WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin – Coupon Affiliates

Version 5.19.1 – 12th February 2025

• Improvement: Modified the admin reports to generate in batches to help prevent timeouts on large sites.
• Tweak: Added a solution to prevent issues/confusion when setting up the affiliate dashboard page in the settings.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the custom text for “Coupon” on checkout for affiliate coupons, applying to all coupons rather than just the affiliate coupons.
• Fix: Fixed alignment of the “Recent Orders” table footer on the affiliate dashboard since the last update.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed the export feature on the recent orders tab of the affiliate dashboard not taking into account filters, and tidied up the export file too.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the “New Customers Only” global setting being applied to all coupons, rather than just the affiliate coupons.
• Fix: Fixed a undefined array key “wcu_enable_reports” PHP warning.
• Dev: Added a filter to modify the wcusage_check_if_renewal_allowed() function.
• Other: Tested with WordPress 6.7.2
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.6.1

Version 5.19.0 – 27th January 2025

• New: (PRO) Added new option to set commission rates on a “per product category” basis.
• New: (PRO) Added new option to set commission rates on a “per product variation” basis.
• Tweak: (PRO) The “product rates” tab will now show each of the individual product variations, if the variation has a different commission rate. There is also a new option to display all product variations always (even with the same commission rates as parent) in the settings.
• Tweak: (PRO) The “product rates” tab will now show a “No products found.” message when searching but no products are found for the search term.
• Tweak: Added an option to show the order tax on the “Recent Orders” tab of the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: On the “recent orders” tab of the affiliate dashboard, in the order summary (“MORE”) it will now show the product variations next to the product name if there are any.
• Tweak: Small tweak to the styling of the toggles on the admin settings page in some cases.
• Tweak: On the admin pages, admin notices will now be aligned better at the top of the page.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning when saving products.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “MLA Dashboard” link on the affiliate dashboad when viewing a sub-affiliate dashboard.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with saving the “assign to a new user role or affiliate group” option “New User Role” field for performance bonuses.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the “New customers only?” option when set for individual coupons and no affiliate is assigned to the coupon.
• Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases where the name fields were not clickable on the affiliate registration form.
• Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.11.0
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.6.0

Version 5.18.2 – 17th January 2025

• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the new dynamic landing pages feature causing other link rewrites not to work, like the my account page menu links.

Version 5.18.1 – 17th January 2025

• New: Added an option to the “Emails” settings tab to enable/disable the “Affiliate Information” in the admin “New Order” email.
• Tweak: (PRO) Decimal numbers can now be entered for the per-product commission fields.
• Tweak: Cancelled orders will now show as “0.00” values if displayed on the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: In the “Coupon Affiliate” meta box for the admin edit orders page, added links to the referral code and affiliate user.
• Tweak: Small tweak to the loading animation on the affiliate dashboard.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an error on the MLA dashboard in some cases.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed the dates for scheduling monthly email reports to be localised.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the new dynamic landing pages feature causing other link rewrites not to work, like the my account page menu links.
• Fix: Fixed issue with “Enable legacy (bulk) saving for settings page” toggle not showing in some cases.
• Fix: Fixed undefined array key “wcusage_field_paypal_enable” error in some cases.
• Fix: Fixed a “headers already sent” error on the cart page in some cases.
• Fix: On the admin dashboard, in the “Latest Referrals” section, fixed the “Affiliate” column sometimes being empty.
• Fix: Fixed a rare fatal error on the affiliate dashboard when viewing a MLA sub-affiliates dashboard as the parent affiliate.
• Fix: Fixed some localisation issues.
• Other: Updated translations.
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.5.2

Version 5.18.0 – 7th January 2025

• New: (PRO) Added dynamic landing pages functionality.
• New: Added a new “Affiliate Information” section to the WooCommerce admin new order emails.
• Tweak: Added a warning and confirmation message when trying to delete a coupon on the admin affiliate coupons page.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with generating QR codes for landing page URLs.
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.5.1

