What’s New in the User Guide

Updated the Web API topic to include new sections for JWT authentication and input limits.

Updated information in the Google API configuration reference, and the Google Analytics and Google AdWords topics for new GTag support for Google services integration and move from Google Universal Analytics to Analytics 4.

Updated Google reCAPTCHA and Google reCAPTCHA Storefront topics to reflect additional support for configuration of reCAPTCHA validation on the storefront.

Updated the B2B features topic to include the new Enable Shared Catalog direct products price assigning option.

Updated the Search Results topic to clarify the partial prefix search method, and that Elasticsearch product search results are based on relevance.

The Customer Attributes and Customer Address Attributes topics are updated to include the Grid Filter Condition Type configuration option.

The Configurable Product topic is updated to include a new Configure the Stock Status section, which describes how stock status is controlled for a configurable product in relation to its child products.

Added notes to Search Results and Configuring Catalog Search to clarify the limitations of search by suffix in out-of-the-box ElasticSearch implementations.

Redirected the Site-Wide-Analysis Tool topic to the new location on Adobe Experience League.

Updated topics for Page Builder Image, Banner, and Slider topics to include new Search Engine Optimization options for accessibility and improved indexing.

The Amazon Pay and Klarna vendor-bundled extensions for payment methods are no longer bundled in Commerce. Related information is removed from the user guide and documentation provided by the vendor can be accessed through the Marketplace extension listing.

The Yotpo vendor-developed extension is no longer bundled in Commerce. Related information is removed from the user guide and documentation provided by the vendor can be accessed through the Marketplace extension listing.

The Vertex Cloud vendor-developed extension is no longer bundled in Commerce. Related information is removed from the user guide and documentation provided by the vendor can be accessed through the Marketplace extension listing.

The Dotdigital vendor-developed extension is no longer bundled in Commerce. Related information is removed from the user guide and documentation provided by the vendor can be accessed through the Marketplace extension listing.

Updates for multiple content topics to reflect changes to the Editor. TinyMCE 5 is the default WYSIWYG editor, and TinyMCE 4 is now removed.

Added Payment Services to the Recommended Solutions in the configuration reference.

Live Search 2.0 includes a beta release of PWA support, a configurable storefront popover, and advanced installation process changes.

Updated the Returns Attributes topic to include additional information about labels/options.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Migrated the majority of the Product Recommendations documentation from the developer guide to the user guide.

Updated the Live Search release notes for the 1.3.1 release.

Updated the Comparison List topic to include different methods that customers can use to access the comparison list on the storefront.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

In the Approval Rules topic, added information about purchase order auto approval and manual approval cases.

Updated the Inventory Management - Configuring Backorders topic to include a note to clarify how canceled orders affect the salable quantity.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated the Customer Segments topic to include comparison with customer segments based on where each are used.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Added a new section, “Boundaries and thresholds” to the Install Live Search topic.

Updated Page Builder Slider, Banner, and Row topics to include the Background Repeat setting.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Live Search installation instructions and release notes have been moved from the developer documentation to the user guide.

Added Payment Services topics with the latest information of the new marketplace extension.

Updated the Wish List Search topic to include information about searching for another customer’s public wish list on the storefront.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated the Scheduling an Export topic to include additional information about entity types and configuration for remote server.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Added Common types of breadcrumbs section to the Breadcrumb Trail topic.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the B2B Feature Configuration topic to include procedures for enabling order approval and purchase orders for companies.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated Best Practices for Product Attributes to include information about product variations, weighted search, and unused properties.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Category Content page to include the procedure for adding a CMS block to the Content properties for a category.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

The Live Search Performance reporting dashboard provides insight into the effectiveness of search terms that shoppers use.

Updated the Import and Scheduling an Import topics to include important information about the Add/Update import behavior affecting fields that carry multiple values.

Updated the Scheduled Changes for Cart Price Rules topic to include information about the coupon-related fields that are not available for the Cart Price Rules scheduled updates.

Updated the Creating an Invoice topic to clarify that invoices are not created automatically for orders placed by using Gift Card, Store Credit, Reward Points, or other offline payment methods.

Updated the Gift Card topic to describe the gift card functionality on the storefront.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Customer Session Lifetime topic to include the procedure for enabling the persistent login feature on the storefront.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Added the ‘Delete a Template’ and Grid Columns sections to the Newsletter Templates topic.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Added B2B support in Product Recommendations.

Updated the Email Template List topic for additional templates and configuration paths.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated the Applying Store Credit topic to include information about updating a customer’s store credit balance.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Added content for new product recommendation types: Conversion (view to cart), Conversion (view to purchase), and Recently viewed.

Updated the Order Status Notification topic to include configuration of email templates for new order notifications.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated the Minimum Advertised Price topic to include more detailed information about the feature and how it affects the customer experience on the storefront.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Sales Reports topic to include details about refresh, filtering, and export for sales reports.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated the Creating an Individual Customer Account topic to include the Allow remote shopping assistance and Show Password options available to customers on the storefront.

