2025

Commerce Layer changelog for software updates, new features, and general improvements.

Notifications and new optional headers for external resources, and more

Core API

January 15, 2025

We've extended notifications to all the external resources (with the only exception of external order validation). Now, as a result of a successful response, you can ensure that external resources automatically add notifications to the resource they are called for, specifically:

• External prices can add notifications on the patched line item.

• External shipping costs can add notifications on the patched shipping method.

• Each external payment gateway's transaction (except for customer token) can add notifications to the associated order.

• External promotions can add notifications to the order on which they are performing the discount computation.

• External tax calculators can add notifications to the order on which they are performing the tax computation.

Still talking about external resources, we also added the option to pass two Trace Context headers so that you can easily trace the calls to your external endpoints on your APM. On top of that, we released the following minor (but still relevant) updates to our APIs:

• Shipping methods — to enable the above, we added the relationship with the associated notifications.

• Prices — we added a new timestamp that traces the time at which the resource was processed by the API.

• Shipments — now we try to fulfill the associated order not only anytime a shipment is shipped but also when a shipment is cancelled (useful especially if the shipment cancellation is triggered manually).