Updates & Changelog
Improved
Version 5.16.1
- Improvement: Added an option to edit the affiliate groups a user is assigned to by editing the user in the admin area.
- Tweak: Edited the default title for the “Recent Orders” tab to “Recent Orders” instead of “Latest orders for coupon”.
- Tweak: On the “Affiliate Users” admin page, changed the “Role” column title to “Group / Role”.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with unassigning users from coupons in the admin area.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the affiliate dashboard in some cases not showing when the coupon code contained certain special characters or spaces.
Improved
Version 5.16.0
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Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added a new “Affiliate Groups” page to the admin area, to easily manage and add new affiliate groups.
- Improvement: (PRO) When adding new affiliate users in the admin area, added a field to select an “Affiliate Group” to assign them to, if more than 1 affiliate group exists.
- Improvement: (PRO) Changed the option to limit payout methods to certain user roles/groups to a multi-select option, so you can select more than one.
- Improvement: (PRO) Changed the option to limit creatives to certain user roles/groups to a multi-select option, so you can select more than one.
- Improvement: (PRO) Changed the option to limit bonuses to certain user roles/groups to a multi-select option, so you can select more than one.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added an option to limit the custom affiliate dashboard tabs to certain user roles/groups.
- Improvement: On the “Affiliate Users” admin page, added the option to filter by affiliate group and user role.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added an option to duplicate creatives.
- Improvement: Added options to choose if cookies should be stored for the referral link and MLA referral links.
- Tweak: (PRO) Changed the per-coupon commission fields to number fields to ensure only numbers can be entered.
- Tweak: (PRO) Increased the maximum file size for the payouts PDF upload field to 500KB.
- Tweak: (PRO) Updated FPDF class to version 1.86.
- Tweak: Removed the unnecessary space after the coupon in the affiliate dashboard title.
- Tweak: Added a warning message when editing a coupon that is linked to an affiliate user.
- Tweak: Updated the Twitter social share buttons to the new X logo.
- Tweak: Added an option to make the order ID clickable on the recent orders tab of the affiliate dashboard for admin users.
- Tweak: On the admin settings page, added some “FAQ” tooltips/toggles to some sections to provide more information.
- Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases with the calculations for the “discount” shown on the affiliate dashboard when an order is partially refunded.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the payouts PDF statements not being viewable in some PDF viewers.
- Fix: (PRO) Fix to prevent duplicate empty payout requests from being made.
- Fix: Fixed a potential issue with the registration form showing a captcha error even if the captcha is not enabled.
- Other: Updated to Font Awesome 6.6.0
- Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.8.1
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.6.2
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.3.3
Improved
Version 5.14.0
Changelog:
- Improvement: Updated the affiliate dashboard navigation on mobile to be more user-friendly. It now uses a dropdown menu for the tabs.
- Improvement: Made several small styling and layout tweaks to the affiliate dashboard on mobile.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the affiliate registration system when multiple templates are enabled.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the total items and pagination on the "Coupon Referral Orders" admin page.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the "Commission Priority" option not defaulting automatically to the "Product" option, even though it was showing as selected.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.5.5
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.0.2
Improved
Version 5.13.1
Changelog:
- Improvement: Added an option to choose which order status the “New Order Referral” email is sent for, rather than being limited to “Completed” orders.
- Improvement: Added new “Affiliate Information” to the admin new order emails.
- Tweak: Added shortcode to display payouts section: [couponaffiliates-payouts]
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Disable registration form for existing affiliate users” setting.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the auto accept affiliate registrations option when multiple templates is disabled.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with commission still showing in the monthly summary products list with “Enable Commission Calculations & Statistics” disabled.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.5.4
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 8.9.3
Improved
Version 5.12.8
Changelog:
- Improvement: Added new “template” attribute to the [couponaffiliates-register] shortcode to allow you to set the default template coupon (if you have multiple templates). This will hide the field and auto-select that coupon when users register with that form. Example usage: [couponaffiliates-register template=”my-template-coupon”]
- Fix: Fixed the password reset link included in the new affiliate user account email in some cases not working.
- Fix: Fixed a PHP error on the settings page for some sites on older versions of WooCommerce.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with copying the referral URLs on the admin “Coupons” and “Affiliate Users” pages.
- Fix: Fixed a security bug reported by Patchstack.
Improved
Version 5.12.3
Changelog:
- Improvement: Admin reports will now load faster, especially when the “only show coupons assigned to an affiliate user” option is selected.
- Improvement: On the Coupon Affiliate Users page, hovering over the username will now show a tooltip with all the affiliate user details that were submitted on the registration form.
- Tweak: When the “Hide commission statistics for non-affiliate coupons” option is enabled, it will not give “unpaid commission” to coupons that do not have an affiliate user assigned to it.
- Tweak: Made a few small tweaks/improvements to the code for setting the cookies when a referral link is clicked.
- Fix: Fixed a few small bugs with admin reports.
- Fix: Removed HTML tags from the notification emails if the {commission} merge tag is used.
- Dev: Added some extra hooks for when affiliate registrations are created, accepted, and declined.
Improved
Version 5.12.0
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Changelog:
- New: Added a new “Referred Order Cancelled” email notification, which is sent to the affiliate when an order is cancelled, refunded, or failed. This can be enabled in the “Emails” settings tab.
- New: On the “Coupon Affiliate Users” the tooltip shown when hovering over the coupon code, will now show the default referral link for the affilaite coupon, along with a copy button.
- New: On the “Coupons” page for the plugin, there is now a new “Default Referral Link” column, which shows the default referral link for the coupon, along with a copy button.
- New: Added some new options to customise the affiliate dashboard tabs styling in the “Design” settings tab. There is now a new “full width” style available, along with the option to select a custom border radius.
- New: Added an option to set a custom “Preferred Coupon Code” field label on the affiliate registration form.
- Improvement: You can now easily include the default referral link in the “Affiliate Application Accepted” email by using the {referralurl}
- Tweak: (PRO) Hidden the “MLA” dashboard link on the WordPress users page if MLA is set to invite only, and the user does not have access.
- Tweak: (PRO) If MLA Dashboard is set to “Invite Only”, admins can now still view view the MLA Dashboard for any user if they themselves are not approved.
- Tweak: (PRO) Added the “pointer” cursor style to the export buttons on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Moved the “Affiliate” link on the “My Account” page to before the logout link.
- Tweak: A few small improvements to the plugins “Coupons” admin page.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning when MLA is enabled but the MLA dashboard page has not been selected in the settings.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed the “Unpaid Commission” and “Pending Payouts” fields when editing a coupon, to allow you to enter decimal values.
- Fix: (PRO) The store credit balance amount shown on the affiliate dashboard “payouts settings” is now formatted to show as a currency value.
- Dev: Added a filter to programmatically change the page ID for the affiliate dashboard option, and MLA dashboard option.
- Other: Added translations for “Italian”.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.4.2
- Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.6.1
Improved
Version 5.10.0
We are excited to announce the release of Coupon Affiliates version 5.10.0, bringing one of the most requested features: Performance Bonuses
Additionally, we have also made several over notable improvements, tweaks and fixes.
