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A recommendation from our colleagues at Ays Pro Plugins

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Aelia Currency Switcher review – Recommended as the first choice

Our colleagues at Ays Pro Plugins contacted us a while ago, while they were conducting a survey about the best multi-currency plugins available for WooCommerce. Understandably, considering the number of solutions currently of the market, it took them a while, but the results are finally in. Our Aelia Currency Switcher came out right on top. From their summary:

In summary, the Aelia Currency Switcher for WooCommerce is a must-have tool for any online store looking to expand its global reach and boost sales. With its powerful features, easy setup, top-class support service, and decades of software engineering experience behind it, the Aelia Currency Switcher is a reliable and effective solution for any online store looking to cater to customers from around the world.

You can find the full review here: Ays Pro Plugins – Best WooCommerce Multi Currency Plugins of 2023. We’re delighted to see that our efforts are appreciated by clients and colleagues alike. We will strive to continue offering top class solutions to our clients, as well as unparalleled customer service. As always, we are open to collaboration with other developers who wish to join us in our efforts. Together, we can make the WooCommerce world the best place to run an online shop.

 

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Introducing the Quiz Maker plugin for WordPress

The Ays Pro Plugins Team offer an interesting suite of products for WordPress, tailored towards websites that offer study courses and need to run quizzes or collect feedback from the students. You can find the full suite of products here: https://ays-pro.com/wordpress. From that list, we chose a plugin that impressed us for its feature set, the WordPress plugin for Quiz.

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Why use a quiz plugin on your site?

If you run a site for students, or even just for fun, to tease your audience, it’s important to have an easy way to create engaging questionnaires. The Quiz Maker is a great tool for creating different types of quizzes, quickly and easily. The plugin allows you to build several types quizzes, like the following:

  • Personality tests
  • Scored quizzes
  • IQ tests
  • Assessment tests
  • Multiple-choice quizzes
  • Trivia quizzes
  • Buzzfeed quizzes

Abd more. The Quiz Maker offers extensive styling features, to make the interface blend smoothly with your existing site. The user interface is simple to use, responsive, and configurable.

What about cheaters?

Cheating is as old as quizzes. In fact, it was probably invented a few minutes after the first questionnaire. To prevent cheating during online exams and tests, the Quiz Maker allows you to create timer-based exams., which make it harder for a dishonest test taker to search for answers. The quiz plugin also include a content protection function to deter copying.

With great answers should come great rewards

Students like to be rewarded for reaching a good score. The Quiz Maker allows you to send customisable certificates to your examinees after they pass a test. A certificate can be automatically emailed to test takers, and it can also be used as an opportunity to generate leads to bring them back to your site. In addition to that, you can also publish a chart with the results, to give your audience an immediate understanding of how well they did. The good old “bragging rights” can be another powerful tool to keep your audience engaged.

If you need to charge fees for a test, Quiz Maker got you covered

Thanks to PayPal integration with the Quiz Maker plugin, you can create paid quizzes and questionnaires and apply the necessary fees before your students take their test.

Robust integrations bring your quizzes farther

The Quiz Maker includes numerous integrations, including Google Sheets, MailChimp, PayPal, Zapier, Stripe, ActiveCampaign, WooCommerce, Campaign Monitor, and Slack. You can use them to share your quizzes, invite your users to participate to them, or measure their engagement. The extensive integration features have you covered.

In conclusion, the Quiz Maker plugin is an ideal too for anyone who needs to cater to an audience of students, or users who like to have fun with entertaining quizzes. If you have any questions, the Ays Pro Plugins Team will be happy to answer them, and review any feature request you might have.

 

Thanks again for reading, and see you soon with more exciting news!

The Aelia Team

 

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Smart Coupons for WooCommerce, by StoreApps, now includes native support for the Aelia Currency Switcher

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Smart Coupons, by StoreApps, now with multi-currency support

The list of developers who join our efforts to bring full multi-currency support to WooCommerce has increased. The StoreApps Team, authors of the Smart Coupons plugin, have informed us that they added native support for our Aelia Currency Switcher to their product, starting from version 6.1.0, published on the 2nd of September, 2022.

Here’s an excerpt from the announcement published on the StoreApps website:

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Aelia Currency Switcher is quite an efficient and popular WooCommerce multi-currency plugin to display prices and accept payments in multiple currencies.

For store owners who use the Aelia Currency Switcher plugin, here’s a breakthrough update – Smart Coupons, the official WooCommerce coupons extension now integrates with Aelia multi-currency solution.

