BrikPanel: WooCommerce Dashboard, Abandoned Cart Recovery, Google Sheets Sync, Inventory Management & Bulk Editor

Changelog

3.2.20 (2026-07-19)

• Performance: Storefront tracking now uses a single combined request per page view instead of up to four separate ones. The page-view counter, live-visitor ping, daily visitor/traffic-source count and product-view count are all carried by one request, and the extra “visitor left” call that used to fire on every page navigation was removed entirely (the Live view now simply expires idle visitors on its own, within about a minute). On stores with heavy traffic this cuts BrikPanel’s tracking requests by roughly two thirds. Background browser tabs also stop pinging while hidden. Tracking can still be disabled completely, or the live refresh interval stretched up to 300 seconds, under WooCommerce → Settings → BrikPanel → Analytics

3.2.18 (2026-07-19)

• New: Front-end tracking can now be switched off entirely (WooCommerce → Settings → BrikPanel → Analytics → “Visitor tracking”). When off, BrikPanel adds zero scripts and zero requests to your storefront — ideal for stores that already run a dedicated analytics tool. The live-visitor refresh interval is also configurable (10–300 seconds, default 30) to reduce load on busy stores
• New: “Customer details in Live view” privacy switch — keep live tracking on but stop caching logged-in customers’ name, email and phone entirely, for a fully anonymous Live view. Live visitor data was already only kept in a short-lived cache (about two minutes) and never written to the database
• New: WooCommerce’s native Cost of Goods Sold field is now the source of truth for all cost reads (dashboard profit, product list, Quick Edit, Google Sheets, purchase orders). Costs written by other plugins or import pipelines directly to WooCommerce’s cost field — even via direct database updates — are picked up automatically; older BrikPanel-only costs are migrated over once, automatically. WooCommerce’s additive-variation cost flag is now honoured too (variation cost added on top of the parent’s). Existing stores see identical numbers, the two cost stores simply can no longer drift apart
• New: brikpanel_product_cogs filter for integrators who keep product cost in a custom field — point BrikPanel’s per-product cost reads at any source from one hook
• New: WCML (WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency) support — foreign-currency orders are converted to your base currency using WCML’s rate, snapshotted onto the order at purchase time so the day-of-sale rate is captured going forward. Saving WCML’s settings also re-converts your existing foreign-currency orders in the background, so historical figures catch up too. The brikpanel_order_base_factor filter is now documented for bridging any other multi-currency stack
• New: Per-site activation on multisite — BrikPanel can now be activated on individual subsites instead of forcing network-wide activation. Existing network-activated installs are unaffected; the network access-rules page only shows while network-activated (it only applies in that mode)
• Fix: Visitor IP hashing upgraded to a salted SHA-256 (HMAC) with a per-site secret, matching what this readme always claimed. The previous truncated-MD5 hash was theoretically reversible for IPv4 by brute force; the raw IP was never stored or exposed either way
• Fix: Cost of Goods backfill now runs on fresh installs — on stores where WooCommerce’s native cost field was already populated before BrikPanel was installed, the dashboard showed Cost of Goods 0.00 because the one-time import only ran on version upgrades, never on a first install. It now runs at activation and self-heals on existing installs with the update
• Tweak: The live visitor cache no longer stores the customer’s user id (it was never displayed)

3.2.17 (2026-07-17)

• Fix: Variable products no longer flip to “out of stock” after a sale (POS or storefront) when their variations still have stock. Some variable products carry a leftover parent-level “manage stock” flag with no quantity (from an import or a simple-to-variable conversion); the first completed order made WooCommerce derive out-of-stock from the empty parent quantity, hiding the whole product. BrikPanel’s self-repair routine now also clears this dormant leftover before it can do damage, and re-runs automatically once after updating. Deliberate parent-level stock setups are left untouched.

3.2.15 (2026-07-14)

• New: You can now turn individual product variations on or off directly from the BrikPanel product editor. Each variation row has an “Active” switch (next to its name), matching WooCommerce’s own Enabled control, plus a bulk “Set active / Set inactive” option under “Apply to all variations”. Inactive variations are hidden from your store; new variations are Active by default. This fixes cases where variations added through the dashboard could end up inactive with no way to re-enable them without leaving BrikPanel. Works on both simple and variable products.