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Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added new “Performance Rewards & Bonuses” module. This allows you to reward your affiliates with bonuses and rewards, based on their performance. Learn More.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added 2 new “Extra Field” options for the “Bank Transfer” payout method. Also made the “Bank Transfer” details fields required on the affiliate dashboard settings tab, so they can not be left blank.
- Improvement: Added some bulk actions to the admin “Affiliate Users” list page, to allow you to bulk delete users and their coupons, or bulk unassign users from coupons.
- Improvement: Added an “Actions” column to the plugins admin “Coupons” list page, with links to edit or delete the coupon.
- Tweak: (PRO) Changed the “Unpaid Commission” and “Pending Payments” fields when editing a coupon to number fields to prevent invalid values being entered.
- Tweak: (PRO) Removed the “Coupon Code” field on the “Add New Affiliate” when the “Dynamic Code Generator” is enabled. Made the field required when it is shown.
- Tweak: Modified the “Add New Affiliate” form to redirect to the “Affiliate Users” list page. It now also shows a “Custom Message” field to include a custom message in the email sent to the user. The checkbox to automatically accept has also been removed, and it will now always automatically accept the user.
- Tweak: Made a few CSS tweaks/fixes to the affiliate dashboard on mobile.
- Tweak: Switched the admin CSS styles to use the “wp_enqueue_style” function.
- Tweak: Automatically unassign user ID from coupons if a user is deleted.
- Tweak: Improved query for admin coupons list page, to no longer show coupons when the affiliate user has been deleted.
- Tweak: The “Activity Log” will now only show “new order referral” logs when the order used a coupon that has an affiliate user assigned to it.
- Fix: Fixed a PHP error in some cases when generating admin reports, causing the report to fail and show 0 for all values.
- Fix: Added compatibility with the Wordfence login reCAPTCHA when submitting the affiliate registration form.
- Fix: Fixed issue with affiliate registration form not submitting correctly when a CAPTCHA plugin is being used for login security.
- Fix: The Turnstile and reCAPTCHA scripts are now enqueued using the “wp_enqueue_script” function, and should no longer conflict with the “Simple Cloudflare Turnstile” plugin.
- Fix: Fixed a PHP warning in certain occasions when updating a user in the admin area.
- Fix: Fixed an error on the admin “Referral Visits” page when clicking “View all visits for this referrer” link, if site is on a subdirectory.
- Fix: Fixed a few instances where /wp-admin was being used instead of admin_url() causing issues on sites which are not installed in the root directory or using a custom /wp-admin path.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the admin manual “add new affiliate” form when the “Use the email address as username” option was enabled.
- Fix: Fixed a rare PHP error occuring in some cases when manually adding a new affiliate user, in certain cases.
- Fix: Fixed a few other PHP warnings.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.4.0
Improved
Version 5.9.4
Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added “APILayer” as an alternative to the “exchangeratesapi.io” for the “Automated Conversion Rates” feature. This better supports different base currencies in the free version of the API.
- New: (PRO) Added a “Download QR Code” link for the QR codes generated in the “Referral URL” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Made some improvements to the registrations code, to be more reliable when the form is submitted. Previously, in some cases if there was a form error (captcha failed etc) it was still creating the user account.
- Tweak: Made some fixes and tweaks to the total sales and commission values shown, on the “coupon orders” page, and “monthly summary” for multi-currency orders.
- Tweak: Added some extra sanitization and escaping to certain areas of the code, as an extra precaution.
- Tweak: Removed the “Unpaid Commission” column on the admin “Coupons” list page for the free version.
- Tweak: Removed the “Taxes” step from setup wizard if “tax rates and calculations” are disabled in WooCommerce settings.
- Tweak: (PRO) Added a “Total MLA Commission” column to the “Affiliate Users” admin list page, if the MLA module is enabled.
- Tweak: (PRO) A few small tweaks to the PDF statements template.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed issue with the “Automated Conversion Rates” whn getting new rates.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning showing in some cases with the “Per User Role” commission rates option enabled.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with enqueuing a certain script within the new products rates table functionality.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed some occasional JS console errors with the line charts.
Improved
Version 5.9.1
Changelog:
- Improvement: (PRO) Added an option in the “Rates” tab settings to show a “Referral Link” column, which displays a “Copy” button, to copy the referral link for that product.
- Tweak: Small design changes to the plugins admin dashboard page.
- Tweak: Updated some text/details in the “Form CAPTCHA – Spam Protection” section of the settings page.
- Tweak: Added a little extra spacing between the icon and text on the affiliate dashboard tabs.
Improved
Version 5.9.0
This update includes brand new per-affiliate product commission rate options, several improvements to the admin management pages for the plugin, an option to set the maximum commission per order, a few improvements to the recently added “Dynamic Creatives” functionality, and more.
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Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added “Per-Affiliate Product Commission Rates” feature, visible when editing products. These options allow you to set product-level commission rates on a per-affiliate basis. These rates can be set per coupon, user, or user role. If you set rates for a specific affiliate for a product, it will override the default rates that are set.
- New: (PRO) Added an option to show a new “Rates” tab on the affiliate dashboard, which shows a table of the commission rates earned for that affiliate on each individual product.
- New: Added an option to set the “Maximum commission per order”. This allows you to set the maximum commission amount that is calculated and can be earned per order referred by affiliates.
- Improvement: Made some changes to the code that handles refunds to make it more consistent and reliable when deducting commission. Especially for partial refunds.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added a “rotation” option to the text fields in the dynamic creatives feature, to allow you to rotate the text.
- Improvement: Edited the “Coupons” link under “Coupon Affiliates” to link to a new custom page that lists all the coupons, with some extra columns.
- Improvement: Edited the “Affiliate Users” link under “Coupon Affiliates” to link to a new custom page that lists all the affiliate users that are assigned to coupons.
- Improvement: Edited the “Coupon Orders” link under “Coupon Affiliates” to link to a new custom page that lists all the orders that have been referred by an affiliate, with some extra columns.
- Improvement: The “Other Information” column in the admin “Affiliate Registrations” page will now show the users first name and email address.
- Improvement: The “New Affiliate Application” admin email now supports “name” and “email” merge tags.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added a search field to the admin payouts page.
- Improvement: (PRO) With the “Custom Affiliate Dashboard Tabs” feature, added a new option for each tab to set a custom “Tab Header” so you can have a different (longer) name for the tab header, than the actual tab button.
- Tweak: The affiliate username will now be shown on the affiliate dashboard, next to the logout link.
- Tweak: (PRO) Edited the layout of the dynamic creatives text fields slightly (2 columns).
- Tweak: Removed the code that would no longer force refresh stats if the usage is 0, since there are cases where the usage would be 0 but it still needs to be refreshed.
- Tweak: When assigned to multiple coupons the “Total Usage” shown for each coupon on the “Your Coupons” page, will not show the proper total usage from the all-time stats if available.
- Tweak: Some small tweaks/improvements to styling on some admin pages.
- Tweak: For the very first order for a coupon, the all-time statistics will now be updated automatically, if they are not already set (instead of waiting for the first time the dashboard is loaded).
