Features Introduced This Week

This release integrates the PayPal Express Checkout REST API into Commercetools 25.3.0.

Users of Commercetools.

Integrating PayPal into our Commercetools extension will provide additional payment options, increasing flexibility and choice for resellers and their merchants. It will also improve the user experience by offering a widely recognized and trusted payment method.

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Released to production October 31, 2025.

This release adds six new

Distance Calculations

fields to Decision Manager for customers who use the Elephant service. The fields appear in the Decision Manager user interface in the Business Center and are fully supported across the rule builder. Each field returns a numeric value in miles representing the distance between the specified data points.

The new fields are:

Distance (miles) – Billing Address to Shipping Address
Distance (miles) – Billing Address to IP
Distance (miles) – Billing Address to True IP
Distance (miles) – IP to True IP
Distance (miles) – Shipping Address to True IP
Distance (miles) – Shipping Address to IP

Rounding/precision: values are provided in miles. Use
>=
or
<=
operators for clarity in rules.
Missing data: if any endpoint (address, IP, or True IP) is unavailable, the field might be null. Add null checks in rules to avoid unexpected behavior.
Methodology: distances reflect standard geodesic calculations between latitude/longitude points derived from address geocoding and IP intelligence.
Only merchants who use Device Intelligence will have access to the
True IP
-based distances.

Users of Decision Manager and Elephant.

Using these fields to check for geographic consistency improves risk assessment and rule precision.

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Released to production October 31, 2025.