Dev Center Updates

API Announcement for January 26, 2024

2024-01-26T19:53:29.763Z

Announcement

BigCommerce for WordPress Plugin Update Required!

We have deployed a fix for a recent vulnerability found with the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin.

To prevent security vulnerabilities, please upgrade your plugin by following the steps below.

Navigate to your WordPress website and log in as an admin.
In the sidebar, select "Plugins".
Select the "update now" hyperlink for the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin.
Wait for the upgrade to finish.

API Updates and Announcement for January 25, 2024

2024-01-25T18:06:47.122Z

Payments

We’re happy to announce the ability to use stored Braintree ACH accounts in the Payments API. Now customers can store their bank accounts in a BigCommerce store and use it for recurring payments.
The newly-released Square V2 payment gateway is available for stored instrument data. See the list of compatible payment gateways.

Announcement

The Dev Center now contains a UX Writing Guide for developers using BigDesign in their apps and implementations. Developers can now make their apps feel more seamlessly integrated into the BigCommerce control panel. Many thanks to the Product Design team for all their work on this!

Developer Blog

High-Risk Permissions Now Available!

API Updates for January 18, 2024

2024-01-18T18:40:57.997Z

Announcement

Hi Devs! We added a submitContactUs mutation to our GraphQL Storefront API, enabling a frontend customer feedback experience. This feature relies on reCaptcha for security and requires the customer to supply, at minimum, an email and comments. It also supports optional fields such as fullName, phoneNumber, orderNumber, companyName, and rmaNumber. This mutation also provides descriptive results for errors that can occur, including the failing field, what caused the error, and a description of the error. For more details, see the GraphQL Storefront Playground for your store or sandbox and experiment with the submitContactUs mutation.

Bug Fix

Fixed a typo in Deprecation and Sunset Support for Node-sass. Now, you can see potential changes and reevaluate changes by running the following commands.
stencil scss-autofix --dry
stencil scss-autofix

API Announcement for January 16, 2024

2024-01-16T20:33:32.143Z

Announcement

A valued partner has done the heroic work of making the OAS operation IDs programmatic across our public APIs. The operationId property is now consistently camelCase and relates to the plain-language name of the endpoint. You can use operation IDs as basis for the method name in a generated SDK.

API Announcement for January 8, 2024

2024-01-08T19:44:15.163Z

Announcement

Attention, developers! Google Chrome is starting to restrict 3rd-party cookies. Google made the announcement some time ago, but it's now in effect for 1% of Chrome users, and we expect that number to grow. Many of our app store apps use cookies to manage things like user session or analytics. If you maintain apps or storefront integrations that use 3rd-party cookies, please see Google's article on the changes (developers.google.com) and update your code.

API Announcement for December 28, 2023

2023-12-28T18:13:11.909Z

Announcement

As of December 27, 2023, you can find all the public BigCommerce DevDocs at https://github.com/bigcommerce/docs.

Previous docs repositories are now read-only due to the move into one repository. This change includes the following repositories:

This consolidation offers a more streamlined developer experience. We look forward to seeing your issues, discussions, and pull requests at bigcommerce/docs.

API Updates and Announcement for December 7, 2023

2023-12-07T18:27:05.507Z

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:

If you maintain API clients, your source for the most up-to-date API specifications will change.

API Updates and Announcement for October 26, 2023

2023-10-26T18:21:10.245Z

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 Updates and Announcements for September 21, 2023

2023-09-21T19:43:26.424Z

API

Added Universal Analytics to the list of deprecations.
Updated the Request shipping rates response body documentation to clarify that the discounted_cost field is optional.
Stored Payment Instruments is now open beta.
The Update Cart Line Item endpoint can now update or delete an existing GiftWrapping.
Added Best Practices for API Integration Design article.
Added Keyword Search and View Banner event schemas to BODL.

Announcements

We are implementing an internal migration for GET v3/catalog/variants endpoint to enhance our API's performance. If you experience any unexpected API behavior on the following endpoint, please check the documentation to ensure all accurate query parameters and API usage.
The BigCommerce DevX team is pleased to announce the launch of a new GraphQL Storefront Playground. We’ve made the following improvements:
- Add new GraphQL UI
- Replace initial tabs with Sample queries navigation to reduce clunkiness
- Select queries from samples now auto-populate URL parameters
- Add Explorer plugin to help with query construction
- Move the URL bar to the bottom right footer
- Resolve several UI-related bugs

API Updates and Announcement for September 7, 2023

2023-09-07T18:36:16.679Z

API

Added the new API property of generated_tracking_link to the Shipments API.
Added the new API property of discounted_total_inc_tax for the API response for List Order Products and Get an Order Product endpoints.

Announcement

We are implementing an internal migration for the following endpoints to enhance our API's performance:

If you experience any unexpected API behavior on the following endpoints, please check the documentation to ensure all accurate query parameters and API usage.