- Tweak: When multiple referral links are clicked, it will now apply the coupon code for the latest referral link clicked and replace any existing affiliate codes already applied to cart.
- Tweak: Added a “Download CSV Template” link to the “Bulk Create: Affiliate Coupons” tool page.
- Dev: Removed “commission_summary” from the “wcu_alltime_stats” meta since it’s not used.
- Dev: Added a filter to modify the dashboard page title (defaults to the coupon code).
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the all-time line graphs, when more than 100 orders within the 90 day date range.
- Fix: Fixed issue with the all-time stats if an order is created with “payment pending” status.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.3.1
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 8.1.1
Improved
Version 5.7.0
This update includes several new features, tweaks, and fixes, improves performance, adds additional functionality, and solves various issues, aiming to further streamline the management of affiliate programs.
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Changelog:
- New: Added batch ajax loading when refreshing affiliate dashboard statistics (first load or manual refresh) to help prevent timeout/performance issues with coupons that have lots of orders. Should also help prevent certain rare situations that resulted in ajax errors.
- New: Significant performance improvements for when refreshing statistics. Changed the way order meta is saved.
- New: (PRO) Added “unpaid commission added” and “unpaid commission removed” to the activity log.
- New: Added an option in “Referral Link Settings” to “remove all tracking cookies when customer places an order”.
- New: Added a way to delete logs on the Activity Logs page, that are older than a certain number of days.
- Tweak: (PRO) When editing an order, if the order is complete but still has not granted “unpaid commission”, a link will show to update this.
- Tweak: Removed the spacing under the “No orders found” message on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Hidden the order status totals for the latest orders in the “Statistics” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Improved the tooltip on the “Affiliate Coupons” column, in the admin users list.
- Tweak: (PRO) MLA commission will now show on the tooltips in the admin orders list.
- Tweak: Made a few small tweaks/improvements to admin settings page on mobile.
- Tweak: The option to “track conversions via referral URL even if coupon was not used” will no longer track if “allow affiliate user to apply their own coupon code at cart / checkout” option is disabled, and the affiliate clicks their own link.
- Tweak: (PRO) Updated the “Delay Commission” cron job to check twice per day instead of once per day.
- Fix: Made the “New Customers Only” option for “Who can apply affiliate coupons to their cart?” now compatible with HPOS.
- Fix: Allow “0” as the “Coupon Discount” in the quick generate form on the setup wizard for the template coupon.
- Fix: Fixed the “Subtotal” not showing on the products list in the “Monthly Summary” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
- Fix: Ensure certain values are always assigned as a “float” before using them in calculations. Helps prevent some issues with PHP 8+ in certain cases.
Improved
Version 5.6.0
We’re excited to introduce version 5.6.0 of Coupon Affiliates, which includes a brand new “Admin Tools” page.
We’ve also made several other tweaks and improvements, including an improved “Statistics” tab for the affiliate dashboard, with more customisation options.
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Changelog:
- New: Added “Admin Tools” page to admin menu.
- New: Added “Import/Export Custom Tables” tool to admin tools page. Import or export the custom tables used by the plugin.
- New: Added “Bulk Create: Affiliate Coupons” tool to admin tools page. Bulk create or import a list of new affiliate coupons (and users) to be automatically created.
- New: Added “Bulk Assign: Coupons to Orders” tool to admin tools page. Bulk assign affiliate coupons to orders for the affilaite to earn commission for that order.
- New: (PRO) Added “Bulk Edit: Product Settings” tool to admin tools page. Bulk edit, import, or export the per-product commission settings.
- New: Added “Bulk Edit: Coupon Settings” tool to admin tools page. Bulk edit, import, or export existing coupon commission rates and assigned user.
- New: Added some new options to the “General” settings tab, under a new “Affiliate Dashboard Customisation” section under “Statistics” Tab, to customise what is shown on the “Statistics” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
- New: Added a “Section Layout” option on the “Statistics” Tab customisation settings, to allow you to re-arrange the order of the sections on the “Statistics” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
- New: Added 2 new options to show a “Commission Payouts” and “Latest Referrals” summary on the “Statistics” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Made some small adjustments to the styling of certain elements on the affiliate dashboard and admin area.
- Tweak: Updated the “Help” tab on the admin settings page to now show all the links to the documentation pages.
- Tweak: Changed the default colour/style of the table header/footer on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: In the settings page and setup wizard, added a way to quickly generate the “template coupon”. Also added an easy access “Edit Coupon” link, under it.
- Tweak: Updated to allow HTML / links in the labels for custom registration fields.
- Tweak: Only load the graphs script if the line graphs are enabled.
- Tweak: If the per-coupon rates are edited for a single coupon, it will now refresh the stats automatically.
- Tweak: In the “Referral Link Settings” adding some validation to make sure the “Default Page” being set is a valid URL.
- Tweak: Updated the affiliate dashboard tabs to stay highlighted when selected and that tab is active.
- Tweak: Improvement to percentage change amounts shown on the “Statistics” tab of affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Updated the “Newest Affiliate Coupons” table on the admin dashboard to only show coupons with an affiliate user assigned.
- Tweak: Some small tweaks/improvements to the line graphs.
- Tweak: A few small tweaks/improvements to mobile version of affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: When refreshing the stats for an affiliate dashboard it will no longer temporarily disable all the other tabs on the dashboard.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with the new option to set a custom “Affiliate Referrer Coupon” for orders, if the coupon was not in lowercase (since 5.5.0).
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning with the “Dynamic Code Generator” feature in certain cases.
- Fix: (PRO) Fix line graph occasionally not loading when ajax loading is disabled.
- Fix: Fixed a “Undefined variable: lifetimeaffiliate” PHP notice on the single order page.
Improved
Version 5.5.0
We’re thrilled to introduce version 5.5.0 of Coupon Affiliates, which welcomes a huge variety of new features and improvements for the plugin. This is one of our biggest ever updates!
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Changelog:
- New: Added support for WooCommerce’s new “High-Performance Order Storage” feature. When enabled this should make loading the affiliate dashboard even faster.
- New: Significant performance improvements for when loading order affiliate data, such as on the affiliate dashboard and admin reports.
- New: Added option to track conversions via referral URL even if coupon was not used. If enabled, if someone visits the site via the referral URL and places an order without using the coupon code, it will still be tracked and award the affiliate.
- New: Added option to set a custom referrer for an order that has already been placed. This can be done via the “Edit Order” page in the admin area.
- New: Added option to hide commission statistics for non-affiliate coupons. When enabled, commission statistics are disabled/hidden for coupons that are not assigned to an affiliate user.
- New: (PRO) MLA: Added to also give fixed commission for MLA parents for sub-affiliate referrals, instead of just percentage commission. ou can pply these together, or just one or the other.
- New: Added option to enable Cloudflare Turnstile captcha on the affiliate registration form.
- New: Added {passwordurl} merge tag to “New Affiliate Account Created” email template, to show the user password reset URL.
- New: (PRO) Payouts: Added an option to each payout method, to set a user role that can use that payout method. This is useful if you want to restrict certain payout methods to certain user roles.
