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our archive includes a summary of updates to sparklayer in previous years april, 2024 🎉 new features 🎉 new features product customisations if you sell products that require "customisations" such as custom text or any other unique requirements, you'll like our latest update! we've just released the ability to support customised products via the sparklayer javascript sdk docid 315unbm85 fwnh6fu9kkk you can see how it works in our video below this allows your b2b customers to add customised text to products within their order and the information is sent through to your ecommerce platform when an order is placed please note this is an advanced configuration of sparklayer and will require a developer to implement on a store that requires this feature please refer to our javascript sdk docid 315unbm85 fwnh6fu9kkk for full details "draft order" visibility in my account we've just released a major improvement to the my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap that gives your b2b customers much better visibility on orders they place previously, if a customer placed an order via payment methods such as "pay on account" or "pay by invoice" these wouldn't show in the my account until the order was marked as "completed" now, as soon as an order is placed, these will show with a new status "awaiting merchant" when you (the merchant) completes the order, these will then change to standard order statuses such as "processing", "shipped", etc you can learn more about order status in my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap 🛠️ improvements improvements purchase numbers to support new order types inline with the "draft order visibility in my account" above, you can now set "purchase numbers" to indicate orders that are currently in review settings docid\ gznstztqcrfflfzstaw0n support for shopify web pixels sparklayer now supports the new shopify web pixel tracking system this will in time replace the need to use the sparklayer checkout script when implementing sparklayer on shopify language support for japanese we've added japanese as an option in our available languages & international docid\ klrs7wtxn3wncdy8z5zvu march, 2024 🎉 new features 🎉 new features company order approvals we're excited to announce a major update to our company users docid wwfewvjy9xrsuncqlfoz functionality order approvals that let teams set role based permissions! via our company users docid wwfewvjy9xrsuncqlfoz feature, b2b customers can invite colleagues and set powerful role based controls on what they can and can’t do (e g some can add items to an order, whereas others can complete the order to be fulfilled) please note, this feature will be launched later in march sales agent order history we've released a much requested improve to our sales agent ordering docid\ uw8mdbmefwwkqzrvb5cqx feature sales agents can now view recent order history pertaining to customer accounts they manage when a sales agent logs in, they'll see this new section on the sales agent search interface sales agent setting overwrites it's now possible for sales agents (with "administrator" access) to overwrite product settings such as pack sizing and min/max product quantities when signed in as a customer, free form quantities can be entered to increment or decrement the line item level quantities sales agent ordering docid\ uw8mdbmefwwkqzrvb5cqx my cart csv file upload if your customers make use of the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t , they can now upload csvs using a barcode as the primary identifier this works in addition to use a sku 🛠️ improvements improvements my cart show stock status if you've configured sparklayer to stock display docid\ gj ao gq6oa jx0d27hys , the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t will automatically show the stock status for any items added it's a great way to give customers more visibility of the specific inventory levels of items in their order product card hide prices it's now possible to hide the total price from showing on the product card interface docid\ mrp z0qizq2qksseujylv if you'd prefer to keep this hidden product display docid\ m3df4f0eyc2rm vuarg9h product stock hide inventory count if you have stock display docid\ gj ao gq6oa jx0d27hys turned on, you can now selectively hide the specific inventory count from showing stock display docid\ gj ao gq6oa jx0d27hys dashboard price list upload multiple csv files it's now possible to upload multiple csv price lists at once when managing your b2b price lists managing pricing docid\ nx9q00ewv kbjxc3tg1ut cin7 core integration multi currency we've upgraded our cin7 core integration to now better support stores that have a multi currency setup please contact our support team to learn more loading interfaces we've improved the loading interfaces that show when the frontend interfaces docid\ ccz1vnh0o6d 722w35xpa first load on a page, making for a smoother experience february, 2024 🎉 new features 🎉 new features dashboard usability improvements as part of our ongoing improvements to the sparklayer dashboard , we've released our first major update to make managing your b2b configurations even easier for the price lists docid\ s8xcbzgxqpgdeigwtxset and shipping docid\ cfz zpgw2umovao73lc5m sections of the dashboard, you'll see a new and improved way to create and manage your settings with our new "slide out" feature in the very near future, we'll be rolling out a brand new customer groups docid 5 lwmnohhjbjjppg9e6vh section that will bring some major improvements to how you manage your b2b customers stay tuned! "purchase status" improvements under the hood, we've made some major improvements to how sparklayer handles "purchases" (essentially orders that can have different statuses) this will allow sparklayer to handle purchase types such as orders that may require review (e g a draft order), orders that may require approval, and a range of other statuses that may be relevant to your b2b operation in next month's update, we'll be sharing how this works and what it will unlock for our customers! 