WordPress eStore Plugin Change Log

WordPress eStore v8 Change Log

• Some minor inventory control updates
• Added an option to turn off sale notification email for admin
• Added a new email tag {product_details_tax_inclusive}
• Ability to enable ajax option on the add to cart button action
• Ability to show fancy template with Donate now buttons
• Fixed the {total_tax} email tag for manual checkout
• Some minor enhancements for the area specific tax checkbox feature
• Added a new feature for store pickup option (allow you customers to pickup at your store)
• Added another condition in the recurring payment check function
• The “store action” page will now be hidden from the navigation menu by default
• The “Store pickup” option (if selected by the customer) will be shown in the manual checkout email.
• Added a new subscription button shortcode.
• Updated the standard manual checkout interface
• Added a “Add New Product” link at the top of the page in the add/edit products interface
• Added a new option in the PayPal gateway settings to collect special instructions on the PayPal checkout page
• Added the product name data in the manage customers summary list menu
• Added a new option to enable ajax in the advanced settings menu
• Added Mad Mimi integration
• Added a copy option in the “Manage Customers” menu of the plugin
• Added an option to reset the counter tag value
• Added a new filter for doing affiliate tracking via discount coupons/codes
• Changed the MailChimp integration’s listsubscribe call to use “updatable” parameter to have a value of true
• The AWeber signup will now work for both List name and List ID value
• The popular products list shortcode can now take category ID and exclude product IDs value
• The plugin will show a warning in the admin side when you have the “Sandbox” mode enabled
• Added more action hooks and filters in the plugin
• Added a new option to turn off the PayPal IPN validation step after a PayPal checkout
• Significantly improved the manual checkout form’s look and feel
• Added a new option to disable the automatic encrypted link expiry feature. useful if you don’t want the links to expire
• Added a new option to enable admin notification via email when a squeeze form is submitted
• Upgraded the shopping cart basket icon in the cart
• Fixed an issue with download now button type and digital product variation
• Added a new product display template (fancy 17) that can be used to show products in a grid display
• Added a new product display template (fancy 18)
• Enhanced the serial key retrieval function.
• Added a new option in the manage customers interface to export a list of serial keys that has been issued to the customers
• Improved the fixed amount discount implementation.
• Download link shortening feature now uses Bitly API
• Removed the extra “new line” character from the {product_link} email tag.
• Added an empty new line character after each download link listing in the email.
• Added an option to view the corresponding member profile from a customer entry record.
• Added an option to capture the subsequent recurring payment sales data in the customers menu.
• Updated the nav menu appearance in the settings interface to a better looking one.
• The sales count and available inventory columns can be sorted from the Manage Products interface.
• when “Show Quantity Update Button” option is enabled, it will show the quantity field with the up/down arrow options in the cart.
• Added a checkbox in the “Addon Settings” so PDF files can be stamped at the time of download.
• The selected shipping variation option from a checkout is saved in the admin notes field of the manager customers menu
• Added a new settings in the advanced settings tab so the plugin can use the same timezone specified in WordPress General Settings
• Ability to apply discount code via the URL
• New feature to allow download now functionality using a text link (instead of shortcode).
• New option in the Receipt Creator addon to export the receipt entries to a CSV file.
• The subscriber ID value is now shown in the edit customers menu (applicable for subscription payments only).
• New option to create gateway specific subscription payment via a URL.
• Added a new filter to allow customization of the “no_shipping” field value of PayPal checkout parameter.
• Created a new addon to collect customer input in the cart. https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/?p=4004
• Added a new email merge tag for IP Address {ip_address} that can be used in the notification email body.
• Manage Customer menu interface has been revamped. The functionality has been redesigned using menu tabs to make it more user-friendly and easy to use.
• The conditional coupon now supports the “category id” is “greater than” condition.
• Ability to enforce the customer to select an option from the variation dropdown (when you don’t want to use a default option).
• Added a new email merge tag {total_minus_tax_and_shipping}
• Added a new email merge tag {discount_amount}
• Added new Amazon S3 integration option.
• Added a new option to specify the checkout selector label in the cart (when using multiple payment gateways option)
• Added a new settings option to set the alignment of the checkout button in the shopping cart.
• Upgraded the shortcode inserter (TinyMCE button) to include more shortcodes.
• Replaced the paypal’s deprecated page style parameter with image url.
• Added filter for the seller notification email body.
• Reworked the file uploader interface and made it more user-friendly.
• The “Send Emails to Buyer After Purchase” feature now works for manual checkout emails also.
• The {purchase_date} email merge tag now outputs a formatted date value according to your WordPress settings.
• Added an option to specify Cancel URL on a per product basis.
• Added an option (in the customer export data interface) to reset the export files.