- New: (PRO) Payouts: Added option to add an extra field to the “bank transfer” payout method to collect some additional information from the affiliate.
- New: (PRO) Added a new “Automated Conversion Rates” option to automatically update the multi-currency conversion rates every 12 hours.
- Tweak: Updated the “Coupon Affiliates” admin submenu to be more organised, with some seperators splitting certain links up into sections.
- Tweak: (PRO) The “Payouts” tab on the affiliate dashboard no longer loads via ajax since it’s not needed.
- Tweak: All admin based roles will now be listed as an option in the “Admin Permissions” option, in the “Debug” settings tab.
- Tweak: Changed the “Add New Affiliate” button to link to a dedicated page, instead of popup.
- Tweak: The {amount} merge tag in payouts emails will now convert based on the website locale settings.
- Tweak: (PRO) MLA: Made the affiliate network tree background transparent (instead of white).
- Tweak: (PRO) MLA: A few small improvements to the MLA dashboard page on mobile.
- Tweak: (PRO) Registration: If the “Enable Multiple Templates” option is enabled, the “Coupon Type” can now be selected when manually adding affiliates.
- Fix: Fixed a conflict issue with the “wcusage_applied_coupon_check_allow_customer” function.
- Fix: (PRO) Fix line graph occasionally not loading properly on the affiliate dashboard.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a possible PHP error showing wcusage_get_credit_users_balance() function does not exist.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning showing when generating short URLs.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning showing when saving profile settings and “wcu_ml_access” is not set.
- Fix: Fixed a PHP error sometimes caused after submitting affiliate registration, when “Dynamic Coupon Generator” is enabled.
- Fix: Fixed issue with “Change to pending” button not working on the “Affiliate Payouts” page with manual payout methods.
- Fix: (PRO) Lifetime: Fixed an error with lifetime commission expiry if “Lifetime Commission Expiry” was set to 0.
- Fix: (PRO) Lifetime: Fixed issue with affiliate dashboard all-time statistics not refreshing instantly when an order was placed by customer with a “lifetime affiliate referrer” (no coupon used).
- Fix: Fixed some issues with the commission summary (when clicking “more” on an order on the affiliate dashboard).
- Fix: Fixed issue in free version, with the “This Month” and “Last Month” not always refreshing stats instantly on the affiliate dashboard for new orders placed.
Improved
Version 5.4.1
Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added new [couponaffiliates-creatives] shortcode to allow you to display the “creatives” tab content on any custom page, without the visitor needing access to the affiliate dashboard.
- Improvement: Added new merge tags to the admin “New Affiliate Application” email template. You can now display all the custom field values in this email.
- Tweak: When submitting affiliate application form, emoji characters will be encoded before adding to database to prevent issues on some sites.
- Tweak: Updated the “wcusage_register” table “text” columns to use the “utf8mb4_unicode_ci” collation when the table is generated.
- Tweak: Moved creatives without a category above brand colors on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: When a referral URL is clicked, the referrer coupon is now also stored as a session variable. Therefore, this should fix rare occassions where the “wcusage_referral” cookie was not set on the first visit, it will retry the next time a page is loaded.
- Tweak: With the “Allow affiliate user to apply their own coupon code at cart / checkout” option disabled, resolved an issue where some users were able to get around this, and still apply their own coupons.
- Fix: Fixed the “upload” file buttons when adding new creatives.
- Fix: Fixed issue when “Automatically register all new users as an affiliate” option was enabled, and they fill out the registration form, it was submit the application twice and overrwrite.
- Fix: Fixed “Undefined array key” PHP warning showing on the edit coupon page.
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 7.2.2
Improved
Version 5.4.0
This update includes some new features and improvements for the “creatives” module, along with a few other small tweaks and fixes.
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Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added categories to creatives. You can now assign a category to creatives, and creatives will be sorted into their own categories when displayed on the affiliate dashboard.
- New: (PRO) Added YouTube Video, MP4 Video, and PDF as option to include in the creatives tab of affiliate dashboard.
- New: (PRO) Added Brand Colors as option to include in the creatives tab of affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: (PRO) Updated the “Creatives Text” option to TinyMCE editor, so you can add more advanced custom text to the top of the creatives tab.
- Tweak: (PRO) Added a light grid background to the creatives boxes on the affiliate dashboard, where there is any empty space.
- Tweak: (PRO) The buttons on creatives tab now have the “pointer” cursor when hovered over.
- Tweak: (PRO) Added more hooks to the “creatives” code, to allow developers to implement more advanced customizations.
- Tweak: (PRO) Scheduled payout requests will now use the websites default timezone instead of UTC.
- Tweak: (PRO) Changed the “Export to Excel” button text to just “Export”, and added a download icon to the button.
- Tweak: (PRO) The “Add New” button for adding a campaign in the “Referral URL” tab will now display at the correct size on certain themes.
- Tweak: (PRO) In PDF statements, changed the month to short version (in details and table), and added suffix to the day number (st/nd).
- Tweak: The “Email address for receiving admin notifications” setting is now available in the free version.
- Tweak: Added a slight border radius to tabs and buttons on the affiliate dashboard.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed issue causing some scheduled payout requests to not be submitted when they should.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a few PHP warnings when viewing generated PDF statements.
- Fix: Fixed affiliate registrations occassionally not being displayed on the admin registrations page, when the form is submitted.
- Fix: Fixed issue with the affiliate dashboard for coupons not assigned to an affiliate user, sometimes being visible via the unique link for logged out users.
- Other: (PRO) Updated stripe-php library to version 10.0.0.
- Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.3
Improved
Version 5.3.0
This update includes several new features and improvements for the MLA module.
We’ve also added some features to the “recent orders” tab on the affiliate dashboard, along with a few other small tweaks and fixes.
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Changelog:
- New: Added a “Search” field at top of “Recents Orders” and “MLA Summary” table. Users can live search the results in the table to only show rows that include the search term.
- New: Added option to show the total number of orders for each status, displayed below the “Recent Orders” table.
- New: (PRO) Added new “Summary” tab to MLA dashboard to show a table with a summary of statistics for each of the users sub-affiliates.
- New: (PRO) Added some shortcodes to show some sections of the MLA Dashboard elsewhere: [couponaffiliates-mla-subaffiliates] and [couponaffiliates-mla-payouts]
- New: (PRO) Added an option to make the MLA Dashboard “Invite Only”, so you can choose which affiliate users have access to it.
- New: (PRO) Added option to auto-assign normal affiliate coupon referrals as a sub-affiliate in the referrers MLA network.
- New: (PRO) Added option to make MLA invite links also work as a normal referral link.
- New: (PRO) Added options to allow you to customise which sections/tabs on the MLA Dashboard will be displayed.
- Tweak: The “Add New Affiliate” button is now visible in free version on the “Users” page, and improved the notification displayed when a new affiliate is added by admin.
- Fix: Added a check to prevent PHP error in the “wcusage_auto_apply_discount_coupon” function if WooCommerce is disabled on certain pages.
