Recurring Payments – Easy Digital Downloads

Version 2.13.10 — March 23, 2026

Admin: Subscription related select elements and search have been improved.
Admin: Manually created subscriptions did not honor custom prices.
Emails: Added support for conditional email tags.
Integrations: Failing subscriptions were not cancelled during a license upgrade.
Taxes: Improved tax rate precision.

Version 2.13.9 — February 12, 2026

Emails: Improved handling to ensure subscription reminders include more accurate date range queries and exclude invalid subscriptions.
Emails: Resolved a PHP warning that occurs when a customer is not found for a notice.
Scheduled Events: Update to use EDD’s cron system.
Stripe: Enhanced subscription management to prevent incorrectly reactivating past due subscriptions on payment method update.

Version 2.13.8 — December 4, 2025

Cart: Adds support for EDD’s cart preview.
PayPal Standard: Taxes for renewal orders could incorrectly not be recorded.
Quantities: When quantities are enabled, Recurring no longer prevents non-recurring products from being purchased in quantities.
Dev: Updated unit tests.

Version 2.13.7 — November 17, 2025

Blocks: Updated blocks API versions for improved WordPress compatibility.
Integrations: Fixed an issue where manually renewing an expired license/subscription could use incorrect dates.
Settings: Improved the robustness of the Item Quantities setting filter.
Dev: Updated composer packages, specifically EDD Addon Tools.

Version 2.13.6 — November 12, 2025

Emails: Updates email tag registration for subscription related emails.
Emails: Fixes an error when sending the failed payment email.
Notes: Updates the date handling for migrating subscription notes to be more consistent with time changes.
Reminders: Updates subscription queries for reminders with a month type send period.

Version 2.13.5 — October 22, 2025

Admin: Improved functionality by disabling “record payment” buttons once clicked to prevent multiple submissions.
Emails: Allows store owners to limit the number of failed payment emails sent when a gateway is retrying payments multiple times.
Integrations: Enhanced handling to prevent users from reactivating manually renewed subscriptions.
Integrations: Improved expiration calculation for manually renewed subscriptions.
PayPal: Improved IPN handling.
Reports: Enhanced ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) calculations for accuracy.
Stripe: Improved subscription renewal process to address mismatch issues, aligning Stripe and EDD subscription statuses.
Stripe: Updated Stripe PaymentIntent retrieval method for better accuracy.
Subscriptions: Improved subscription update handling.
Subscriptions: Fixed an issue allowing previously failing subscriptions to be reactivated.
Taxes: Improved handling of VAT reverse charges on subscription renewals for accuracy.
Tools: Added a tool for syncing Stripe subscriptions.

Version 2.13.4 — September 4, 2025

Integrations: Software Licensing – Ensure subscriptions are correctly located for associated licenses.
Integrations: Software Licensing – Improve manual renewal handling to ensure old subscriptions are correctly canceled.

Version 2.13.3 — August 25, 2025

Admin: The subscriptions submenu is now properly grouped with other EDD objects.
Emails: Updated email tag compatibility with EDD core.
Integrations: Resolved an issue where upgrading a license may not find the subscription to cancel.
Magic Link: Ensure proper WP Salts configuration before using Magic Link.
Magic Link: Improved the confirmation handling after successfully updating a subscription.
Stripe: Updated the payment method update handling.
Subscriptions: Improved the UI for editing a subscription.

Version 2.13.2.1 — July 24, 2025

Products: Fixes an issue for stores which updated to 2.13.0 from a version of Recurring prior to 2.12.x, where non-recurring variable products could incorrectly be evaluated as recurring.

Version 2.13.2 — July 23, 2025

Admin: Store owners can now update the subscription gateway details directly.
Reports: Improved accuracy of the subscription reports chart for long date ranges.
Reports: Enhanced performance calculations for MRR/ARR values.
Stripe: Updated the payment method update form for Payment Elements to restrict new methods to only cards.
Stripe: Streamlined the process for updating the payment method on a failing subscription.
Subscriptions: Improved handling of subscription reactivation via shortcode.
Dev: Excluded unnecessary package files from the build for optimized size.