WordPress eStore v7 Change Log

• Updated the Add/Edit products menu user interface
• Added a new product display template (Fancy 9 Display)
• Added a new email tag for phone number – {customer_phone} (it will work when a customer enters the phone number during checkout
• Optionally add the buyer email and some payment parameters in the admin notification email
• Ability to reset the cart when the user browse to a different WordPress install in the same domain
• Option to enable “No affiliate commission for self purchase”
• WishList Members integration for Manual/offline Checkout
• Added a new product display template (Fancy10 product display)
• New shortcode to dynamically show a particular details of a product. Demo Product One shortcode will show the name of product 1.
• Ability to show the original price (before the coupon discount application) side by side of the discounted price.
• Added the save and retrieve cart feature
• Image set will work by default on a per product basis.
• Added an option to stamp the {transaction_id} in the PDF file when used with PDF Stamper plugin
• Added an option to show an “Update” button next to the quantity field in the shopping cart
• Changed the Authorize.net checkout description field’s value to include the Product IDs
• Increased the z-index value of eStore’s lightbox CSS
• Added a new email tag for counter. Use {counter} to add a counter in the emails
• Added a new email tag for coupon code. Use {coupon_code} to add the coupon code used for the transaction in the emails
• Added a new elegant looking compact cart shortcode
• Text link option for PayPal subscription product
• New “Download Now” button image for the squeeze form
• Added an option to enable tax calculation on shipping amount
• Added the quantity purchased information for a product in the “Manage Customers” area.
• Updated the encrypted link shortener feature to use the new Google API with the API Key
• New dynamic eStore and eMember protected buttons using the “restricted” parameter
• New AWeber API integration
• Ability to return to a product specific “Thank You” page for “Add to Cart” type button for one item checkout
• Serial number/license key selling feature
• Ability to reset the cart action messages on page load
• Google base feed addon for your products
• New shopping cart template (Fancy Shopping Cart 2)
• Order summary shortcode (to list a summary of current shopping cart items)
• Ability to customize the anchor text of the download links on the “Thank You” page to say “Click here to download”
• Better WP Super Cache integration
• Added a new product display template (Fancy 11 Product display template)
• Ability to turn off the email that gets sent after the eStore squeeze form submission
• Added an “Admin Notes” section in the manage customer area
• Added links to the product in the purchase history shortcode
• New checkout redirection option to minimize session conflict on some servers
• An option to allow coupon stacking (if you want to allow your customers to apply multiple coupons and stack them in one checkout)
• When a refund is issued via PayPal, it will update the order management addon’s transaction too
• Ability to display the Unique Registration Completion URL on the “Thank You” page
• Ability to enforce shipping variation selection before shipping price is shown
• Option to show the currency symbol after the amount
• Ability to POST the refund IPN to an external URL for 3rd party integration
• Added a site diagnostic section in the “Admin Functions” menu of the plugin
• Added an option to stamp the PDF file at the time of download.
• Added an option in the eStore settings menu to show tax inclusive price
• The total price amount dynamically gets updated when a user changes the variation drop down options
• Added an option that will allow you to create a squeeze form that can redirect the user to a particular page after the squeeze form is submitted
• Fixed some minor fancy2 product display template CSS glitch
• All payment gateway compatible “Buy Now” type button shortcode (previously this was only available to PayPal)
• Upgraded the settings menu tab look and feel
• Added the ability to specify a language by force for the PayPal checkout page
• Updated the CSS classes of the squeeze form so it can be customized easily from the CSS file.
• Upgraded the checkout with paypal image to make it look better.
• Added a check to make sure a customer has to select and update a shipping variation before he/she can checkout (if you are using the shipping variation feature)
• Added an option to show the eMember’s memberhsip level IDs next to the “Reference Text” field (only if eMember is used together with eStore)
• Updated some of the delete entry confirmation to be more user friendly
• Added an option to turn off the welcome email sending for mailchimp autoresponder signup when double opt-in is disabled.
• Ability to generate a list of unique customer email addresses (comma separated)
• Added a new shortcode to create PayPal donations buttons to accept Donation via PayPal for a cause
• Added a new shiny default “Sold Out” button image
• Ability to specify a custom button image in the add to cart button shortcode to override the button image
• Added more filters in the shopping cart output
• Added the ability to apply interest grouping/list segmentation for MailChimp signups
• Added the ability to bulk delete products in the products management interface
• Added an option to open the download links on the thank you page in a new window.
• New shortcode to display the purchase history of a customer.
• Updated the eStore order management addon to do manual checkout “unpaid” and “paid” status handling
• Added an option to specify a “Text” instead of an image for the sold out button message
• Added a coupon start date field so you can create a coupon that for a future event
• Added a “Go to Page” option in the eStore product display pagination area for easy navigation
• When uploading product thumbnail image, you can choose the thumbnail size in the uploader and it will use that version
• Added a settings option to customize the price display format.
• The donation type buttons can also use the product specific return URL
• Moved the email settings fields to a new tab called “Email Settings”
• Added an option so you can now send the “Purchase confirmation email” as a HTML type email.
• You can now customize the squeeze form email via the eStore email settings menu
• You can now specify a download expiry time and download count limit on a per product basis
• There is now a settings option in the “Advanced Settings” menu to enable the alternative redirection method
• Ability to add email tags in the product specific instruction section of a product
• Added an option to create buy now text link for any gateway available in the plugin
• Ability to use a simple anchor text for the download links on the thank you page
• Added a next product and previous product link in the edit product menu of the plugin
• The {product_details} email tag will show a modified details for a subscription product

