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Production Release Date : January 25, 2022

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Announcements

This release includes the following announcements:

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Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0 Default Portal

As announced in previous releases, Vindicia is making Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0, the default Portal. As part of September’s release, Vindicia released performance improvements. We listened to our merchants and accordingly Subscribe Portal 1.0 decommission is delayed until February 2022 while outstanding parity and performance issues are resolved. Subscribe Portal 2.0 Advantages:
  • Allows localization to your regional time zone and language
  • Improved user interface
  • Clear representation of Transactions per subscription
  • More specific Transactions search options (per Payment Method, per ID, per amount)
  • Reports will be created/scheduled using the new Subscribe Data Platform (Reports 2.0), where applicable
Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0 has become the default web Portal. We encourage you to start using Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0. For more details on Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0, see Subscribe Merchant Portal User Guide. To access Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0:

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Access to HOA and PMT Static Files Via CDN

In order to improve reliability and availability when accessing Subscribe’s static content required for PMT (Payment Method Tokenization) and HOA (Hosted Order Automation), files are located at Content Delivery Network (CDN). Please change the URLs listed in your implementation as follows: We urge merchants to make this change as soon as possible.

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Subscribe Features

This release includes the following new Subscribe features:

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Push Notification Added for Subscription End of Free Trial Period Event

In this release, Subscribe added support for an End of Trial Push notification message sent a specified number of days prior to the free trial completion. The message includes the Invoice object in JSON format for the next billing cycle. Subscribe uses the value from the Billing Plan trial_end_notification_days attribute to trigger this notification. Subscribe support for End of Trial email notifications remains unchanged. Note: To use this feature, contact Vindicia Client Technical Support to enable the new Push Notification platform. (VIN-13383)

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Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0 - Invoices Page Filter by Payment Method

From this release, Portal 2.0 provides support for searching by payment method type in the Invoices page. This feature provides parity with functionality available in Subscribe Portal 1.0. (VIN-13358)

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Subscribe Portal 2.0 - Current Liability Report Improvement

The following improvements were made for the Current Liability Report:
  • The Current Liability Report was updated to include an Up to Date field enabling you to view the current liability up to a specific date. The field is only available for one time reporting. (VIN-8395)
  • The Current Liability Report was improved to allow scheduling the report in both Portal 1.0 and Portal 2.0. Fixes for date errors were made to enable toggling from one time reporting to recurring reporting. (PORT-1989, VIN-13839)

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Subscribe REST API - New Refunds Endpoint

From this release, Subscribe provides REST API support for a Refunds endpoint. The Refunds endpoint supports functionality of all the previously supported calls as well as allowing to fetch a list of refunds by Account. This also provides parity with functionality available in Subscribe SOAP API. The following operations can be performed using the Refund endpoint. Support for refund calls using the Transaction endpoint remains unchanged.
  • List Refunds by Transaction or by Account
  • Create Refunds
  • Fetch a specific Refund
For more details, see the Refunds chapter of the REST API Guide. (VIN-12301)

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SOAP V27 - Pagination for Refund.fetchDeltaSince Method

A new SOAP subversion 27.1 has been released. This version supports pagination for Refund.fetchDeltaSince method in alignment with the other available fetchDeltaSince methods. (VIN-11413)

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Payment Features

This release includes the following new Payment features:

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Payway Integration

In this release, Subscribe added support for the latest version of Payway (formerly Edgil) payment provider. Note: Existing merchants using Edgil Payway, do not need to update their account with the payment provider. The following functionality is supported by Subscribe:
  • Payment Methods:
    • Credit Cards
    • Tokenized Credit Cards
  • Authorization
  • Capture
  • Refund
  • Void
  • Retain level 4 support
Note: Existing merchants that want to utilize these feature, please contact Vindicia Client Technical Support to transfer to the new Payment Service solution. (VIN-10305)

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3DS Support in Payment Method Tokenization (PMT)

For merchants using a Cardinal Commerce 3DS provider, this release enables PMT to generate the DFReferenceId during the card tokenization process. The DFReferenceId was added to the PaymentMethod for use in the next authenticated transaction. (VIN-8583, VIN-11640)

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Retain Features

This release includes the following new Retain features:

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Enhancement for Adyen Processor - Support for merchantTransactionId

From this release, Retain allows to set the original merchant transaction ID as the reference ID in Adyen instead of the final captured Vindicia transaction ID. To use this feature, contact Vindicia Client Technical Support to configure. (VIN-13177)

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Bug Fixes

Note: For Subscribe bug fixes released in December 2021, see 2021.11 Patch release notes.

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Known Issues

This release has no known issues.