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General Availability Release Notes

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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. 
2020 Releases
JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMay
2019 Releases
OctoberNovemberDecember

01/06 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.18.0 

  • Added: Merchants can now recognize Apple Pay orders from their Payment Information as `Bolt-Applepay` in the Magento Admin console.
  • Improvement: We added an optional feature switch that updates orders with failed payment hooks to a `canceled` status instead of deleting them. This can be useful for merchants that use ERP systems. For activation, reach out to your customer success manager.
  • Improvement: Now you can see the cart type and last four digits when reviewing orders from all processors.
  • Improvement: Discounts got a small refresh in the way their information is displayed.
  • Improvement: We did some refactoring for our payment-only checkout flow.
  • Fixed: There was a very unlikely (but still possible) chance that changes to Mirsavit credit applied to the cart did not update, so we made sure it will update every time.

 

12/04 — General Release

Plugins

Salesforce SFRA 20.6 

- Deprecated: `BoltDummyOrder` has been removed from the cartridge.

 

11/03 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.17.0

  • Fixed: Resolved issue where discounts applied to an order placed from the M2 Admin Console did not apply in Bolt Checkout Modal.
  • Improvement: Refunds for Paypal transactions now support an in-progress status for situations where the merchant does not yet have sufficient funds.
  • Improvement: Made general improvements related to Mirasvit rewards points usage such as tax calculations and shipping discounts.
  • Added: Merchants can now selectively configure Product Page Checkout to display only for specific products that have the bolt_ppc attribute.

10/19  — General Release

Merchant Dashboard Feature

  • Order Re-Reviews: Merchants can submit re-review requests from the transaction details view for rejected transactions when certain conditions are met.

Plugins

Magento 2 2.16.0

  • Added: The M2 Plugin now supports product addons (removing and adding suggested items to checkout).
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where shoppers were unable to apply Aheadworks Store Credit to their cart.
  • Fixed: Resolved issues with Amasty Gift Cards being applied to orders placed in the back-office and storefront.

10/13  — General Release

Plugins

WooCommerce 2 2.13.1

  • Fixed: Resolved issue where errors would display incorrect messaging to end-users.

10/05  — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.15.0

  • Improvement: Product Page Checkout now supports cart item grouping (itemGroup)
  • Improvement: Bolt now clears the cached shipping and tax information when the shipping method is changed
  • Fixed: Resolved compatibility issues with MageWorld Reward Points Pro

 

10/01  — General Release

Plugins

Salesforce SFRA  20.5

  • Added: Ability to Ship to Store
  • Added: new endpoint(GetOrderToken) to support Mobile Devices

09/29  — General Release

Plugins

WooCommerce 2.13.0

  • Improved: Updated discount description format
  • Fixed: Compatibility issue with YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue that can cause Bolt checkout button to not display
  • Fixed:  Resolved a cart amount mismatch issue when store credit of Smart Coupons is applied from WooC native checkout page
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue can cause cart loading error when cart item property value is too long

09/15  — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2.14.0

  • Added: Shoppers can now add multiple discounts and remove discounts in Bolt Checkout (Magento discounts only).
  • Improvement: The `display_id` now displays just the `order_id` value in the merchant dashboard and user emails.

09/11  — General Release

Plugins

Salesforce SFRA 20.3.0

  • Added: Discount code usability in the Bolt Checkout modal.
  • Added: Split shipping & tax support.
  • Added: Support for Bolt's v2 webhooks. 

09/08  — General Release

Custom Cart Feature

  • Cart Grouping: Merchants can label items through the Merchant API to enable visual grouping in Bolt Checkout. This can be used to quickly communicate shipping or delivery dates for batches of items in a shopper's cart.