🛠️ improvements improvements frontend interfaces "cart" terminology we've updated the terminology for "order" to "cart" to make it more obvious to customers that products are added to a shopping list this change will apply to any buttons and titles used in the frontend interfaces docid\ ccz1vnh0o6d 722w35xpa this text can also be modified should you want to adjust to anything else languages & international docid\ klrs7wtxn3wncdy8z5zvu frontend interfaces notifications we've improved the display of notifications within the frontend interfaces for actions such as "success", "information", and "warning" messages, ensuring a more consistent look and feel january, 2024 🎉 new features 🎉 new features purchase history reports our headline update this month is the release of our new my account reporting tool that gives your b2b customers even easier (and faster!) ways to place b2b orders! the first report we've released is the new "purchase history by time period" which gives customers a breakdown of all products they've purchased over a period of time (e g by quarter, by month, by week) the best part? in a matter of clicks, they can re order an entire range of products and then proceed through the checkout to complete their order it's a great way to allow your customers to more rapidly repeat order and easily see products they've purchased from your store my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap custom payment method messaging on the final step of the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t , review & pay, it's now possible to display a "custom payment messages" that let you add additional details about a payment method for example, if a customer is paying by "pay by invoice", you could add some additional text to inform them on how this process works cart & checkout docid\ o3ndhzbcxiswh6m6satdt improved messaging within the my account and my order when your b2b customers haven't completed certain actions (e g placed an order, saved a shopping list), we've improved the messaging and how this looks to give a more consistent feel and experience you'll see the same style of "empty state" messaging appear in both the my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap and my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t 🛠️ improvements improvements sales agents "recently access accounts" when a sales agent logs in, they can now see their most recently accessed accounts, making it easier to login as a customer (this works based on their browser session) sales agents search improvements we've extended the sales agent customer search to now include additional data sources the default billing postcode (zip code), first line of address, and city sales agents customers created by sales agents when a sales agent now creates a new customer on the fly, this will automatically assign any "b2b" tags assigned to the sales agent themselves this now makes it easier to filter and segment by sales agent created customers within shopify or bigcommerce my account order history "rrp" pricing when viewing an order within the my account area, if a product has pricing display docid\ s vtljborgmnwjjfsmom9 configured, you'll see this show next to the main b2b price price lists support for 4 decimal places when setting up an automatic price list (e g 50% off your retail prices), you can now specify up to 4 decimal places (e g 24 1245%) product cards selectively hide variant drop downs by default, the product card interface docid\ mrp z0qizq2qksseujylv will show any variants (such as colour and size) and allow the customer to change them if you'd prefer, you can now hide specific variant groups you don't want to show, giving you more flexibility on what's shown to your customers product display docid\ m3df4f0eyc2rm vuarg9h december, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features barcode support we're pleased to announce the launch of one of our most highly requested features, barcode support! if you're using barcodes within your ecommerce platform (e g shopify), you can now display these to customers via our frontend interfaces docid\ ccz1vnh0o6d 722w35xpa and even allow customers to search by barcode in the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t you can also take this a step further and integrate sparklayer with your barcode scanning system, to really automate the creation of b2b orders check out our video below to see this in action! to learn more about activating barcodes, product display docid\ m3df4f0eyc2rm vuarg9h unit of measure pricing sparklayer now supports the option to configure your pricing with units of measure , allowing you to offer discounted prices based on specific purchasing quantities it's a great way to allow customers to order in pre defined units such as boxes, pallets, or cases when setting these up, you can then specify how pricing works for these specific units, as well as handle units that 'fall outside' these quantity pricing & settings docid\ t2ceaosmeohmgzstjcnhe 🛠️ improvements improvements quantity price display in the my order widget if you have quantity pricing & settings docid\ t2ceaosmeohmgzstjcnhe set up, customers can now see the details of how quantity pricing works directly from the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t my order csv import you can now overwrite the default column headers in the csv file import available to customers in the my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap this allows you to overwrite the default sku and qty that is currently available my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t product percentage savings