Merchant Center Releases

This enhancement simplifies catalog management by allowing you to see which products have not yet been added to a Store-specific catalog.

You can now search Shipping Methods by name, Tax Category, and Zone. This enhancement helps you find and retrieve information more efficiently within your Project.

You can now filter Business Units by their status in the Merchant Center.

The Merchant Center homepage now displays statistics only for the Stores to which a user has permission. Previously, statistics were shown only to users who had permission to all Stores in the Project.

Previously, this feature was only available in the now decommissioned ImpEx tool; the support in the Merchant Center eases your work as it eliminates the need to switch between tools.

Previously, you had to download the generated Discount Codes without a preview option and then upload them to your Project. With this enhancement, it is possible for you to review your generated Discount Codes directly in the Merchant Center and upload the Discount Codes to your Project without having to download them first.

The Order search experience in the Merchant Center now gives you faster and easier access to the information needed.

This update introduces a smarter and more powerful filtering method using facets. Facets are pre-aggregated, indexed search attributes that organize your Order data upfront. As a result, searches are up to 50% faster, significantly improving performance even when managing large volumes of Orders.

With this new filtering method, certain filters now display only the options associated with one or more Orders instead of all possible options. For example, if a Project contains five Stores but only three are associated with Orders, the Store filter displays only those three Stores.

These changes ensure a more robust, user-friendly, and scalable Order search experience.

A view is helpful when you have tasks that require different perspectives on Quotes and their various properties. After creating a view, you can switch between any saved views and the table will adapt accordingly. You can also rename, delete, and update existing views.

Previously, you could only update the staged representation of existing Products, and there was no way to immediately publish new Products created by the import process. This change makes it easier for users to make immediate changes to their published Product catalog.

Previously, this feature was only available in ImpEx; the support in the Merchant Center eases your work as it eliminates the need to switch between tools.

Previously, this feature was only available in ImpEx; the support in the Merchant Center eases your work as it eliminates the need to switch between tools.

You can now use Custom Fields as a filter when searching for Business units in the Merchant Center, if Custom Fields are defined for the Business units in your Project.

Previously, this feature was only available in ImpEx. With the added support in the Merchant Center, you have greater convenience as it eliminates the need to switch between different tools.

You can now use Custom Fields as a filter when searching for Customers in the Merchant Center, if Custom Fields are defined for the Customers in your Project.

You can now search Quotes and Quote Requests by company name or submitter. This enhancement helps you find and retrieve information more efficiently within your Project.

You can now choose how absolute discounts are applied to (Custom) Line Items in a Cart. Discounts can be distributed evenly or applied individually to each (Custom) Line Item, giving you more flexibility when creating promotions. Previously, discounts could only be distributed proportionately across (Custom) Line Items.

Previously, this feature was only available in ImpEx. With the added support in the Merchant Center, you have greater convenience as it eliminates the need to switch between different tools.

Previously, this feature was only available in ImpEx. With the added support in the Merchant Center, you have greater convenience as it eliminates the need to switch between different tools.

You can now copy B2B Orders in the Merchant Center. When duplicating B2B Orders created by Associates on behalf of a Business Unit, you can edit the Order details before finalizing the Order. This enhancement helps you increase efficiency when creating large recurring Orders in the Merchant Center.

When adding Associates to a Business Unit, you can now use partial search to find Customers by their name or email address—enabling you to deliver faster customer support and service. Previously, you could search for Customers only by using their exact email address.

When you create a Business Unit, keys are now auto-populated based on the name of the Business Unit. This enhancement is aimed at improving your efficiency by letting you optimize you workflow when creating Business Units.

You can now set addresses or Custom Fields for a Customer when creating the Customer in the Merchant Center. This redesigned flow improves efficiency by reducing your time and effort to manually sign up or onboard Customers. Previously, you could set addresses and Custom Fields only after saving the Customer's details.

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The Shipping Methods predicate builder is similar to the one found within the Discounts area of the Merchant Center.

