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Pier #138 – HeyStream – Your Own Broadcast Studio & Razorpay Integration for SureCart
Welcome to the 138th issue of The Pier. Bunny.net has launched Bunny Database, a SQLite-compatible managed service which has just entered public preview. Each user account can create up to 50 databases, each limited to 1 GB, free of charge.
SureContact has introduced a new LatePoint integration feature for synchronizing appointment and booking data, as well as a CartFlows integration. Support has also been added for time zone and language contact fields, SureCart subscription tracking and multi-item orders, and Presto Player remove list and tags.
First Look: HeyStream is a new, native live streaming service that works seamlessly with HeySummit in your browser — your own broadcast studio! Register for the first live look!
Milestone I: Great news for Indian merchants! SureCart has finally released its integration with Razorpay in version 3.19. You can now use Razorpay to accept UPI, credit & debit cards, net banking and wallets. In addition to one-time payments, the Razorpay integration works seamlessly with subscriptions and instalment plans.
Milestone II: Etch 1.0 has been officially released and is now ready for use in production. Watch the announcement livestream.
Milestone III: SEOPress has reached $3 million in cumulative sales after seven years of hard work.
Wow: NativePHP for Mobile is now completely free and open source!
Early Access: PhantomWP beta access is now open.
Launch: Developed by Thrive Themes, WPConsent is a new cookie consent management plugin for WordPress.
Release: Ray 3.0 now includes an MCP server that enables AI agents to read from and write to Ray, interact with it directly and trigger actions.
Exciting: Fancy a WordPress booking platform based on Gravity Forms? You might be interested in GP Bookings (video)!
Wow: Mosaic has announced the pricing of its complete WordPress theme builder and design system. You’re going to love it!
Nice: The public beta version of Divi 5 is now available.
Here is a selection of the latest and greatest blog posts we published this week on Ahoi.dev. You will also find some interesting industry news, the latest directory listings on The Port, job openings, and BFCM deals. Enjoy!
👋 Winden Tokens for Figma
Winden Tokens is a free, open-source Figma plugin that helps you to manage design tokens (variables) and offers advanced features for colour generation, scale management, visual relationship editing and bulk operations. Watch this video to find out more.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Builderius Collections have been rebuilt from the ground up. You can now visually build semantic HTML tables, recursive menus and nested loops (video). No PHP required!
Presto Player 4.0.8 introduces a new NPS feedback survey.
EventKoi now supports custom fields and RSVPs for events. In related news, the Bricks integration is almost complete.
WPForms releases a new Quiz add-on that allows you to create engaging, graded quizzes and personality assessments with weighted scoring systems using a drag-and-drop builder.
With Recipe Card Blocks Pro, you can now add custom SVG icons to create your own food labels.
Amelia 9.1 introduces a new Simplified Outlook Calendar Sync feature, as well as a guided setup process and Divi 5 integration. Admins can now use natural language to check employee availability, create lists of employees and set up appointments directly from the admin panel. Admins will soon be able to connect multiple calendars, including Google and Outlook, and block time slots from the back end. They will also be able to enjoy improved event tag management.
Voxel Designs releases its new Events template for Voxel, which makes it easy to set up event pages and showcases the advanced Voxel Events ticketing functionality.
Perfmatters 2.5.6 introduces the option to generate separate CSS files for different WooCommerce product types. There is also an option to disable the Perfmatters code feature.
WP ULike 5.0.0 introduces three new features: a beautiful settings panel; a built-in customiser panel with live preview; and a completely redesigned analytics panel.
Built for Gutenberg, the free Animate My Site plugin allows you to apply an animation style to your entire site with minimal setup.
Google Ads is now available to all users in ExactMetrics 9.0.
Scanfully introduces a new Broken Media Monitoring feature.
E-Commerce
SureCart announces an upcoming deep integration with Shippo, which will include support for live rates in the first phase. Merchants will be able to transform their store into a truly global business with a single checkout and fulfilment process, as well as shipping options for almost every scenario.
Fluently Toolkit 1.4 for FluentCart adds custom thank you pages per product, as well as new options to limit purchases per customer and total purchases per product. It also adds an ‘Order Again’ button to customer accounts. There is also a new Cancel Subscription button, separate first and last name fields at checkout, and an option to swap postcode and city field orders.
25 Real-world use cases for dynamic pricing, now available in SureCart.
Toolkit for SureCart 1.7 introduces 21 new features.
AB Split Test 2.4.2 adds the ability to regenerate public report share links.
