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Changelog Category: API / Backend

Swashata Ghosh by Swashata Ghosh

Improved Invoice Details and Product Attribution

Following feedback from our makers community, we are releasing several improvements to the customer invoices this week. Better Invoice Header For SaaS & Apps, it didn’t make sense to include…

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Redesigned Buyer Emails with Modern Look and Better UX

This week we’re super glad to announce the immediate availability of our fully redesigned customer emails, refreshed with new brand guidelines and a modernized layout. If you’ve customized your email…

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Fixed Missing Quota Labels in Rebranded System Emails

We noticed a minor regression in some of our system emails sent to makers, where the label or type of quota associated with a license was missing. For instance, in…

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Enhancements to API Documentation, Schema & Webhooks

This week, along with the release of our new JS SDK, we are rolling out several important updates to our API Documentation, OpenAPI Schema, and webhook events. The pricing endpoint…

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Clarifying Affiliate Payment Cooling-Off Period in Emails

Freemius has a powerful affiliate platform where we track sales made by affiliates and send updates to both the seller and the affiliate. These emails also hint at the tentative…

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Improved Formatting in Pro-Forma Invoices

In the beginning of every month (payout cycle) Freemius sends automatic emails to our makers explaining the upcoming payout along with a copy of a pro-forma invoice. This week we…

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Announcing the New Look for Freemius Milestone Emails

At Freemius, we love to celebrate—and what better occasion than our makers’ success? For a long time, we’ve been sending various milestone emails to our makers, not only to recognize…

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New API Endpoints to Access and Cancel Subscriptions from a License

We have deployed two new API endpoints this week to ease our SaaS integration experience. In our guide, we ask to store the license ID after purchase to identify the…

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Enhanced Webhook Payloads for WordPress Products Deployment Events

Freemius offers a powerful webhook and events system to support your custom integrations. For example, when a new version is deployed, a plugin.version.deployed event is triggered, which your webhook can…

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Deployment Endpoints Bug Resolved

We noticed two bugs in our deployment-related endpoints. When generating the download links for the latest deployment (or “tag” as we call them internally), we found that in some cases,…

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New Feature: Monthly Scheduled Payout Email with Pro-forma Invoice

This week, we’re rolling out an exciting new feature to improve financial transparency and make accounting smoother for our makers. At the beginning of every month, as your payable earnings…

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Deployment API: Fixed Incorrect Version Returned for Latest Tag

We discovered a bug in some of our API endpoints responsible for fetching the latest deployment of a WordPress product — for example, products/{product_id}/tags/latest.json. Instead of returning information about the…

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Another Batch of Maker-Facing Emails Rebranded

Our rebranding project continues to roll out across the platform. This week, we’re releasing another batch of emails sent by Freemius to our makers. If you’re signing up or enabling…

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Another Batch of Freemius Emails Gets a Makeover

As part of our ongoing rebranding initiative, we’ve rolled out another batch of rebranded system emails this week. For example, if you’ve recently received cart recovery or trial-related emails, you…

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Refined Customer Invoices with Discount Accuracy and Better Readability

In another round of polishing the customer invoice, we’re glad to announce the following improvements: Discount Rows Invoices will now properly display discounts, even when the plan or coupon configuration…

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