3.2.13 (2026-07-14)

• Fix: You can now add numeric attribute values (like shoe sizes 38, 40, 42) to variations again. When an attribute’s values were purely numbers, clicking a suggested value from the dropdown silently did nothing after the first one was added, so variable products with size-number attributes could not be built. Selecting values from the suggestion list now works for numeric and text values alike, on both simple and variable products. The same fix applies to numeric product tags.

3.2.12 (2026-07-14)

• Fix: The “Additional product data” card no longer breaks its layout on stores where WooCommerce’s tab styling applies. After the previous compatibility fix, WooCommerce’s own stylesheet could float the third-party sections into a narrow column, scattering the group titles around them (most visible on RTL languages such as Persian or Arabic). The sections now always stack full-width inside the card, on both LTR and RTL admins.
• Improvement: Broader compatibility for buttons inside third-party “Additional product data” sections. The card now recreates the native product editor’s full container chain, so plugins that attach their add/remove/sort buttons to any of the standard WooCommerce containers work inside the streamlined editor as well. Works on both simple and variable products.

3.2.11 (2026-07-10)

• Fix: Buttons inside third-party “Additional product data” sections now work again. When another plugin adds its own section to the product data (for example a “Box Contents” repeater with an “+ Add Item” button, product insurance or warranty fields), those buttons rely on the WooCommerce product-data container that the streamlined editor did not recreate, so clicking them did nothing and the changes could not be saved. The container is now provided, so add/remove/sort buttons and their fields work and save exactly as they do on the standard WooCommerce editor. Works on both simple and variable products.
• Fix: A duplicate SKU or GTIN is no longer dropped silently when saving a product. If you entered a SKU (or GTIN) already used by another product, WooCommerce rejected it as not unique, but the editor still showed “Product saved!” and left the field blank, so it looked like the SKU could not be set. The product now still saves, and a clear message tells you the SKU/GTIN was skipped because it must be unique. Works on both simple and variable products.
• New: Rename the “Site management” heading in the sidebar. A new “Section heading label” field under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Navigation lets you replace the “Site management” label above the lower group of menu items with your own wording. Leave it blank to keep the default label, which stays fully translatable.
• Fix: The WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel screen no longer crashes when WooCommerce Composite Products is active. To detect which extra tabs your product editor offers, BrikPanel briefly runs WooCommerce’s product-data-tabs hook; Composite Products’ handler expected a real product in that moment and hit a fatal error, which took down the whole settings page. That hook is now run safely, so a tab from any plugin that misbehaves is ignored and the page loads normally. Other plugins’ tabs are still detected as before.
• Fix: The product Categories, Tags, Brands and Attributes screens no longer leave a large empty area on the right. With the modern sidebar hidden, these screens pinned their content to the left and left the rest of the page blank on some themes. The layout now centres correctly whether the modern sidebar is shown or hidden.

3.2.6 (2026-07-09)

• Fix: The Appearance > Menus screen no longer crashes on some sites. On stores where another plugin left an unexpected entry in WordPress’s admin menu, opening Appearance > Menus (and a few related admin screens) could hit a fatal error. BrikPanel’s sidebar now safely skips any such entry, so those pages load normally again.
• Improvement: Every value of a large product attribute is now reachable while editing a product. When adding values from a global attribute that has many terms (for example a “Color” attribute with 40 colours), the suggestion list only showed the first ten and hid the rest, even after you typed to filter it. It now offers up to fifty matching values in a scrollable list, so you can pick any of them. Works on both simple and variable products.

3.2.5 (2026-07-09)

