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September 2026
Platform
- Added an Events audit log to the developer console
- Subscriptions now use product variant prices when no separate subscription plans are defined
- Improved TaxJar sync performance
- PayPal orders now indicate when the delivery type is pickup
- Fixed errors when voiding payments that were already voided
- Fixed the cursor and selected values overlapping in multi-select lookup fields
- Improved image fields so an image can be replaced by clicking it
Apps
- Installing an integration app now disables the equivalent built-in integration
- Payment extension IDs can now include underscores
swell app pushnow redeploys functions and the app page when shared code changes, and fails when files are skippedswell app pushnow builds and deploys the frontend on a scoped pushswell app releaseno longer requires git- Fixed orphaned versions and release errors in the Swell CLI
- The Swell CLI now shows where to enable the test environment
- The Swell CLI no longer allows logging in to deactivated stores
- Fixed the
swell create testsscaffold, andSwellRequest.urlis now typed asURL
Checkout
- Added Apple Pay for subscription payments
SDKs
- Fixed options and record cache sharing between
swell.create()instances in Swell.js - Fixed Swell.js TypeScript declarations for ESM, CommonJS, and browser global consumers
- Fixed server-side cookie adapters in Swell.js
- Replaced the
qsdependency with an internal query serializer in Swell.js
August 2026
Platform
- Added Google and GitHub sign-in to the dashboard
- Redesigned the login and sign-up pages
- Fixed deleting tags in stores with a primary locale other than English
- Fixed sales report CSV exports
- Fixed bulk exports failing for large selections
Apps
- Added atomic transactions for apps through the
/:transactionendpoint - Added a clear message when an app is not installed in the current environment
- Fixed array request bodies being altered when sent to app functions
- The Swell CLI now stops its proxy tunnel after login
Sunrise theme
- Fixed an error when installing the Sunrise storefront
July 2026
Platform
- Added the ability to exclude countries from shipping zone regions
- Added discounts that apply to specific subscription plans, such as monthly or annual
- Improved handling of subscription trial periods
- Added the ability to select a custom shipping service on orders in the dashboard
- Added alternative payment methods to the Authorize.Net gateway settings
- Improved Google Pay support for the Braintree gateway
- Orders are no longer canceled when an asynchronous payment fails while other payments are pending
- Fixed stock levels showing as -1 for products that don't consume stock
- Fixed gift cards not saving when added manually after a validation message
- Various dark mode fixes
Apps
- Fixed a crash when viewing or updating payment extension apps
- Fixed app creation on Windows in the Swell CLI
SDKs
- Replaced
cart.shipment_deliverywithrequire.shippingin Swell.js - Klarna payment request details are now generated on the server
June 2026
Platform
- Added PDF downloads for orders and invoices
- Added a lookup attribute type
- Added an action to reset saved data for a report
- Added shipping dimensions to product CSV exports
- Inactive products are now hidden from the up-sell and cross-sell product lists
- The Omnisend integration now syncs the cart or order display locale
- Added a copy button for responses in the developer console
- Added a confirmation prompt when closing an unsaved field table form
- Fixed reports not loading for long date ranges with large volumes of data
- Improved activity loading performance in the dashboard
- Fixed buy X get Y promotions with multiple categories applying the discount more than once
- Fixed products not being linked to all categories when using the batch API
- Fixed subscription pricing showing the store's primary currency instead of the subscription's currency
- Fixed canceled items requiring stock when modifying an order
- Fixed an issue where paying by card created two transactions when the customer's account credit covered the order total
- Fixed shipping services not being returned in test mode when updating a cart
- Fixed notifications not using the display locale
- Added fraud screening parameters and line items to ConvesioPay payments
- Various dark mode fixes
Apps
before:andafter:hooks now fire for child collection events- Fixed
includeand link expansion for app fields on standard models - Fixed filtering, lookup columns, and views for app fields on standard model lists
- Fixed condition evaluation for app content fields in record editors