Version 5.17.3 – 18th December 2024

• Tweak: Moved the “Hide commission statistics for non-affiliate coupons” option and added another “Stop unpaid commission from being earned for non-affiliate coupons” option to make things more clear on what it does.
• Tweak: Added some additional sanitisation to various areas of the code for extra precaution.
• Tweak: Orders with the “Refunded” status will now no longer show any values for the order totals or commission earned, if refunded orders are shown on the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: Added nocache_headers() to the affiliate dashboard page to help prevent caching issues.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Welcome Bonus” performance bonus.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with “Lifetime Commission” not working for some websites in some cases.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Completed Date” option for sorting orders on the affiliate dashboard with HPOS enabled.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the new “Time” column on the recent orders tab not showing properly when they are sorted by “Completed Date”.
• Fix: When using the “legacy” save settings button for the admin settings page, it will now allow decimal values for the commission rates.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed the “Generate” button for QR codes not being localised for translations.
• Other: Updated translations.

Version 5.17.2 – 12th December 2024

• Security Fix: Fixed a small XSS vulnerability bug (reported by WordFence via Arkadiusz Hydzik).
• Tweak: Added a link to the individual admin order edit page to refresh the affiliate stats for that specific order.
• Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.10.1

Version 5.17.1 – 11th December 2024

• Fix: Fixed an issue with the {discount} merge tag on dynamic creatives.

Version 5.17.0 – 11th December 2024

• New: (PRO) Added an option to allow affiliate to enter custom payout amounts, instead of being always set to the full amount available to them as “unpaid commission”.
• New: (PRO) Added an option to choose multiple different “completed” order statuses allowed for “unpaid commission” to be earned, instead of only being able to select one completed status.
• New: (PRO) Added an option to choose if the “Request Payout” button should be shown on the affiliate dashboard.
• New: (PRO) Added an option to only enable the “Scheduled Payout Requests” feature for specific payout methods.
• Tweak: (PRO) Tweak to the styling of the “Payouts” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: (PRO) Now shows the total for “Completed Payments” on the “Payouts” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: Added an option in the “Design” settings tab to customise the “Tabs Font Size” on the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: Added an option in the “Debug” tab, to hide 0.00 values on checkout summary, for referral coupons if there is no discount.
• Tweak: Added an option in the “Debug” tab, to customise the “Coupon” text label shown on the checkout for referral coupons.
• Tweak: Added options in the “General” tab, to show/hide the order date and time on the “Recent Orders” tab of the affiliate dashboard.
• Tweak: Improved the order date filtering on the affiliate dashboard “recent orders” when the site is set to a timezone other than GMT.
• Tweak: Added some extra error handling to the affiliate coupons list in the admin area to prevent potential PHP errors.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue on some sites with the “Leaderboards” admin page not loading correctly.
• Fix: Fixed “Payouts” tab link showing the new dropdown mobile menu on the affiliate dashboard for the free version.
• Fix: Fixed a potential issue with the “new customers only” option for coupons being bypassed in some cases by existing customers when checking out as a guest with an existing email address.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed a potential issue with partial refunds giving a PHP error.
• Dev: (PRO) Added a filter to allow the referral URL for dynamic creative QR codes to be modified.
• Other: Updated translations.
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.4.3

Version 5.16.7 – 23rd November 2024

• Fix: Fixed a critical erroring in the free version in some cases with WordPress 6.7.1.

