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Changelog

Weekly COPE release notes for developer-facing checkout, webhook, and integration updates.

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2026-10-02

Week of October 2

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Documentation

• The Checkout SDK examples now match what cope-sdk 0.1.0 sends: setBuyerIdentity() takes country and postal_code at the top level (not inside tax_location), and getProduct() takes the product’s prod_ ID, with product.uuid as a line’s product_id. The overview now states that plan and cart line IDs on the cart API are integers, that plan amounts named *_cents are decimal strings in major units, and the shape of the cart API’s error body. See Checkout SDK overview.
• createPrefilledCheckout() is documented: its input, the idempotency key it derives from your reference, and who can call it. See Prefilled checkout.
• POST /v1/commerce/payments/{id}/refunds now lists every code it can refuse with, including insufficient_seller_balance, explains the seller-balance rule, and states that a refused refund is not stored against its Idempotency-Key, so the same request can be retried later under the same key.

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2026-09-28

Week of September 28

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New

• The Checkout SDK is on npm as cope-sdk 0.1.0. It includes cope-sdk/mcp, an MCP endpoint you mount on your own server so a buyer’s AI agent can build a cart in your store and hand the buyer a checkout link. See MCP for AI shopping agents.
• Every webhook delivery’s envelope gains occurred_at: when COPE recorded the event, to the millisecond, repeated unchanged by every retry and replay — while created_at stays the time of each attempt. Use it to judge freshness; it is not a strict order. A receiver that rejects unknown envelope keys must now accept occurred_at. See Event envelope.
• cope-mcp 0.1.0 is on npm: an MCP server you run on your own computer so Claude, Cursor or another MCP client can read your store with your API key, and make changes you confirm when you turn them on. See MCP server for your store.

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Changes

• Checkout SDK cope-sdk 0.2.0 renames its class to Cope: import { Cope } from "cope-sdk", and new Cope({...}) with the global build too. CopeCart stays exported as a deprecated alias of the same class, so 0.1.0 code keeps working unchanged. See Checkout SDK.
• POST /v1/commerce/products now creates the product with status: active (previously inactive), the same as a product created in the dashboard. approval_status is still review, and the product cannot be bought until COPE approves it. Unchanged: a later PATCH /v1/commerce/products/{id} or image/attachment upload on a product that is not approved still sets it back to inactive and review.
• A product awaiting approval (approval_status review, denied or denied_changed) now reads as not purchasable before checkout. getProduct returns purchasable: false with purchase_block_reason: "pending_approval" (previously true / "none"), and addLine refuses it with not_saleable and block_reason: "pending_approval". Previously both calls succeeded and checkout then refused the cart with product_unavailable, which checkout still returns for such a product. The buyer product response no longer carries denial_reason.

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Fixes

• Fixed the webhook signing documentation, which told you to recreate an endpoint to get a new signing secret. Rotate it in place with POST /v1/webhooks/endpoints/{id}/secret-rotations; the old secret stops verifying at once, with no overlap. See Rotating the signing secret.
• Documented how to sell at a price decided per buyer, including a recurring one: a catalogue checkout sells the prices your payment plans define, and an offer (POST /v1/commerce/offers) prices one product for one named buyer. Offers do not accept metadata or external_reference yet. See Prices: payment plans and offers.

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2026-09-21

Week of September 21

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New

• Thank-you pages now receive the same parameters on every payment method: your checkout metadata as one metadata[<key>] parameter per key, affiliate when the buyer came through an affiliate link, and order, the order ID. The URL is kept within 2,000 characters, with metadata_truncated=true when a key had to be left out. See Your own reference on an order.
• cart.order.completed now names the subscription each subscription line bought, as line_items[].subscription with its ps_ ID: the ID the subscriptions API accepts, and the one every subscription.* event and payment.sale.succeeded carry. It is left out on one-time and installment lines.
• POST /v1/commerce/subscriptions/{id}/plan now accepts a plan on another billing cycle — monthly to yearly, or every three months — as long as it is on the same product and in the same currency. The period the buyer already paid for is kept: nothing is charged until pending_change.effective_at, and the new cycle starts there. The subscription stays active throughout, with the new plan and its cadence in pending_change.plan until that renewal bills it. plan_not_available is no longer answered for a different interval or interval count.

