General

• We have improved the promotions engine to give bookstore owners more control over the priority of multiple sidelong promotions
• We have added new controls over items that are added to the shopping cart but never checked out. This improves the shopper experience and also improves the opportunity for recovering abandoned items.
• We have upgraded email handling in line with latest controls as part of the MAILKIT library which increases the number of SMTP tools available

Content Management

• Introducing Bootstrap 5 - much improved framework for responsive, mobile-first website
• Admin topics now allow for the code-free handling of all styles, classes, fonts and colors. 
• No more need for full-stack code and FTP. Modify your site direct from admin console and lock down FTP for improved security. 

Gift Cards

• Gift cards without available funds can no longer be applied to orders.
• This had no effect on the order total, but could be confusing to the shopper.
• Gift cards can no longer be purchased using other gift cards.
• When an order is paid in full by a gift card, the payment method on the receipt will now show "No Payment Required".
• Added new measures to avoid gift cards from being used after being disabled by an administrator or from an order which the administrator had marked as "fraud".

Product Pages

• Significantly improved Search Engine metadata and microdata for Google Tags
• Improved ‘required products’ for future work with Barcharts

Reseller Ratings

• Helps bookstores improve your website's customer experience by collecting and analyzing customer product reviews. (Third party add-on - In use at Missouri)

Security

• MaxMind Fraud Protection is now upgraded and supports Insights and Factors, features which provide additional information about users on your site and aid in fraud protection.
• Score, previously the only Service Type supported, provides a transaction risk score which can filter out bad actors.
• Insights provides additional IP geolocation and research.
• Factors provides additional fraud analysis based on individual factors of a transaction on the site.
• It is no longer possible for a shopper to force a change of their password to a recently used password.
• Tighter controls over account creation.
• Built new controls to ensure that reCAPTCHA, when configured for the checkout page, is never hidden from the shopper.

Site Administration

• Added sorting and filtering support to the gift card grid
• Enhanced the Inline editor, particularly scheduling.