A maintenance release making changes to how gift subs renewals work and updating some intricacies of billing subscriptions, with some bonus stuff thrown in.
Lots of turning of little knobs, while some bigger stuff happens in the background.
Gifts on gifts, gift sub renewals done differently, billing fixes, easier theme login, and some data work
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Highlights
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🎁 Gifts finally add up
Previously if someone was a gift subscriber and they got a second gift, they didn't stack as you would expect. So now if someone is halfway through an annual gift sub and someone gives them another annual one, they'll now have 18 months.
Read the release notes history →
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💐 Gift sub renewals made simpler
We moved gift subscription renewal pricing for gift givers and gift receivers into the page where you configure a gift subscription. Previously you set these on the renewal emails. This solves some issues where it was possible to have a renewal offer be on a different tier, which is just confusing for everyone. Now there's just one place to set the prices for the initial gift, for a giver to give again, or a recipient to buy their own.
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ADDED 4 items
| 🎁 All gift pricing controls gathered onto the gift settings page |
| 📬 LAB An inbox-detection service so themes can show "Open Gmail" and "Open Outlook" buttons that take readers straight to their login email |
| 📊 LAB Ghost engagement data on each member: last seen, location, newsletters, and subscriptions |
| 🧭 LAB Signup attribution on each member, so you can see what brought them in |
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CHANGED 2 items
| 🧱 For new clients the default setting for the registration wall now start at 3 free posts, and new metered paywalls at 5 posts |
| 💬 Renewal-offer checkout now words things differently depending on whether a member is restarting a canceled renewal or changing plans |
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FIXED 12 items
| 🎁 Fixed stacked gift subscriptions overwriting each other instead of adding their months together |
| 🎀 Fixed gift renewals being read as new gifts rather than extensions after a change to your gift price |
| 🔌 Fixed a bug in the Supercast connection flow |
| 🧙 Fixed the setup wizard overwriting settings you had already saved when a field was left untouched |
| 🔁 Fixed complimentary publisher accounts being bounced back into the Outpost setup wizard in a loop |
| 🏷️ Fixed complimentary renewals dropping the member's current tier |
| ✉️ Fixed problems setting up a custom sending domain in Mailgun |
| 🧧 Fixed gift checkout not telling a buyer the real reason a gift could not be set up |
| 📆 Fixed a recently expired gift blocking its own renewal |
| ⏭️ Fixed a scheduled move onto a plan with an introductory price charging the regular renewal price once the change took effect |
| 📆 Fixed plan-change confirmation charging the full price when the end of the member's current billing period could not be read |
| 🧾 Fixed a possible scenario where scheduled plan changes could be offered to members billed by invoice, who have no card on file to charge |
| 💸 Fixed the renewal line that could advertise a discount that runs out before the date shown next to it |
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IMPROVED 2 items
| ⚡ Outpost now only loads Stripe's payment script on pages that can actually take a payment, so every other page loads lighter |
| ↪️ Our security software's session replay tracking no longer loads on reader-facing pages |
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