We are happy to announce that the Prices by Country for WooCommerce plugin completed its testing phase, and it’s now going to be made available to the customers who opted in to our early access program. We will run this pilot program for a short while, to gather valuable feedback from the participants and ensure the quality and stability of our product.
Thanks to the experience earned with the development of our Currency Switcher for WooCommerce, we managed to implement support of prices by country for variable products. Variable products are some of the most complex to handle, and we had to run extensive tests to make sure that the product pricing logic is robust and consistent. It looks like we finally made it!
We had hoped to reach this beta stage last Saturday, but we got delayed after moving office. We also encountered some difficulties in making the plugin work both with and without the Currency Switcher, but we finally solved them.
The Prices by Country plugin reached version 1.1.0.141110-RC1. It currently supports simple products and variable products and it’s fully integrated with our Currency Switcher. For both product types is now possible to enter prices in multiple currencies, for multiple countries, and have the system pick the appropriate one seamlessly!
Here you can find the screenshots of the administration user interface for variable products. The space provided by WooCommerce UI is a bit limited, but we think we manage to create an intuitive interface anyway. Here you can see some screenshots of the user interface to configure multiple prices for variable products:
Our next milestone will be adding support for grouped and external products. These features will mark RC2 phase of the plugin, which will then become available to the early adopters who expressed interest in helping us improving it before its public release.
If you wish to get early access to the Prices by Country plugin, please contact us. We will take note of your interest and offer you a substantial discount on the product when the first stable version will become available.
Thanks for reading, see you soon with more great news!
The Aelia Team
The Braintree Extended Gateway for WooCommerce, with multi-account and Kount anti-fraud support, is now available from our shop. This new gateway requires and extends the excellent Braintree Gateway developed by SkyVerge, adding new, powerful features.
As we anticipated a few weeks ago, we are making good progress with the Prices by Country plugin. We had hoped to reach this beta stage last Saturday, but we got delayed after moving office. We also encountered some difficulties in making the plugin work both with and without the Currency Switcher, but we finally solved them.
The Prices by Country v1.0.5.141101-beta fully supports simple products and it’s fully integrated with our Currency Switcher. The plugin can be used by itself, to specify prices in a single currency for multiple countries, or together with the Currency Switcher, to specify prices in multiple currencies for multiple countries. Flexibility at its best!
The Administration interface did not change since last update. You can find the original screenshots below, for your convenience.
Our next milestone will be adding support for variable products. We hoped to have this done by the end of October, but our time travel skills are limited. We will focus our efforts to reach the next beta stage in November, adding full support for Variable Products. Yes, the Prices by Country plugin will fully support multi-currency prices for variations, too!
If you wish to get early access to the Prices by Country plugin, please contact us. We will take note of your interest and offer you a substantial discount on the product when the first stable version will become available.
Thanks for reading, see you soon with more great news!
The Aelia Team
Two months ago today, we announced that we started working on a Prices by Country plugin for WooCommerce (yes, the name changed slightly, from “pricing” to “prices”). We had made a good progress, but we were delayed by the release of other products, such as the First Data/Authipay gateway, the Mijireh multi-currency gateway and the PayPal multi-account gateway. The early release of WooCommerce 2.2 also gave us some work to do, as we had to test all our products, to ensure compatibility with the latest version of the shopping cart.
We have now resumed working on the Prices by Country plugin, and we are happy to inform you that we already reached the first beta stage.
In its current version, the Prices by Country supports simple products and it’s fully integrated with our Currency Switcher. By using both plugins, it’s possible to set a product price in multiple currencies, and enter a separate set of prices for different country groups. What’s even better is that you can leave some prices empty for a country group, if you wish, and they will be automatically populated using the base prices. If you use multiple currencies, conversion will also be automatic. Full integration, full flexibility!
We modified the Administration interface since last update, and implemented a new, cleaner layout. You can see a few screenshots below.
Our next milestone will be adding support for variable products. Due to their flexibility, they require a different approach, as well as a different interface. We are currently experimenting different solutions to see which one would be the most efficient and user friendly. Of course, the Prices by Country plugin will fully support multi-currency prices for variations, too!
We plan to hit the second beta stage by the end of next week (ending on the 24/10/2014), but, with a bit of luck, we could be able to reach it ahead of schedule. We cannot make an official commitment at this stage, as we are still in the middle of development.
If you wish to get early access to the Prices by Country plugin, please contact us. We will take note of your interest and offer you a substantial discount on the product when the first stable version will become available.
Thanks for reading, see you soon with more great news!
The Aelia Team
WooCommerce 2.2 was released yesterday, followed shortly by updates to 2.2.1 and 2.2.2, and we started our testing process to ensure that our plugins are compatible with it. Despite the many changes introduced by the new version, we are happy to inform you that our products are now ready for use on WooCommerce 2.2.x.
Our flagship product was the first in the list. The Currency Switcher, until version 3.4.17.140903, is almost entirely compatible with WooCommerce 2.2. The only bug we found was that the dashboard widget did not display the correct amount of sales. The issue has been fixed in 3.5.0.140911, already available.
All Currency Switcher add-ons are not affected by the breaking changes in WooCommerce 2.2.x and should be fully compatible with it.
The changes added to WooCommerce 2.2.x do not affect this plugin, which should work out of the box.
The plugin is compatible with WooCommerce 2.2.x.
We will keep testing our products to make sure that any issue which might still exist is fixed quickly and efficiently. Should you find any, please feel free to report it using our support portal: Aelia Support Portal. Thanks for your time and collaboration.
The Aelia Team