- Fix: Fixed PHP warning on admin orders list, showing the first time it is loaded when there is a new order, if “per user role” commission was enabled.
- Fix: Fixed issue with not being able to edit the “Template coupon code” with legacy “Save Settings” button enabled.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed issue with “payout has already been paid” message sometimes showing when trying to mark a manual payout as paid.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed issue with the landing pages section not showing on the affiliate dashboard “referral URL” tab.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed “Other Information” not displaying for manual registrations when “Automatically register all new users as an affiliate” option enabled.
- Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.2
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.1.1
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 7.1.0
Improved
Version 5.1.2
Changelog:
- Improvement: Referral URL conversions will now track the order ID, and display that in the admins “Referral Visits” page, in the “Converted” column, along with the order total for that conversion.
- Improvement: The admins “Referral Visits” page now includes search options to filter visits by referrer URL, coupon code, campaign, and converted.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added a small icon to show if the commission has been granted to the affiliate yet, in the admin orders affiliate info tooltip (on orders list), and in the “Coupon Affiliate” meta box for individual orders.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added new settings in the “Statements” section to set custom text for “Subtotal”, “Tax”, and “Total” on the PDF statements.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added a way to allow admins to link an existing affiliate user to a MLA parent. Simply edit a user and go to the “MLA Parent Users” section.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added a way to allow admins to remove all MLA parents from a particular affiliate user. Simply edit a user, go to the “MLA Parent Users” section, set the “Tier 1” field to empty, and save.
- Tweak: A few small tweaks to the setup wizard.
- Tweak: Edited a few strings in the admin area to use localisation that were previously missing it.
- Tweak: On the coupons list, edited style of the dashboard “copy link” button.
- Fix: Fixed a javascript console warning displayed with the commission graphs enabled on the affiliate dashboard.
- Fix: Fixed the “Support Ticket” button on the admin dashboard page not linking anywhere.
- Fix: Fixed a PHP error showing on the admin dashboard if WooCommerce is not activated, instead showing a more user friendly message instructing to install WooCommerce.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.0.1
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 6.7.0
Improved
Version 5.1.1
Changelog:
- Improvement: Added option to hide the “Affiliate” menu link on the “My Account” page for non-affiliate users.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added option to the “extras fields”, in the registration form settings, to choose if they should be required or not.
- Tweak: Updated the “Latest Referrals” on admin dashboard to show existing/previous orders for new installs.
- Tweak: Change date/time formats shown on affiliate dashboard to use format set in the WordPress “General” settings. They should now also be fully localised.
- Tweak: Added capitalisation to some localised strings that were missing it.
- Tweak: Added localisation to some strings that were missing it.
- Tweak: Removed all older “translations” settings. The plugin is now just using normal localisation.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed the “Upload Image” button when adding a new creative.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed issue when “Use the email address as username” is enabled in registration settings, when admin uses “Add New Affiliate” form, and tries to add coupon for an existing user that does not have their email as their username.
- Fix: (PRO) An empty “wcusage_mla_parents” order meta will no longer be created, if the MLA module is disabled.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed the apostrophe showing as HTML entitiy, in the “You don’t currently have any sub-affiliates.” message.
- Fix: Fixed a few minor PHP warnings.
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 6.6.1
Improved
Version 5.0.1
Changelog:
- New: Added brand new setup wizard which is accessible when first installing the plugin, or via a button in the settings page.
- Improvement: Added a “REFRESH ALL DATA” button when editing individual coupons. This allows you to refresh the data/statistics for just one individual coupon dashboard if needed.
- Improvement: Significantly improved initial affiliate dashboard loading speed when first visiting, or when data has been refreshed (especially for larger coupons). It will now load the page much faster, and show the “loading…” animation whilst it refreshes/saves the data for the first time.
- Improvement: Via small optimisations, improved the speed of the fetch orders query by around 10%, which executes when first loading dashboard, refreshing data, and on the recent orders affiliate dashboard tab, when filtering orders.
- Tweak: (FREE) Hidden the “Pending Affiliate Registrations” and “Pending Payout Requests” sections on the admin dashboard when using free version.
- Fix: On the new admin dashboard, the text shown when no items are found in each of the sections has been fixed with the correct messages.
- Fix: (PRO) Made sure the saved “monthly summary” data is now refreshed properly when the refresh data button is clicked, or commission settings change.
- Dev: Re-structured the admin settings code, to be a bit more organised.
- Dev: Switched back to using WordPress’ default jQuery library.
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 6.5.1
Improved
Version 5.0.0
This is one of our biggest ever updates. Including our most popular feature request, a “Multi-Level Affiliates” module, along with some significant performance improvements, a new dashboard page, activity log, and lots more improvements, tweaks and fixes.
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Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added a brand new full-featured Multi-Level Affiliates module to the plugin.
–> New: (PRO) Added option for parent affiliates to invite people to become an affiliate. They will then become the parent affiliate for this user, and will gain extra commission from any sales that affiliate refers.
–> New: (PRO) Added new shortcode to display brand new MLA dashboard page. The dashboard will show all sub-affiliates, affiliate network chart, invitation tools, payouts management, settings, and more. - New: Added a new dashboard page in the admin area which includes some general statistics, and other latest statistics/activity for referrals, visits, registrations, payouts, etc.
- New: Added a new “Activity Log” to the admin area, to keep track of all the latest activity within the plugin and your affiliate programs.
- Improvement: (PRO) The monthly summary table now saves data/totals for each month as meta data (after first load) instead of calculating every time, excluding the current month. This will significantly improve the loading speed for this tab and filters, especially for coupons with lots of orders.
- Improvement: (PRO) The line graphs are now loaded via ajax which should significantly improve initial loading time of the page for coupons with lots of orders. The line graphs are now also limited to show a maximum of around 100 orders.
- Improvement: (FREE) The “All-time | This Month | Last Month” statistics toggles are now available in the free version. This is now selected as default for new installs.
- Improvement: Some extra meta data (“wcusage_stats”) is saved on orders to load order affiliate data faster in certain cases.
- Improvement: Made some improvements to performance when generating admin reports. In general generating reports should now be around 2x faster.
- Improvement: Made a few other small performance improvements to the affiliate dashboard and plugin in general.
- Improvement: Greatly improved speed of query that checks if current page contains the plugins shortcodes, and made it so that it doesn’t always run on all pages.
- Tweak: Added some extra sanitization to certain parts of the code, just for extra precautions.
- Tweak: Changed the “filter by coupon code” option on the admin orders list to a text input instead of dropdown. Improves speed / performance of page for sites with lots of coupons.
- Tweak: Font awesome icon styles are now hosted locally via the plugin.
- Tweak: (PRO) When editing a user, it will now only show “Payment Settings” for payment methods that are enabled.
- Tweak: (PRO) The coupon affiliate meta box on single orders now shows the affiliate info for lifetime referrers.
- Tweak: (PRO) Even if PRO license expires, the “unpaid commission” will now continue to be tracked and updated for new orders.
- Tweak: Affiliate dashboard tab icons are now enabled by default.
- Tweak: Updated design of the plugin’s admin pages, with a new header on each page.
