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A complete history of BoxCart updates. We're committed to regular improvements and new features.

v1.7.0 26 October 2026

v1.7.0

Free + Pro
  • New: a daily collections email. Choose a time and BoxCart emails you the day's collections, grouped by collection point and time. On a quiet day it says there are none, so you always know it's working.
  • Complete orders automatically after the collection day (optional), so your order list only shows orders still to collect. Customers aren't emailed.
  • Let customers hide out of stock products with a "Hide out of stock" tick box above your products.
  • Reply to your shop's order emails to answer the customer directly. The compact new-order email now shows their phone and email, and how many items to pick.
  • Customer sign-in, registration and password reset now work with security plugins (CAPTCHAs, lockouts, two-step sign-in, hidden login pages), and customers stay on your shop's own pages.
  • Customers who set their password from the emailed link are signed in straight away, phones save it against the right email, and tapping a box on a phone no longer zooms the page.
  • The BoxCart Today dashboard widget shows each order's collection point when you have more than one, and leaves out revenue when your shop doesn't show prices.
  • Order and status emails can no longer go missing when several things happen at once: BoxCart now keeps its own outbox, sends each email once, and retries anything left over every five minutes.
  • Fixes: no grey screen on Select Collection Slot in Safari, the phone basket icon shows on iPhone, nothing can be added once a held slot has run out, and a failed add to the basket says so clearly.
Pro
  • Order changes after a price change: items already ordered keep the price paid, extra items cost today's price, and the change screen says so.
v1.6.0 21 October 2026

v1.6.0

Free + Pro
  • New: Shop staff. Give your team the Shop Staff role, or tick other roles under Settings → Accounts, so they can look after orders, products, categories and pickup locations without being administrators. Settings and Guided Setup stay with administrators.
  • New: A compact layout for your shop's new order email, with just what you need to pack the order.
  • Fix: Customers who change their email address on their account page now confirm it with their password and a link sent to the new address, and keep their past orders. Orders placed while signed out show up in their account straight away.
  • Fix: The confirmation email no longer promises an "order ready" email when your shop won't send one, and you no longer get WordPress's "Password Changed" email each time a customer resets their password.
  • Fix: Two shoppers can no longer both book a collection slot's last place, checkout re-checks the basket before taking an order, and signing out starts a fresh basket so the next person on that computer doesn't see it.
  • Fix: Many smaller fixes: settings imports keep your email templates, duplicated products keep their prices, order exports treat what customers typed as plain text (and the Excel export opens in Excel), hidden prices stay out of your shop's pages, quantities follow each product's steps, an order change no longer lists notes that weren't changed, and BoxCart Pro's product import only changes the columns you import.
Pro
  • New: Special times for a date. Give a day its own collection times, such as shorter hours on Christmas Eve, or open on a day you're usually closed.
  • New: Order changes can stay open right up to the order cut-off for the collection, and customers are told until when. Capacity overrides can now be edited, and show how many orders are booked.
v1.5.1 15 October 2026

v1.5.1

Free + Pro
  • Fix: Accounts customers create through BoxCart now always get the Customer role, whatever your site's default role for new users is set to. If any existing customer accounts have more access than a customer needs, BoxCart points them out so you can check them.
  • Fix: Returning customers can sign in right on the checkout page and come straight back to it, with the collection slot they picked still selected.
  • Fix: The basket panel and basket page show each item's unit (such as kg or bunches) when prices are hidden, and plain-text shop emails list items in your category order, show "&" correctly, include a working order link and end with the number of items.
v1.5.0 12 October 2026

v1.5.0

Free + Pro
  • New: Guided Setup gets your shop ready in about five minutes: pages, collection point and time slots, first product, payments and VAT.
  • New: Copy a day's time slots to other days.
  • New: Delete cancelled orders, such as test orders.
  • Improvement: Much faster with hundreds of products, a simpler checkout with no billing address, and receipts that show VAT clearly whether your prices include it or add it on top, plus what's been paid, refunded and is left to pay.
  • Fix: Weighed quantities (such as 1.5 kg) are no longer rounded to whole numbers when BoxCart is deactivated and reactivated. Orders already affected are repaired where they have prices.
  • Fix: Customers can't change an order once its order cut-off has passed, and many smaller fixes to item counts, quantities, emails, settings and theme styling.
Pro
  • New: Customers can change orders they've paid for by card. If the order costs less, the difference goes back to their card; if it costs more, they pay the rest when they collect.
  • New: Refund card payments from the order screen, or when you cancel an order. Refunds you make in your Stripe dashboard show on the order too.
  • Fix: A declined card no longer leaves customers stuck: their basket stays so they can try again.
v1.4.0 9 October 2026

