AwoRewards » Release Notes

• Fix: issue with expiration on fixed awocoupon payouts

• Fix: issue with expiration on fixed awocoupon payouts

• New: ability to automatically send percent coupon in config > automatic/request coupon screen

• New: added tags {recipient_firstname} and {recipient_lastname}
• Fix: error caused by mcrypt functions in php 8

• Fix: Virtuemart issue with rewards not triggering automatically on order status change

• Fix: Virtuemart issue with rewards not triggering automatically on order status change

• Fix: issue with selecting Eshop store properly

• Fix: issue with installation in php 8

• Fix: an issue with multilingual email templates not loading the correct language

• Fix: an issue with multilingual email templates not loading the correct language

• New: Release to support Joomla 4 (Requires Joomla version 4 and up)

• New: BIG CHANGE - updated the engine to apply all rules of a certain type/customer by default. In order to apply the first rule that applies it is required to group them in a parent rule
• New: updating the ordering of rules feature to be much easier to use
• New: added option to update all unused points to latest expiration when new points are earned

• Fix: issue with refunding points, if using AwoCoupon, requires 3.5.7 or higher

• New: added points expiration default setting in configuration
• Fix: issue with payment through paypal live

• New: Invitation front end added a clear all for emails added
• New: removed support for google url shortener and added bitly.com and bl.ink support for url shortener
• New: added tax options for Order rule > Percent of order total option
• New: added support for refunding hikashop points on trigger order refund
• Fix: allow subtracting points from user account in admin credit history screen

• New: added support for Hikashop points, where the admin can set up AwoRewards points to automatically convert to Hikashop points

• New: added product affiliate customer type to rules
• New: added customer filter in rules
• New: added product specific filter for Order rules
• New: updated order rules where percent of order total is set to include the discount, if it is from AwoCoupon, when calculating order percentages
• Fix: error not displaying on invitation form when entering single email address that is not allowed

• Fix: Eshop error when checking out

• Fix: Virtuemart order rule percent of order total calculation

• MAJOR Release of AwoRewards
• New: revamp of backend display
• New: added option to display invitation forms based on shopper group
• New: REMOVED support for facebook

• New: added sponsor external id, which allows the creation of an affiliate link to your website for any sponsor and any link, by adding the following to your link: ?auid=[external_id]
• New: first level sponsor can earn a reward for guest order checkouts

• New: in admin manually trigger automatic payout to user if setup
• Phase out mcrypt functions

• Updated to work with AwoCoupon 3.5.x
• Added support for AltaUserPoints, where the admin can set up AwoRewards points to automatically convert to AltaUserPoints points
• Fix: Joomla JMailHelper error

• Fix: issue requiring shopper group for coupon payout screen

• New: added shopper group selection to coupon payout screen
• New: added new configuration for cron
• Fix: issue with coupon payout -> new screen not working when AwoCoupon pro is not installed
• Fix: updated front end numbers to display using number_format DECIMALS_SEPARATOR, THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR

• New: Order rule category include/exclude new option 'Whole Order' allowing points on qualifying category(s) and not just excluding the whole order, coupon discount is not taken into account
• Fix: date issues with different timezones

• Fix: case sensitive sql call, H.credit_type should be h.credit_type

• New: added ability to define specific points deducted for multiple reward coupons
• New: update manual payment to allow addition of detail note
• Fix: ui issues with start/expiration date fields
• Fix: issue with details of payment history adding all credits on each payment

• Fix: fatal error with awoParams when AwoCoupon is not installed
• Fix: updated facebook like javascript to more recent version
• Fix: installation error

• New: added support for Eshop
• New: added support as standalone (with very limited options)
• Fix: updated to work with RedShop 2
• Fix: issue with Hikashop orders processing during cron

• New: ability to hide frontend tabs
• New: added Spanish language
• New: updated Virtuemart category to also check category of parent products
• New: update interface for multiple languages so no need to change admin languge anymore to update all languages
• Fix: issue with Joomla 3.6.4 where TinyMCE editor compatiblity is broken
• Fix: issue with language switcher in front end not updating AwoRewards language

• New: added Maximum Payout Amount to Payment request in configuration
• Fix: issue with payment button showing front end for special cases when both block and ratio are set in configuration

• New: ability to give out coupon codes which allow customers to add points to their account
• Fix: issues with PHP 7 on installation

• Fix: caching issue causing configuration not to save
• Fix: issue with Joomla 3.6.0 where editor is not loaded in configuration
• Fix: issue where registering through the admin interface can still link sponsor to friend

