DBC: 2026 Release Notes

Welcome to the latest update for DB Commerce! In our releases, we've focused on both enhancing your experience and resolving key issues. We've made significant improvements and implemented exciting new features that will streamline navigation, increase performance, and make your journey even smoother. Additionally, we've addressed several bugs that were impacting site functionality and fixed issues to ensure a more reliable and efficient platform.

As always, our team is committed to delivering continuous improvements to provide you with the best experience possible. Below, you'll find the details of what has been fixed, updated, and introduced.

Introducing Retail for Your Storefront

Retail Storefront Access, a new feature that allows visitors to browse your storefront without requiring a login. This enhancement creates a more open and flexible shopping experience by enabling users to explore products, view catalogs, and build their carts before deciding how they would like to check out.

At checkout, shoppers can choose to create an account or continue as a guest, making it easier for new customers to complete purchases without needing to register first. This feature is designed to support more traditional retail-style shopping while still allowing organizations to capture customer information when appropriate.

If you’re interested in participating in beta testing, please reach out to Kelli Hughes, khughes@demandbridge.com for more information.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Updates have been put in place to ensure vendor file naming is consistent between the physical files and the XML tags.
• The maximum file size for Vendor Attachments in New Distribution Admin has been increased from 30MB to 100MB, allowing larger files to be uploaded and shared with vendors.
• Within the Responsive Interface, added a Distributor-Level Login Message, allowing administrators to display login communications that apply across all companies under a distributor. A new Login Communication field is now available at the distributor level, while existing company-level login messaging remains unchanged and continues to function as before. This is located under Site Design > Messaging > Distributor Tab.
• Expanded font customization options, allowing administrators to select from additional fonts that support the standard font weights used throughout the application. Newly available fonts include Inter, Manrope, Work Sans, Sora, Noto Sans, and Bricolage Grotesque, providing greater design flexibility while maintaining visual consistency.
• Standardized the display size of the Company Logo in the Responsive Customer Admin > Company Overview area and on the Customer Admin Login page. The logo is now proportionally sized, preventing oversized logos from occupying excessive space.

RESOLVED BUGS

• For items using EQ or QB pricing, the Unit Cost field will now reference the appropriate cost break when sending order information to the vendor (when Show Cost is enabled for the vendor). This ensures the correct cost value is included based on the applicable pricing tier.
• Resolved an issue in the Responsive Customer Admin where orders updated to Shipped would still appear as Submitted in the Orders table view. The order status will now display consistently as Shipped in both the Orders table and the individual order details page.

IMPROVEMENTS

• As we continue to expand and simplify site customization within the Responsive Interface, administrators can now further personalize their ecommerce storefront by configuring a dedicated Footer color. This enhancement is available within the existing Site Design > Styling admin interface and follows the same behavior and logic as the current Primary and Secondary color settings, ensuring a consistent and intuitive configuration experience.

  

• Administrators can now customize the instructional text displayed throughout the Self Registration flow within the Responsive Interface. Custom messaging can be configured for both the password entry step and the account registration step, allowing tailored guidance for users. When configured, this messaging will override the default site instructions.

  This setting is located under Site Design > Messaging.

  

  
  
• Updated order tax logic to ensure that when an order contains tax-exempt line items, associated freight charges are also correctly recognized as tax exempt.

RESOLVED BUGS

• Resolved an issue in Responsive Checkout where freight and tax were not calculating for zero-dollar carts. Freight and tax now calculate correctly regardless of cart total.

• Updated logic in Responsive Interface where Category Tabs with long labels or large quantities would stack vertically instead of displaying in a horizontal scroll/overflow format. This caused tabs to extend beyond their container and overlap the item variable section.

  Category Tabs now cascade horizontally with proper overflow navigation, remaining contained within their designated area and no longer overlapping page content.

• Corrected an issue where saved credit cards processed through Authorize.Net were not displaying in the Responsive Interface - Account > Billing section. Customers can now view, edit, and delete their stored credit cards as expected from the Account area.
• Addressed an issue in Distributor Admin where attempting to assign a group to a user without an existing group resulted in a “Failure to save data” error message. Administrators can now successfully assign and save group changes without encountering errors.

IMPROVEMENTS

• The DB Commerce checkout experience has been enhanced to support list selections for shipping and billing fields in addition to text input. Administrators can now define predefined options for these fields, improving data consistency, reducing entry errors, and streamlining the checkout process for end users.

  

  

• Enhancements have been made to the vendor XML processing workflow to improve overall reliability and performance, helping ensure smoother and more consistent file handling.
• Improved how addresses are displayed across DB Commerce to make them clearer and more consistent. Wherever an address appears in customer-facing screens or emails, the full country name will now be shown (when available). The country will appear after the postal code and will reflect either the preset location or the country selected during checkout.

RESOLVED BUGS

• An issue was resolved where deleting a user profile removed it from the profile dropdown but left the previously selected profile values visible. Now, when a user profile is deleted, the profile list resets to Select Profile, and all associated fields clear and return to their default values.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Within the New Distributor Admin, field configuration options have been relaxed to provide greater flexibility for responsive sites. The following fields can now be disabled and assigned custom labels, while continuing to support existing functionality such as Maximum Length, Mandatory, and Tooltip settings:

  - Company Name

  - Mark to the Attention of

  - Special Instructions

  - Purchase Order #

  
  

  These updates follow the same behavior currently supported by Misc Fields, ensuring visual consistency and a familiar configuration experience within the admin. This enhancement provides greater consistency, flexibility, and control as customers continue transitioning to the responsive interface.

  
  

  At this time, customer input for these fields supports text entry only. Support for dropdown configurations will be introduced in a future update.

  

  
  

• The New Distributor Admin now supports uploading and managing a custom Approval Reminder email template within Site Design > Email Templates. This enhancement allows administrators—particularly those using SSO or Punchout—to update URLs and tailor the Approval Reminder email to better align with their workflow and authentication requirements.

  

RESOLVED BUGS

• An issue was resolved where Chili fields with a prefix could display overlapping label and prefix text when the field was left blank and focus moved to another variable. The field now maintains the correct layout and appearance, matching its initial state when the document loads.
• A correction has been made so that international shipping works fine with the "show all freight rates at checkout" option when the "real freight" option is also enabled.