Scheduled Sales & Automatic Discounts for WooCommerce – Smart Cycle Discounts

Changelog

1.8.21

• Performance: Replaced transient-based caching with WordPress object cache API — eliminates transient bloat and orphaned rows.
• Performance: Batched category queries and removed redundant preloading on admin page loads.
• Fix: Campaigns with no products, no discount, or no schedule are now correctly blocked on all surfaces — previously only caught during wizard review.
• Fix: Post-activation campaigns with zero orders no longer show “Ready” — capped to “Good” until real order data arrives.
• Fix: Store-wide analytics no longer count on-hold orders as confirmed revenue.
• Fix: Dashboard product count no longer double-counts and override intensity uses store-wide denominator.
• Fix: Health score uses campaign average instead of worst-campaign minimum.
• Improvement: Intelligence cache invalidates immediately on campaign changes instead of waiting for TTL expiry.
• Improvement: Policy profiles simplified to three deterministic presets (conservative, balanced, aggressive) — removes adaptive interpolation that caused threshold drift between page loads.
• Improvement: 105 reason codes now have explicit functional impact classifications — eliminates silent fallback behavior in the diagnostic contract.
• Improvement: ~30 reason codes completed with all 7 vocabulary dimensions — state-specific impact copy (risk vs caution) now covers blocking, conflict, stock, discount, schedule, coverage, economics, and reliability codes.
• Cleanup: Removed ~380 lines of adaptive policy code, legacy compile branches, and dead Store Provider methods.
• UI: Tools page cache card now honestly reports cache state and disables Clear Cache when no persistent object cache is available.

1.8.20

• Feature: 16 new intelligence recommendations — override intensity, dependency notice, predicted uplift (weak/negative), revenue trend (up/down), margin exposure, category saturation, and 8 wizard cross-field checks (discount depth vs duration, fixed discount vs product prices, spend threshold vs AOV, priority collision, recurring idle gap, bundle incentive, user role reach).
• Feature: Wizard CTA button now renders in the review step — clicking navigates directly to the relevant wizard step.
• Feature: All 31 diagnostic codes now have explicit action-oriented titles instead of generic family fallbacks.
• Fix: 15 intelligence logic correctness fixes — cache key mismatch, missing compile refresh guard, confidence cap bypass, guardrails wrong threshold, shared reason code, launch-ready linked check, score saturation, risk default asymmetry, double penalty, threshold ordering, health source mismatch, zero-activity default, economics code divergence, post-activation filtering, wizard health status.
• Fix: CTA button labels now match the recommended action across all surfaces (14 mismatches fixed).
• Fix: Surface adapter prefers vocabulary action titles over diagnostic messages for the “Best Next Action” display.
• Fix: Centralized margin economics code list prevents overflow cap from dropping important economics signals.

1.8.19

• Feature: Health gauge now reflects actual diagnostic health instead of a composite formula that mixed opportunity scores into health. A campaign with critical issues always scores low.
• Feature: Store-wide dashboard intelligence — the dashboard verdict now aggregates health across ALL active campaigns instead of analyzing a single focus campaign. Conflicts between any campaigns are surfaced immediately.
• Feature: Override Intensity operational signal — replaces Discount Coverage (already shown in Catalog Snapshot) with a new intelligence metric showing what percentage of overlapping products have their discount silently overridden by higher-priority campaigns.
• Feature: Bidirectional conflict detection — campaigns now detect both directions of overlap: higher-priority campaigns blocking them AND lower-priority campaigns they override. Direction-aware messaging tells merchants exactly what’s happening.
• Fix: Actions no longer trigger from synthetic metric thresholds alone — all metric-triggered actions (reduce overlap, protect stock, improve timing, protect margin, high discount load) now require diagnostic evidence from actual health analysis before firing.
• Fix: Free-tier confidence no longer penalized for missing Pro order data — evidence scoring split into diagnostic (free) and economic (Pro) sub-scores so free users see honest confidence based on their diagnostic data quality.
• Fix: Phantom metric computation gated — margin_impact and predicted_uplift no longer produce meaningless values when inputs are zeroed (free tier). Returns null instead of fake numbers driven by calendar month.
• Fix: Empty reason codes on pre-launch timing and overlap actions now properly assigned, fixing family deduplication.
• Fix: Badge and free shipping toggles use delegated events and live DOM lookups to prevent stale state.
• Fix: Clearing all conditions during campaign edit now persists to database.
• Fix: Incomplete campaigns can now be saved as draft via the wizard UI.
• Fix: Campaign ended hook fires when active campaign transitions to any non-active state.
• Fix: Stop recurrence button now cancels pending ActionScheduler events and cache entries.
• Feature: Resume Recurring button added to campaigns list for paused recurring campaigns.
• Maintenance: Removed deprecated code, zombie reason codes, legacy status string emissions, and dead code from the intelligence system.

