Release notes for Connector | Magento Order Management Documentation

These release notes document numerous functional fixes and enhancements of the Connector.

Release notes are published in conjunction with the GA release to production of Magento Commerce every quarter. See the upcoming releases schedule for more information.

Each section below represents a specific, versioned Connector release, and the noted date reflects when the release notes were published.

Release notes include:

New features
Improvements
Known issues

See the changelog for each version of the Connector compatible with Magento Commerce 2.1.x, Commerce 2.2.x, Commerce 2.3.x, or Commerce 2.4.x.

Magento Commerce v2.4.x

v4.5.0

Connector compatible with Adobe Commerce v2.4.5—The Connector is now compatible with Adobe Commerce 2.4.5.
No authenetication required for our V1/servicebus/control endpoint—Enabling or disabling the integration will no longer be accessible via the API, but the same functionality is available in the OMS Admin.

v4.4.0

Connector compatible with Adobe Commerce v2.4.4—The Connector is now compatible with Adobe Commerce v2.4.4.
Bundle product discounts improvements—Some improvements on display bundle product prices were made on the MOM admin panel.
Add order line information in Appeasement comemnts—For a refund or appeasement, the credit memo generated will have information such as Product, reason and SKU.
Improved visibility for orders created without transaction id—In case of transactionId for a payment is not being generated, the system will generate a warning if an order is unable to get imported in MOM due to that reason.
Store Credit / Gift Card discount should use grossAmount instead of originalPrice—In case of using store credits or gift card the discount will be applicable on gross amount, instead of individual item original price.
Parent of Bundle’s original_price should be 0, not children’s—For dynamic bundle product, the parent bundle will have the price as 0 and child product will have dynamically decided price by splitting the catalog price proportionally to each child.
Make plugin for forcing ShipmentSeparately in frontend for bundles—In case of shipping child product of a bundle separately, now the customer can see the correct shipped quantity for each of the child products of the bundle.
“originalPrice” shouldn’t be null—For Fixed priced bundle product, one of the child product will have priced as 0.0

v4.3.0

Connector compatible with Adobe Commerce v2.4.3—The Connector is now compatible with Adobe Commerce v2.4.3.
Catalog export improvements in running status—Now, the catalog export process uses Adobe Commerce framework’s lock manager to improve process in case of failures.
Extended the visibility on authorization errors—During the order export process if a payment method has a missing required transaction, an error is thrown.
Improved credit memo creation when products are fulfilled in multiple shipments—Now, the OMS improved return synchronization for products fulfilled in different shipments, creating a credit memo for each product.
Improved logs when a credit memo fails to be created—In an effort to have better logs and improve our handling ability, we extended exception handling when a credit memo fails during creation.
Extended out-of-the-box functionality for returns on virtual products—Now, the virtual products return functionality has extended capabilties out-of-the-box. Virtual products persist as part of a return in Magento Commerce.

v4.2.0

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.4.2—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.4.2.
Improved commands to manage the Connector installation—Now, new commands provide partners with detailed information on existing processes, such as: retry, queue_prune, order_sync, message process, and catalog export allowing for better troubleshooting and a dry-run execution mode to ensure they have the tools to simulate process execution. See the Connector setup tutorial page for more information.
Expanded catch control in the SingleMessageProcessor—Expanding the SingleMessageProcessor catch control to improve capture of fatal errors during message processing.
Fixed limitation in the customer_shipment_done message—Fixed a limitation in the mcom_shipping_charges table when anymore customer_shipment_done messages cannot processed.
Improved invoicing after cancellation—Now, if an invoice is created when a product is cancelled, the invoice does not consider the product as shipped.
Fixed price bundle products can be returned—Improved the use cases for a return flow of bundled items. See the bundles page for more information.
Fixed wrong quantity in credit memos and invoices—Now, when the quantity for a product is more than 1 and we return 1, a magento.postsales.credit_memo_management.created message is sent containing the total quantity for the specific SKU.
Improved parent_line amounts for fixed price bundles—Now, orders include the price of the bundle in the fixed price bundles. See the bundles page for more information.

