Release notes

API

• Happy to announce rate limits are now available for the Create a Customer Address endpoint.

• The Carts and Checkout Storefront APIs now allow adding, updating, and deleting gift wrapping to lineItems similar to the REST Management APIs. 

• Deprecated the view_count field for products in the Catalog API to improve platform performance.

• The newly released Delete Locations endpoint of the Locations API allows you to delete locations that do not have open transaction associated with them. Now you can remove an incorrectly added location or a location that is interfering with a workflow.

Bug Fix

• Fixed a GraphQL bug related to price fields displaying even when Show Product’s Price is disabled in the Settings>Display>Product Settings section of the control panel.

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.