Whether you are a developer or a business user, you can use the B2B sample data to evaluate the capabilities of the Merchant Center and the Composable Commerce APIs before integrating your own data.

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Our improved Business Unit search provides a more flexible and efficient way to find Business Unit information. The new search filters allow you to search for Business Units through multiple fields with support for partial search to handle incomplete words. This enhancement enables customer-facing teams to deliver faster customer support and service.

By defining tailored product data, you can adapt product information to appeal to different markets and, in turn, increase visibility, customer loyalty, and order volumes.

Our improved Customer search provides a more flexible and efficient way to find customer information. The new search filters allow you to search for Customers through multiple fields with support for partial search to handle incomplete words. This enhancement enables customer-facing teams to deliver faster customer support and service.

The Discount configuration section for Product Discounts and Cart Discounts has been redesigned. This enhancement is aimed at improving the user experience when defining the logic for your discounts. Furthermore, specifying frequently used functions and predicates should speed up your workflow when building discount conditions.

The Merchant Center homepage has been redesigned to provide catered content for business users and developers. With these enhancements, you can accomplish daily tasks directly from the homepage.

Trial users also benefit from their own dedicated homepage. The new homepage for trial users provides a step-by-step guide to assist with exploring the Merchant Center and improving the onboarding experience.

Previously, Attributes were displayed based on the order of their creation and could not be changed.

We have introduced My Views on the Order details page. With this enhancement, you can now save customized table settings or sort order of Order items as a new view.

A view is helpful when you have tasks that require different perspectives on Order items and their various properties. After creating a view, you can easily switch between any saved views and the table will adapt accordingly. You can rename, delete, and update existing views.

Previously, Line Items and Custom Line Items were available as individual options.

A view is helpful when you have tasks that require different perspectives on Stores and their various properties. After creating a view, you can easily switch between any saved views and the table will adapt accordingly. You can rename, delete, and update existing views.

We've updated the navigation menu in the Merchant Center. The new design improves usability and offers a more intuitive user experience.

As our customer base grows, so does the need for translations for our diverse users. Thus, to keep up with growing needs, the Merchant Center now supports a new language—Portuguese (Brazil).

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To manage accurate adjustments to Product pricing, you can now make changes to Standalone Prices and stage them for review before publishing. This enhancement provides you an opportunity to implement a structured review and approval process for pricing changes.

Previously, you could only edit and publish the Standalone Price directly without the ability to stage changes for review.

Whether you are a developer or a business user, you can use the sample data to evaluate the capabilities of the Merchant Center and the Composable Commerce APIs before integrating your own data.

You can restrict the permissions to view and manage Cart Discounts in a specific Store only. Previously, such permissions could only be managed globally for all Cart Discounts in a Project at the same time. However, the permissions set are not exclusive in the following instances:

• Cart Discounts requiring a Discount Code can be linked to a Discount Code created by any user.
• When any Custom Field references Cart Discounts, all Cart Discounts will be visible.

You can now see all Shipping Methods and shipping addresses in the Order details if different Shipping Methods or addresses have been assigned to particular items in an Order. With this, you can now add deliveries with items to be shipped with one method, and other items to be shipped with another Shipping Method or to another address. Also, one amount of the same item can be shipped with a different method or to another address than another amount of it.

You can now modify the storefront display order of Products within a Category in the Merchant Center. This feature offers a drag-and-drop interface to more easily manage the order in which Products are displayed.

The Merchant Center has been redesigned to enhance user experience and usability. It now comes with a contemporary look and clearer visual hierarchy for better readability, along with a range of other UX improvements aimed at improving your workflow.

It is now possible to remove an entire filter or individual values of the filter, thus aiding visual simplicity.

Previously, you could only assign the Product to a Product Selection.

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• Date created
• Date modified
• Created by
• Rank
• Type
• Max code applications
• Max code applications per customer

For performance reasons, the new filters are only available for Discount lists with less than 50,000 entries.

The list of search filters available from the sidebar will grow over time to further improve the Discount search.