09/02  — General Release

Plugins

Magento 1 2.9.0

  • Improvement: Compatibility changes for PHP 5.4 

08/26 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.13.0

  • Improvement: Improved back-end components related to the checkout experience.
  • Added: Support for the Mageplaza plugin's shipping restriction

 

08/19 — General Release

Plugins

WooCommerce 2.12.0 

  • Fixed: Resolved issue where products with properties that exceeded 1024 characters would not render in the checkout modal. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where product add-ons with variants (such as color) could not be removed from a shopper’s cart.

 

08/11 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.11.0

  • Improvement: Addressed performance edge-cases related to quickly closing store pages and cart modals.  
  • Improvement: Addressed performance edge-cases related to slow browsers and slow site loading.

08/11 — General Release

Merchant Dashboard Feature

  • Rejected Order Insights: Merchants can now view the top 3 rejection reasons Bolt identified when flagging an order as a fraud risk. This can be viewed by opening a transaction from the Merchant Dashboard. 

 

07/29 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.11.0 

  • Improvement: Addressed performance edge-cases related to quickly closing store pages and cart modals.  
  • Improvement: Addressed performance edge-cases related to slow browsers and slow site loading.

07/20 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2 2.10.0 

General

  • Improvement: The M2 Bolt Plugin now supports Amasty’s latest gift card extension. 
  • Improvement: The M2 Bult Plugin now supports the Aheadworks gift card extension. 
  • Improvement: Recharged orders handled in the back office now generate offline invoices and move to a Processing status.
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where the checkout modal was not re-validating discount offerings when changes were made to the cart’s item quantity.
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where shoppers were unable to checkout after removing a discount code. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue with applying discount codes to orders made through the virtual terminal. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where virtual goods with tax added could not be purchased. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where the Gift designator for a purchase was not being communicated to the Admin console.

ERP (NetSuite) 

  • Improvement: Merchants can now use the “isIgnoreHookForInvoiceCreationEnabled” flag to disable Bolt’s invoice creation. This allows certain ERPs, such as NetSuite, to generate their own invoice without any conflicts.

07/09 — General Release

Plugins

WooCommerce  2.11.0 

  • Fixed: Resolved issue with exception handling when the Merchant’s API key is not set. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where Bolt’s cart javascript would interfere with existing actions/triggers on WooCommerce, causing the checkout button to not display.
  • Improvement:  Added split shipping and tax API functionality.

Salesforce CC SFRA  20.2.0

  • Added: SFRA now supports Bolt's pre-authorization workflow. 
  • Added: Merchants can now implement the faster Checkout Button V2.

06/24 — General Release

Plugins

Magento 2  2.9.0 

General 

  • Fixed: Resolved issue where the Bolt plugin modified M2 email invoice settings. Now M2 settings for emailed invoices are properly respected. 
  • Improvement: Captures are now saved in Payment Information immediately instead of upon invoice creation. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue for Plugin Versions 2.7.0 & 2.8.0 where merchants were unable to issue refunds via their admin console or API.

Product Page Checkout

  • Fixed: Resolved issue where Product Page Checkout would not load if the MiniCart was disabled. 
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where product names using special characters, such as a single quote, would prevent success with Product Page Checkout.

Magento Commerce (EE) 

  • Improvement: Improved order handling for orders paid completely with gift cards, store credit, or reward points.

06/17 — General Release

New Feature

Account Login Via Email Code: Previously, via an SMS code was the only way to log in to your Bolt Account. Now users can log in using a code sent to the email address associated with their account. 

Plugins

  • Magento 2 2.8.1
    • Fixed: Resolved Product Page Checkout Javascript errors experienced on M2 platform version 2.3.5
      • Fixed: Resolved issue with M2 Community editions where shoppers were unable to complete checkout if their initial payment information failed -- even after correcting payment information or providing another credit card.
  • WooCommerce 2.10.0
    • Fixed: Resolved issue with placing back-office orders for shoppers without a Bolt account.
    • Fixed: Resolved issue with displaying APM/PayPal transactions within the WooCommerce Dashboard.

