Release Notes/Marketplace Current
Second Life Marketplace Releases and Reporting of Issues
This document is a running list of release notes from the most recent Marketplace Releases. It will be archived periodically. Since the Marketplace is a web product, any deployment to production will affect all customers immediately.
If you see problems that you believe are related to a recent release, please let us know about them! Here are the best ways to let us know:
If you would like more details on the Marketplace and how it works, please see the Knowledge Base. If you have questions that other Residents may be able to help you with, please post to the Merchants Forum.
Release Notes for Current Marketplace Release
Released April 12, 2012
- PayPal Update: customers will now select PayPal if they want to pay with a credit card. They are not required to log into PayPal to use a credit card.
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Release Notes for March 21, 2012 Release
- WEB-4580 Direct Delivery inventory items are now delivered with the inventory item name as opposed to the listing name, which will allow orders to complete quickly (and merchant payouts to not get stuck with order in Being Delivered state.) Note that will be an outstanding bug related to this issue once we have deployed: WEB-4648
- WEB-4587 Changes were made to fix updating search results in Merchant stores, which will occur over a period of time (about a week). We will provide more details on the Merchants Forum
- WEB-4638 Many of these listing enhancements were processed on April 10. Changes were made to prevent this delay in the future.
Release Notes for March 21, 2012 Release
This release includes the launch of Direct Delivery. For more information please see the following:
- Commerce Blog Post on Direct Delivery
- Marketplace Direct Delivery Migration Guide (KB Article)
- Selling in the Marketplace (KB Article)
- Direct Delivery Essentials (YouTube Video)
- Converting Item Boxes to Direct Delivery Folders (YouTube Video)
Note that the following two features are not activated--we expect to turn them on in the next couple of months (before we prevent use of Magic Boxes):
- ANS
- Direct Delivery support for no copy (Merchant does not have copy rights) items
Release Notes for March 20, 2012 Release
Fixes
- No copy items are prevented from being sent to the Marketplace from the Merchant Outbox (will only be visible when Direct Delivery is activated on March 21, 2012)
Release Notes for March 13, 2012 Release
Fixes
- See Description and User Licensed won't appear to customers if they are unchecked
- Added sorting to Manage listings section on the Manage inventory page
Release Notes for January 30, 2012 Release
Fixes
- WEB-4302: Date is now the import date of the inventory item
- WEB-4260: Performance work to improve the early morning delivery success rate
- New usage requirements added to listings (requires land, requires sandbox, or none); the front end display will launch with Direct Delivery. These define what consumers will need after purchasing an item for Direct Delivery items.
Release Notes for November 30, 2011 Release
Fixes
- Merchant Admin Inventory Management fixes to counts, filters, and search functionality
- Searching by SKU code now works immediately after codes are updated (in the past, there was a delay before this was searchable).
- In Merchant Admin, Merchants will now be able to view inventory and listings separately in Manage Inventory. See the Knowledge Base for more details.
- User Licensed (for Merchants who sell full perm items and the buyer is required to abide by a user licensing agreement) is now an option for permissions on listings. Merchants will be responsible for providing the licensing terms on the listing.
- Resident accounts must have a minimum age of 5 days to create a store (become a Merchant).
Release Notes for October 18, 2011 Release
Merchant Facing Fixes
- Maturity bug fixes for Marketplace RSS feeds
Details: The following RSS feeds are available:
- http://marketplace.secondlife-staging.com/feeds/newest
- http://marketplace.secondlife-staging.com/feeds/free
- http://marketplace.secondlife-staging.com/feeds/popular
- http://marketplace.secondlife-staging.com/feeds/search
The easiest way to create a feed URL is to search on the Marketplace for what you would like to create a feed for. Copy the resulting URL and then replace "products" with "feeds". (This works with Items search only.)
Possible search parameters are:
- search[category_id] (this id can be obtained by clicking on a category and pulling out the value in the URL on the Marketplace web site)
- search[maturity_level] (options are: G, GM, GMA, A)
- search[keywords] (keyword to search for)
If the user who is pulling the RSS feed is not logged into the Marketplace, only G (General) products are available. Here is a sample URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/feeds/search?search[category_id]=222&search[maturity_level]=GM&search[keywords]=silk
Release Notes for October 13, 2011 Release
Merchant Facing Fixes
- WEB-4138 Order confirmation email failures UPDATE: this continues to be a problem. We are still addressing it.
Release Notes for October 11, 2011 Release
Merchant Facing Fixes
- WEB-2920 Add item number to distributions: The listing ID will appear on distribution transactions. As part of this fix, we also include the Merchant name on distributions you receive, and update the transaction type for revenue from sales.
- WEB-4143 L$ balance not updating automatically inworld after a purchase is made/completed
Shopper Facing Fixes
- WEB-4143 L$ balance not updating automatically inworld after a purchase is made/completed
Release Notes for September 22, 2011 Release
Merchant Facing Fixes
- WEB-4125 Duplicate listings appear in Merchant Admin when viewing inventory
Release Notes for September 16, 2011 Release
Merchant Facing Fixes
- WEB-4134 User Exceptions seem to be increasing in conjunction with the Sept 13-15 Deployment
Shopper Facing Fixes
- WEB-4134 More of my deliveries are failing on the Marketplace (same as above issue)