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Changes

• The thank-you URL’s order ID is now order (previously order_id), and order_uuid is no longer added. Read order on your thank-you page.
• Every subscription operation — retrieve, and the price, plan, pause, resume and cancel writes — now answers one Subscription object: id, object, a closed status, the business, order and line_item it belongs to as {object, id}, the plan and amount_cents in force, currency, next_billing_at, paused_at, cancel_at, cancelled_at, created_at, and pending_change for a price or plan change waiting for the next renewal. The writes no longer return the attempt, and the subscription no longer carries latest_change.
• A subscription’s price or plan change is its pending_change until a renewal bills the new terms, on every payment method, and effective_confirmed_at on the change-list entry records that renewal. A renewal that bills nothing (a 100% discount) does not count.
• Entries of GET /v1/commerce/subscriptions/{id}/changes gain created_at, name plans as plan: {object, id} instead of plan_id, carry failure only on a failed entry, and no longer carry subscription_id or requested_by.
• A subscription’s plan.id now names the plan it was sold on from the start, not only after a plan change, and GET /v1/commerce/subscriptions/{id}/changes names the plan on both sides of an entry where it is recorded. The subscription.plan_changed webhook’s old_plan is now filled the same way. The id is null when no recorded fact names the plan — for example, a subscription sold through an offer, a plan since deleted from the product, or one sold before plans were recorded.
• A subscription’s plan reference now names its object payment_plan (previously plan), the name the subscription.plan_changed webhook already uses. This applies to plan and pending_change.plan on the Subscription object, and to from.plan and to.plan on GET /v1/commerce/subscriptions/{id}/changes. The field names and the plan_… ID are unchanged.

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2026-09-07

Week of September 7

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New

• Added PayPal support for eligible installment-plan checkout and one-time trial checkout, so buyers can use PayPal for the first payment or trial authorization while COPE keeps the authorization needed for the later charge.
• Added checkout metadata to cart.order.completed webhook events, helping integrations correlate completed COPE orders with their own checkout sessions.
• Added finance visibility for vendor-managed promoter commissions, including a balance memo, per-payment reconciliation, and clearer order-level settlement context.

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Updates

• Improved direct checkout payment-plan presentation with selected-plan terms, installment schedules, VAT-inclusive amounts, amount-aware pay buttons, and steadier completed-checkout recovery.
• Improved PayPal checkout with a cleaner button handoff, clearer declined-payment guidance, trial totals that show 0.00 due today, one buyer-facing message for PayPal payment failures, and payment-method details on trial success pages.
• Improved PayPal subscription payment updates so each subscription can keep its own PayPal account and overdue subscriptions retry promptly after the buyer updates PayPal.
• Improved checkout success pages for one-time trials with clearer no-payment-yet messaging, scheduled charge details, and localized wording across supported languages.
• Improved business team access so invited admins can work in the selected business after accepting an invitation, while businesses still control whether Team settings are available.
• Improved buyer email validation by rejecting undeliverable addresses before payment and preventing permanent email delivery failures from being retried indefinitely.
• Improved order confirmation and invoice emails with simpler confirmation actions, clearer total labels, gross shipping amounts, and localized payment terms on invoice lines.
• Improved checkout and product setup for countries without postal systems, so supported buyers and creators are not blocked by a postal-code field their country does not use.
• Improved Growth Hub commission calculations so vendor-managed promoter commissions use a consistent net basis for eligible sales and refunds.

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Fixes

• Fixed checkout so buyers can switch payment methods after abandoning one payment attempt.
• Fixed PayPal checkout details so PayPal receives one row per purchased line item with the buyer’s selected quantity.
• Fixed checkout loading states to avoid layout jumps while direct checkout is preparing payment options.
• Fixed withdrawal decision emails so buyers see either the approved or rejected outcome, instead of contradictory decision text.
• Fixed post-purchase one-click offers so eligible buyers who gave consent can see the offer after checkout succeeds.