You can now bulk assign Products to Product Selections from the Product list. This improves efficiency compared to the previous process of adding individual Products to Product Selections.

• Manage Standalone Prices
• View Standalone Prices

If you have defined Custom Types for Product Selections, you can now assign them to any new or existing Product Selection in the Merchant Center. Based on the selected Custom Type you can view and edit the respective Custom Fields in the Product Selection details view.

You can now manage assignments of Products to Product Selections from the Product details screen.

Once a custom view is created, you can easily switch back and forth between any saved views and the Order list will adapt accordingly.

For saved custom views, it is possible to rename them, delete them, and to make changes that you either update the view with, or that you save as an entirely new view. For any unsaved changes made to a view, you can always revert to the saved version of the view.

Product Selections allow you to manage the availability of Products across different Stores. With this feature, you can create individual catalogs or assortments for your brand sites, regional shops, or brick-and-mortar stores.

The Orders in your Project need to be indexed first before the feature can be used.

• None: No inventory tracking.
• Track only: Order is tracked on inventory.
• Reserve on order: Order is tracked on inventory with the chance to place the order if all line items are available.

We added support for fixed price discounts on line items with an improved Cart Discount creation. With this new discount type, you can model cart promotions like these:

• Final Sale - all articles of the 'Sales' category in the cart for 15€ each.
• Buy a pair of sunglasses for 10€ with coupon code SUNGLASSES (not limited to one pair, all pairs will become 10€).
• Phone accessories are only $10 with the purchase of any new phone (not limited to one accessory, all accessories will become $10).
• Get any 2 shirts for $50 each (not limited to two shirts, all shirts will become $50 if there are at least 2 shirts in the cart).

A new, customizable widget is available in the Dashboard.

With the Total Orders widget, you can:

• View a breakdown of total order revenue data by order status.
• Configure your order revenue data by filtering by a product or by changing the time range.

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• https://mc.us-central1.gcp.commercetools.com (replaces mc.commercetools.co)
• https://mc.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com (replaces mc.commercetools.com)

This change does not affect the functionality of the Merchant Center itself, only existing bookmarks to these URLs need to be updated.

If you have defined Custom Types for Stores, you can now assign them to any new or existing Store in the Merchant Center. Based on the selected Custom Type you can view and edit the respective Custom Fields in the Store details view.

Pickers are implemented for attributes of type Reference in the product details page. This enables you to easily find desired resources when you set attributes of type Reference.

The Orders and Customers search now allows you a fine-grained search. Select the field you are looking for on the dropdown and enter the value in the search input.

• search queries and applied filters
• visible vs. hidden columns
• sort order of the results

A view is helpful when you have tasks that require different perspectives on discounts or discount codes and their various properties. Once a view is created, you can easily switch back and forth between any saved views and the list will adapt accordingly. For created views, it is possible to rename them, delete them, and to make changes that you either update the view with, or that you save as an entirely new view. For any unsaved changes made to a view, you can always revert to the saved version of the view.

You are now able to navigate throughout interactive elements in your Merchant Center Project by using the keyboard only.

Via newly implemented visual indicators you can now recognize a focused element.

This improvement in accessibility helps to increase productivity and task efficiency for both users with disabilities which rely on a keyboard as well as power users.

The new table component is now used in all places in the Merchant Center, totalling 45 locations across all domains.

Due to very low usage we have removed the "My Pinned Attributes" functionality from the product and variant details page in the Merchant Center. Removing rarely used features contributes to better performance of the Merchant Center.

• Manage Categories
• View Categories

The View Categories scope is also included in the template for mobile and single page application clients.

• View Cart Discounts
• Manage Cart Discounts
• View Customer Groups
• Manage Customer Groups
• View Tax Categories
• Manage Tax Categories
• View Shipping Methods
• Manage Shipping Methods

We've redesigned the Product List and Product Search with a more powerful, easier to use interface.

The new Product List is more efficient for large product catalogs and is designed around plain-text searches.

