Next week, FluentCart turns one. Thank you for being here, building stores with us, reporting bugs, and pushing us to make it better every week.

To celebrate, we’re doing something a little crazy.

5 crazy new features we’ve been working on for months. One every day, Oct 12 to 16.

And on Wednesday, October 14, our actual birthday, we’re shipping FluentCart 2.0. It’s the most requested feature, and I think you’ll love it.

I left a small hint in the banner 😉

Any guesses on this one, or the other 4 releases? Drop them in the comments.

See you on Monday.

I am releasing a digital product next week but I'd like to offer it to my subscribers (FCRM) now. What is the best way to presell a FluentCart product?

Ideally they buy today at a discounted price and then the product (download link) appears in their account next week.

I've done this before on Woocommerce and if you do it wrong it's a big pain for customers and me.

I want to avoid problems like this: Add a download to the product later, and it only appears to new customers. Change the download link and it breaks for previous customers.

UPDATE: I did some tests and the good news is that any files you add to a product will show up in the downloads tab of anyone who purchased that product. So you can add or delete files from a product and it updates in the accounts of everyone who purchased it.

The bad news is that if you want to add a product and edit it, there seems to be a bug.
More details in my other post here.

Last week we shipped reviews. A lot of you asked the same thing right away: "Can I use them in Divi?" "What about Bricks?"

Now you can.

Reviews in Divi and Bricks

Both builders now have 6 review modules. You can add the review list, rating summary, review form and star ratings anywhere on your page, and design everything right inside the builder. You also get 11 layouts to pick from, plus grid, masonry and slider views. Stars now show on your shop cards too.

Airwallex is here

A lot of you, especially outside the US, have been asking for Airwallex. It's now available as a new add-on with FluentCart Pro. It handles one-time payments, subscriptions with trials and installments, refunds right from the order screen, and even disputes. There's test mode too, so you can try it before going live.

A few small things you'll like

• You can now control the corner roundness of buttons, cards and form fields. If you use Astra, Kadence, Blocksy, Divi, Bricks or a block theme, FluentCart can match your theme's corners automatically.
• You can set a brand name for PayPal checkout, so customers see your store name instead of your legal business name.
• New review filters for you and your customers: by stars, with photos, and verified buyers.
• Better product data for Google, including brand, subscription periods and VAT info.

We also fixed a bunch of things in checkout, order notes and storefront styling., security improvements, etc. Thanks to everyone who reported them here. Please keep them coming.

Full changelog: https://fluentcart.com/blog/fluentcart-1-7-1/

By the way, as we are talking about reviews, would you please leave a review for FluentCart: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fluent-cart/reviews/

PS: Our team is working on some crazy features, and I am super excited to release them this week. Guess what we are building!

I’d love to see a native Reward Points / Loyalty Points system added to FluentCart, especially with deeper integration with FluentCommunity gamification.

The idea is to allow community owners to turn engagement and purchases into a meaningful rewards economy that can also drive marketplace sales.

🎁 1. Earn Reward Points

Customers/members could earn points from:

- 🛒 Purchases made through FluentCart

- 🎮 Gamification activities in FluentCommunity

- 🏆 Completing community activities, challenges, lessons, etc.

- 🎯 Other actions configured by the community owner

The points would accumulate in the member's account and remain available for future purchases.

💰 2. Redeem Points for Products

Members should be able to use their accumulated points to purchase products from a FluentCart-powered marketplace.

For example:

Product Price: $100

Points Required: 500 Points

Cash Required: $50

The member pays $50 in cash + 500 points to complete the purchase.

⚙️ 3. Flexible Points + Cash Configuration

Ideally, the product settings should allow the store/community owner to define:

- 💵 Normal product price

- ⭐ Points required

- 💰 Cash amount required

- 🔄 Whether points redemption is enabled for that product

- 🎯 Whether the product can be purchased entirely with points

- 📊 Maximum percentage of the product price that can be paid using points

For example:

«Product Price: $149

Redeem with: 1,000 Points + $49»

Or:

«Product Price: $99

Redeem with: 500 Points + $49»

This should be configurable on a product-by-product basis.

🎮 4. FluentCommunity + FluentCart Integration

This could become particularly powerful when combined with FluentCommunity's gamification.