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2026-08-31

Week of August 31

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New

• Added business team access, so business owners can invite team members, manage pending invitations, and let trusted admins work in the business without sharing the owner’s login.
• Added public Commerce API offer writes for creating, sending, resending, and cancelling offers, including documented retry behavior for idempotent offer creation.
• Added public Commerce API refund creation at POST /v1/commerce/payments/{id}/refunds, allowing integrations to create full or partial refunds through the documented API.

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Updates

• Improved checkout entry points by enabling direct checkout across supported flows, refining the mobile checkout footer, and making installment totals clearer before payment.
• Improved PayPal checkout with clearer buyer-facing errors, the official PayPal monogram, faster button readiness, stronger seller capability checks, and safer returning-buyer context.
• Improved Growth Hub partnership onboarding with clearer promoter invitation, acceptance, activation, and post-registration recognition flows.
• Improved community calendar and challenge experiences with steadier month navigation, a more consistent create-event modal, and translated challenge strings across supported locales.
• Improved BNPL availability by letting Stripe apply its own eligibility checks for automatic checkout methods while preserving COPE’s checkout safeguards.

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Fixes

• Fixed buyer emails and order views so course access instructions and multi-quantity installment or subscription amounts match the purchase.
• Fixed product setup so new physical products are no longer offered while existing physical-product checkout, subscription, and renewal flows continue to work.
• Fixed payment-plan validation so unsupported plan positions are rejected cleanly instead of failing during save.

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2026-08-24

Week of August 24

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New

• Added Venmo as an eligible PayPal checkout option for supported USD purchases, with wallet-specific confirmation details and saved Venmo authorization for eligible recurring carts.
• Added community module controls, so community admins can choose which surfaces such as Members, Calendar, Challenges, Leaderboards, Courses, and Library are shown and reachable in each community.
• Added the applied tax rate to Phone Offer price calculations, helping creators explain the tax amount quoted to a buyer.

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Updates

• Improved PayPal checkout so selecting PayPal takes the buyer directly to PayPal, checkout cancellation no longer appears as a failed payment, and confirmation pages show wallet and address details when they apply.
• Improved PayPal seller controls with clearer account readiness messages, safer disconnect handling, and refund actions that follow the seller’s current PayPal capabilities.
• Improved PayPal refunds by supporting partial refunds and showing a clear insufficient-balance response when PayPal rejects a refund for that reason.
• Updated the public Commerce API contract to match live gateway behavior, including dashboard and webhook identifier formats, documented error responses for invalid inputs, media-upload requirements, and fields already accepted or returned by the API.
• Improved the payments list for reconciliation: each payment now returns created_at (the sale timestamp) alongside cash_flow_at (when funds became available), the list accepts created_from/created_to and cash_flow_from/cash_flow_to date-range filters plus an exact-match buyer_email filter, and per_page on this endpoint now accepts values up to 100 (previously 25).
• Improved checkout availability for installment plans and non-card payment methods, so eligible buyer options remain visible when a seller has opted into installments or payment capabilities are still loading.

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Fixes

• Fixed buyer portal routing so course buyers who have not completed creator onboarding can access purchased courses instead of being sent through creator setup.
• Fixed entitlement grants so completed orders grant access regardless of whether the buyer returns through the immediate checkout path or the completion webhook.
• Fixed checkout repricing safeguards so buyers do not complete payment against an outdated seller price.
• Fixed transactional emails so order confirmations, invoice emails, and refund confirmations label and display the order ID consistently.
• Fixed creator setup details across KYC capability alerts, product-card copy messages, optional payment-plan fields, course deadline validation, promo-code creation dates, and Phone Offer plan editing.

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2026-08-17

Week of August 17

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New

• Enabled the documented read endpoints for orders, payments, refunds, and invoices: GET /v1/commerce/orders, /payments, /refunds, /invoices, plus retrieve by id for each. Existing API keys work unchanged — no new key, no settings change, no migration is needed.
• The commerce reference now lists only operations the gateway actually serves; endpoints that are implemented but not yet publicly routed are withheld from the sidebar until they ship.
• The order list returns completed orders only; draft, pending, and failed checkouts are not exposed. All four lists paginate with page and per_page (maximum 25; larger values are clamped) and return a pagination object with total_pages, current_page, per_page, and total_count. A page number beyond the last page returns the last page, so iterate until current_page equals total_pages rather than until data is empty.

