Commissions – Easy Digital Downloads

Version 3.6.5 — October 27, 2026

NEW: AI – Connected AI assistants can look up commissions, total what each recipient is owed, and mark commissions paid, unpaid, or revoked (requires EDD 3.7.1).
Security: Added permission checks to the commission shortcodes and the commission export.
Security: Strengthened request verification for commission bulk actions and upgrade routines.
Admin: Editing a commission keeps amounts of 1,000 or more correctly formatted.
Admin: Flat-rate commissions keep a rate below 1 when edited, and the rate field accepts decimal values.
Admin: Manual commissions on variable-priced downloads now save the selected price option.
Emails: The {download} email tag works again when the commission’s download has been deleted.
Renewals: Commissions earned on renewals are flagged as renewals again, including flags saved before 3.6.0.
Reports: Commission exports no longer add a trailing dash to products without a price option or repeat the previous row’s download name.
Shortcodes: The Revoked Commissions table in [edd_commissions] now pages separately from the Paid Commissions table.
Shortcodes: Every [edd_commission_breakdown_table] on a page now renders, not just the first.
Dev: Commission meta now uses the edd_commission meta type, so its metadata hooks are named get_edd_commission_metadata and so on, instead of get_commission_metadata.
Dev: Removed compatibility code for EDD versions below 3.4.0, and deprecated eddc_are_email_templates_registered() and eddc_render_commissions_meta_box().
Dev: The minimum required versions are now WordPress 6.2 and EDD 3.4.0, and the addon tools are updated.

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.

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