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Announcement Sunset Theme Editor & Store Design Release The Stencil Theme Editor tool has sunset and has been replaced by the new default tool called Store Design.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

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

API Updates January 11th 2019

by BigCommerce
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...
API
Bug Fix
Maintenance
Enhancement

API Documentation Updates

by BigCommerce
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...
API
Maintenance
Bug Fix

Now in Beta: A New, Redesigned Developer Center

by BigCommerce
Announcement
Enhancement
API
Stencil
We are excited to announce the beta launch of the Dev Center, a new version of our developer documentation. This new experience combines API (https://developer.bigcommerce.com/api/) and Theme documentation (https://stencil.bigcommerce...