Plugin is not currently an option

  • Hello,

    Nearly one year ago, I posted regarding issues that I was having with this plugin. In response, I was told that an update to fix the issue would be available soon. However, no relevant update has been served (the update from months ago fixed nothing for me), and the original topic has now been closed. The plugin has not worked properly for over one year now. There are still the concerns of old data remaining in database, additional database errors from your plugin, and most importantly still the issue where my customers don’t see/receive their role’s pricing. It renders this plugin nonfunctional, and has left a significant amount of work and clean-up for me upon removal. Customers are losing trust in our company and feel as if we don’t “care enough” to ensure their proper pricing is served automatically. I have tested this against fresh installations on different VPS, the same issues are present. The original topic, for reference: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/no-longer-works-100-2/

    I need to know when this update will arrive. I have been very patient and understanding, as providing a free plugin is not easy work, but we are losing business as a result. We are at a direct loss from the use of this plugin. There has been a significant drop in web sales since this issue began, we are loosing thousands upon thousands of orders. None of our discounted customers purchase from our webstore anymore. Only regular-price customers order from our site. The vast majority of our business is from our discount-price customers, who sell and distribute our products world-wide. Without the ability to order directly from our site and receive their pricing, they stop ordering. When I am faced with phone calls from these customers around the world, wondering why their pricing is not available, I am left only to make excuses on your behalf. But despite my frustration, I do not say, “the author of our plugin has abandoned their product”, rather I say, “We are having an issue with our system, we will fix this as soon as possible. We appologize for the inconvenience we have caused you.”, but it is getting difficult to keep making excuses for you. This has had a detrimental impact on our business, and another plugin will replace this one if we do not see a working release by February.

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  • I wonder if the same that happened to me is still happening to you. Let me explain.
    I am not sure if you have variations (I’ll assume you do).
    Under each variation (or even a non-variation product), there is a regular price and a sale price text box. This is in ADDITION to the role-based prices, where you define a price for each user (ie Admin, Customer, Subscriber, etc.) In your case, I believe you have “Customer” and “Dealer” role. I’d be curious to know how you created your “Dealer” role as it is not stock out of the box. I made some custom users myself (I wrote php code in my functions.php file). I did not use a plugin to make a new user.

    I found that if you DON’T set a regular price (not in the role-based section!) that you will NOT see the role-based price. In fact, you’ll see $0 or FREE.
    This plug-in has never given me any issues. I’m currently on version 3.3.6 and waiting for the final release before upgrading versions.

    So…can you verify that 1.) You have set a regular price both in the default “Product Data” tab AND inside each user role (in the WC Role Based Price Editor section.), 2.) Not sure if you have to also set the role based price for “Visitor/Logged out user”? I do….

    What version of WordPress are you using?
    What version of Woocommerce are you using?
    What version of Role Based Price for Woocommerce are you using?
    Any errors in any log files? You can also look go to Woocommerce ->Status->Logs to find issues in code, etc.

    Did you write any custom code that could tie into Role Based Prices, or anything else for that matter?

    Varun is a great guy just trying to earn a living. He has always responded to my emails very quickly and we have always come up with a solution. I know it can be very frustrating when a plugin doesn’t work.
    what I don’t understand is why the plugin works just fine for me yet isn’t for you.

    Who knows…maybe we can solve your issues!?
    Dave

    Plugin Author Varun Sridharan

    (@varunms)

    Hello @hardonhorsepoweradmin & @kissmylegs,

    First i would like to thank you very much for supporting our plugin
    And i really can understand frustration & loss. i dont want to keep asking for exuses
    but my current situation is not yet stable because of my health & family issues
    Dispite that i have been working on V4.0 which is a huge step for me.

    I agree that there are bunch of issues with this version of this plugin and (ME) Support is not given properly. but i assure you & to the community that this will no longer happen once V4.0 is released.

    currenly the plugin is under alpha stage. and soon will be moved to beta. once its on beta you can be involed and help us improve our plugin.

    Regs the deadline / released date. as of now i dont have an estimation but for sure it will be released soon. and sorry for letting you & our community down for a while.
    As i assured before Once V4.0 is released it will be a deal breaker and the it will be very easy for us to identify the issue & provide the support. for which i am also working on a small utility which can provide quick debug log on the fly based on sites admin’s request.

    @kissmylegs
    I would like to personally thank for your contribution and support for me & this plugin
    Also i would like to talk to you personally . it would be great if you could contact me.

    Thread Starter hardonhorsepoweradmin

    (@hardonhorsepoweradmin)

    @varunms Thank you for the response, and sorry if I seem to “come-off” as “hostile”. It’s just been such time, with such high hopes. This, along with contact from a few of the wrong unsatisfied customers on the wrong given day, and I may have jumped-the-gate a bit quick. I understand the bit about health and family issues, and with that, you will not hear another complaint from me for the sake of respect. We sometimes forget the issues of others when only considering our own frustration!

    I will stay on-board for now, desregarding my previously-stated February ultimatum. I look forward to testing, I can surely provide beta-testing assistance with the plugin once offered. My contact information should already be available on your google sheets beta testing sign-up form, I honestly entered it several times in frustration – sorry in advance for that.

    @kissmylegs Thank you as well for offering assistance with this! However, I am indeed aware of the behavior that you mentioned above and configure my setup accordingly. Just to clarify, the plugin was, at one point in time, working FLAWLESSLY. For QUITE some time. It was only at one point, just after the second-to-last update AFAIK, I have the exact dates of observation logged somewhere but it has been a very long time and two PC migrations since the issue has began to show, so I have to relocate this file as of yet. WooCommerce and WordPress are at current stable release version, always kept updated as long as there are no breaking changes. The plugin itself is at 3.3.6, which is the latest version that is available from this plugin repository. Regarding logs and errors, There was certainly some build-up over time so allow me to gather these and I’ll report back.

    Thanks again!

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