• New: added feature to reverse points/coupons for order rules after being setup in configuration
• Fix: updated code so social promotions set for specific shopper group do not show in the front end unless customer belongs to that group

• New: added invitation/rule type 'Share on Facebook Timeline' which uses Feed Dialog and needs no permissions approval, replacement for 'Post on Facebook Wall'

• New: added to Order rule -> "Percent of Order Total" option Order total excluding minimum order total set
• New: added to Order rule -> "Percent of Order Total" option Order total no shipping excluding minimum order total set
• New: added the ability to disable version checker on the admin dashboard
• New: added support for Virtuemart AwoCoupon Free, automatically detects if AwoCoupon free is installed and uses that insted of Virtuemart coupons for 'system couponm'

• New: for facebook wall, added the ability to include an image url which gets uploaded
• New: added abiity to include/exclude a category in order rules

• New: updated the add points feature to show the points of the selected user
• New: updated the add points feature to allow adding negative points
• Fix: when entering invitation email manually, no error is shown if email is not accepted, now fixed. If you have override on view/invitation/tmpl/default.php, this would need to be updated to see this change
• Fix: issue with google shortener api not working

• Added support for AwoCoupon Balance, where the admin can set up AwoRewards points to automatically convert to store balance which the customer can use at any time if enabled in AwoCoupon
• Fix: ui issue with Joomla 3.4.4

• New: added up to 4 level Sponsor/Affiliate
• Fix: error with module display in front end for Joomla 3.x

• New: added shopper group filter in rules
• Fix: updated to work with Joomla 3.4.3
• Fix: issue with editing an exiting order rule, where deleting the 'Percent of Order Total' and saving would not actually delete

• New: Revamped the way social rules (facebook, twitter) work from core integration to external plugins. This allows for easy extensibility for adding other integrations.
• New: Added shoppr group selection
• Fix: issue with 'Coupon System' email where image link added is not shown in the email

• New: Updated Order rule so that "Percent of Order Total" can be either the order total or the order total excluding shipping
• Fix: issue where friend is not linked to sponsor if friend has his/her email on the sponsor referral list and friend uses the sponsor's personal registration link

• New: Added module to show total points and a Redeem button, which will automatically convert points to coupon code and apply in the cart
• Fix: issue with personal registration link
• Fix: issue with ajax call to add single email address to invitation form
• Fix: issue with order rule for sponsor where order number to trigger rule is set

• New: Added tags {coupon_code}, {coupon_value}, {coupon_expiration} for AwoCoupon email templates
• Fix: issue where users are only credited for the first product review, and not any more regardless of configuration
• Fix: Hiksahop database error when checking order rule

• Update: Added the ability to delay a coupon being sent for Order rules

• Fixed issue with sponsors where on registration, sponsor only receives reward once instead of for every friend registration
• Fixed issue where 'Delay in Days' for registration rules was not working and instead being triggered immediately
• Fixed issue where coupon payout did not work for system coupons

• Fixed return to current page for promotion module if "Page to redirect to, if not logged in" is left blank
• Removed Facebook Like promotion depencency on JQuery
• For Virtuemart 1, fixed administration menu display

• Updated Google api to work with Google updates
• Updated Yahoo api to work with Yahoo updates
• Updated logic so if "Page to redirect to, if not logged in" is not set, then customer is automatically redirect to the login page

• Fixed error where request button for payment for points does not show even if configured in the back end

• Added a new rule type that allows you to create promotions for a customer's Birthday
• Updated Facebook scope permissions
• Fixed an error with guest checkout for order rules

• Decoupled AwoRewards from AwoCoupon, AwoCoupon is no longer required to run AwoRewards
• Added support for Virtuemart 1
• Fixed error for user screen where in some cases the points are not shown

• Added the ability for Per Order rules to work with guest checkout
• Added Users screen in backend to get an overview of user points
• Fixed error with Customer type (Sponsor), and order type (all orders) where sponsor earns reward on very order after friend hits the initial minimum value

• Updated Facebook like functionality as the original way of liking a fanpage has been removed by facebook
• Updated Facebook scope, so the customer is only ask for what is needed instead of all possibilities

• Added support for AlphaUserPoints, where the admin can set up AwoRewards points to automatically convert to AlphaUserPoints points
• Added the ability for the admin to manually add points to a user's account

• Revamped the updating mechanism to alleviate upgrading errors experieneced from some old versions
• Fixed problem with AwoRewards showing when using an older version of AwoCoupon without the new menu system
• Fixed a javascript error on the invitation page when manually adding email if jQuery noconflict is enabled

• Added new menu system

• New extension