Release Notes

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

12.11.2024

Description	Reference
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 is 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

Description	Reference
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

Description	Reference
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

Description	Reference
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

Description	Reference
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

Description	Reference
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

Description	Reference
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