What's New in Zoho Commerce

Store owners can create multiple package sizes for shipping and define their dimensions including height, length, width, and maximum weight. Based on the cart's items' weight and dimensions, packages will be estimated. Live shipping rates, according to the allotted package, will be fetched from the integrated shipping carriers.

Ecommerce merchants have the option to format the text for product description, product heading, and category description, with bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, and also change the font size of the text. Erase format option can be used to remove the format of the text and redo it again.

Zoho Commerce users from GCC nations including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman, can now opt for a tax-exclusive option to exclude taxes from their product prices. Earlier, it was mandatory to have tax-inclusive rates for GCC organizations.

The checkout page on your Zoho Commerce store will now display the money your customers have saved every time they buy a product at a low selling price.

If you have problems while creating your ecommerce store, you can now get in touch with Zoho Commerce experts to get them resolved through in-product chat support. This feature is currently available for trial users in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.

Zoho Commerce users can modify the shipping rates to mark up or discount the shipping cost displayed on the checkout page. You can adjust the price by a certain percentage based on the weight of the package or the value of the shopping cart.

Customers can change the number of products they would like to purchase on the cart page by clicking on the plus and minus indicators. The cart will update it automatically before the customer checks out.

Customers can now see all the online payment gateway options listed on the checkout page, without having to navigate to another page after clicking the payment gateway option. Online store owners can also arrange the payment gateway options according to their choice. 

Zoho Commerce stores operating out of Bahrain can enable 10% Value Added Tax (VAT), which is in line with the recent official order of Bahrain. 

Enable multiple offline payment methods on your Zoho Commerce website. With this feature, you can display cash, bank transfer and other options to your customers on your ecommerce store. 

Add-ons for Zoho Commerce can now be purchased separately. Add-ons are available for additional users, Composite Product, Mega Menu, Pricelist, Pickup locations, Serial Batch Tracking, and Product Filters. Visit the pricing page for more details.

Every feature in our product will now have a question mark next to it for those who wonder what the feature does. Clicking it will take you to the respective help document for that feature, which will save you a lot of time and help you work more efficiently.

We now have 21 professionally designed ecommerce templates. This will make your store designs look much different and more sophisticated. 

A default shipping zone will be set when your store is created. This will be based on the home country of the store. All information like price, states included, etc. can be edited by the customer at any time.

You can offer your product at a discounted price for not just registered customers, but also for guest visitors. A volume-based price list or any other defined price list will let your visitors, even unregistered ones, shop at a slashed price. You can further assign a special price for your registered customers by assigning one in the backend.

You can now offer your customers discounts based on the volume of products that they are buying from you. The more they buy, the cheaper you can offer them.

A 3% tax slab for Indian Edition sellers is available for products sold at 3% tax.

You can now search for order details using a company's name. This will make it easier and faster to collate data.

To improve our catering for B2B, the following can be enabled during checkout for tax purposes. The enabled details will be printed on the invoice based on the edition of the store:

• India (company name and GST)
• UK (company name and VAT)
• US, Canada, Australia (company name)
• UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain (company name and TRN number)

Product-specific taxes for Global, India, UK, and GCC (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain) editions have been enabled that can be updated or modified.

You can now differentiate your orders based upon the sales channel—Zoho Commerce, Zoho Inventory, or your storefront mobile app.

Updated VAT rules (15% tax) are now supported in the Saudi Arabia edition of Zoho Commerce.

VAT now gets validated in checkout for all UK stores.

In your admin console, you can now filter products using the Show in Store option.

Choose from five new store templates that have been added. 

Search directly for product SKUs from inside the Products module. 

Live shipping rates are supported for Australia Post, Canada Post, UPS, and USPS.

Filters your orders by order status, payment status, refund status, shipping status, sales channel, and date.

Use dynamic shipping rates for your FedEx shipments.

Add alt text to product and category images. Alt text shows up when images take too long to load, and is an SEO tool for images.

Email notification templates for merchant emails can be customized. You can do so from the Email Notifications section under Settings. 

Enable products to be sorted by price, latest addition, popularity in the Collections, Categories, and search results pages.

Give your customers the option to include order-related notes on the checkout page. You can activate this features from the Preferences module under Settings.

With Enhanced Coupons, you can add coupons specifically for certain products, categories, collections, customers, and shipping areas.