Ability to use gift card in the checkout, blocks for product categories and the Storefront API as release candidate 3. The React accelerator beta 4 is released at the same time with new abilities such as a redesigned checkout page and an updated category page with blocks.
Highlights
- React accelerator (beta 4)
- Checkout page (React accelerator)
- Category page with blocks (React accelerator)
- Distribution of fields and field templates (React accelerator)
- Litium Storefront API (release candidate 3)
- Ability for system to handle gift cards in the checkout
- Ability to manage blocks for categories
- Ability to use RVT file type
React accelerator (beta 4)
The new react accelerator has its own description and release notes, but here are some of the new things delivered this time.
The React accelerator is designed mobile first for a better and updated user experience.
Checkout page (React accelerator)
The checkout is completely redesigned in the React accelerator. It meets modern user expectations by an elaborate design for both mobile and larger screens, exposing the user to only relevant information to minimize the cognitive load. Also the design of form elements are changed to include hint texts inside textboxes that are minimized when the user starts typing.
The checkout page is designed to support some combinations of payment methods. For example, if multiple iframe checkouts are configured for a channel, only the first one will be used in the checkout and an iframe checkout cannot be combined with an inline or a payment checkout. The system will render the iframe checkout and ignore the inline and payment checkout. However, an inline or a payment checkout can be combined.
Read more about the cart and checkout
Delivery details - Direct pay
Delivery selection - Direct pay
Payment selection - Direct pay
Delivery details - Direct pay mobile
Delivery selection - Direct pay mobile
Payment selection - Direct pay mobile
Klarna checkout
Klarna checkout mobile
Category page with blocks (React accelerator)
The ability for administrators to use blocks for product categories, has also been implemented in the category page for the React accelerator. From now on, no need to create extra landing pages, for categories in CMS, even though the possibility is still there of course.
Read more about blocks
Category page with block - mobile
Category page with block
Distribution of fields and field templates (React accelerator)
This ability makes it possible to distribute fields and field templates as files with the React Accelerator for pages, blocks, product categories and products to avoid manual setup of all related items.
Read more about distribution
Litium Storefront API (release candidate 3)
The Storefront API is released in release candidate stage, which means it is officially suppported and recommended to use in customer projects.
Coverage of new functional areas in this release are:
- Ability to query Storefront API for product and category relations
Storefront API introduction
Storefront API functional areas
Ability for system to handle gift cards in the checkout
Litium has now support to manage gift cards set up in other systems and used in Litium as a payment in the checkout.
Read more about gift cards
Ability to manage blocks for categories
We continue to make it easier to enrich your product catalog. This time by introducing the ability to work with content blocks for categories. This makes it easier to add rich content and reduces the need to create separate landing pages in CMS for your categories.
Read more about blocks
Ability to use RVT file type
You can now use RVT files in Media. RVT is a file format used by the design project files in Autodesk's software.
Bug fixes and improvements
All bug fixes and smaller improvements are found in the release notes.
See the release notes here