FluentCart 1.3.14: Bulk import, Custom Shortcodes and Flutterwave

This release focuses on scale, flexibility, and storefront control.

We are moving beyond just building features and into removing friction for real businesses that are actively growing on FluentCart.

Let’s break down what shipped.

Big Feature Bulk Product Import

As stores grow, manual product entry becomes a bottleneck.

Version 1.3.14 introduces Bulk Product Import, allowing you to upload and structure large product catalogs efficiently.

This is especially important for:

• Migrating from another commerce platform
• Launching large digital libraries
• Managing physical product inventories at scale

The importer respects FluentCart’s internal product architecture, ensuring variations, pricing, and metadata map correctly into the system.

This is not a surface level CSV upload. It is structured to align with how FluentCart handles products internally.

Flutterwave Payments

We’ve added Flutterwave Payment Gateway as an official add-on for FluentCart.

This opens up access to one of the strongest multi-region payment infrastructures, particularly across Africa and emerging markets. Flutterwave supports multiple currencies, local payment methods, and modern card processing flows.

For store owners targeting international audiences, this dramatically reduces payment friction and increases approval rates in regions where Stripe or PayPal alone are not enough.

Instead of forcing workarounds or custom integrations, FluentCart now supports a cleaner regional payment expansion strategy.

Early Payment for Installments

Installment schemes are powerful, but flexibility is what increases conversions. With this release, customers can now make early payments on installment plans.

If a buyer wants to close out their remaining balance earlier than scheduled, they can do it without waiting for the next billing cycle.

For businesses, this improves cash flow predictability. For your customers, it creates a sense of control and convenience.

And from a system perspective, installment tracking, balance calculations, and order state transitions remain fully synchronized inside FluentCart’s billing engine.

Customizable Product Shortcodes

We’ve introduced Customizable Product Shortcodes, giving developers and site builders more granular control over how products are rendered outside traditional block placements.

You can now control output behavior and presentation logic with more flexibility, allowing FluentCart to integrate into complex page layouts or legacy themes without compromising structure.

For advanced builders, this opens up programmatic storefront possibilities while still leveraging FluentCart’s native product engine.

You can check out all available shortcodes adn detailed usage parameters from out shortcodes documentation.

Gutenberg Storefront Enhancements

For Gutenberg users, we’ve significantly expanded storefront visual controls.

Added:

• Sale Badge Block
• Out of Stock Badge Block
• Product Description Block

These blocks allow you to visually construct product layouts without relying on theme level overrides.

Instead of hardcoding badges or writing CSS adjustments, you can now place and style these indicators directly within Gutenberg layouts.

This gives you clearer control over urgency signals and stock messaging without introducing layout conflicts.

Add Image URL

We know just how important performance is for conversion.

FluentCart now supports adding images via URL, allowing you to serve product media even if it is not hosted on your site.

Instead of images being a silent bottleneck, your product visuals can now scale alongside your traffic.

For growing stores, this is foundational.

Fixes

Alongside the new features in Version 1.3.14, we’ve also resolved a couple of important issues to strengthen checkout reliability and promotional logic.

Fix: Coupon Per User Limit Issue

We’ve fixed an issue affecting coupon per user limits.

Under certain conditions, the system was not enforcing the per-user redemption cap exactly as intended. This could allow edge-case scenarios where usage limits did not align perfectly with configured restrictions.

With this fix, coupon usage rules now apply consistently and predictably at the user level.

If you’re running limited-time promotions, exclusive customer offers, or loyalty-based discount campaigns, you can now rely on stricter enforcement and cleaner redemption tracking.

For marketing-heavy stores, this restores full confidence in campaign control.

Fix: Modal Checkout Cart Not Found Issue

We’ve also resolved an issue where the modal checkout could trigger a “cart not found” state in specific flow conditions.

This typically occurred when checkout was initiated through certain dynamic interactions or asynchronous page behavior.

The checkout session handling has now been stabilized to ensure cart data initializes correctly inside modal environments.

For stores using quick-buy experiences, pop-up checkouts, or conversion-focused landing pages, this means a smoother and more reliable purchase flow.

What This Release Represents

Version 1.3.14 is about preparing FluentCart for serious growth scenarios.

More regional payments and billing flexibility. Faster product onboarding. Better storefront control. Stronger performance infrastructure.

We are not just adding features. We are tightening the engine.