• Fix: The dashboard catalog summary (products, variations, sellable items) now updates the moment your catalog changes. It could previously keep showing the earlier totals for a few minutes after you added or removed variations, or trashed a product, because the figures were cached too aggressively. They now refresh immediately whenever a product or variation is added, published, trashed, restored or deleted. The “sellable items” total is also now exact for variable products that have no purchasable variations yet (they no longer inflate the count). (This was never related to legacy vs High-Performance Order Storage: product counts always read from the same place.)
• New: Control who sees each embedded WordPress dashboard widget. The dashboard widgets you pull into the BrikPanel dashboard (under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Dashboard) can now each be limited to Everyone, Admins only, or hidden from specific roles, just like the top bar controls. This is handy for keeping the “Site Health Status” widget, which exposes server and security details, away from staff. Administrators always see every widget so you can never lock yourself out.
• Fix: The “More” sidebar menu no longer lands on a 404. When the “More” group’s first item was a custom link, clicking the “More” label itself opened a “page not found” error instead of the link’s real address. The “More” header now points at a valid destination, and an empty “More” group (with nothing left inside it) is hidden entirely rather than shown as a broken link.
• Improvement: The generic WordPress “Help” tab is now hidden across the whole admin. That top-right “Help” button only ever showed generic, non-store help, so it no longer appears on any screen: the orders list, the product and order editors, settings, and every core WordPress screen. “Screen Options” is left untouched, so you can still choose which columns a list shows.

3.2.4 (2026-07-08)

• New: Schedule a product to go live later. The status menu in the product editor gains a Scheduled option that WooCommerce’s own editor does not offer: pick it, choose a future date and time, and the product is held back and published automatically the moment it arrives. It is on by default and can be switched off under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Products. Scheduled products also appear in the BrikPanel products list with their own Scheduled tab, a blue badge and their go-live date, and can be scheduled or unscheduled from Quick Edit too. Works on both simple and variable products
• New: See your catalog size at a glance on the dashboard. A small line under the Low Stock heading now shows how many products and variations your store holds, plus the number of sellable items, the real count of purchasable units once each variable product is counted by its variations rather than as a single line. This makes the true size of your store clear even when many products use variations. Works with simple and variable products alike
• Improvement: Remove a variation image in one click. Hover a variation that has an image and a small X appears in the corner of the thumbnail; click it to clear the image without opening the media library. The change now sticks after saving and reloading, and a variation with no image of its own no longer falls back to showing the parent product’s featured image

3.2.3 (2026-07-07)

• Fix: The WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel screen could crash when the modern sidebar was switched off. With the modern navigation turned off, opening BrikPanel’s settings (and a few other admin screens) could hit a fatal error. This is fixed, and verified with the modern sidebar both on and off.
• Fix: Custom sidebar links no longer land on a 404 on some managed hosts. A custom link added in the navigation editor renders with the correct address everywhere, but on hosts that draw their own admin menu from the raw menu slug (such as WordPress.com / Atomic) clicking it could reach a “404 / not allowed” page. Those links now resolve to their real destination, whether that is an external URL or another admin page.

3.2.2 (2026-07-07)

• New: Message a customer on WhatsApp straight from an order. Orders with a phone number now show a green WhatsApp icon in the orders list, just before the order number (and hideable from Screen Options), and a “Message on WhatsApp” button under the billing address on the order screen. Clicking it opens WhatsApp Web on desktop or the app on mobile, with the number formatted for the customer’s billing country. Works on classic and High-Performance Order Storage, and on simple and variable product orders
• New: Show or hide each top bar item by role. Every top bar control (the live counter, search, quick-create, notifications, “View store” and the rest) can now be set to Everyone, Admins only, or specific roles. This lets you keep administrative notifications and alerts away from your clients while managing many sites. Administrators (and network super admins) always keep access, so you cannot lock yourself out
• New: Hide new menu items by default. A new option under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Navigation keeps any menu item added by a newly installed plugin hidden from the sidebar until you have reviewed it. New items show in the navigation editor with a “New” badge, ready to switch on when you are happy with them. It is off by default, so nothing changes unless you turn it on
• Fix: Importing order statuses from another plugin no longer looks like it failed. After clicking “Import selected”, the browser could show a “Leave site? Changes may not be saved” warning; if you chose to stay, the page did not refresh and the imported status did not appear, even though it had already been saved. That warning is now suppressed for the intentional refresh, so the imported status shows straight away
• Fix: Administrator-only areas stay closed to a store manager who was granted “manage options”. If a shop manager’s role had been given the “manage options” permission with a role editor, several administrator-only areas (the settings lock, the top bar settings link, hiding Screen Options from non-administrators, and the welcome tour) opened up to them. Access to these is now decided by role, so only real administrators (and network super admins) get in

3.2.1 (2026-07-06)

• Docs: expanded the readme with the new cart abandonment / cart recovery feature and clearer WooCommerce sales report wording, and refreshed the screenshots (added the Abandoned Carts screen). No functional or code changes in this release.

