As part of our PCI upgrades, BV Commerce 5.7 will include an enhanced logging page. We’ve changed the name from “Event Log” to “Audit Log” to better reflect the functionality. You can no longer clear out entries in the log until they are at least 1 year old. This is part of the PCI spec and allows administrators to audit the events of their site.

Also, we’ve made it easy to filter events by category. If you just want to see “user” related events you can filter with a single click. The “BV Internal” filter is where we put application exceptions that aren’t related to your normal store operations. This change should also help keep the audit log uncluttered with programming details that most merchants will ignore.