July 2017 Release enhancements.

• Enhancements to Subscription sync up with Partner Center.
• Search customers for Pre-approved billing/Invoicing.
• Enhancements to regional authorization rules during customer creation.
• Search on offer in offer management.
• Geo expansion beyond the US.

Support for Pre-approved transactions in Web Storefront.

Partner admins now have the ability to configure which customers can perform pre-approved transactions in the storefront. 

A customer who is pre-approved will not be redirected to the PayPal payment experience while transacting.

Partner can select and pre-approve

• One or more specific customers.
• Or any current & future customers of the storefront.

This is based on feedback from partners who wanted to manage offline invoicing and billing of customers while allowing customers to self service buying new subscriptions, adding seats to existing subscriptions and renewing about to expire subscriptions at the storefront without the hassle of having to pay at the same time.

We also have an updated quick start guide to get your started. 

On the technical side, this also brings in the Pre-Approved payment gateway. Consider this a virtual payment gateway implementation which shows how the storefront order APIs determine at runtime and select which payment gateway to utilize for a specific transaction by a specific customer. Take a look at the Payment Gateways to see how this is built. Also take a look at the Order API controller to see how at runtime the payment gateways are picked up.

Globalization support, Additional languages, updated features & more.

Along with top features being supported. This is a major globalization & localization release for the storefront application. Highlights for this release are listed below

• Its has been translated to include Spanish, Dutch, French, German and Japanese languages along with English.
• Partners can now configure offers in the storefront based on their region.
• The storefront will utilize the Currency applicable to the partner country & region.
• Offers display the right currency and the payment gateway integration is now based on the partner's billing currency.
• It now supports handling billing language & culture for customer create scenario.
• Customer's can now belong to a large number of countries (focus has been on EFTA, North America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand regions). This feature uses the Regional authorization support in the Partner Center SDK.
• The store front allows customers to now view subscriptions (licensing based as well as usage based) in the My Subscriptions page.
• Customer orders from the store front are now visible on the "My Orders" page.
• Bug fixes and all relevant dependencies have been updated.
• A new Application Insights based telemetry engine is also introduced which can be optionally configured in the store front branding page.

November Release

This releases primarily adds support for PayPal express checkout and PayPal accounts as a funding instrument for the customer. Additionally bugs were fixed and PCI compliance review was conducted for the new changes that were incorporated.

Partners who have deployed the store front from Partner Center will need to upgrade from the same page.