BrikPanel — WooCommerce Dashboard, Sales Report, Google Sheets Sync, Inventory Management & Bulk Editor

Changelog

3.1.19 (2026-06-11)

• New: Customer phone numbers in Segments and Customer Analytics. The phone number now appears alongside the email everywhere you view or download a list of customers or orders: the Segments screen (both the Orders and Customers tabs) gains a Phone column, and the Customer Analytics screen shows the phone under the email in the Lifetime Value and RFM analysis customer lists. Every CSV export from those screens now includes a Phone column too, so you can use the data for SMS or WhatsApp marketing the same way you already use email. Phone is read from the order’s billing details and falls back to the customer’s saved billing phone, covering guests and registered customers alike, on both simple and variable products
• New: Shipping class and Author columns on the product list. The modern Products screen can now show a Shipping class column and an Author column, both toggled from the „Columns“ menu and off by default, with your choice saved per user. The Author column is handy on multi-vendor setups such as Dokan, where it shows the product’s seller. Works on both simple and variable products
• Improvement: The master interface switch now lands you on the matching native screen. Turning BrikPanel off from inside a panel screen no longer always drops you on the WordPress dashboard: it now takes you to the closest stock WordPress / WooCommerce equivalent of the screen you were on (the products list to the native product table, the product editor to that product’s classic editor, coupons to the coupon list, customer analytics to WC Analytics customers, and so on). Screens with no native counterpart still fall back to the dashboard, and screens that are only skinned in place reload where they are. Developers can extend the mapping with the brikpanel_master_off_landing_map filter
• Improvement: Top bar visual polish. The 10px gap that appeared between the top bar and the „Screen Options / Help“ row on WooCommerce list screens (orders, products, …) was removed, the notification bell and „visit site“ icon buttons were brought down to the same height as the Create button, and the user profile button was resized and given the same corner radius as the rest of the bar, so every control in the right-hand cluster now lines up in one consistent height and shape
• Fix: Selecting a large global attribute no longer freezes the product editor. Picking an existing global attribute that has thousands of terms (for example an author attribute with several thousand values) used to stamp every single term into the row as a selected tag, flooding the page with DOM nodes and locking the browser. The row now opens empty and you add only the terms you want through the existing type-ahead search, on both the Product attributes card and the variation wizard’s Custom template. The full term list that was also being embedded into each option as JSON has been dropped (it was already sent in the save payload), trimming roughly 250kb off the editor page on stores with large taxonomies. Deliberate defaults (the Size + Color template’s preset sizes, a product’s already-saved values) are preserved. Works on both simple and variable products
• Fix: Exported phone numbers are protected against spreadsheet formula injection. A phone number that starts with „+“ is written safely so spreadsheet apps treat it as text, not a formula

3.1.17 (2026-06-09)

• New: The orders overview is now a set of trend cards with a date-range filter. The strip above the orders list has been reworked into separate cards for Total orders, Completed, Refunded and Revenue, each with its own mini sparkline showing the shape of the period, and a date picker (Today, Last 24 hours, Last 7 days, Last 30 days) that updates every card and the marketplace panel at once. Hourly detail is used for the day views and daily detail for the week and month views, all in your store’s time zone. Your chosen range is remembered between visits, and the role-based „Hide orders analytics“ control still applies. Counts use the same valid-sale and refund statuses as the rest of BrikPanel, on both simple and variable products
• New: Export your custom checkout fields to Google Sheets. Any extra checkout or order fields on your store (added through WooCommerce’s own checkout fields, a checkout-field plugin, or a code snippet) are now detected automatically and offered in the Orders „Columns to export“ picker, alongside the built-in columns. Pick the ones you want and their values are written to your sheet on every sync. Works for both simple and variable products
• New: Filter the Google Sheets order export by shipping method. A „Shipping methods to export“ picker on the Orders tab lets you push only the orders that used the methods you choose (for example only Local pickup, or only Flat rate). Leave every box unchecked to export every order as before
• New: Cost of Goods (COGS) in the Google Sheets export. Three new optional columns are available: „Order COGS total“ (the whole order’s cost of goods) and „Line COGS (cost × qty)“ on the Orders tab, and „Cost (COGS)“ on the Products tab. Costs use the same per-unit values as BrikPanel’s Profit reports, with variations falling back to their parent’s cost when they have none of their own. They are off by default; add them from the relevant „Columns to export“ picker
• Fix: Two-way product sync no longer re-pushes rows that did not change when the rightmost exported column is blank for some products (for example a „Cost (COGS)“ column with no cost set). Google Sheets drops trailing empty cells when read back, which made those rows look different from what was pushed and triggered a needless re-push on every poll. Rows are now compared at their full width, so only genuine edits flow back. Two-way status sync for orders and stock sync for products are both verified working, including when the new optional columns shift the position of the Order status or Stock column