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2026-08-11

Week of August 11

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New

• Added paid community memberships, giving creators a full community create/edit flow, buyer checkout for paid access, automatic membership grants after purchase, and access removal when an eligible withdrawal or subscription end applies.
• Added community gamification settings, including a dedicated settings page and master toggle for community points.
• Added emailed sign-in codes as a supported second factor for new-device verification, so eligible users can complete sign-in without a separate authenticator or SMS factor.
• Added PayPal subscription price changes, so creators can update the recurring amount for eligible active PayPal subscriptions.
• Added a standalone VAT liability addendum page with in-portal reminders when a creator needs to re-accept current terms before liability transfer can apply.

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Updates

• Improved checkout confirmation pages for trials, active subscriptions, cancelled subscriptions, and subscriptions ending after the paid-through period, so buyers see accurate charge and access information.
• Improved product and checkout presentation for trials and multi-quantity orders, including trial badges before checkout, visible quantities in checkout and order views, and quantity-aware subscription amounts.
• Improved promo-code setup with clearer guidance for discounts in other currencies and a warning when a fixed discount only applies to the base currency.
• Improved Phone Offer setup by disabling empty currency selections and explaining when settlement onboarding is needed before pricing becomes available.
• Improved Promotions views by scoping promoter links, products, product stats, and order context to the selected business.
• Improved PayPal subscription reliability across trial conversion, renewal charging, seller capability sync, and recurring charge diagnostics.
• Improved payout resilience so reconciliation issues are isolated and payout requests return clear status instead of unnecessarily blocking unrelated sellers.
• Updated COPE branding in the cart app and public API reference.
• Updated email footer legal links so Terms and Privacy destinations resolve to the current www.cope.com legal pages.
• Updated buyer-facing COPE links in receipt and recovery surfaces to use current cope.com and app.cope.com destinations.

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Fixes

• Fixed re-sent promoter invites so vendors can resend an invite to an existing COPE user and see the resend cooldown clearly.
• Fixed affiliate transaction views so vendors and promoters see aligned revenue, commission, status, transaction IDs, and last-sale context for the same partnership.
• Fixed promo-code creation and editing so duplicate codes show a specific field-level rejection instead of a generic failure.
• Fixed promoter commission and product-stat reporting so earnings appear under the correct affiliate profile and incoming amounts do not stay hidden after invite acceptance.
• Fixed BNPL checkout for shipped orders so complete buyer location details keep eligible payment methods available through confirmation.
• Fixed checkout payment submission so buyers are not blocked by address requirements for a payment method they did not choose.
• Fixed checkout address validation so a delayed postal-code lookup from a previous country cannot overwrite the new billing address.
• Fixed multi-quantity subscription and installment totals so order KPIs, reminder amounts, schedule entries, and renewal charges match the quantity the buyer purchased.
• Fixed first-payment-only promo codes on subscriptions so recurring amounts return to the full undiscounted tax basis after the first charge.
• Fixed checkout safeguards so unsupported zero-value or below-minimum purchases cannot complete as paid transactions.
• Fixed product creation and editing details across localized placeholders, German creator copy, thank-you-page tooltips, narrow plan cards, location autocomplete, and product-required validation for promoter invites.
• Fixed checkout address autocomplete accessibility and modal behavior, including portalled suggestions that remain visible and attached to the correct field.

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2026-08-04

Week of August 4

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New

• Added public Community API documentation, including community OpenAPI references and webhook event pages for memberships, posts, comments, channels, events, invites, gamification, and library activity.
• Added PayPal support for recurring subscriptions and trial subscriptions, including buyer approval, saved PayPal re-authorization from subscription settings, renewal handling, and cancellation support.
• Released Growth Hub and Promotions in production, giving creators and promoters access to affiliate management, promoter earnings, and promotion performance views.
• Added estimated arrival dates to creator payout pages, so creators can see both when a payout is initiated and when it is expected to reach their bank.
• Added a refund policy link to checkout and public footer surfaces, making buyer-facing refund terms easier to reach before purchase.