- Fixed cron function creation when the manifest
kindis omitted - Fixed
swell theme pushprompting for input when the--envflag is set
Checkout
- Customers must now set an account password before paying with account credit in hosted checkout
- Fixed an error in checkout when the account credit payment option is enabled
Storefront
- Proxima sitemaps now use the storefront's host and protocol
Sunrise theme
- The storefront now always uses a light color scheme, so the operating system's dark mode no longer darkens the header
SDKs
- Swell.js now sets the
gatewayandtestflags when creating a card with Stripe or Quickpay
May 2026
Platform
- Added customizable reports to the home dashboard
- Improved proration when a subscription's billing changes
- Fixed asynchronous Apple Pay payments
- Fixed payments with 3D Secure cards on the ConvesioPay gateway
- Fixed the default print template for large orders
- Fixed an issue that blocked editing a customer's shipping address
- Fixed issues with icon and date content fields, and with content field values being cleared when they matched the default
- Various dark mode fixes
Apps
- Added event delivery state to webhooks and functions
- Functions can now control retries, and hook responses are passed back to the caller
- Content views now support conditional read-only fields and action conditions
- Added sorting by app fields
- The
$typequery operator now supports type aliases - Deleting a record now deletes its records in app child collections
- App child collections now expand into the
$appobject - Fixed queries on
$appfields - Fixed collisions between child collections from multiple apps on the same standard model
- Fixed the shape of
req.datain before hooks
Checkout
- Fixed a blank payment step for digital products with a zero total
SDKs
- Fixed the initial shipping service selection for Google Pay in Swell.js
- Added an
onRequestCompletecallback with request timing and retry details to swell-node
April 2026
Platform
- Added dark mode to the dashboard
- Added the ConvesioPay payment gateway, with support for cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay
- Improved subscription renewals processed through Braintree
- Improved order numbering when using a prefix with a custom starting number
- Improved cart loading performance
- Fixed an issue where canceled items were deducted twice from net sales in reports
- Fixed incorrect tax calculations when modifying orders with duplicate tax rule IDs
- Fixed variant selection when creating draft orders
- Fixed an issue where a variant's currency could differ from its product's currency
- Fixed order receipt notifications being sent late or more than once in some cases
- Fixed product option handling in CSV imports
- Fixed a crash when editing variant-level attributes
- Fixed applying promo codes in the dashboard
- Fixed date selection and pagination in reports
- Fixed the email field not updating in profile settings
- Fixed an error when saving content models with short text fields
Apps
- Payment extension apps can now offer their own payment methods in checkout, and charge handlers now receive the payment method details
- Added a
draftfield to shipments, and apps can now enable a draft toggle in the fulfillment modal - Added logs for cron-triggered function invocations
- Added React and React Storefront to the list of supported app frontend frameworks
- Fixed cron functions not running in the test environment
- Fixed functions set to
enabled: falsebeing enabled when an app is installed
Storefront
- Fixed an issue where storefronts stopped working after updating to the latest version
SDKs
- Added Google Pay, Apple Pay, and card tokenization for the ConvesioPay gateway to Swell.js
- Added TypeScript types for product purchase options and subscription plans to Swell.js
March 2026
Platform
- Added order events to the order activity timeline
- Fixed an issue where adding an item to a submitted order changed the prices of its existing items
- Fixed an issue where editing items on an order without billing details reset the order total
- Fixed an issue where custom shipping prices were not preserved when submitting an order
- Fixed an issue where cart items with different prices were merged
- Fixed an issue where product price changes were not always reflected due to caching
- Fixed an issue where tax integrations could be disabled automatically after a single failed request
- Fixed subscription JSON exports to include full subscription details
- Fixed an error when exporting products in JSON format
- Fixed timezone and daylight saving time handling in reports
- Fixed sorting and filtering issues in reports
- Report date ranges are now kept in the URL
