17 June 2020 (8.8.1)

Foundation Admin

The following feature has been implemented in the Foundation Admin:

  • A basic Google Analytics Report dashboard has been implemented in the Store Ops page. [SPS-527]

Merchandising Admin

The following bug has been fixed in the Merchandising Admin console:

  • Latency issue in a Milestone’s Preview section in the Merchandising Admin console which was encountered in the Mac machine has been resolved. [SECOM-49594]

Bug Fixes in Storefront Orchestration

The following bug has been fixed in the Storefront Orchestration service:

  • The issue of merging carts into a single cart for up to 3 stores has been fixed. [SPS-534]

Technical Improvements

  • The maximum column limit of the Catalog import feed has been increased from 100 to 200. [SECOM-49411]
  • The evictor policy of Pentaho HTTP Components has been updated from -1 to 1000 millisecond. [SECOM-49899]

05 June 2020 (8.8.0)

Release Changes for Skava Commerce Microservices

Accounts Service

The following new feature or enhancement has been implemented in the Accounts service for this release:

  • Allows a buyer org user to place orders within the budget limits of the cost center. [SECOM-47611]

Cart Service

The following new feature or enhancement has been implemented in the Cart service for this release:

  • Displays a warning message stating that there no shipping methods available when dangerous goods are added to the cart with the military address. [SECOM-47276]

Feeds Service

The following new feature has been implemented in the Feeds service for this release:

  • Ability to enter a maximum number of quantities that can be preordered for a particular SKU. This is entered in the Preordered Quantity column of the Bin-Item sheet. [SECOM-47613]

Inventory Service

The following new feature or enhancement has been implemented in the Inventory service for this release:

  • Ability to add or remove any number of backorder items to a cart in the checkout page or while placing an order. [SECOM-47449]

Loyalty Service

The following new features or enhancements  have been implemented in the Loyalty service for this release:

  • Ability to view the loyalty history details on the customer’s My Account page. [SECOM-47271]
  • Ability to configure the gift item in a promotion rule with the priority. [SECOM-47272]
  • Ability to redeem the loyalty points with business conditions, such as redeeming a maximum configured points for a given month, redeeming any particular item or category more than the maximum configured points, etc. [SECOM-47273]
  • Ability to configure the number of consecutive months and the loyalty point conversion percentage based on customer longevity in the program, which will enable the customers to earn the points based on their tier. [SECOM-47274]
  • Allows a CSR admin to change the eligibility criteria and reward rules. [SECOM-47277]
  • Allows a CSR admin to remove credits from a member’s account. [SECOM-47279]
  • Ability to calculate and apply reward points on a monthly basis. [SECOM-47283]
  • Ability to expire the unused loyalty points after 12 months. [SECOM-47286]

Order Service

The following new features or enhancements  have been implemented in the Order service for this release:

  • Ability to place an order even when there is no inventory available. [SECOM-47333]
  • Allows a buyer org user to place orders within the budget limits of the cost center. [SECOM-47612]

Storefront Orchestration Service

The following new features or enhancements  have been implemented in the Storefront Orchestration service for this release:

  • Ability to place orders only within the available budget of the cost center. [SECOM-42214]
  • Ability to view and apply promotions based on the account to which the user belongs to. [SECOM-47047]
  • Support has been provided for mapping a user to more than one cost center by a buyer admin. [SECOM-47324]
  • Ability to add or remove any number of backorder items to a cart in the checkout page or while placing an order by a customer. [SECOM-47448]

Subscription Service

The following new features or enhancements  have been implemented in the Subscription service for this release:

  • The following features have been implemented as part of the ticket [SECOM-47266]:
    • Ability to view subscription’s product image, name, quantity subscribed, frequency, and price.
    • Ability to update the quantity and frequency.
    • Ability to skip the next delivery from the subscription recurring order.
    • Ability to cancel the subscription by selecting the delete icon.
  • Ability to update the shipping address and payment method in the Subscription dashboard from the Customer Service page. [SECOM-47267]
  • Ability to update the immediate processing date of the subscription for a particular user. [SECOM-47269]
  • Ability to distinguish between order placed as subscriptions and one-time order(s).  [SECOM-47278]
  • The following features have been implemented as part of the ticket [SECOM-47285]:
    • Ability to merge all the recurrence subscriptions in the same month as a single order.
    • Ability to display the next month’s subscription if the subscription order is already processed for the current month.

Release Changes for Skava Commerce Admin Consoles

Catalog Admin

  • Ability to define if a SKU is pre-orderable. For the pre-orderable SKU, the option to set a date of availability post which the SKU cannot be preordered has been provided. [SECOM-47447]

Foundation

  • The Feed History tab has been enhanced to display service name and summary for each feed. [SECOM-47321]
  • Ability to provide account-based promotion offers while returning, replacing, or exchanging item(s). [SECOM-47782]

Order Admin

  • Allows a buyer org user to place orders within the budget limits of the cost center. [SECOM-47610]
  • Allows a CSR to filter for orders and customers based on the account ID. [SECOM-47780]
  • The following changes have been implemented as part of the ticket [SECOM-47905]:
    • Allows a CSR to return, replace, exchange, correct the orders placed by buyer org users.
    • Considers initial address and payment methods in the checkout screen.

Other Release Changes

Framework

  • In addition to AWS Secrets Manager, support for Azure Key Vault has been introduced at the framework level for storing secrets required for the application to work. [SECOM-48597]
  • The webbox folder, etl folder, and build.yml file have been packaged into a config binary for breaking the code dependency of deliverables. [SECOM-48599]
  • Support for comma-separated multiple packages has been provided for entity scan so that plugins or entities present in various package names can be loaded into the Spring Boot context. [SECOM-48600]

Technical Improvements

  • The tag was getting rendered instead of plain text for Team and Cost Center in the Users tab of the Accounts Admin console. Now, this issue has been resolved. [SECOM-48581]

Revision History

2020-06-17 | JP – Added Release 8.8.1 content.
2020-06-05 | JP – Added June 2020 release 8.8.0 content.