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Updates

• Improved Promotions order and transaction views with business-scoped results, clickable promotion order rows, richer promoter order overviews, clearer pending-commission context, and revenue and commission columns for promo-code performance.
• Improved affiliate invite emails with clearer collaboration copy, vendor identity, localized guidance, and per-product affiliate links when product-specific promotion is available.
• Improved checkout and phone-offer tax reliability by routing active buyer pricing paths through COPE’s unified tax calculation flow, preserving authoritative zero-tax outcomes, and failing visibly when tax cannot be calculated safely.
• Improved PayPal subscription reliability so recurring charges, trials, revoked-consent recovery, and renewal declines follow the buyer’s actual PayPal authorization state.
• Improved creator setup by preselecting the business country from the visitor’s region when it is supported, while preserving any manual selection.
• Improved community navigation by showing About and Rules consistently inside communities and keeping Rules ordered below About.

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Fixes

• Fixed checkout billing-country changes so a country-specific billing address is reset when the buyer switches countries.
• Fixed invalid checkout tax addresses so buyers receive a validation response instead of an ambiguous tax failure.
• Fixed product setup safeguards so unsupported tax codes cannot be saved and payment-plan numbers stay within supported bounds.
• Fixed product management so creators can clear an upsell funnel and blank shipping prices are treated as zero.
• Fixed sign-in and sign-up controls so email and SSO submissions show progress and avoid duplicate password-alternative submissions.
• Fixed creator KYC messaging so creators do not receive false account-paused emails.

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2026-07-28

Week of July 28

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New

• Added a promoter order overview from promotion transactions, so promoters can open an order and review their own commission, vendor, attribution, and promoted product details without exposing buyer details.
• Added order-level affiliate reassignment for creator order management, including preserved commission terms for future recurring payments after an affiliate is changed or removed.
• Added more flexible installment-plan setup by making the second-payment offset optional in product and phone-offer editors.

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Updates

• Improved Payment Providers settings by replacing the broader KYC section label and keeping internal PayPal tracking references out of seller-facing account details.
• Improved checkout localization so an English checkout selection is saved correctly for receipts and withdrawal-rights emails.
• Improved localized email coverage with Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, and Japanese subject lines across transactional templates.
• Improved affiliate commission reporting so reassigned recurring commissions and promoter order views follow the correct earner and attribution context.
• Improved tax accuracy by using COPE’s registered platform origin when a product has no specific origin address for tax calculation and filing.
• Improved embedded checkout reliability by retrying approved-origin policy checks before failing closed.
• Improved checkout reliability in in-app browsers by handling changed totals server-side and routing card authentication through a WebView-compatible flow.

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Fixes

• Fixed post-sign-in account setup so creators can create and load businesses without needing to refresh after authentication.
• Fixed payment-provider verification retries so recoverable Stripe webhook failures can be reprocessed instead of being treated as completed.
• Fixed phone-offer currency defaults so offers follow the selected product or business currency instead of falling back to USD.
• Fixed deployed community requests that could fail when the community service initialized its data client.

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2026-07-21

Week of July 21

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New

• Added clearer KYC guidance while creators create and publish products, including draft-saving prompts and a direct path to complete verification before launch.
• Added a business-name column to creator and affiliate promotion views, making vendor partnerships easier to recognize across approved and pending tabs.