- Reduced the frequency of API usage limit notifications
- Fixed reordering of custom fields
- Fixed sorting in collection lists
- Fixed an issue where password fields disappeared when their value was cleared
Apps
- Added the ability to filter lookup field values based on the value of another field
- Content model actions now appear on standard model views
- Added events for app child collections on standard models
- Fixed app child collections on standard models via
$appextensions - Fixed navigation and prefilled values for custom collection records
- Fixed an issue where the app settings tab could go blank
- App settings are now removed when an app is uninstalled
- Fixed invalid event type errors for app hooks on product child collections
February 2026
Platform
- Added the ability to skip subscription order cycles
- Added the ability to resume canceled subscriptions
- Improved total sales calculations in reports
- Fixed live report data to use the store's timezone
- Fixed an issue where product discounts could exceed the order subtotal
- Fixed an issue where customer account balance updates could fail
- Fixed issues with the images field on the product page
- Fixed an issue where the JSON editor could crash when its content was cleared
Apps
- Fixed an error when creating app records with read-only fields that have a default value
- Fixed an issue where app public keys (
app_pk_*) could not be used for card tokenization
SDKs
- Added page, blog, and blog category types to Swell.js
January 2026
Admin
- Fixed issues affecting the file upload component.
- Added support for SMS-only opt-in for Klaviyo subscriptions.
- Fixed an issue preventing lookups in app views from being clickable.
- Fixed an issue where
link.paramswere not passed to child collection entries. - Fixed lookup filters not rendering correctly in custom content model list views.
- Fixed an infinite render loop when switching tabs in custom model record views.
- Fixed an issue where 'Seller Variants' were not loading correctly in related entities.
- Fixed an issue to send the correct unit price to ShipStation when an order has a discount.
- Fixed an issue causing product pages to become unresponsive due to missing custom fields.
- Fixed an issue where products were marked out of stock unless all variants were out of stock.
- Fixed an issue where empty read-only date fields in content models caused infinite render loops.
- Added link handling for app actions and navigation.
- Added Apple Pay support for subscriptions via Braintree.
- Implemented various fixes for content lookups.
- Implemented handling of null collections in ChildCollection rendering.
- Implemented frontend iframe configuration in content models.
- Switched JsonEditor to CodeMirror and added JSONC support.
- Enhanced subscription cancellation functionality.
API
- Fixes applied for custom app release cycle.
- Added JSON field type to content models.
- Improved customer search functionality.
- Updated product API to exclude deleted categories.
Proxima
- Added support for variant routes in Proxima.
December 2025
Platform
- Fix applied to correctly extend data models
- Fixed an issue where duplicate product image IDs in the same record could cause images to be deleted inadvertently
- Fixed an issue where files appeared empty in the Sunrise theme when upgrading its version
- Fixed an issue where content namespaces were incorrectly showing as “app” in the dashboard
- Fixed an issue where the theme editor could crash when rapidly deleting sections or blocks
- Fixed an issue with multi-value content lookup fields not populating correctly
- Fixed an issue where installing private apps could freeze the apps page in the dashboard
- Improved error handling for deleted files via the API
- Improved dashboard UI with minor style enhancements
- Improvements made to app extension event hooks
- Implemented PayPal gateway for direct card payments
- Implemented app extension demos and further enhancements
- Improvement made to apply section class from Proxima theme schemas
- Improvements made to delivery status field accuracy for multi-item orders
- Improvements made to invoice payment handling when updating saved cards
- Improved how the primary storefront is determined when
external.custom_urlis used - Improved layout for minimal account settings
- Implemented admin authentication for app frontends rendered in iframes
- Implemented app extension UI's for payments, shipping, and taxes
- Improved tab support for custom content models in edit and new views
- Raised the frontend API maximum
limitparameter from 100 to 1,000
November 2025
Platform
- Fixed an issue with the PayPal integration connection with test vs live environments
