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Change to image resizing behavior

Starting May 30, images requested via the {{getImage}} helper will always be returned at the requested size, even if the original image has lower pixel dimensions than the requested size - it will be upsized in this case. We recommend...

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Change to Google Fonts to improve performance

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...

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API and Theme Documentation Updates

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...

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New Shipping Provider API Sample App

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...

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Smart Buttons now available for PayPal Express Checkout

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...

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Store Design & V3 Customers API

Announcement Sunset Theme Editor & Store Design Release The Stencil Theme Editor tool has sunset and has been replaced by the new default tool called Store Design.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...

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API Updates January 18, 2019

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...

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API Updates January 11th 2019

Enhancement Taxes are now returned in more detail in the Storefront Checkout API. taxTotal is the total amount of all taxes in the checkout. The taxes object array, returns the name of the tax and the amount. Bug Fixes For V3 Catalog...

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API Documentation Updates

Bug Fixes When a product had a required text option, adding to the cart with the Storefront API returned a 500 error. Enhancement A product_id query parameter was added to the Get All Variants endpoint. This will help with the amount of...