- Fix: Resolved a few minor console warnings on affiliate dashboard, in certain occasions.
- Fix: (FREE) Admins can properly generate reports in the free version for a specific date range (instead of exactly 1 month).
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed the commission message shown in the “statistics” tab of affiliate dashboard when “per user role” commission is set for that affiliate.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed occasional issue with monthly summary tab not loading correctly with multi-currency enabled.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed occasional issue with payout button not working correctly.
- Fix: Fixed occasional issue calculating the specific decimal commission with multi-currency enabled.
- Fix: Fixed occasional issue causing PHP error when an admin was updating orders.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 6.0.0
- Other: Tested with WooCommerce 6.5.0
Improved
Version 4.16.6
Changelog:
- Improvement: (PRO) Updated it so that users are logged in automatically after completing the affiliate registration form (if they were logged out).
- Improvement: (PRO) Updated it so that if a user has a pending affiliate registration application, the form will be hidden for them.
- Tweak: (PRO) Added option to set a custom title for the affiliate registration form.
- Tweak: (PRO) Hidden the “Direct Link Tracking” email settings if it is disabled.
- Tweak: (PRO) Slight tweak/fix alignment of “add new” campaign field on some themes.
- Tweak: (PRO) Implemented a solution to direct link tracking not always working (setting cookies) with nginx caching enabled.
- Tweak: (PRO) Added a check to make sure the same payout can not be paid twice accidently by an admin.
- Tweak: Updated to make sure “Processing” orders are shown by default on new installs.
- Tweak: Updated to make sure stats are force refreshed on first load of affiliate dashboard.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a conflict via the “FPDF” class with some other plugins.
- Dev: (PRO) Made some improvements/tweaks to the affiliate registration code.
- Other: Tested with WordPress 5.9.2
Improved
Version 4.16.5
This update includes some new options to help you prevent affiliate fraud, an improvement to the products list/summary for orders on the affiliate table, and more!
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Changelog:
- New: Added a new/improved “product summary” section on the affiliate dashboard when “MORE” toggle is clicked on recent orders and monthly summary tables. Shows a detailed summary of all products including the quantity, total, commission for each individual product.
- New: (PRO) Added a new “strict fraud prevention” option that can be enabled when using “direct link tracking” module. This option will only allow coupons to be applied when directly linked by an approved domain.
- New: (PRO) Added a new “Domains Blacklist” option in plugin settings. Visitors referred directly from any of these domains will not have referrals tracked or coupons applied automatically.
- New: Added a new “Visitors Blacklist” option in plugin settings to block visitor IDs or IP addresses from being able to use affiliate coupons or register as an affiliate.
- New: In the “Referral Visits” admin page you can easily add/remove the visitor IP/ID for a certain click to the “Visitors Blacklist”.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added option to enable a “2 Column Layout” for the registration form.
- Improvement: The date/time for the referral link clicks log will now be saved using the “time zone” set in the WordPress general settings (instead of UTC).
- Improvement: Improved styling/layout for the tables on affiliate dashboard for mobile devices, to fix them being squashed on some themes/sites.
- Tweak: Moved all restrictions and fraud settings into their own tab on the plugin settings tab.
- Tweak: (PRO) On the admin “Payouts” and “Registrations” pages, the date columns have been removed. The dates can still be seen by hovering over the ID (created date), and status (completed date).
- Tweak: Made a few small styling tweaks/improvements to the login/registration forms. Both forms will now be more consistent with each other and a better layout on some themes.
- Tweak: Updated it so that the “saved data” for orders on the affiliate dashboards will be refreshed automatically, whenever some of the settings in the “Commission” settings tab are changed.
- Fix: Added a fix for direct link tracking when referrer domain uses “www.” in the domain.
- Fix: Fixed custom email notifications not formatting the HTML if they were edited (on some websites since the last update).
- Fix: Referral URLs functionality will now be fully disabled when toggled off in the settings.
- Fix: (PRO) Added some extra checks to prevent a PHP error showing if “Pay via PayPal” is clicked, but the API keys are invalid.
Improved
Version 4.16.4
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Changelog:
- Improvement: Added option in “Commission” settings tab to include or exclude “custom discounts” (negative fees etc) from commission calculations.
- Improvement: Added option in “Commission” settings tab to include or exclude “fees” in commission calculations and in order subtotal/total stats.
- Improvement: Added option in “Commission” settings tab to include or exclude “shipping costs” in commission calculations and in order subtotal/total stats.
- Improvement: Added option in “Referral URLs” settings tab to show/hide the “Referral Link Generator” and “Referral Statistics” sections on the affiliate dashboard.
- Improvement: Added an “Add New Affiliate” button to the admin users list, to easily add a new affiliate user on this page.
- Improvement: Added an “Add New Domain” button to the admin domains (“domain link tracking”) page, to easily add a new domain to a coupon on this page.
- Tweak: Fees are no longer included in the “totals” and “subtotals” for orders shown in the affiliate dashboard, unless the new option to include fees in calculations is enabled.
- Tweak: Updated the “save” buttons on settings tab of affiliate dashboard to be more consistent styling on certain themes.
- Tweak: Added CSS to prevent some themes forcing the “date” filter input fields on affiliate dashboard to be much larger than needed, therefore affecting the layout.
- Tweak: Removed the extra spacing above “Commission Graph” since 4.16.3
- Tweak: Disabled some plugin/theme preloaders on affiliate dashboard page.
- Tweak: Improved the styling for toggles on the settings page.
- Tweak: Added links on the admin “Registrations” page to edit user, edit the coupon, and view the coupon affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Added links on the admin “Domains” page to edit the coupon, and view the coupon affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: The form shown when “Add New Affiliate” is selected can now only be submitted if a “template coupon” has been set.
- Fix: Fixed issue where in some cases affiliate users could not add domains for domain link tracking.
- Fix: Fixed some of the “totals” stats with “include tax in calculations” enabled, when the order includes shipping costs or extra fees.
- Fix: The custom “form style” option will now apply to the registration form shortcode, and fixed alignment of the submit application form on some themes.
- Fix: Fixed issue in some cases the “Create New Registration” form in admin area not submitting, when a certain option was enabled.
- Fix: Fixed issue on PHP 8 with admin pay button for Stripe and PayPal occasionally showing an error when clicked.
- Dev: Updated Freemius SDK.
- Dev: Made some small code format tweaks/improvements, and added 3 new hooks.
- Version 4.16.4.1:
- Fix: Fixed issue with not being able to change the “Required order status to show on affiliate dashboard” (since the last update).
- Version 4.16.4.2:
- Fix: Fixed an error when affiliates try to add a domain via direct link tracking.
Improved
Version 4.16.3
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Changelog:
- Improvement: Added an option to set the “default payout method” that is selected for all affiliates automatically.
- Improvement: Added option for admins when editing user profiles to change the “Payout Method” for that user.
- Improvement: Added an option to never update the saved “commission” value for past orders (option found in “Debug” tab).
- Tweak: Updated the “Emails” settings tab, to be more compact and easier to navigate, and with toggles to show/hide the customizer for each email.
