What's New in SureCart

Today we added a new email to further help to manage and retain subscribers on autopilot.

If a subscriber’s payment method is about to expire, they will receive an email asking them to update their payment information.

This will help minimize the number of payment failures at renewal time.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.25 which brings refinement to the prices UI for product prices to better match the UI for product variations.

Also, to better prepare for the future, we are moving the product price options to a slide-out panel where we have more room.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Price creation/edit UI now accounts for the larger number of options available.
• Improvement: Add live mode toggle to abandoned checkouts page.
• Improvement: Add ability to cancel a subscription that is already pending cancellation in the admin.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue where deleted checkouts could sometimes not be handled correctly.
• Fix: Product page slideshow not loading when double quotes appear in file name.
• Fix: Issue where deleted checkout and dashboard pages could not be restored if the options table was cleared.
• Fix: Ensure we collect shipping addresses for some Stripe payment element payment methods that require a shipping address.
• Fix: Issue with tax id input defaulting to “other” if no tax ids are selected as defaults.
• Fix: Issue where clearing account cache on connection screen could sometimes clear out api token.
• Fix: Thank you page shortcode not pulling in order correctly.
• Fix: Issue where google eCommerce events were not giving priority of Google Analytics over Google Tag Manager when both are active.
• Fix: PHP warning that appears when adding a customer payment method when WordPress debug mode is active.
• Fix: Race condition where upsells are sometimes not redirecting after successful checkout.
• Fix: Typo in timezone settings list.
• Fix: Correct the webhook url documentation link.
• Fix: Add the updated url for the affiliate portal.
• Fix: Edge case where formatting currency on some php installs without a number formatter class could cause an error.

We release a steady stream of updates that bring new features to our merchants.

The one area that we have wanted to take to the next level for our merchants is the UI/UX of our platform and this includes the affiliate portal.

Platform UI

We have redesigned the user interface to make it easier for you to find settings and options.

This lays the foundation for some long term plans we have for SureCart.

Affiliate Platform Changes

As you know, we have been refactoring our entire affiliate feature.

This month, we added the affiliate management experience to the plugin, making everything seamless and integrated.

Now is the time to level up the remaining parts of the affiliate platform.

Our objectives with the changes are to:

• Make the affiliate portal branded to the merchant
• Simplify the affiliate signup process
• Simplify the affiliate login process

Affiliate Portal

For the affiliate portal, we are keeping this hosted for you, so there is one less thing for our merchants to be distracted by.

The affiliate portal will now have this new elegant design that is dedicated to your brand. This means no more store switchers.

Important: The login URL is changing to yourstore.surecart.com.

In the case of ZipWP, the new login will be zipwp.surecart.com

We suggest updating any login links you may have on your website as well as notifying your affiliate partners. If your existing affiliates log into the old location, they will be shown a notice with the correct login URL.

Affiliate Signup

We spent time to simplify the affiliate signup process.

The old flow was:

• Affiliate signs up
• Merchant approves or has auto approve on
• Affiliate gets an email to register their account and create a password

The problem with this was affiliates would be confused by the email to register.

The new flow is:

• Affiliate signs up
• Merchant approves or has auto approve on
• Affiliate logs in via an emailed security code

So we eliminate the registration step and automatically complete the setup for them.

Affiliate Login

The affiliate login has a new elegant look and simplified login.

Now affiliates can log in with a security code we will email them, ensuing a smooth and secure login process.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.24 which brings a new and convenient way to place test orders in your store!

In the last update we released a Live Mode / Test Mode switcher for your checkout forms which paves the way for our new Test Processor.

We want new merchants to be able to get the full SureCart experience with minimal effort. Adding a built-in test processor makes it easy to test the order flow, so you can test everything before connecting to live payment processors.

And for our existing merchants, this makes it easy to test your integrations and automations before going live. It’s so much more convenient than having to enter 4242 4242 4242 4242 and the rest of the test card data each time you want to place a test order.

We also have a new option for coupons that allows you to restrict a coupon based on maximum order subtotal.

New:

• New: Test processor for testing checkout flow without connecting a payment processor.
• New: Restrict coupons to a maximum order subtotal.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Store checkout form now defaults to test mode for new stores.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue with loading indicator not clearing when payment fails on offsite payments flow.
• Fix: Issue with upsells always showing totals in USD in some cases.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.23 which brings a new and convenient way to toggle checkout forms Live/Test mode!

You could always do this in the checkout form editor, but it’s a few extra steps and with something this important, we wanted to bring more visibility to it.

Now when you are logged in as the admin, and you are viewing a page with a checkout form on it, you will see this new option in the admin bar that displays the mode of the checkout form, and offers a quick way to toggle it.

New:

• New: Live/Test mode admin bar toggle on checkout pages.

Change:

• Change: When no store logo is updated, no longer show the site title on instant checkout and customer dashboard.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue with tax input id not selecting correct tax type if only one tax type is added and country is not immediately selected in the address.
• Fix: PHP notice when using shortcode registrations with incorrect attributes.
• Fix: Issue with filtering collections showing blank page in admin.
• Fix: Confusing error message when customer record cannot be updated in admin.
• Fix: Deleting a product does was not automatically redirecting to the product list page in admin.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.22 which brings affiliate management into your website!

One of the main reasons merchants choose SureCart is because everything is seamlessly integrated. All of our features are carefully crafted to work together as a whole, delivering an unparalleled experience for our merchants.

You can’t get this ease of use elsewhere where you are required to buy a bunch of add-ons that sorta work together, but all have separate interfaces and screens. It’s a very overwhelming experience, but not with SureCart!

This becomes very clear when you view an affiliate’s profile, and it displays everything about that affiliate, including their:

• Referals
• Payouts
• Affiliate coupons
• Clicks
• Join date
• And even their avatar

You don’t get this level of 360 degree profile elsewhere.

This update also simplifies affiliate management. You can now link an order to an affiliate, link a customer to an affiliate, create affiliate coupons, and much more.

New:

• New: Manage affiliates from the plugin admin.
• New: Add setting to disable zero dollar commissions.
• New: Add affiliate promotion codes.
• New: Ability to edit lifetime and subscription commissions.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Standardize highlight color across admin pages.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue where product list sometimes does not load properly if cart is disabled.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.21, which brings Bulk Actions and several other improvements.

The first bulk action we are adding to SureCart is to delete products in bulk.

This was a common request from our users as well as video creators that are teaching people how to use SureCart.

We plan on more bulk actions in the future.

New:

• New: Bulk delete products.
• New: Load separate block assets control for themes that don’t provide support.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Improve error messaging for minimum values accepted by processors.
• Improvement: Internal line items refresh logic on checkout.
• Improvement: Shipping style background to match input backgrounds.

Fix:

• Fix: Conflict with SureMembers when trying to restrict product pages that causes a fatal error in some instances.

Enjoy a fresh new version of SureCart, including bug fixes and improvements.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Add wp_body_open hook to our plugin templates for greater compatibility.

Enjoy a fresh new version of SureCart, including bug fixes and improvements.

Fix:

• Fix: Make sure correct store is selected when clicking links that go to the platform site.
• Fix: Conflict with Yoast SEO title with specific themes.