Vanquish Shipping Tracking for WooCommerce

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1.2.1

• New (premium): other plugins can lay out an order’s parcels in advance — one per delivery address, warehouse or supplier — through the vanstr_prepare_parcels action: the order screen then opens with one shipment per parcel and its products already assigned, and you only type the tracking numbers. Prepared parcels stay hidden from the customer until they have a tracking, and an order that already has tracking is never touched.
• Fixed (premium): saving an order dropped every additional shipment that had products assigned but no carrier and no tracking number yet.

1.2.0

• New: a REST API compatible with the official WooCommerce Shipment Tracking extension. Shipping services, label tools and ERPs built to send tracking to that extension can now send it to this plugin, unchanged: the same routes on wc/v1, wc/v2, wc/v3 and wc-shipment-tracking/v3, the same fields and the same answers. The API is left alone whenever that extension or Advanced Shipment Tracking is active.
• New: ShipStation. The tracking ShipStation for WooCommerce reports when it ships an order is added to the order automatically, and its tracking note is kept private, since your customer already gets the tracking from this plugin.
• New: migration from WooCommerce Shipment Tracking. Each order’s tracking is brought over the first time the order is shown, carriers included; the extension’s data is left in place.
• New: in the free version, a second tracking sent for an order that already has one is kept on the order and reported to you — on the order, in the admin, and in a summary email at most once a day, which can be turned off under Shipping Tracking > Settings. Premium shows it to your customer as an additional shipment, including the ones kept before switching.
• New (premium): the tracking of orders paid through WooCommerce PayPal Payments is added to their PayPal transaction.
• New (premium): additional shipments leave an order note when they are added, changed or removed, like the main shipment always has, whether they were typed in, imported or sent by a service.
• Improved: 15 carriers now link to the parcel itself instead of their home page, among them DPD Germany, DPD Netherlands, DPD Austria, DPD Poland, An Post, Parcelforce, DHL Parcel UK, bpost and NZ Post.

1.1.1

• Fixed: updating an order could erase its carrier. The carrier dropdown on the order screen listed only the carriers you have switched on, so an order shipped with a carrier you later switched off — or one that arrived from a CSV with a carrier you never switched on — had nothing to select, and pressing Update, even just to change the order status, saved it with no carrier: the customer lost the carrier name and the tracking link. The dropdown now always includes the carrier already saved on the order, under “Saved on this order”. The extra shipments of the premium version had the same problem and are fixed too.

1.1.0

• New: the Shipping companies page, rebuilt. Your carriers are shown as a grid with their logo, country and slug, and a “Direct link” mark on the ones whose link opens the parcel itself. “+ Add carriers” opens the full catalogue, searchable by name, country or slug, with “Enable all results” to switch on everything a search found. Custom companies have a tab of their own.
• New: carrier logos. 1,575 of the 1,691 carriers now have theirs, shipped inside the plugin, so showing them never contacts another server. The others get a coloured monogram.
• New: two message placeholders. [company_icon] shows the carrier’s logo, and [track_button] adds a “Track shipment” button in your WooCommerce email colours (a plain link in plain-text emails). The default messages now use both. A message you have already saved is yours and is left as it is.
• New: a live preview on the Messages page. Each message has a preview beside it that updates as you type, using a sample shipment on one of your own carriers; the email one uses your WooCommerce email colours and has a plain-text version too. Placeholders are now buttons that insert the tag where the cursor is, and the order page and email messages sit in two tabs.
• New: a shorter menu. Quick assign, CSV import and the scheduled import are now tabs of “Bulk tracking”, and the three delivery-date pages are tabs of “Delivery dates” — five entries instead of eight. Bookmarks to the old pages still work.
• New (premium): the CSV import asks how the dates in your file are written — DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD, starting from your site’s own date format — and has a drag-and-drop area for the file. The scheduled import has the same setting.
• Fixed (premium): a dispatch date imported from a CSV was stored exactly as written in the file, so 07/09/2026 — 7 September to a European warehouse — reached the customer as 9 July, and the order screen showed an empty date that a save would then erase. Dates are now converted when imported, and an order whose date cannot be read is not imported at all, with a report saying which order and which date. Orders imported the old way are read in your site’s date format and show the right date again.
• Fixed: [order_url] sent guest customers to a login form they had no account for. It now takes them to the order confirmation page, which needs no login.
• Fixed: migrating from the CodeCanyon plugin now brings across the carriers you had enabled and your default carrier, including on sites that migrated before this version.
• Fixed: the carrier dropdown on the order screen could come up empty if the saved carrier list named no carrier that still exists. It now falls back to all carriers.
• Updated the carrier list: 29 carriers added. Andreani is no longer listed by our catalogue source and has been kept as it was, so orders using it keep their link; from now on no carrier is ever removed from the list.

1.0.16

• New: vanstr_set_tracking(), a documented function for attaching tracking to an order from your own code — for shops whose warehouse software or carrier plugin books the parcel. It was already possible by calling an internal class, but that tied an integration to a class name we might refactor one day; this signature is the one that stays. See the FAQ for an example.
• The “Support Forum” entry in the plugin menu now sends premium customers to our own support page. Nothing changes in the free version, where it still points at the WordPress.org forum.

1.0.15

• New: an order note whenever the tracking is added, changed or removed. WooCommerce timestamps its own notes to the minute, so this is a record of when each parcel was booked — asked for by a merchant who cross-references it with their security-camera footage. A correction adds a second note instead of rewriting the first, so the trail keeps both moments, and saving an order without touching the tracking adds nothing.
• New: an option to start the dispatch date on today’s date, under Shipping Tracking > Settings. The legacy CodeCanyon plugin had this (“Automatic dispatch date field filling”) and the rewrite had lost it; if you migrate with it turned on, it comes across. Off by default, and it only fills the box — nothing is written to the order until you press Update.