v1.4.0

Free + Pro
  • New: Choose when orders close: a set number of hours before each slot, or a set time before the collection day, such as 1pm the day before. Customers see the rule above the collection dates.
  • Fix: The order lead time now follows your site's timezone. During British Summer Time it could let slots be booked up to an hour late.
  • Improvement: Dates whose slots have all closed now show as closed, and the "Slot Cutoff Time" setting, which had no effect, has been removed.
v1.3.2 9 October 2026

v1.3.2

Free + Pro
  • Improvement: Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.
v1.3.1 5 October 2026

v1.3.1

Free + Pro
  • Security: A collection slot is now only held for a basket with something in it, so empty baskets can no longer make slots look fully booked.
  • Security: SVG image uploads are now limited to administrators, and are checked for scripts before they are accepted.
  • Fix: Paid orders now stay at "Order Received" until you move them on, like every other order. They used to jump straight to "Being Prepared" and email the customer that their order was being prepared.
  • Improvement: Tested with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.5, a tidier VAT label on the dashboard widget, a Freemius SDK update and smaller fixes and hardening throughout.
Pro
  • Security: Important for shops taking card payments. An order is now only marked as paid when Stripe confirms the full amount was paid for that particular order.
  • Security: When customers change an order, prices, stock and any new collection slot are now checked on your site, exactly as at checkout. Items on an order already paid by card are changed through you; customers can still change their slot and notes.
  • Fix: Changing an order now recalculates its VAT or sales tax, and the time customers have to make changes is measured in your site's timezone.
  • Fix: Activating a BoxCart Pro licence now works on sites that had already opted in to updates on the free version.
v1.3.0 16 July 2026

v1.3.0

Free + Pro
  • Fix: Stores set up using the Setup screen could end up with no payment methods on the checkout page and no collection slot bar on the products page, even though Settings showed both as switched on. Settings you have saved yourself are untouched; only genuinely missing values are filled in, automatically, on update.
  • New: Two options for shops that do not open every day (Settings, Collection, Slot Selection): hide the dates you are closed, and choose whether customers see a "slots left" count on each time slot.
  • Fix: The products-page slot selector always showed "slots left" in English, ignoring the site language.
v1.2.1 13 July 2026

v1.2.1

Free + Pro
  • The order link in admin notification emails now opens the correct order
  • Wording tidy-ups across the plugin, help, docs, and site
v1.2.0 7 July 2026

v1.2.0

Free + Pro
  • Fixed a checkout database notice for products with multiple quantity options.
Pro
  • Members-only pricing: hide prices and the add-to-cart button from logged-out visitors until they sign in or register. Ideal for wholesale and trade.
  • Fixed the Import/Export screen appearing blank on licensed sites.
  • Added a direct Enter your licence key option on the licence activation screen and fixed the activation button.
Free
  • Up-front customer registration: let customers create an account before ordering, using WordPress native registration.
v1.1.0 15 June 2026

v1.1.0

Free + Pro
  • Guided Setup: create your Shop, Basket, Checkout, and My Account pages in one click, with the right shortcodes added for you.
  • The dashboard Quick Start guide now stays put with live progress ticks until your store is ready, and can be dismissed whenever you like.
  • New "BoxCart Today" dashboard widget showing today's collections, takings, and the week ahead at a glance.
  • You can now hide the Setup page from the menu once your store is configured (Settings, Misc, Advanced).
v1.0.1 9 June 2026

v1.0.1

Free + Pro
  • Fixed a fatal error when previewing email templates from the Emails settings tab
  • Fixed the Mini Basket badge not appearing when the block is placed in a block-theme (FSE) header or footer
  • Fixed the product editor showing the previous currency symbol after the store currency was changed
v1.0.0 Initial Release

v1.0.0

Free + Pro
  • Complete click & collect ordering system for WordPress
  • Time slot management (Pro adds capacity overrides and per-date closures)
  • 11 currencies supported (GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, AUD, NZD, CHF, SEK, NOK, DKK, PLN)
  • Customer accounts (Pro adds favourites and one-click reorder)
  • Admin dashboard and order management (Pro adds pick lists in 3 formats with batch printing)
  • Contextual help panels on every admin page
Pro
  • Multi-location support with independent scheduling
  • Stripe payments with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Klarna, PayPal, Afterpay support
  • Two-way order messaging between admin and customers
  • 195+ customisation settings across 9 admin tabs
  • CSV import/export for products and categories
  • Sales reports with period comparison, top products, and revenue by location
Free
  • Cash on collection and bank transfer payment methods
  • 7 customisable email notification types with background queue delivery
  • 12 font choices (10 GDPR-compliant self-hosted web fonts + theme + system)
  • 5 Gutenberg blocks and 5 shortcodes
  • 20 action hooks and 11 filter hooks for developers

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