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Track customer-facing product improvements, security outcomes, and compliance reporting updates across VAT Engine.

Archive page 9 of 23.

Latest release
3.6.383
Cross-platform Decision Replay Is Clearer
Releases tracked
270
Since January 2026
Logged changes
785
Across customer-facing categories
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Showing releases 97-108 of 270

3.6.284July 30, 2026

Stronger Shopify Customer-Data Deletion

1 change
Security1 item
  • A completed Shopify customer-data deletion request now prevents delayed imports and later store reinstalls from restoring deleted customer-type information.
3.6.283July 30, 2026

Reliable Shopify Order Imports After Upgrades

1 change
Fix1 item
  • Shopify orders that include a configured customer type continue importing reliably after a VAT Engine upgrade.
3.6.282July 30, 2026

Clearer VAT Calculation Choices

1 change
Fix1 item
  • VAT calculations now require an explicit gross-or-net amount selection, preventing an omitted setting from changing the result.
3.6.281July 30, 2026

Stronger Shopify Customer-Data Deletion

1 change
Security1 item
  • Shopify customer-data deletion requests now also remove related customer-type information when VAT Engine has no legal reason to retain the associated filing record.
3.6.280July 30, 2026

Stronger Consent And Cross-Border Filing Checks

3 changes
Security1 item
  • Optional analytics remains off when consent is withdrawn while measurement is still loading, and accessible Google measurement cookies are removed.
Fix2 items
  • Cross-border Shopify filing checks now verify that only resolved B2C orders enter filing-ready totals.
  • Otherwise matching B2B orders and orders with invalid, missing, unavailable, or conflicting customer type remain visible for review without affecting filing totals.
3.6.279July 30, 2026

Current Consent And Consistent Shopify Reports

4 changes
Security2 items
  • Older or incomplete cookie choices can no longer activate optional analytics; visitors are asked to confirm the current choices again.
  • Closing that renewed choice keeps optional measurement off and removes accessible Google measurement cookies.
Fix2 items
  • Shopify customer-type handling is now verified through the same direct, historical-import, storage, and reporting paths used by the service.
  • Missing or conflicting customer type remains reviewable and stays outside filing-ready totals, including refund and cancellation histories.
3.6.278July 30, 2026

Reliable Consent-Gated Google Measurement

2 changes
Fix2 items
  • Public-page browser security now permits the exact Google connections required for consented measurement.
  • The update does not grant broader Google script, image, or embedded-content access and does not change visitor consent choices.
3.6.277July 30, 2026

Verified Country-Only Shopify Imports

3 changes
Security3 items
  • Shopify release checks now require confirmed direct and historical-import observations that address data remains limited to country signals.
  • Missing or unavailable country information must remain outside filing-ready totals until it is reviewed.
  • The verification record contains only bounded metadata and irreversible fingerprints, not Shopify responses or customer values.
3.6.276July 30, 2026

Separate Consent For Google Enhanced Measurement

3 changes
Improvement3 items
  • Cookie settings now separate standard Google Analytics from Google Signals, advertising identifiers, ads personalization, and user-provided-data matching.
  • The Privacy and Cookie Policy now explains granular city and device collection, signed-in Google account association, automatically detected email plus name/address matching, disabled phone detection, linked advertising uses, and retention.
  • Visitors can refuse or withdraw enhanced measurement while retaining standard analytics or all core VAT Engine functionality.
3.6.275July 30, 2026

Clearer Shopify Data Access Status

3 changes
Improvement3 items
  • Shopify App Home now shows whether the country-only protected-data access needed by VAT Engine is approved, available for development-store testing, awaiting review, or unavailable.
  • Unconfirmed or invalid status remains unavailable instead of being presented as production-ready, with a clear next step where action is needed.
  • Private review records and internal evidence references are never shown in the browser.
3.6.274July 30, 2026

Clearer Privacy Controls For Analytics And Shopify

4 changes
Improvement4 items
  • The public Privacy and Cookie Policy now explains the account, security, Google Analytics, first-party diagnostic, and connected Shopify data VAT Engine handles and why.
  • Shopify disclosures now identify the country-only address boundary, imported order and VAT evidence, intentionally excluded customer-contact fields, retention controls, and mandatory privacy-request workflow.
  • Cookie settings can be reopened from every public-page footer, and withdrawing analytics consent removes VAT Engine’s Google Analytics cookies.
  • Public analytics no longer sends URL query parameters and explicitly disables Google Signals, advertising storage, advertising user data, and ads personalization.
3.6.273July 30, 2026

Shopify Address Data Stays Minimal

2 changes
Improvement2 items
  • VAT Engine limits Shopify address use to billing and shipping country information needed for VAT classification and filing support.
  • Customer names, contact details, street addresses, postal codes, and geolocation remain outside the connector data boundary.