3.1.15 (2026-06-09)

• Fix: Costs entered in WooCommerce’s own Cost of Goods Sold field now show up in BrikPanel. If you set a product’s cost from WooCommerce’s native Cost of Goods Sold field (rather than BrikPanel’s editor), that cost was previously invisible to BrikPanel: the dashboard Profit/COGS read as empty and the Cost column and Quick Edit on the product list showed nothing, even though the value was clearly saved on the product. BrikPanel now reads WooCommerce’s native cost everywhere and keeps it in step automatically, so the figure appears at once. Existing products are caught up in a one-time pass on update; works for both simple products and variations

3.1.15 (2026-06-08)

• New: SEO fields for SureRank right inside the product editor. SureRank’s SEO title, meta description, canonical URL and focus keyword now appear inline in the BrikPanel product editor, with a live SEO-analysis panel that scores the current, unsaved values as you type. SureRank’s own editor is a React popup that cannot draw inside a custom screen, so the fields are surfaced through BrikPanel’s unified SEO card instead. Everything is written back into SureRank’s own surerank_settings_general meta (plus the per-post noindex flag), so the storefront output and SureRank’s own dashboard stay perfectly in sync. Works on both simple and variable products
• New: Limit the Google Sheets product sync to selected categories. A category picker on the Products tab lets you push only the products in the categories you choose (sub-categories included) instead of the whole catalogue. Off by default (all products). „Sync now“ fully clears and rebuilds the Products tab, so narrowing the filter never leaves stale rows behind for products that no longer match. Covers simple products and their variations
• New: Hide the orders analytics summary from chosen roles. A new „Hide orders analytics from roles“ setting under WooCommerce -> Settings -> BrikPanel -> Access control hides the 30-day revenue and order-count strip above the orders list from any roles you pick, while those users keep the full orders screen. Ideal for multi-branch stores where branch staff process orders without seeing the whole store’s totals. What you select is exactly what is hidden, and a defence-in-depth check on the data endpoint stops a hidden role from fetching those figures directly. Note: this hides the store-wide numbers, it does not recalculate them per branch
• New: Choose which order statuses feed your dashboard order stats (WooCommerce -> Settings -> BrikPanel -> Analytics). You can now decide exactly which order statuses count as valid sales and which count as refunds, so stores using shipment-tracking or returns plugins with custom statuses („Partially shipped“, „Delivered“, „Partially refunded“, …) stop having those orders quietly left out of the figures. The choice drives every dashboard number alike: Revenue, Orders, Average Order Value, Profit and Customer Lifetime Value
• Improvement: Compatibility with PixelYourSite Product Catalog Pro — its product-data fields now render and save correctly inside the BrikPanel product editor, on both simple and variable products
• Fix: A store with no products no longer triggers an uncaught error. On an empty catalogue the dashboard store-summary inventory query (an INNER JOIN onto stock data) returned no row, and the code then read totals straight off that missing row. It is now guarded, so a brand-new store with no products reports zero units and zero value instead of crashing the page
• Fix: Resolved a conflict with the Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) plugin so ASE’s tweaks and BrikPanel’s interface no longer clash on the same admin screens
• Fix: Navigation scrolling glitch — fixed unwanted scrolling reported while moving around the dashboard

3.1.13 (2026-06-06)

