The New

Checkout Links is now generally available to all qualifying merchants. Reach out to your Bolt Customer Success Manager for more information and to enable this feature.

The New

To align with industry practices and reduce friction, the shopper authentication process now involves fewer clicks with the following enhancements:

• Automatically detect & authenticate shoppers with an existing session
• After a shopper enters their email address, automatically proceed to the verification step
• Automatic login upon entering the verification code

This functionality is now available to merchants using any of the following:

• BigCommerce Accounts One-Click
• Accounts

Fraud Protection for embedded checkout is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

Bolt’s Fraud Protection is now available with embedded checkout to merchants who meet certain annual GMV qualifications.

The New

To align with industry practices and reduce friction, the shopper authentication process now involves fewer clicks with the following enhancements:

• Automatically detect & authenticate shoppers with an existing session
• After a shopper enters their email address, automatically proceed to the verification step
• Auto-login upon entering the verification code

This seamless login enhancement is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

Bolt now offers gift options at the item level for merchants who use Magento 2, BigCommerce, or custom cart implementations.

Gift options enable shoppers to do the following:

• When adding an item to the cart, select a gift option such as a gift message or gift wrapping
• Skip adding an invoice to a gift order
• Add different shipping and billing addresses

Gift options provide the following benefits to merchants:

• Offer gift options as a complimentary service or as an up-sell
• Choose which products are eligible for gift options
• Set gift wrapping costs at the item level
  
  

Gift options is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

Shoppers

Bolt’s checkout experience enables you to ship items in your cart to multiple destinations.

Merchants

Set up Complex Shipping to enable your shoppers to set multiple shipping addresses for the items in their cart.

The New

Bolt’s Shopper Assistant now offers free shipping over a merchant-determined order total to help drive conversions.

The Shopper Assistant is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

Risk Assessment Scoring is now available to merchants who use Fraud Protection.

The New

You can now create, configure, query and delete webhook endpoints using Bolt’s APIs. Programmatically create hooks to receive information about Bolt events, such as transaction status.

The New

The gateway integration with PayPal Payflow Pro is now generally available.

To connect your PayPal Payflow Pro account to Bolt, add your gateway credentials in Payment Settings in the Bolt Merchant Dashboard.

The Removed

Bolt no longer supports Internet Explorer, as Microsoft has discontinued the browser as of June 15th, 2022. Microsoft recommends switching to Microsoft Edge, as it has a backwards-compatibility feature called “IE Mode” to help onboard Internet Explorer users.

The PayPal Payflow Pro gateway integration is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

Bolt now supports a gateway integration with PayPal Payflow Pro to support your brand’s global growth.

To connect your PayPal Payflow Pro account to Bolt, add your gateway credentials in Payment Settings in the Bolt Merchant Dashboard.

The Improved

• Users no longer need to add a Bolt SSO JS block to their Magento 2 theme when installing SSO Commerce. CSS and JavaScript are now injected programmatically.

The Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue that caused Bolt button not to load in the mini-cart and the checkout modal to timeout.
• Users can now check out with a fixed amount shipping discount.
• Fixed issue in order view that prevented users from filtering by Bolt Payments
• Merchants will now see fully refunded orders that have shipped with Processing status instead of Closed.

See this guide to update your plugin.

The Improved

To help merchants reconcile transactions with their alternative payment method providers, Bolt updated the Affirm and Amazon Pay alternative payment method (APM) integrations to include unique transaction identifiers. Bolt now passes the Transaction Reference field as the external reference identifier for all Affirm and Amazon Pay transactions.

QR Codes is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

Merchants can now send customers to cart or checkout with a prepopulated product via QR Code. Use cases for this include turning awareness ads, billboards and product displays into conversions.

If you would like to participate in this Beta program, please reach out to our support team.

Cart-Based Product Add-Ons is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

Bolt has released a feature (in beta) that enables merchants to make personalized recommendations and Product Upsells to their shoppers based on what is currently in their cart, shopping history, and browsing history.

Resources

• About Cart-Based Product Add-Ons
• Set Up Cart-Based Product Add-Ons

Self-Service Disputes is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

With Self-Service Disputes, Bolt introduces a way for merchants using Bolt Payments to upload documentation directly into the disputed transaction for Bolt to use during representment. For more information on how to complete this process, see Self-Service Disputes Guide.

Single-identifier verification in checkout is now generally available.

The New

• During checkout, the Bolt one-time verification prompt now appears after a returning shopper enters one of their identification methods (either phone number or email address).
• This removes a step from the logged-in checkout flow and helps shoppers who may have trouble remembering the right combination of identifiers associated with their account.

For Shoppers

The Shopper Assistant brings you personalized experiences while shopping in a participating merchant’s storefront.

When you log in, you get the VIP treatment with product recommendations, personalized insights, and exclusive offers.

For Merchants

Add the Bolt Shopper Assistant to your storefront to offer shoppers a personalized experience and turn guest shoppers into logged-in shoppers.

Quickly set up the Shopper Assistant from the Merchant Dashboard.

The Shopper Assistant is currently available to participating Beta merchants.

The New

• Merchants with brick-and-mortar stores can offer Bolt Checkout to their shoppers via store associate ordering.

The New

• Integrate your Bolt account with Sezzle to offer shoppers this alternative payment method during checkout.

The New

• In the Shopper Dashboard, you can now use the Wallet tab to add, manage, and delete your saved payment methods.

The New

Risk Assessment Scoring decouples risk scoring from indemnification to provide:

• Merchants with detailed insights into risk scoring for each credit card transaction
• A pathway to easily upgrade to full Fraud Protection

Risk Assessment Scoring is now available to merchants using Bolt One-Click for BigCommerce who do not use Fraud Protection.

The New

This new feature will allow US-based merchants to offer their shoppers the opportunity to enable a Bolt shopper account, where they can enjoy the benefits of the Bolt Network. Merchants will see an increase in the percentage of cross-network transactions and checkout conversions.

Resources

• Set Up Guide for Merchants
• Information for Shoppers

If you would like to participate in this Beta program, please reach out to our support team.

Single-identifier verification in checkout is available to participating Beta users.

The New

• During checkout, the Bolt one-time verification prompt now appears after a returning shopper enters one of their identification methods (either phone number or email address).
• This removes a step from the logged-in checkout flow and helps shoppers who may have trouble remembering the right combination of identifiers associated with their account.

The New

Bolt’s embedded component library now includes a component that enables shoppers to update their payment method directly from a merchant’s storefront account and save new card details or addresses back to their Bolt account for future use across the Bolt network.

The New

• Shoppers can now delete their own Bolt accounts via the Shopper Dashboard. Bolt’s personal data deletion process is CCPA- & GDPR-compliant.

The New

Bolt now supports a gateway integration with Checkout.com to support your brand’s global growth.

To connect your Checkout.com processing account to Bolt, just add your gateway credentials in Payment Settings in the Bolt Merchant Dashboard.