July 2023
🆕 New features in Aphix WebShop
Support for Digital Commerce in the United States of America (USA) and Canada
We’ve added support to our platform, our WebShop and our Managment Interface so that it works seamlessly when it is implemented in the United States of America and Canada.
Now, our products can be hosted on infrastructure located in USA or Canada.
Management Interface can be configured to support a US locale, meaning that US date formats and currency formats are supported.
Finally, we support tax compliance in USA and Canada through the use of our integration with Avalara AvaTax.
Integration with Avalara AvaTax
We’ve added a new integration with Avalara AvaTax to help you seamlessly manage tax compliance and regulations.
Our feature guide on Integrating AvaTax with Aphix WebShop lists the many benefits of this new integration, and provides an overview of how it operates.
The Avalara integration can be added from our App Store in Management Interface. Read our feature guide to learn how to configure and manage Avalara AvaTax.
Once you’ve installed Avalara, you will gain access to the Tax Codes screen (found under Catalogue in Management Interface). While you can always store your product tax codes (defined as a classification that you, as the merchant, assigns to each product to allow a tax calculation engine calculate the correct sales tax to apply to an order) in Avalara AvaTax, you also have the option of managing them in Management Interface. This screen displays the product tax code associated with each product in your catalogue. You can use our handy spreadsheet import & export feature to update this data or manually edit each record on-screen. Read our feature guide on Managing product tax codes.
Once configured, your customers can benefit from a checkout flow designed to suit the US market - with sales tax automatically added based on your customer’s delivery address, using either real-time data from your AvaTax integration with WebShop or tax code data uploaded to the tax code screen in Management Interface. See the updated customer journey in Checkout (US and Canada) for more details.
New payment gateway
We’ve added another payment gateway!
Aphix Digital Platform now integrates with UTP, a PCI Level 1 compliant payment gateway. Our UTP eCommerce payment gateway supports order payments and balance payments. Aphix Digital Platform does not store or process your card details. Read our feature guide to discover the many payment gateways that we integrate with.
Updated language packs
Using our Translations feature, field labels and error messages can be displayed in multiple languages. We support five languages: English(UK), Dutch (Netherlands), French, German and Spanish. Over time, we’ve added extra field labels and error messages to support new features. We’ve updated our five languages packs to cover these extra field labels and error messages.
Watch a product webinar again!
Product Webinar recordings are now available for you to watch again; simply click Product Webinars on the Aphix Assist landing page and select which webinar recording you wish to watch.
We’ve updated the Product Webinars area to include the latest webinars on:
Best practice for onboarding customers onto WebShop, held in May 2023
We’ve added a Bonus Content section to our Product Webinars space, so take some time to view a great webinar on how to simplify your B2B processes with Brightpearl and Aphix together.