Community contribution by pawan

Updated the Gift Registry topic to add the workflow for customers managing their gift registry items from their customer dashboard.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Added information to the Gift Options topic for enabling gift messages on the storefront.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Filterable Attributes topic to include steps for removing filterable attribute values with 0 products from the layered navigation.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Google Tag Manager topic to include the procedure for adding the GTM code snippets to the Commerce store.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Translating Products topic to include steps for translating product attributes and attribute options.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated the Adding New Blocks topic to add new section about removing custom blocks.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Updated the Billing Agreements topic to include detailed information about managing billing agreements.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Updated the Shipping an Order topic to include steps to configuring shipping comments for email to customers.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Basic Page Builder content tools now available in Magento Open Source.

Updated information for WYSIWYG editor for removal of deprecated TinyMCE 3 as an option.

Added a new topic about configuring session sizes.

Community contribution by jeff-matthews

Updates for dotdigital configuration fields

Community contribution by sta1r

Updated PayPal configuration procedures to include new PayPal Pay Later experience:
- PayPal Express Checkout
- Payments Advanced
- Payments Pro
- Payments Standard
- Payflow Pro
- Payflow Link

Updated Add Content - Products to add warning information about Page Builder preview limitation for filtering/sorting configurable, grouped, and bundle products by price.

Updated Admin Sign In to add information about allowing login from multiple devices.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Expanded Creating and Managing Widgets topic to include widget edit and delete information.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Added Minimum Order Quantity topic to describe cart configuration for a minimum number of items per order.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated Integrations with new information for activating and deleting an integration.

Community contribution by DmitryTsymbal

Added the Bulk Updates for Product Attributes topic, which describes how to update product attributes across a group of selected products.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Live Search powered by Adobe Sensei delivers a lightning fast, super relevant, and intuitive search experience for the storefront, and is available for Adobe Commerce at no additional charge.

Updated Security Scan for a new feature added to the Scan Tool that enables merchants to submit PWA stores for scanning.

Community contribution by smiverma

Updated Country Options with new section for configuring shipping to specific countries for each available shipping method (UPS, FedEx, etc.)

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added Checkout Page as part of the customer Path to Purchase in the quick tour.

Community contribution by Santoshziffity

Updated Media - Slider page with new section for adding a widget to a slide.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated Using a Site Map with a new section about managing sitemaps and robots.txt for multiple websites.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated Transactions to include information about viewing transaction details.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated Company Accounts to describe the benefits and feature capabilities for using B2B company accounts.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added new Custom Variables and Notifications topics to complete the System section.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added the Reorders to describe the functionality for customers to reorder products on the storefront.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added a section in Special Price to describe different procedures to apply special price to multiple products in Commerce vs. Open Source.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Rebranding to reflect product branding updates.

In Creating Product Attributes, added the list of types for product attributes along with descriptions as part of the selection step in the procedure.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added the new Startup Page options section in the Admin configuration page to list and describe the options for choosing a startup page in the Admin.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Added the Column descriptions table to the Invoices topic.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added comparison of cross-sells and up-sells to product recommendations.

Added the My Returns topic, which includes information about managing returns for the customer account on the storefront.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Added column descriptions in the My Downloadable Products topic.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Added the Adding Category Products topic to describe adding products to a category from the Products in Category section.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Changes to Klarna Storefront Experience to capture updates for the Klarna logo, iframe, and labeling.

Community contribution by katkinssss

Added the Gift card account history section to the Gift Cards topic.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Updated My Wish List to include information about how customers can update the wish list from different areas on the storefront.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

New sections added to Scheduled Changes to describe creating a new scheduled update, as well as assigning an existing update, viewing an update, and editing an update.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Updated Managing Requisition Lists to describe product editing flow for Requisition Lists.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

Substantial update to the Action tables in the Actions Control topic.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Added the ‘Reorder from Storefront’ and other sections to the Allow Reorders topic.

Community contribution by EvheniiaKolkhiieva

In Images and Video, added the Image Detail section to describe customizing product image display.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Added new sections to Gift Cards dashboard topic for checking the balance and redeeming the gift card.

Community contribution by ZhovnirMaria

Adding content about how you can preview recommendation units before deploying to your storefront.

Adding information about private keys when connecting to SaaS services.

Updated the Sales Channels Global Settings topic to include the Read Only Mode function.

Added information about time and training for machine learning models for Product Recommendations.

Added the Allowed countries setting to the website scope section in the Scope Quick Reference.

Updates in multiple topics to address the use of the default Date of Birth customer account field/attribute.

Updated the About this Release page with links to the 2.4.2 Release Notes.

Updated the opt-in for Admin usage data collection to include value information about in-product guidance.

Updated the opt-in Admin usage configuration reference to include value information about in-product guidance.

Added the Purchase order payment methods section to include information about limitations around payments when processing purchase orders.

Added multiple updates across the Page Builder section to reflect changes to the Page Builder stage, which is now initially blank and supports adding the following content types directly to the stage for Rows, Columns, Tabs, HTML Code, Blocks, and Dynamic Blocks.

Updated the Page Builder Workspace page to with information about the new Page Builder viewport preview buttons in the stage (see Viewports), so users can preview how their content will look on different devices (desktop vs. mobile).

Added a method for importing images with remote storage. Added a new data transfer example for downloadable products.

Updates for the latest release of the dotdigital bundled extension.

Added the Purchase order workflow topic.

Update to the Magento_User section in Email Template List for the New Admin User email template.

Added the Media Gallery Image Optimization to describe new functionality for image optimization.