v4.1.0

October 1, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.4.1—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.4.1.

v4.0.0

July 28, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.4.0—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.4.0.
Disable new MSI modules to use OMS and Connector—Disable the new Multi-source Inventory (MSI) modules to use OMS and the Connector with Magento v2.4.
ShippingRefundRule determines shipping fee refunds—If the ShippingRefundRule is set to never in the Order Management System (OMS) Admin, shipping fees for returns are not refunded in Magento Commerce.
Child order lines in multi-bundle orders contain correct parent_line_number—When an order contains more than one bundle, now the child order lines contain the parent_line_number that corresponds with the appropriate bundle product.

Magento Commerce v2.3.x

v3.7.0

May 11, 2021

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.7—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.7.
Updated the secret configuration—During Connector registration, the secret field is now a required field. For security reasons, it cannot be empty.
Extended the visibility on authorization errors—During the order export process, if an exception is thrown, the Connector has extended visibility on authorization errors, such as when a payment method has a missing required transaction_id.
Fixed wrong product image during an order sync—Fixed the product image that is exported during an order sync. Now, the magento.sales.order_management.created specification will export the correct product image.
Improved logs when a credit memo fails to be created—In an effort to have better logs and improve our handling ability, we extended exception handling when a credit memo fails during creation.
Improved credit memo totals for orders with store credit and gift cards as payment methods—We now perform out-of-the-box credit memo adjustments when an order contains a gift card or store credits as the payment method.
Improved trackability in the SingleMessageProcessor–We improved catch control in the SingleMessageProcessor to catch fatal errors during message processing.
Extended out-of-the-box functionality for returns on virtual products—Now, the virtual products return functionality has extended capabilties out-of-the-box. Virtual products persist as part of a return in Magento Commerce.
Fixed full stock re-index in Magento Commerce 2.3.3—Fixed an error triggered when full stock re-index failed with specific stock entities.
Performance improvements on mcom_shipping_charges table—Now, the mcom_shipping_charges table has improved auto_increment limitations, which are caused by the processing of the magento.logistics.fulfillment_management.customer_shipment_done message.
Fixed price bundle products can be returned—We improved the use cases for a return flow of bundled items. See Bundles for more information.
Improved parent_line amounts for fixed price bundles—Now, orders include the price of the bundle in the fixed price bundles. See Bundles for more information.
Fixed timeout issues to avoid large transactions—Performance improvements on the full catalog export feature to avoid big catalog timeout issues.

v3.6.0

October 1, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.6—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.6.
Notify me functionality enabled out-of-the-box—Notify me functionality is enabled out-of-the-box when multiple Magento Commerce instances are connected to a single Order Management System instance.
parent_line_number corresponds with correct bundle line—Now, when an order contains more than one bundle, the child order lines have a parent_line_number that corresponds to the correct bundle line in the order_management.create message.
New maximum number of retries functionality in the Catalog export view—We added a maximum number of five retries in the retry functionality for the catalog export task to avoid infinite retries on products which are not valid to export per Order Management System rules.

