This release brings powerful new features like customer catalog and group management, a seamless Stripe integration, and important fixes that enhance the shopping experience.


New Features

  • Customer Catalog Feature:
         The Customer Catalog Feature enables the creation of personalized catalogs for different customer groups. This feature allows businesses to assign specific products and pricing to individual customer groups, ensuring that customers see only the products and prices relevant to them. Catalogs can include exclusive discounts and product visibility rules, tailored to each group’s needs. This feature helps in offering a customized shopping experience and better-aligning product offerings with customer requirements.
    Key Capabilities:

    • Create personalized catalogs for different customer groups.

    • Assign specific products and pricing to customer groups.

    • Set catalog overrides to control product visibility and pricing.

    • Enhance the shopping experience with tailored discounts and product selections.

  • Customer Group Feature:
     The     Customer Group Feature allows administrators to create and manage an unlimited number of customer groups. Each group can be assigned specific customer catalogs and pricing rules, providing a way to tailor shopping experiences based on group-specific criteria. This feature supports setting minimum subtotals required for checkout, ensuring that only qualifying orders are processed. Customer groups can be used to control product visibility and pricing based on group membership, offering flexibility in managing discounts and product access.
    Key Capabilities:

    • Create and manage multiple customer groups.

    • Set minimum subtotal requirements for checkout.

    • Assign customer catalogs and apply specific pricing rules to each group.

    • Easily manage and track customer group assignments.

  • Stripe Integration: New integration with Stripe for payment and billing, offering a streamlined and secure payment experience.

  • Email as Username: Customers can now use their email address as their username when logging in to the storefront.


Improvements

  • Email System: Enhanced to improve performance and reliability.

  • Schema Code: Upgraded to JSON-LD format for better SEO.


Fixes

  • Product Display: Fixed an issue where products stopped displaying on secondary categories.

  • PayPal Note: The note on the checkout page can now be edited in the payment settings.

  • PayPal Activation: Fixed an issue requiring multiple attempts to activate PayPal.

  • Country Dropdown: Resolved issue where the country dropdown was empty by default on billing and shipping information pages.

  • Slide-Out Cart: Fixed the issue where the slide-out cart displayed the price before tax even when tax was enabled.

  • Sort By Preservation: Navigating to the next page now preserves the current sort by setting on the catalog page.

  • Customer Login: Fixed an issue preventing approved customers from logging in on the storefront.

  • Packing Slip: Resolved issue where the packing slip showed the wrong address for split shipping.

  • Shipping Rate Display: Fixed an issue where the shipping rate on the order content section of the thank you page did not display with tax.

  • Order Completion: Addressed an issue where customers could complete orders even if their credit card was denied on PayPal when the authorization type was set to 'Authorize'.

  • Catalog Settings: Fixed an issue where admins could not disable "Enable recommended products?" and "Enable products you may like?" settings.

  • Digital Download URL: Now included in emails when there is at least one tangible or virtual product in the order.

  • Global Discount: Now follows the minimum subtotal amount when the product has VAT (display prices with tax).

  • Billing Information: Changing billing information on the checkout page no longer displays an error when refreshing the page.

  • Tax Label: Fixed an issue where the "Tax is included in price" label would still display on the cart page even if the "Display prices with tax" setting was disabled.

  • Intuit Payment: Resolved an issue where the Intuit payment method failed when specific addresses were used on the checkout page.

  • Attribute Options: Fixed an issue where attribute options were not displayed on the slide-out cart.

  • Product Ratings: Now display consistently on the storefront.

  • Shipping Rates Update: Changing the shipping address on the checkout page now updates the shipping rates accordingly.

  • Product Review Submission: Fixed an issue where clicking the submit button multiple times resulted in multiple product review submissions.

  • Gift Certificate Warning: Resolved an issue where a warning error was displayed in the email upon paying an order using a gift certificate.

  • Shipping Status Update: Logging into a customer account now updates the product shipping status on the storefront.

  • Free Order Error: Fixed the "ReferenceError: grecaptcha is not defined" error displayed when placing a free order.

  • Authorize.Net  CIM: Resolved an issue where the "System Is In Test Mode" message was displayed on the Authorize.Net  CIM payment method, even though the test mode was disabled.

  • Authorized.net: Fixed an issue where some customer billing information was not passing to the Authorized.net  admin portal.





Release Date: July 2024