if you're using quantity pricing & settings docid\ t2ceaosmeohmgzstjcnhe , you can now customise how the "savings" column handles percentage savings with the option to add additional decimal places (e g 33 12% off instead of 33% off) messaging consistency we've improved messaging within the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t so that any actions that add items to an order (e g a csv file import, a shopping list), the customer will be shown a notification message informing them if any products cannot be added november, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features custom shipping messages a common use case we see with our customers is shipping rates needing updating after an order is placed perhaps you need to perform your own checks on the order or negotiate the final shipping cost our latest update to our shipping system allows you to set "custom messages" against shipping rules, allowing you to give more visibility to your b2b customers should the shipping costs need amending you can learn more about how custom shipping messages work in shipping docid\ cfz zpgw2umovao73lc5m product page "all variants" mode if your products come in multiple variant types (e g colour and size), you're going to like this update! you can now enable a special "all variants" mode on the product detail interface docid\ jkcjbyuanjzp75i8ul7mt that allows your b2b customers to see all available variants in one go product display docid\ m3df4f0eyc2rm vuarg9h about how this works order limits by quantity alongside the ability to set customer groups docid 5 lwmnohhjbjjppg9e6vh for your b2b customers, you can now set order quantity limits ! for example, you may require customers to have a minimum of 100 items in their order before they can checkout, or they cannot purchase more than 1,000 items our latest update allows you to set order quantity limits for any of your customer groups docid 5 lwmnohhjbjjppg9e6vh and you can even combine order quantity and order total rules! customer groups docid 5 lwmnohhjbjjppg9e6vh 🛠️ improvements improvements csv import messaging we've improved the feedback messaging customers see if not all items in a my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t can be added to an order, allowing them to scroll the list of affected products if the list is very long price lists auto assigning if you're creating a price list for the first time, you can choose to 'auto assign' the price list to your default b2b customer group product widgets rrp text styling you can now additional text styling to the pricing display docid\ s vtljborgmnwjjfsmom9 such as adding a strike through or customising the colour you can now use new css variables spark pricing rrp decoration and spark pricing rrp color october, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features bigcommerce integration it's here the sparklayer & bigcommerce docid 6zlph9x8 qeuitchs2obe integration! now bigcommerce merchants can integrate sparklayer into their ecommerce stores and benefit from our feature rich b2b solution we're very excited to be part of the bigcommerce ecosystem and continue our mission to help brands grow their b2b businesses! bigcommerce docid 6zlph9x8 qeuitchs2obe about our integration sales agents improvements we’re pleased to announce a range of major updates to our sales agent tool, that now makes it an even more powerful tool for b2b sales teams to use and for merchants looking at levelling up their b2b processes, it’s now even easier to onboard their sales team and bring more automation to their b2b processes let’s dive into the new features! 1 inline price editing our built in powerful b2b pricing engine lets customers see their exact b2b pricing rules when they login however, what if a sales agent needs to make an ad hoc change to a price or apply a discount to a range of products in one go? with our instant price editing feature, sales agents can now edit pricing “inline”, allowing them to edit prices in real time before placing an order sales agent ordering docid\ uw8mdbmefwwkqzrvb5cqx 2\ create new customers this new feature lets sales agents rapidly add a new customer and begin placing orders for them right away it’s particularly useful if a sales agent is on the road meeting new customers, or at a trade show needing to place orders there and then with a customer sales agent ordering docid\ uw8mdbmefwwkqzrvb5cqx 3\ place sales agent orders now, sales agents can not only add products to their personal orders but also complete the checkout process independently whether it's for buying a product for an upcoming customer demonstration or making a personal purchase at a preferential rate, this update now gives them the ability to do this! please note the above sales agent ordering docid\ uw8mdbmefwwkqzrvb5cqx updates are available to all customers on the growth, pro, and enterprise plans 🛠️ improvements improvements product widgets dark mode we've extended the available design customisations for customers using the customising the design docid\ qct2zk8wjhyiv2zbvbjyy look and feel for the sparklayer product page widgets shipping percentage of net total you can now set shipping rates based on a percentage of the customer's order total, e g 20% dashboard team invitations we've made inviting team members easier with a new, streamlined process for becoming part of a team account settings docid\ r9ng74ujdtywlvgbpnb5u my order product sku search we've updated the user interface for the sku search on the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t to display a new icon (a plus symbol instead of a search icon) error messages now have reference codes if you ever encounter an error saying "sorry, an unknown error has occurred", this will now include a reference code number you can see the list of common error codes in troubleshooting docid\ blcekkx3i30nkucglsfw7 / september, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features shopify onboarding dashboard if you're using your shopify admin to keep tabs of your sparklayer installation process, you'll like our latest update! we've now greatly improved the interface, making it easier to see the key onboarding steps, learn about available features, and quickly access the main sparklayer dashboard to complete your onboarding process restricting billing address modifications by default, you can allow customers to account & addresses docid\ xxiwz30efvbkxnuf3j1g8 via their my account area if you'd prefer to restrict them from editing their billing address, you can now enable this via the configurations area of the sparklayer dashboard 🛠️ improvements improvements product widgets single variant products if you have single variant products on your website, you can now display the full variant name in the product display docid\ m3df4f0eyc2rm vuarg9h css styling controls we've now added the ability to customise the "order complete" checkmark icon colour that shows to customers once an order is placed price lists admin if you now try to download a "manual price list" that hasn't had prices uploaded, you'll be prompted with a message (rather than downloading a blank file previously) august, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features checkout address editing we're pleased to announce one of our most requested features checkout address editing! customers can now add new addresses directly from the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t , making it even faster to choose shipping addresses and complete an order this new feature can also help streamline and compliment any drop shipping activities your customers may be doing to learn more about how it works, my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t set minimum and maximum order limits to add more flexibility to your ordering rules, we've now released the ability to set both minimum and maximum order requirements for your customer groups based on the rules you set, you can now more easily restrict customers from being able to checkout until they meet the order requirements to learn more, see customer groups docid 5 lwmnohhjbjjppg9e6vh custom checkout message on the final step of the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t , review & pay, it's now possible to display a "custom checkout message" that lets you inform customers of any special notes or information they need to be aware of it's a great way to highlight information about shipping, payment, or anything else! cart & checkout docid\ o3ndhzbcxiswh6m6satdt 🛠️ improvements improvements my order displaying rrp price if you've set up pricing display docid\ s vtljborgmnwjjfsmom9 for your products, you can now display the rrp price within the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t my order selecting a payment method if a customer has pre selected a payment method (e g pay by invoice) and subsequently makes changes to their order, the payment method will now be pre selected (rather than resetting back to the default payment method) product widgets handling for "unavailable" if all variants of a product are set as "unavailable" (i e they have no b2b pricing set), the product detail interface docid\ jkcjbyuanjzp75i8ul7mt and product card interface docid\ mrp z0qizq2qksseujylv will now hide the "add to order" button from showing to a customer product cards improved handling for variants if your products have multiple levels of variants (e g colour and size), the product card interface docid\ mrp z0qizq2qksseujylv will now only show available variants based on availability and "disable" variants that cannot be added to an order my account "financials" section if you have credit, net terms, & invoicing docid\ ywm70oquosykooiqb4z4g set up for your b2b customers but you'd prefer to hide the "financials" section from the my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap , you can now do this via a new configuration my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap dashboard shipping you can now more easily edit and delete shipping rules directly from the shipping docid\ cfz zpgw2umovao73lc5m area of the sparklayer dashboard july, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features display custom fields within the my account within the my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap , it's now possible to show "custom fields" allowing you to add additional information that you want your b2b customers to see for example, you may want to include details of their sale agent contact, website address, or anything else! setting custom fields for the my details area works in a very similar way to the cart & checkout docid\ o3ndhzbcxiswh6m6satdt and you can learn more in our account & addresses docid\ xxiwz30efvbkxnuf3j1g8 upload invoices to an order when viewing an order, in addition to the order details (such as products ordered, order status, address), it's now possible to attach an invoice against an order that the customer can subsequently download once the invoice has been uploaded, your customers can then view the invoice by viewing their order details within the my account interface docid\ lqxani7ivdqna09d9soap you can learn more about how to set this up in credit, net terms, & invoicing docid\ ywm70oquosykooiqb4z4g 🛠️ improvements improvements price lists clearing prices you can now "clear" price lists within the sparklayer dashboard for any price lists that you've manually uploaded (via a csv) this is especially useful if you want to remove existing price list data and re upload it my order uploading csv data within the my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t , you can now paste in csv data to quickly populate an order this works alongside the existing csv file upload feature my cart