Your visitors would be able to view product prices, get discounts applied automatically, send and create gift cards/store credit in their own currency. And of course, make a purchase in that same currency.

 

You can find the full announcement here: StoreApps – Smart Coupons and Aelia Currency Switcher Integration. This new integration, paired with our popular multi-currency solution, will greatly simplify the management of multi-currency store credit. It will allow your shop to offer even more flexibility to your customers.

 

If you are looking for a flexible solution for gift cards and coupons, we would recommend to give the StoreApps plugin a try. You can get a copy of the Smart Coupons plugin from the WooCommerce shop: https://woocommerce.com/products/smart-coupons/. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the StoreApps Team: https://www.storeapps.org/support/contact-us/. They will be able to give you all the information you need and explain in detail how you can leverage the multi-currency features introduced in their latest version of their solution.

Of course, if you have any questions for us, e.g. to know more about our Currency Switcher, please feel free to reach out at any time, by using our contact form: https://aelia.co/contact. Just drop us a line, we are always happy to assist you.

 

The Aelia Team

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Aelia plugins – Performance improvements and PHP 8.2 compatibility

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In this post, we’re going to discuss the improvements we made to our products to deal with the breaking changes introduced by PHP 8.2, as well as the possible issues that you might encounter. If you’re not familiar with the PHP programming languages and the technical aspects of WordPress and WooCommerce, we recommend to involve your developer to fully understand the topics we will cover.

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WooCommerce Product-Addons by Plugin Republic now includes native support for the Aelia Currency Switcher

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Product-Addons by Plugin Republic, now with multi-currency support

A few days ago we have received excellent news from Gareth Harris, founder of Plugin Republic, which we are happy to share with you. Their popular Product Add-ons plugin now includes native support for our Aelia Currency Switcher. Without further do, here’s the announcement, straight from Gareth:

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Version 3.9.5 of WooCommerce Product Add-Ons by Plugin Republic now includes full integration with Aelia Currency Switcher for WooCommerce. This means that you can display prices for your add-on fields in different currencies.

The integration is seamless: you don’t need to change any settings, it works straight out of the box. When your users switch between currencies, all the add-on prices will automatically update. Any items that the user has already added to their cart will also update.

You can get a copy of Add-Ons Ultimate from https://pluginrepublic.com/wordpress-plugins/woocommerce-product-add-ons-ultimate/.

We’re excited to see another developer joining the “multi-currency movement”, in an effort to offer owners of WooCommerce shops maximum pricing flexibility. We recommend to give Gareth’s plugin a try, it could be just what you need to manage addons and options for your products. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact him: https://pluginrepublic.com/support/. He will be happy to answer your questions and assist you with the configuration of multi-currency addons on your site.

Of course, if you have any questions for us, you can also reach out, by using our contact form: https://aelia.co/contact. Just drop us a line, we are always happy to assist you.

 

The Aelia Team

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The Aelia Shipping Pricing Addon is now included in the Aelia Currency Switcher

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We are pleased to announce that the Aelia Shipping Pricing plugin, originally distributed as a separate addon for the Aelia Currency Switcher, will been bundled with the main plugin starting from version 4.11.x of the Currency Switcher. We took the decision of merging the two plugins after reviewing our sale statistics. The vast majority of our customers use both plugins together, therefore it made sense to release them as a single product.

This new distribution model brings several advantages:

  1. Easier maintenance. The licence for the Currency Switcher covers both the main plugin and the addon, so you won’t have to remember to renew two of them.
  2. Easier updates. The Shipping Pricing addon will “follow” the Currency Switcher at every update, reducing the chance of issues caused by old versions that were not updated.
  3. Lower price. The Aelia Currency Switcher with the Shipping Pricing addon included is cheaper than the current price of the two separate plugins.

What this means for our customers

If you’re using the Aelia Currency Switcher with the Shipping Pricing Addon as a separate plugin, you will soon see a notice informing you that the addon has been bundled with the Currency Switcher. The notice will look like the following:

The plugin “Aelia Shipping Pricing for Currency Switcher” is now included with the Aelia Currency Switcher

This plugin is now included in the Aelia Currency Switcher and no longer has to be installed separately. You can go to the Plugins page, then disable and remove plugin “Aelia Shipping Pricing for Currency Switcher”. Its features will remain available, as they were before.

As indicated in the message, you will just have to go to WordPress Admin > Plugins and disable the Shipping Pricing Addon. The features originally provided by that plugin will remain available via the Currency Switcher, exactly as they were before.

