After months and months of beta (and omega) releases, AEC 1.0 is finally finished.

Here is why you should upgrade

The Administration was completely revamped and, finally, features Statistics (powered by the incredible d3 library). Just the same, the Frontend got a makeover and now features a templating system that, of course, fully supports Joomla template overrides.

The Micro Integrations that you attach to your membership plans can now have their own restrictions. Combine that with the new Discount MI, et voilà: Make your users get a discount when they upgrade from plan A to plan B (but not when they were in plan C before).

While a lot of time was put in the new interface, we weren't content with just eye-candy (although that certainly is a lot of fun) - we've also worked on the basics of the software, cleaning out many inconsistencies and making everything a lot faster (sometimes by orders of magnitude).

As per usual, there is a ton of new integrations with other components and payment processors. Finally, this new version is fully compatible with Joomla 2.5.

Picture time!

While I'm redoing our tour (oh boy, does that ever look terribly dated now!), here are some impressions of what AEC brings:

You can find a download link and full changelog after the break.

Download it here. (Active Membership required)

AEC Membership Management Version 1.0 Changelog
Features
Major Features
656: Complete Backend Revamp (break up J! Layout for more space, Toolbar, jQuery, Bootstrap)
674: Frontend rewrite with templating and support for template overrides
664: Joomla 2.5 Compatibility
331: Advanced Backend Reporting ("Sales and User Statistics")
555: One-File Installer Package
591: Install Package - Filesize Reduction to less than 2MB
619: Speed up all user related database queries, sometimes by an order of magnitude (Thanks to John Greenbury)
766: Restrictions on MIs (that, plus the Discount/Coupon MI == adjusting plan cost on upgrades between plans)
Minor Features
548: Feature Request: Clear the tempory token of a user when the go to the plans page if they have one
554: Inventory Amount for payment plans (maximum number of sales on a plan)
577: Better error reporting when failing to expire memberships on heartbeat
585: JomSocial 2.4 Compatibility
589: Retain position and publish status for modules with auto installer (or leave unpublished if new)
614: Cleanly delete plan from itemgroups when deleting plan
620: Clearing an invoice in the backend now correctly logs to History
622: AEC Export: Support exporting sales data (plain sales and different accumulates)
634: Finally fixing metauser->is_renewing()
638: RWengine to support [[subscription_id]]
642: Switch Mootabs -> FX.Tabs for cross mootools compatibility
646: Remove 'Hacks' central icon in favor of MI->Hacks page link
655: Export Page Layout that actually makes sense
672: .json, .xml and .ods options for sales&member export
676: RWengine to report on the number of invoices (cmds: 'invoice_count', 'invoice_count_paid', 'invoice_count_unpaid')
678: Support Joomla 1.6/1.7/2.5 extended profiles in RWengine + Support for it in the Joomla User MI
682: Migrate Quickstart Secret Functionality to toolbox tool 'Terminal'
683: Feature Request - Populate our own checkout forms
690: Custom Plan params that are available in the template plans list ($listitem['meta'])
719: Merge Coupons and Static Coupons into a single view. Static will from now on be called 'Popular'
734: Log AEC-initiated recurring (re-)bills to the history
736: Direct creation and editing of Invoices from the Backend
739: Help Screen (Just an overlay that links to our Support - Conversions! Ka-ching!)
740: Filter Memberships by multiple plans / plan groups
749: Drilldown Selection of MIs (at 80+ MIs to choose from, this was long overdue)
751: Switching to jQuery UI Date(/Time)-Picker
757: System messages now show nicely in the top navbar
765: Dedicated switch for allowing admin emails if No Emails is active
MIs - new ones
560: Webex
613: MultiUser MI - Create user accounts
623: YourMembership.com SSO Integration
707: Automatic Coupon
708: Automatic Discount
711: Interspire Email Marketer
712: iProperty
743: Tienda
744: RedShop
MIs - updated functionality
632: Share a Sale MI - Support cURL calls
645: VirtueMart 2 Compatibility
723: Improved JUGA MI (Thanks to P.Gasiorowski!)
725: PAP MI to support reading of PAP cookie
746: Jnews 7.5.1 compatibility
768: Modify Cost MI: Support multi-selection (with limits) and non-selection
Processors - new ones
505: Sofort Gateway
525: Ogone Processor (Thanks to Vijay Jawalapersad!)
552: MoIP HTML
559: SecureAndPay.com
621: Payments Gateway Checkout
653: ZipZap
688: CardSave
745: Skrill (used to be Moneybookers)
750: Mobio
755: Billsafe
760: Paystation
762: Paycific (Thanks to Jan from deutsche-internetagentur.de !)
Processors - updated functionality
551: PayPal integration to handle "payment_status = Reversed" to automatically put memberships on Hold
579: Proper Error message for PayPal status pending_reason=intl
580: Finish Use Invoice Tax switch in the PayPal processor
549: Proper instantcapture support in ePay integration
588: Offline Processors: Use RWengine on checkout info text
599: Worldpay Test Mode URL
659: PayOS Type Setting
661: CCBill now supports Euros as a currency
689: Correctly handle PayPal Dispute Settlements
714: PSIGate Test mode
761: "Pay later" Option for Offline Payment Processors ("Pay by Invoice")
Toolbox
695: Invoice Cleanup Tool
727: Coupon Generator Tool

633: Support Hours Tool to collect and display support hour debt
694: Move readout to toolbox
Translations
763: Hungarian Translation (supplied by Timea Rataj & Tamas Kepesi & Gabor Mag - Thanks!)
603: Russian Frontend Translation (Thanks Waldemar Taube!)