06/08 — General Release

Plugins

  • Magento 1 2.8.0
    • Added:  Merchants are now notified automatically within the Magento Admin console when a new version of the Bolt plugin becomes available. 

06/04 — General Release

Plugins

  • Magento 2 2.8.0
    • Improvement: Shipping and Tax calculations are now performed through separate API calls. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to split your Shipping and Tax calculations.
    • Added: Custom API URL validation for the Merchant Sandbox

5/29 — General Release

  • Checkboxes / Notices V2 — Merchants can now add add links to custom checkboxes and notices displayed in Bolt checkout. This update also gives merchant the ability to make checkboxes required.

5/27 — General Release

  • Universal Merchant API & Webhooks Framework:
    • Universal Merchant API — Today, we ask custom cart merchants to develop APIs so that Bolt can perform necessary actions (eg. get shipping, tax, create orders, apply discounts). And the way we ask our merchant to do this was inconsistent, with several endpoints and URLs being created.
      Moving forward, all actions can be consolidated into one API endpoint that handles multiple actions (hence "Universal" Merchant API
    • New Webhook Framework — Webhooks are events that Bolt sends to merchants to update the status of transactions within merchant order management and ERP systems (or other third party systems that they use).
      Webhooks today are limited in two ways:
      • The payload is very limited and lacks enterprise-level details which often requires customization
      • The payload can only be sent to one location which adds complexity to development and integration with enterprises
    • With the new webhook framework:
      • We will send a much richer payload that will appeal to enterprises with complex use cases, and we've made it easier to add new data to this payload.
      • We've also set us to take the next step to allow different kinds of Webhook events beyond just transaction events (e.g. shopper events, order events, checkout events, and so much more).
    • New with the documentation — The user experience is cleaner and more strictly focused on developers that are working with our APIs. We will continue to maintain all documentation related to plugins and plugin integrations to support.bolt.com
      • We’ve improved our API Reference with more detailed references to parameter requirements, specifications for errors, as well as, sample request objects, and response objects.
      • The content has been overhauled and restructured to flow better so that developers can follow the guides precisely with more confidence.
      • And given the new infrastructure of the documentation, we'll be to iterate much faster with continuous optimizations and updates as we learn from the developer community.

Plugins

  • WooCommerce 2.9.0
    • Fixed:  Resolved issue where attributes set to any during product variations setup were missing in payload.

5/22 — General Release

  • Support for more discount types (BigCommerce) — New functionality for gift cards, store credit, and coupon options in Bolt Checkout. Bolt is launching new support for your shoppers to use multiple gift cards and store credit to pay at checkout. In addition, shoppers can now remove coupon codes so they can add a different code, or update an incorrect code.

    This feature adheres to any merchant settings in their shopping cart platform. If a merchant has their platform set to not allow multiple coupon codes or gift cards, then Bolt Checkout will follow these rules as well and reject additional entries. This feature is expected to be available for WooCommerce and Magento Commerce in July.

5/21 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes 

5/19 — General Release

Plugins

  • Magento 1 (M1) plugin 2.7.0  
    • Added — Frontend stock validation for configurable products when using Product Page Checkout to ensure availability.
    • Added — Support to limit checkout to only those shoppers that are logged into the merchant's site.
    • Improved — Session clean up.
    • Fixed —Various minor bugs.

General Release

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes 

5/14 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes 

5/12 — General Release

Plugins

  • Magento Commerce (M2) plugin 2.7.0  
    • Added — Catalog price rule support for back office.
    • Improved — Unit tests
    • Fixed — Various minor bugs

5/8 — General Release

  • Checkout Button v2 —  (For BigCommerce & Custom) Bolt has built a better, faster checkout button for retailers. The v1 checkout button would load slightly slower than the rest of a retailer’s site, leading to a brief ‘flicker’ of the button as it would pop up. Checkout button v2 will load instantaneously with a retailer’s site. That’s a better, more seamless experience for shoppers and retailers alike.

