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Version 3.6.0

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By Robin Cornett
  • Important: The minimum version requirements for Commissions are now PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.12.
  • Checkout: Commissions are now generated (and relevant emails sent) shortly after an order is placed, to speed up the user checkout experience (deferred actions).
  • Emails: Updated to integrate with EDD email handling.
  • Emails: A new email has been registered to allow stores to send one email per order to all users receiving commissions, rather than one email per commission. Requires EDD 3.3.0.
  • Emails: Email tags have been added to show users their total lifetime commissions and current pending/unpaid commissions.
  • Multi Currency: Commissions now support multiple currencies when recording and in reports.
  • Admin: Commissions are now displayed on the order details screen.
  • Admin: The commissions screens have been updated.
  • Admin: When manually creating a commission, store owners can choose to not send commission email notifications.
  • Admin: When creating a manual order, store owners can choose to not record commissions.
  • Admin: The EDD flyout menu links directly to the Commissions docs from Commissions screens.
  • Admin: The commissions list table has been updated for consistency with other EDD tables.
  • Exports: Generating a payouts file could trigger an error in the AJAX response.
  • Exports: Improved performance, management, and protection of export files generated by Commissions.
  • Exports: Generating a payouts export has been updated to be more efficient.
  • Orders: Notes are no longer recorded when a new commission is recorded (and instead all commissions are available in the Order Details).
  • Reports: The Export Commissions report was missing in EDD 3.x.
  • Shortcodes: The commissions graph shortcode has been updated to not conflict with default WordPress queries.
  • Dev: The custom database table registrations have been updated.
  • Dev: The commissions custom post type is no longer registered.
  • Dev: The “Instant Pay Commissions” setting has been removed and is no longer available for new PayPal Adaptive Payments users.
  • Dev: The eddc_add_commission function has been registered to allow users to add a single commission.

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