The new product search that comes with it allows you to filter and query through your products along almost every product attribute you define, as well as other aspects of your product data, like assigned categories and more, all while providing better performance.

You can also use a basic search mode, for ease of use, and an advanced search mode, for more powerful, fine-grained searching.

To learn more, see the documentation:

• Product List
• Advanced Product Search

The Merchant Center can now be extended with Custom Applications to cater to specific business needs that are not supported out of the box.

Stores can now be added to already existing customers. Until now, adding stores was only possible during the creation of a new customer.

In the project settings you can now change the order of your project languages.

When creating an order in the Merchant Center you can now bind it to a given store.

The Cart Discount Rule Builder in the Merchant Center now supports users to create Cart Predicate Functions with more than one condition.

If several prices dedicated to different product distribution channels are available for a variant, you are now able to select a channel to continue placing the order with the corresponding unit price.

We have made the process of creating a discount more convenient by providing already existing product attribute names and their corresponding values to be chosen from a drop-down when you are creating a discount rule.

You can now assign and create customers for a specific store in the Merchant Center. Customers which exist for a specific store can only log in using that store's name. This is useful for multi-store projects.

To provide the best user experience for all commercetools Composable Commerce users, on 10 November 2019 commercetools will end of life the Admin Center. After the end of life date, all projects will use the Merchant Center.

Due to the introduction of Custom Types and Fields on Product Price, we added the functionality of a Column Manager to the Variants price list.

You can now create API Clients with stores permissions in the Merchant Center. Stores allow you to model, assign team permissions, and add API Client scopes to specific subsets of your data.

As previously announced, you can now create and manage team permissions in the Merchant Center.

We are excited to announce that on 18 July 2019, we will release an upgraded Team Permissions experience in the Merchant Center. As a part of this upgrade, we are decommissioning permissions management in the Admin Center on the same day.

You can now create and manage organizations and teams in the Merchant Center. Organizations group your projects together, and Teams allow you to assign permissions to Merchant Center users in your organization based on what they do and don't need access to.

For more information, see the documentation:

• Organizations
• Teams

• Filter orders by store created in by selecting Order placed in store in the Filters menu
• Add the stores column to the orders table using the Column Manager
• See which store an order was created in on the Order Details screen

Note: At the moment you can only create stores and orders in a store using the API. For more information, see Stores

The Admin Center signup and password management screens have been deactivated.

It is now possible to reset your password without being redirected to Admin Center.

You can now manage the following project settings in the Merchant Center:

• Visibility of specific group of states relevant to your order management workflow
• URL rewrites for external images

We’ve enhanced the Merchant Center’s Product Discount and Cart Discount list by now allowing to sort by discount name and type (relative/absolute).

The Merchant Center now has a welcome page. This page will greet you upon logging into the Merchant Center and will be the default page when clicking on the Merchant Center logo in the upper left corner. The page provides you with an overview of the different parts of the Merchant Center as well as links to documentation and release notes.

The Dashboard, which was the default view upon login prior to this update, is still available in the left-hand menu.

The "Add Order" flow and the "Orders list" in the Orders section now also support viewing high precision prices and adding custom line items with high precision prices.

The support of tier prices will be added soon.

For those businesses whose product prices require a higher precision than cent amount, you can now view the high precision prices for products in the following views:

• Products list view
• Variants list view
• Variant’s price list view

In the following weeks, it will in similar fashion be supported in these views:

• Manage the price
• Add order flow

Quick Access helps you to look and navigate to almost any part of the Merchant Center with just a few keystrokes.

The Order List now has the following filter options for custom fields:

• Order Custom Field
• Payment Custom Field

We are proud to announce that the Merchant Center is now available in Spanish. As our customer base grows, so does the need for translations to our diverse users. This release allows individual users to choose from three available languages: English, German, and Spanish.

