too dark on a dark background.

Page Views​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where Studio page views were showing 0 for some sites.

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.

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.

MINOR In Subscriptions, you can now import your subscription offerings, as well as products, plans, and subscribers. For more information, see Subscription Imports.

MINOR In Subscriptions, you can now filter your offerings by proration policy ID. This is useful if you want to understand the offerings affected when updating or deleting a proration policy. For more information, see List Offerings.

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 For a subscription with a pending state, you can now configure a go_live_after date. This is useful as it ensures both the subscription provider and subscriber are clear about when a subscription officially begins. For more information, see Creating a pending subscription.

Overview​

A refactored CSS parser and bug fixes in this release.

Refactored CSS​

We have refactored our CSS parser to process CSS more efficiently, reducing the time it takes to apply styles to web pages, leading to faster page rendering and enhancing page insights.

Complete List of Resolved Items​

Landing pages​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where incorrect fonts were displaying on some preview and published pages.

Ecommerce​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where several GA events had incorrect data.

GDPR​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where the GDPR/cookies popup did not close, despite selecting an option.

Blogs​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where blog category pages were not center aligned.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where Export XML for blog content could not be downloaded.

Advanced Graphene​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where variant information was displayed in product fields.

MINOR Subscriptions use client credentials to enable changes to subscriptions, providing you with the flexibility to change your subscribers subscriptions at any time. For more information, see Proration Policies.

MINOR In Subscriptions, we can now have a subscription status of Pending. This is useful as it allows subscriptions to be imported without the risk of the original platform and the Elastic Path Subscriptions platform processing payments for the same billing period. For more information, see Subscription Imports.

MAJOR We have introduced Rule Promotion Stacking and Priority (currently API only) features to enhance the effectiveness and accuracy of promotions. These features allows you to control how promotions stack and prioritize them, ensuring they are applied as intended. For more details, refer to Promotion Stacking and Priority.

MINOR Removed the misspelled and deprecated field bundle_configuation from the the cart, cart items, and order items.

INTEGRATIONS HUB Released a new Klevu Integration. This Integration synchronizes catalog from Commerce Manager to Klevu. For more information, see Integrating with Klevu Catalog Sync.

MINOR The Price Book Import API now supports importing price custom attributes. You can add custom attributes to a product price, allowing your storefront to dynamically use these attributes in it's pricing and display logic. For more information, see Import a price book and prices.

MINOR Variations and variation options are now exposed in the responses for the following endpoints:

• Get a products in the Shopper catalog API. See Get a Product.
• Get a Product in the Products API. See Get a Product.

This enables you to see the variation options a child product represents.

MINOR We have introduced the ability to model data with uniqueness constraints for string fields in Commerce Extensions. For more information, see Custom Fields.

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.

Overview​

Support for integrating Klevu with your Studio storefronts for Shopify stores and bug fixes in this release.

Klevu​

You can quickly and easily integrate Studio with Klevu. Klevu is an advanced AI-driven search and product discovery platform specifically designed for e-commerce websites. Once configured, using Studio's built-in Klevu integration, you can:

• build a search page in Studio, enabling you to leverage the Klevu search engine in your Studio storefronts.
• build a page in Studio that uses a Klevu recommendations component to leverage Klevu Recommendations, designed to enhance your shoppers experience by providing personalized product suggestions.

See Integrating with Klevu.

Complete List of Resolved Items​

Search Page​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where the product descriptions were aligned incorrectly.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where the product prices were displaying incorrectly on a Search page.

Blogs​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where a blog page generated an error when adding form to the text
• Bug - Fixed an issue where, if the same form is added in multiple places, the submit event for the second form will not trigger.

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.

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.

Overview​

Pagination is now supported in the Product Collection component and bug fixes in this release.

Product Collection Component​

The Product Collection component now supports pagination. For optimal performance, especially with large product collections, you should paginate your product collection component, rendering your products one page at a time instead of loading the entire product collection. Pagination makes it easier for your shoppers to browse through your product catalogs, allowing them to quickly find what they are looking for. In addition, you can choose from a selection of visually engaging indicator types and transitions. For example, if your indicator type is an arrow, then you might want to use a slide transition.

Once you have enabled pagination for your product collection component, you can configure how pagination displays when you add a product collection component to a page. See Configuring Pagination for Product Collections.

Complete List of Resolved Items​

Search Engine Optimization​

• Added meta descriptions and keywords to the product detail and product listing page template settings to improve search engine optimization.

Elastic Path Composable Commerce​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where a 500 response error was being returned when shoppers registered with an invalid email address.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where a parent product with all variants out of stock could still be added to a cart.

Blogs​

• Bug - Fixed an issue where a customer could not open a form with an action link on the blog page.
• Bug - Fixed an issue where blog/category publish returned a 500 error if there were no associated published articles.

MINOR The following endpoints now support beta filtering.

• Get all price books
• Get all prices in a price book
• Get all price modifiers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, a new endpoint Get all nodes in a hierarchy, retrieves all nodes in a hierarchy, including both parent and child nodes. For more information, see Get all nodes in a hierarchy.