* New – Added Paid-Order Gatekeeping option. When enabled, verified users remain in a restricted "pending paid order" state until their first WooCommerce order completes — preventing welcome-coupon abuse and stopping bot accounts from receiving promotional emails before they've bought anything. Includes new Verified column state, admin bulk override, and analytics tracking.
* New – Added "Force re-verify all customers" admin tool to mark every existing unverified user as unverified in a single action. Combined with the Login Authentication popup, this lets stores clean up legacy accounts after a spam attack or post-install. Available as a Tools-page button and as a WP Users list bulk action. Background-batched via Action Scheduler for large sites.
* New – Added Cart-Total Threshold Verification. Merchants can now configure OTP verification to trigger only when the cart subtotal or total exceeds a specified amount. Combines with Category-Specific Verification via OR logic. Multi-currency stores are normalised to the store base currency for comparison.
* New – Added Polylang compatibility alongside existing WPML support. All verification emails, popup messages, and admin notices are now translatable via Polylang's String Translations panel and delivered in the customer's preferred language.
* New – Added Smart Form — a unified, brand-customizable login/register form for the My Account page and any post or page via the cev_smart_form shortcode, with brand title, color, and panel customization.
* New – Added 4 ready-made Smart Form template layouts. Switch between layouts from the admin without touching code; each layout is fully responsive and inherits the customizer brand settings.
* New – Added flexible login + registration modes to Smart Form. Switch login between password and email OTP, and let customers register with either email or phone — all with built-in OTP verification.
* New – Added optional My Account takeover. When enabled, Smart Form replaces WooCommerce's default form-login.php on /my-account/ so the same branded login/register experience runs across the storefront.
* New – Added SMS verification gateways. Smart Form's phone-registration flow delivers OTP codes via your choice of MSG91, Twilio, Vonage, or WhatsApp Business — configurable per-site from the admin.
* Improvement – Redesigned the entire admin experience with the new Zorem UI design system (ZUI). Every screen — Settings, Unverified Users, Maintenance, Analytics, the Email Customizer, and the 2FA setup card — now shares a unified visual language: consistent typography, cards, sidebar navigation, table cells with avatars, snackbar toasts, confirmation modals, and inline tooltips. The same design language is shared across the wider Zorem plugin family for a familiar, polished merchant experience.
* Dev – Tested with WooCommerce 10.8.1
* Dev – Tested with WordPress 7.0

* Add – Allow referral links and referral coupons to be enabled together.
* Add – Include referral coupons in WC Admin coupon analytics reports.
* Add – Support localized price formats in referral settings.
* Add – Use unsaved share email settings when previewing share emails.
* Dev – Update shell-quote to resolve a Dependabot security alert.
* Update – Allow referral credit to remain with individual-use coupons.
* Update – Serve the referral share button icons only in the modern WOFF and TTF font formats. The legacy EOT and SVG icon fonts, which were only needed for Internet Explorer and other browsers that dropped SVG font support years ago, are no longer bundled.

* New – Added a Favourite Products column to the Buy Again table, allowing customers to mark and manage their favourite products.
* New – Added "Filter By" options to the Buy Again table, including stock status, purchase history, and favourite product filters.
* New – Added the Buy Again carousel shortcode: bya_buy_again_carousel.
* Update – Improved shortcode display and parameter descriptions.

* Fix – Create variable products in Lightspeed R-Series even when the matrix attribute set already exists
* Fix – Prevent repeated import errors when a Lightspeed POS R-Series matrix attribute is named with a reserved word such as Type

* Tweak – WooCommerce 10.9 Compatibility.