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Commissions Changelog

Version 3.6.4 — January 12, 2026
  • Admin: Moved the Commissions submenu.
  • Commissions: Prevents commissions being assigned to deleted users.
  • Integrations: Simple Shipping could adjust commissions for fees other than shipping fees.
  • Dev: Removes unneeded caching.
  • Dev: Unit tests have been updated to remove an obsolete dependency and improve user feedback.
Version 3.6.3 — May 28, 2025
  • Database: Resolved possible database errors and misconfiguration.
  • Documentation: Updated docs for Simple Shipping integration.
  • Integrations: Prevents Simple Shipping post meta from incorrectly overriding the EDD option.
  • Reports: Improved the Commissions Export to correctly export all items.
Version 3.6.2 — January 21, 2025
  • Admin: Fixes the commission details screen when viewing a commission for a missing download.
  • Admin: Updates the Commissions download meta for EDD’s new metabox.
  • Admin: Fixes a warning when manually adding a commission.
  • Settings: Fixes a potential error when checking an old setting for commissions on free orders.
Version 3.6.1 — October 3, 2024
  • Admin: Editing a commission could save the date incorrectly.
  • Database: Fixed a possible fatal error when retrieving commissions.
  • Reports: A commissions report could ignore a set date range and export all commissions.
Version 3.6.0 — July 9, 2024
  • 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.
Version 3.5.3.1 — December 26, 2022
  • Fix: Corrects an issue where commissions were incorrectly calculated when discounts pro was being used.
Version 3.5.3 — November 23, 2022
  • New – EDD 3.0+: Reports have been updated to support new EDD 3.0 report views and tiles.
  • New – EDD 3.0+: Commission reports can now be filtered by commission status.
  • Improvement: Payout file generation performance has been improved.
  • Fix: Generating payout files in two different tabs/windows could result in incorrect file generation and amounts.
  • Fix: Generating a payout file did not communicate if progress was being made.
  • Fix: Deleting a commission from the list table was not properly deleting the commission record.
  • Fix – EDD 3.0+: Refunding an order with a commission was not always marking the commission as revoked.
  • Dev: The commissions database class now supports querying by the price_id column.
  • Dev: The final deliverable package now excludes development packages.
Version 3.5.2 — January 12, 2022
  • Fix: [edd_commissions] CSV export not respecting selected month and year parameters.
  • Fix: Frontend Submissions – PayPal Email field no longer visible.
Version 3.5.1 — December 27, 2021
  • Fix: constants were not being defined early enough to be used in integrations.
  • Fix: Refunded payment notes included broken HTML.
Version 3.5 — December 21, 2021
  • New: Introduced a new [edd_commission_breakdown_table] shortcode that displays a breakdown of commission and earnings by month within a given year.
  • New: Added a filter called eddc_send_commission_email_alert to the eddc_email_alert() function to allow conditional disabling.
  • New: Added action hooks to the eddc_user_commissions() function.
  • Refactor: The admin commissions table has had some UI/UX improvements to be more consistent with WP core layouts.
  • Fix: HTML entities not decoded during exports.
  • Fix: Deprecation notices in PHP 8.
  • Fix: Commissions data in admin area possibly not showing correct currency if a site uses multi currency.
  • Dev: Refactor how we check for database upgrades for performance improvements.
  • Dev: Document properties in EDD_Commission class for IDE autocomplete.
  • Dev: Undefined variable $from_name in eddc_email_alert(). (No actual reported issues, as the code was never triggering.)
  • Dev: Removed unused scheduled-payouts.php and masspay.php files.
  • Dev: Refactor how plugin is loaded & checks for system requirements.
Version 3.4.13 — November 22, 2021
  • Fix: Commissions not recorded for subscription renewal payments when they should be.
  • Dev: Refactor how EDD_License is instantiated.
Version 3.4.12 — July 21, 2021
  • Fix: Incorrect commission amount recorded for zero decimal currencies, which could result in confusing totals.
  • Fix: Deprecation notices in PHP 8.
  • Fix: Remove number formatting on CSV exports. (This caused problems when importing into PayPal Masspay.)
  • EDD 3.0: Update hook used for refund logic.
Version 3.4.11 — February 8, 2021
  • Fix: Ensure admin setting screens contain a level-one heading.
  • Fix: Commissions fields incorrectly appearing in bbPress user edit screen.
  • Fix: CSV Commissions Export on [edd_commissions] not working with server configurations that enforce a trailing slash.
  • Tweak: Improve UX when updating a commission (not all changes were triggering the “Update” button appearing).
  • Tweak: Update plugin author and URI.
  • Tweak: Display an mdash on the admin Commissions table if the associated product name cannot be retrieved.
  • Dev: EDD 3.0 compatibility.
  • Dev: EDD_Commission::__set() not passing correct variables via call_user_func(). This could result in the incorrect status being set when trying to change a commission status.
Version 3.4.10 — June 30, 2020
  • Fix: When using store commissions API endpoint (as with the iOS app), a fatal error was produced.
Version 3.4.9 — January 20, 2020
  • Fix: update_meta() method does not save meta.
  • Fix: Incorrect commission calculation when Discounts Pro is used.
Version 3.4.8 — March 20, 2019
  • Fix: Moved Commissions extension to load later on plugins_loaded in preparation for EDD 3.0.
  • Fix: No date was being added to manually created commissions when a date was not provided.
  • Fix: Manually created commissions had a blank “Payment” column. Added a dash character to bring consistency with WordPress core.
  • Fix: The Dashboard widget was not compatible with custom commission statuses.
  • Fix: Corrected some issues with PHP 7.2 that caused notices and warnings to be logged.
  • New: The commission email settings are now filterable.
  • Dev: Add an action hook within class-admin-notices update function.
  • Dev: Added more hooks to the user commissions overview templates.
  • Dev: Added commission ids to edd_commissions_process_bulk_action action hook.
  • Dev: Added hooks to the Dashboard widget.
Version 3.4.7 — March 4, 2018
  • Fix: Migrating commission records from old table to new fails if the payment record has an invalid currency code assigned to it.
Version 3.4.6 — January 12, 2018
  • New: Filter added to rates data in Download metabox
  • New: Filter added to enable skipping commission creation for a Download
  • New: Action hook added to Customer tab
  • New: Added {sitename} email tag
  • Fix: Typo and incorrect text domain
Version 3.4.5 — January 1, 2018
  • New: Added new action hooks to the user profile fields.
  • New: Added new action hooks to the fields in the Download meta box.
  • New: Added new filters and actions to the Commissions list table.
Version 3.4.4 — November 30, 2017
  • Fix: {item_price} email tag shows wrong price when cart contains multiple items.
  • Fix: cart_index not stored properly with new commission records.
  • New: Added eddc_calc_commission_amount_args filter.
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