What's New in SureCart

Normally we don’t have an announcement for point releases, but this point release has some nice improvements that SureCart merchants have been asking for.

Now you can have greater control with abandoned checkouts by selectively tuning them off.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Ability to turn off/on individual abandoned checkout flows for a customer.
• Improvement: Add support for mandatory address field for Indian merchants using Stripe.
• Improvement: Improve error message for when a customer reaches a purchase limit on checkout.
• Improvement: Add php filter to filter “Back to home” and logo url on customer dashboard template.
• Improvement: Don’t allow quantity larger than purchase limit on product page.
• Improvement: Fix location of purchase error message on default checkout.
• Change: Deprecate tabbed customer dashboard.
• Change: Remove “Draft/Published” tag in header for product page to avoid confusion.

Fix:

• Fix: Alignment of product page price not working on the front end for left and center alignment.
• Fix: Discount duration default not being correct when creating a coupon.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.7, which brings Product Collections to all SureCart stores.

With Product Collection, you can group your products together and beautifully display them on dedicated Product Collection pages. And these pages are fully customizable like all things SureCart.

But the fun doesn’t stop there :-). You can also:

• Add a collection badge to your product pages
• Buyers can filter products by collections
• Add menu links to product collection pages
• Filter products by collection in the admin

New:

• New: Product collections – group your products into collections and create collection pages.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Add shipping and tax address to edit customer page.
• Improvement: Better error messaging on checkout forms.
• Improvement: Accessibility improvements to tax id input and line item removal.
• Improvement: Remove deprecated customer link endpoint.
• Improvement: Add “Back Home” url filter on customer dashboard template.
• Update: Changed “Void” orders to “Canceled” for better naming.

Fix:

• Fix: PHP 8.0 notices on User model.
• Fix: Keyboard accessibility issue with buy and add to cart buttons. (kudos @anphira)
• Fix: Keyboard accessibility issue with coupon field on checkout page and cart.  (kudos @anphira)
• Fix: Hide non-reusable payment methods on subscription pages.
• Fix: Title/heading block overflowing container on some screen sizes.
• Fix: Issue with some servers not capitalizing headers causing webhook invalid signature errors.
• Fix: Performance issue with collections in menus using Full Site Editing themes.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.6, which brings a Subscription Insights.

With Subscription Insights, you can at a glance see the most important metrics to your subscription business.

Also, this release brings significant performance improvements and webhook improvements.

New:

• New: Subscription metrics on merchant dashboard.
• New: Ability to revoke access when installments are completed.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Webhooks reliability, performance and failure visibility improvements.
• Improvement: Performance improvement with columns implementations.
• Improvement: Rework how processors are handled on the form when multiple credit card processors are enabled.
• Improvement: Loading speed improvement for admin dashboard pages.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.5, which brings a Buy Now option to product pages.

Also in this release is the ability to mark products as Featured. This makes it easy to display your featured products anywhere on your website with the product list block.

New:

• New: Buy now button on product pages.
• New: Featured products. Mark products as featured and optionally show them on product lists.
• New: Automatic Google Analytics “Add To Cart” event.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Improve line items exported parts.
• Improvement: Summary collapse now has “collapse on mobile” and “collapse on desktop” options.

Fix:

• Fix: Instant checkout pages mode changing should recreate a new checkout.
• Fix: Link in switch element was not clickable on front-end.
• Fix: Missing “Back to Home” translation not appearing in .pot file.
• Fix: Change wording of installment price when there is only 1 installment on the subscription.
• Fix: Issue with some checkout icons inheriting a stroke.
• Fix: Recaptcha failing on instant checkout pages.
• Fix: Issue with line items sometimes reordering during quantity change.
• Fix: Sometimes PayPal errors not being very descriptive.
• Fix: PHP notices logged when debug mode is turned on in REST Controllers.
• Fix: Better error handling when default payment method is trying to be deleted.
• Fix: Removing payment method is now immediately reflected without page reload.
• Fix: “Update All Subscriptions” button on default payment method was sometimes having permission issues for some users.
• Fix: Stacking issue of customer dashboard form fields on some pages.
• Fix: Compatibility with Spectra blocks not loading assets when using form shortcode.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.4, which brings manual orders to SureCart merchants.

This release also beings many improvements and customization options.

New:

• New: Manual Orders – create orders on behalf of customers from the admin.
• New: Strong password option. Enforce the creation of strong passwords for customers.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Product page selected price now shows interval, fees and trials.
• Improvement: Ability to disable change the secure notice text below the submit button on forms.
• Improvement: Prevent admin notices on SureCart pages.
• Improvement: Update library dependencies.
• Improvement: Added additional security enhancements.
• Improvement: Add link to migration contact form.

Fix:

• Fix: Order bump mobile fixes.
• Fix: Issue with php8 REMOTE_ADDR notice.
• Fix: Issue with product modified_date_gmt for use in SEO plugin metadata.
• Fix: Issue with $0 price amount not being added to cart on product page.
• Fix: Issue with slide out cart z-index not being high enough for some themes.
• Fix: PHP notice with form shortcodes and Divi.
• Fix: Issue with some Spectra blocks not loading inside forms.
• Fix: Make sure checkout line items are sorted by added at date.
• Fix: Conflict with Thrive Automator dynamic data not loading.
• Fix: Issue with custom thank you page link issue with WordPresss 6.3.
• Fix: Add missing “Back to Home” translation on customer dashboard page.
• Fix: Issue with shop page not fetching products under certain website caching conditions.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.3, which brings Paystack for African merchants.

