Release Notes

Version 2.6

February 20, 2025

  1. NEW: If you use Avatax for your compliance reporting, Bloom Commerce has a new report that uses the Avatax import template. Using and manipulating the 205 shipping report is no longer required. Navigate to Bloom Commerce / Reports and you'll see the new Avatax report as the last report option in the list. Once opened, you can search/filter by Orders or by Fulfillments. If you just want to export orders that have been fulfilled (or have been partially fulfilled) use the Fulfillment tab. Happy reporting!
  2. UPDATED: All versions of the app embed version of the Bloom Commerce Join Form now support Pay up Front. Simply enable the Tier setting that requires members to pay for their current release package as part of joining. New members then pay for that release package when they join, generating immediate cash flow and ensuring there is a purchase before members receive their discounts. Let us know if you'd like more information about this new feature. 
  3. UPDATED: When setting up Subscription Selling Plans, you can no longer create a plan where the frequency value is "0 months". The frequency value now needs to be greater than 1. 
  4. WORKING ON: We're working hard on new POS interfaces as well as a feature to change in bulk, all pick-up packages to ship packages.

Version 2.5

February 4, 2025

  1. NEW: We've added two new filters to help you find memberships. Now you can find memberships by the Release they are in, specifically the Batch they are in. For instance, if you want to find all members who will pick up and are in a particular batch, you can easily add the Batch filter option. 
  2. NEW: In addition to the new filters on memberships there is a new Bulk Action for "Add customer tags". This feature provides a way to tag your customers based on membership properties. Using the same example from above, if you want to segment your Shopify customers by Release, Batch, or any filter option, just use the Actions drop-down after selecting memberships and choose Add customer tags. 
  3. NEW: In the bottom right of the Bloom Commerce app we've installed a new AI-powered help feature. If you are familiar with Shopify's help feature which can answer plain-language questions, you'll notice some similarities. Just ask your question, like "How do I create a tier?". The help feature is fed by the Bloom Help Center content, and it is still being trained. Over time it will get better, as we add more content and receive feedback. This will provide easier access to our help content. If you don't see it try logging out, then back in or clear your browser cache. 
  4. UPDATED: When you export the Batch Payments report, you'll now see the customer's email address and phone number columns. This will make it easier to contact customers with failed payments if you're contacting them directly vs. using email automation. 
  5. WORKING ON: We're in the beginning phase of rebuilding our POS features. Shopify now provides a way for our app to display customer and order data directly in the POS. Access to membership data, fulfilling pick-up orders, and running compliance checks on shipping orders will be much faster and easier than ever. 

Version 2.4

January 21, 2025

  1. NEW: For customers using the Join form app embed for membership signups on the website, there is a new setting in Bloom Commerce / Settings / Shipping where you can require a shipping address to be included for Pick-up customers. This will allow you to ship the orders if the member doesn't pick it up. There will be new features in the future to support switching existing packages from Pick up to Ship, and vice-versa. For now, this feature will only collect the shipping address when new customers join, or when they edit their delivery information when logged in.
  2. NEW: On some themes, we noticed that the rich text content rendered by any of the Bloom Commerce embedded apps might have line spacing that was too tight and didn't match the theme's line spacing for paragraphs. Now, in Bloom Commerce / Settings / Themes / Styles you can set the line spacing for paragraph text. 
  3. UPDATED: When configuring the new stepped join form, if you want to hide the header on the Select a Tier view, now just remove any value in the header field and it won't display. Before, a default header titled "Membership tiers" would display. This allows you to use a Shopify Section for the header if you prefer. 
  4. FIX: In rare situations, members weren't able to select new preferences when switching tiers using the Membership Account application. This only happened if the original tier didn't have preferences, and the tier they were switching to did have preferences. This is now fixed. 
  5. WORKING ON: We're continuing to work on background processing performance as well as fixed-date settings for renewal dates on subscription contracts. 

Version 2.3

December 23, 2024

  1. FIX: If you use Bloom Commerce Theme settings to set the colors of the links and buttons, you may have noticed the Disabled Link and Primary Button Colors didn't work as expected. This has been fixed.
  2. FIX: In certain configurations, we were seeing that Pick Up memberships would display a shipping rate when batched through Bloom Commerce. Now all pick-up orders will display a Pick-up delivery option. 
  3. FIX: When changing Product Specifications, if you tried to remove the variant's container settings, the updates wouldn't save. This has now been fixed so you can remove a product's container settings after they have been saved.
  4. FIX: As part of our continuing work on performance improvements we've identified a few areas in our background processing that may get too backed up when multiple large queues are trying to process at the same time. We've sorted those out and are hoping large jobs will process smoother and reliably update Shopify orders with the correct notes and tags. 

