Changelog

11/2024

• PunchCommerce can now also be purchased in Switzerland
• New feature: cXML version 1.2.064 is supported
• New feature: Overview page for plugin downloads for online shops
• JTL Shop 5 Plugin: New version 1.2.3 fixes a potential error when transferring the shopping cart to PunchCommerce
• Change: The PunchOut simulation now always opens in a new tab
• Bug fix: Importing cXML orders failed in scenarios without tax rates

10/2024

• Shopware 6 Plugin: Add settings for transferring shipping costs and remove the prefix "shipping-method-" for the default shipping costs ID

09/2024

• Change: We have removed the Ariba-specific information from the configuration instructions to clarify that PunchCommerce also works with other cXML-based procurement solutions
• Change: Our gateway now differentiates between "line items" and "shipping costs" - the validation of the gateway payload no longer generates error messages for "shipping costs"

08/2024

• Magento 2 Plugin: We have adapted the JTL-Shop Plugin to our new gateway version 3 and to the JTL-Shop version 5.3
• Magento 2 Plugin: We have adapted the Magento 2 Plugin to our new gateway version 3
• Bug fix: There were increased login errors from SAP® Ariba, we have adjusted the generation of the entry address for the cXML protocol to stop these error messages.

07/2024

• Bug fix: Returning from Shopware 6 shops with old gateway resulted in the error "session expired"
• New feature: Support for cXML versions 1.2.060, 1.2.061 and 1.2.062
• New feature: Selection of the shop system and auto-completion for the entry address
• Improvement: Commissioning of our gateway in version 3
• Shopware 6 plugin: Fixing a display error in the checkout

Q1+Q2/2024

• Improvement: Refacturing of the code base
• Shopware 6 Plugin: Expansion of the plugin configuration so that a URL can be defined to redirect the customer after their log in
• Shopware 6 Plugin: Shipping costs are now also transmitted during PunchOut

12/2023

• Shopware 5 Plugin: Expansion of the plugin configuration so that the mapping of additional fields is now supported
• Shopware 6 Plugin: New function: The “brand_ordernumber” field is now filled with the manufacturer product number and transferred during PunchOut
• Shopware 6 Plugin: Bug fix: Options for additional fields of an entity extension are created with the prefix .extensions

10/2023

• New function: The code format for product classification can be selected for cXML catalogs
• New function: The sorting of products in a catalog can be configured for each customer
• Bug fix: Display of tables with long values within PDF documents
• Bug fix: Resetting the selected field mapping when changing the mode on a customer
• Change: Providing the VAT ID number is no longer mandatory for German customers

09/2023

• Bug fix: Refactored language detection to better recognize user language
• New function: References can now be issued on invoices
• Bug fix: Product titles are validated for length
• New feature: The gateway implementation in the second version is now available

07/2023

• New function: Support for dynamic currencies added

03/2023

• New function: Sorting of the products in the catalog based on the uploaded file

01/2023

• Improvement: Session handling optimization for our enterprise modules with external authentication

12/2022

• Improvement: Improved user feedback on too short names for field mappings
• Bug Fix: Fix login issues

11/2022

• New feature: Order preview for Enterprise customers

10/2022

• Bug fix: Various minor display errors fixed
• New feature: Recreated Swagger documentation for API endpoints (see https://punchcommerce.de/swagger/)
• Improvement: Introduced field length validation for custom_fields
• Improvement: Improved ticket notifications for Enterprise instances
• Improvement: Added support for cXML version 1.2.014
• Improvement: Increased error tolerance for returns from online shops (cXML return to OCI endpoint and vice versa)

09/2022

• Improvements: The desired sorting of the products can now be set for the OCI and cXML PunchOut
• Improvements: The selection of the domain is now omitted for the cXML modules

08/2022

• Bug fix: The test mode button for cXML and cXML gateway mode now shows the correct status
• Improvements: If a product file is already being processed, uploading another file is not possible until the current file has been imported
• Improvements: The "weight" field is now optional

July 6th, 2022

• Improvements: Added compatibility with https://www.jaggaer.com/de/

06/27/2022

• New function: Thumnbails in CIF catalogues

06/23/2022

• New function: Notification of ticket changes will be sent

06/14/2022

• Improvement: Rework of storefront category navigation
• New feature: Ability to download product files from remote url

08.06.2022

• New feature: Advanced features for OCI 5.0 PunchOut are now supported (Validate, Sourcing, BackgroundSearch, Detail and JSON catalogs)
• New function: Onventis OCI catalogs can now be generated via PunchCommerce and automatically transmitted to Onventis

25.05.2022

• Bug fix: Zloty is now supported as currency
• Improvements: Removal of special characters in CIF catalogues

20.05.2022

• New feature: Asynchronous creation of catalog files to efficiently create large catalogs (>200,000 items).
• Verbesserungen: Empty lines from CSV files are now deleted when uploading new catalogs