For example, members could earn:

- 10 points for a community activity

- 25 points for completing a lesson

- 50 points for completing a challenge

- 100 points for a referral

- 200 points from a purchase

Those points could then be accumulated and used toward products in the FluentCart marketplace.

📈 Why This Would Be Valuable

This isn't just a loyalty feature.

It could create a closed-loop rewards economy for communities:

Engage → Earn Points → Accumulate → Redeem → Purchase → Earn More Points → Engage Again

For community owners, this could help:

- Increase community engagement

- Encourage repeat purchases

- Give members a tangible reason to participate

- Increase marketplace conversions

- Make gamification more meaningful

- Create loyalty without relying only on discounts

- Give community owners another monetization mechanism

🔥 Potential Use Case

Imagine a community marketplace where a member has accumulated:

⭐ 2,500 Points

They want to purchase a course priced at:

$149

The admin has configured the product as:

1,000 Points + $49 Cash

The member simply uses their existing points balance and pays $49 to receive the product.

The points earned through both FluentCart purchases and FluentCommunity engagement would therefore have real value inside the community marketplace.

🙏 Feature Request

It would be great if FluentCart could eventually support a native Reward Points / Loyalty Points system, ideally with FluentCommunity gamification integration and, most importantly, the ability to make purchases using a configurable combination of Points + Cash.

I think this could significantly expand what community owners can build with the Fluent ecosystem.

Would love to hear what the FluentCart team and other community owners think about this. 🚀

I run a small web/design business and already own FluentCart licenses. I'm looking at using FluentCart for my internal invoicing, but I'm having trouble determining whether my use case fits the current product model.

Most of my invoices are for professional services rather than products. A typical invoice might look like:

• Magazine production — 30 hours @ $32/hour
• Website maintenance — 4 hours @ $32/hour
• Graphic design — 3 hours @ $32/hour

The project descriptions vary from invoice to invoice, as can the hourly rates for different clients.

Ideally, I'd like to create a customer, create a manual invoice/order, enter arbitrary service line items with description, quantity/hours and rate, generate a PDF invoice, and then manually mark it paid when I receive a check or Zelle payment. An online payment link could be offered as an optional payment method.

I don't really want to create a permanent "product" for every project or service description simply to generate an invoice.

Is there currently a recommended FluentCart workflow for professional-services invoicing like this?

If not, would you consider allowing custom/manual service line items on admin-created orders in the future?

I'm going to use Fluent Forms + PDF generation for this for now, but I'd prefer FluentCart long-term if professional-services invoicing fits its roadmap.

Hi,

I'm currently setting up shipping in FluentCart and noticed that there doesn't seem to be an option to offer free shipping based on a minimum order value.

What I'm trying to achieve is the fairly standard setup:

Order below 1,000 SEK → 100 SEK shipping
Order of 1,000 SEK or more → Free shipping

Ideally, the threshold should be based on the order value after discounts.

I noticed that the FluentCart developer documentation already describes this functionality. For example, the Shipping Module documentation shows a Free Shipping method with:

minimum_amount => 5000 // Free shipping over $50

and also shows calculation logic where free_shipping is only available when the cart total reaches minimum_amount.

However, in the current FluentCart UI, the Free Shipping method has no minimum-order setting. I also tested adding minimum_amount directly to the shipping method's settings in the database, but this had no effect.

Is conditional free shipping already implemented somewhere but not yet exposed in the UI, or is the developer documentation describing functionality that is still planned?

If it is still planned, is there an ETA for this feature?

I would consider this a fairly essential e-commerce feature. Free shipping above a certain order value is a standard way of increasing average order value, and it is functionality merchants will generally expect when moving from platforms such as WooCommerce.

Thanks!

When editing products, especially multiple products, it would be helpful to have an indication as to which product is under a particular browser tab.

I'm getting a 5xx error in Google Search console for this page:

.../wp-json/fluent-cart/v2/checkout/get-order-info

This is over my head but my instinct is to exclude /wp-json/ from indexing

but it does make me wonder...

what is that? and if GSC is finding it, does that mean there's a link to it and then if so, shouldn't it be working?

I have a bug with [fluent_cart_customer_profile].

As you can see here with this test transaction, it worked and shows when i click through from the receipt page, but when i go to the purchase history or subscription plans page, nothing shows up.

Hi. Could you please add padding to the top of elements to stop the bunching. Like the attached screenshot of the Related Products widget right under the Reviews widget/box. Makes it look unprofessional. cheers