Release Notes

There are new tutorial videos available.

The Product API now provides the image dimensions along with the URL in order to prevent „page jumps“ during loading.

Google Analytics provides sophisticated statistic and analytic functionality. Now search terms used by customers on the web site are transferred to Google Analytics. Using the functionality the merchant gets comprehensive overview what his customers are looking for and what their needs are.

Usually a notification disappears once it has been clicked. We implemented this behaviour for the app notification in the administration.

This introduces a new scope and endpoints to read all cart data.This helps merchants to reengage with endcustomers that left their cart and did not complete the checkout.

To be able to comply with the new regulations concerning electronic ivoices in Italy, merchants need to offer an input field for PEC addresses. We have renamed the field Business email for italian shops, and added it to the default registration set.

We give the merchant easier access to relevant apps in any context. We display an icon on top of the page indicating the number of available relevant apps. Upon clicking a layer with additional info opens, where the merchant can start the installation of the App.

Google has renamed AdWords to Ads. We have followed this.

The first video tutorials now appear in the help section, so that core functionalities are easier to understand and work with. We will add to these regularily.

To make sure that new merchants don´t get into legal trouble concerning the EUs ban on geoblocking, we have added all EU countries to new shops provisioned inside the EU.

Product numbers are now included in the While the variations table makes variation handling easy and simple. It reaches its limit when it comes to changing descriptions, categories, etc.. for single variations. Thus we introduced a new page where all of this can be edited dedicatedly, while still keeping the table in place.

Merchants can now attach legal documents to order status emails. We generate pdfs of the legal pages every time they are changed.

These design and wording changes follow the rebranding of Klarna and SOFORT in numerous markets.

We already have a validation for US addresses in place during the checkout. We implemented this for customer addresses in the administration as well.

We have moved the possibility to edit the cookie notice from its place in the administration to the content editor. We will display a notification on the MBO startpage to inform the merchants of this.

We have already included editing of the cookie notice in the content editor. With this issue we have also removed it from its previous location.

We have introduced meta data about the actual order in order status mails such as, information about the shop, order status information, etc. This can be used by some mail clients and webmailers to display additional information in the email list directly.

eBay has started implementing changes to the API, and introducing the so called Catalog API.
This leads to a new authentication process.
– Providers with application management: ePages will take care of the whole process
– Implementation partners: You will receive the necessary information through your account managers.
– Merchants: You will be notified in the administration and guided through the process of re-authentication.

Product numbers are now included in the invoice

We have implemented the usage of Google Analytics enhanced ecommerce throughout the checkout, so that checkout funnuels can now be made visible in the analytics dashboard.

It is now possible to edit the tax information text on product pages etc. in order to be compliant with German §19 UStG. and / or other laws that touch taxation.

Merchants are made aware of the cross selling feature on the administration start page once they reach a certain amount of products in their shop.

In some countries it is required that the end customers VAT-ID should show up on any invoice. We display it if it exists on the billing address.

While we supply default tax matrixes for any country our merchants are located in, it is still difficult to account for all exceptions and special cases that are in place worldwide. Thus we decided to enable our merchants to edit their tax matrix should the need arise.

Google expanded the maximum lenght of the meta description to 320 characters. We followed suit.

It is now possible to track adword campaigns in ePages Now

Adwords tracking is now possible in ePages Now.

PayPals „integrated signup flow“ is now used. This improves and fastens the creation of a Paypal account (or the connection of an existing one). We are in addition showing more comprehensive information on the PayPay account status.

We introduced the legally required energy label to enable selling electronic devices

It is now possible to upload a favicon, or generate one from the shop logo