- Tweak: Updated the “How To Use” tab on affiliate dashboard with up to date information.
- Tweak: Updated to font awesome version 6.0.0 for icons used in the plugin.
- Tweak: Small tweak to the design of the tables on the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Improved alignment of the “terms” acceptance checkbox on registration form, when the message includes links.
- Tweak: Updated social sharing icons to use the button background color (and background hover color).
- Fix: Fixed occasional issue with “Pay as Credit” payouts button not working when paying credit to empty wallet.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with some websites/themes, where the affiliate dashboard would not load correctly with “ajax loading” enabled.
Improved
Version 4.16.2
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Changelog:
- New: Added a new option to make it so affiliate coupons can only be used by new customers on their first order (Settings > General > Coupon Usage Restrictions).
- Improvement: Added an option to change the style of the login/registration forms, with 3 available styles.
- Tweak: The “Required order status to show on affiliate dashboard” option will now always have “Completed” enabled and can’t be disabled.
- Tweak: (FREE) The “Referral Visits” section is now accessible via the admin menu in the free version (to view/manage all visits).
- Tweak: A few small styling tweaks for the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: When the PRO license is activated on the free version, it is now more clear that the PRO version needs to be installed to activate features.
- Tweak: Rearranged a few of the plugin settings to be in more suitable locations.
- Fix: Fixed issue in rare cases, on some sites the affiliate registration form was submitting multiple times creating duplicate submissions, or showing a “This username already exists” message.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with apostrophes in usernames/emails when editing the assigned user on a coupon.
- Fix: Fixed the embed code URL in creatives being blank, if a default URL is not set for the creative.
Improved
Version 4.16.1
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Changelog:
- New: Added pagination to the “recent clicks” on the “referral URL” tab, so affiliates can now view their full referral click history. Only available with ajax loading enabled. Can be disabled in settings.
- New: Added a “Converted Only” toggle to the “recent clicks” on the “referral URL” tab. It will then only show clicks that have converted. Only available with ajax loading enabled. Can be disabled in settings.
- Improvement: Changed the way “all-time” stats are updated. This will improve speed/performance when orders are placed, or status is updated (when using coupons), especially for coupons that have a high usage.
- Improvement: Added option to show small icons in the affiliate dashboard tabs that represent what each tab does.
- Improvement: Added an option to enable/disable storing of the visitors IP address for new referral clicks, in the “wcusage_clicks” table. If disabled it will instead use a new cookie.
- Tweak: The “Make all dashboard URLs private” option is now enabled by default on new sites.
- Tweak: Slightly changed the layout/wording of the “Multi-Currency” settings to be easier to understand.
- Fix: Fixed a conflict with the “WP Rocket” plugin, on the affiliate dashboard, when the “Load JavaScript deferred” option was enabled.
- Fix: Fixed a conflict with the “Perfmatters” plugin, on the affiliate dashboard, when the “Defer Javascript” option was enabled.
- Fix: When “Last 30 Days / This Month” graph is enabled instead of “Last 90 Days”, the next above the graph now shows this correctly.
- Fix: Fixed the percentage change showing as +100% when both values are the same (when not 0).
Improved
Version 4.15.2
Version 4.15.2 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available!
This update includes some small improvements, including some new options for payouts, and a few other tweaks and fixes.
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Changelog:
- Improvement: For each payout method, added an option to add custom text/information displayed when selecting the payout method in the dashboard settings tab.
- Improvement: Added an option to either show or hide the “payment details” field for each of the custom payment methods.
- Improvement: Added an option to choose whether payment details are required to request a payout.
- Improvement: Added an option to change the default “Page URL” on the “Referral URL” tab.
- Tweak: Added option to choose which line graph is shown for “All-time” stats toggle.
- Fix: Fixed issue on plugin settings page, in some cases, some plugin tabs/settings were hidden when using old WooCommerce version.
- Fix: Fixed line graphs not showing properly in some cases when “Last 30 Days | Last 7 Days” is selected as the toggles.
- Dev: Added 3 new API routes/endpoints for the plugin (coupon-info, request-payout, users-coupons).
- Dev: Added new hook for each payout method when a payout is marked as paid by admin.
Improved
Version 4.15.1
Version 4.15.1 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available!
This update includes a new option to set custom commission rates per user role, along with some new shortcodes!
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Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added new option to set custom commission rates per user role.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added an option to hide the affiliate registration form for existing affiliate users already assigned to 1 or more coupons.
- Improvement: Added new shortcode to display the current customers referrer coupon code (if exists). Example: [couponaffiliates-referrer text=”Referrer code:”]
- Improvement: Added new shortcode to display the logged in users affiliate coupon code as plain text (will be separated by a comma if there are multiple). Code: [couponaffiliates-my-coupons]
- Fix: Made the “Affiliate” link text in the “My Account” menu translatable.
Improved
Version 4.14.2 – Affiliate Registration Improvements!
Version 4.14.2 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available!
This update includes some improvements to the “affiliate registration” system, as well as a few other tweaks and fixes.
This update includes some improvements to the “affiliate registration” system, as well as a few other tweaks and fixes.
Learn more about this update >
Changelog:
- New: (PRO) Added new option (in “registration” settings) to show a “join our affiliate program” checkbox on the store checkout when creating an order, for non-affiliate users.
- New: (PRO) Added new option (in “registration” settings) to disable the “preferred coupon code” field and instead generate a coupon name automatically based on a custom format with merge tags.
- New: (PRO) Added a new “Create New Registration” button on the admin “registrations” page, to manually create/submit an affiliate registration for a user yourself, easily in the admin area.
- New: (PRO) Added new “Affiliate Coupons” column to the WordPress users list. This will show all the coupons assigned to the user, with a tooltip showing unpaid commission, dashboard link, edit link, and a link to unassign/remove the users from the coupon.
- Improvement: Added a “Affiliate Users” admin menu item under “Coupon Affiliates”, if registrations is enabled with the “Coupon Affiliates” user role.
- Improvement: Added new option to set custom text for the “Submit Application” button on the affiliate registration form.
- Improvement: Added new option to only show tax calculations on statements for users with a tax/VAT number.
- Improvement: (FREE) The option to show the combined totals for all orders within the selected date range is now available in the free version.
- Tweak: Added a check to not allow affiliate registrations to be accepted if coupon already exists.
- Tweak: (FREE) Reports can now be generated for the past 1 month, up from 4 weeks, in the free version.
- Fix: Fixed some possible issues with partial refunds in certain cases.
- Fix: Fixed possible issue for sites using old WooCommerce version (3.7 or under), when a coupon is used when creating a new order.
- Fix: Fixed issue occurring on some sites with unpaid commission not updating after initially installing, when payouts features enabled by default.
Improved
Version 4.14.1
Version 4.14.1 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available!
- Improvement: (PRO) Added option to set “Custom Email Header Image / Logo” for the email reports, to replace the default header image that is set in WooCommerce settings.
- Improvement: (PRO) Changed the “Report Header Text” and “Report Footer Text” to TinyMCE editor for better customisation options.
- Improvement: (PRO) Added option to either center align, or left align the email/PDF reports stats, in the reports customisation settings.