10.05.2022

• Improvements: Generation of CIF 3.0 catalogs for Ariba PunchOut Level 2

26.04.2022

• New function: Multilingualism for all areas of PunchCommerce
• New feature: Export customer data as JSON
• New feature: Duplicate customers
• New feature: Duplicate field mappings
• New feature: Logos in PunchOut catalogues
• Improvements: Various adjustments within the BMEcat and cXML catalog generation
• Improvements: Reduced error susceptibility for cXML punchouts
• Bugfix: Password length for OCI-PunchOut limited to 30 characters

09.03.2022

• Shopware 6 plugin: New setting in the plugin configuration allows switching off the X-FRAME-OPTIONS header per sales channel to enable the PunchOut
• Shopware 6 plugin: New: Setting for access to account pages

24.02.2022

• Hotfix: Authentication for OCI-Gateway was only possible with lowercase parameters (Username vs. username). The authentication now considers all possible spellings (USERname, userNAME, USERNAME, etc.)

23.02.2022

• Change: Custom fields are no longer mandatory in the gateway punchout

11.02.2022

• New feature: Test mode for cXML and cXML gateway punchout
• New feature: Instructions for cXML PunchOuts
• New feature: Field Mappings for cXML PunchOuts
• Bug fix: BMEcat catalogs can now be created again
• Bugfix: cXML-PunchOuts now respect specified tax rates

19.11.2021

• New feature: Support of graduated prices
• New function: Support of acceptance scales

12.11.2021

• New feature: The instructions for OCI customers have been completely revised and are now more informative
• New feature: The cXML Gateway PunchOut is available in a trial version

10.11.2021

• Bugfix: The NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT field is assigned to the correct shopping cart position in the simulator
• Bug fix: There were display errors in the shopping cart when the NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT field was used in a field assignment
• Bug fix: REST API no longer returns HTML for description_long field

26.10.2021

• New function: It is possible to enter the VAT ID number in the profile area, invoices are now also generated correctly for customers within Europe
• New function: It is possible to switch to annual payment for each subscription in the Profile -> Billing section
• New function: The service desk is available for registered customers

28.09.2021

• Change: Customers must now provide information about the person responsible for data protection. Please also note our updated data protection information. You can view and change the data protection settings in the Profile > Data protection menu
• New function: It is now possible to conclude an order processing contract via the Profile > Data protection menu

22.09.2021

• Bug fix: The NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT field was not passed correctly to calling ERP systems

17.09.2021

• Change: The url of the PunchCommerce composer bundle has changed https://stash.netzdirektion.de/scm/pun/punchcommerce-client-php.git

25.08.2021

• New function: You have the option of configuring an individual note text for each customer, e.g. to send a note about shipping costs
• New function: A dynamic mapping can be configured for field mappings of the type Gateway. See our support article "Field Mappings" for more details

17.08.2021

• New function: In your profile settings, you have the option of specifying a different email address for receiving invoices

26.07.2021

• New function: There is a full-text search for article data in the PunchOut catalogue
• New function: The upload for CSV files has been revised so that even very large quantities of items can be processed quickly

05.07.2021

• New field: The "currency" field was added to the data model for products - currencies in the ISO 4217 format are supported, e.g. "EUR"
• New field: The field "customer_ordernumber" has been added to the data model for products
• New function: OpenApi documentation was added for the OCI gateway module at https://www.punchcommerce.de/openapi.json
• New function: HTML can now be displayed for the "description_long" field in the product details
• New function: The gateway module now supports entering the placeholders {{uID}} and {{sID}} for the entry address
• Change: The links in the footer in the PunchOut catalog now link to a separate window
• Change: Due to the currency support, it is necessary that the shopping cart only shows the number of items

16.06.2021

• New function: For CSV files, the upload of files with a maximum file size of 10 megabytes is supported. Using all data fields, this corresponds to a data volume of at least 10,000 products
• Bugfix: BMEcat catalogs could not be created if the unit field was not set for a product

31.05.2021

• New feature: Catalog Search (not available in the theme for older browsers)
• New feature: Detail page for items in catalog view
• New feature: Pagination in catalog view
• Bug fix: When using the "Default Theme (old browsers)" theme, the punchout process was triggered when items were removed from the cart. This behavior has been corrected

26.05.2021

• The "OCI 4.0/5.0 Gateway-Punchout" module is now available and enables PunchCommerce to be used together with your e-commerce infrastructure. Learn more here: https://www.punchcommerce.de/support/punchout-uber -oci-gateway
• The theme "Default Theme" has been revised
• Update of the service description

13.04.2021

• The first version of our field mapping tool is now available. Currently, individual field assignments are only possible for the OCI protocol
• There are now ten additional fields that can be used as desired (custom_field1 - custom_field10) on each product

25.03.2021

• New function to delete all created products
• New function for specifying any classification (eClass or UNSPSC) on products. For this purpose, among other things, the product import and the REST API have been expanded to integrate two new data fields "classification" and "classification_type".
• Extension of the cXML configuration to realize compatibility with Oracle iProcurement

18.03.2021

• First support for the cXML-PunchOut, as well as for the creation of BMEcat catalogues