1.8.18

• Feature: Store-Aware Opportunity Intelligence — Upcoming Opportunities generates suggestions based on your store’s actual campaign history and product data, not just calendar events.
• Feature: Campaign Drought, Best-Selling Category, Category Gap, Discount Coverage Gap, and Repeat Winner detections with Opportunity Chains and intelligence-aware suppression.
• Feature: Category-based wizard pre-fill — clicking a category-based store opportunity opens the wizard with the category pre-selected and all steps completed for quick review and launch.
• Feature: Intelligence now monitors free shipping configuration, user role targeting, location targeting, combination policies, and usage limits — previously invisible features are now covered by health checks with actionable signals.
• Feature: Usage limit proactive alerts — 75% early warning before the 90% near-exhaustion signal, plus lifetime usage cap tracking with exhaustion detection.
• Feature: “Campaign performing well” positive signal — active campaigns with 7+ days of usage and no issues now show a positive health status instead of generic “all checks passed.”
• Feature: Adaptive inactivity detection — the “no activity detected” threshold adjusts to your store’s order frequency (3 days for high-volume, 7 days for medium, 14 days for low-volume stores).
• Feature: Campaign age context in dashboard verdict — active campaigns show “Running for X days” alongside the health status.
• Feature: Conflict resolution guidance now explains which campaign wins: “Campaign X has higher priority and overrides this campaign on shared products” or “The oldest campaign wins on ties.”
• Feature: Bundle product picker now respects Products step filters — categories, tags, and advanced conditions from the Products step scope the bundle’s available products.
• Fix: BOGO campaign creation failed with “BOGO configuration is invalid” after contract cleanup — validate_compiled_campaign now reads complex discount structures from discount_rules instead of stripped top-level keys.
• Fix: Intelligence showed false “inventory problems” on campaigns with no stock issues — resolve_reason_code_family substring fallback mapped 'product' to 'stock' family; now correctly maps to 'coverage'.
• Fix: Health score stuck at 75 regardless of actual health — hardcoded default dimension scores (75), unlinked context scores (76/80/70), and decision_readiness computed before action severity replacement all contributed; defaults changed to 100, decision ordering fixed.
• Fix: “Discounted products have inventory problems” shown when all operational signals are green — cross-validator’s cross_bogo_all_products warning triggered for category-filtered BOGO campaigns; now only fires for entirely unfiltered catalogs and uses info severity.
• Fix: Bundle strategy variation_id used as parent ID in cart quantity tracking — now correctly reads product_id as the parent for WooCommerce variations.
• Fix: Bundle get_maximum_discount() returned flat_price value instead of savings — now calculates (total_regular_price - flat_price) using get_regular_price() consistently.
• Fix: Bundle sanitizer allowed negative discount_value, uncapped product_data arrays, and desynchronized product_ids/product_data — now floors at 0, caps at 50 entries, and filters product_data to match product_ids.
• Fix: $threshold_mode undefined variable in discounts step validator — Rule 6 (fixed discount exceeding spend amount) was dead code; now reads from the first threshold’s discount_type field.
• Fix: Intelligence cache not invalidated on campaign create/update/delete — invalidate_campaign() now clears the wsscd_dashboard_ci prefix alongside other cache groups.
• Fix: usage_limit_exhausted and usage_limit_nearly_exhausted signals never fired — usage_count was read from the campaign array but never joined from the database; now resolved via WSSCD_Customer_Usage_Repository.
• Improvement: Canonical backend data schema with WSSCD_Campaign_Data_Schema — compiler emits canonical payloads, hydrator handles reverse boundary, deprecated top-level keys stripped after compilation.
• Improvement: Campaign Intelligence decision service now uses numeric health scores and boolean issue flags instead of Health Service vocabulary strings — eliminates cross-layer vocabulary dependency.
