Changelog 2022

2022-12-15: Media Service - public and private assets

Overview

The media assets functionality makes it possible to manage public and private assets.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new asset	It creates a new media asset.
Updating an existing asset	It updates an existing media asset.
Deleting an existing asset	It deletes an existing media asset.
Getting list of asset entities	It gets a list of media assets.
Getting single asset entity	It gets a single media asset.
Downloading an asset	It downloads a single media asset.

Known problems

When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in the Release Notes.

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2022-12-13: Order Service - new recalculate parameter

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The Order Service API has been enhanced with the possibility of recalculating all entries from the order. Users are now able to recalculate prices and coupons of entries.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Updating an order	This parameter allows for recalculation of all entries from the order. If set to true, the prices and coupons of the entries are recalculated. By default, the recalculate parameter is set to false.
Partially updating an order	This parameter allows for recalculation of all entries from the order. If set to true, the prices and coupons of the entries are recalculated. By default, the recalculate parameter is set to false.

Known problems

There are no known problems.

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2022-12-12: Price Service - custom ID support

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The Price Service API has been enhanced with the possibility of specifying custom IDs for prices. Users are now able to specify price IDs during price creation. In this case, the IDs are no longer generated automatically.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new price model	It creates a new price model.
Creating a new price	It creates a new price.
Creating new prices in bulk	It creates new prices in bulk.
Creating a new price list	It creates a new price list.
Creating a new price list price	It creates a new price list price.
Creating new price list prices in bulk	It creates new price list prices in bulk.

Known problems

There are no known problems.

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2022-11-30: Session Context Service - session context

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The Session Context Service provides the ability to manage a customer's browser session context, enabling the application of contextual pricing based on the user's session.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Retrieving a session context	It retrieves a session context.
Updating a session context	It updates a session context.
Adding a new attribute to a session context	It adds a new attribute to session context.
Deleting an attribute from a session context	It deletes an attribute from a session context.
Retrieving own session context	It retrieves own session context.
Partially updating own session context	It updates own session context.
Adding a new attribute to own session context	It adds a new attribute to own session context.
Deleting an attribute from own session context	It deletes an attribute from own session context.

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2022-11-17: Returns Service - returns lifecycle

Overview

The order return functionality makes it possible to manage a lifecycle of an order return. A return can be managed by a customer or by an employee (on behalf of a customer).

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new return entity	It creates a new order return.
Updating an existing return entity	It updates an existing order return.
Deleting an existing return entity	It deletes an existing order return.
Getting list of return entities	It gets a list of order returns.
Getting single return entities	It gets a single order return.

Known problems

When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in the Release Notes.

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2022-11-09: Brands Service - localization and filtering

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The names and descriptions of brands present in the system can now be localized.

The q param notation was introduced to the Retrieving all brands endpoint, so it is now possible to filter the results by every field.

For more detailed information, check out the API Reference documentation for theRetrieving all brands endpoint.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Retrieving all brands	The response body contains two new fields localizedName and localizedDescription. Filtering is now supported using the q query parameter.
Adding a new brand	The response body contains two new optional fields — localizedName and localizedDescription.
Retrieving a brand	The response body contains two new fields localizedName and localizedDescription.
Updating a brand	The response body contains two new optional fields localizedName and localizedDescription.

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2022-11-08: Product Service - product bundles

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The product variants functionality makes it possible to create many variants of a product based on variant attributes.

The original product model is now extended with two optional fields:

• variantAttributes — can only be set to a product of the PARENT_VARIANT type. It defines the combination of variants to be created.

• parentVariantId — can only be set to a product of the VARIANT type. It indicates the id of the PARENT_VARIANT product.

The productType field can be set to the following new values:

• productType — can be set to either BASIC, BUNDLE, PARENT_VARIANT orVARIANT. The productType value is immutable - once set, it cannot be changed during the product update.

