Bolt General Availability(GA) releases are full product or product feature releases intended for the public at large. When a product reaches GA, it becomes available as ready-to-use for the intended audience. Additional target audiences may be added in the future. This page lists past Bolt GA Releases with associated notes. The releases are arranged by date.
Note — For Magento Commerce, those with GitHub project access can review the changelog here.
Releases are divided into:
- General Releases — Large feature releases, product releases, and notable Plugin enhancements. GA releases and notes are released on Fridays.
- Maintenance Releases and Fixes — Small feature enhancements and issue resolutions. Bolt maintenance releases and fixes launch Monday through Thursday. The notes are collated and posted on Fridays.
2/14 — General Release
- Product Page Checkout — (Magento Commerce(M2)) Customers can click 'Buy now' this will create a new cart with this item only and any selected quantities and options, and their cart on the website will be preserved.
- Advanced Checkout Customization — We have added three types of customization options within the checkout modal (exact scope TBD by tech spec):
- Color, font, and styling of core elements (fields, radio buttons, and buttons).
- Custom notices.
- Customization of the copy.
- Remove Bolt's Success Page (Redirect to merchant confirmation) — After customers complete checkout, they are shown a Bolt success page with a 5-second countdown. They are then redirected to the merchant’s order success page. Bolt will provide the option to remove the Bolt success page. This may improve conversion metrics for some merchants. Customers sometimes leave the site before being redirected to the merchant’s success page and some merchants use that page to track conversion. See: Bolt Checkout Walkthrough, Purchase with a Bolt Account, Creating a Bolt Account.
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Admin Settings in Merchant Dashboard — Today we have a number of merchant-specific settings that are only accessible through Bolt’s internal controls. We are moving a number of settings from internal control to the Bolt Merchant Dashboard, putting these settings directly in the hands of merchants. Settings include Checkout Settings and Shopper Notification Settings.
2/13 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- New — Allows merchants to specify for each shipping option the Avalara taxcode as "tax_code" during the shipping_and_tax webhook call.
- New — Opening and closing the checkout modal will now retain the scroll position on the page.
2/7 — General Release
- New — Prefill City/State from Entered ZIP — When a shopper enters a US ZIP code into an address form and then tabs or clicks into the next field, the city/state fields are immediately updated. If the ZIP code maps to multiple cities/states, then the most likely site is used. If the ZIP code is invalid, the shopper will see the current invalid ZIP error message. If the ZIP code is valid but does not correspond to any city/state, then the city/state fields won’t change. If the shopper returns to the ZIP field changes the ZIP to a new one and then exits the filed, the city/state will update again. The ZIP code won’t cause the city/state fields to prefill if the shopper uses any non-typing method. For example, if the shopper uses Google Autocomplete or other autofill. In these cases, Bolt will use the ZIP/city/state as provided by the autofill.
2/6 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Add — The phone verification step will have a fade-in animation.
- Add — Back navigation to the Shipping page in multi-step checkout and the Payment page in single-step checkout when the shopper clicks the browser's back button during phone verification. This available for guest checkout only.
Plugins
- Magento 1 plugin v 2.2.0
- Improved Bolt-side metrics and logging
- Improved pre-authorization workflow by cleaning up abandoned failed orders
- Improved code coverage to 71%
- Fixed issue where inventory was not added back when orders were rejected
- Various bug fixes
- WooCommerce plugin 2.4.0
- Support for WooCommerce 3.9.1
- Removed duplicate plugin settings - ‘quick_checkout_button_class’
- Fixed an issue where Product Page checkout and Bolt subscriptions work on the same page
- Various bug fixes and plugin performance enhancement
1/31 — General Release
- Transaction Events Report — Add an additional Export Payment Events button within the merchant dashboard that will enable merchants to download this extended CSV report.
- The Payment Events CSV will contain:
- event_type - The type of event captured (e.g. Authorized, Failed Authorization, etc…)
- date (UTC) - DateTime of the event in UTC.
- date (Local) - DateTime of the event in the merchant’s timezone.
- Transaction_reference
- order_reference
- amount - Amount associated with the event. In most cases, this will be the total amount of the transaction. In cases of captures, it will only be the captured amount.
- Currency - Currency associated with the transaction/event.
- The Payment Events CSV will contain:
- Upgraded Monitoring —This addition to our plugin gives Bolt more visibility into what’s happening on a merchant’s site through logging and analytics. With this improvement to the plugins, Bolt will be able to more proactively detect issues, even if they’re caused by the merchant, and attempt to fix them or proactively notify the merchant.
1/30 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Add — Customers will see a tooltip when hovering the question mark on the phone verification page.
- Add —merchants now have the option to make a company name a required field.
1/24 — General Release
1/23 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- DB connection pool tuning — General improvements to the database.
- Add — Email and phone input fields will be highlighted during the login transition screen.
- Add — The discount apply button will be underlined and bolded on focus.
Plugins
- Salesforce Commerce cloud plugin 20.1.0
- One (1) deliverable with 2 cartridges / platforms
- SiteGenesis Certified
- SFRA Certified (this is a new plugin)
- An improved gift card and discount logic
- Support for ApplePay, Paypal, and Afterpay
- One (1) deliverable with 2 cartridges / platforms
1/17 — General Release
- Enabling Location-Based Shipping Restrictions — Merchants can use location-based shipping restrictions in their Bolt Checkout. These assist merchants that cannot ship their products to specific states or countries.
- Multi-Currency Support — Bolt provides multi-currency (non-U.S. Dollar(USD)) support. The support for multi-currency varies depending upon the ecommerce platform you are using.
1/16 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
1/10 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
1/9 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- WooCommerce plugin 2.3.0
- Support for WooCommerce 3.8.1
- Various bugs and performance fixes
- Add — Address verification, if google does not return a street number, keep the original input (with the number) and trigger 'verify your address?' warning.
