What a year 2019 has been at PayWhirl! We just wanted to wish you a happy holiday season and say thank you for being part of our PayWhirl family. It was a productive year for our team, and we thought we would highlight some of the new features and tools we released for businesses using the platform this past year.
Some of the new features we released this year on PayWhirl Payments…
- A new PayWhirl accordion widget style
- Added the ability to select which events are sent via webhooks
- Added the ability to use promo codes with gift code balances
- Updated all email templates and added a new style
- Released a major API update & developer docs update
- Upgraded the tables in the backend admin views of PayWhirl
- Added the ability to apply promo code to new subscriptions
- Added bulk actions for various tasks, including creating invoices in bulk, subscribing customers, adding/removing promo codes, delete customers, etc.
- Added the ability to import tax rules and delete in bulk
- Added the ability to disable Shopify account creation emails
- Added and upgraded activity logs in various admin views
- Added a new report for churn in the system
- Released a new PayWhirl API endpoint to mark invoices as being paid
- Improved Stripe Radar functionality and the hold/release processes of funds
- Added the ability to edit invoice templates
- Improved Shopify customer tagging
- Released new setup guides and revised our documentation
- Added the ability to edit addresses directly from the invoice view
- Added a new UI for admins to support customers with multiple profiles/addresses
- Upgraded our ShipStation app and revised the docs
- Improved our support for Stripe auto card updating
- Added several new invoice line item types (recurring product, recurring service, recurring fee, one-time product, one-time service, etc.) that can be added to invoices
- Added address auto-complete support via google places API (free)
- Completed a major internal security audit and upgrade
- Added the ability to select a specific date range on data exports
- Released a new PayWhirl API endpoint to refund customers
- Added additional CSS classes throughout the customer portal and widgets to make customization easier
- Added additional language translations & phrases
- Added the ability to create upsells that can be added to any plan
- Added the ability to remove customers from a specific BigCommerce group when they cancel
- Released a new PayWhirl API endpoint to delete customers
- Improved the metadata sent to Stripe on transactions
- Upgraded the Stripe gateway to the use the latest payment intents API
- Improved Shopify error reporting on invoice activity logs
- Added ReCaptcha support for widgets and customer registration
- Added dunning types to reports (canceled by the system, customer, admin, etc.)
- Released a new PayWhirl API endpoint to add/remove promo codes
- Upgraded gateways to support Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
- Released custom favicon support (yay)
- Improved autoscrolling on embedded widgets
- Added support to set the default order status (pending, awaiting fulfillment, etc.) for orders placed in BigCommerce
- Added the ability to override emails for specific plans and the ability to use custom email templates on a plan by plan basis
- Added the ability to forward widgets with a single item directly to the cart
- Added the ability to import legacy/paid invoices with the API
- Added the ability to enable/disable checkouts on a state by state (or province) basis
What we’re working on for 2020
- An all-new Zapier + PayWhirl integration
- A new and improved Shopify cart integration
- Additional payment gateways and methods (i.e. Shopify Payments, Venmo, etc.)
- New registration contracts (i.e. Terms and Conditions)
- New tax calculation tools (Zapier, TaxJar, etc.)
- New shipping label & fulfillment processing features
- A new WordPress/WooCommerce plugin
- Shopify POS integration
- New widget/checkout styles (i.e. One-page checkout, custom UI/UX)
- and our Flexible / Recurring Payments blog!
We hope you had a wonderful 2019 and look forward to working with you in 2020 and beyond. If you have any feedback about PayWhirl or would like to request additional features, please let us know.