interface docid\ efevur a3ycjxuhvrr7t product cards display stock level and sku within the product card interface docid\ mrp z0qizq2qksseujylv , you can now optionally display a live stock level and sku (product code) product display docid\ m3df4f0eyc2rm vuarg9h checkout validation you can now define more granular rules for validating whether a customer is allowed to proceed to checkout learn more in out javascript sdk docid\ eboyufhffjkxxo5d0nxwp june, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features integration with experience platform, pack speed and performance have always been at the heart of how we’ve built sparklayer from how we manage the complexities of b2b pricing in a scalable way, through to ensuring that the end b2b customer gets the smoothest possible experience when placing orders online today, we're thrilled to announce our latest partnership that takes this a step further, as we launch our official integration with pack! learn more about https //www sparklayer io/blog/2023/05/18/sparklayer pack headless shopify b2b/ our partnership configure net payment terms more easily we've just made setting customer net payment terms even easier! if you're using the sparklayer "pay on account" payment method, you can now set up specific net payment terms for a customer and have this automatically populate the payment terms in shopify 🛠️ improvements improvements address book phone numbers when adding an address in the my account area, you can now optionally make customers specify a phone number this will then be included in the customer's details if they proceed to place an order address book billing & shipping address when adding an address in the my account area, customers can now specify if they want the address to be their default billing and/or default shipping address this is useful if they require different addresses when placing an order may, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features the new b2b price engine we’re excited to announce the launch of one of our most anticipated updates, our new price engine that gives sparklayer customers powerful new ways to automate and streamline their b2b pricing rules! previously, sparklayer gave customers the ability to manage pricing via csv uploads and, for more complex integrations, automating pricing via the sparklayer api with the new price engine, sparklayer customers can now use pricing from their ecommerce platform (e g shopify) to create automatic b2b pricing (e g set b2b prices to be 20% off shopify prices) set up automatic pricing based off other price lists (e g 50% off your default price list) quickly download price lists to make edits and then easily re upload edit pricing “inline" with our price editor tool import manual prices more quickly, with a major performance boost learn more in our recent announcement https //www sparklayer io/blog/2023/04/17/b2b pricing system/ or see how it works in price lists docid\ s8xcbzgxqpgdeigwtxset 🛠️ improvements improvements product widgets you can now optionally display the rrp prices anywhere on your storefront with our new rrp price widget performance improvements we've made a range of improvements under the hood to speed up the process of importing pricing into sparklayer april, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features the new price editor the price editor tool compliments the pricing import tool, allowing you to easily add and edit pricing in a more "adhoc" manner for example, perhaps you need to edit a single price for product and add a new one, and you'd prefer not to upload a new csv file to do this the price editor tool works by letting you search for a product sku and then edit and add pricing inline, allowing you to rapid modify your b2b pricing our team has been busily working on our major pricing engine update (coming soon!) and we've also released the following improvements 🛠️ improvements improvements languages we've added support for hebrew and georgian to the sparklayer frontend see all languages we support sdk updates if you're using our javascript sdk to build more custom interfaces, you can now reference the total weight of an order this is useful if you want to hide/show messaging based on a customer's order contents reaching a certain weight threshold performance improvements we've made a range of improvements under the hood to speed up the process of importing pricing into sparklayer march, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features checkout custom fields checkout custom fields give you the ability to capture additional information from the customer when they checkout we've released two enhancements that give even more flexibility to how you set these up as well as new ways to display this data to customers it's now possible to set validation rules within checkout custom fields allowing you to apply restrictions to fields such as dates (for example, blocking customers from selecting a weekend) 🛠️ improvements improvements data sync area we've released a new area to the sparklayer dashboard called data sync that combines both product and customer data sent from shopify payment methods it's now possible to change the order that payment methods show during the checkout as well as set the default stock level key you can now display the stock level key on desktop by using the css variable spark pdp stock key desktop flex cart notification you can optionally hide the progress bar by using the css variable spark toast animation display none february, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features company users it's here! one of our most anticipated product updates, company users, is now available! company users is a brand new tool that’s designed to improve the b2b purchasing and account management flow within an organisation sometimes referred to as "b2b account management", it allows