Enable B2B sellers to simplify bulk ordering by allowing comments at the order line level in the Shopping Cart upload, supporting detailed specifications such as delivery instructions, cost centers, and product attributes for enhanced shopper convenience and ERP integration.

Shopping Cart Upload with Order Line Comments Support

Boost customer convenience by allowing your customers to choose from what location (warehouse) they would like to order, and display stock availability from the chosen location throughout their online buyer journey. 

Stock location selection on order level

We’re improving the connection between filters on product list pages and product group pages. Soon, when users select filters on a product list, these selections will carry over to relevant product group pages, ensuring consistent filtering. This enhancement eliminates the need to reapply filters, making navigation and discovery more seamless and intuitive.

Product Grouping - Enhanced filter consistency

Shop Admins can adjust the image container sizes for 

 display modes, ensuring optimal frontend behavior and a tailored user experience based on context.

Customizable image sizes for Guided Product Finder

To increase the usability of the Two-Factor authentication functionality for Admin the following improvement will be introduced:

Two-Factor authentication - Improvements

The Sana Assistant helps simplify the process of accessing relevant information from the Sana knowledge base by providing quick answers to questions in a natural language format.

AI - Sana Assistant

Ingenico PSP replaced with new Worldline PSP (end of February)

This enhancement allows customers to identify the products they need at the very start of their buyer journey by surfacing critical details such as brand, manufacturer part numbers, or dimensions during their search. Guide your buyers more efficiently to the product they are looking for, reduce order errors and shorten their path to purchase.

Product specifications in search suggestions

Shorten the online buyer journey by allowing your customers to choose from what location (warehouse) they would like to order, and automatically select this location as pick up location in the checkout.

Collect in store based on selected stock location

Sana's newest feature will allow users to easily implement product discounts. You will now be able to create discounts for one or multiple product sets. The interface for redeeming these discounts in the shopping cart is also being enhanced for a more user-friendly and intuitive experience.

Product based discounts

To further refine the shopping experience and operational efficiency, SCC will introduce an advanced address validation feature. Address validation will be initially available with two add-ons to choose from: Loqate and Google Address Validation.

Address Validation

Web store managers will be empowered to push specific products higher in their customers' search results over others, unlocking the opportunity to promote certain products or attract attention towards those products that fit the best with the buyers' needs.

Product boosts

Sana will update the design of the shopping cart lines to make it more suitable for the amount of information and actions that can be taken on line level. This will improve the overall look and feel of the shopping cart. 

To achieve this, the lines of the shopping cart will become editable in a similar way as done for the product list page! Different content elements can be moved around and repositioned to your desire. 

Shopping cart - Editable lines with Visual Designer

Sana will update the default shopping cart layout to improve the overall look and feel. There will be a few new elements introduced and overall it will get a cleaner look. 

Shopping cart - Update default design

This improvement will help to enhance the user experience and web store navigation on mobile devices.

Product Subcategory - Mobile navigation

We’re introducing a feature to help users easily identify products already in their shopping cart while browsing the web store. Items added to the cart will now be visually marked across product lists, search results, and other places in the catalog, providing clear context without the need to revisit the cart. This improvement simplifies repeat visits and ensures a smoother shopping experience, especially for users exploring related or accessory products.

Highlight Products Already in Cart

Sana will release a new add-on based on Avalara's address validation API. 

Avalara add-on for address validation

This feature will allow to create Buy X, Get Y discounts directly within Sana Admin.

[Discounts] Buy X, Get Y

Subscriptions, launched in Feb. 2024, is a young functionality. During calls with customers we heard about unique incentives offered through subscriptions, such as Amazon's "subscribe & save" program. Such offers are important for both Sana and customers, as they drive more buyers to the subscription program and provide stable revenue. Sana has updated discounts and is working on additional features like product discounts and Buy X, Get Y. We could use the same logic to offer promotions on subscriptions for our customers.

Introduce discounts in subscriptions

Received feedback from customers during development of new discount features. Such as: ability to enter discount code in the checkout area, improvements to the minimum purchase requirement logic etc.

Discounts improvements based on feedback

Sana has been improving its discounting capabilities in the Admin interface, with new features like rule builder and automatic discounts. More functions, such as Product Discounts and Buy X, Get Y Discounts, are still being developed.

Introducing an exciting addition to these capabilities - Mix & Match Discounts, offering greater flexibility for customers to combine products for discounts. This is especially useful for promoting variety and larger orders.
Benefits include accessibility for all users, faster updates, and enhanced flexibility for e-commerce managers. The next step is to integrate Mix & Match discounts seamlessly into Sana Admin.

Create Mix&Match discounts directly in Sana Admin

After adding flexibility to the column fields in the overview tables for Sales documents, we will add a similar flexibility to the Sales document detail pages in order to manage which information (columns) should be shown for the specific customer type. This way you can set-up the table to your business needs. 

Document details table - Flexibility in columns

Supplementary items in the basket may have a parent item to which the supplementary item belongs to. If this is the case, the items will be shown below each other to ensure it is clear to the user to which the supplementary item belongs to. 

Supplementary items

Filtered pages may not always need to be indexed. There are different ways on how to prevent indexing of a filtered page: by use of a canonical referring to the main Page; or by use of a NoIndex tag. Depending on your SEO strategy we will allow both options for preventing the page from being indexed. 

SEO - Enhancement for filtered pages

Enhance the B2B shopping experience by enabling buyers to quickly find the right product variants within Product Group Pages using dynamic faceted filters. This feature ensures seamless filtering, aligns GPF logic with PGP, and improves navigation, reducing incorrect product selections.

Guided product finder flow on Product Group Pages

Dive into our Sana Commerce Cloud product roadmap to see what's in progress, what's up next, and what's on the horizon for the next 9 months. Keep in mind, this roadmap is a flexible plan, and not everything listed is set in stone for product inclusion.