Version 5.16.6 – 22nd November 2024

• Tweak: (PRO) The “welcome bonus” performance bonus can now be displayed on the affiliate dashboard.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Mobile Menu Style” option when “Tabs” is selected.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with displaying the affiliate dashboard for coupons with a “-” in the coupon name.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Lifetime Commission Expiry” option.
• Fix: Fixed an “Passing null to parameter” PHP warning showing in the admin area.
• Other: Tested with WordPress 6.7.1

Version 5.16.5 – 15th November 2024

• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Limit to certain user roles & groups?” option for Payout methods not working in some cases.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the Klaviyo integration.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with permissions for the “Affiliate Groups” page in the admin area.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the currency values in the “Bonuses” affiliate dashboard tab not showing in the base currency if multi-currency is enabled.
• Other: Tested with WordPress 6.7.0
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.4.1

Version 5.16.4 – 29th October 2024

• Tweak: Some small tweaks to the admin settings page.
• Tweak: Some small tweaks to the setup wizard.
• Tweak: (PRO) The “Custom Creatives Text” now supports paragraphs when displayed on the affiliate dashboard.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP error with the performance bonuses reward check, when using user role restrictions.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with using SVG images for the PDF statements logo.
• Fix: Potential fix for issue with the “New Customers Only” option showing the message on cart even after reloading the page.
• Fix: Fixed an occasional issue where the affiliate dashboard would show “No affiliate dashboard found” when viewing the dashboard for a coupon via the unique dashboard link.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Limit to certain user roles & groups?” option for Payout methods not working in some cases.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the Klaviyo integration.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with affiliate orders reports when filtered by date and not using GMT timezone in WordPress settings.
• Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.9.0

Version 5.16.3 – 12th October 2024

• New: Added a new “HoneyPot Spam Prevention” option to the affiliate registration form settings. This adds a basic honeypot spam prevention method by default for all sites, but the advanced CAPTCHA options are recommended.
• Tweak: The “new customer only” option for coupons will now work with guest checkouts if the customer has entered their email address and that email address has already placed an order.
• Tweak: Added a check to prevent the template coupon code from being applied to the cart.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with deleting affiliate groups in the admin area.
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with removing affiliates from a group when editing the user in the admin area.
• Fix: Fixed fully refunded items showing in the commission summary meta data for orders.
• Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases with the calculations for the “discount” shown on the affiliate dashboard when an order is partially refunded.

Version 5.16.2 – 3rd October 2024

• Fix (PRO): Fixed a potential issue with some user role/group permissions since the last update.

Version 5.16.1 – 2nd October 2024

• 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.

Version 5.16.0 – 30th September 2024

• 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

Version 5.15.3 – 9th September 2024

• Tweak: Added a “Delete” option to “Pending” affiliate registrations in the admin area.
• Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases where the apply coupon would not work the first time on the cart/checkout page, and would require a page refresh, or clicking the button twice.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with removing the coupon from checkout not working in some cases.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with affiliate orders reports when filtered by date, using HPOS, and not using GMT timezone in WordPress settings.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the monthly summary and recent orders filters not working in some cases.

Version 5.15.2 – 4th September 2024

• Fix: Fixed a possible issue in some cases where the affiliate registration or referral link click database tables were not being created.
• Fix: Fixed some PHP warnings appearing in certain cases.
• Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.2.3

Version 5.15.1 – 29th August 2024

• Tweak: Improved the performance of the admin WooCommerce orders page which was being affected in some cases by the plugin.
• Tweak: Changed the names and titles for the “Coupons” and “Orders” pages under the “Coupon Affiliates” admin menu.
• Tweak: Only show “If you are having issues” message on admin reports if a potential issue is detected.
• Fix: A speculative fix to the affiliate registration form not working in some cases where security plugins were stopping user registrations and forcing strong passwords.
• Fix: Fixed an issue on the free version, in some cases displaying the following error message on the affiliate dashboard: “wcusage_run_tab_page_stats_graph_update is not defined”
• Fix: (PRO) Fixed a possible PHP error with the performance bonuses when the “User Restrictions” user role option was enabled.
• Other: Updated translations.

Version 5.15.0 – 20th August 2024

• New: (PRO) Added a leaderboards feature that lets you display a leaderboard of your top affiliates using a shortcode: [couponaffiliates-leaderboard]. You can set the number of affiliates to display, and the time period to show the stats for (all, month, or year).
• Tweak: Removed the “Orders” section from the setup wizard.

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