595: Clean up language and country codes in translation files
Plugins
526: AEC Rewrite Engine Plugin

Bugfixes
General
605: Restrictions cause Renewal IPNs to fail 
609: Problem in checkUsernameEmail() function
641: TinyMCE broken with Firefox 9 on tabbed pages
686: SSL Full encryption broken by our mootools
699: non-AEC links on frontend messed up when in a subdirectory
758: Invoice Cushion is not working right
564: Notice: Undefined property: InvoiceFactory::$checkout in .../acctexp.html.php on line 897
572: Group selection in subscribe URL broken when using menu item and custom call combined
573: Groups not showing up in Plans List
576: Back end heartbeat breaking on recurring memberships instead of skipping
578: Load language files on install properly
586: is_renewing() function off by one
587: Danish language is da-DK, not da-DA ("Like everything in life, Da-da is useless.")
592: Shopping Cart expiring memberships prematurely when subsequent, secondary plans are applied
594: Secondary plans with parent attached go to pending
600: Coupon Error not showing and redirecting
601: Issue with "efine('_" strings inside some language files
606: Menu item to Invoice tab does not work
607: Invoice on Recurring billing not formatted correctly
617: Plans List -> Show Users -> Try to edit user = broken
626: Getting rid of nuSoap (i.e. PHP5 is required if you want to use a SOAP processor)
627: VALID_AZ09 error
629: Language file errors breaking PHP 5.3+
635: Backend Ordering on various objects (Plans, MIs...) partly broken
636: Rounding error in alpha user points causes a full discount not to be free on non-recurring
652: Fatal error: Call to a member function registerEvent() on a non-object in .../aecrewrite.php on line 16
654: Backend Pagination breaks when switching from long to short list
658: If Javascript is disabled, CB Registration errors look weird
685: Excluded Group Restrictions included Zero Membership Users (failed to work as expected with Non-Members)
691: Any Template - Continue Button Not showing on Expired page
697: List Views in Backend - Setting of list length broken
698: My Subscriptions not showing the plans the person has on the main tab
700: Error when clicking on cancel from the account pending screen
703: Jomsocial second page of Registration not appearing with SEO turned on
709: Canceling an invoice in the back end redirects wrong
713: Processor images missing on confirmation and checkout when in subdirectory
717: Call to a member function renderCost() on a non-object in .../acctexp.class.php on line 12921
720: Rare bug where broken data caused pre-expiration calls to be redone every heartbeat
721: Can Not deselect ALL CC Icons
722: ToS on Eta Carinae Template not checking to see if agreed to
726: CB Plans second broken
729: Plans second broken - Joomla Registration
730: Test Export not working
741: metaUser->getPreviousPlan() and plan_previous in permissionResponse() produce errors
742: Username not showing when account is pending
748: Shopping cart not working in new package
752: Plans / Restriction Tab in Chrome
754: list selection state broken on user list - also broken return from subscription edit save
759: Missing option to allow user editing of invoice address in ETA template
769: Can not delete any coupons
574: Coupon error when using 2 coupons as one-time discount on a recurring payment setup
Joomla 1.6/1.7/2.5 Compatibility
602: vSession not working in 1.7+
610: Direct front end links in 1.7 are wrong
615: Joomla 1.6/1.7 when entering mis-matched passwords at registration throws a 500 error
650: Joomla 1.6/1.7 Admin Approval - AEC sends out wrong email
693: Joomla 1.6+ - Override Activation Email in plan settings broken
710: Jomsocial reg failing on 2.5.x
MI
643: Multi User MI not working
543: Tip MI does not show any text on the confirmation page and is discounted with coupon (it shouldn't)
544: JSPT MI throws some errors
569: [[invoice_amount]] does not reflect updated amount from mi_aecdonate
624: Alpha user points discount shows as TAX on the checkout page
625: No alpha user point trace into invoice. Adding them as a discount line?
647: K2 Integration
648: Google Analytics tracking
660: Mailchip MI - unsubscribe link fixed to 'valanx' (d'oh!)
673: Mail Chimp MI - Unsubscribe from list not saving
684: Tax MI not rounding when passing tax in paypal
704: mi_aecmodifycost.php Warning: Attempt to modify property of non-object...
731: Max Reuse not working in Coupon MI
738: JSPT MI not saving changes
764: function Default() never called in MicroIntegration Settings
Processors
618: Paypal WPP Express Check out - Error 8110
637: payOS - wrong period/unit values on non-recurring
732: Loading of Processor Settings broken
561: Sofortüberweisung.de - Missing Notification Password
666: CIM Billing Profile on My Subscriptions Screen doesn't show
728: SagePay fixes (Thanks to P.Gasiorowski!)
733: Offline payment checkout page
756: Offline Processor Image Missing
767: Processors without image lack text based sign in processor list
Plugins
570: AEC Error plugin causes logout from menu item to fail
584: AECaccess should never block a login when Require Subscription is disabled

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