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Updates

• Improved PayPal selling support so PayPal-verified creators are recognized across product publishing, verification badges, KYC banners, and checkout availability.
• Improved payment verification labels so creators can see whether their business is verified for Stripe, PayPal, or both, with steadier PayPal button rendering in checkout.
• Improved PayPal onboarding recovery so creators who disconnect and reconnect PayPal can complete verification without stale onboarding sessions or unnecessary popup windows.
• Improved PayPal checkout safeguards by hiding PayPal where recurring, installment, or trial billing cannot be supported, and by closing checkout availability when a seller can no longer receive PayPal payments.
• Improved affiliate promotion reporting so link, promo-code, and phone-offer sales stay in the right attribution views, promoter share links use stable attribution IDs, and incoming commissions appear in the correct payout currency.
• Improved checkout tax presentation with clearer subtotal, included-tax, estimated-tax, and reverse-charge VAT labels across product pages, hosted checkout, receipts, invoices, and subscription flows.
• Improved EU VAT ID handling so valid VIES responses resolve inline, unavailable validation falls back to charging VAT, and placeholder company names are no longer shown to buyers.
• Improved Growth Hub and Promotions reliability, including invite-decision confirmation, clearer filtered empty states, corrected commission display, and cleaner vendor partnership tables.
• Improved webhook signature guidance in the dashboard and public docs, with snippets that verify the timestamped X-Cope-Signature format used by live webhook deliveries.

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Fixes

• Fixed product creation after a KYC publish gate so repeated saves update the saved draft instead of creating duplicate products.
• Fixed checkout legal links so buyers can reach COPE’s current Terms, Privacy Policy, Legal Notice, and Accessibility URLs from checkout and related public surfaces.
• Fixed checkout payment-method filtering so buyers see a clear unavailable-payment state when no supported method remains for the selected seller and currency.
• Fixed subscription renewal tax sourcing so recurring tax is based on the buyer’s destination instead of the seller’s origin.
• Fixed checkout behavior during country-VAT service outages so COPE fails safely instead of completing an EU consumer checkout with missing VAT.
• Fixed Stripe refund and dispute processing so out-of-order webhook events retry cleanly and creator dispute reporting can recover when payment records arrive later.
• Fixed webhook reliability so event catalog requests avoid transient unavailable states and queued webhook deliveries keep processing after recoverable delivery errors.
• Fixed B2B phone-offer payments so company names carry into Stripe billing details and vendor transaction details.
• Fixed Terminal Readers localization so supported creator locales no longer fall back to English.
• Fixed support-contact phone validation and formatting across creator settings.

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2026-07-14

Week of July 14

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New

• Added a refreshed creator onboarding experience, including a guided “Almost there” questionnaire and updated Getting started pages for creator and community setup.
• Added PayPal-verified selling support, so eligible creators can create products and accept checkout without waiting on Stripe KYC when PayPal is ready.
• Added product approval and denial notifications, helping creators stay informed when product review decisions are made.

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Updates

• Improved checkout payment-method availability for PayPal and Stripe, including per-currency payment-method filtering and on-demand refreshes when creator payment settings change.
• Improved checkout payment presentation by showing the Stripe Payment Element earlier and reducing iframe remount issues in hosted checkout.
• Improved creator product creation after first-business setup, reducing false “failed to load” states while account data finishes syncing.
• Improved community calendar presentation with updated layouts, event dialogs, navigation, and localized calendar copy.
• Improved subscription management copy, including clearer cancellation status labels and close-button wording.
• Improved support chat localization so the COPE messenger follows the active account language.

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Fixes

• Fixed offer expiry handling so lapsed offers show as expired consistently in creator views and public offer responses.
• Fixed buyer phone collection so checkout hints match the selected country and phone numbers appear on receipts, invoices, and refund confirmations when collected.
• Fixed subscription checkout for products without trials, preventing no-trial purchases from being processed or emailed as trial subscriptions.
• Fixed subscription emails so they use the creator business brand instead of generic placeholder sender copy.
• Fixed German reduced-rate VAT calculation and display so checkout, invoices, receipts, and subscription updates use exact statutory rates.
• Fixed Stripe onboarding edge cases that could show outdated KYC status or request deprecated capabilities.
• Fixed checkout setup for long business website URLs during payment onboarding.