companies to create teams of users (i e company users ) that can share specific actions within their account from placing orders and tracking their status, repeat ordering previous orders, through to creating shopping lists and sharing address books what sets the sparklayer company users tool apart is how simple it is to use inline with our approach to make the b2b experience self service, customers themselves can create their own teams right from within their my account area there’s no need to request the store owner to manage this on their behalf, the customers themselves have full control over the process learn more about company users 🛠️ improvements improvements multi currency support we've made some major improvements to how sparklayer works with shopify markets/multi currency meaning you can manage this all within a single shopify store my account re ordering when viewing a completed order in the my account area, it's now possible to re order items on a product by product basis the sparklayer dashboard we've made a number of interface improvements including the ability to edit and delete customer groups january, 2023 🎉 new features 🎉 new features dear systems integration we’re pleased to release our latest integration with dear systems dear systems has long held the reputation as being the system of choice for established and fast growing brands, providing a centralised location to manage inventory, orders, warehousing, fulfilment, accounting, and more the sparklayer integration works by connecting to the merchant's dear systems account to access b2b data such as product pricing and price lists as well as synchronising b2b customer data 🛠️ improvements improvements sparklayer quick order customers will now see a running total of ‘lines’ and ‘items’ next to the sub total this makes it easier for them to see the size of their b2b order dark mode for merchants using a ‘dark’ theme, we’ve improved support for dark mode on collection pages right to left mode sparklayer now supports countries/languages that require “right to left” (or rtl) language editing we’ve made it easier to manage language updates with a simpler way to add text overwrites within your storefront language translation support we’ve added support for romanian and arabic december, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features 1 click shopify b2b theme install if you're using sparklayer on shopify, you may be aware of shopify's latest theme, dawn https //themes shopify com/themes/dawn/styles/default with our new 1 click b2b theme install, any merchant using sparklayer can now instantly install our b2b optimised version of the shopify dawn theme and get up and running with their b2b store in a matter of minutes best of all, no code changes are required to set this up it's a great way to test how sparklayer works before installing it on a live shopify theme or you could even use it as the basis for your next b2b store! to get started, go to the sparklayer dashboard https //app sparklayer io/configuration/frontend/core 🛠️ improvements improvements product page widget the product page widget currently shows a special 'table' view for products that have variants (e g size, colour) you can now render the same 'table' view for single variant products by adapting the product widget code product settings we've updated our documentation on product settings including how it's possible to set products (and variants) to not be "sellable" to b2b customers and even how to fully hide products (and variants) from showing with a special "display" setting tiered pricing by default, if you have tiered pricing set up, the pricing will be applied across all variants of a product you can now set this to only apply to specific variants via a new setting within the sparklayer dashboard pack sizing the product detail page widget now supports a 'pack price' that gives customers a cost for all products within a pack product widgets customisations we've enabled additional design customisation settings including button and input styling line item limits with shopify's line item limit of 250 items, we've now included special notifications within the sparklayer quick order if customers exceed this limit dashboard product data you can now search by sku within the data look up tool in the sparklayer dashboard brightpearl integration we've made improvements to the handling of customer address syncing for brightpearl, including phone numbers and company names november, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features configure "custom dates" for backorder products with support already for backordering/pre ordering built into sparklayer, we’re excited to announce our latest update, "custom dates" that can be set for backorder products "custom dates" allow you to set an exact date when the product is expected to be available it’s a great way to give the end customer better visibility of when to expect receipt of the products on order, and helps deliver an overall better customer experience use cases could include setting a "due in" date of when you're expecting the product to be in stock setting an "estimated shipping" date of when you're expecting the product to ship 🛠️ improvements improvements product page tiered pricing if you're using tiered pricing, the information table shown to customers on a product page will now include pack sizing for example, if your tiered pricing starts at 6 units, this will be shown as the first in the list product page widget we've improved the interface of the product page widget to hide the initial variant dropdown if a product only has a single option within it product card variants if a product has variants that don't have prices assigned, these will be shown last in the purchasing dropdown on the product card widget my account area if you're using our account balance feature, you can now