API

• Deprecated public API config_meta field in favor of the /channel-menus endpoint.

Payments

• Added Commonwealth Bank to the list of compatible payment gateways for stored credit cards and raw card data.

Theme

• Added support for Danish and Norwegian language files for your storefront display language.

API

• Added faceted and textual search features to GraphQL Storefront API for headless merchants and stencil developers.

• Added new endpoints Get Channel Menus, Create Channel Menus, and Delete Channel Menus to allow for updating the list of control panel side navigation menus for a channel.

Announcement

• Rebranded Facebook and Instagram to reflect the parent company's new name, Meta. We have added the names “Meta for BigCommerce”, “Facebook by Meta”, and “Instagram by Meta”.

Developer Blog

• GraphQL Search & Product Filtering Updates Improve Shopper Experience

BundleB2B

• Updated BundleB2B developer documentation to reflect BigCommerce’s acquisition of BundleB2B.

API

• Removed remaining X-Auth Client header references since it is no longer required in API calls since October 2020.

Developer Blog

• AMA Recap: Everything you need to know about building apps with BigCommerce

• Join the Customer Segmentation API Beta

Theme

6.4.1

• Incorrect handling of unsuccessful item removing from cart on the Cart page.#2211

6.4.0

• Remove adminBar translations from da/no lang files.#2209

• Translation updates April 2022.#2204

• Product image not shown in Pinterest preview if not signed in.#2203

• Remove nanobar (loading progress bar).#2192

• Fix workflow examples missing API host.#2161

• Remove sweetAlert.#2189

• Apply security updates (April 2022).#2200

• Reviews form not submitting after quick view opening on PDP.#2201

• Social media icons failing wave scan with "Empty Link".#2202

• Search results containing % symbol result in errored page.#2205

• Remove translations for adminBar component.#2196

• Remove adminBar.#2191

• When price list price is set for currency, the cart does not respect product's price.#2190

• Stored Payment Methods form can be submitted without selecting a country.#2194

• Show pickup details in storefront for BOPIS orders.#2199

4.28

View release 4.28 on GitHub

Added

• Support for WPGraphQL plugin queries has been added:

  • bCProducts - retrieves a list of BigCommerce products

  • bCProduct - retrieves single product data by product ID

  • bCCategories - get the BigCommerce categories list and their data

  • bCCategory - get BigCommerce category data by category ID

  • bCBrands - get BigCommerce brands data list and their data

  • bCBrand - get BigCommerce brand data by brand ID

• Support for BigCommerce out of stock inventory settings located in Advanced Settings > Inventory > General Settings. To enable that feature in the plugin go to Customizer > Bigcommerce > Product Catalog > Respect General Inventory Settings. If the option is enabled, the next actions will be applied to the products:

  • Do nothing - product will be shown without changes

  • Redirect to the category page - user will be redirected from product page to product category page if a product is out of stock

  • Hide product on category page - product can be accessed directly with a link but will be hidden from the category page

  • Hide the product completely - the product will be hidden from the category page and can't be accessible with a direct link

Changed

• Successful customer registration will not perform auto-login to the WordPress store. Customers should sign in to the store using the login page

• Password reset form after submission will redirect customers to the same site in WordPress network
  For example: If the customer submits the reset password form on nb.store.com after submission they still stay on the nb.store.com

• Pass product SKU in analytics events alongside product ID

• Synchronize password option is enabled by default for customers created via webhooks

Fixed

• Fixed the scopes issue during on-boarding process that prevented store connection and setup

• Fixed total and subtotal calculation on the cart when using discounts like Buy one, get one free

• Fixes for the Twenty Twenty-Two theme include:

  • Correct alignments for second address row

  • Correct Wishlist size

  • Correct coupon code field size on the cart page

  • Correct mini-cart View cart button size

API

• Increased the limit of metafields allowed on each object per client ID from 50 to 250 on all object types (Brands, Category, Products, Variants, Orders) that support metafields.

• Added the ability to add, update, or delete an SSL certificate to any stencil or headless domain using the  Upsert a Site’s SSL/TSL Certificate Information endpoint.

• Added the ability to add, update, or delete an SSL certificate to any headless storefront channels using the Upsert a Site’s Checkout URL and Delete a Site’s Checkout URL endpoints.

• Added validation and error handling to the Upsert a Site’s Checkout URL endpoint if the checkout domain does not match the main domain.

• Added the ability for the Sites endpoint to return all the URL types for all the different storefront channels with channel_id and url_type available as query parameters.

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.