Dev Center Updates

Change to Google Fonts to improve performance

by BigCommerce
Starting May 29, the {{getFontsCollection}} Handlebars helper in Stencil themes will use Google Fonts' newly released support for font-display. The default behavior of this helper has been changed to return a Google Fonts URL with...
Stencil
Enhancement

API and Theme Documentation Updates

by BigCommerce
API Updated Price Lists API to show that doing more than one bulk update at a time will return a 429 error. Order quantity maximum and minimum allowed return a 409 error instead of a 500 error. Updated list of available APIs was updated...
API
Stencil

New Shipping Provider API Sample App

by BigCommerce
API A new sample add was added to the Shipping Provider API. Use it as a base to offer custom shipping to merchants. Sample Shipping Provider PHP & Silex Developer Blog Learn all the ways you can customize a BigCommerce checkout. The...
API
Developer Blog

Smart Buttons now available for PayPal Express Checkout

by BigCommerce
Smart Buttons are now available on store checkouts using PayPal Express Checkout (as well as PayPal powered by Braintree). Smart Buttons can also be made customizable via the Store Design tool with some modification to your theme's...
Enhancement
Stencil

Store Design & V3 Customers API

by BigCommerce
Announcement Sunset Theme Editor & Store Design Release The Stencil Theme Editor tool has sunset and has been replaced by the new default tool called Store Design. For more information on the new Store Design tool and experience, see...
Announcement
API
Cornerstone
Stencil

Optimized One Page Checkout Moving to React

by BigCommerce
In March 2019, BigCommerce will be making changes to Optimized One Page Checkout. To improve rendering and loading performance, we will be updating the underlying JavaScript framework from Angular to React. This update will lay the...
Warning

Handling Customer Sign Out from Checkout

by BigCommerce
Note: This only applies if you have Persistent Cart enabled and are using a custom checkout built with the Checkout JS SDK. Persistent cart is now in the process of rolling out to BigCommerce stores. With this new feature, when a...
Warning

API Updates January 18, 2019

by BigCommerce
Enhancement As of Jan 16th, 2019, you can include information about Product Options and Product Modifiers together in a Get All Products API Request. This will allow you to make fewer API calls to understand the full state of a product...
API
Maintenance
Enhancement

Recent Cornerstone Breaking Changes

by BigCommerce
Due to a breaking change made in the release of Cornerstone 3.0, you can no longer load Cart resource on non-cart pages in the Cornerstone theme PR #1401. While the theme itself doesn't depend on this resource on non-cart pages, this...
Warning
Cornerstone