API

• Corrected pagination meta for the Channel Listings endpoint. Requests no longer return a page number in the pagination response.

API

Added the Product Sort Order API (Open Beta) which allows you to effectively manage the sort order of products displayed on any given category page.

Developer Blog

Inclusive And Accessible Omnichannel Strategies with JAMstack

4.12.0

View release 4.12.0 on GitHub

Added

• Support for fetching products by SKU via query and shortcode.

• Added "Product Sync Log" section to the Settings > Diagnostics panel in the WP Admin. This shows the last 10 sync attempts and their result.

• Added support for Banners via the Banners API to import and use custom banners from the BC store within your WordPress site.

Changed

• Updated gallery thumbnail active slide functionality when triggering SKU specific images.

• Updated "Checkout Complete" page assignment in Settings. Allows for any page to be used, as the checkout complete page.

Theme

Added new accessibility articles discussing how Cornerstone meets WCAG Compliance Levels. View examples to learn how Cornerstone implements WCAG guidelines.

Developer Blog

• Alexa, Where will E-commerce Be in 2022?

• How to Customize the Pricing Display on BigCommerce for WordPress

• Supercharge your BigCommerce Theme Workflow with GitHub Actions

Theme

• Scale focus trap for all modals. #2049

• Fixed displaying swatch name for multiple swatch options on page. #2040

• Added settings for payment banners. #2021

• Use https:// for schema markup. #2039

• Update focus tooltip styles contrast to achieve accessibility AA compliance. #2047

• Apple pay button display needs to be fixed. #2043

Theme

• Added a localization tutorial which gives you the tools to localize most areas of your theme.

Apps

• Updated the order of the app listing tabs in the Developer Portal, making Technical the second tab instead of Details. 

Theme

• Incorrect focus order for product carousels. #2034

• Removed duplicates of main tag.#2032

• Hamburger menu icon missing on Google AMP pages. #2022

• Wish List drop down is truncated on product page. #2001

• Improve performance of analyzing homepage carousel images. #2027

• Added keyboard support on radio buttons. #2028

• Replace SSL settings in Page Builder with global region for SSL certificate. #2026

• Fixed email address validation in forms. #2029

• Fixed unnecessary horizontal scroll on swatch options on PDP. #2023

• Always showing product counts for Category facet in the faceted search results page. #2035

4.10.0

Added

• Added styles for Twenty Twenty One theme. Expanding the default content area width. Added button styles, link styles, colors, and updating CSS variables.

• Added support for global customer login, with a default of on for all new installs and channels, and the ability to turn on for existing channels.

• Added template and route for checkout completion to better support checkout processes utilizing a hosted payment processor with redirection.

Fixed

• Fixed Onboarding Settings not showing the correct list of channels.

• Fixed Shipping Calculator enable/disable toggle in the Customizer (Github issues: #243, #244).

API

• Product and product set widgets now respect user-selected currency. Add the activeCurrencyCode property to the storefront_api_query field to return the user’s active currency at the time of page load.

BigCommerce Payments

• You can now process payments using stored cards and credit cards with the Barclaycard Fuse payment gateway. For setup information, see Connecting with Barclaycard Smartpay Fuse.

API

• Added the Get Stored Instruments(Beta) endpoint which lists all available stored instruments for a customer.

• Added the Tax Provider API which allows you to provide business-to-consumer sales tax estimates to shoppers on the storefront and to merchants in the control panel; it can also be used to submit documents for tax reconciliation purposes. For more information, see the Tax Provider API overview and Tax Provider API reference.

Developer Blog

• Introducing New BigCommerce Tax Provider API

• What’s New for Merchants in March