3.2.0 (2026-07-06)

• New: Recover lost sales with the Cart Abandonment module. BrikPanel now captures the email of shoppers who start checkout but do not finish, and collects them on a new “Abandoned Carts” screen so no lead slips away. Emails are picked up from the checkout email field (classic shortcode and the newer block checkout, including custom pages), and from logged-in customers as soon as they add to cart. Every entry keeps a full snapshot of the cart, including the exact variation chosen (for example “Colour: Red”), quantity and total, and each cart moves through Active, then Abandoned, then Recovered once the shopper places the order, even if they check out with a different email. The screen has search, status, source and date filters, per-row product details, CSV and Excel export, and statistics cards
• New: An optional discount popup that hands out a personal coupon. Switch on the email popup and BrikPanel shows a clean, on-brand sign-up offer to your visitors. Anyone who subscribes is issued their own single-use percentage coupon (10% by default, and you set the rate), restricted to their email and valid for 30 days, shown right there with a one-click Copy button. Close the popup and it folds into a small floating tab so it is never in the way but is one click from reopening. You control the heading, message, button and success text, the delay before it appears, and the cooldown after it is dismissed
• New: Pick how the offer is revealed. The coupon in the popup can be revealed with one of six animated styles, choose the one that fits your store under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Cart abandonment: Sealed envelope, Pocket card, Scratch card, Slot machine, Magnetic assembly or the Classic ticket. All of them respect the visitor’s reduced-motion preference
• New: Import an email list into Abandoned Carts. Already have a list of leads? The new “Import CSV” button on the Abandoned Carts screen reads a CSV of emails (with optional first name, last name and phone), auto-detects comma or semicolon separators, matches your column headings, skips duplicates and invalid rows, and reports exactly what was imported
• New: Spacers and spacing controls for the sidebar. The navigation editor can now add blank spacers and divider lines between menu items to group them how you like, and a new “Item spacing” setting (Compact, Comfortable or Spacious) sets how much breathing room each row gets
• New: Choose your sidebar icon style. A new “Sidebar icon style” setting under Appearance lets you switch the sidebar icons between Solid (the original filled look) and Line (a lighter outline style). Solid stays the default, so nothing changes unless you want it to
• Fix: “Copy all” on the store summary no longer times out on large stores. On stores with tens of thousands of orders and customers, the store summary could fail with a timeout while working out new versus returning customers. The query behind it has been rebuilt to use the right database indexes, so it now returns quickly while showing exactly the same figures

3.1.51 (2026-07-05)

• New: Send an automatic email when an order reaches a custom status. Each custom order status now has its own email settings under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Order statuses. Switch it on and, whenever an order moves into that status, BrikPanel sends a message you have written, to the customer, your store admin, and any extra addresses you add. You choose the subject, heading and body, and can drop in placeholders such as the order number, total, items, customer name and a link to view the order. The emails are wrapped in WooCommerce’s own header and footer, so they carry your store’s email branding. Works the same on simple and variable product orders
• New: Import order statuses from another plugin. Moving to BrikPanel from another custom-order-status plugin? A new “Import from another plugin” card on the Order statuses screen finds statuses that other plugins have registered, and any “orphan” statuses left on your orders after a plugin was removed (which otherwise show as a raw code and drop out of filters and reports). Import the ones you want in a click and they become editable BrikPanel statuses, keeping their existing colour where it can be detected
• Improvement: Apply a custom order status to many orders at once. Your custom statuses now appear in the orders list “Bulk actions” menu (and in BrikPanel’s own bulk buttons), so you can select several orders and change them all to a custom status in one go, instead of opening each order. Works on both simple and variable product orders, on classic and High-Performance Order Storage
• Fix: The on/off switch can no longer be hidden from you by a store manager. The top bar’s BrikPanel power switch used to appear for anyone with the “manage options” permission, so a shop manager granted that permission could turn BrikPanel off for the whole store. Its visibility is now decided by role: administrators (and network super admins) always see it, and you can grant it to other roles from a new “Show the on/off switch to roles” setting under Access control

Earlier versions

For the complete release history (and all earlier versions), see changelog.txt bundled with the plugin.