optionally hide any reference to 'credit' if you don't set a credit limit against a customer csv import the sparklayer quick order interface now has improved messaging for customers using the csv import tool, making it clearer when a product isn't able to be imported due to stock limitations october, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features custom fields during the checkout our latest update includes the much anticipated 'custom fields' feature that allows you to add additional data capture fields during the checkout process use cases could include a date capture field, e g "shipping" or "delivery" date purchase order number (po number) additional shipping requests custom fields has support for the following types of data capture text entry fields, select menus (i e drop downs), date selection, email, phone, and more 🛠️ improvements improvements price lists deletion you can now delete price lists directly from the sparklayer price list admin total quantity of items the sparklayer quick order interface will now show the total units in a customer's order (i e total quantity) before checking out customer credit and payment on account if you have customer credit enabled, you can now allow customers to optionally be able to checkout using payment on account (previously this was blocked for customers who exceed their credit limit) we've partnered with balance payments to offer buy now and pay later for b2b merchants using shopify learn more september, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features quick buy mode our new quick buy mode gives you a new way to display the sparklayer product widget on your collection pages with an optimised 'table' view 🛠️ improvements improvements back order, minimum stock level if you're using the backorder feature, it's now possible to set granular minimum stock levels at a product variant level giving you more flexibility on how many units you allow to be sold to customers product variant images if you've product images within shopify that are assigned to a product variant (e g colour), it's now possible to change the images shown to a customer when a variant is selected via sparklayer this is a manual change, if you would like this enabled please contact us cart line item limit we've increased the maximum line items available in a single order from 100 to 250, with customer friendly messaging should customers exceed this languages we've added support for new languages, norwegian and finnish august, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features b2b shipping rules if you've set up sparklayer on your b2c (dtc) website and need to create different shipping rules for your b2b customers, you can now do this via the sparklayer shipping tool 🛠️ improvements improvements address display we've improved visibility of shipping addresses and customers can now see their selected address just before they complete their order the address summary will show in the final order totals section of the sparklayer quick order interface csv importing we've made improvements to our csv import tools, with handling for different currency formats for customers uploading price lists in euros for example, the import will now support comma formats for pricing (such as 19,99) performance we've released a big performance improvement to the frontend, with a more rapid login process we've re engineered how our user authentication works and merchants should now see a much quicker log in process when a b2b customer signs in july, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features show product settings if you've configured your products to work with settings such as pack sizing or minimum and maximum quantities, you can now display this to customers anywhere where you show the sparklayer product interface once enabled, this will show a new 'qty rules apply' message that will show all associated product rules you've set up show order notes from my account overview if customers place an order and include a special note (e g po number), this can now be viewed from the my account overview page 🛠️ improvements improvements shopping list names if a customer creates a new shopping list and uses the same name as an existing one, this will now fully overwrite it instead of creating a duplicate my account ship to address you can now show the shipping address for an order from the my account overview page june, 2022 🎉 new features 🎉 new features show tiered pricing on product cards if you're using tiered pricing, you can now display the discount summary within the product card widget the product card will now optionally display the cheapest price to the customer as well as the maximum discount they could receive the customer can also mouse over the widget to see a fully summary of the tiered pricing available you can test out how it works on our demo store https //shopify demo sparklayer io/pages/b2b login register my account order tracking information if you supply shipping information against a customer's order within shopify, this will now be shown within the sparklayer my account interface when viewing an order the tracking information includes a link to the shipping company's own tracking page the specific tracking number for the customer's visibility 🛠️ improvements improvements address searching if b2b customers have large numbers of addresses saved against their address book, they can now use a special search box to more easily select their preferred address multi currency support for merchants using a custom erp solution, we can now enable multi currency on the same shopify instance this is currently restricted only to manual payments only (e g payment by invoice, request for quote) and does require technical investigation before enabling javascript sdk for merchants using our skd, we've added some additional events including 'on cart update'