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.

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

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

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

This week, we released the following improvements to our Checkout, aimed at improving localization.

RTL Improvements

RTL languages and page styling now load faster, and the layout shifts immediately when a buyer selects any RTL language.

RTL language Freemius Checkout

We have also released Arabic language support in beta.

Arabic language support in Freemius Checkout

The translation currently targets Modern Standard Arabic. To use it, pass ar as the language value. We will roll it out in production mode as we receive more feedback from our makers. If you would like to help, please get in touch with our support team from the Developer Dashboard.

Serbian Language Now Available

Serbian Language in Freemius Checkout

Serbian language Srpski is now generally available in our Checkout. You can pass sr as the language value, or use auto and your buyers from Serbia will automatically see the Checkout in their local language.

June 23, 2026

This week, we focused on improving the DX around the Developer Dashboard.

Improved Email Customization UI

We noticed some issues in the preview UI of Email Customization, which sometimes confused our makers.

Showing the improved Email Customization preview UI

We pushed an update to make the preview section more dynamic and better reflect the type and configuration of the product.

Improved Data Table Loading Performance

Last month, we rolled out an update to improve the performance of several data tables. However, after some production testing, we found that there was still room for improvement.

Faster data table loading in the Developer Dashboard

This week, we’re rolling out another set of changes to improve loading performance even further. We hope this improves your experience while browsing subscriptions, payments, or licenses in the Developer Dashboard.

Better Documentation Links

Freemius documentation goes deep for both WordPress products and other software, such as SaaS and apps. We understand that the documentation can feel a bit overwhelming for first-time makers.

contextual documentation links in the Developer Dashboard

To make it easier for our makers to find the right information, we updated several documentation links in the Dashboard to pre-select the type of software you’re selling with Freemius. We hope this makes the documentation feel more relevant and helps you get to the right guidance faster.

June 23, 2026