- Fixed subscription notifications not using the account’s shipping and billing data correctly
- Fixed an issue where subscription paused notifications were being triggered incorrectly
- Fixed an issue where stock levels were not updating during JSON-based product imports
- Fixed an issue where the CLI
swell logincommand was getting stuck during login on remote machines - Fixed an issue where purchase links were not updating after custom domain reconnection
- Fixed an issue where certain fields were not getting cleared when changing discount types
- Fixed an issue causing the draft order page to freeze
- Fixed caching issues when using the CLI
swell theme devcommand - Improvement made to prevent order creation when an authorized payment can’t be charged
- Improvements made to optimize reporting functionality
- Added the ability to select multiple status options for order filtering
Storefront
- Fixed an issue where the Sunrise theme version update could cause the editor not to load
- Fixed an issue where the color scheme name could be too long
- Added sitemap.xml generation in Proxima on request
- Improvement made to open external links in a separate tab within the theme editor
- Improvement made for indicating a missing template within a theme
- Various fixes and improvements for 3rd-party theme support
Sunrise theme
- Fixed an issue where category menus were not loading the correct products
- Fixed an issue where font settings were being overwritten
Checkout
- Added VAT and Tax ID fields to hosted checkout settings
- Added Sezzle payment integration
October 2025
Platform
- Added the number of paid orders to sales reports
- Added integration for Sezzle as an alternative payment option
- Added email opt-in status syncing to the Klaviyo integration
- Added Hono and Angular to the list of supported frameworks by Swell CLI
- Added
tax_idfield to shipping objects - Added “Partially Fulfilled” to the order status filter
- Improved reporting functionality within the Home dashboard
- Implemented shipping selection for Apple Pay via the Authorize.Net gateway
- Minor styling updates across the platform
- Fixed error handling for PayPal intent transactions
- Fixed an issue causing lookup fields with parent–child relationships to crash
- Fixed refund edge-case for Google Pay and Apple Pay in the Authorize.Net gateway
- Fixed alignment issues in the advanced permissions UI
- Fixed shipping webhooks failing due to missing shipping fingerprints
Apps SDK
- Added app event hooks and integrations
- Improved the
rendertag to use cached snippet versions - Prevented caching when the theme version is set to
null - Fixed locale flag display
- Fixed issues with block
idandimg_urlvalues - Fixed an issue where the Theme Editor only displayed the default template
Storefront
- Migrated from Astro v4 → v5 and transitioned from pages to workers
- Updated Node.js version in the
.nvmrcconfiguration file - Deployed Proxima to Cloudflare and internal infrastructure
- Implemented HTML responses based on the
X-Astro-Route-Typeheader - Improved error messaging for missing theme templates
- Improved block overlay behavior to disable when the section is inactive
- Improved text editing responsiveness across various blocks
- Various fixes for Shopify theme compatibility
- Fixed inconsistent navigation button behavior in slideshow sections within the editor
- Fixed an issue where updated storefronts were using outdated Liquid files
- Fixed an issue where new storefronts were generated with a development version
- Fixed UI overlap issues with color scheme names
- Fixed incorrect
storefront-idassignments in published storefront instances - Fixed issues with the
cart_addfunctionality
Sunrise Theme
- Added an option for title alignment in the page template
- Added column span settings to featured content section blocks
- Added labels to sections in the editor preview when selected
- Updated mobile styling for the left-hand navigation
- Updated default placeholder images and content
- Improved product price sorting behavior for gift cards
- Improved sorting functionality in the product list template
- Improved feature list block styling and functionality
- Removed deprecated “alt” template
- Refactored section/block overlay handling in the editor preview to avoid DOM modifications
- Fixed bugs affecting collapsible content blocks
- Fixed social media icon color schemes in the blog post template
- Fixed the dismiss button on the announcement bar
- Limited locale dropdown height to 160px and added scroll support
- Fixed display issues in the footer section
- Fixed locale dropdown UI inconsistencies
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