New endpoints

No new endpoints have been introduced.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains two new fields variantAttributes and parentVariantId.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains two new fields variantAttributes and parentVariantId.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains two new fields variantAttributes and parentVariantId.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains one new field variantAttributes.
Partially updating a product's details	The request body schema contains one new optional field variantAttributes.

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2022-10-04: Webhooks Service - subscription to events

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The webhooks functionality makes it possible to subscribe to events that are broadcast by the Emporix e-commerce system.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Retrieving all subscriptions	It retrieves all events with associated subscription details.
Subscribing and unsubscribing from events	It updates the subscriptions list by either subscribing or unsubscribing from specified events.
Retrieving a dashboard access URL	It retrieves a Svix magic login link (authentication embedded) and an authentication token needed to connect a tenant to their consumer application portal.
Retrieving webhook statistics	It retrieves statistics on the number of emitted events and provides information on the limit of webhook notifications configured for a specific tenant.

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2022-09-23: Product Service - product accessories / consumables

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The product accessories / consumables functionality makes it possible to define information about related items, like accessories.

The original product model is now extended with an optional field:

• relatedItems — array of relatedItem objects.

The relatedItem object consists of the following mandatory fields:

• refId — identifier of a product that is related to the main product. The product identifier has to exist.

• type — relation type. The type has to exist in the system. All relation types are defined in configuration service under the relation_types key. There are two relation types available out of the box: ACCESSORY and CONSUMABLE.

New endpoints

No new endpoints have been introduced.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.

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2022-09-19: Product Service - product bundles

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The product bundles functionality makes it possible to create products that consist of other products.

The original product model is now extended with two optional fields:

• productType — can be set to either BASIC or BUNDLE. The productType value is immutable - once set, it cannot be changed during product update.

• bundledProducts — a list containing IDs of products that are included in the bundle.

New endpoints

No new endpoints have been introduced.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains one optional field bundledProducts.

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2022-09-19: Order Service - PDF-mashup for product bundles

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The pdf-mashup service allows you to define product bundles in a new way. When the product is of the BUNDLE type (productType: BUNDLE) and contains products' ids in the bundledProducts fields, the pdf-mashup service generates the packlist.pdf and picklist.pdf files that list all products constituting the bundle.

To support this feature, the Order Service has been extended with the order.entries.product model by introducing two new fields:

• productType — provides information about the product's type. Possible values: BASIC, BUNDLE, PARENT_VARIANT, VARIANT.

• bundledProducts — lists the productId and amount pairs that contain information about products assigned to a given bundle.

New endpoints

No new endpoints have been introduced.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Retrieving details about an order (by a customer)	The response body schema of the order.entries.product model contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Retrieving a list of orders (for customer)	The response body schema of the order.entries.product model contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Creating new order (by a merchant)	The request body schema of the order.entries.product model contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Updating order (by a merchant)	The request body schema of the order.entries.product model contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.

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2022-09-15: Product Service - product templates

This functionality is now fully operational.

Overview

The product template functionality makes it possible to define a set of attributes that are common for all product instances based on a particular product template.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product template	It creates a new product template.
Getting a product template	It retrieves a single product template.
Getting a list of product templates	It retrieves a list of product templates.
Updating a product template	It updates an existing product template. Each update creates a new version of the template. Products based on earlier versions of the template are not updated automatically. In order to see the changes (such as new attributes) on the product level, you need to update the product template's version in a relevant Product object.
Deleting a product template	It deletes a product template. All products based on a deleted template will be unassigned from the template, but not deleted in a cascade way.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.

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2022-09-13: Product Service - product accessories / consumables

Overview

The product accessories / consumables functionality makes it possible to define information about related items, like accessories.

The original product model is now extended with an optional field:

• relatedItems — array of relatedItem objects.

The relatedItem object consists of the following mandatory fields:

• refId — identifier of a product that is related to the main product. The product identifier has to exist.

• type — relation type. The type has to exist in the system. All relation types are defined in configuration service under the relation_types key. There are two relation types available out of the box: ACCESSORY and CONSUMABLE.