Previous Button Installation

For existing merchants we used the following HTML snippet on the merchant’s site to install the Bolt Checkout Button:

<div class="bolt-checkout-button"></div>

New Button Installation

For new or existing merchants who’d like to use the new button, they’ll need to update this HTML snippet to the following:

<div class="bolt-checkout-button">

    <object data=`${BOLT_URL}/v1/checkout_button?publishable_key=${PUBLISHABLE_KEY}` />

</div>
  • Added — Styling updates to the mini cart and floating checkout button

5/6 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • WooCommerce 2.8.0
    • Fixed — Addressed a compatibility issue with WooCommerce Smart Coupon.
    • Fixed — Resolved an issue with shipping tax calculation associated with a 3rd-party shipping carrier plugin.
    • Fixed — The field ship_to_different_address of WooCommerce posted data was set to an incorrect value.

5/1 — General Release

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

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4/30 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

4/24 — General Release

  • Checkout Analytics and Tracking Pixel Support — To help you accurately track metrics, Bolt provides tracking pixel support. Pixel tracking allows Bolt to send events to a merchant’s Google and Facebook analytics platforms so merchants can see their checkout data. Pixel tracking is provided as out-of-the-box functionality so implementation requires minimal work for you.

Plugins

  • WooCommerce 2.7.1 Hotfix
  • Magento  M1 2.6.0
    • Improved — Apple Pay support
    • Removed — Inventory handling from merchant dashboard refunds
    • Added — Show notice message in the back office when the key isn't set
    • Improved — Error message if the discount minimum order amount isn’t met
    • Fixed — Minor bugs
  • Magento Commerce (M2) 2.6.0
    • Debug webhook now fully available
      • Added — In-store pickup feature
      • Added — Pay-by-link added
      • Improved — Unit tests and code cleanup
      • Improved — Admin page reorganization
      • Added — Support for shipping discounts
      • Added — Bolt account button for order management
      • Added — Amasty store credit support

4/23 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Updated merchant dashboard — text for past order ingestion revised

4/17 — General Release

  • Side Cart in Checkout — Bolt has found that shoppers are clicking the mini-cart 7 times for every 10 times that checkout is opened. Based on this, we ran a desktop experiment across the majority of our retailers to determine whether it would be beneficial to show the expanded cart by default on the side of checkout. This A/B test was successful and led to a statistically significant increase (> 1%) in checkout conversion for shoppers on the retailers included in this experiment.

    Based on these results, we will be releasing the expanded cart view to all of our retailers on Thursday, April 9th, to provide shoppers with a more seamless checkout experience on desktop devices.

Plugins

  • WooCommerce 2.7.0
    • Added — Option to remove default checkout buttons on cart page and mini cart
    • Fixed — Discount total mismatch bug for the latest WooCommerce Smart Coupon plugin

4/16 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Added — Support line-breaks in order notes using shift+enter.

4/10 — General Release

  • Disable Account Login for Landlines — This implementation resolves the case where a consumer creates a Bolt account with a landline phone and tries to checkout on a new device, they’ll trigger the login prompt but not be able to login since they can’t receive the SMS code.

Plugins

  • Magento 1 plugin 2.5.0 Hotfix 
    • Updated — plugin admin settings layout and public-facing wording
    • Added — support for minimum order amount
    • Fixed — Issue where $0 refund was issuing an error

4/9 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Changed — Address Validation: Addresses will now be validated whenever they are changed rather than only when first entered. Addresses that don't validate on the first attempt will still be corrected. For example, if you enter an address with no valid city you will be prompted to fix the city. If you do make the correction but now the zip code is in error, the zip code will be corrected.

4/3 — General Release

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

Plugins

  • Magento Commerce (M2) plugin 2.5.0 Hotfix 
    • Added — support forboltPrimaryActionColor
    • Improved — debug webhook data collection

4/2 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

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3/27 — General Release

  • Past Order Ingestion — Creates an additional row in merchant dashboard checkout settings that has an upload button for merchants to upload past order data.

