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Production Release Date: August 29, 2023

Announcements

Subscribe Merchant Portal 1.0 Deprecation

Subscribe Merchant Portal 1.0 is planned for deprecation with September 2023 release. Merchants will need to migrate to Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0 by that release.

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: Please make this change as soon as possible. Important: Existing URLs content will not be available after Nov 1st, 2023.

Reports Features

Chargeback Summary Report - Recurring Schedule Enhancement

With this release, the Chargeback Summary Report can be run as a recurring report on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule using Vindicia’s Reports 2.0 data engine. (VIN-22250)

Daily Schedule Frequency Support for Specific Recurring Reports

With this release, the following reports can be run as recurring reports on a daily schedule using Vindicia’s Reports 2.0 data engine:
  • Churn Report
  • Projection Report
The Campaign Redemption Report, available using Vindicia’s Reports 1.0, can now be run as a recurring report with a daily schedule option. (VIN-22949)

Payments Features

Cybersource Integration - Send Merchant Defined Data Based on Transaction Type

With this release, Vindicia has added the ability to send Transaction Type data in Merchant Defined Data (MDD) to CyberSource. Merchants can use this data in different ways for example, apply their own fraud rules. The feature is enabled with a Name/Value Pair. Vindicia classifies Transactions as one of the following type values:
  • CardVerification
  • RealTimePayment
  • RecurringPayment
To enable, contact Vindicia Client Technical Support. (VIN-22924)

PayU Integration - Route Transactions Based on Transaction Type

With this release, Vindicia identifies Transactions based on Transaction type data and routes it to different PayU Merchant Accounts. For example, verification and real-time Transactions are sent to one merchant account, and recurring Transactions are sent to another merchant account.​ Vindicia classifies Transactions as one of the following type values:
  • Credit Card Verification Transactions
  • Real-time Transactions
  • Recurring Transactions
To enable, contact Vindicia Client Technical Support. (VIN-22923)

WorldPay Integration - Tokenized Payments For Recurring Transactions

With this release, Vindicia integrated with WorldPay’s Tokenization API for recurring Transactions replacing the deprecated WorldPay’s PayAsOrder API. With this new API, Vindicia creates a token for all recurring Transactions, including existing subscriptions. No change is required from merchants. (VIN-22257)

Expanded Braintree Integration - Support for New PayPal Payment Method

With this release, Vindicia’s Braintree integration has been enhanced to support PayPal as a new payment method. PayPal via Braintree offers enhanced payment flows, including PayPal One Touch. Merchants who wish to accept Paypal payment method from their customers using PayPal through Braintree are required to use the Braintree Python SDK in their PayPal payment flow. For more details, see Braintree PayPal in the Subscribe REST API Guide. (BIMS-186)

Bug Fixes

The following issues were solved in this release:

Known Issues

This release has the following known issues.
  • In Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0, the Merchant User Report may show incorrect status for merchant users that use identity providers to login to the Portal.
    • Merchants using Vindicia IDP, can view user status in the Vindicia IDP Care Console.
    • Merchants using external Identity providers, such as OKTA or MS Azure, can check user status in their respective IDP Portals.