- Change — Payment notification emails will be sent a few minutes later.
- Fix — phone and email input will be hidden in the phone verification step.
1/3 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
1/2 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Add — Change to the currency symbol for non-USD dollars to something like "ca$", "au$", etc.
12/27 — General Release
Holiday Code Freeze Ends
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
12/26 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Back Button — In Bolt Checkout a shopper can click the forward button in the browser to advance a step. This is only available if they clicked the back button to go back to the previous step.
- Add — Paypal can now be shown as a payment option within the single-step checkout.
12/20 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
12/19 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Change — On the Bolt Merchant dashboard, changed the text on the 'Export CSV' button to 'Export Transactions.'
12/13 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
12/12 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Fix — The input error behavior has been updated to show the error on focus and not show error once the user starts typing.
- Fix — The first error field in a checkout page will now autofocus.
12/6 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
12/5 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
Holiday Code Freeze Begins
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
11/29 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
11/28 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
11/22 — General Release
- Tax Integration (Avalara) — Many merchants partner with a tax provider like Avalara to help them calculate, and file, taxes for their orders. As a merchant, you must complete a few steps to integrate Avalara into a site using Bolt successfully.
- Deployment Pipeline Overhaul — Recent feedback indicated that on occasion Bolt assets were being served uncompressed. The research concluded the content delivery network(CDN) was compressing on a best effort basis and Bolt were hitting the limits. Bolt engineering has re-written Bolt's entire asset deployment pipeline to guarantee compression. In addition, Bolt has enhanced the pipeline by enabling Brotli. Brotli is 16% more efficient for compression than Gzip, which is what most sites use. Furthermore, Brotli is now supported by 92% of browsers on the market.
- BigCommerce: Custom checkboxes — Custom checkboxes allow retailers to configure a number of opt-ins for shoppers to engage with during the checkout experience. These are important in two ways: first, it’s an opportunity for retailers to build relationships with their shoppers, and second, for certain industries or businesses, it’s a required setting to collect
- Merchant Notifications — We will add the following email notifications along with the ability to enable or disable them on a per merchant dashboard user basis:
- Transaction Events
- Refund
- Upcoming Auth Expiration
- Cancel
- Recently Rejected
- Settlement Events
- Daily Settlement Email
- Monthly Statement
- Transaction Events
11/21 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
Plugins
- Magento Commerce plugin 2.1.0
- Support Paypal payment
- Support BSS store credit (3rd party plugin)
- Added additional Merchant tracking metrics
- WooCommerce plugin 2.1.0
- Add support for multi-currency shop
- Performance improvements on handling cache of shipping and tax endpoint
- Performance improvements when writing cart session to merchant DB only when creating new bolt cart
11/15 — General Release
- BigC: Pre-Auth and Backend Order Creation
- Address Validation Refresh — For this project, we will be proactively updated addresses based on validation. This will catch mistakes in the address (Zip Code, wrong street extension, etc…). We will also give users the ability to view and then opt-out of our correction.
11/14 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
11/8 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
11/7 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
11/1 — General Release
Plugins
- Magento Commerce plugin 2.0.3
- Improved data logging
10/31 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
10/25 — General Release
- Merchant Site Events Data Collection — Bolt is expanding it's on merchant site data collection. Why is Bolt tracking all this data? To ensure we can create the best possible purchasing experience while reducing fraud we need to understand how users are behaving throughout their purchasing flow.
- Product Page Checkout — (WooCommerce) Customers can click 'Buy now' this will create a new cart with this item only and any selected quantities and options, and their cart on the website will be preserved.
Plugins
- WooCommerce plugin 2.0.12
- New Feature: Custom checkboxes — Custom checkboxes allow retailers to configure a number of opt-ins for shoppers to engage with during the checkout experience. These are important in two ways: first, it’s an opportunity for retailers to build relationships with their shoppers, and second, for certain industries or businesses, it’s a required setting to collect.
- Support the ability to have payment only frontend and payment only (not indemnified) backend publishable keys
10/24 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Add — Support webhook refund events from PayPal
- Add — Adding the ability to choose notification rules on merchant user invite
- Add — estimated delivery date to Shipping Option radio button
- Add — links to Bolt Merchant Dashboard for editing and deleting users
10/18 — General Release
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
10/17 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Minor Internal Changes and Fixes
10/11 — General Release
Plugins
- Magento Commerce plugin 2.0.2.2 Hotfix
- Removed Paypal support
10/10 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes
- Add — Track modal close events with the back button.
- Fix — Apple Pay bug, 'Cannot process authorization & too many empty tokens.
- Enable — SMS verification autofill on Safari/iOS.
- Activate — Big button numeric keyboard for SMS verification on mobile.
- Add — A merchant division feature to specify what security visuals are shown.
- Add — funding dates to the CSV export for funding transactions.
- Fix — Statements used to display the authorized amount as the transaction amount, this caused some inaccuracies for transactions with multiple or partial captures. The change displays the capture amount instead.
- Add — Display the beginning and ending balances in merchant statements.
10/ 4 — General Release
- Checkout accessibility improvements — Product enhancements to satisfy EU requirements to satisfy Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 criteria level AA., and the US requirements for being WCAG 2.0-compliant.
- Auth Rejection Reporting — For transactions that did not have a successful authorization: Merchants will see a new section called Auth Failure Response and two new fields in the merchant dashboard transaction detail view:
- Code — The failure code returned from the processor.
- Message — The message associated with that code.
Plugins
- Magento 1 plugin 2.0.2
- Improvements to Pre Auth logic
- WooCommerce plugin 2.0.11
- Deprecated support for WooCommerce below 3.0.0
- Performance improvements to in-store pickup
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