Release Notes

Overview of latest product updates, grouped and ordered by release date.

14.01.2025

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Duty & Taxes: Added calculation of additional tariffs on China origin products imported to the United States ("US China Tariff").

Added break-down of duty charges (general and penalty) to the TCC API responses, and added option to configure default country of origin by account.

CBTS-3296

Duty & Taxes: Added calculation of Brazil's PIS and COFINS import taxes, both calculated on CIF value, and added support of the "grossed up" calculation method for Brazilian state-specific VAT ("IMCS").

CBTS-3370

Duty & Taxes: Added calculation of additional duty charges in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), covering statistical tax and community levies, all calculated on the CIF value and added to the VAT base.

CBTS-3428

Duty & Taxes: Added detailed break-down of tax components to the TCC quote (including VAT), reported in the tax_charges section in the TCC API responses.

CBTS-3341

Duty & Taxes: Abandoned state code validation in cases where the state code has not relevance to tax calculations.

CBTS-3315

Product Classification: Improved the quality of ad-hoc classifications during preparation of TCC quotes.

CBTS-3408

Extranet: Added a "Warning" icon next to dangerous good SKU lines in the order details view.

CBTS-3380

Extranet: Added displaying the paperless mode ("Data Mode" or "Doc Mode") on the order details view for paperless shipments.

CBTS-3304

Introduced mandatory obfuscation of any buyer personal identifiable information (PII) after 6 months in storage.

CBTS-3318

12.11.2024

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Duty & Taxes: Retired the special personal use valuation rule (60% of purchase price), applied to imports into Japan, to guarantee compliance.

CBTS-3339

Duty & Taxes: Aligned the product duty rate with the returned duty amount, to return 0% for applied duty de minimis (or in case of domestic shipments).

CBTS-3317

Product Classification: Improved the default assignment of 8 and 10-digit HS codes to ensure a valid HS code gets assigned in all cases.

CBTS-3341

Added the ability to update a product's country of origin (and manufacturer ID) at fulfilment via immediate_shipment API request to support shipping of multi-sourced products.

CBTS-3315

Extranet: Added a FAILED closeout section to the closeout page to simplify monitoring of closeout processing errors.

CBTS-3309

Extranet: Added displaying the UTC timezone next to the confirmed carrier pick-up time to avoid ambiguities.

CBTS-3304

Extended an existing e-mail alert to inform about a failed automated carrier pick-up scheduling. The provided link allows the user to manually schedule a new pick-up date/time.

CBTS-3305

15.10.2024

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Duty & Taxes: Adjusted quote for domestic and intra EU-shipments to display zero duty rate along with the zero duty charge.

CBTS-3295

Product Pricing: Prepared the calculate_product API for integration in an external (international) product pricing service.

CBTS-3269

Product Classification: Enhanced category to HS code mapping feature to support country-specific HS codes with higher precision.

CBTS-3278

Product Classification: Expanded product translation beyond product title and description to all other product details (category, materials and gender) to improve classification accuracy for non-English product details.

CBTS-3276

Product Classification: Introduced auto-trimming of product details in bulk request files to prevent classification errors due to overlong descriptions.

CBTS-3282

Temis Luxury: Added support of ECOPack box labels.

CBTS-3267

Extranet: Enhanced order shipment status view to display both international and last-mile carrier tracking events.

CBTS-3289

01.10.2024

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Duty & Taxes: Added support of trade agreement specific de-minimis thresholds (eg. for the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement).

CBTS-3150

Duty & Taxes: Refined the duty preference handling to consistently apply customs union preferential rates, regardless of the account's free trade agreement configuration.

CBTS-3247

Enhanced the calculate_order API response to include the name of the applied trade agreement in new argument <preference_source>.

CBTS-3250

Enhanced the address street length limit from 50 to 70 characters across all relevant APIs to reduce cases of required manual intervention.

CBTS-3215

FedEx: Started supporting label creation for dangerous goods (eg. perfumes) with FedEx.

CBTS-3254

UPS: Introduced the automatic next-day rescheduling of UPS pickups in case of rejected same-day pickup requests.

CBTS-3253

Extranet: Converted the 'B2B2C' order details flag (YES or NO) into a shipment 'Type' field with possible values 'B2B', 'B2C', and 'B2B2C', to clearly flag B2B orders.

CBTS-3097

Extranet: Adapted the order details status section to consistently display any internal status changes along with external carrier events.