If you’re using only the Currency Switcher, you won’t have to do anything. You will just find the new features in the WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping page, after opening a shipping zone. Below you can find some screenshots of the Shipping Pricing Addon in action:

How this affects your licences

Your licence for the Aelia Currency Switcher will allow you to download the new version, including the Shipping Pricing features, automatically. When the licence for the Shipping Pricing addon  will expire, you will not have to do anything. In fact, you can simply delete the Shipping Pricing addon from your site after updating the Currency Switcher. As indicated, the main plugin now includes all the features from the shipping addon.

Any questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, we ill be ready to assist you.

The Aelia Team

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The Aelia Tax Display by Country plugin is now available directly from our site

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The Aelia Tax Display by Country plugin was originally sold via CodeCanyon. We’re currently reorganising our business and, as part of the operation, we are going to consolidate our offer and move all our products to a single, new licensing system. The new system will allow us to manage product licences, updates and support more efficiently, as well as resume sales to UK consumers and non-VAT registered business. As part of the consolidation process, we had to remove the Tax Display by Country plugin from the CodeCanyon marketplace.

The Tax Display by Country plugin is still in active development and compatible with the latest version of WooCommerce. The Aelia Tax Display by Country plugin is currently available directly from our shop: https://aelia.co/shop/tax-display-by-country-for-woocommerce/. When we will move the product to the new licensing system, you will have the option to transfer your licence to it and retain access to our updates and support service.

Update – 04 May 2021 13:00 CEST

Some users reported that the removal of the Tax Display by Country plugin from the CodeCanyon marketplace was sudden. We had planned to announce the change in the next few weeks, and move our Tax Display plugin to the new platform in June. Yesterday, we have been informed that CodeCanyon updated the guidelines for the products sold via their marketplace. Our solution complies with the new guidelines, with the exception of a few minor elements that don’t affect its functionalities. Despite that, the Envato Team chose to disable our product, without warning, pending a review.

Although we understand the new guidelines, and we would be happy to follow them, we don’t agree with the sudden removal of our product from the CodeCanyon marketplace. Our solution runs on thousands of our customers’ sites, and works perfectly with the latest version of WordPress and WooCommerce. We would have appreciated, and considered more professional, if they informed us, and gave us sufficient notice to address the discrepancies.

Due to this, and to the fact that we had already planned to move our product to another platform, we decided to start the migration process immediately. We considered this approach more effective than trying to rush an update, push for a review, and get the product back online on CodeCanyon just for a few weeks.

How this change could affect you

The policies applied by the Envato/CodeCanyon grant access to six months of support from the date of purchase. If you bought the Aelia Tax Display by Country plugin from that marketplace and have an active support service, simply contact us, with your purchase code (see Envato –  Where is my purchase code?). We will provide you with support for the remainder of the covered period.

If you don’t wish to avail of our support service, and you have a valid CodeCanyon purchase code, you can still get access to updates for the Tax Display by Country. To do so, please forward us the original purchase code via our contact form and we will send you the instructions to keep receiving the updates.

What are the differences in terms of licensing, support and updates?

The terms of licensing offered by CodeCanyon are different from the ones that we offer via our website. You can find a quick comparison below.
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Licence typeGPL . You are allowed to install and activate the plugin on as many sites as you like (see Benefits of the GPL licence)CodeCanyon’s Standard Licence. The licence allowed users to install the plugin on a single site (see https://codecanyon.net/licenses/standard). The terms of sale of the marketplace prohibited using the plugin on multiple sites.
UpdatesAutomatic updates are provided for one site per licence. You can install the plugin on other sites, which you have to have to update manually. The licence includes updates for one year. After that period the licence has to be renewed to receive further updates.Automatic updates were provided for one site per licence. CodeCanyon granted access to updates for the lifetime of the product. “Lifetime” meant until the product was retired, or removed from the CodeCanyon marketplace, as it happened in this case.
SupportThe support service is available for the duration of the licence, which is one year.Access to the support service was available for six months from the date of purchase. It had to be renewed every six months.

Update – October 2021

On the 1st of October, 2021, we moved all our products to the Freemius platform. The same terms described in the Aelia column, above, still apply to the products after the migration.

What happens after the support service bought from CodeCanyon will expire?

When the support service you bought from CodeCanyon will expire, you will just have to get a new licence from our site. This will grant you another year of updates and support.

Any questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at any time. We will be happy to give you all the information you need. Thanks.

The Aelia Team