• Improvement: Health service product ID resolution consolidated — single wc_get_product() loop per analysis (was 2x per product), product IDs resolved once and threaded through all checks (was 3 separate resolutions).
• Improvement: View Model passes pre-normalized data to Decision Service — eliminates duplicate normalization of scores, diagnostics, actions, and reliability per pipeline call.
• Improvement: resolve_reason_code_family() memoized with static cache — reduces ~30 repeated lookups per pipeline call to ~8 unique lookups.
• Improvement: Quality guard inspects only the primary action instead of normalizing the entire action list (result was discarded).
• Improvement: All diagnostic messages now describe problems only — action advice (“Consider…”, “Ensure…”, “Verify…”) removed from health service and cross-validator messages; IS vocabulary is the sole owner of fix text.
• Improvement: Full vocabulary coverage for all 6 discount types — 40+ reason codes added to family map, reason labels, impact text, action titles, and CTA labels.
• Improvement: Operational signal panels now scan risk_flags alongside critical_issues and warnings — eliminates contradictions between the verdict and the signal cards.
• Improvement: build_schedule_risk_state now matches recurring category items alongside schedule items.
• Feature: Email notifications now include Campaign Intelligence verdicts — Campaign Started, Ending Soon, and Ended emails show the IS health score, verdict, reason, and recommended action.
• Feature: Health Alert email notification (free) — triggered when Campaign Intelligence detects critical health issues on an active campaign. Enabled by default.
• Feature: Usage Limit Alert email notification (free) — triggered when campaign usage reaches 75%, 90%, or 100% of the configured limit. Enabled by default.
• Feature: Conflict Alert email notification (Pro) — triggered when same-priority or higher-priority campaign conflicts are detected, including which campaign wins.
• Feature: Zero Activity Alert email notification (Pro) — triggered when an active campaign has no discount usage after the adaptive inactivity threshold.
• Improvement: Notification hooks use transient-based deduplication — each signal fires at most one email per campaign per day to prevent alert fatigue.
• Feature: Campaign Overview Panel actions (Activate/Pause, Duplicate, Delete) now work via AJAX from any page — dashboard, campaigns, analytics — without navigating away. Page reloads in place after action completes.
• Feature: Campaign list action buttons show animated loading spinner on click while the page navigates to process the action.
• Feature: Tools page cache clear, log clear, and table optimization now work without page refresh — counters and displays update inline via AJAX.
• Feature: Unsaved changes indicator on Settings and Notifications pages — “Unsaved changes” badge appears next to the Save button when form fields are modified, with browser leave warning.
• Fix: Campaign Overview Panel footer buttons (Close, Edit, Activate, etc.) crashed on every use due to stale footerName reference in resetPanel() after incomplete refactor.
• Fix: Overview panel action URLs contained HTML-encoded & entities (from wp_nonce_url) which broke query parameters when used in JavaScript window.location.href — replaced with raw URL builder for JSON/JS contexts.
• Fix: Log Viewer “View Log” returned [object Object] instead of log text — handle_view_logs double-wrapped the result from view_logs() which already returns array('logs' => string).
• Fix: Button loading spinner did not animate — @keyframes was defined in a separate CSS file; spinner now uses self-contained @keyframes wsscd-button-spin in _buttons.css with hardcoded fallbacks and explicit SVG icon hiding.
• Improvement: Notifications page merged FREE and PRO sections into single “Notification Types” section with “Advanced Notifications PRO” divider — eliminates duplicate section headers and 6 repetitive PRO badges.
• Improvement: Campaigns page localizer now includes all operational button i18n keys (activate, pause, duplicate, moveToTrash, confirmDelete) — previously missing, relied on JS fallback strings.