CBTS-3245

Extranet: Enhanced the admin route details page with improved hub, delivery type, and carrier service information for clearer logistics overview.

CBTS-3221

Extranet: Added a 'Back to hubs' button on the admin hub details page to improve system navigation.

CBTS-3242

10.09.2024

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New Carrier: Integrated Landmark as new carrier option for outbound shipments.

CBTS-3198

Extranet: Added flag "Note: Risky Item(s)" to the closeout overview and detail pages to closeouts that contain products flagged risky (eg. for being selected for customs inspection).

CBTS-3220

Extranet: Relaxed hub access on the closeout history page, allowing users without hub access restrictions to access all closeout records.

CBTS-3212

Extranet: Added the carrier as new filter option to the order overview.

CBTS-3199

Extranet: Introduced the requirement for new Extranet accounts to change their initial password upon first login.

CBTS-3186

Extranet: Introduced a new reset password link/email option for Extranet accounts. Glopal admin users can now send a unique, time-limited link for password resets.

CBTS-3185

Extranet: Started to filter duplicate address records in the previous addresses section on the 'edit address' page.

CBTS-3147

Enhanced the address name length limit from 50 to 70 characters across all relevant APIs, to reduce manual error handling.

CBTS-3215

FedEx: Adapted the FedEx integration to use the order reference instead of the internal shipment ID as 'Customer Reference', to simplify invoice reconciliation for our clients.

CBTS-3223

UPS: Re-enabled automatic fallback for UPS services, restoring functionality impacted by the migration to the REST API.

CBTS-3214

UPS: Removed outdated UPS service codes.

CBTS-3202

15.08.2024

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Removed outdated UPS service code mappings.

CBTS-3202

Extended the immediate_shipment API response to include the return shipping invoice when it is available.

CBTS-3200

Made the manifesting call to EasyPost optional, depending on the underlying carrier.

CBTS-3172

Product Classification: Extended the bulk product classify response file to contain the merchant SKU of the unsuccessfully classified product, to allow better linking the error line to the request.

CBTS-3171

Product Classification: Extended the string length limit for the materials tag in the classify API request from 100 to 255.

CBTS-3170

Strengthened the validation for items entering alternative product SKU list.

CBTS-3163

Simplified the Extranet portal user role management by introducing 3 standard roles (manager, operator, viewer).

CBTS-3154

23.07.2024

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On the Extranet order processing page, introduced a new column titled "Custom Documents" to display required customs documentation codes (e.g., COO or CITES).

CBTS-3134

Improved the shipment tracking event descriptions for label generation and customs handling on the Extranet order details page format.

CBTS-3132

Enabled the possibility to configure the dangerous goods handling per outbound route.

CBTS-3130

Enhanced tax & duty quoting without shipping route configuration, by ignoring the origin hub if provided.

CBTS-3129

Supported to store and share shipment tracking numbers without tracking URL.

CBTS-3122

Introduced the option to pass a backup phone number to the carrier if the buyer did not provide a phone number. The default phone number can be configured by country.

CBTS-3118

Enabled the use of the parcel-attached return shipping advice for partial returns, leaving the returned quantity and shipment value for the buyer to fill in case of a return.

CBTS-3113

04.07.2024

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Updated the submitted DHL local product code as advised by DHL (from P to S) for deliveries to the United Kingdom.

CBTS-3111

Enabled access to the Receipts report via Extranet. See new section 'REPORTS'.

CBTS-3109

Enabled access to the POD report via Extranet. See new section 'REPORTS'.

CBTS-3108

Added the option to configure by destination country if the input HS code should be truncated to the globally valid first 6 digits (eg. 4202313000 -> 420231).

CBTS-3101

Added the option to apply automatic language detection on the product description for the classify API service, to improve the classification result for product catalogues with language mix.

CBTS-3098

Updated the link to Glopal's new shipment tracking page in the tracking API response.

CBTS-3096

Optimised UPS API authentication process by implementing periodic OAuth token refreshing (as recommended by UPS).

CBTS-3093

Updated the Yamato Transport shipping manifest generation to comply with updated guidelines.

CBTS-3092

Disabled generating the return shipping invoice for domestic and intra-EU returns.

CBTS-3091

Added the option to configure the overwrite discount if the requested discount is 100% (in order to be customs compliant).

CBTS-3090

Introduced automatic DHL API request retries after initial timeouts to make the DHL API integration more robust, and for example avoiding unnecessary paperless fallbacks.

CBTS-3051

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