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2026-07-07

Week of July 7

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New

• Added creator account deletion from settings, including payout-balance checks before an account can be removed.
• Added KYC action guidance in the creator portal and email notifications, so creators can see what needs attention before payouts or account capabilities are affected.
• Added support contact settings, giving creators a dedicated place to manage buyer-facing support details.
• Added subscription payment reminder emails for overdue or upcoming subscription payments.
• Added self-service VAT liability transfer for eligible Non-ESS products, including a plain-language addendum summary before acceptance.

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Updates

• Improved creator transaction reporting with separate sales and promotion transaction views, plus payment-context details for promotion transactions.
• Improved creator order reporting with separate sales and promotion order views, including promoter-facing vendor and commission context.
• Added product-level promotion performance details, including per-product affiliate links, sales, revenue, and commission context.
• Improved community member management with member directories, admin sorting, clearer filters, and complete localized community strings.
• Improved checkout presentation with live Stripe dark-theme updates, clearer prefilled billing-address behavior, and card-payment support for phone-offer checkouts.
• Improved checkout tax calculation for EU B2C purchases and added country-rate fallbacks when primary tax calculation returns zero.

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Fixes

• Fixed BNPL payment-session eligibility so blocked or stale sessions cannot be reused for checkout.
• Fixed session continuity through the gateway and public API proxy when upstream responses include multiple cookies.
• Fixed invoice PDFs so German buyers see a labeled, sequential invoice number.
• Fixed creator transaction rows so Klarna, Affirm, ACH, SEPA, and other payment methods no longer appear as generic card payments.
• Fixed checkout tax estimates for partial billing addresses in regions where state or province is required.
• Fixed course lesson paragraph spacing in the editor and student lesson view.
• Fixed product image handling so repeated saves do not duplicate uploaded product images.
• Fixed product cards so creators can distinguish products by their internal names.

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2026-06-30

Week of June 30

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New

• Added public Commerce API documentation for product phone collection, including the phone_collection field on product list and retrieve responses.
• Added buyer withdrawal access for eligible EU orders, including receipt email links and Japanese localization.
• Added complete quiz-builder and course-settings translations across supported course locales.

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Updates

• Improved buyer subscription management with clearer cancelled states, recurring-amount labels, next billing dates, pending cancellation visibility, and payment-method update support.
• Improved subscription emails with localized price-change actions, brand footers, payment-plan labels, and Japanese invoice links.
• Improved checkout behavior by making buyer phone validation non-blocking, showing translated guidance for billing intervals over two years, and fitting single product images cleanly in checkout layouts.
• Updated public payment dispute and chargeback webhook schemas to match produced event payloads and keep generated contracts aligned.

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Fixes

• Fixed affiliate invite delivery with corrected invite event contracts and absolute invite links.
• Fixed refreshed community avatars and covers so re-uploaded images appear immediately.
• Removed the defunct EU ODR platform link from public terms pages.

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2026-06-23

Week of June 23

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New

• Added full phone-offer payment-plan support in checkout, including clearer creator editing, buyer-facing payment schedules, and total plan price disclosure.

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Updates

• Persisted the buyer-selected checkout language through order creation, so order and payment confirmation emails use the buyer’s selected locale.
• Refined creator account routing so buyer-origin accounts that already own a business can access creator tools.
• Simplified creator fee messaging by keeping progress-to-next-tier visible while hiding the next-tier fee rate.
• Improved COPE branding on sign-in and sign-up screens, including crisper logo rendering in Safari.

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Fixes

• Fixed physical-order receipts and invoices so shipping lines appear correctly.
• Fixed creator webhook pages for accounts without an active business by showing a localized, actionable empty state.
• Added missing community translations and hid unavailable community controls to keep public community pages and chat flows consistent.
• Fixed phone-offer checkout display so buyers see the configured installment or recurring plan instead of a one-time fallback.

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2026-06-16

Week of June 16

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New

• Added a vendor integration quickstart that walks through dashboard setup, checkout installation, webhook confirmation, and launch checks.
• Added Growth Hub promoter management, including a Configure Promoter page, updated affiliate link and promo-code panels, mobile views, and per-product sales and revenue metrics.
• Added a buyer confirmation page and action-required email for subscription cancellations requested on a buyer’s behalf, so buyers can confirm before the cancellation is scheduled.
• Published payload contracts for payment.dispute.opened, payment.dispute.won, and payment.dispute.lost, including CloudEvents metadata, schema IDs, payload fields, and example events.
• Added a public changelog page with dated weekly sections so product updates can be scanned in one place.