1.8.17

• Feature: Campaign Overview Panel now includes operational action buttons (Activate/Pause, Duplicate, Delete) in the footer, matching the campaigns list table.
• Feature: Panel reopens automatically after an action completes via return_url parameter.
• Fix: Zero-activity dashboard no longer shows false stock warnings or “Ready to Launch” — stock risk flags are stripped for paused/expired focus campaigns, and verdict caps at “On Track” with idle messaging.
• Fix: Catalog Snapshot categories stat correctly shows all categories for full-catalog campaigns.
• Fix: Catalog Snapshot header chip shows discount load level label instead of duplicating the donut percentage.
• Fix: Health-driven “Needs Attention” verdict shows health-specific reason instead of contradictory “launch ready” messaging.
• Fix: “launch_ready” reason code family changed from “schedule” to “review”, preventing false overlap impact text.
• Improvement: Page header border radius, border, and shadow now use shared card design tokens for visual consistency.

1.8.16

• Fix: Dashboard intelligence verdict now agrees with operational signals — schedule/overlap reason codes only fire when diagnostic evidence exists, eliminating contradictions between “On Track” status and warning reasons.
• Fix: Campaign Health “Fair” (70-89) now correctly triggers “Needs Attention” verdict instead of “On Track”, aligning the metric card with the decision engine.
• Fix: “Ready to Launch” verdict now requires health score >= 90 (Healthy), not >= 80.
• Fix: Dashboard “Campaigns” section now includes expired campaigns, matching the Overview total count.
• Fix: Overview status breakdown now includes an Expired row so the breakdown sums to the displayed total.
• Fix: Catalog Snapshot categories stat now matches the “Affected categories” chips, with full-catalog campaigns correctly showing all categories.
• Fix: Catalog Snapshot header chip shows discount load level instead of duplicating content from the donut or stats section.
• Fix: Health-driven “Needs Attention” verdict now shows health-specific reason and action instead of contradictory “launch ready” messaging.
• Fix: “launch_ready” reason code no longer maps to schedule family, preventing false overlap impact text on positive verdicts.
• Fix: Diagnostics “Fresh estimate” label replaces contradictory “Fresh data” when analysis mode is estimated.
• Fix: Page header “Analytics PRO Pro” double badge — tab labels now use clean translated titles.
• Fix: Missing plus icon on Create Campaign buttons — corrected non-existent “plus-alt” icon reference to “plus”.
• Fix: Stock risk signals no longer appear when focus campaign is paused or expired — health context builder now strips stock-category risk flags for non-active campaigns, matching the aggregate-level guard.
• Fix: Dashboard campaigns list always reflects current data instead of stale cache.
• Fix: Zero-activity dashboard no longer shows “Ready to Launch” — verdict caps at “On Track” with “No campaigns are currently active” messaging when no campaigns are running.
• Improvement: Action engine emits severity “warn” for schedule/timing actions backed by diagnostic evidence, ensuring proper verdict escalation.

1.8.15

• Redesign: Comprehensive admin UI/UX overhaul across all plugin pages — Dashboard, Campaigns, Analytics, Settings, Notifications, Tools, and Help.
• Redesign: Shared page header with segmented-control tab navigation, plan badge (Free/Pro), Upgrade button for free users, and contextual action buttons.
• Redesign: Dashboard — redesigned Upcoming Opportunities (hero + weekly split), 3-column workspace grid (Campaigns, Catalog Snapshot, Overview), and Campaign Intelligence deduplication.
• Redesign: Campaigns page — compact KPI strip replaces 5 large summary cards, inline status filters with Trash support, search moved into bulk actions toolbar.
• Redesign: Campaign Overview Panel — hero identity card with gradient metric strip, stacked section cards replacing tabbed workspace, pro-gated performance section.
• Redesign: Analytics page — Hero Metric + Supporting Grid for KPIs, Bento Grid layout (Products, Campaigns, Activity), compact Store Performance inline strip, sequential AJAX loading.
• Redesign: Settings and Notifications pages — card-grid layout with server-side FOUC prevention, Save button in header, consolidated Email Setup section.
• Redesign: Tools page — action cards grid with stats strip, key-value pairs, and danger zone.
• Redesign: Help page — clean 3-column card grid with documentation, support, and campaign ideas.
• Improvement: Shared stats strip component (elevated floating cards) used by Tools and Notifications health displays.
• Improvement: Standardized card headers across all pages — bare 16px icon + title + description, matching Campaign Intelligence pattern.
• Improvement: Card header descriptions added to all cards across every page for better context.
• Improvement: Upgrade to Pro link in page header for free users linking to Freemius checkout.
• Improvement: Pro feature gating on Campaign Overview Panel performance section — free users see upgrade overlay instead of empty metrics.
• Improvement: Hero card metrics show Pro badge and em-dash for Revenue/Orders on free plan.
• Fix: Color flash on page load — removed JS setProperty overrides that replaced CSS custom property var() references with flat values.
• Fix: Revenue Trend blank section — chart empty state rendered visible by default, jQuery .show() replaced with .css(‘display’, ‘flex’).
• Fix: 502 errors on Analytics — sequential AJAX loading replaces parallel requests that overwhelmed PHP-FPM.
• Fix: Settings/Notifications field flash (FOUC) — server-side hidden flag on conditional fields prevents 1-second visibility before JS hides them.
• Fix: Stray ?> rendered as visible text in Upcoming Opportunities chip badge.
• Fix: Top Products table column mismatch — JS generated 5 columns but template had 4.
• Fix: Performance-by-type meta class mismatch between JS and CSS.
• Fix: System report double-wrapping in AJAX handler.
• Maintenance: Consolidated duplicate toggle switch CSS — notifications page now uses shared _forms.css.
• Maintenance: Consolidated card header/heading CSS — removed page-specific duplicates from settings, tools, notifications, and analytics in favor of shared _components.css.
• Maintenance: Removed gradient backgrounds from all card headers — unified flat white style.
• Maintenance: Removed icon badge wrappers from all card headers — unified bare icon pattern.
• Maintenance: Removed orphaned CSS — gauge/limit cards, empty states, dashboard grid layout, business row, tab workspace styles, and 70+ lines of dead selectors.
• Maintenance: Removed dead PHP — render_basic_section method, section-basic.php template, handle_ajax_requests method.
• Maintenance: Removed dead JS — tab switching logic, sectionCards cache, test-email-footer reference.
• Maintenance: Added WordPress admin color scheme CSS to Help page for consistency.

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