For a client, we were looking for an option to hide from catalog - like WooCommerce has - and was surprised to see there is no option for it.

Yes, I know about the private option. But, that only means the direct checkout links work. She would need to create her own landing page, then, which uses those links. Which is more work.

So, the goal was to just hide it. If she sends the direct catalog link to somebody, it would work for them as normal. But, would not show up in the query loop on /shop/.

It would be great to be able to set a different initial payment term for something like a subscription—for instance, a trial period for a specific amount. Especially since orders with a zero-value amount don't go through. Right now, I’ve set this up with a 30-day trial followed by a setup fee, but it’s not very clear. I think that would be a really useful improvement.

I was moving one of my own stores from WooCommerce to FluentCart and went looking for something that would migrate the data over — customers, products, orders, coupons, subscriptions. Couldn't find anything that did it, so I built it for myself.

Sharing it here in case anyone else is in the same spot.

It handles:

• Customers, products (simple/variable/external), orders, coupons, and subscriptions
• A Pre-flight Check that scans your live WooCommerce data first and flags anything likely to need a second look (missing prices, orders with no billing email, unsupported product types, etc.) before you run anything for real
• Read-only against WooCommerce — your existing store is never touched
• Idempotent — safe to re-run, already-migrated records get skipped instead of duplicated
• Batched — runs in small AJAX batches so it doesn't time out on bigger catalogs

One honest caveat: there's no dry-run mode for the actual migration, so back up your DB and test on staging first — same as I did on my own store.

Requires WooCommerce active, WP 6.0+, PHP 7.4+.

Grab it here: https://esrat.net/go/wc-fluentcart-migrator/

If you're migrating and run into something it doesn't handle, let me know — happy to keep improving it.

Can anyone tell me a simple way to paywall blog posts for paid community members?

If I could lock it halfway through the blog post so users can read the start of the article, then they need to join the community membership to be able to read the full article would be even better than locking the whole page.

Should be possible with Fluent products, right?

Shahjahan Jewel, this would just be a nice feature to have if it can be done in one of wpmanageninja's products' plugins.

Thanks for any help.

UPDATE: Check comments.

FluentCart product price spans .fct-compare-price and .fct-item-price are receiving ARIA naming attributes despite having the implicit generic role. Lighthouse reports “Elements use prohibited ARIA attributes.” Please replace the invalid ARIA naming with semantic price markup, such as <del> for the compare price and visually hidden contextual labels for the original and sale prices.

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