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API Announcement for March 4, 2021

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On April 30, 2021, the Coupon API will limit the characters allowed in a coupon name. An error will result if any special characters other than the following are used in the Coupon code field: Alphanumeric values White spaces Underscores (
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Storefront Data Hooks & Theme Updates for March 4, 2021

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Storefront Hooks 1.0.1 Initial public release in support of https://nextjs.org/commerce 1.1.0 Fix useUpdateItem Fix typo in storefront-data-hooks repo Add missing types to the Cart body Resolves#22 Login SSO Accept options in the useLogin
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API Updates & Announcements for February 25, 2021

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API Moved Deprecations and Sunsets reference article to API Docs. BigCommerce Payments Removed Chase Pay digital wallet from the BigCommerce platform. Developer Blog What’s New for Merchants in January What’s Trending in the Dev Community?
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Stencil Update for January 28, 2021

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Stencil Stencil CLI version 3.1 has split the .stencil file into secrets.stencil.json and config.stencil.json files. This change is backward compatible. .stencil will continue to exist on old themes and CLI versions. Developer Blog...
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API Updates for January 14, 2021

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API It is now possible to programmatically configure your store's Product Filtering feature, also known as faceted search, using the Search Filters endpoint of the Settings API . You can now use Contextual Filters to configure the...
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API Updates for December 10, 2020

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API Added Bolt payment gateway to stored cards list Developer Blog BigCommerce Employee Spotlight: Rachel Thompson
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API Updates for December 3, 2020

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API Added new tutorials to Widgets API documentation: Global Regions Tutorial Widget Versioning Tutorial Developer Blog Next.js Conference 2020: Recapped BigCommerce Checkout is Now Open Source Analyzing BigCommerce Data with R How to...
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The qty_in_cart property is removed from the Stencil Common Product Card object

by BigCommerce
As part of an effort to improve the performance of BigCommerce storefronts, the qtyincart property is no longer supported on the Stencil Common Product Card Model. This property will return 0 from now on, and its use is discouraged. The...
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Inventory levels are no longer returned in Stencil context based on settings

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Inventory Levels will no longer be returned in the Stencil context data if your store's Inventory settings are set to "Don't show Stock Levels". Previously, this setting would only hide the stock levels on individual product pages...
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