• New: Exclude staff or point-of-sale accounts from customer analytics. If you also ring up in-person sales through one or two staff or POS logins, those accounts can rack up hundreds of orders and quietly distort every per-customer number: they inflate the average lifetime value, dominate the RFM segments, and skew cohort retention, so the figures stop describing your real customers. A new „Exclude customers“ button on the Customer Analytics page opens a simple picker where you can search and choose specific accounts and/or whole roles to leave out. Excluded accounts still count fully toward your shop totals (revenue, order counts, the dashboard sales figures and the Segments „Orders“ tab are all unchanged), they are only removed from the customer-level views: lifetime value, RFM segments, cohort retention, the Customer Analytics tables and the Segments „Customers“ tab. Saving recomputes the metrics immediately so the page reflects the change at once, and a small badge on the button shows how many accounts are currently excluded. Works the same on stores with simple and variable products
• Fix: Stale customer rows are now pruned reliably after a recompute. The nightly customer-metrics rebuild marks the run with a timestamp and then deletes any customer row it did not touch (for example someone whose orders were all refunded out, or who is now excluded). On servers whose database session time zone is not UTC, that marker was taken from PHP in UTC while the rows were stamped in the database’s local time, so the cleanup compared two different clocks and left stale rows behind for up to the time-zone offset. The run marker is now read from the database itself, so the comparison always uses one clock and stale rows are removed on the first recompute

3.1.12 (2026-06-01)

• Fix: Variable products no longer stay „out of stock“ once their variations are back in stock. If a variable product had ever been switched to manage stock at the parent level with a quantity of 0 (so the parent was pinned to „out of stock“), turning the variations back on and raising their stock left the whole product reading out of stock, because WooCommerce trusts a parent that manages its own stock and never looks at the children. BrikPanel never manages stock at the parent level for variable products (each variation owns its own stock), so the editor now clears that leftover parent-level stock flag on every save and lets the stock status be derived from the variations: when any variation is in stock, the product is in stock. A one-time, self-healing migration runs in the background on upgrade and repairs already-saved products in the same situation (parent managing stock, marked out of stock, but with at least one in-stock variation), in safe batches so large catalogs are never slowed; products that are genuinely out of stock are left untouched. Applies to both simple and variable products

3.1.7 (2026-06-01)

• New: Desktop Mode compatibility. BrikPanel now plays cleanly inside the „Desktop Mode“ plugin, which turns /wp-admin into a desktop-style workspace where each screen opens in its own draggable window. Whenever a page renders under the Desktop Mode shell (either inside a window or on the shell host), BrikPanel stands down its own global chrome, the top bar and the custom navigation sidebar, so it does not duplicate the window title bar, paint a redundant strip over the desktop, or leave an orphaned content margin where the sidebar used to be. Desktop Mode’s dock takes over navigation and its Cmd/Ctrl + K palette covers search, while every BrikPanel screen (dashboard, orders, the product editor, …) fills its window edge to edge with all of its styling intact, on both simple and variable products. The integration is fully scoped: a page detached to a classic tab keeps the complete BrikPanel chrome, and when Desktop Mode is not installed nothing changes at all
• Fix: Custom fields added through the brikpanel_product_editor_boxes hook are saved again. Inputs a developer renders inside their own editor card (including ACF fields via acf_render_fields()) were drawn on the page but never reached the save request, so they silently dropped on every save. The product editor’s save collector now also gathers every named input inside .brikpanel-pe-ext-card (alongside the metabox, WooCommerce-field and per-variation collectors) and forwards it to the server, where the save handler fires save_post / save_post_product so the owning plugin’s own listener persists the value. ACF’s hidden #acf-form-data nonce block is emitted once per page and travels with the payload so ACF can verify its nonce and run acf_save_post(). Works on both simple and variable products
• Improvement: Silent auto-save no longer runs on a product that has not been published yet. The editor’s 60-second background auto-save used to fire on any dirty form, which could quietly write a brand-new or draft product to the database before the user was ready. It is now gated on a live flag (#bpe-product-id[data-live], set server-side only for publish / private products) so a work-in-progress draft or an auto-draft is never persisted behind the user’s back, auto-save only protects an already-live product from losing edits. The flag flips on the moment you publish from the editor and reverts if you move the product back to draft, on both simple and variable products

3.1.6 (2026-05-30)

