New and Updated Features

• Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) 2025: IBD 2025 will occur on Saturday, April 26. Participating stores can start promoting IBD exclusives on their websites by mid-next week. A webinar about preparing your website for IBD 2025 will take place on Thursday, March 20. Register for the webinar
• Event Date: The day of the week has been added to the date format.
• Updating order tags, admin comment, and order comment: Editing an order to add order tags, admin comments, and order comments no longer requires several clicks and reloading of the order each time.
• Tax Exempt Orders: The tax-exempt status on an order can be updated while processing the order, from the 'Taxes' tab on the order. 

• Deleting Shipping Methods: A validation has been added to prevent the deletion of shipping methods that were used on orders to avoid critical errors.

Bug Fixes

• Search Category: The placeholder message in the search form field is updated to reflect the selected category.
• Gift Card column on the Manage Orders page: The Gift Card column will be included in the Manage Orders page when any of the gift card types are enabled on the website. ​

• Media Mail for Book Variations: The Media Mail Eligible condition for shipping methods will now include book variations, in addition to regular books.

New and Updated Features

• Price Source for Books: For many books, IndieCommerce receives metadata from Ingram, and directly from the publisher or distributor of the book. Sometimes, the list price provided by each data source is different. Stores can now choose which list price they prefer to use on their website when data is available from more than one source (Ingram, Publisher, or Highest Price). The setting (site wide setting, not per book) is available under Dashboard > Commerce > Fulfillment Settings > Wholesaler Settings > List Price Preferences.
• Libro.fm Digital Audio Books: The customer experience on the IC 2.0 site has been improved to clarify which format is being purchased when buying a Libro.fm digital audio book. When the Libro.fm Digital Audio Book format is selected, the "Add to Cart" button will change to a "Buy the Digital Audio Book" button.
• Credit Card Payment: When a customer selects "Credit card" payment, the help text "(New CC - Credit card information will be collected at the end of checkout)" will appear.
• Checkout Steps: During checkout, on the 'Review' page, additional text “Review your order and if correct, continue to complete the purchase. Use the Go Back link to make any necessary changes” will appear to guide the customer, and the Coupon and Gift Card forms are removed to move the 'Pay and Complete Purchase' button further up.
• Newsletter Signup Forms: For all available integrations (MailChimp, Constant Contact, My Emma and Brevo), the Name field on the newsletter signup form is now split into First Name and Last Name fields to match the fields on the vendor’s end.

Bug Fixes

• List Prices: List prices for books will be updated frequently to keep up with changes with the publisher or Ingram. Ingram stock and price updates will be checked every 4 hours.
• ISBN Search: When searching for a book by ISBN (standard 978 or 979), any spaces or non-numeric characters will be trimmed to make the search successful. No need to worry about spaces or hyphens when copying the ISBN.
• Service Products: When purchasing 2 of the same Service product (e.g. School Visit Book) with different values (e.g. Student’s Name) in the same order, the 2 Service products will remain as separate items in the order.
• Credit Card Charge Report: The column heading 'Authorize.net Order ID' is changed to 'Authorize.net Invoice Number' to match the terminology used in Authorize.net
• Saved Credit Card Profile: Customers can always delete their saved credit card profile from their account on the website. If a customer deletes the credit card profile that is used in their current cart, they will be prompted to enter new credit card information.
• Gift Card Refund: When a gift card is used to pay for an order (partial or full), order processing staff - Site Administrators and Order Managers -  will be able to refund the gift card from the order page.
• POS Order Exporter: The file has a column for Billing Phone and a column for Shipping Phone. Billing Phone will list the phone number from the user profile if it exists, otherwise it will list the phone number from the contact information on the order. Shipping Phone will list the phone number from the contact information on the order.