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Updates

• Refreshed subscription price-change and cancellation-confirmation emails with clearer alert styling, branded footers, aligned calls to action, and production-ready icon assets.
• Moved the COPE logo into the sign-in card for a cleaner, more consistent authentication experience.
• Refined order, sale, and refund webhook pages to describe raw attribution signals such as first-click references, phone offer IDs, and promo codes.
• Simplified docs navigation around live checkout and webhook guides.

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Fixes

• Fixed subscription management and cancellation links in lifecycle emails so buyers land on the correct COPE app environment instead of a legacy marketing domain or the wrong deployment.
• Fixed order and refund receipt emails so subscriptions and installments show the correct localized payment-plan label instead of falling back to one-time payment copy.
• Localized Create Affiliate validation messages so sellers see field errors in their selected language instead of raw English validation defaults.

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2026-06-09

Week of June 9

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New

• Added ticketing event documentation for scanner and ticket lifecycle work.
• Released Checkout SDK 0.2.0, including the embedded checkout support needed for iframe-based buyer flows.
• Made buyer subscription management easier to reach, including localized subscription pages and clearer recurring-subscription filtering.

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Updates

• Refreshed generated webhook pages and schema links.
• Improved checkout payment-method handling by hiding BNPL options when the seller country or order amount does not support them.
• Added richer product description editing and buyer rendering, giving product pages a more structured presentation.
• Improved community feed rendering and navigation behavior for creator communities.

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Fixes

• Fixed checkout navigation and deployment reload edge cases that could leave buyers on stale frontend chunks.
• Improved subscription cancellation and price-change messaging so buyers see clearer access dates and localized labels.

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2026-06-02

Week of June 2

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New

• Added Checkout SDK documentation for redirect checkout, embedded hosted checkout, iframe mount behavior, trusted postMessage events, fallback behavior, and troubleshooting.
• Added terminal checkout and reader management for in-person payment workflows.
• Added buyer refund deadline visibility and credit note access in order views.

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Updates

• Tightened public docs guidance so docs.cope.com stays external-facing.
• Improved checkout success-page handling so confirmation screens rely on trustworthy checkout state instead of ambiguous redirects.
• Improved community navigation by hiding inactive sidebar areas for members.

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Fixes

• Fixed promo-discount presentment totals so buyer-facing totals stay currency-safe.
• Improved localized order payment method labels, including null and unknown fallbacks.
• Hardened realtime community chat recovery after connection drops or browser wakeups.

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2026-05-26

Week of May 26

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New

• Added the embedded checkout foundation for iframe checkout flows, including SDK support and launch-oriented integration guidance.
• Added Japanese checkout locale support and dashboard controls for checkout locale allowlists.
• Added a daily payout cadence option for creators.

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Updates

• Improved checkout currency presentation across product pages, buyer-selected currencies, and payment plan labels.
• Improved affiliate and promo-code workflows, including product-specific affiliate links and clearer promotion management.
• Added Japanese buyer-journey translations and more complete localized checkout/payment method copy.

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Fixes

• Fixed iframe checkout framing headers so approved embedded checkout origins can render correctly.
• Fixed stale plan-currency handling and presentment metadata so checkout totals stay aligned with server-calculated prices.
• Fixed Intercom Messenger identity handling for authenticated users.

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2026-05-19

Week of May 19

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New

• Introduced the COPE brand across public-facing surfaces.
• Added the foundation for hosted checkout iframe work, including iframe stability checks and guarded frame policies.
• Added settings improvements for fees and business identifier copy workflows.

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Updates

• Improved checkout presentment totals by trusting server-calculated repricing in the buyer’s selected currency.
• Improved trial-badge display in checkout product summaries.
• Improved affiliate and promo-code management flows, including copy actions and product-link updates.

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Fixes

• Fixed checkout embed ordering issues that could affect iframe flows.