We are excited to announce the beta launch of the new BigCommerce Dev Center!

Our Vision
Your feedback is truly at the heart of this change. Over the past year, our developer advocates, product & engineering teams, and support agents have heard you loud and clear. Developers building with BigCommerce want better ways to get the answers and information they need. We took your feedback, explored the pain points, and made changes to improve the dev docs experience.

Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the documentation, resources, and tools you need to get started building quickly and have your questions answered promptly. We wanted to make the experience of using our dev docs simpler, more streamlined, and more rewarding. And we’re just getting started! 

The new site lays the groundwork for the enriched developer experience and expanded resources we’re excited to introduce over the coming months. We want to empower you to design BigCommerce solutions that meet your needs and exceed your expectations, to engage with us as we create new content, and to know that you’re never working on BigCommerce products alone.

What’s Next?
During this beta phase, the current site at developer.bigcommerce.com will remain live. However, we encourage you to use the new Dev Center at developer-beta.bigcommerce.com and provide feedback to our team. We’ll be actively publishing and updating content on the beta site, making it the most up-to-date source for docs and resources moving forward.

Have questions or feedback? Fill out a feedback form here. We look forward to hearing from you!

We are excited to share that we will be launching a new version of our Dev Center in the coming weeks.

Our goal is to make it effortless for you to find documentation and resources that empower you to think creatively and work collaboratively to develop innovative solutions for BigCommerce stores.

What’s Next

Over the next several weeks, we’ll be posting more information on the official launch date.

If you have questions, feel free to submit them using our Docs Feedback tab on the site.

4.23.0

View release 4.23.0 on GitHub

Added

• In order to speed up the import process running import tasks in parallel was added. The option can be enabled in Bigcommerce > Settings > Product Sync. Enabling it will add an additional background task runs on listings, channels initialization, and product data fetching.

• Added support for customer webhooks, which will enable real-time data syncing between BigCommerce and BC4WP for customer-related data, such as new customers being created and updated login settings. The options can be enabled during onboarding process or in Bigcommerce > Settings > Product Sync.

Fixed

• Improve import process performance, optimize cleanup queries in order to reduce server resource consumption. Perform an additional cleanup before import starts.

Infrastructural changes to BigCommerce over the next 2 weeks may result in some HTTP headers being returned as lowercase which previously had a mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters.

For example, HTTP header names such as X-Rate-Limit-Requests-Left may instead be returned as x-rate-limit-requests-left. Per the HTTP specification (https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2), HTTP header names should always be treated as case-insensitive, so we do not consider this to be a breaking change to the API. Most HTTP clients already treat headers with the appropriate case insensitivity, so we expect minimal customer impact from this change.

No changes are being made to HTTP header values as part of this change.

Theme

6.2.0

• Fix tooltip on close button of modal is shifted. #2148

• Optimized usage of jsTree library. #2145

• Replace schema microdata with LD+JSON tag. #2138

• Translation Gap: Checkbox Option selection on Product. #2063

• Admin Bar displays regardless of setting. #2144

• Fix Loading unnecessary product lqip images on cart page. #2149

• Translation updates November 2021. #2146

API

• Added store/order/transaction/created and store/order/transaction/updated webhook events. Please note that if your application uses the store/order/* scope to create webhooks, it will start receiving this event and should be prepared to respond with a 200 status code. See Handling callbacks for more details.

• Created Widget Builder Guide for the newly-released Widget Builder development tool.

• Updates to the Tools and Resources page and the API Docs' Building Apps section's Quick Start, Guide, and Build a Next.js Sample App tutorial reflect continuing support for app developers.

Developer Blog

• Beta Opportunity: Abandoned Cart Emails API Transactional Email Templates

• Introducing Widget Builder

API

• The Add to Cart URLs example now uses promises to demonstrate using JavaScript to make serial requests to a single endpoint.

• The Add Consignments to Checkout endpoint now reflects limits to the number of line items a consignment can contain.

4.21.0

View release 4.21.0 on GitHub

Changed

• Set “New/Updated Since last Sync” as the default selection in the manual product sync on both the Settings page and the Product Archive in the admin.

Fixed

• Reflects change of the customer's group after full re-sync process: customer should see product prices according to group settings

4.20.1

View release 4.20.1 on GitHub

Fixed

• Handle legacy PHP filter_input bug which may cause situation with empty auth headers and webhook validation fail

• Update existing webhooks with new passwords when enabling webhooks in settings. The update prevents webhook validation issues with old passwords

Theme

6.1.3

• Cannot see currency dropdown in storefront. #2141

6.1.2

• Hide prices for aria-label and data-product-price attributes if set to "Hidden for guests". Hide currency selection for non-logged in users. #2131

• Added basic validation for Account Signup Date Field when it's empty. #2126

• Fixed Quick View modal "X" button focus bubble being slightly off center #2130

• Apply dependency updates (jest & lighthouse). #2132

• Update lang file for FR locale. #2139

• Update store logo to use srcset. #2136