WordPress eStore v6 Change Log

• Added an option to specify a number of products to show for each category when using the category fancy shortcode
• Added IP address capture option for every customer in the customers database
• Added a shortcode to display purchase history with product download option (Useful for eStore and eMember use)
• Ability to use a text link for a Buy Now button. Example: http://www.your-domain.com/?wp_eStore_buy_now=2 (this can be used to post a link on your facebook or twitter page)
• Added an option to disable the double opt-in email confirmation feature for MailChimp Autoresponder.
• Made the package product download option more robust so you are allowed to nest package product inside another package product or a multi-part product.
• Added an option to allow the admin to sort the products or categories by their name in the admin dashboard.
• Ability to make a product tax exempt even when using the PayPal profile based tax option.
• Added an email tag to include the shipping variation selected by the user in the email. {shipping_option_selected}
• Enhanced the download now shortcode to work with digital variation
• Enhanced the authorize.net post payment processing check to include the failure reason (if any) in the transaction result display.
• Added an option whereby the admin can choose to automatically shorten the encrypted download URL to make it look cleaner.
• Added the ability to specify a commission override on a per product basis when using the revenue sharing option
• Added the ability to POST the PayPal IPN to a 3rd party script which can be used for additional 3rd party integration purpose.
• Satellite Affiliate plugin integration option
• Added the “Do Not Award Commission if Coupon Used” feature
• Ability to left or right align the checkout button section in the shopping cart via CSS.
• Ability to specify the variation addition symbol to your liking (by default it is the “+” sign but you can make it whatever you like)
• Ability to POST the payment notification (IPN) to an external URL/script for all payment gateway (previously this was only available to PayPal gateway)
• When shipping variation is used it will always prompt the customer to hit the “Update” button at least once to adjust the selected shipping choice.
• Ability to specify multiple notification email address (the plugin can notify multiple email addresses after each sale)
• Added a new email tag {product_link_digital_items_only} This will only list the products links for digital items in the shopping cart.
• Made the pagination section for products more user friendly and customizable via CSS
• Ability to hide the quantity in the shopping cart. Helpful if you are selling digital items only.
• Download now button also tracks the sales/inventory counter
• Added Mod X-Sendfile method for file download
• Changing quantity or removing items after a coupon is applied won’t reset the cart anymore.
• Added more email tags {total_tax}, {total_shipping}, {total_minus_total_tax}
• Quantity limit per customer for individual product (this need to go to the features page).
• Quantity limit per shopping cart checkout for an individual customer.
• Changed how the revenue sharing calculation is calculated when affiliate campaign is used together.
• Ability to use the email tags in the email subject area too.
• New shortcode for recent products list
• New shortcode for random products list
• New shortcode for popular products list
• Added Some Charts in the stats menu
• Additional security check for free product download option (check the “Enforce Zero Price Checking on Free Product Download” option in the eStore settings)
• Digital variation robustness when used in conjunction with normal variation
• Upgraded the look and feel of the checkout redirection to the payment gateway
• Ability to specify a minimum and maximum cart amount checkout limitation value
• Ability to place the manual checkout form on a WordPress post or page
• Fixed commission per transaction option
• Ability to display the links on the thank you page for Authorize.net and Manual transactions (the same way PayPal transactions work).
• Ability to add reCAPTCHA on the squeeze form.
• Fixed analytic bug with Yoast’s Google Analytics Plugin

