We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.16, which brings a much-requested enhancement to Instant Checkouts and a new way to discount first subscription payment.

SureCart merchants tell how much they love using the Instant Checkout feature, but the most comment request has been to make it possible to use custom thank you pages.

We listened and with this release you will see a new option for custom thank you pages. Simply enable the feature and enter the URL to your custom thank you page.

Also in this release is a new way to apply discounts to the first payment in a subscription.

To better understand why you want to use this, let me tell you the problem it solves. Every year we have a Black Friday sale on our products which are annual subscriptions. We discount the first payment of a subscription, and the next payment is the normal amount. The only way to add a discount just for the first payment was to use a coupon, but this way can have its challenges. Buyers can accidentally remove a coupon, only one coupon could be used per purchase, sneaky buyers try to manipulate coupons to try and get discounts on other products.

SureCart has always offered Setup Fees for subscriptions, so we have modified this to enable you to add a setup fee or a discount on the first payment.

Now when we have our next sale, we simply need to add a setup discount and then turn it off once the promotion is over.

New:

• New: Add initial discount to price.
• New: Add a custom thank-you page link to instant checkout.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Removing storing carts on custom forms and use URL for cart persistence.
• Improvement: Update slide out cart template to template part to prevent accidental deletion.

Fix:

• Fix: Issue with order bump sometimes not appearing on slide out cart.
• Fix: Issue with instant checkout not loading for some users.
• Fix: Z-index issue with drawer and sticky top bar on some admin screens.
• Fix: Prevent issue with sites having timeout requests.
• Fix: Scratch amount missing on admin order details page.
• Fix: Issue with carts sometimes getting cleared on checkout page if default checkout is used with a shortcode.