WooCommerce PayPal Digital Goods Gateway Changelog

Undated · 15 versions

1. 3.2.2

   Latest

   1 fix

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   Fixed

   • cancelled a subscription before the first renewal payment

2. 3.2.1

   1 fix

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   Fixed

   • dependency on WooCommerce Subscriptions causing errors on sites without that plugin installed

3. 3.2.0

   1 improvement

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   Improved

   • WooCommerce Subscriptions v2.0 Compatibility

4. 3.1.3

   1 improvement

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   Improved

   • WooCommerce v2.4 Compatibility

5. 3.1.2

   1 improvement1 fix

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   Improved

   • Use WordPress's SSL verification settings when communicating with PayPal to change a subscription's status to improve compatibility with Windows and Yosemite OS X servers

   Fixed

   • subscription sign-up when using a custom invoice prefix

6. 3.1.1

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   Fixed

   • payment verification for one-off payments when using a custom invoice ID and the IPN is not setup correctly

7. 3.1

   1 new4 improvements2 fixes

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   New

   • support adding an invoice prefix

   Improved

   • use order number not order ID for invoice ID
   • use tool tips for setting descriptions
   • use TLS as soon PayPal will no longer support SSLv3
   • make sure a PayPal email address is set for IPN validation

   Fixed

   • query on orders with deprecated status when IPN message does not contain an invoice ID (so is likely from another system)
   • loading invalid PayPal icon URL when using WooCommmerce 2.2 (as the icon URL changed)

8. 3.0

   2 new1 improvement4 fixes

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   • add support for WooCommerce 2.2's refunds
   • add support for WooCommerce 2.2's transaction IDs

   Improved

   • when a subscription expires with the store, make sure it is cancelled at PayPal in case the subscription was manually changed or the gateway and store have differing terms

   Fixed

   • purchasing a subscription for only one payment (i.e. no recurring payments)
   • support synchronised start date on subscription product
   • improve compatibility with WPML Currency Switcher and other plugins which set a different currency for each order.
   • suspend subscriptions after 1 failed payment

9. 2.5.2

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   Fixed

   • error message displayed on checkout when invalid API credentials are used

10. 2.5.1

    2 improvements

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    Improved

    • use PayPal Mobile Checkout for Android, Blackberry and other mobile devices
    • display improved error message when popups are blocked

11. 2.5

    2 new1 improvement

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    New

    • use PayPal Mobile Checkout for Express Checkout when on iOS devices
    • add support for handling recurring payment IPN messages for subscriptions imported from another system

    Improved

    • allow curriences to be modified by code so that plugins like PayPal Currency Converter Pro can be used to allow for stores selling in currencies not supported by PayPal to still use the plugin

12. 2.4.1

    1 improvement1 fix

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    Improved

    • add a filter for setting the start date: 'woocommerce_paypal_digital_goods_subscription_start_date'

    Fixed

    • use correct cancellation return URL to avoid loading entire site in iframe when cancelling order at PayPal

13. 2.4

    8 improvements

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    Improved

    • WooCommerce 2.1 compatibility
    • Charge any up-front payment, for initial billing period or sign-up fee, as an initial payment rather than part of the subscription to work around PayPal start date issues
    • add support & documentation links below plugin name
    • update CSS to improve compatability with WordPress 3.8
    • remove support for older versions of WooCommerce Subscriptions
    • remove support for versions of WooCommerce prior to 2.0
    • provide actual log file name on settings page (instead of just /logs/paypal-dg.txt)
    • improve cancellation flow by using WooCommerce's cancel order URL and making sure it's not HTML encoded

14. 2.3.4

    1 improvement2 fixes

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    Improved

    • use WordPress's locale for PayPal button & pay page language if it is supported by PayPal's LOCALECODE parameter. The list of supported locale's is here

    Fixed

    • occasional "Subscription start date should be greater than current date" error depending on the site's timezone
    • correctly display error messages on return from PayPal

15. 2.3.3

    1 improvement

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    Improved

    • cancel a subscription as soon as one payment fails (rather than retrying once) to avoid confusion for store managers