Announcements
This release includes the following announcement:Upcoming Data Center Transition
Starting in November 2020 Vindicia will move its Retain and Vindicia Subscribe platforms to the cloud. More information on the steps needed to prepare will be communicated out over the coming months. Please see our faq Cloud Move Resources and for questions email cloudteam@vindicia.com.Vindicia Subscribe Features
This release includes the following new general Subscribe features:Fraud Check through CyberSource Decision Manager
Vindicia Subscribe supports Fraud Check through CyberSource Decision Manager for one time purchases. In this release the option to perform a Fraud Check has been added for subscription creation as well. This feature is open to all merchants that have a contract with CyberSource, regardless of the transaction processor they are presently using. To set up this information, or to simply learn more about the features it provides, please refer to contact Vindicia Merchant Services for more information. (VIN-202)Pause/Resume Enhancements
The following optional Pause/Resume enhancements are included in this release:- Optional Pause at the End of the Current Billing Cycle: A new parameter effective_date (today/nextBill) was added to the API to define whether the pause should be immediate, or whether the subscription will be enabled until the end of the period. Since the subscription is payed upfront, and there is no refund for the non-used part, merchants might prefer to wait until the end of the period to stop the service (mainly for digital goods). For physical goods, the customer might prefer to stop the delivery immediately. Default behavior is “nextBill”.
- Optional Restart and Reset of the Billing Cycle on the Resume Date: A new parameter reset (boolean) was added to define whether or not the subscription that is resumed should change the billing date and charged immediately. Default behavior is True.
Ability to Refund Tokens
Tokens can be refunded through REST APIs. (VIN-3434)Enhancement to External Billing
A new configuration variable immediate_activation is added to the ExternalBilling Merchant Configuration to allow the Subscription to become active immediately instead of waiting for the ECP time-out. The default value for immediate_activation is null which evaluates to false. (VIN-6584)Added issued_by Field in the REST API Refund Object
A new issued_by field is added to the REST API Refund Object. The field indicates which user initiated the refund. For refunds that are initiated from an API call, the field will contain the API user name. Note: The field is not yet visible in the Vindicia Portal UI session, or in the Push notification. (VIN-5143)Elavon - Payment Processor - New Integration
Credit card processing support has been implemented for the payment process provider Elavon (formally NOVA). The following are supported:- One time and recurring transaction(s) for credit cards and tokens.
- Retain - Level 1.
Bug Fixes
The following bugs were fixed in this release.Known Issues
- Generating Coupon Codes is available using legacy portal and Portal 2.0 does not support this functionality yet.
- Campaign coupon and promotion related operations can be performed via REST only Portal 2.0 (UI) does not support all of these operations.