WordPress eStore v5 Change Log

• Added the ability to specify product specific commission for tier2
• Ability for the customer to enter a price they wish to pay for the product
• Added a new shortcode to display a list of latest products (recently added products)
• Added an option to copy the details of an existing customer when manually entering details of a new customer
• Added the option to display products from a category using any of the fancy display options
• Added an option whereby you can sort the product displays from a category
• Added a few different download methods for sites having download issues
• Ability to clean the encrypted download links table by performing bulk delete
• Added the option to use PayPal’s PDT feature to display the links on the thank you page
• Added CSS class for the variation select boxes so it can be customized with CSS
• Added an option for shipping variation
• Added support for Multiple categories per product (you can now assign more than one category for a product)
• Added option to display Terms and conditions checkbox for buy now and subscription type buttons
• Added option to display multiple product image in lightbox
• Added Fancy6 display option in the extra shortcodes plugin
• Added Fancy7 display option in the extra shortcodes plugin
• Added Fancy8 display option in the extra shortcodes plugin
• Added more download method option in the “AddOn Settings” tab
• Added a check to verify if a specified Image URL is valid when creating or updating products
• Manual payment gateway displays a summary of the items a customer is checking out
• If using with WP eMember (WordPress membership plugin) then the manual checkout will auto fill in the form with the logged in member’s details
• Added an option to reset the settings options to default
• Added an option to reset the sales data so you can reset all the test transactions before going live
• Amazon S3 Integration so that the downloadable files can be stored on Amazon S3
• NextGen gallery auto integration for “Add to Cart” type buttons
• Ability to capture lead on squeeze form submission (check under the addon settings menu)
• Ability to automatically create affiliate accounts for buyers after purchase
• Ability to specify an old price for a product (the old price is displayed as a slashed out price in some fancy displays)
• Added an option to specify an expiry date for a coupon

