November 2026 - Version 6.71
(Release Date: Tuesday, November 10th, 2026)
Table of Contents
📋 At a glance
This release brings two new Virtual Terminal options, event names in Authorize.net transaction descriptions, and a fix for Auto-Process being unchecked on existing transactions.
| Update | What it does | For whom | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🖥️ Hide saved payment methods with hidden tabs | Saved cards or bank accounts can be hidden when the matching Virtual Terminal tab is hidden | Virtual Terminal users | 📦 Payments 6.71 |
| 🖥️ Virtual Terminal in Screen Flows for Experience Cloud | Allow Community Mode is now available in Screen Flows | Experience Cloud sites using the Virtual Terminal | 📦 Payments 6.71 |
| 💳 Authorize.net transaction descriptions | Event payments show the event name and payer name in Authorize.net | Authorize.net users | 🌐 Webapp, automatic |
| 📄 DocumentLink line items | Long line item descriptions are no longer cut off at a page break | DocumentLink users | 🌐 Webapp, automatic |
| 🔗 PayLink Spreedly Enhanced Security | PayLink card payments use Spreedly's newer checkout fields | PayLink users on Spreedly gateways with Enhanced Security | 🌐 Webapp, automatic |
Most items ship in the Payments 6.71 package and need an admin to install it. The DocumentLink, PayLink and Authorize.net changes arrive automatically with our November webapp releases. Each item below is tagged.
✨ What's new
Items tagged Salesforce upgrade required are part of the Payments 6.71 package and need to be installed by an admin. Items without a tag are already live for everyone, because they shipped automatically in our November webapp release.
🖥️ Virtual Terminal
Hide saved payment methods when a tab is hidden (Salesforce upgrade required)
When the Virtual Terminal's Card or Bank tab is hidden, you can now hide saved cards or bank accounts of that type from the payment method list too, so staff can't charge a payment method type you've turned off. Turn on Apply Hide Tabs to Payment Method List in Virtual Terminal Settings, together with Hide Card Tab or Hide Bank Tab. On the Lightning Virtual Terminal component you can set the same option as a component property. It is off by default, so existing setups are unchanged.
Allow Community Mode in Screen Flows (Salesforce upgrade required)
You can now turn on Allow Community Mode for the Virtual Terminal component in Screen Flows, so it works for Experience Cloud users the same way it does on Experience Builder pages. It is off by default. Use it only for Screen Flows placed on an Experience Cloud site.
💳 Gateways
Event names in Authorize.net
Event payments processed through Authorize.net now show the event name and payer name as the transaction description in Authorize.net, so you can match payments to events.
🔗 PayLink
Spreedly Enhanced Security
PayLink card payments through Spreedly gateways with Enhanced Security enabled now use Spreedly's newer checkout fields.
🐛 What's fixed
Items tagged Salesforce upgrade required are part of the Payments 6.71 package and need to be installed by an admin. Items without a tag are already live for everyone, because they shipped automatically in our November webapp release.
💳 Transactions & payment methods
- Auto-Process unchecked on existing transactions (Salesforce upgrade required): Previously, existing transactions could have Auto-Process unchecked when they were updated by payment webhooks or scheduled payment jobs. Now Auto-Process keeps its value. Transactions already affected are not changed back.
- Middle names in orgs with middle names turned off (Salesforce upgrade required): Previously, in orgs with middle names turned off, the middle part of a payer's name could be lost when Payments created a new contact, lead or person account for them. Now it is saved as part of the last name.
📱 Mobile Payments
The Mobile Payments 2.0.6 app update has not shipped yet. It is expected later in November, with its own release notes. The fix below is part of the Payments 6.71 package, not the app update.
- Card-present retry stayed authorized (Salesforce upgrade required): Previously, a card-present payment in the mobile payments app that was declined and then retried successfully stayed authorized. Now it is captured.
📄 DocumentLink
- Line item descriptions cut off at a page break: Previously, long line item descriptions on a DocumentLink, and in its PDF, were cut off at a page break. Now the full description shows.
Coming in the 2.0.6 app update, not yet shipped: the Android app fixes a home screen that could still show the previous payment and a Pay button that stayed disabled on the typed-card screen.
🛠️ Technical reference
This section is intended for Salesforce admins. Field API names, permission set details, and configuration notes are grouped by the feature they relate to.
Virtual Terminal (1 field)
- Virtual Terminal Settings · Apply Hide Tabs to Payment Method List (
bt_stripe__Virtual_Terminal_Settings__c.bt_stripe__Apply_Hide_Tabs_To_PM_List__c), Checkbox, default unchecked. Does nothing by itself. Also enable Hide Card Tab and/or Hide Bank Tab to hide saved Card/ACH methods. disableCard still does nothing. When on, this setting overrides the LWC property. In Setup it is under Custom Settings, Blackthorn Payments | Virtual Terminal. The Lightning Virtual Terminal component has a property with the same name; the list is filtered when either is on.
The Virtual Terminal component's Allow Community Mode property (default off) is now also available when the component is used in a Screen Flow. No field was added for it.
Permission sets
No Payments permission set changed in this release. No grant was added, removed or narrowed.
⬆️ How to upgrade
Go to the Blackthorn Candy Shop to upgrade Payments to 6.71.
If you also run Blackthorn Events, we recommend upgrading Blackthorn Base, Payments and Events together; the Candy Shop takes you through them in the standard upgrade path. See the Events release notes for what is in Events 6.2.
For step-by-step instructions, click here.
The DocumentLink fix, the PayLink Spreedly change and the Authorize.net descriptions arrive automatically with the November webapps and need nothing from you to install. The Mobile Payments 2.0.6 app update has not shipped yet. It will be available through the App Store and Google Play later in November.
Questions about anything here go to your CSM or Blackthorn Support.