- Tweak: (PRO) Slightly changed/improved code for creating a new affiliate registration submission.
- Fix: Fixed the “Commission” message on affiliate dashboard statistics tab, in some cases showing wrong currency symbol when set to “per product” commission.
- Fix: (PRO) Tweaked the registration form labels to be capitalized when translated.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with a few of the plugin settings not being able to save since 4.14.0
- Fix: Fixed issue with HTML code not working in admin settings textarea fields.
Improved
Version 4.13.0 – Improvements to Admin Reports, Filter Orders By Coupon, and More!
Version 4.13.0 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available!
This one contains some big improvements to the admin reports, along with a few other new small features, tweaks, and fixes.
This one contains some big improvements to the admin reports, along with a few other new small features, tweaks, and fixes.
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Changelog:
- New: [Admin] Added new “filter by coupon” dropdown on the WooCommerce orders list, to filter by orders that used a specific coupon (or all orders that used a coupon).
- New: [Admin] Added “Coupons Orders” link to the plugin admin menu, which links to orders list with the “Show ALL Coupon Orders” filter automatically applied.
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] Changes to the design/layout of admin reports “total” stats, now split into 3 sections: Sales Statistics, Commission Statistics, Referral URL Statistics
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] Changes to the design/layout of the admin reports generate form.
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] Added 4 new filters to show coupons where total is more/less than set amount, for “Total Usage”, “Commission Earned”, “URL Conversion Rate”, and “Unpaid Commission”, alongside the already existing “Total Sales”.
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] Added 4 new checkbox filters to show/hide certain statistics in the admin report.
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] Added 3 new extra columns to admin reports to show “Referral URL Statistics” (in “total” stats, and for all “individual” coupon stats).
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] Added percentage change (and previous amount), for the “total” stats, when “compare” option is enabled.
- Improvement: [Admin Reports] (PRO) Now display/calculate 2 more stats in the “total” stats: Unpaid Commission, Pending Payouts
- Improvement: [Affiliate Dashboard] Improved the design of the “Your Coupons” affiliate dashboard page (shown when affiliate is assigned to multiple coupons) to be more consistent with the main affiliate dashboard design.
- Improvement: [Affiliate Dashboard] Improved the “Discount” labels on the “Your Coupons” page, to show better descriptions.
- Improvement: [Affiliate Dashboard] Added “Commission” label on the “Your Coupons” page to show the commission percentage/amount earned for the coupons referrals.
- Tweak: (PRO) Removed the “-” on “% Change” column (in monthly summary) for negative numbers (since it already shows a down arrow).
- Tweak: (PRO) Added an icon next to the “payouts” warning messages when a commission payout can not be requested yet.
- Tweak: Made some small alignment tweaks/fixes on mobile devices for the affiliate dashboard.
- Tweak: Added a link to “Collapse Sidebar” in the plugin settings page.
- Fix: Stopped admin reports from randomly re-loading occasionally, and re-showing (under the form) when user is on “Generate a new admin report” page.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed affiliate email reports not counting the last day’s stats for the referral URL statistics.
- Fix: Fixed occasional issue with case sensitive coupon codes not working properly on the affiliate dashboard.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed small issue with lifetime commission if it was enabled, then later disabled, the “affiliate info” in admin orders list may have shown the wrong coupon name (if that order was linked to a lifetime customer, then using a different affiliate coupon).
- Fix: Fixed the currency symbol shown on “affiliate info” in admin orders list, when multi-currency enabled, and order not in the main currency.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed the colspan for products list on monthly summary, for the latest month (it was 1 too short).
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed the “Files” column in admin payouts page being hidden even if “statements” are still enabled, with “invoices” disabled.
- Fix: (PRO) Fixed a rare issue with some sites not being able to generate PDF files for reports and statements.
- Fix: Fixed small styling issues on affiliate email reports template for some sites.
- Fix: Fixed several minor PHP warnings.
- Dev: Separated each affiliate dashboard tab into individual functions/hooks.
Improved
Version 4.12.0.1
- Improvement (PRO): Added option to send an example report to yourself, for the “affiliate email reports” module, when customising the settings.
- Fix: Fixed issue with “affiliate info” not displaying for some orders, in certain occasions.
- Other: Updated translation files.
Improved
Version 4.11.2 – Monthly Percentage Change
Version 4.11.2 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available.
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Changelog:
- New: Added new option to either allow/deny the affiliate user from applying their own coupon code at cart/checkout. Can be found under “General” settings.
- New (PRO): Added new option to enable a “% Change” column to the monthly summary table.
- Fix: Fixed an error on some sites, with multi-currency feature, when using an old PHP version or “php-intl” extension not installed on server.
Improved
Version 4.11.1 – Custom Tax Adjustments & More
Version 4.11.1 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available.
This small update includes new options to set custom tax adjustments, along with a few other small changes and fixes.
This small update includes new options to set custom tax adjustments, along with a few other small changes and fixes.
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Changelog:
- New: Added a new “Custom Adjustment” option to “General” settings (under “Tax Settings”) which lets you deduct a custom percentage from the order subtotal, before calculating the commission.
- New (PRO): Added “Telegram” as an option for referral URL social sharing buttons.
- Fix (PRO): Fixed social sharing icons not always generating correct link on initial page load.
- Fix: Fixed the admin “Affiliate Info” column in orders list not always showing the coupon/affiliate info for lifetime referrals.
- Fix: Fixed the admin “Affiliate Info” column in orders list not showing correct “commission” value in the tooltip for multi-currency orders.
- Dev: Added PHPDoc comments to more functions and classes for easier understanding, and “function_exists” checks to more functions (more will be added in future updates).
Improved
Version 4.9.1 – Custom Order Status & Other Tweaks
Version 4.9.1 of Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce is now available.
This small update includes updated options to allow you to choose any custom order statues for both displaying orders, and when “unpaid commission” is paid, plus a few other small improvements.
This small update includes updated options to allow you to choose any custom order statues for both displaying orders, and when “unpaid commission” is paid, plus a few other small improvements.
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Changelog:
- Improvement: Updated the “Required order status to show on affiliate dashboard” option to allow any order statuses to be selected (including custom statuses).
- Improvement (PRO): Added new option under “Payouts” to select a custom order status for when “unpaid commission” is granted.
- Improvement: Added “button hover” colour option to “design” tab in plugin settings.
- Improvement: Updated the “Default amount of latest orders to show” option to be more accurate, and only counts statuses that should be displayed (so hidden statuses don’t reduce the amount). This will only fix/change if settings are saved with the updated “Required order status” option.
- Tweak (FREE): “Enable affiliate email notifications” option is now visible when editing coupons.
- Tweak: Changed “Total Uses” text to “Total Conversions” on the referral URL tab.
- Tweak: Added code to delete “campaigns” and “clicks” tables, on plugin deletion, if the delete data option is enabled (in “debug”).
- Fix: Fixed a rare “Undefined variable: coupon_code” PHP warning occasionally showing on some sites.
- Fix: Fixed new occasional “Undefined index” PHP Notice on Coupon List page.