WordPress eStore v4 Change Log

• Google Analytics e-Commerce tracking
• Ability to display purchase history of members when used with the WordPress Membership plugin
• NextGen gallery alternate integration
• Added smart thumbnail options. If your product thumbnail images look a little bit squashed then this feature will fix that issue.
• Ability to POST PayPal IPN data to a external script (Can be used to integrate with the Memberwing plugin)
• Better checkout flow with an option of using fancy redirection to the payment gateway.
• Ability to track coupon per transaction
• W3 Total Cache Integration
• Fancy 3 display
• Fancy 4 display
• MemberWing Plugin Integration
• Limit download by number of download count
• Option to add customers to the database for manual checkout
• Changed the look and feel of the checkout redirection page.
• The product name, customer’s address and phone number also gets stored in the customer’s database
• PDF Stamper integration
• Added variation control options for “Buy Now” and “Subscription” type buttons
• Added GetResponse autoresponder inegration
• Option to only allow logged in members to checkout when used with WordPress Membership plugin to create an Amazon site type checkout system.
• Added a fancy display option for the shopping cart.
• Added order summary display option on the Manual checkout page.
• Added an option to add product download links to the email that gets sent after the manual checkout.
• Added built-in tax option
• Ability to setup a revenue sharing site
• TinyMCE butons to insert shortcodes
• Added the option to display a quantity text box with the add to cart button.
• Ability to display the product prices in a secondary currency side by side your primary currency (this is for display purpose only… the actual transaction will use the primary currency)

WordPress eStore v3 Change Log

• Added the option to add product specific instructions for buyers on a per product basis (the instruction gets appended to the main email body).
• Added a new shortcode that allows you to display a category with name, thumbnail and description (Refer to the eStore Shortcodes page).
• Added an option to display the Compact cart in the sidebar widget (useful for sites with narrow sidebar)
• Added the thumbnail display option in the “Manage Products” page for easy product identification.
• Added the “One Time Commission for Subscription Payment” option (Check under the Addon Settings tab).
• Option to upload product details from a CSV file using the WP CSV to DB plugin.
• Added Itemized sale stats in the “Stats” menu.
• Fixed some other minor bugs.

WordPress eStore v2.9 Change Log

• Product names can now be linked to another page when using the fancy display options.
• Product details copy option to copy an existing product.
• WishList Members plugin can be integrated through the settings menu of the plugin (3rd party integration tab).
• Added an option whereby a customer can enter an “Affiliate ID” in the shopping cart to give reward to an affiliate
• Added the capability to link the “Affiliate ID” field with the coupons table so customers entering an “Affiliate ID” in the shopping cart will also be able to receive a discount
• Added an option in the “manual checkout settings” section to turn on or off automatic commission awarding for manual checkout.
• Now a custom page style name can be specified in the paypal gateway settings section to allow custom template checkout page
• Upselling feature (a textarea in the discounts feature where the admin can put in some coupon codes which the customers only get after a checkout).
• Fixed an issue whereby subscription payment wasn’t sending quantity value so available qty didn’t change

WordPress eStore v2.5 – v2.8 Change Log

• Added a feature so downloadable goods can be delivered on the “Thank You” page after payment. See the instructions page to learn more.
• Ability to display the shopping cart in your own language.
• Added a trigger text that allows the shopping cart to be placed on a checkout page and it displays empty cart (add it to the shortcodes post)
• Added the capability to use the WordPress’s mailing system
• Ajax/JQuery powered squeeze page type form
• Be able to automatically redirect to Checkout page after add to cart button is clicked
• Fix quantity to not update when it is more than the available copies
• Ability to take customer input for special instructions
• Ability to offer multiple file downloads per product
• Fixed it so the Admin function link generation works for package products and muli part files
• The buy now and subscription buttons display normal buttons when the button image is not specified
• Shopping cart multi-language support
• Paginate and Search capability for Customer display list (also added transaction id, date etc display)
• Better product search capability – Partial search for products and customers
• Price round to two digit so PayPal doesn’t have issue after coupon code is applied
• Wishlist plugin integration for “Add to Cart” and “Buy Now” buttons.
• Added a 4th variation option
• The instruction/customer input field is customizable
• Added a second fancy product display option
• AWeber Integration
• Added PayPal profile based shipping capability (You can now use weights for products and specify weight based shipping in your paypal profile)
• Sell different products in different currencies from one site when using the “Buy Now” type buttons.
• Added Redeemable coupon option (also displays a message when you apply a coupon)
• Did some sopping cart beautification
• Ability to link the thumbnail image to any URL
• Ability to make the add to cart button redirect to a URL rather than adding the product to the cart (useful when you don’t sell your own products)
• Ability to customize the ruturn button text after payment on paypal
• Added manual checkout option
• Added 2checkout option. Read the payment gateway instructions page to learn more.
• Option to place a “Continue shopping” link in the cart
• Auto customer record reversal upon refund
• WP eStore can now be integrated with iDev Affiliate Software
• WP eStore can now be integrated with JROX JAM Affiliate Software
• Added shortcodes to display sales and available copy counter
• The plugin now sends email to the admin when payment verification fails
• Added a few options for automatic Free Shipping Discount
• Added conditional coupon option
• Added option to display category list like the fancy product display

