Changelog

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.

Freemius Just Lowered Fees for All Our Makers!

October 1, 2025

Release notes: New checkout currencies and languages, RTL updates, trial cancellation emails, and finer license activation control for sellers

July 6, 2026

Release notes: RTL language support for checkout and emails, Sticklight integration, and platform improvements

June 2, 2026

Release Notes: Custom download links for apps, Customer Portal Activations page, analytics chart filtering, and Croatian language at checkout

May 4, 2026

Release notes: Full Freemius integration for Lovable, volume discount visibility, and dozens of improvements

April 9, 2026

Developer Dashboard Improvements for Feature Titles, Plan Filters, and Email Previews

We have deployed the following bug fixes and feature enhancements to our Developer Dashboard.

Accented Characters Are Now Supported for Features

As part of our ongoing effort to make Freemius better suited for local markets, we noticed that accented Latin characters, such as à and è, were not properly supported in feature titles. Features are a great way to promote your plans through pricing pages, and we understand that presenting them in the local language can be important for makers selling in their local markets.

showing a feature title with accented characters

With that in mind, we have deployed an update where feature titles now fully support any valid characters in any language.

Improved Plan Filtering UI in Store Pages

We noticed that the plan filter in several store pages had some UX issue. It shows plans from all products, which you can use for filtering. For example, on the Licenses page, you can choose to filter only by the Professional plan of a specific product. However, because multiple products can have the same plan name, it could become ambiguous.

improved plan filter with product icons

The UI has now been improved to show the product icon, along with the product title on hover, making it easier to understand which product’s plan you are selecting.

Email Customization Preview Improvements

We noticed a few glitches and some room for UX improvements in the Email Customization preview UI. We did a round of optimizations to make the preview more reliable and improve the overall experience.

improved Email Customization preview UI

For example, the preview UI will now show up eagerly when you set a title. We also fixed a few Markdown syntax rendering issues where the preview did not reflect formatting that our system already supported.

 

July 7, 2026

  • Developer Dashboard

Trial Cancellation Email Added to Email Customization

This week, we’re adding another template to our Email Customization feature. Until now, makers could already customize several emails, such as purchase, subscription, trial start, and more. However, many makers also requested support for the “Trial cancellation email“.

This made sense to us from a product marketing perspective as well. Trial cancellation is an important touchpoint where makers may want to re-engage users, offer a one-time discount, or provide another incentive to improve conversion.

With today’s deployment, this feature is live. Simply go to the Email Customization section from the Developer Dashboard, and you will find a new template named Trial cancellation email.

Developer Dashboard showing the new Trial cancellation email template in Email Customization

We hope you find this useful. If you have suggestions for other email templates, please let us know through support, and we will be happy to help.

June 30, 2026

  • Marketing Automation

Checkout Bug Fixes and Consumptive Usage Refund Badge Update

We have released the following bug fixes and minor improvements to our Checkout and related systems.

Upsell UI Bug Fix

Freemius Checkout supports strategically placed upsell interfaces to help boost your conversion rate. For example, right before the CTA, we show two upsells to buy an unlimited or lifetime license.

Checkout upsell UI before the CTA

It came to our attention that, in some cases, the upsell UI could disappear when changing the buyer country. We identified the root cause and deployed a fix.

Updated Refund Badge for Consumptive Usage

We recently introduced the concept of consumptive usage. When enabled, Freemius updates the generated refund policy to clarify that any consumed credits will not be refunded.

Consumptive usage refund policy configuration

With today’s deployment, we are bringing this information to the money-back guarantee badge in the Checkout as well.

Checkout money-back guarantee badge mentioning consumed credits

Fixed Duplicate Payment Failed Emails

The Freemius dunning mechanism kicks in when there is an issue collecting payments from active subscriptions, helping recover revenue from potentially lost customers. We noticed that, in some extremely rare edge cases, our system could accidentally send multiple emails to the same customer on the same day.

Payment failed email preview

We were able to identify the root cause and have deployed a fix.

June 30, 2026

  • Customer Portal

Fixed License Expiration Updates From the Subscription Page

Freemius Developer Dashboard allows makers to easily administrate licenses. This is useful when you need to manually extend or shorten licenses, either for testing purposes or to support your customers. For example, you may want to add an extra free month to a customer’s license as appreciation for a bug report.

Changing the expiration date also allows you to modify the subscription renewal settings, or you can choose to keep them as they are.

All these tools are exposed through a simple form, as shown below.

License expiration form in the Developer Dashboard

However, it came to our attention that while this worked properly from the Licenses page, it did not work as expected when trying to extend a license from the Subscription page.

With this week’s deployment, this has been fixed.

June 30, 2026

  • Developer Dashboard

Freemius Checkout Now Supports PLN, CAD, AUD, and ILS

This week, we’re rolling out a big feature for Freemius Checkout. Until now, the Checkout supported USD, EUR, and GBP currencies. We are now extending that support to PLN (Polish Zloty), CAD (Canadian Dollar), AUD (Australian Dollar), and ILS (Israeli New Shekel).

This is a great update for makers who are targeting local markets and want the Checkout experience to feel more familiar to their customers. For example:

  • Makers from Israel can configure the Checkout in Hebrew, with RTL support and ILS currency.

Checkout in RTL with local currency

  • Similarly, makers from Poland can configure the Checkout in Polish language with PLN currency.

Freemius Checkout with the newly supported currencies

You can simply set both the language and currency parameters of the Checkout to auto, and Freemius will do the rest. Alternatively, you can configure them with exact values. Learn more about the best practices here.

Setting Up The Currencies

Just like before, navigate to the Plan page of the Developer Dashboard and click the Add Currency button.

showing the Add Currency button on the Plan page

You will see that we’ve revamped the UI to make it easier to add and manage currencies. Select the desired currency, and Freemius will copy the value from the USD price using the proper conversion rate.

Selecting the new currency from the dropdown UI

From there, you can edit the values and pricing based on your requirements.

showing editable pricing fields for the newly added currency

Checkout Integration

By default, the Checkout will show all available currencies in the dropdown near the total price and in the footer.

showing the currency dropdown in the Checkout

You can also preload the Checkout with a specific currency by passing currency as aud, cad, ils, and so on.

Payouts

For the newly introduced currencies, you only need to set up the USD payout method.

Set up USD payout method

While GBP and EUR payouts can be configured separately, the new currencies are converted to USD by the payment provider at the time of payment and added to your USD balance.

We hope this exciting new feature helps you get closer to your local market and customers. If you would like to see more currencies supported in Freemius, please create or upvote a feature request on our official board.

June 23, 2026

  • API / Backend, Checkout
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