Pointics Update Change Log

Free:
New: WP Cafe integration. Create earning rules for restaurant orders and let customers redeem points on the booking page.
Tweak: WooCommerce order screens now show points earned, pending, or taken back, with matching order notes for store staff.
Tweak: The WooCommerce mini cart shows how many points a customer can use at checkout.
Tweak: Loyalty level pages now include a level ladder with progress, requirements, and benefits for every tier.
Tweak: Storefront widgets can be shown or hidden independently on WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, and Eventin pages.
Tweak: Points added manually by an administrator now count toward loyalty tier progress.
Tweak: Improved the referral card, points conversion details, loyalty tier display, and reward availability labels.
Fix: Purchase referrals are awarded only once, on the referred customer’s first paid order.
Fix: Purchase referral rewards are taken back when the qualifying WooCommerce order is cancelled or refunded.
Fix: Referral links and codes now remain accurate after the referral program settings change.
Fix: Rewards that an integration cannot apply are now refused without spending the customer’s points.
Fix: Checkout reward cards now show the amount actually applied by the connected store or booking integration.
Fix: WooCommerce product grids and order summaries now calculate and display points more consistently.
Fix: The floating widget and storefront assets now load only on pages where they are enabled.

Pro:
Tweak: Updated the plugin product URL.
Fix: Kept the Pro referral purchase award tests compatible with the updated referral lookup in Pointics.

Free:
New: Eventin integration. Earn points on event ticket purchases and redeem them for discounts at Eventin checkout.
New: Eventin settings tab to choose which order statuses take ticket points back.
New: Free Product reward is now available in the free plugin.
New: Set start and end dates on an earning rule so it only awards points while it is running.
New: Customer action link on each earning rule to change where its button sends customers.
New: Earn points for Easy Digital Downloads product reviews (requires the EDD Product Reviews extension).
New: Product review forms show how many points a review earns.
New: Customers can enter a referral code on the WooCommerce registration form.
New: Site-wide referral code prefix setting.
New: Currency setting for the currency shown beside every amount.
Fix: Refunded and cancelled orders now take back the points they earned.
Fix: Reviews approved after moderation now award points.
Fix: On sites running WooCommerce and EDD together, discount rewards could only be created for one of them.
Fix: Points badge missing on the WooCommerce shop page with themes that rebuild product tiles (Astra, Blocksy, Kadence).
Fix: Duplicate points badge on block based shop pages.
Fix: Redeem card missing on the Easy Digital Downloads block checkout.
Fix: Empty points card no longer shows at checkout.
Fix: Reward amounts could show the wrong currency on stores not selling in USD.
Fix: Unused reward coupons on busy stores were not all cleaned up, so some points were never returned.
Fix: Floating widget colors could break alongside plugins that style dialogs globally.
Fix: Floating widget redeem screen now updates when the cart changes.
Fix: Floating widget hides the join link when the site has no registration page.
Fix: Default email automation flows could be created twice.
Fix: Setup wizard now counts as complete only when you finish it.
Fix: AI assistant can no longer suggest earning rules or rewards the site does not support.
Tweak: Removed the “Powered by Pointics” credit and the Advanced settings tab.
Tweak: Removed the Bundle Reward type.
Tweak: Storefront display settings now use a single page picker.
Tweak: Reward methods show which store they belong to.
Tweak: Refreshed the AI prompt suggestions on the dashboard, including Eventin and EDD.
Tweak: Floating widget scripts now load deferred for faster pages.

Pro:
New: “Attend an event” earning rule. Award points when an attendee is checked in at an Eventin event (requires Eventin Pro).
New: “First order” condition for Easy Digital Downloads.
New: “First order” conditions can match “Is” or “Is not”.
Fix: Eventin “Event registration” and “Ticket booking” conditions were silently dropped on save. They are now marked as coming soon.
Tweak: Removed the white label option, since Pointics no longer shows a “Powered by Pointics” credit.

Free:
New: Easy Digital Downloads is now fully supported.
New: Earning conditions can target EDD downloads, categories and tags.
New: “Points & Rewards panel” block and shortcode=.
New: Email automation flows can branch on conditions such as points balance, tier rank and points earned.
Fix: Percentage and fixed discount rewards could disappear from the storefront.
Fix: The points conversion calculator exceeding the order total.
Fix: Points held for a cancelled, failed or trashed order return to the customer’s balance.
Fix: A reward with no working redemption method now refuses instead of spending points for nothing.
Fix: AI onboarding no longer loses the rest of a proposed plan when you add, edit or reject a row.
Tweak: “Subscription renews” and “Referral makes a purchase” are now Pro earning rules.

Pro:
New: Support for Easy digital downloads.
New: Performance improvements on admin panel.

Free:
New: AI onboarding now supports wordpresses ai providers.
Fix: Redeeming discount now works for classic and block checkout with woocommerce.
Fix: Prevent duplicate point programs and rewards from being created.
Tweak: Show all available point creation channels
Tweak: Rearrange the reward creation cards to clearly separate Free and Pro features
Tweak: Improve customer panel UI and navigation
Tweak: Show the customer’s loyalty level in the floating widget

Pro:
* Initial release: fail-closed compatibility checker, license seam, and the
provider wiring that plugs premium features into the free Pointics core.