Welcome to the changelog section of Freemius, here you'll find our weekly technical update notes. You can subscribe to all posts via Newsletter or follow us on Twitter to stay updated.
This week, we’re releasing some updates to the Freemius backend and API. They are:
Please stay tuned – we’re preparing for some big changes in the Checkout App (no teasers at the moment 😄)
This week, we’re rolling out a new security layer that our CTO Dror Yaakov has been working on. It will prevent card testing attacks more accurately while letting legitimate purchases pass through.
We’re doing this in a phased manner to avoid surprises and to thoroughly test the system. Only a small percentage of requests will run through the new layer. Once we have enough data, we will let the system handle more requests, eventually replacing the existing one.
This weekend, it’s our pleasure to announce a wholly reskinned and modernized Developer Dashboard.
The entirety of the application has been reskinned. When you log in for the first time, the system will try to detect your color preference and automatically set the light or the dark theme. You can click on the sun/moon icon beside the Freemius logo to toggle the theme as you please.
Here are some notable pointers.
Our designer Vitalii has worked hard to create modern and meaningful icons for the actions/information the Developer Dashboard provides. Here are some examples:
We have refreshed the design of the SDK integration page to elucidate the steps you need to take to integrate your product with Freemius.
We’ve made it easier to create new pricing variations and bulk licensing on the Plans page.
.These are but a few of the Developer Dashboard’s new improvements. Please login to your Developer Dashboard now and give us a shout on how you like them.
This week’s changelog comes with many new features in the Developer Dashboard.
After we introduced a “Foreign Exchange – USD” virtual currency to display transactional data on the new “Sales Analytics” page, we received a request to support other foreign exchange currencies too. This week, we are releasing that feature.
Apart from the “FX-USD”, you can convert your transactional data into any of the currencies Freemius supports.
Feedback from our partners made us realize that Subscriptions and Payments are the primary things one wants to see when accessing the Users page. It was hidden behind an accordion, which you had to click to view information.
To save you the hassle, those sections are now open by default and load as soon as the licenses are loaded.
Following many requests from our partners, we’ve implemented a self-service system to add or update “Bank Wire” payout methods in our Developer Dashboard.
Until now, our partners had to send us bank details manually if they wished to have payouts via bank wire. But with this update, you can do it yourself from the Developer Dashboard’s Profile page.
Go to My Profile at the top-right corner of the Developer Dashboard and scroll to the section that says Payout Method(s). Under the Payout Method column, you’ll find that selecting Bank Wire (or Wise) will open a popup where you can enter your bank details.
All of your details are saved securely in our server under heavy encryption.
At Freemius, we support selling in three currencies.
You can choose to…
You can set up three bank accounts if you’re selling in all three currencies.
We have imported data for all of our partners who are already using the wire payout. You will see the form already populated with the bank account details you shared with us.
Following feedback from many of our partners, we’re releasing a bunch of enhancements and fixes to the newly introduced Multi-store sidebar in our Developer Dashboard this week.
We are now showing the number of products associated with a store when browsing the STORES list.
This will indicate if a store has no product. We hope this will be useful for identifying ‘accidentally’ created stores that you may no longer want to use and would like to delete.
When creating a new product under a store, the sidebar will now show the Stores header with the Products page being highlighted to better reflect what status you’re in.
The add-ons will now appear with a better UI to indicate which product they are under.
Following feedback, we have started adding a tooltip to show the full name of the product when hovering. This is useful if you have many products with similar names that are ‘trimmed’ to accommodate the space.
When searching through products (which will only show up if you have more than 7 products), we now hide the Store title so that you can focus on the product names themselves.
/checkout/geo.json API endpoint.As another push to bring the Multi-store Developer Dashboard out of beta, we are glad to announce the following big features:
For those of you who are selling with multiple currencies, you’ll be glad to know that we’ve included a new feature in the Sales Analytics page to show all your transactions with a Foreign Exchange rate. Previously you could select only one currency at a time.
After getting some feedback from our partners, we have included a special “FX USD” currency which will take all your transactional data and convert the non-USD currencies with the current day’s exchange rates.
This has also been on our to-do list for a long time. Before taking the Multi-store Developer Dashboard out of beta, we wanted to make sure we are giving a simple and intuitive experience when switching between stores and products.
Following several rounds of feedback and many brainstorming sessions within the team, we’ve come up with a sleek tabular interface to list and switch between all your stores and products.
You can click on any of the tab buttons and it will show you the corresponding list. You may click on it again and it will toggle you back to the current view.
To make the date pickers in the analytics page more intuitive, we have made the following changes.
In the future, we want any resolution to support any date ranges. Right now. there are some limitations, for example:
We are working on a mechanism to fix this ASAP. Please stay tuned.
We noticed that the new Sales Analytics filter was neglecting any deleted plans, billing cycles, licenses, etc. For the time being, we are handling this by adding a new filter option called “Deleted Licenses” in all filters (checked by default, if any).
We are working on a robust solution to be able to see and filter through the deleted plans/licenses/billing cycles, etc.