v3.5.0

April 28, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.5—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.5.
Connector supports SHA-2 signature—The Connector now supports the SHA-2 security signature provided by the Order Management System (OMS) Service Bus.
See average and historical message time consumed by Connector—Now you can see the average message time and historical message time in each of the endpoints consumed by the Connector module. This information will be available in the Connector system report in the Magento Commerce Admin.
Order number pattern configurable—The order number pattern is now configurable via configuration in the Developer view of the Magento Commerce Admin.
New health check command—We implemented a command to check the health of the Commerce OMS integration and provide guidance for executing next steps if a problem is found.
New Relic logs key performance metrics—You now have access to performance metrics, including memory usage before and after, memory usage difference, peak memory usage before and after, difference between peak memory usage, and time elapsed for each message that is processed.
Increased performance from asynchronous option—To increase performance, we added the asynchronous option for JSON RPC.
Message processes avoids out of memory limitation—The message processor now avoids out of memory limitations by adding a check to compare usage and limits, and then ending the loop when memory consumption is over threshold (and a warning is logged in the log file).
Expanded catalog export task for troubleshooting—We added columns to the catalog export task that allow you to see the reason, start time, and end time of requests for troubleshooting purposes.
Added max retries for catalog export task—We added a maximum number of retries to the catalog export task for each item to avoid infinite retries on products not valid for export (per OMS rules).
Sales Orders filter option shows date picker—Now, the date picker in the Magento Commerce Admin appears when you select a date in the Sales Orders filter option.
Custom message handlers now backward compatible—Custom, third-party or System Integrator (SI), message handlers inside the Connector module are now backward compatible.
Stock aggregate info removed from OMS Admin—When a stock aggregate is removed from the OMS Admin, the information for the stock aggregate is also removed.
Show related products per rule config—The behavior of showing related products, based on the number of products, is now correctly utilizing the rule’s configuration.
NONZERO stock snapshot updates keep bundles in stock—Now, when you manage stock snapshot updates in NONZERO mode bundles do not appear out of stock, and instead remain in stock as expected.

v3.4.0

January 28, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.4—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.4.
Connector compatible with PHP 7.3—The Connector is now compatible with PHP 7.3.
Out of stock product shown when inventory greater than 0—We enabled inventory website granularity to allow order placement from the Magento Commerce Admin when a merchant uses specific stock levels on each website to alleviate the out of stock product availability for inventory greater than quantity of 0.
Dynamic SKU functionality disabled for Connector—The Dynamic SKU is disabled out-of-the-box for the Connector, due to no compatibility with the MSI functionality in Magento Commerce.
Fixed order export functionality—We fixed the inoperable Export Order button (to force the export of orders) in the Magento Commerce Admin.
Increased delay for first retry of order_management.create message—We resolved the issue that the Connector could send more than one magento.sales.order_management.create message when the partner configures this communication in asynchronous mode. This fix improves the API Journal functionality.
Improved Connector permissions for users—We fixed user roles and permission for the Connector to ensure the admin role is not disabled.

v3.3.0

November 6, 2019

Enabled advanced inventory functionalities—New capabilities and advanced inventory functionalities have been added out-of-the-box for Magento Commerce.
Multiple invoices are now created for each shipment in an order—Invoices are created for each shipment of an order, instead of an invoice being created for each package in the shipment.
Credit memo creation for gift cards/store credit—Added the capability to create credit memos of gift cards and store credit.
Improved gift card invoice creation—Invoice creation logic for fully or partially paid gift card orders is now aligned with out-of-the-box Magento Commerce logic.
Updated store credit payment method logic—Store credit is not treated as a gift card in the OMS or in Magento Commerce. The Connector supports a new structure for store credit and gift cards.
Connector now compatible with Commerce v2.3.2 SOAP API—Now the Connector is compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.2 and its SOAP API communication protocol.
Connector now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.2 XSD validation—Now the Connector is compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.2 and its XSD validation files.

