Advanced Coupon Restrictions for WooCommerce Changelog

2.2 – 2026-09-22

NEW New “Except” section on the user restrictions, to block chosen customer accounts and email addresses from using a coupon, whatever the other restrictions allow
NEW Blocked email addresses accept wildcards, so you can block a whole domain at once, and are checked against the email entered at checkout as well as the account email, so they work for guest customers too
NEW New “Only for” section on the user restrictions, to reserve a coupon for chosen customer accounts, which unlike an email restriction cannot be used by anyone who simply knows the address
NEW The user roles restriction now has a “Guests (not logged in)” option, so a coupon can be allowed for chosen roles and guest shoppers at the same time, for example customers and guests but not wholesalers
NEW The coupons list now links the usage count to the orders that used each coupon
TWEAK WooCommerce no longer lists the plugin as untested with the Cart and Checkout blocks
TWEAK The license key is now hidden as you type it, instead of being shown in full on the settings screen
TWEAK Activating the plugin now takes you straight to its settings page, where the license key goes
FIX A coupon that combines a product taxonomy restriction with a quantity or user restriction now enforces both. The taxonomy check could previously re-approve a coupon that a quantity or user rule had already turned down
FIX Coupons no longer cause a fatal error when a product or a taxonomy term they were set up with has since been deleted
FIX Coupons applied to an order in the admin are now checked against that order’s customer, instead of against the staff member placing it, so user, role and amount-spent restrictions work when you order on a customer’s behalf
FIX WPML: tag/category exclusion restrictions now correctly apply in translated languages, not just the coupon’s original language
FIX WPML sites using a different domain per language: the license is now recognised as active in situations where it previously read as inactive, switching every restriction off
FIX Clearing the license key now actually clears it, instead of leaving the plugin reporting the license as active until the page was reloaded
FIX A license key that fails to activate is now cleared and reported with an error, instead of being saved while nothing works
FIX Guest shoppers trying a coupon restricted to specific user roles now see a message explaining why, instead of a generic error or, in some cases, the error message left over from another coupon
FIX Subscription restrictions applied to an order in the admin now look at that order, so a renewals-only coupon works on a renewal and a coupon excluded from renewals is correctly refused on one
FIX Coupon groups can no longer be managed by Editors, matching the capability the menu already required
DEV Coupon validation no longer writes PHP warnings to the log when the checkout has no state field
DEV Hide the license key field and the renewal link (which includes the license key) on our demo sites
DEV Updater v13.4
DEV The release ZIP no longer includes CHANGELOG.md
DEV Tagging a release now rebuilds the translation template and sends it to our translation site, so new strings are ready to translate straight away
DEV Tested up to WordPress 7.2-alpha-63789 and WooCommerce 11.2.0-beta.1

2.1 – 2026-06-04

NEW WooCommerce Subscriptions: new restriction tab to allow or disallow coupons for new subscription initial orders and renewal orders
FIX “Billing or shipping” country and state restrictions now correctly accept the coupon when at least one address matches, instead of requiring both
FIX Postcode interval matching no longer corrupts subsequent exact/wildcard checks when mixed in the same postcode list
FIX State and postcode restrictions now work correctly on the blocks checkout
DEV Tested up to WordPress 7.1-alpha-62456 and WooCommerce 10.8.0-beta.2
Update live from WordCamp Europe 2026

2.0 – 2026-05-25

TWEAK Add WooCommerce-style “And” separators between coupon restriction subsection groups in admin
FIX Remove debug hardcoded “user spent” value that could bypass spending-based coupon restrictions
FIX Correct postcode interval matching for non-numeric ranges in billing and shipping validations
FIX Persist saved “Type of address” value on coupon edit screen
DEV Remove debug console.log from coupon admin screen script
DEV Update GitHub Actions for the Naked Cat Plugins organization
DEV Tested up to WordPress 7.1-alpha-62411 and WooCommerce 10.8.1

1.9 – 2026-02-13

FIX Build release ZIP GitHub action to make sure WordPress detects a direct upload as the same plugin instead of creating a new folder

1.8 – 2026-02-03

FIX False positive restrictions were applied when coupons were automatically generated by 3rd party plugins instead of created in the admin interface
FIX Rename filters for taxonomy terms to be excluded to ptwoo_coup_res_tax_exclude_ids instead of ptwoo_coup_res_tax_ids which is for terms to be included
DEV Improve WordPress Coding Standards
DEV Updater v13.1
DEV Implement automated release GitHub actions
DEV Tested up to WordPress 7.0-alpha-61557 and WooCommerce 10.5.0-rc.2

1.7 – 2025-07-03

NEW New taxonomy “Coupon groups” to allow for better WooCommerce coupons organization
DEV Tested up to WordPress 6.9-alpha-60403 and WooCommerce 10.0.0-rc.2

1.6 – 2025-04-17

NEW We are now called Naked Cat Plugins 🎉
NEW Quantity based restrictions: minimum and maximum number of items in cart
NEW Quantity based restrictions: minimum and maximum number of unique products in cart
DEV Tested up to WordPress 6.8 and WooCommerce 9.8

1.5 – 2024-11-15

FIX Fatal error when WooCommerce is running update routines for 9.4
DEV Implement demo mode (for internal usage)
DEV Tested up to WordPress 6.7 and WooCommerce 9.4.1

1.4 – 2024-10-30

FIX Checkout failed when no postcode restriction was set
DEV License validation on websites with WPML set to have different domains per language

1.2 – 2024-10-23

FIX Updater

1.1 – 2024-10-15

FIX Several i18n strings

1.0 – 2024-10-10

First release