FunnelKit Automations 3.7.0 introduces redesigned contact pages with built-in brand styling and advanced categorization tools for easily managing your automations. It also offers conditional content for smarter personalization in WooCommerce transactional emails.
The Booking & Appointment Plugin for WooCommerce 8.1.0 now lets you create bookable products more quickly by using ready-made templates for appointments, rentals, tours and room bookings.
Affiliate & Referral Marketing
FluentAffiliate 1.3.0 introduces recurring commissions for your affiliates. You can now enable affiliate commission for renewals and specify how many renewals you want to give commission for. Please note that this feature is currently only available for FluentCart. It will soon also be available for WooCommerce, EDD and other e-commerce plugins. There are also new Dynamic QR Code features for affiliate links and a bank details payout method.
With Partnero, multi-level commissions are expanded from a single level to up to five referral levels. This means that partners can now earn not just from the partner they refer, but from the entire chain that follows.
LMS / E-Learning
Uxcel introduces the Product Manager Certification, which validates your knowledge of discovery, prioritization, delivery, analytics and AI-aware practices. It is perfect for product managers at any stage who need credentials that employers recognize.
User & Client Feedback
WhatsApp Automation
Pabbly Chatflow AI can now understand and respond to both image and audio messages. This enables more natural, human-like conversations. In related news, you can now also record and send audio messages straight from the Inbox, without uploading files or switching tools.
Laravel
Laravel Debugbar 4.0.0 is a significant update that adds support for PHP DebugBar 3.x. It includes several new collectors and improvements for modern Laravel applications, such as dedicated collectors for Livewire, Inertia and HTTP client requests.
Laravel Private Cloud and Laravel Valkey are now general availability.
You can now select Hetzner S3 for database backups in Forge.
Nightwatch now generates AI-powered exception descriptions and detects exceptions in real time. It also captures sub-minute scheduled task frequency for more precise monitoring.
Social Media
Social Listening
Remention now supports text file sources. You can add text content to help your AI agents learn, such as FAQs, support documents, company policies, brand guidelines, product specifications and more.
Screen Recording
Screen Studio 3.5.2-4162 adds an iPhone 17 Pro Max mockup.
AI
Clawd Bot rebrands first to Moltbot and then to OpenClaw.
Eleven v3, the most advanced Text to Speech model, is now out of Alpha and generally available. Streaming and Professional Voice Cloning (PVCs) are not supported on Eleven v3.
Email Marketing
Mailercloud introduces Test Email Group Management. You can now save your test email lists as reusable groups directly in Mailercloud, streamlining your pre-launch testing process.
Online Events
HeySummit now allows attendees to filter event content by stage on the Schedule and Replay pages, making it easier for them to find content that interests them. In other news, you can now access the Talk Submissions page at any time, even when the feature is disabled, which makes managing speaker submissions easier.
Server Management
xCloud now supports OpenClaw Hosting (Beta), making it easy for you to deploy your own personal AI assistant.
Customer Testimonials
Feedspace releases the Widget Engagement metric, which indicates the percentage of user engagement that your widget is generating.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews introduces a new global SMS message feature, which allows you to add a custom message to all review request SMS messages. The TripAdvisor integration now supports hotels, restaurants and attractions. Additionally, setup for email, SMS and white-label domains is now easier. Finally, you can now also sync reviews from Reviews dot io and TrustedShops.
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🚨 Latest Posts
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Jewel from Fluent Support has just released version 2.0.0 of their customer support plugin for WordPress, introducing a complete redesign of the admin panel, ticket management and reports.
Hot on the heels of the new Instant Checkout Modal feature, FluentCart has added support for Full Site Editing (FSE) and six new Gutenberg blocks to its WordPress e-commerce plugin….
The Gumlet team has introduced a new screen recorder, desktop-style folder, one-click video playlist embeds and much more to its video hosting platform.
Aditya from SureForms has just introduced field-level form restrictions, as well as custom lost and reset password forms to the AI Form Builder plugin for WordPress.
Lukas from Gleap has just introduced custom quick actions to its customer support platform. This allows you to create custom prompts and save them as one-click buttons in your sidebar….
Aurelio from WP Umbrella has just announced the release of a new security dashboard for the WordPress management and maintenance platform.
Tanmay from PinkDocs has just introduced two new Gutenberg blocks to the AI-powered documentation plugin for WordPress. Say hello to the new ‘Steps’ and ‘Tabs’ blocks!…
Nelson from Job Boardly has just released a new Pro plan for the no-code job board builder SaaS. This tier includes a variety of new features designed to help users…
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 138th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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