Version 2.2

December 9, 2024

  1. NEW: It is more common than you might think, that members don't pick up their orders. Bloom Commerce has a new setting that can require pick-up members to enter a shipping address, allowing you the ability to ship the order to the provided address. This feature is now available when editing a membership, or when the member logs in and wants to change from a pick up to a shipping membership type. In the near future the required shipping address will be added to the Join Form and the POS. Also know this is a foundation for future features like a new POS Pick up interface, and bulk changing memberships from pick up to ship. You can find the setting in Bloom Commerce / Settings / Shipping. Let us know if you have questions or need help with setup.
  2. NEW: If you allow members to skip their upcoming shipment, there was a "Skip" link above the Upcoming Shipment details. Some of our customers didn't want this Skip link so prominent in the interface. Now, in Release Settings, you can check a box that will place the Skip shipment link below the Upcoming Shipment details. You will set this for each release, allowing you to decide where you want it placed on a per-release basis. 
  3. FIX: Non-alcohol products weren't syncing to ShipComplaint when using the Product Specifications feature. This has been fixed. 
  4. WORKING ON: As we wrap up the year, we're putting the final touches on our 2025 Roadmap, as well as tackling a few small performance improvements. We're looking forward to 2025!

Version 2.1

November 12, 2024

  1. UPDATED: When using the Connect with Members email, you'll see there are some new filters. Before, filtering by Status was the only option. The new filters include Fulfillment type, Group and Tagged with, allowing you to email very specific segments of members. 
  2. UPDATED: Pick up locations on subscription memberships have been updated. Before, the interface would only display locations where the subscription products were stocked. Now, all locations that allow pick up are listed providing a faster interface and more flexible options for admins. 
  3. UPDATED: If your shop doesn't have ShipCompliance integrated, the Orders feature in Bloom Commerce now won't display compliance data, or the ability to filter by compliance statuses. 
  4. FIX: Membership search would not return results when searching by email address, if the case of the search didn't match the case of the saved email address. Now the search will ignore the case of the email address, providing more expected search results. 
  5. FIX: When new members join using the Bloom Commerce embedded Join Form, the customers Date of Birth will be added to the Date of Birth customer metafield in Shopify. 

Version 2.0

October 29, 2024

We're pleased to announce that we've hit a major milestone releasing our second major version, Bloom Commerce 2.0. This includes all of the new and improved features that have been added since the 1.0 release in October 2022.  Some of those features you are likely already using include:

  • All Bloom Commerce theme features use the Embedded App functionality in the Shopify Customizer
  • Subscriptions have been fully revamped providing highly flexible plans and product pricing
  • Member discounts are now fully automatic in checkout and the POS
  • New dashboards for better visibility and access to core features
  • Orders can be uploaded in bulk and charged outside of Shopify for corporate orders
  • Product specifications have been rebuilt using Shopify Product Metafields
  • Many performance updates and UX improvements

Most important for new customers is that Bloom Commerce is now available on the Shopify app store making the app easier for the world to discover.

Here are the latest updates and additions: 

  1. UPDATED: Both the new Product Bundles and Subscription Selling Plan interfaces could get "squished" making the form fields too small to see the values entered into them. These interfaces have been widened so values will always appear on any screen size. 
  2. UPDATED: When a member logs into Shopify to view their upcoming club shipment the product prices and total appear in the product selections table. The total used to read "Grand total". It now reads" Subtotal" so it doesn't imply shipping and taxes are included in the price displayed. 
  3. FIX: When adding your own custom Product metafields to Shopify we learned that if those custom fields share the same name as the metafields created by the Bloom Commerce app, then there can be conflicts. Those conflicts have been resolved. 
  4. FIX: Weight-based shipping rates setup in Shopify were not being calculated correctly when using the Corporate orders feature in Bloom Commerce. These shipping rates now work as expected. 
  5. FIX: We have identified a couple slow database queries, specific to processing customer webhooks. Those queries have been optimized, resulting in faster webhook processing. 

     

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