I would love to see client-facing shipment tracking and status similar to advanced shipment tracking from Zorem (https://www.zorem.com/product/woocommerce-advanced-shipment-tracking/)

It would be great if there was a native exchange/returns feature like Zorem Returns for customers to self-manage exchanges without intervention from customer support (https://www.zorem.com/product/zorem-returns/)

A good one today. Some new building blocks up front, and sturdier payment handling under the hood.

Here is what is new in 1.5.4:

• A full set of Bricks blocks. Product grids and cards, add to cart and buy now buttons, checkout, mini cart, product search, related products, and the customer dashboard. You can build your whole store right inside Bricks now, no leaving the builder. One click to install from Settings → Features & Addons, and there is a quick setup step in the Getting Started checklist to walk you through it.
• Your AI assistant can actually search your store now. If you have connected an AI assistant, it just got a lot smarter at finding things across orders, customers, products, and subscriptions. Ask it something specific and you get a real answer, pulled straight from your live store data.

Now the steadier part, which matters just as much:

• PayPal subscriptions are a lot more reliable. First payments now activate the right subscription every time, with the amount and currency checked first. It only activates once, even if two PayPal notifications arrive together. And refunds you make on PayPal now sync back correctly. If you are on Paddle (Pro), subscription statuses stay in sync through more tricky cases too, like past-due, canceled, and failed-then-paid.

A few smaller wins: switching a product to Advanced Variations now asks you to confirm first (since there is no going back), payment plans need at least two installments now, the shipping method shows by name to you and your customers, and dates in the customer dashboard finally show the year.

Plus a solid round of fixes: custom stock labels show up properly, the add-to-cart shortcode respects your button text, a rejected coupon from a URL now shows an error instead of just doing nothing, reports no longer break on a missing option, and Pro receipt PDFs handle columns and groups correctly.

To get the Bricks blocks: update to 1.5.4, then go to Settings → Features & Addons → Plugin Addons and install it in one click.

Full write-up: https://fluentcart.com/blog/fluentcart-1-5-4/

More cooking 🚀

PS: Next week we are releasing WooCommerce Migration and Manual Subscriptions Management. We are also working on SureCart Migration. If you want to migrate from SureCart or Woo and help us to improve the migration, please DM me or open a support ticket; we will schedule a call with you and try to migrate your store to FluentCart while improving our migration scripts.

Update July 29.07.26: Jeff Brigman has opened a request for FluentCart. Make sure to vote there.

Back during and right after launch some of you asked about connecting FluentCart to Printful for print-on-demand, and we said we'd look into it and come back to you. Here's where things stand.

We reached out to Printful's team directly. The short version: they're open to it, but building and maintaining an official integration is real engineering work on their side, and they allocate that work based on demand. Before they commit resources, they want to see that there's a genuine base of stores who would actually use a FluentCart connection. That's a fair ask, and it's how most platforms decide what to build next.

So the single most useful thing you can do right now is tell Printful yourselves. If you'd use a FluentCart + Printful integration, reach out to Printful support through their contact form or support channel and let them know you want it. Every request is a data point. Enough of them, and the conversation shifts from "maybe someday" to something they can actually plan around. We'll keep pushing from our side, but demand coming straight from their own customers carries far more weight than us asking on your behalf.

A note on why we're routing it this way rather than just building it ourselves. FluentCart is designed to be built on top of. We ship a REST API, hooks, and webhooks specifically so integrations like this can live in the wider ecosystem instead of all being owned by us. Taking on every third-party connection ourselves would pull our roadmap in a lot of directions at once and slow down the core work we think matters most. We'd rather keep FluentCart focused and give partners and developers a solid foundation to build against. An integration backed by Printful, or built by the community, will also be better maintained over time than one we bolt on and stretch to keep supported.

We're still in the conversation with Printful, and we'll share updates as it develops. If print-on-demand matters to your store, a quick message to their support team is the best way to help move it forward.

Happy to finally announce four new plugins that extend FluentCart and FluentAffiliate.

Each of these started as a client project — built to solve a specific need in a real store's workflow. They've since been cleaned up and packaged so anyone can use them.

Here's what you can add to your store:

• Shipping integration for FluentCart with Sendcloud
• Shipping integration for FluentCart with Shippo
• Email marketing integration for FluentCart with ActiveCampaign
• Advanced campaign management for FluentAffiliate with AffiliateManager

Check them out here: https://store.johnmac.pro/

Although they were built for specific client needs, I'm keen to hear what others need. And for anyone who buys one, I'd really like honest feedback — what works and what's totally crap.

I hope these help store owners improve their FluentCart workflows. I'll post more about AffiliateManager in the appropriate section.

Documentation, proper screenshots, and setup videos are still in progress, but the plugins should be fairly straightforward to use.

Launch pricing will run for a while.

John

Hello,

i've looked around but couldn't find it,is there a way to make special pricing time sensitive?

we ofter offer a "presale" pricing up to a certain date.

i've made it work with automatic coupon in url, but how to show this in product catalogue

Hey there! I've looked all over, but haven't found that this has been fixed yet - if it has, please point me to the source!

Use case - I run four virtual summits/year. They are free to register, but if I use fForms as the registration form, I don't have the quick upgrade/order bump option that I get in fCart, nor can I count conversions and affiliate referrals in any meaningful way.

Yeah, I'm sure there is a way for me to build out an event tracking automation thing in the background, but you know what would be super duper instead?

How about a Zero Balance/Free Item means that fCart removes the Billing and/or Shipping address from the checkout page? That address requirement adds way too much friction for a lead magnet (name + email address only).

So please, someone tell me I just missed a simple switch somewhere or that it is planned for the next fCart update in the very, very, very near future.

Please?

I might be doing something wrong - maybe you can help. On the left, I have products 1 and 2. To the right, in the highlighted section, I have media images that are true for both products. The front of the cart (facing the customer), however, shows the "featured image" rather than the product image. You will notice that the product images appear under the "featured image" but can't be selected as the "featured image" because they are not in the media box.

When I add the product images to the media box, I can move them around and set the product image as the featured image, but then it adds two more pictures to the UX.

How do I remove or hide the "extra" images from the shopping cart page that faces the customer?

NOTE: The issue is that this product has a variable. If it were only one product, I could simply remove the image from the product itself, place all images in the media box, and set the product image as the featured image. 🤪

#UPDATE: Thrive Themes released a fix in their latest plugin version. The modal is now working properly.

Hello everyone,

I am receiving a 500 Internal Server Error when I try to use a buy button with instant/modal checkout enabled. When instant checkout is disabled, I am redirected to the checkout page without any issues.

• On the popup windows I get the error: "There has been a critical error on this website.

• On the browser console I see this error:
  500 (Internal Server Error)````openModal FluentCartApp.js?ver=1.5.3:1

• This is the shortcode I am using: [fluent_cart_checkout_button variation_id="1" instant_checkout="yes" button_text="Get it now!"]

  Any ideas what could be causing this issue? I am using WordPress 7.0.1, FCart 1.5.3 and PHP version 8.4.19. Thanks!

my clients wants to show out of stock products