Paystack makes it easy for businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa to accept secure payments from multiple local and global payment channels. Integrate Paystack with your store today, and let your customers pay you with their choice of methods.

With Paystack for SureCart, you can accept payments via:

• Credit/Debit Cards — Visa, Mastercard, Verve (NG, GH, KE), American Express (SA only)
• Bank transfer (Nigeria)
• Mobile money (Ghana)
• Masterpass (South Africa)
• EFT (South Africa)
• USSD (Nigeria)
• Visa QR (Nigeria)

New:

• New: Paystack processor support for African merchants.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Better notice for how to connect processors on checkout form.
• Improvement: Hide admin notices during onboarding.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue with dashboard date being in UTC time.
• Fix: Mobile stacking of order bump.
• Fix: Stripe Payment Element (beta) showing a notice when the amount on the checkout form is 0.
• Fix: Stripe Payment Element (beta) not loading under certain conditions during free trial with payment required.
• Fix: Issue with post_modified_gmt and post_date_gmt not accurate for product pages.
• Fix: PHP notice for PHP 8 if REMOTE_ADDR is not set.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.2, which brings product shipping and fulfillment to all SureCart stores.

This is the 2nd of 3 planned releases to bring full physical product support.

For this huge release we have an overview video and individual guide videos to show you how to use these new options.

New:

• New: Shipping and fulfillment support! Add custom shipping rates, location restrictions, tracking and fulfillment.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Rearrange SureCart settings and combine some sections.
• Improvement: Improve loading performance of Stripe Payment Element by using deferred payment intents.
• Fix: Thank you pages that redirect to the homepage being redirected to the blog page instead.
• Fix: Change button text for media library to account for non-image files.
• Fix: Validation issue with price input not allowing refunds to be fully refunded.

Fix:

• Fix: Thank you pages that redirect to the homepage being redirected to the blog page instead.
• Fix: Change button text for media library to account for non-image files.
• Fix: Validation issue with price input not allowing refunds to be fully refunded.
• Improvement: Improve loading performance of Stripe Payment Element (beta) by using deferred payment intents.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.1 which makes getting started with SureCart much easier and faster.

You are now greeted with an onboarding process where you can try SureCart without creating an account, and you can install demo data.

New:

• New: Better, quicker onboarding for new stores.
• New: Visit Store link in WordPress admin bar.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Settings page sticky header.
• Improvement: Update wording in order bump condition selector.
• Improvement: Updated translations.
• Improvement: Make subscription saver description text darker to better comply with accessibility.
• Improvement: Add filter to skip page and form seeding.

Fix:

• Fix: Rename magic sign-in.
• Fix: Change “Pro” to “Premium”.
• Fix: Issue with product pages not loading for some servers that don’t have support for NumberFormatter.
• Fix: Z-index issue with product page header and WordPress menu.
• Fix: Product pages not showing up in WordPress sitemap.
• Fix: Firstname, Lastname always being required by default.
• Fix: Floating cart not enabled by default.
• Fix: Issue with incomplete store setups not able to make test checkouts.
• Fix: Decimal point issue on adding prices in newest version of Firefox.
• Fix: Coupon redemption dates incorrect on admin.
• Fix: Conflict with WooCommerce permalinks and SureCart permalinks.
• Fix: Quantity selector missing from line items on instant checkout page.
• Fix: Display of some zero decimal currencies.
• Fix: Compare at price cannot be cleared due to Firefox fix in previous version.
• Fix: Fix conflict with Bricks Builder shop page dropdown width.
• Fix: Disallow SureCart Products to be selected as menu items as this is not currently supported.

We are pleased to announce SureCart 2, which brings product and shop pages to all SureCart users.

When we released SureCart last year, it initially didn’t have the options for traditional ecommerce stores out of the box. Our initial users were asking, where is the shop page? Where are the product pages?

We listened, and today we are making this available to all SureCart users.

Since this update brings many new things, we have prepared 3 videos to show you how to get the most out of these new features.

New:

• New: Customizable product pages.
• New: Customizable shop page.
• New: Elementor product page customization.
• New: Customer background sync for imported customers.
• New: SEO metadata and product schema integration.
• New: Archive and delete option on upgrade groups.
• New: Ability to disable purchase/download emails.
• New: Cancel orders and manually mark orders as paid.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Don’t show price decimal places if price is whole number.
• Improvement: Update component dependencies.
• Improvement: Improved UI when updating subscription price on admin subscription page.
• Improvement: Rename “Status” to “Product Page” to clarify product status.
• Improvement: Truncate mobile line items to max of 3 lines.
• Improvement: Hide product image on line items below certain widths to prevent squishing text.
• Improvement: Update roles to allow multisite installations to manage their own stores.

Fix:

• Fix: Show notice if subscription payoff is not available for store.
• Fix: Product description bullet points css issue on admin screen.
• Fix: Coupon overflow issue on mobile when coupon field is expanded by default.