Production Tenant Features
eCommerce & Order Management Functionality
- Pickup SMS Updates: The default SMS template of the Ready for Pickup notification did not include the external order ID or the store’s number, address, and phone number. This template has been updated along with the Ready for Pickup Reminder and Partial Ready for Pickup notifications as well.
- API Performance Optimization: Some updates have been made to the Catalog and Product APIs to improve performance, specifically by adjusting how internal audit logs were tracking changes.
Fulfiller Functionality
- Default Buttons for Custom BPMs: Adjustments have been made to the fulfillment process buttons in custom BPM flows to allow them to better support different BPMs. These buttons now use generic verbiage by default (“Return to Previous Step” and “Proceed to Next Step”) which means they will always correctly represent that steps that they navigate the user to. These buttons may be customized in the FFUI theme to edit this text as needed.
- Advanced Filter Update: The Advanced Filter on the search bar of the Fulfiller UI now returns an exact match of the term entered using the search syntax. For example, entering “Smi” as the customer last name will only return results for “Smi” and not include “Smith.”
Production Sandbox Features
eCommerce & Order Management Functionality
- Subscriptions: When subscriptions are enabled for products, customers are able to sign up for recurring orders of those products at checkout - such as a scheduled shipment of body wash every month. These orders can only be fulfilled via Ship to Home, but the customer is able to select their desired order frequency and opt into a trial period if offered for that product. You can also configure subscription-specific discounts and customer email templates. Subscriptions are supported as part of an eCommerce+OMS implementation or as a standalone solution. For more information about this feature, see the new Subscriptions user guide and the API documentation.
- Discount Updates: New discount options have been added. When creating a discount, you must now select whether the discount applies to one-time purchases or subscriptions in the discount general settings. Subscription discounts will display additional configurations for frequency or continuity order requirements. In both cases, you can also configure order-level discount conditions to require a minimum total quantity and/or minimum number of distinct products in order for the discount to be applicable.
- Variant Properties Optimization: Improvements have been made to the caching of variant properties to improve performance when retrieving this product data through the Admin UI and the API.
- Email Title Updates: The Welcome and Password Reset email titles have been updated to replace “Mozu” with “Kibo.”
Fulfiller Functionality
- STH Consolidation: A new variant of Ship to Home can now be enabled on locations, in which transfer shipments send STH items to a centralized location to be fulfilled together instead of splitting the shipment. This adds a Waiting For Transfer step to the STH fulfillment flow and saves on the customer’s shipping costs. For more details and information about how order routing logic handles consolidation of these items, see the STH Consolidation documentation.
- Default Buttons for Custom BPMs: As a continuation of the FFUI button changes made in Version 1.2210, more buttons in custom BPMs now use generic verbiage by default (“Proceed to Next Step”) which means they will always correctly represent that steps that they navigate the user to. These buttons may be customized in the FFUI theme to edit this text as needed.
- Aramex Support: Support for the “Aramex” custom carrier has been added to the Fulfiller UI, so that users of an implementation integrated with Aramex are now able to select the Aramex carrier option and generate labels from the FFUI without any errors being returned from the carrier service.
- Order Reference Number: The order reference number is now passed from the Commerce service (where it is called the
parentCheckoutNumber) to shipment data in the Fulfiller service. This allows the order reference number to be queried in the FFUI’s search bar and return the shipment results associated with that order. - Custom BOPIS BPM: A custom BPM has been created for a particular implementation that includes a Wait for Payment Confirmation state added to the BOPIS flow before Customer Pickup. This only affects the implementation that requested this custom BPM and does not change any existing BOPIS processes.
Search Functionality
- Schema Editor Update: After clicking the Save or Publish button in the schema editor, the Publish button will now be disabled until the saving or publication process is complete. As that action may take a few seconds, this prevents a user from clicking multiple times and causing errors. The button will only be reenabled if the action was unsuccessful or additional changes are made in the editor.