New endpoints

No new endpoints have been introduced.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains a new optional field relatedItems.

Known problems

When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in Release Notes.

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2022-09-06: Customer Management Service - business customers

Overview

The customer management functionality makes it possible to manage information about your business customers.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Legal entities management	operations for managing legal entities. A legal entity is a representation of a company or its subsidiary.
Location management	CRUD operations for managing locations. A location is a physical address where a company operates, such as its headquarters, office, or warehouse.
Contact management	CRUD operations for contact management. A contact is an employee of one or more legal entities who can be contacted regarding business matters.
Contact assignments	CRUD operations for assignments of contacts to legal entities. A contact can be assigned to a company or a subsidiary.

Known problems

When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in Release Notes.

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2022-08-26: Product Service - improvements

The following changes have been introduced to the Emporix Product Service:

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	Localized fields have been introduced. The Content-Language header has been introduced. It can be set to one of the following values: * — localized fields should provided in the form of a map, where each key is a language code (compliant with the ISO 639-1 standard) and each value represents a translation in the specified language. en — localized fields should be provided in the form of strings, where values represent translations in the specified language. — when the value is empty or the header is not specified, localized fields should be provided in the form of strings, where values represent translations in the tenant's default language.
Upserting a product	In case of a successful product update, a 204 status code is now returned. Before the changes, the status code was 200. Optimistic locking has been introduced. The metadata.version field is required during update.
Deleting a product	The 204 status code is now returned in two cases: A successful product removal. Removal of a product that does not exist.

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2022-08-05: Webhooks Service - subscription to events

Overview

The webhooks functionality makes it possible to subscribe to events that are broadcast by the Emporix e-commerce system.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Retrieving all subscriptions	It retrieves all events with associated subscription details.
Subscribing and unsubscribing from events	It updates the subscriptions list by either subscribing or unsubscribing from specified events.
Retrieving a dashboard access URL	It retrieves a Svix magic login link (authentication embedded) and an authentication token needed to connect a tenant to their consumer application portal.

Known problems

When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in Release Notes.

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2022-08-02: Product Service - removal of a deprecated endpoint

Deprecated endpoint for deleting all products assigned to the tenant has been removed from the Emporix API Product Service Reference.

Removed endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Deleting all products	It deletes all products assigned to the tenant.

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2022-07-28: Product Service - product bundles

This functionality is in preview mode — some of the features may not be fully operational yet.

Overview

The product bundles functionality makes it possible to create products that consist of other products.

The original product model is now extended with two optional fields:

• productType — can be set to either BASIC or BUNDLE. The productType value is immutable - once set, it cannot be changed during product update.

• bundledProducts — a list containing IDs of products that are included in the bundle.

New endpoints

No new endpoints have been introduced.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains two optional fields productType and bundledProducts.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains one optional field bundledProducts.

Known problems

The product bundles functionality is in preview mode, which means the new endpoints may not be fully operational yet. When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in Release Notes.

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2022-07-27: Product Service - product templates

This functionality is in preview mode — some of the features may not be fully operational yet.

Overview

The product template functionality makes it possible to define a set of attributes that are common for all product instances based on a particular product template.

New endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product template	It creates a new product template.
Getting a product template	It retrieves a single product template.
Getting a list of product templates	It retrieves a list of product templates.
Updating a product template	It updates an existing product template. Each update creates a new version of the template. Products based on earlier versions of the template are not updated automatically. In order to see the changes (such as new attributes) on the product level, you need to update the product template's version in a relevant Product object.
Deleting a product template	It deletes a product template. All products based on a deleted template will be unassigned from the template, but not deleted in a cascade way.

Updated endpoints

Endpoint	Description
Creating a new product	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.
Retrieving a product's details	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.
Retrieving a list of products	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.
Upserting a product	The request body schema contains a new optional field called template. The template field consists of two fields: id and version.

Known problems

The product templates functionality is in preview mode, which means the new endpoints may not be fully operational yet. When particular endpoints become available, they will be announced in Release Notes.