Version 2.13.1 — June 25, 2025

Admin: Allow the Subscription list table to be sorted by expiration date.
Emails: Improved the subscription logic when sending reminders for months with different numbers of days.
Orders: Corrected an issue where EDD Refund modal totals could be higher than the actual order amount when taxes are included in prices.
Reports: Updated dashboard values to account for multi-currency settings.
Subscriptions: Added support for PayPal to the magic payment update links.
Subscriptions: Enabled expired subscriptions to be set to failing status.
Upgrades: Improved notes migration to ensure valid timestamps.
Dev: Resolved a fatal error when instantiating the subscriber class.

Version 2.13.0 — June 16, 2025

NEW: The minimum requirements have been updated to PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and EDD 3.2.12.
NEW: Added a new ‘No-Login’ subscription update link for customers with Stripe Subscriptions.
NEW: Subscription renewal and failure emails can now include a ‘No-Login’ link to update the payment method for Stripe subscriptions.
NEW: Blocks – Add a new Subscriptions block for frontend management.
IMPORTANT: This update will run database updates in the background. Depending on the number of subscriptions these may take a while to complete, but your site will remain fully functional while they are running.
Admin: Fix incorrect pagination when filtering by download.
Admin: Scripts were throwing deprecation notices.
Admin: Update “Add New” text.
Compatibility: Textdomain is now loaded at the correct time.
Compatibility: Custom Prices – Update download metabox.
Compatibility: Invoices – Update invoices integration/filter.
Compatibility: Deprecation notices updated for admin scripts.
Compatibility: WP_CLI: Fix WP_CLI reference.
Compatibility: Software Licensing – Licenses table filter no longer unnecessarily gets the license object.
Downloads: Renewing a multiple items order can take the wrong Download name.
Downloads: Update recurring single price settings metabox.
Emails: Fixed an issue where subscription reminder emails could still send for upgraded subscriptions.
Emails: Fixed missing subscription admin notices.
Hooks: Post renew hook expiration date now handled correctly.
Hooks: Recurring email tag filters now trigger correctly.
Reports: Added an ‘Active Subscriptions’ tile.
Reports: Added ‘MRR’ and ‘ARR’ tiles to the Subscriptions report.
Reports: Revenue breakdown now more accurately tracks renewals without a license.
Reports: Update subscription exporter.
Reports: Improved the Dashboard widget to show more helpful MRR and ARR calculations.
Stripe: Cancelled subscription may not cancel in Stripe.
Stripe: Confusing handling of failed subscriptions improved.
Stripe: Fix for mismatch in gateway renewal date after price option upgrades.
Stripe: Re-attempt to account for out-of-sync server clocks when sending billing_cycle_anchor.
Stripe: Update Stripe scripts and fix subscription updates.
Stripe: Cancelling a failing subscription now closes out Stripe invoices.
Stripe: Improved the Stripe subscription update process.
Stripe: Stripe payment method updates now handle 3DS authentication correctly.
Stripe: Update Stripe subscription handling when failed.
Stripe: Orders with Stripe Link may not have EDD subscriptions activated.
Subscriptions: Reactivating a failed subscription may not charge customer.
Subscriptions: Allow subscription states to be filtered.
Subscriptions: Improve date display in the admin.
Subscriptions: Fix handling of incomplete reactivation.
Subscriptions: Move subscription notes to notes table.
Subscriptions: Store Gateway now supports mixed carts.
Subscriptions: Subscriptions list table now shows product name.
Subscriptions: The subscription’s lifetime value is now more accurate.
Subscriptions: Upgrade cancelled existing subscription before new order was complete.
Subscriptions: Start storing cancellation date as subscription meta.
Taxes: Fixed an issue where taxes were being calculated incorrectly for tax exclusive subscriptions.
Trials: Multi-term trial expiration date is now set correctly.

