Early Platform Stability & Usability Improvements
Focused on improving reliability, performance, and consistency across different user roles, regions, and devices, shifting toward operational reliability over rapid feature expansion. All fixes are not listed individually.
Key foundational capabilities include:
- Transaction calculation and display fixes (iterated 2019–2020): Corrections to order totals, delivery costs, multi-seller calculations, and transaction summaries across admin, seller, and buyer views.
- High-volume transaction stability improvements (stabilised 2019–2020): Reliability enhancements for marketplaces handling larger catalogs, more sellers, and higher transaction volumes.
- Internationalisation and localisation support (expanded 2017–2020): Multi-language support and translation fixes across admin, seller, buyer interfaces, and system emails.
- Email notification and logging reliability (stabilised 2019–2020): Improved consistency of system-generated emails, mail logs, and notification delivery.
- Browser and device compatibility fixes (iterated 2019–2020): Stability improvements across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and mobile environments, including checkout, search, and admin pages.
Payments, Security & Compliance Foundations
Focus on expanding payment flexibility, improving transaction reliability, and introducing early compliance and security controls required to establish secure, compliant baseline for payment handling.
Key foundational capabilities include:
- Multiple payment gateway support (introduced 2016–2019): Support for Stripe, PayPal, and regional payment providers such as Omise, enabling marketplaces to process payments across different geographies.
- Strong Customer Authentication (3D Secure) (introduced 2019): Early support for SCA requirements through payment gateway integrations, particularly for Stripe-based transactions.
- Custom domain and SSL management (expanded 2018–2020): Ability for marketplace operators to link custom domains and purchase or manage SSL certificates, including automated SSL setup and renewal.
- Payment status handling and reconciliation visibility (stabilised 2019–2020): Clearer distinction between payment gateway status and transaction state, improved visibility of failed transactions, and more reliable reconciliation views for admins and sellers.