Updated 10 August 2020 | Khrystyna Oliinyk

Welcome to the monthly edition of new features, updates and improvements from API2Cart! Here is a list of some highlights: live shipping rate methods for Shopify and WooCommerce, webhooks for Shopify, BigCommerce and Magento, new and optimized methods for Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Shopify.

1. Work with live shipping rates on Shopify and WooCommerce stores.

New methods basket.live_shipping_service.list, basket.live_shipping_service.create and basket.live_shipping_service.delete have been added for Shopify and WooCommerce.

2. Use real-time shipping rates provided by third-party shipping services on WooCommerce.

We’ve added Live Shipping 4 WooCommerce plugin on WordPress repository which makes it possible to work with live shipping services. You can download it here.

3. Get notified about new products added to the basket (shopping cart) and any basket updates on Shopify and BigCommerce.

We’ve added basket.add and basket.update webhook events for Shopify and BigCommerce.

4. Get notifications when child item products are added or updated.

Product.child_item.add and product.child_item.update webhook events have been added for Magento.

5. Get info on child items on Magento stores.

We’ve added product.child_item.info method for Magento.

6. Retrieve order lists excluding some orders.

New parameter skip_order_ids has been added to order.list method for Magento, OpenCart Prestashop and WooCommerce.

7. Add tracking number and tracking url to shipments using order.shipment.tracking.add method.

We've added order.shipment.tracking.add method for BigCommerce and Magento

8. Benefit from improved Shopify and BigCommerce integrations.

The following features have been added for these shopping carts:

  • basket_id parameter has been added to order.list method
  • basket_id field has been added to response structure in order.list method

9. Get basket ids of abandoned orders on Shopify.

We’ve added field basket_id to response structure in order.abandoned.list method for Shopify.

10. We’ve updated our bridge, so make sure you use new bridge version. See the current bridge version here.

We are also glad to announce future updates: support of live shipping rates for Magento, new method for Demandware, webhooks for WooCommerce and Magento.

To see updates in details, check out our release notes and upcoming changes. If you have a new feature you want API2Cart to support, feel free to contact us. API2Cart makes integration with shopping carts and marketplaces so much easier.

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