fmEcommerce Link (Shopify Edition) Now Runs Natively on FileMaker 16/17 Platform and supports Order Creation Webhooks

We’re pleased to announce that v1.3 of fmEcommerce Link (Shopify Edition) is now available and includes a number of new features, including native support for FileMaker Pro v16 and later. This is a free update to all existing customers (simply download using the same link that was on your original order email).

With the release of the FileMaker 16 platform we got a number of new functions and script steps, including support for working with JSON data and being able to specify supported cURL options with the Insert From URL script step. These new features meant that we were no longer dependent on plug-in functions and we could replace these with native FileMaker features.

We’ve updated all the requests for downloading and uploading to the Shopify API to use native FileMaker functions and script steps so you no longer need to use a FileMaker plug-in if you’re using FileMaker Pro v16 or higher. This means you can also use fmEcommerce Link on FileMaker Go natively (requires FileMaker Go 16 or higher).

Like our previous updates for native FileMaker functionality for our other products we’ve simply updated the scripts to check which version of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go or FileMaker Server is being used and if you’re using v15 or earlier we simply use the previous plug-in functionality, and if you’re using v16 or later we now use native functionality. Everything works exactly the same regardless of which version of FileMaker Pro you’re using, but we can now include support for FileMaker Go as well as having one less dependency to worry about.

This release also includes support for Shopify Webhooks – see our earlier post for a short video demonstrating how the Order Creation Webhook works. Instructions for setting up the Order Creation Webhook can be found here.

You can get all the details on our version history page – we’re continuing to work on adding native FileMaker 16 support to our other products, as well as some further updates to fmEcommerce Link (Shopify Edition) including support for processing Fulfilments in FileMaker and uploading to Shopify.