API

Added the ability to apply a manual discount using the Checkout Discounts endpoint.

Developer Blog

• Improve Storefront Performance: Updated Product Image Fetching using GraphQL Best Practices

4.27.1

View release 4.27.1 on GitHub

Fixed

• Fixed the issue with products data fetch that prevented the correct import and only allowed import of the first 10 products

4.27

View release 4.27 on GitHub

Added

• Added detailed description to the Import Task Processing option in Settings > Product Sync

• Respect product variants availability settings: if variant is disabled, or not available, it will be unselectable and visually marked

• Added support for category is_visible flag:

  • Hide disabled category from menu

  • Redirect from category page to 404 page

  • Exclude category from search index

  • Product under category can still be accessed, directly via URL

API

Added a rate limit to the Add Gift Certificate to Checkout endpoint.

Checkout

• Added new endpoints, Get Checkout Settings and Update Checkout Settings, to allow for updating a checkout loader script URL via API.

Developer Blog

• The BigCommerce Order Confirmation Page is Newly Customizable

• What’s New for Merchants in March

4.26.1

View release 4.26.1 on GitHub

Fixed

• Increased the Custom Fields values limit and added correct processing for special characters. If an error occurs on that step, the import will continue working with the next batch of products.

API

• Added form fields values to Customers POST, Customers PUT, Customer Addresses POST, and Customer Addresses PUT endpoints.

• Multi-Storefront is now available! See the Multi-Storefront API Guide for details.

Node 12 enters End-of-life on April 30, 2022 (https://endoflife.date/nodejs). From this date, new versions of Stencil CLI will drop support for Node 12, and add support for Node 14. In order to provide time for developers to update their Stencil development/deployment environments, we will not bump the required version of Stencil CLI to a version that requires Node 14+ until June 1, 2022.

4.26.0

View release 4.26.0 on GitHub

Added

• Added automatic API scope check during the plugin installation. If the API credentials don’t meet the required criteria, the plugin installation will be aborted and an error message will be shown.

• Added the ability to control customer's group cache expiration time and the ability to purge customer and products cache. To control or purge the cache go to Bigcommerce > Settings > Diagnostics.

• Use the Flush Users Cache button to purge the customers' group cache and retrieve fresh data from the Bigcommerce API.

• Use the User Cache Expiration option field to set the time that the group cache should be stored for.

• Use the Flush Products Cache button to invalidate products cache.
  Note: If webhooks are enabled the cache will be automatically invalidated.

Changed

• Update plugin readme Tested up to version.

• Update styles for Choose Options on Twenty Twenty-Two theme.

Fixed

• Correct label spelling from Production Condition Color to Product Condition Color in Customizer Colors section.

• Fix image zoom styling on product page for Twenty Twenty-One theme.

On April 15, 2022, the number of product images returned by the Featured Products, New Products, and Popular Products panels on Stencil storefronts is changing.

These panels will now return up to 10 images per product, instead of returning all of the images on each product if there are greater than 10. This change will result in improvements to storefront performance when products on the store have a large number of images.

If the design of your storefront relies on accessing the data for a large number of images for each of these products, please consider using a GraphQL query instead to access more images. GraphQL can be used to fetch additional data as frontend API calls, or can be embedded in Frontmatter to be utilized directly within the theme context via Handlebars.