v3.2.0

June 27, 2019

Increased timeout for registration/other messages—We increased the timeout for sending messages to the OMS from 5 seconds to 1 minute.
New WARNING log status message—A new WARNING log status message was added to the API Journal view to indicate that the API was processed successfully (but can also be used to require a check that indicates that the message content was correct).
Incoming messages only imported asynchronously—Incoming messages are only imported asynchronously, and are not manually configurable.
Load bundled product with admin capabilities—We made improvements to allow you to load bundled products with admin CSV import product capability.
Fixed price bundles successfully exported—Now, bundles with fixed prices are exported correctly and without error in the Order Management System (OMS).
Update frequency of push messages via UI—This fix allows you to modify the frequency of the cron job that performs the hourly push for synchronizing Magento Commerce (MC) and the OMS.
Catalog inventory FULL mode updates absent catalog items correctly—The magento.inventory.aggregate_stock_management.updated message, in FULL mode, no longer sets all absent catalog items as “0”. Use NONZERO mode to initialize the previous behavior.
Align statuses in order grid and order detail page—he OMS statuses in the order data grid and order detail page are aligned and show the same status information.
Order cancellations for MC 2.2.0 installations—Now, you can complete order cancellations for MC 2.2.0 installations.
Export orders after initial order export failure—We resolved the issue that after the first order export failure you are not able to export any other orders. You can now continue exporting orders even after a failure.
Errant HTML formatting removed from order details page—The “Purchased from”, “Billing Address”, and “Shipping Address” fields in the Magento Digital Commerce (MDC) order details page will no longer permit HTML tags, which errantly render in the UI.
Re-enabled capability to resend tracking emails—You can re-send tracking emails via the Send tracking information button from the Shipping and Invoice pages. This option was previously disabled.
Display message log title in the API Journal history view—In the API Journal view we added the ability to view the message title related to each of the log entries.
Modules save only attributes to be modified—Modules only save the attribute they intend to modify, using EntityAbstract::saveAttribute instead of orderRepository->save, so that other data does not accidentally get overwritten.

v3.1.1

April 4, 2019

Removed proxy subclass—The SingleMessageProcessor previously requested a proxy subclass for handlers. This behavior has been deprecated. You must explicitly define proxy subclasses in your di.xml file when registering your own handlers.
Order processing after deleting products in Magento Commerce—The OMS now successfully processes orders if products in an order have been deleted in Magento Commerce.
Improved unserialized process in the service bus—This fix improves the unserialized process for synchronous messages.
Shipments with Connector v2.2.0 are created—Merchants with the v2.2.0 Connector can continue to synchronize shipments based on the customer_shipment_done message.
Order creation with gift card support—You can now sucessfuloy create orders with a gift cards in v3.1.0.

v3.1.0

March 19, 2019

Added mapper for Adyen payment gateway—We added a mapper to map the gateway_id, account, and transaction_id fields to support Adyen payment gateway processing via the OMS.
Added incremental retry policy for orders not loaded—When an order created in Magento Commerce cannot be loaded in the OMS, the message will now be retried for a maximum of 48 hours, after which the message will no longer be retried and the order grid will display a FAILED status in the Order loaded in OMS column.
Bundling support—We added support for bundling.
Gift card support—We added support for gift cards as a promotional discount/store credit option.
Stop retries for duplicated order IDs—When a new order cannot be created in the OMS due to a duplicated order ID the message will not be retried, and the order grid will display a FAILED status in the Order loaded in OMS column.
Updated Connector configuration—The StoreID configuration was changed to the Sales Channel ID and the deprecated “Transport - Driver” configuration was removed.

Magento Commerce v2.1.x and 2.2.x

v2.6.0

April 28, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.2.12—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.2.12.
Connector supports SHA-2 signature—The Connector now supports the SHA-2 security signature provided by the Order Management System (OMS) Service Bus.
See average and historical message time consumed by Connector—Now you can see the average message time and historical message time in each of the endpoints consumed by the Connector module. This information will be available in the Connector system report in the Magento Commerce Admin.
Order number pattern configurable—The order number pattern is now configurable via configuration in the Developer view of the Magento Commerce Admin.
New health check command—We implemented a command to check the health of the Commerce OMS integration and provide guidance for executing next steps if a problem is found.
New Relic logs key performance metrics—You now have access to performance metrics, including memory usage before and after, memory usage difference, peak memory usage before and after, difference between peak memory usage, and time elapsed for each message that is processed.
Increased performance from asynchronous option—To increase performance, we added the asynchronous option for JSON RPC.
Message processes avoids out of memory limitation—The message processor now avoids out of memory limitations by adding a check to compare usage and limits, and then ending the loop when memory consumption is over threshold (and a warning is logged in the log file).
Expanded catalog export task for troubleshooting—We added columns to the catalog export task that allow you to see the reason, start time, and end time of requests for troubleshooting purposes.
Added max retries for catalog export task—We added a maximum number of retries to the catalog export task for each item to avoid infinite retries on products not valid for export (per OMS rules).
Sales Orders filter option shows date picker—Now, the date picker in the Magento Commerce Admin appears when you select a date in the Sales Orders filter option.
Custom message handlers now backward compatible—Custom, third-party or System Integrator (SI), message handlers inside the Connector module are now backward compatible.
Stock aggregate info removed from OMS Admin—When a stock aggregate is removed from the OMS Admin, the information for the stock aggregate is also removed.
Show related products per rule config—The behavior of showing related products, based on the number of products, is now correctly utilizing the rule’s configuration.
NONZERO stock snapshot updates keep bundles in stock—Now, when you manage stock snapshot updates in NONZERO mode bundles do not appear out of stock, and instead remain in stock as expected.