To change language preferences in the Merchant Center:

1. In the top right corner go to My Profile.
2. Under Personal Settings select your language.

With this release, the Orders List gets a quick filter for setting order created ranges. Instead of setting a filter for "Date created" where specific dates are entered as criteria, the quick filter allows you to easily set a relative date range. The quick filter options are:

• None
• Last 30 days
• Last 3 months
• Last 6 months
• Last 12 months

For projects with a sizable amount of Orders, setting the quick filter to, for example, "Last 30 days" is advised to ensure quick results when doing Order searches.

With this release, a new feature called My Views is available for the Customer List. A View is a customization of the Customer List capturing:

• Search queries and applied filters
• Visible vs. hidden columns
• Sort order of the results

A View is helpful when you have tasks that require different perspectives on customers and their various properties. Once a View is created, you can easily switch back and forth between any saved Views and the Customer List will adapt accordingly.

For created Views, it is possible to rename them, delete them, and to make changes that you either update the View with, or that you save as an entirely new View. For any unsaved changes made to a View, you can always revert to the saved version of the View.

It is now possible to set a Custom Type on Orders and Customers. Setting a Custom Type will enable a set of input fields that have been defined as your business-specific data points for Orders and Customers respectively.

With this release, a new feature called My Views is available for the Order List. A View is a customization of the Order List capturing:

• Search queries and applied filters
• Visible vs. hidden columns
• Sort order of the results

Under Project Settings, you can now manage the Channels for your project.

In the Channel List, you can view and filter/search by:

• Channel key
• Channel name
• Channel roles
• Date created
• Date modified

When searching for and selecting an item for an order in the Add Order flow, it is detected if country specific pricing exists for the given variant. If it does, you will be prompted to select which country the order should use for pricing. The country selection will act as the basis for any further item that is added to the order. Should you wish to update the country, you can do so under the Order Summary. When the country is updated, all already added items of the order will have their prices updated accordingly.

With this release, it is possible now to manage Product Types in the Merchant Center.

Under the Settings section, you will find a link called Product Types. Here you can get an overview of all existing Product Types within your project as well as a possibility to update or delete them from here or to create a new one.

The following search options have been added for the Order List:

• SKU
• Postal Code from billing- or shipping address
• City from billing- or shipping address
• Email search now searches in all possible email fields of an order: customer email, shipping address email and billing address email

In addition, when doing search by name or city, the search is no longer case-sensitive.

Regarding filter options, the following two options have been added:

• Payment transaction Id
• Payment interaction Id

With this release, it is possible to prefill the Add Order flow with the content of an existing order. You do so by copying the existing order. You can find the copy button in the Order List as well as when viewing a specific order.

Under Project Settings, you will find a tab called Shipping Methods. From here, you can:

• configure, for each defined zone, the possible shipping methods that you offer to your customers
• configure shipping rules expressed through cart predicates to control which shipping methods are offered during checkout

For each shipping method, you can configure:

• fixed shipping rates
• tiered shipping rates

• Cart value
• Cart classification
• Cart score

Under Developer Settings, it is now possible to view existing API Clients for a project and to create new API Clients.

In the API Client List you can see:

• name of the API Client
• date it was last used
• date it was created

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All time stamps in the Merchant Center will now be displayed in the time zone of your choice. You select the time zone under My Profile. If, for example, a product was created 09/29/2017 3:30 PM in Europe/Berlin Central European Summer time (which is + 2 hours from Greenwich time), and you change the time zone to Pacific/Midway Samoa Standard Time (which is -11 hours from Greenwich time), the time stamp of the production creation will display as 09/29/2017 2:30 AM.

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When setting your Language under My Profile, you also configure the formatting of how time stamps and numbers display throughout the Merchant Center. When choosing a Language, you are choosing a combination of language and region such as en-US, en-GB or de-DE. Below are some example values to illustrate the impact of the formatting:

• 05/24/2018 10:29 PM
• €1,703.50

• 24/05/2018 22:29
• €1,703.50

• 24.05.2018 22:29
• 1.703,50 €

The following filter options have been added to the Customer List:

• First name
• Last name
• Middle name
• Date of birth
• Value added tax identification {/* vale commercetools.Acronyms = NO */}(VAT ID)
• Customer group
• Created date
• Modified date

For projects with product prices in multiple currencies, the Create Order flow will now prompt the user to select the currency of the specific order.