1.0.14

• The Messages screen now tells you about [vanstr_tracking_form], the shortcode that lets a customer look up their own tracking with an order number and the billing email of that order. The shortcode has been there since the first release and was written down nowhere, so the only way to find it was to read the source.
• Fixed: the shipment monitoring screen sent you to an email called “Shipment needs attention”, while the one listed under WooCommerce → Settings → Emails is called “Shipment needs attention (admin)”.
• The plugin page now describes several things the plugin already did and never mentioned: narrowing the carrier dropdown to the carriers you actually use, choosing where the tracking appears in the emails and on the order page, all six message placeholders, and what happens to your settings when you uninstall.

1.0.13

• New: a “Mark this order as completed” switch on the order screen, right below the tracking. For a warehouse entering tracking numbers all day it replaces opening the status dropdown, finding the entry and clicking it — type the number, flick the switch, press Update. It is off on every order unless you turn on “Tick it by default” under Shipping Tracking > Settings, so it can never complete an order you only opened to look at.
• Updated the carrier list: 30 carriers added, none removed.
• The tick boxes on the settings and monitoring screens are now the same switches used elsewhere in the plugin, including the shipment notification one on the order screen.

1.0.12

• New: a default carrier. Pick one under Shipping Tracking > Shipping companies and it is already selected when you open an order that has no tracking yet — the legacy CodeCanyon plugin had this and the rewrite had lost it. It only preselects the dropdown; nothing is written to an order until you save it.
• New: a “Track this shipment” link in the order screen, next to the tracking you have saved. The orders list had one, the order itself did not.
• Fixed the migration FAQ, which claimed the old plugin’s data was never deleted. The custom companies and each converted order’s old tracking fields are in fact cleared, since that is how the migration knows it has already run.

1.0.11

• Dates in the admin now follow your own settings. The dispatch date, the extra shipments, the requested delivery date and Quick assign show the format from Settings > General > Date Format, and their calendars start on the day set in “Week starts on”. Until now those fields were drawn by the browser, so they showed the date format of the computer’s language rather than the one the shop uses — a European store on an English-language computer got 08/17/2026 and weeks starting on Sunday, with no setting anywhere that could change it.

1.0.10

• Fixed a fatal error when both the free and the Premium copies are installed. Premium lives in its own folder, so installing the free version from WordPress.org does not replace it — the two sit side by side, and activating the second one failed with “the plugin triggered a fatal error”. It now activates cleanly, and says that a second copy is installed so you can remove the one you do not want.
• The free version now says so when it finds an active Premium licence on the site. Premium and Free share the same plugin here, so installing the WordPress.org download over a Premium copy replaces it with the free build and the premium features simply disappear, with nothing to explain why. There is now a notice, and a page describing how to put Premium back.
• The “Activate Premium” page points out that activating the licence is also what delivers Premium updates, and links to the customer dashboard at its current address.

1.0.9

• Fixed: PHP 8.4 deprecation notices from CSV reading. On the order screen this produced one notice per carrier — over 1,600 of them on a single page load.
• Fixed: the estimator loaded its translations earlier than WordPress allows, which produced a “_load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly” notice on WordPress 6.7 and later.

1.0.8

• You can now choose whether the tracking appears before or after the order table, separately for the emails and for the order details page (Shipping Tracking → Settings).
• Changed: in emails the tracking is now shown before the order table by default, which is where the legacy CodeCanyon plugin put it and where customers look first in a shipping email. If you prefer it at the bottom, set “Position in emails” to “After the order table”.

1.0.7

• New “Activate Premium” page explaining how to install the Premium package after buying a licence, since Premium is a separate download rather than a key entered in the free version. Also linked from the Plugins screen.

1.0.6

• Migrating from the CodeCanyon plugin now brings your settings across as well: the tracking messages, in every language on a multilingual site, and the order statuses the tracking is shown on. It never overwrites anything you have already configured here, and the old plugin’s data is left untouched.

1.0.5

• Internal: every settings screen now saves through a separately testable path, covered by an automated test suite. No change in behaviour — groundwork so that a bug like the one fixed in 1.0.2 is caught before a release rather than after it.

1.0.4

• New: automatic shipment monitoring. Your tracked shipments are checked on a schedule, so customers can be told when their parcel is out for delivery, ready for pickup or delivered, and you can be told when one reports a problem or stops moving. Off until you enable it; each event is announced once per shipment, and delivered parcels are never checked again.
• New: a “check now” button that runs one pass immediately instead of waiting for the schedule.
• The email settings screens now list the available placeholders in plain sight instead of hiding them in a tooltip, and accept {tracking_number}, {carrier} and {associated_products} in the subject, heading and additional content.

1.0.3

• Uninstalling the plugin no longer deletes your settings. Custom carriers, messages and rules survive a reinstall; the tracking on your orders was never deleted and still isn’t.
• New “Reset settings” action, so clearing the configuration is now something you choose to do rather than a side effect of removing the plugin.

1.0.2

• Fixed a fatal error when saving the Shipping companies page.

1.0.1

• The “Shipping tracking” box now sits in the side column of the order screen, where it is visible without scrolling.
• Timeline: only the most recent events are shown, the older ones fold behind a “show earlier updates” toggle. How many stay visible is configurable.

1.0.0

• Initial release.