Changelog

v1.1.0 — 8 June 2026

Major release · 23 features across 9 sprints.

Sprint 9A — Polish

• Bulk operations (approve/reject/suspend) on affiliates, commissions, payouts
• CSV export across all admin list tables
• Sortable column headers
• Date-range picker on Reports + Commissions
• WP admin dashboard widget

Sprint 9B — Onboarding + UX

• Affiliate onboarding wizard (4 steps)
• Admin impersonation (“View as” with audit log)
• Email throttling per-recipient per-template per-day
• Per-product commission rates (WC product tab)
• i18n (translation-ready, .pot file)
• Mobile-responsive portal CSS

Sprint 9C — Performance

• Denormalised aggregates (lifetime balances on affiliates table — no more SUM() across thousands of commissions)
• Stats API: cursor pagination + transient cache

Sprint 9D — Licensing

• HMAC-signed licence client (activate / validate / deactivate against pay.asteriscommerce.com)

Sprint 10+ — Differentiators

• Two-tier (MLM) referrals
• AI swipe-copy generator (16 seed snippets + AI variants)
• Vanity /go/{handle} landing pages with cookie + view tracking
• Cloud-assist fraud detection (opt-in, SHA-256 hashed signals)
• Stripe Connect direct payouts (Express onboarding, OAuth)
• PayPal API auto-batch payout (OAuth2 + Payouts API)
• EDD + Surecart adapters
• A/B email testing on transactional emails

v1.0.0 — May 2026

Initial release. Core affiliate tracking, commissions, manual payouts.

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See the roadmap for what’s queued in v1.2+.