What’s new in Pandectes 5.5.0

We are excited to announce the release of Pandectes GDPR Compliance version 5.5.0! This update introduces advanced crawler handling, enhanced US privacy controls directly within the banner dialogs, extended EU withdrawal features, CSV analytics exports, and developer API enhancements alongside important fixes.

Here’s what’s new in Pandectes v5.5.0:

Highlights

• Do Not Sell checkbox on the banner dialogs: Added the option to present the “Do Not Sell” checkbox directly inside the banner dialogs, rather than only on a separate page as before.
• Bots & crawlers advanced setup: You can now hide the banner and treat consent as given for a list of known agents. Additionally, you can configure specific user agents individually with options to Show the banner, Hide the banner and treat as consent given, or Hide the banner and treat as consent denied.
• New app monitor card on dashboard: Introduced a central card on the main dashboard to control the app embed status and quickly access banner and accessibility settings.

New Features

• Export banner analytics charts as .csv: Added a new export option on the Consent Analytics page allowing you to download chart data in .csv format.
• Added withdrawal widget status on the EU withdrawal dashboard: Provided clear visibility of the withdrawal widget status directly on the EU withdrawal dashboard.
• Added withdrawal extension on order status inside customer account: Added a withdrawal extension to the order status page inside customer accounts, giving customers the ability to navigate to the withdrawal form with prefilled info from their order.

Improvements

• Banner JS API: new method setPreferencesCheckboxes was added: Expanded the Banner JS API with the setPreferencesCheckboxes method, allowing developers to programmatically control preference checkbox states.
• Reset user consents always respects default policy of the store: Updated the consent reset behavior to ensure it strictly respects the store’s default policy settings.
• Banner: prefer store locale over configured fallback: The banner now prioritizes the store’s native locale over configured fallback languages for better localization.
• Added the error visibility on email-templates preview: Added error reporting visibility directly within email template previews to simplify troubleshooting.

Fixes

• Ιgnoring browser timezone when picking date ranges in banner analytics: Fixed an issue where the browser timezone was ignored when selecting custom date ranges, which created confusion in analytics reporting numbers.
• Withdrawal keep custom css but make it inactive during downgrade of a plan: Custom CSS for the withdrawal widget is now retained but safely set to inactive when downgrading a plan, preventing loss of custom styles.
• Mobile/responsive screens on setup wizard and plans of the app admin: Resolved layout and display issues on mobile and responsive screens within the Setup Wizard and Plan Selection pages in the app admin.
• Slide animation to work properly for banner: Resolved an issue to ensure the slide animation works smoothly on the banner.
• Synchronize consent in other open tabs of the new banner: Fixed a synchronization bug when updating consents across multiple open browser tabs on the new banner engine.