Keep Your Upgrades in Order

March 26, 2012

Paolo Belcastro

As more and more of you take advantage of our fabulous Upgrades, we’ve been conscious of the increasing need to offer a great way to manage your purchases. What if you could track all of your upgrades, manage them, renew them and *gasp* even cancel them, all in one place?

Well, starting today you’ll see a new page in the Store section of your dashboard: My Upgrades.

On that page you’ll find the list of the upgrades purchased for the site you are managing, followed by a lists of the upgrades you have on your other sites, if any.

Domain registration, mapping, Custom Design, Space upgrade, VideoPress or Premium theme, you will find them all here, along with links allowing you to renew, enable auto renew, update credit card data, or cancel ( and get a refund within the appropriate timeframe ).

As you can see, the status of each upgrade and its expiration date are clearly displayed there, with some handy color-coding:

  • One-time purchases (Premium theme in the screenshot above) or upgrades currently set to auto-renew (Domain) are displayed in green
  • Upgrades which need to be renewed manually are displayed in orange ( 10GB Space, Custom Design )
  • When these upgrades which need to be renewed manually get close to their expiration date, they are displayed in red ( VideoPress )

You’ll also find some handy dandy links to more information about each upgrade, just in case you forget why you bought it! When appropriate, we give you links to the settings page, too.

We’ve got plenty of exciting updates planned, including the ability to visualize, save, and print your own billing reports and purchase receipts – so keep an eye on the page for more!

Never forget a renewal anymore, visit the My Upgrades section of the dashboard.

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  1. Cathy Mar 26th at 5:02 pm

    Well this is nice 🙂

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  2. drhiphop Mar 26th at 5:03 pm

    thanks for this layout that’ll make my next steps very easy!

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  3. Natasha McNeely Mar 26th at 5:07 pm

    This is great and will definitely come in handy!

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  4. Capital Alternatives Mar 26th at 5:12 pm

    thanks for the information

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  5. Jorge Ledesma Mar 26th at 5:26 pm

    Excellent add-ons guys, you guys keep getting better by the day. Also it would be nice if the premium theme dev would update their designs more often. 60+ dollars and one feels like you need a little more update fixes. Cheers

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  6. River Mar 26th at 5:51 pm

    Awesome! This is really convenient. Thanks!

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  7. Mikalee Byerman Mar 26th at 5:56 pm

    As someone who manages to lose track of pretty much everything — from passwords to purchases — I’m forever in your debt… 😉

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  8. Jenni Mar 26th at 6:22 pm

    Many thanks for this feature. It’s one less thing to worry about.

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  9. Deli Lanoux, Ed.D. Mar 26th at 7:04 pm

    Y’all are extraordinary hosts, taking care of business so we can focus on what we love best… blogging. Thanks!

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  10. cwhitlow Mar 26th at 7:21 pm

    $60 for an upgrade, and I can’t get the information I need to figure out an issue I have in working with it. Unless the new page has links to better customer service in that regard, I won’t be buying any other upgrades, and I certainly won’t renew them.

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  11. Widdershins Mar 26th at 7:29 pm

    Excellent!!!!

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  12. timethief Mar 26th at 7:42 pm

    Good day to you, Paolo
    I am grateful that you have created this page for us as it will make my upgrade management much more convenient. As I’m visually challenged but have no difficulty seeing colors, the color coding is particulalry helpful for me. Thank you also for including the “learn more” links too.

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  13. mortycia Mar 26th at 7:46 pm

    Thank You!

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  14. jmoore Mar 26th at 10:07 pm

    I am using the free version of WordPress. It sure would be nice if you would do a few upgrades to it, i.e. put a delete button on the revisions.

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  15. Matt's Photo Contest Mar 26th at 10:32 pm

    Nice idea. I actually wish there was a way to use the premium between blogs. The ability to switch a purchased theme onto a different blog instead, would be great. If I paid for the theme on one blog, but decide I would like to change it to a different my other WordPress.com instead, I could put it on another blog.

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  16. nalub7 Mar 26th at 11:27 pm

    Congratulations and very thankful for the convenience it provides us.

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  17. AMIR HAMZAH TR Mar 27th at 1:30 am

    Excellent…….!!!!!!!!!!

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  18. JAY TANNA Mar 27th at 1:43 am

    Well it is a nice layout but please don’t store anything about credit cards or bank details. WordPress site can be hacked like anyother sites we have heard of in the news lately, and then we are all (75 Million of us) f***ed up.

    Thanks.

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  19. MZPMImpact Mar 27th at 2:15 am

    It’s great!

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  20. mainograz Mar 27th at 8:53 am

    Well done.
    Mainograz;-)

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  21. Joe Mar 27th at 8:59 am

    Yes, Yes, Yes! Thank you.

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  22. Fundació Cecot Innovació Mar 27th at 9:00 am

    Thank you, good job

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  23. June Malone Mar 27th at 10:23 am

    Very useful, thanks.

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  24. sungame Mar 27th at 11:02 am

    Great idea! Thanks a lot!

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  25. erumsuchistan Mar 27th at 3:47 pm

    good to know. thxs for the update 🙂

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  26. bwbears Mar 27th at 4:32 pm

    Nice feature! I like how WordPress is constantly improving…

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  27. Maggie ♥ Mar 27th at 6:07 pm

    That’s awesome that you’ll be able to see your upgrades. 🙂

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  28. tom Mar 28th at 3:27 am

    I just checked it out, it’s awesome.
    Is any notification displayed on the dashboard before a manual renewal update expires?
    Best, Tom.

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  29. southfranceholidayvillas Mar 28th at 11:28 am

    This looks great! Love WordPress, so many great features! Thanks for keeping us updated 🙂

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  30. Frédéric Mahé Mar 28th at 1:27 pm

    Thank you, this is very useful. It would be great too to add a billing module (edit and print bills for the services & upgrades). Cheers

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  31. The Bees Tea Garden Mar 28th at 5:36 pm

    convenient and time-saving

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  32. adrian.dakota Mar 30th at 2:28 pm

    That’s amazing! I love how WordPress is always coming up with new tools, even if I can’t use them.

    On a side note, has anyone else noticed that the screenshot has a spelling error? It’s minor, but it says it’s “currenty” using 0% storage space.

    I love the colours, though! That’s an awesome way of showing the statuses of the upgrades!

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  33. GADEL Mar 30th at 4:51 pm

    Interesting and exciting too. Thanks.

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  34. down1010 Mar 31st at 3:15 am

    cool

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  35. hanandp Mar 31st at 12:43 pm

    Thank you very much

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  36. Chitra Sivasankar Apr 1st at 8:51 am

    I have a doubt. Suppose If I have purchased two themes for a blog. Will I be able to change between them both whenever I want or will the old one disappear as soon as I change to a new premium theme or a free theme. Thank you.

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  37. newblogger21 Apr 2nd at 1:35 am

    Keeping my mind to that. Nice post anyway.

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  38. rowyaa Apr 2nd at 1:36 am

    wow who has this much time to invest… I am so blown away to have no time and I aint doin nothing…

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  39. Words of Little Relevance Apr 5th at 1:18 pm

    I’m getting seriously tempted by the CSS upgrade. More toys to play with 🙂

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  40. antonparera Apr 9th at 4:59 am

    thanks for your solution……..

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