List of Changes for Update 4.4
Change Log
XONIC 4.4
All new features and improvements in version 4.4.
Payment, Shipping, and Checkout
- Stripe: Apple Pay / Google Pay / Link is now available in the shopping cart, in the off-canvas menu, and in Express Checkout, making payment faster and easier for customers
- Free Shipping Promo Bar: Customers are now notified via a clearly visible bar on the page that they can order with free shipping once their order total reaches a certain amount
- Bulky Item Label for Shipping Modules: Products and shipping modules can now be marked with a special “bulky item” label, allowing them to dynamically appear or disappear based on the customer’s shopping cart. This facilitates the accurate calculation of shipping costs.
- Automatic Tax Calculation for Shipping Costs: This new feature allows merchants to automatically determine the tax on shipping costs based on the main service. This is particularly relevant for customers offering mixed shopping carts (e.g., 7% + 19% products).
- Shipping and payment method logos can now be linked to CMS pages. By default, they are linked to the “Shipping and Payment” page
- Serbia and Montenegro are now also listed as two separate countries in the store
- Revised tax rates for Luxembourg
- Revised logo display for shipping and payment methods
- The two special shipping methods—"Pickup" (Click & Collect) and "Free Shipping"—can now also be customized with text and logos
- If the phone number is set as a required field, it will be verified/prompted during checkout if, for example, Express Login was used
Product Management and Catalog
- "Product Filter View": This new feature allows products to be grouped based on predefined attributes and displayed on the product detail page. Store owners can define attributes and specify how they are displayed. Master and slave products that meet the criteria are displayed based on the customer’s selection.
- Product Editing: Disable Quick Buy: This feature prevents products in the product listing from being added directly to the cart via the Quick Buy function.
- Product Editing: Tiered Pricing Expansion from 8 to 12: This allows merchants to create more tiered prices for their products.
- New dual (optional) price view: Customers can now view both net and gross prices simultaneously to achieve greater transparency in pricing.
- The price display now dynamically responds to the configured tiers. Additionally, when the tiered pricing display is enabled, the tiers are clickable and dynamically update the quantity in the shopping cart.
- Support for multiple languages in Trusted Shops review emails
- A new badge marks popular products with the label “High Demand” to encourage FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) effects in the store
- Foreign-language reviews now feature a country flag icon
- The configurator for product presentation and marketing (formerly “Product View – Settings”) now offers granular customization options for listing style, sorting, and background. This allows users to better tailor the presentation of their products to their needs.
- iFrame 2-click solution: iFrames can now be embedded more securely, as they are loaded only when the user clicks on them.
- The price display now reacts dynamically to the configured pricing tiers. Additionally, when tiered pricing is enabled, the tiers are clickable and dynamically update the quantity in the shopping cart.
- Category template switching can now be enabled in an advanced mode, allowing individual templates to be set even for subcategories.
- In the slider system, videos can now be added alongside images. Furthermore, the content now determines the size, resulting in an optimized display on mobile devices.
- Inactive products/categories can now be hidden using a checkbox.
Marketing and Communication
- Newsletter pop-up with a call to action to subscribe to the newsletter: Customers can now subscribe to the newsletter directly in the pop-up.
- Option to generate coupons upon newsletter sign-up: Customers can now receive a coupon immediately upon signing up for the newsletter to increase the sign-up rate.
- XONIC Premium Marketing: new event types (orders and shopping cart) to trigger conditions and actions associated with these types (e.g., payment reminders, free product promotions, etc.)
- Merchants serving both business and private customers in a single store can now set up a convenient pop-up that asks customers in advance about their customer type and displays gross or net prices accordingly.
- Cookie Consent Tool: Our in-store cookie banner has been expanded to include a new “modal” mode, which aims to improve the click-through (opt-in) rate to increase the efficiency of advertising campaigns in data-driven marketing.
- Improved mobile display of the shopping cart throughout the checkout process
- Merchants who serve both business and private customers in a single store can now set up a convenient pop-up that asks customers about their status in advance and displays gross or net prices accordingly.
Administration and Backend
- xoScan: A new tool that helps merchants scan barcodes to bridge the gap between online and offline retail. Currently, it supports product putaway and order picking.
- XONIC Premium Multishop: One backend—an unlimited number of stores/domains. An improved version of the popular Multishop tool with new features such as filtering by products/categories and comprehensive reporting.
- Order status labels can now be sorted and assigned custom colors
- When deleting an order status that is currently in use, the function is still available; however, a successor status must be selected, which will be applied retroactively
- Orders older than 10 years are automatically deleted
- Permissions system improvements: A user group without the DELETE permission for admin notes no longer sees the Delete button unnecessarily when editing a customer. This makes working with user groups easier.
- Permissions system improvements: When an admin user is deleted or their status is changed, the system now proactively logs them out.
- Support for multiple languages in Trusted Shops review emails
- Admin notes can now be marked as private, preventing other administrators from viewing them. Additionally, you are now notified via pop-up about current or overdue reminders.
Optimizations and bug fixes
- Order Details View: Display of delivery/service date
- Sliders can now also be used on CMS pages
- User groups can now be duplicated: Merchants can now duplicate user groups to save time when creating new groups.
- Revised email order confirmation: The order confirmation has been redesigned to give users a better overview of their order.
