Release notes

API

• Recommended promotions usage information is available. Now you’ll have guidance on creating rules for active promotions.

• Updated the Headless Checkout tutorial to improve understanding and readability.

Announcement

BigCommerce is excited to announce a move toward a more streamlined and consolidated public-facing docs repository in 2024. On December 27th, all our current docs repositories will become read-only in preparation for the move into one repository. This change includes the following repositories:

• https://github.com/bigcommerce/api-specs

• https://github.com/bigcommerce/dev-docs

• https://github.com/bigcommerce/theme-context-object-schemas

If you maintain API clients, your source for the most up-to-date API specifications will change.

API

• Added Nexi to the list of compatible payment gateways for raw card data. 

API

Added concurrency limits to the following endpoints:

• Customer Groups

• Custom Fields

• Categories

• Promotions

API

• Added minimum and maximum values for the pagination limit parameter.

• You can not exclude gift_wrapping_options_type and gift_wrapping_options_list from response bodies in the Catalog API.

Developer Blog

• BigCommerce Next.js | A Look Back at Next.js Conf 2023

API

• Added tax zone-based price display for storefronts to the Tax Settings API.

• Added include_dynamic_target_urls as an optional boolean field to the V3 Redirect Import/Export Create Export request body.

Announcement

• We are eager to announce the launch of the newly re-designed BigCommerce Developer Center! We’ve designed the new developer.bigcommerce.com site to provide a first-class experience for any developer looking to build with BigCommerce tools. With intuitiveness in mind, we created the Developer Center to engage users in a flow of discovery and development.

  If you have any feedback or suggestions for the new site, please don't hesitate to let us know using the in-page widget.

  Thank you for being a part of the BigCommerce Community!

API

• Added a digital wallet limitation to the Shipping Providers API documentation. See Incomplete postcodes for more information.

• Added GET and PUT /settings/store/units-of-measurement endpoints.

• Added a 499 response code.

API

• Added the channel_id query parameter to the GET and PUT Locale Settings endpoints.

Announcement

• The new webhook cleanup policy requires the removal of inactive webhook subscriptions after 90 days of inactivity.

API

• Added the limitation of 25 simultaneous PUT requests for the Upsert Price List Assignment endpoint.

• Updated the Price List Record by Currency Code limitations to 25 simultaneous DELETE requests, 40 simultaneous PUT requests, and 50 simultaneous GET requests.

• Added the limitation of 1000 images per product in the Create a Product endpoint.

API

• General availability for GraphQL Storefront API.

• Added redirects V3 import-export functionality.

API

• Added Universal Analytics to the list of deprecations.

• Updated the Request shipping rates response body documentation to clarify that the discounted_cost field is optional.

• Stored Payment Instruments is now open beta.

• The Update Cart Line Item endpoint can now update or delete an existing GiftWrapping.

• Added Best Practices for API Integration Design article.

• Added Keyword Search and View Banner event schemas to BODL.

Announcements

• We are implementing an internal migration for GET v3/catalog/variants endpoint to enhance our API's performance. If you experience any unexpected API behavior on the following endpoint, please check the documentation to ensure all accurate query parameters and API usage.

• The BigCommerce DevX team is pleased to announce the launch of a new GraphQL Storefront Playground. We’ve made the following improvements:

  • Add new GraphQL UI

  • Replace initial tabs with Sample queries navigation to reduce clunkiness

  • Select queries from samples now auto-populate URL parameters

  • Add Explorer plugin to help with query construction

  • Move the URL bar to the bottom right footer

  • Resolve several UI-related bugs