Bugfix - It is now possible to change validFrom and validUntil dates on Discount Codes and save the changes successfully.

The new column 'Times Applied' in the list of Discount Codes informs you about the number of times a discount code was applied (to orders).

Discount Codes can conveniently be added directly from the Cart Discount Detail page. To do so, the Cart Discount must be saved first.

Previously, a Cart Discount had to be created first, and a Discount Code needed to be added separately.

We've enhanced the Merchant Center's Discount Code list by now allowing to sort by valid from or until date.

To facilitate easy access to customer contact related details for an order, the following has been added to the General view:

• customer email of the order
• contact details (such as phone, mobile and email) for Billing- as well as Shipping Address

We fixed a smaller issue so that now navigating from one page to another is easier when entering the page number you would like to access. Just press enter or use the top/down number selector.

Creation of returns for ordered items is now possible in the Merchant Center. You can select items and group them in a return that has a tracking ID and a return date. The shipment status of the return is initially either Advised or Returned. Once created, each return item can have its shipment- and payment status tracked individually.

The bugfix resolves an issue where the validFrom/validUntil date could not be saved in the Merchant Center.

As part of decommissioning the Admin Center, the Project Settings are now available in the Merchant Center. With this release, we are covering International project settings (for example, countries, currencies, languages, and zones) and Tax settings. In the near future, we will add Shipping settings as well.

• Discount Codes can now be managed more efficiently by assigning a discount code group (string) to them. Additionally, groups are supported in the Discount Code list.

In the Discount Codes list, multiple selected Codes can now be bulk deleted or activated/deactivated at once.

• We have added support to search Discount Codes by name, code or to filter by activation status.
• We also improved the channel and customer group selection when creating or updating variant prices.

Custom Fields on Cart Discounts and Discount Codes can be viewed and edited in the Merchant Center. They are situated in an extra tab in the respective section of Merchant Center. For now, new custom fields cannot be added yet.

Until now it has only been possible to view already created Orders in the Merchant Center. With this release, it is possible to create an order from scratch in the Merchant Center.

Another round of promotion management improvements:

• "Free Gift" Discounts can now be created in the Merchant Center. When adding a Gift Line Item as a Cart Discount, the price of this item will be 0, and the item will automatically be added to the Cart once the Cart Discount matches the Cart.
• You can duplicate Product and Cart Discounts directly without having to manually recreate all settings.
• You can control the "validFrom" and "validTo" settings of both Cart Discounts and Discount Codes now. This helps you to manage and plan promotional campaigns in advance.

The Order list view has two more filters now:

1. Line Item Status
2. A custom search query predicate

The following options have been added to the Order List filter: Shipment Status, Payment Status, Created at, Customer Name, Line Item Status, Payment Predicate and Order Predicate.

It is now possible to customize the columns of the Order List. The Column Manager shows all possible columns and allows you to configure the Order List so it contains the columns that are useful for you.

When Customers, Orders, and Line Items have Custom Types set, it is now possible to view, edit, and delete the Custom Fields.

To create a more seamless experience between our Merchant Center and our ImpEx tool, we have added a new Export feature to our Products list in the Merchant Center. This Export feature allows you to easily export all your products, filtered products or only selected products from the Merchant Center Products list.

Product discount Rule builder

Now you can easily apply Channel, Country, Currency, and Customer group rules to restrict your discount to only apply to specific Product prices in addition to any other condition or rule.

Updates in Category List and Search

In our Category list, we increased the number of categories we can load to 200 categories per level. We have done so to provide you with a high performing Category list. If you have over 200 categories per level, please use our Search feature which is accessible with the toggle switch at the top of the page. You can apply a ‘Subcategory’ filter to see the full like of all categories under a specific Category.

Cart discounts

Cart discounts list