Ignition Crowdfunding v0.13.0

This release rebuilds how pledges, payments, and refunds are modelled. A pledge now carries a simple Pending / Succeeded / Canceled lifecycle, while payments and refunds are tracked as their own records behind it — so a refund is finally a first-class thing the plugin understands, shown as a neutral Partial Refund / Full Refund chip beside the status rather than a confusing extra state. Campaign money is split into a public Pledged figure and an internal Collected figure, and administrators now Declare a campaign’s outcome and Announce a reached goal as deliberate actions. The wp-admin Pledges list and pledge detail screens were rebuilt around the new model, with refund issuing, offline-payment recording, and a Net column.

New Features

Refunds — Administrators can issue full or partial refunds against a paid pledge from the wp-admin pledge detail screen. A refund never changes the pledge’s status — the lifecycle badge stays Succeeded and a neutral Partial Refund / Full Refund chip appears beside it, with the net contribution shown alongside. Refunds flow through to the backer’s dashboard, the creator’s pledge list, and the CSV exports consistently. See Refunds.
Pledged vs Collected — Every campaign now tracks two figures. Pledged is the public-facing number on the progress bar (what backers have committed, less any refunds); Collected is the money actually received, and it’s the figure that decides whether a goal is met. For offline-payment campaigns the public bar moves when a backer pledges, while the goal decision waits until payment is recorded. See Campaign Page — Progress bar.
Declare result and announce goal — When a campaign ends, an administrator Declares its outcome (Successful, Failed, or Funded) as an explicit action that sends the outcome emails to backers. A reached goal is Announced the same way. Both are separate from Closing the campaign, and ended-but-undeclared campaigns surface in an Outcome Pending view. See Declaring Campaign Results.
Rebuilt admin Pledges screens — The wp-admin Ignition → Pledges list was rebuilt with status filter chips, a Net column, and per-row actions (record offline payment, cancel, issue refund). The pledge detail screen now shows the full payment-and-refund history with a Pledged / Refunded / Net breakdown and a Refunded total tile. See Managing Pledges.
Refund emails — Three new notifications fire when a refund is issued: one to the backer, one to the campaign creator, and one to administrators (in the per-pledge admin category). See Email Notifications.

Improvements

Simpler pledge statuses — Pledges now use Pending, Succeeded, and Canceled everywhere — on the campaign page, both dashboards, the admin screens, and the API. The old paid and settled states are gone; “money received” is now a single, unambiguous state.
Net-first pledge lists — The backer pledge list and the creator pledges table now show each pledge’s live contribution to the campaign total — the full amount while pending, the post-refund net once succeeded, and $0.00 for a canceled or fully-refunded pledge — so every row reconciles with the progress bar.
Reward slots release on full refund — A fully-refunded pledge releases its limited-quantity reward slot automatically, the same as a cancellation; a partial refund keeps the slot claimed.
Reshaped CSV exports — The admin and creator pledge exports gain a Net Received column and a Cancel Reason column, and the backer export’s per-status pivot now reflects the new lifecycle. See Settings — Admin pledge and backer exports.
Responsive admin tables — The pledge and user-summary detail tables stack cleanly on narrow screens.

Developer

Pledge decomposition — The pledge is now one of three records: Pledge (the backer’s intent), Payment_Attempt (one try at collecting money), and Refund (money flowing back). Each has its own three-state machine, audit log, and three-tier transition hooks (igcf_pledge_*, igcf_payment_attempt_*, igcf_refund_*). A pledge moves to succeeded when one of its payment attempts succeeds — transports never mutate pledge status directly. See Service Layer and Actions Reference — Pledge lifecycle.
New services Igcf_Payment_Attempt_Service and Igcf_Refund_Service — Sibling services for creating, transitioning, and querying payment attempts and refunds, following the existing static-method pattern. Igcf_Pledge_Service gains display helpers (displayed_status(), refund_indicator_label(), status_badge_view()), a combined status log, and net/refund aggregation helpers. See Service Layer.
Add-on seam filters — Eight filters give gateway and fee add-ons their composition points without core knowing about fees: igcf_pledge_amount_to_charge, igcf_payment_attempt_application_fee, igcf_attempt_net_to_creator, igcf_refund_proportional_fee_reversal, plus the registries igcf_pledge_cancel_reasons, igcf_payment_attempt_failure_codes, igcf_refund_reasons, and igcf_payment_methods. See Filters Reference — Pledge lifecycle.
Reworked pledge abilities — igcf/settle-pledge and igcf/confirm-pledge-payment are removed. New abilities: igcf/record-offline-payment, igcf/issue-refund, igcf/retry-payment-attempt, and igcf/mark-attempt-failed; igcf/cancel-pledge now retires the campaign-author branch (creator-side mutation moves to the Creator Controls add-on). Campaigns gain igcf/declare-campaign-result and igcf/announce-goal-reached. See Abilities Reference.
New REST resources — Payment attempts and refunds are exposed read-only at /igcf/v1/pledges/{id}/payment-attempts and /igcf/v1/payment-attempts/{id}/refunds. The pledge response gains displayed_status, net, is_full_refund, latest_attempt, and refund_summary fields. See REST API Reference — Pledges.
New action igcf_campaign_result_declared — Fires from Igcf_Campaign_Service::declare_result() with $campaign_id, $result (successful / failed / funded), and $actor_id; the outcome emails listen here. Its counterpart igcf_campaign_goal_announced fires from announce_goal_reached(). See Actions Reference — Campaign result and goal.
New merge tags — {refund_amount} and {pledge_net} are available to email templates. See Email Notifications.