WordPress eStore v2.4 Change Log

• Product categorization (ability to categorize products and display all products from that category)
• Ability to configure a “Subscription” button for any type of subscription payment.
• Variation control for digital product (digital delivery of different files depending on the selection)
• LightBox effect on product display images (Just click on a thumbnail image to see how it works).
• Ability to setup “Buy Now” type buttons with different PayPal email address (per button basis). Useful on a multi-author blog where different authors can setup “Buy Now” buttons with their products and get the money directly into their PayPal account.
• Add/edit products page face lift
• WPMU options page fix
• Added more security checks in the post-payment processing handling script.
• Ability to insert HTML (eg. URL of a page) in the product description field (Useful when you want to link to a detailed description page for that product).

WordPress eStore v2.3 Change Log

• Added Coupon Code/Discounts Feature (How to Use Coupons / Discounts in WP eStore)
• Added variation control feature (How to use variation control in a product)
• Ability to offer product specific affiliate commission when using with the WP Affiliate Platform plugin.
• Added a stats page to display some basic stats (I will add more stats and graphs in a future release)
• Option to display a link to the products/shop page in the shopping cart widget when the cart is empty.
• Added Subscription option.
• Added an empty Cart button in the shopping cart.
• Display the product name of each product next to the encrypted link in the email.
• When using the stylish display it shows the Available Quantities of that product if specified.
• Ability to use an image to display the empty shopping cart instead of just plain text (Shopping cart empty).
• Fixed a bug whereby refund was issuing another email.
• Tidied up the Pagination on the display all products page a little bit.
• Tidied up some labels
• Fixed some minor bugs and tightened some validation checking for more security.

WordPress eStore V2.2 Change Log

• Added the capability to configure packaged/bundled products from the existing products (How to Configure bundled product).
• Products can now be configured with a thumbnail image and a description and can be displayed in a stylish way with a trigger text (Display product in a stylish way).
• A list of all products can be displayed on a page in a stylish way through the use of a trigger text (Display a list of all the products).
• Added an option so the download URL can be customized (How to Customize the download URL).
• Added an option so the plugin can be run in Sandbox mode (for PayPal sandbox testing) with one tick (Running the plugin in sandbox mode).
• Added pagination in the manage products screen. This will help anyone who has configured a lot of products by splitting the page into smaller pages (eg. displays 20 products per page).
• Added product search option from the Manage products screen.
• Added a minor tweak so the return page from PayPal doesn’t show the POST data in the URL.
• Removed the Currency field from the Add/Edit products menu (This value is now derived from the settings menu globally).
• Fixed the hardcoded $ (currency) sign in display all products.
• Fixed a bug whereby the squeeze page was not working in Internet Explorer.

WordPress eStore V2.1 Change Log

• Integrated with the WP Affiliate Platform Plugin.
• Some minor code refactoring.

WordPress eStore V2 Change Log

• Added a Customer Database (When a Customer purchases an Item the Name and Email address goes to the database)
• Individual return URL for ‘Buy Now’ type buttons (Each ‘Buy Now’ buttons can have a different return URL to the one specified in the settings menu)
• Ability to offer a ‘Squeeze Page’ type free product download option (This can be used to let the visitors download a free digital product after they fill in their name and email address. Very effective for email list building)
• Capability to limit the maximum number of copies to be sold for a specific product (Useful when you only want to sell 50 copies of a product for example)
• Added shipping calculation capability (Useful for non-digital products)
• Added a counter for ‘sales count’ for each product (Useful to find out how many copies of a product has been sold)
• Some other minor additions