• New: Master on/off switch for the whole BrikPanel interface. A single store-wide toggle (WooCommerce -> Settings -> BrikPanel -> Access control, „BrikPanel interface“, on by default) flips every back-office user between BrikPanel and the stock WordPress / WooCommerce admin in one click. You can also flip it from the on/off switch in the BrikPanel top bar, or from the native WordPress admin bar while BrikPanel is off, so you can always get back in. Only administrators see and control it, the control is nonce-checked and manage_options-gated, and its styling is inlined so it survives even when all BrikPanel assets are swept off. This is the global, all-users axis that sits above the existing per-user / per-role Access control
• New: Reworked mobile and tablet layouts across the interface. The dashboard, product list, product editor, orders and top bar were all given proper responsive breakpoints (960 / 782 / 600 / 480 / 380px). KPI and profit cards reflow from four to three to two columns as the screen narrows, the product editor’s sticky header folds into two rows with the status menu re-anchored as a near-full-width sheet that stays on screen, the product list table and filter bar compress for phones, and the top bar collapses to icon-only on the smallest screens. Pure CSS, no markup or query changes, and it covers both simple and variable product screens
• New: Bulk editor now covers categories, brands, weight, dimensions and tags. The product list bulk update gained shipping fields (Set weight / length / width / height, shown in your store’s configured weight and dimension units) and per-taxonomy actions that are generated for every product taxonomy on the store: Set / Add to Categories, Tags, Brands (any registered brand taxonomy is auto-detected) and any custom product taxonomy. „Set“ replaces the terms, „Add to“ appends them, with a searchable hierarchical term picker. Each taxonomy is capability-gated, runs in safe batches via the existing job runner (prepare / process / cancel AJAX), and works on both simple and variable products

3.1.5 (2026-05-29)

• New: Google Ads is now live for everyone. Google approved the adwords sensitive-scope verification for our OAuth project, so the „Coming soon“ skin on the Google Ads card is off by default and the full flow works out of the box: Connect Google Ads, account picker, Manager (MCC) account support, Sync now, and Disconnect. Daily spend, impressions and clicks flow into the dashboard for real ROAS and Net Profit, exactly like Meta. The skin is kept only as an operator escape hatch (a single wp-config.php constant or option) in case Google ever revokes the verification, so it can be re-hidden without a code change. Meta Ads stays in its own pending-review state, unchanged
• New: „Imported spend data“ panel on the Ad Platforms page. A month-by-month breakdown plus an all-time summary for each connected platform, so you can see exactly what BrikPanel has pulled behind the dashboard figures: total spend, impressions, clicks, average CTR / CPC / CPM, the number of days with data, and the full date span. Rows are grouped by currency so a rare mid-life account-currency switch stays visible instead of being silently summed, and a Refresh button re-reads the latest. Backed by two new read-only store queries (account_summary() / monthly_breakdown()) and a nonce-checked, manage_woocommerce-gated brikpanel_ads_spend_breakdown AJAX endpoint
• New: Restrict BrikPanel settings to administrators. A new „Restrict settings to administrators“ toggle under WooCommerce -> Settings -> BrikPanel -> Access control keeps the settings tab administrator-only and is on by default. Shop managers and other roles that can manage WooCommerce keep the full BrikPanel interface but are kept out of the settings tab itself, even by direct link: the tab is removed from the WooCommerce settings nav, a direct hit on ?tab=brikpanel lands silently on WC General (no PHP notice), and defense-in-depth 403 guards sit on the render and save paths. This is a separate, narrower axis from the existing interface Access control, so a shop manager can keep BrikPanel while only administrators touch its configuration. Turn it off to hand the settings page back to every manage_woocommerce user. Super admins on multisite always pass
• Fix: Loading accounts for a Google Ads manager (MCC) user no longer floods the „Recent errors“ log. Manager-only sub-accounts routinely return a 403 on the customer-info enrichment call (the account is visible in the list but only reachable through the manager), which is an expected outcome, not a failure. That specific 403 is now silenced from the error log while genuinely unexpected errors (for example a 500) are still recorded
• Tweak: The Ad Platforms dashboard ROAS labels are now fully translatable, and a number of user-facing strings across the Ad Platforms screens were reworded for clarity

Earlier versions

For the complete release history (3.1.1 and all earlier versions, back to 1.2.0), see changelog.txt bundled with the plugin.