Version 2.12.5.1 — November 22, 2024

Fix: Improved discount support for Easy Digital Downloads 3.3.5+

Version 2.12.5 — August 5, 2024

Downloads: Fixes an issue where deleting a customer email address could block access to a file download for a customer with an active subscription.
Emails: Registers an admin renewal notification email for when renewal orders are received (requires EDD 3.3.0).
Emails: Updates the email tag handling.
Integrations: Updates the Software Licensing integration for logging when a license key is renewed.
Orders: If a renewal order cannot be recorded, the subscription is not renewed.
Settings: Updates the settings screen checkbox inputs.
Dev: Dynamic properties are allowed on the EDD_Subscription class.

Version 2.12.4 — June 20, 2024

New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
Sessions: Improved integration with EDD user sessions for requiring user registration during checkout.
Admin: CSS which replicates EDD core CSS has been removed.
Subscriptions: Subscriptions which are expired, cancelled, or failing can no longer be set to failing from a webhook event.

Version 2.12.3 — April 11, 2024

Checkout: the initial subscription amount could be incorrect with a Discounts Pro discount.
Admin: In certain cases, Recurring could cause a deprecation notice in the EDD dashboard widget.
Dev: Helper functions have been added for getting a subscription and subscriber from the database.
Dev: The subscriptions table indexes have been updated to improve performance.
Translations: All localized strings/comments have been updated for easier translation.

Version 2.12.2 — February 28, 2024

Checkout: Repeat trial messaging could show incorrectly.
Renewals: For stores with inclusive taxes, renewal order subtotals could show incorrectly, affecting refunds.
Renewals: Stores collecting addresses with orders could have incomplete address data for renewal orders.

Version 2.12.1 — February 16, 2024

Fix: Purchasing a subscription for some stores with taxes enabled was not calculating subscription amounts correctly.
Fix: Renewal orders were not being assigned sequential order numbers when that was enabled.
Admin: Documentation links have been updated to go directly to relevant docs.
Dev: Saving a variable price download with recurring enabled has been updated for PHP compatibility.

Version 2.12.0 — February 6, 2024

Reports: New! Introducing the Revenue Breakdown report, giving insights into gross revenue for new, renewal, and upgrades (with Software Licensing).
Compatibility: Improved PHP 8.0/8.1/8.2 support.
Checkout: Improved multi-currency support.
Dashboard: Added a filter to the subscription count arguments in the Dashboard Widget.
Downloads: Improved the reliability of being able to download files if the “Limit File Downloads” setting was enabled.
EDD 3.0: Improved migration when upgrading from EDD 2.x to EDD 3.x.
Emails: Improved email tags with Subscription ID merge tag.
Emails: Improved settings screens for Subscription renewal and expiration reminder emails.
Performance: Improved the performance of getting the lifetime value of a subscription.
Software Licensing: Fixed a situation where getting the license of a subscription could sometimes return a child license for bundles.
Stripe: Completed subscriptions could end up in the ‘cancelled’ status instead of remaining in ‘completed’ for subscriptions that only bill a certain number of times.
Stripe: Improved messaging when cart contains conflicting items.
Subscriptions: Improved CSS Styling for Admin Subscription management views.
Subscriptions: Improved support for custom columns in the Subscriptions list table.
Subscriptions: Improved the cancellation link logic to not allow cancelling a subscription when in a state that could cause issues if cancelled.
Subscriptions: Improved support for custom sections when managing subscriptions from the admin.
Dev: Recurring now requires PHP 7.2, WordPress 5.4, and EDD 3.1.5.

Version 2.11.11.1 — August 7, 2023

Fix: Revert cancelled subscriptions past their expiration date from having their status updated to ‘expired’ to avoid possible looping of status updates.

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