- Revised email template for greater compatibility: The email template has been revised to ensure better compatibility with various email clients.
- SEO improvements: Image sitemap generation now ignores duplicates and follows the new Google sitemap guidelines for images, which limit the number to a maximum of 1,000 images per product. This improves performance and ensures better compliance with SEO guidelines.
- SEO improvements: Global title and meta description tags can now be managed in multiple languages without having to set a special entry for index.php. This makes working with multiple languages easier and more efficient.
- New “Free Product/Natural Discount” display in the shopping cart/right-hand drop-down menu / “You Save” display for free products: Users now have a better overview of their savings when purchasing free products.
- Improved display of tiered pricing: Tiered pricing is now displayed more clearly and concisely, allowing customers to better estimate costs.
- Improved product listings: Product information is now more prominently highlighted, and navigation through product lists has been optimized.
- Improvements to the display of shipping methods: Shipping methods are now displayed more clearly and are easier for customers to understand and select.
- Improvements to user registration: Error messages and feedback are now clearer and help users register correctly.
- Optimized shopping cart and checkout interface: The shopping cart and checkout interface have been improved to provide users with a better overview and navigation.
- Bug fixes and performance optimizations in the backend and frontend: Various minor bugs have been fixed, and performance has been improved to ensure a smoother user experience.
- Optimization of loading speeds: The store’s loading speeds have been improved, leading to a better user experience.
- Correction of display errors in product presentation: Various display errors that occurred during product presentation have been fixed.
- Optimizations to the display of product reviews: The display and management of product reviews have been optimized.
- Free Shipping Module Improvements: Value fields now function correctly with 0 instead of having to use the workaround 0.0xx1. This improves the calculation of shipping costs.
- Category product slider improvements: The short description of categories is now displayed when the category product sliders are enabled. This gives users a better overview of the products in a category.
- "Guestbook" and "Create Guestbook Entry" now have a valid canonical link. This improves search engine optimization.
- The item number is now also hidden in the email if it is disabled. This improves the display of the order confirmation.
- When categories are deleted, the associated category discount entries are now deleted from the database.
- Ticket System: If multiple images are uploaded via cell phone using the direct photo function in the customer view (not when using the media library), all sent images now arrive correctly. Previously, these images overwrote each other due to ambiguous image names.
- An issue with the display of the product image gallery height in Mozilla Firefox has been fixed
- New image thumbnail generation class with improved performance
Interfaces & Technical Changes
- JTL-XONIC Connector: Support for QuickSync (quick product/inventory synchronization) and customer import from XONIC to JTL
- Completely redesigned DHL interface: The DHL interface has been completely redesigned and now offers improved usability and greater reliability. The new interface enables seamless integration of DHL shipping options into the system, including automatic creation of shipping labels and shipment tracking.
- Completely redesigned eBay interface: The eBay interface has also been completely redesigned and now offers a simpler and more efficient way to sell products on eBay. The new interface enables seamless integration of eBay into the system and simplifies the management of products and orders.
- Completely redesigned cash discount module: The cash discount module has been completely redesigned and now correctly calculates cash discounts in conjunction with coupons and gift cards.
- Support for PHP 8.2: The system now supports the latest version of PHP 8.2, resulting in improved performance and security.
- New Interface: UserLike Can Now Be Enabled Directly in the Admin Panel (Interfaces > Chat Tools): The new interface allows customers to chat directly with the support team to ask questions or report issues. It integrates seamlessly into the system’s admin panel.
- New Interface: SmartSupp can now be enabled directly in the admin panel (Interfaces > Chat Tools): The new interface offers another option for live chat support. SmartSupp is a cloud-based solution that allows customers to ask questions directly through the website and receive answers in real time.
- New Interface: LoadBee: LoadBee is a new interface that reduces website loading times by loading product images and other resources from external servers. This results in an improved user experience and faster loading times.
- New Interface: PostAT/PostCH: The new interface enables seamless integration with the Austrian and Swiss postal services to ensure efficient order processing.
- New Interface: BlueBerry ERP: The new interface enables seamless integration of the system with BlueBerry ERP to facilitate comprehensive management of orders, invoices, and inventory.
- New Interface: BillBee: The new interface enables order transfer from the XONIC Shop System to BillBee, a cloud-based inventory management software designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. With BillBee, users can automate orders, invoices, and inventory management to save time and resources.
- PayPal Checkout: Support for iDEAL and Przelewy24 added: Support for the iDEAL and Przelewy24 payment methods has been added to offer customers in the Netherlands and Poland a convenient and secure payment option.
- Favicon sizes have been adjusted to comply with the current Google size guidelines (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/favicon-in-search?hl=de)
- PayPal and AmazonPay now automatically respond to the selected ACCOUNT_MODE setting
- New integration: authorized.by seal: The “authorized.by seal” is a quality seal for online stores that offers customers a particularly high level of security and trust. It is awarded to e-commerce websites that maintain high standards and provide customers with a secure shopping experience. The seal is awarded by an independent certification body and includes audits regarding data security and confidentiality, data protection, and the security of payment information. Customers who see the seal can be confident that the online store offers a secure and reliable shopping experience
- moebel.de: Implementation completely overhauled and new server-to-server tracking integrated.
Last updated: October 9, 2026