3/26 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Fixed — Presentation issues with long names in transactions list in Bolt Merchant Dashboard.

Plugins

  • Netsuite ERP BFN v1.5 
    • Certified on 2020.1 Netsuite
  • WooCommerce plugin 2.6.0 
    • Show error on payment when the order does not have billing/shipping address
    • Product page Checkout - when a variable product does not have an associated image, we now use the parent product's image instead of not showing any image.
    • Fixed —shipping & tax mismatch when calculating tax when shipping option is taxable
    • Fixed — rounding issue when applying YITH Gift Card to cart
    • Fixed — process refunds when the cart contains a free item

3/20 — General Release

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

Plugins

  • Magento 2 plugin 2.4.1 Hotfix 
    • Fixed IE11 issue where the Bolt Checkout button did not load due to Promise limitations in IE
  • Magento 1 plugin 2.4.1 Hotfix 
    • Fixed critical bug where mini cart bolt checkout was not working
  • Magento 1 plugin 2.4.0 
    • Fixed critical bug where mini cart bolt checkout was not working
    • Product Page Checkout improvements
      • Simple Product
      • Simple Product w/ custom options
      • Configurable product
      • Grouped products
      • Virtual products
      • Bundle products
    • Fixed — Images for products with variants are not populated correctly
    • Fixed — Now displays an error if quantity is zero for product page checkout

3/19 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

3/13 — General Release

  • Removed — Enable USPS address verification via the Bolt Merchant Dashboard.

Plugins

  • Magento 2 plugin 2.4.0 
    • Various bug fixes

3/12 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

3/6 — General Release

  • WooCommerce plugin 2.5.0 
    • Fixed — issue where some discounts were not rounding properly.
    • Fixed — issue where a Gift Card was not accepted via the discount input in the modal.
    • Fixed — shipping mismatch error when an order uses with a gift card.
    • Fixed — Product Page Checkout issue not showing when Autoptimize plugin is also installed on the site.
    • Fixed — cart tax issue when the WooCommerse option to Round tax at the subtotal level instead of rounding per line is enabled.

3/5 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

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2/28 — General Release

  • Custom Checkboxes in Checkout (for Magento Commerce (M2) — 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. 

2/27 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

2/21 — General Release

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

2/20 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Added — Allows shoppers to zoom text within the checkout modal for accessibility.

2/14 — General Release

  • 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) — Prior to this release when customers completed checkout, they are shown a Bolt success page with a 5-second countdown. They are then redirected to the merchant’s order success page. Now Bolt has removed the Bolt success page. This will 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. 

  • 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

  • Added — Small enhancement to accessibility on the checkout button.
  • New  — Allows merchants to specify for each shipping option the Avalara tax code 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.

Plugins

  • Magento Commerce (M2) plugin v 2.2.0 
    • 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. (BETA)
    • Bug fixes to Multicurrency improvements.

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

  • Added — The phone verification step will have a fade-in animation. 
  • Added — 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

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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.
  • 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

  • Added — Customers will see a tooltip when hovering the question mark on the phone verification page.
  • Added —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.
  • Added — Email and phone input fields will be highlighted during the login transition screen.
  • Added — 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

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

  • Added — Change to the currency symbol for non-USD dollars to something like "ca$", "au$", etc. 

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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.
  • Added — 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

  • Changed — 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

  • Fixed — The input error behavior has been updated to show the error on focus and not show error once the user starts typing.
  • Fixed — 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

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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. 
  • Custom checkboxes (for BigCommerce) — 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

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

11/14 — Maintenance Releases and Fixes

  • Minor Internal Changes and Fixes

11/8 — General Release

  • Custom Checkboxes in Checkout (for WooCommerce) — 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. 

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

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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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