What’s new in Pandectes 5.4.0

A release focused on expanded compliance controls, deeper audit visibility, enhanced storefront accessibility, and built-in merchant engagement tools.

Here’s what’s new in Pandectes v5.4.0:

Highlights

• Sidekick Assistant: Introducing Sidekick, our new in-app AI assistant. Merchants can now receive immediate support from their admin dashboard.
• Announcements Widget: Α dedicated What’s New / Announcements widget. Merchants can discover fresh product updates, and stay informed on global privacy regulations directly from inside the app.
• Multi-Region Scan Reports: Re-engineer your cookie audits with multi-region scanning capabilities. Merchants can now evaluate cookie deployment across diverse geographic locations simultaneously and trace detailed “last seen” timestamp and origin country metrics for every cookie detected.
• Granular Developer API & EU Withdrawal Options: Take full programmatic control over consent preferences with our expanded JavaScript API, alongside new product selection capabilities within the EU Withdrawal workflow.

New Features

• Developer JS API: Granular Preference Controls: Added a dedicated Javascript API method allowing developers and agencies to programmatically set the checked state of individual consent preference checkboxes without immediately triggering consent persistence or page reloads.
• EU Withdrawal Button: Product-Specific Scope: Expanded the EU Directive 2023/2673 consumer withdrawal workflow to support specific product selections. Customers submitting product withdrawal requests can now choose individual items or order lines rather than issuing blanket store-level requests.
• Cookie Declaration Auto-Detection Checker: Added an automated status checker for the Cookie Declaration page. The system automatically verifies whether the embed script or page template is enabled and correctly rendered on the live storefront, alerting merchants to potential implementation gaps.
• Multi-Region Scan Reports: Merchants can now execute automated scanner reports simultaneously across multiple global regions to capture localized third-party cookies and tracking scripts.
• Cookies “Last Seen” & “Country Seen” Tracking: The scan report breakdown now includes exact timestamps for when a cookie was last detected, as well as the target country server location from which it was served.
• Sidekick Assistant: Introduced Sidekick to guide merchants through setup configurations, compliance troubleshooting, and platform inquiries.
• What’s New Widget: Integrated an in-app changelog and announcement widget to ensure store owners never miss new feature updates, legal advisories, or performance upgrades.

Improvements

• DSR Email Templates Live On-Demand Preview: Replaced static template previews with a live, on-demand renderer. Merchants can instantly preview dynamic data variables and layout updates for Data Subject Request (DSR) auto-responder emails before saving changes.

Fixes

• Screen Reader Accessibility (A11y): Fixed screen reader focus handling and ARIA landmark announcements across compliance widgets to ensure full alignment with WCAG accessibility guidelines.
• Banner Focus Restoration: Resolved a DOM focus trap issue where closing the consent banner did not properly return keyboard focus to the triggering element on the underlying storefront page.
• General Stability & UI Refinements: Resolved minor edge-case bug fixes, optimized script execution overhead, and applied UI refinements across the merchant dashboard.