GoCardless for WooCommerce

2.9.10 – 2026-04-27

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.7.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.5.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.8.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “Tested up to” to 7.0.
• Dev – Update NPM packages.

2.9.9 – 2025-12-17

• Fix – Inconsistent subscription status after cancellation.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.9.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.4.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.2.

2.9.8 – 2025-10-07

• Fix – Automatically disconnect the GoCardless account and display a reconnect notice when the token becomes invalid or inactive.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.2.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.0.

2.9.7 – 2025-08-05

• Add – Improved subscription cancellation by cancelling “Pending Submission” payments and preventing retries on non-cancellable payments.
• Fix – Ensure webhook events are handled properly without any issues.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.7.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.1.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.9.

2.9.6 – 2025-07-02

• Add – Respond with an error to the GoCardless webhook call if the scheduling action fails.
• Add – A notice indicating that GoCardless is connected in sandbox mode if the merchant is connected to a sandbox account.
• Update – Replaced JavaScript Drop-in with the redirect-to-GoCardless approach for the transaction/direct debit setup.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.0.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.8.

2.9.5 – 2025-05-15

• Fix – Ensure all supported SEPA zone countries are included.

2.9.4 – 2025-04-28

• Fix – Ensure that the subscription is cancelled immediately when the payment is cancelled.
• Fix – Resolved “translation loading was triggered too early” issue in WordPress 6.7.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.8.
• Dev – Run E2E tests on the zip generated by the generate-zip workflow and ensure it runs on every pull request by default.

2.9.3 – 2025-03-24

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.8.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.6.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.6.

2.9.2 – 2025-02-18

• Dev – Fix QIT E2E tests and add support for a few new test types.
• Dev – Bump path-to-regexp from 0.1.7 to 0.1.12 and express from 4.18.2 to 4.21.2.
• Dev – Bump http-proxy-middleware from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7.
• Dev – Bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3.
• Dev – Bump webpack-dev-middleware from 5.3.3 to 5.3.4.
• Dev – Bump nanoid from 3.3.7 to 3.3.8.
• Dev – Bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8.
• Dev – Bump serialize-javascript from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2.
• Dev – Bump webpack from 5.88.2 to 5.97.1.

2.9.1 – 2025-02-12

• Fix – Ensure the final release asset includes the build directory.

2.9.0 – 2025-02-12

• Add – Handle the payment “chargeback_settled” webhook event.
• Fix – Ensure subscription renewals work properly after a failed renewal order.
• Update – Plugin ownership from WooCommerce to GoCardless.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.6.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.4.
• Dev – Added release and repo management actions.
• Dev – Exclude the WooCommerce Comment Hook sniff from our PHPCS configuration.
• Dev – Updates GitHub actions/cache, actions/upload and actions/download to v4 due to deprecation.

2.8.3 – 2024-12-09

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.5.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.3.

2.8.2 – 2024-10-28

• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.7.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.5.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.4.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.2.
• Dev – Fix failing E2E tests.

2.8.1 – 2024-08-20

• Fix – Ensure payments work correctly when user accounts are automatically created during the checkout process.
• Add – Plugin banner and icon images for WordPress.org.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.2.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.0.

2.8.0 – 2024-08-05

• Add – Display a note informing the customer if JavaScript is disabled or not supported in their browser.
• Fix – Ensure the “Cancel Payment & Subscription” order action is only visible while the payment status is in “pending_submission”.
• Fix – Ensure disconnecting your GoCardless account works properly.
• Fix – Ensure the GoCardless payment method is available only for supported currencies.
• Fix – Ensure the GoCardless payment gateway works correctly for guest customers when a default customer location is not set.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.1.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.9.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.6.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.4.
• Dev – Add an FAQs section to the readme file, including new details on how to connect multiple WooCommerce stores to a single GoCardless account.
• Dev – Removed old backward compatibility code, which was added to handle the update of the plugin’s main file to woocommerce-gateway-gocardless.php.
• Dev – Upgraded NPM and Composer packages and updated the Node version to v20 to modernize the developer experience.
• Dev – Add E2E tests for each Direct Debit scheme.

2.7.2 – 2024-07-29

• Add – New toggle option to enable or disable Instant Bank Pay.
• Dev – PHPCS fixes and various code improvements.

2.7.1 – 2024-06-26

• Fix – Ensure the webhook secret is generated with enough entropy.

2.7.0 – 2024-06-03

• Add – Support for the GoCardless Billing Request API, allowing customers to stay on a merchant’s site when completing payment in the checkout flow.
• Add – Support for Instant Bank Pay for one-off payments.
• Add – Support for Success+ (intelligent retries) for payment creation.
• Add – Show the GoCardless payment status in the order list table and order preview.
• Add – Handle the mandate “cancelled”, “expired”, “failed”, and “blocked” webhook events.
• Add – Display the refund ID and reference information in the order note related to a refund.
• Add – Save the GoCardless customer ID in user meta to use for creating all future payments/mandates.
• Add – Ensure the Country is auto-selected in the payment modal based on pre-filled customer data.
• Add – Screenshots to readme file.
• Dev – Add Code of Conduct and License files.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 8.9.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.7.
• Fix – Only display the schemes that are available to the merchant in the GoCardless settings.
• Fix – Replace the middleware URL from connect.woocommerce.com to api.woocommerce.com/integrations.
• Tweak – Improved the process of adding the webhook secret information.
• Tweak – Update the payment method title to “Pay by bank” and change the logo to the GoCardless logo.

See changelog details prior to 2024 here.