Release Notes 142

What's new

Improved quantities

Now any vendor can select one of the number fields in their pricing plan as the primary quantity of the offer. Here is what you need to know:
  • Changes to the following vendors were applied out of the box: Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, IBM, AvePoint, Kaspersky.
  • If you onboarded your own offers, we recommend you to create a new pricing plan (or copy the current one) with the "Use as quantity" checkbox ticked in the properties of at least one quantity field. This will benefit your invoices and general convenience for partners and customers to buy and manage subscriptions.
As the partner or end-customer, you will notice more consistent and correct quantities for many things you do regularly:
  • During purchase in cart and quote
  • After purchase in notifications, subscriptions and orders
  • In invoices and subscription reports that are both based on invoice data
    • Unit prices automatically improve thanks to more accurate quantities used in calculation
    • Improvement in invoices will not affect vendors like Microsoft and Adobe. Quantity and most other details in their invoices are already based on data directly from the vendor.
As for integrated partners, improved quantities will automatically benefit all your API integrations for buying and managing subscriptions. No changes needed.

API performance improvements and caching

Our newly implemented caching policies resulted in the following benefits in using our APIs:

  • Enhanced Performance: Faster response times and smoother user experience with our default caching policy.
  • Improved Scalability: Handle higher volumes of requests and increased traffic, ensuring robust and performant integrations.
  • Customizable Cache Control: Tailor caching behavior to your application's needs via an optional header for optimal data freshness and consistency.
  • Reduced Network Bandwidth and Costs: Minimize data transmission for identical requests, saving bandwidth and costs.
  • Consistent API Performance: Stable response times across various usage scenarios for a reliable user experience.

Check our updated API documentation for detailed caching information and instructions on utilizing the optional caching header. We're dedicated to supporting your integration needs with high-performance solutions. Contact our support team at support@appxite.com for any questions or assistance.

New API for add-ons

We are excited to announce the availability of a new API endpoint - "List all add-ons". With this API, you can now retrieve a comprehensive list of all add-ons available for a particular offer. Use it to buy add-ons in 3 quick steps:
  1. Call the "List all add-ons" API endpoint to retrieve all available add-ons.
  2. Configure the desired add-on from the returned list using "Configure an order payload" API.
  3. Use the add-on information and price as data for the "OrderedAddons" field when using the "Create an order" API.
This powerful new feature gives you the flexibility to offer your customers a wide range of add-ons for compatible products and services. With the ability to easily retrieve and configure add-on pricing, you can provide a seamless and customized ordering experience for your customers.

Custom fields in subscription

One of our prior releases gave partners the ability to add custom fields for subscriptions in Settings. From now on these fields will be available not only on the initial purchase (when you configure the offer before adding it to cart) but also after the purchase. Sales and customers will now be able to:

  1. Search Subscriptions section by value of any custom field.
  2. View and update custom fields on subscription details page, as long as permissions configured in Settings allow it.

Meanwhile, we also made it quicker to update custom fields in an organization profile. Instead of editing and saving each field one by one, you can now save changes to them all at once and save plenty of your time on this routine in the long run.

General usability

  • We improved support for various special characters like hyphens, slashes, underscores and accented characters from various languages. We focused most on the pages requiring manual input and synchronization with ERP/CRM most frequently:
    • User invite/profile
    • Organization creation/profile
  • We added language code to the integration with Userlane. Now you can localize your onboarding content in Userlane based on the language of the user on the platform.

This update was released on 25/05/2023

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