v2.5.0

January 28, 2020

Connector compatible with Magento Commerce v2.2.11—The Connector is now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.2.11.
Connector compatible with PHP 7.2—The Connector is now compatible with PHP 7.2.
Out of stock product shown when inventory greater than 0—We enabled inventory website granularity to allow order placement from the Magento Commerce Admin when a merchant uses specific stock levels on each website to alleviate the out of stock product availability for inventory greater than quantity of 0.
Fixed order export functionality—We fixed the inoperable Export Order button (to force the export of orders) in the Magento Commerce Admin.
Increased delay for first retry of order_management.create message—We resolved the issue that the Connector could send more than one magento.sales.order_management.create message when the partner configures this communication in asynchronous mode. This fix improves the API Journal functionality.
Improved Connector permissions for users—We fixed user roles and permission for the Connector to ensure the admin role is not disabled.

v2.4.0

This release is the first Connector release to be 100% compatible with related Commerce code.

November 6, 2019

Enabled advanced inventory functionalities—New capabilities and advanced inventory functionalities have been added out-of-the-box for Magento Commerce.
Multiple invoices are now created for each shipment in an order—Invoices are created for each shipment of an order, instead of an invoice being created for each package in the shipment.
Credit memo creation for gift cards/store credit—Added the capability to create credit memos of gift cards and store credit.
Improved gift card invoice creation—Invoice creation logic for fully or partially paid gift card orders is now aligned with out-of-the-box Magento Commerce logic.
Updated store credit payment method logic—Store credit is not treated as a gift card in the OMS or in Magento Commerce. The Connector supports a new structure for store credit and gift cards.
Connector now compatible with Commerce v2.3.2 SOAP API—Now the Connector is compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.2 and its SOAP API communication protocol.
Connector now compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.2 XSD validation—Now the Connector is compatible with Magento Commerce v2.3.2 and its XSD validation files.

v2.1.2

February 4, 2019

MCOM Connector compatibility with v2.3 without MSI—Now you can install Magento v2.3 with the latest version of the Connector. By default, an upgrade from v2.2 to v2.3 will maintain the disabled MSI module, but a new v2.3 installation requires you to manually turn off MSI.

January 24, 2019

Support all shipping methods—OMS now supports any Magento-configured shipping methods by creating catalog entries.
VAT country configuration no longer needed—OMS re-uses the VAT country information previously configured in Sales > Tax > Default Country, instead of requiring additional VAT country configuration (in Stores > Configuration > MCOM Connector).
Transitional state LOGISTICSCOMPLETE(COMPLETEDSHIP) not shown in Order Detail page—Now, when OMS sends a magento.sales.order_management.updated message with a status of LOGISTICSCOMPLETE and a status reason of COMPLETEDSHIP, it will be ignored in the API Journal view in MDC and in the comment section of the Order Detail page, to prevent any confusion about this transitional state.
Product quantity field in MDC Admin are sortable—Now you can sort the quantity column of the product grid in the MDC Admin to see all products with high stock or zero stock quickly and efficiently.