foh-updates/eea-foh.json

{
  "name": "Front of House for Event Espresso",
  "slug": "eea-foh",
  "version": "0.22.2",
  "download_url": "https://gitea.mulligan.casa/ee-extensions/foh-updates/raw/branch/main/eea-foh/eea-foh-0.22.2.zip",
  "homepage": "https://gitea.mulligan.casa/ee-extensions/eea-foh",
  "requires": "6.4",
  "tested": "7.0",
  "requires_php": "8.1",
  "last_updated": "2026-06-23 19:04:23",
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  "author": "Mike Mulligan",
  "author_homepage": "https://gitea.mulligan.casa/mmulligan",
  "tags": [
    "event espresso",
    "point of sale",
    "box office",
    "front of house",
    "ticketing",
    "registration"
  ],
  "sections": {
    "description": "<p><strong>Front of House for Event Espresso</strong> runs the box office of a live event from a tablet. Each device is trusted by an administrator, every action is attributed to the clerk who took it, and the whole shift is captured in an append-only audit trail. It is an Event Espresso add-on — it reads and writes through Event Espresso's own models, so a sale, a payment, or a return at the door is the same real transaction it would be in wp-admin.</p>\n<p>The station runs as an installable PWA with no WordPress chrome: a clerk signs in with a badge, the tablet shows a fast registration search or a sales grid, and the door keeps moving.</p>\n<p><strong>What a station can do</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Check-in.</strong> Ranked name/email search, camera or hardware-wedge barcode scanning, cascade check-in across an event's datetimes, check-out, undo, and a manager-authorized force check-in for non-approved registrations. A segmented filter (All / Needs check-in / Needs payment) narrows the line to exactly who needs attention.</li>\n<li><strong>Sell / POS.</strong> A category-tabbed item grid with per-ticket variations and quantity steppers, a persistent running-total cart, registrant questions, then a real Event Espresso transaction with automatic tax and full rollback if anything fails — no orphaned rows.</li>\n<li><strong>In-person payments.</strong> Cash (with amount-tendered entry and live change-due), check, and card-present through a pluggable provider add-on. A shared transaction screen carries a role-governed payment gate so only permitted clerks can take money.</li>\n<li><strong>Returns, exchanges, and customer credit.</strong> Returns and exchanges settle as real Event Espresso transactions — replacement items are genuine ticket purchases, returned goods are a typed return payment, and the server computes the net. Overpayments resolve to a cash refund (role- and event-gated), a forfeit, or store credit parked on the customer's account (via a companion credit plugin).</li>\n<li><strong>Bluetooth thermal receipts.</strong> Print itemized receipts straight from the tablet to a 58mm thermal printer over Web Bluetooth — templated header and footer with token substitution, money-aligned line items, and a configurable tear feed. On-device test buttons prove the printer without ringing up a sale.</li>\n<li><strong>Clerk badges + scan-to-login.</strong> Print a badge per clerk carrying a CODE128 barcode and a QR; a clerk signs in by scanning that badge with the device camera or a hardware wedge scanner, or by typing a code.</li>\n<li><strong>Manager assist.</strong> A permitted manager can log in <em>over</em> an active clerk for a single task — a stacked, temporary session that preserves the base clerk's session and resumes it on exit.</li>\n<li><strong>Per-device themes.</strong> Four CSS themes (a system-following default plus dark, light, and high-contrast variants), chosen per device by a manager.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Built for the front desk</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Device trust.</strong> A device enrolls from an enrollment link, an admin approves it with a nickname and station, and the device then operates on a one-time-delivered secret — the operating credential, not a shared token.</li>\n<li><strong>Clerks, not WP users.</strong> Clerks are lightweight badge/PIN identities with configurable roles, idle and focus-loss timeouts, multi-login policy, and station scoping — volunteers never touch the WordPress user table or wp-admin.</li>\n<li><strong>Generic and reusable.</strong> Core stays event-agnostic and ticket-native. Filters let companion plugins layer on ticket categories, row enrichment, payment providers, and customer credit without forking the core.</li>\n<li><strong>Multisite-ready.</strong> Activate per site on a multisite network.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Full documentation and architecture notes live in the bundled <strong>README.md</strong>.</p>",
    "installation": "<ol>\n<li>Install and activate <strong>Event Espresso 5</strong> on the site first — this plugin is an Event Espresso add-on and does nothing without it.</li>\n<li>Upload the plugin to <code>wp-content/plugins/</code> and activate it (activate per site on multisite).</li>\n<li>Open the <strong>Front of House</strong> admin menu and set up your <strong>Access Profiles</strong>, <strong>Clerk Roles</strong>, <strong>Clerks</strong>, and <strong>Settings</strong> (including receipt header/footer).</li>\n<li>Create an <strong>Enrollment Link</strong>, open it on a tablet, install the PWA, and approve the device under <strong>Devices</strong>.</li>\n<li>The site should be served over <strong>HTTPS</strong> — the camera scanner and Bluetooth receipt printing require a secure context.</li>\n</ol>",
    "faq": "<p><strong>Does this require Event Espresso?</strong></p>\n<p>Yes. It is an Event Espresso add-on and is tested against Event Espresso 5. Sales, payments, check-ins, and returns are written through Event Espresso's own models, so they are identical to what wp-admin would produce.</p>\n<p><strong>Why does it need HTTPS?</strong></p>\n<p>The camera-based barcode/QR scanner (camera access) and Bluetooth thermal printing (Web Bluetooth) only work in a secure browser context. Serve the site over HTTPS and the station works on tablets and phones.</p>\n<p><strong>How do clerks log in?</strong></p>\n<p>A clerk signs in to a station with a badge — scanned by the device camera, read by a hardware wedge scanner, or typed in as a code. Clerks are not WordPress users; they are managed under <strong>Front of House → Clerks</strong> and governed by configurable roles. Treat a printed badge as a physical login key.</p>\n<p><strong>What happens when the network drops?</strong></p>\n<p>The station distinguishes a genuine network failure (an offline banner) from a server-side response such as a too-short search or an out-of-scope result (shown inline). When the card-present path charges but recording the payment fails, the station does not swallow it: it retries, prints a manager error slip, records an audit incident, and shows a blocking manager modal.</p>\n<p><strong>Can I add card payments or store credit?</strong></p>\n<p>Yes. Cash and check are built in. Card-present payments come from a pluggable provider add-on, and store credit / pay-with-credit come from a companion customer-credit plugin. When those companions are absent, the station hides the affordances entirely.</p>\n<p><strong>Does it work on multisite?</strong></p>\n<p>Yes. Activate it per site on a multisite network.</p>",
    "screenshots": "<ol>\n<li>Check-in station — registration search with the All / Needs check-in / Needs payment filter.</li>\n<li>Sell / POS — category-tabbed item grid with variations and a running-total cart.</li>\n<li>Transaction screen — cash tender with live change-due and the payment-method buttons.</li>\n<li>Returns &amp; exchanges — net settlement with cash refund, forfeit, and store-credit options.</li>\n<li>Bluetooth receipt printer configuration with on-device test buttons.</li>\n<li>Clerk badge sheet — CODE128 + QR for scan-to-login.</li>\n<li>wp-admin — the Front of House admin section (profiles, devices, clerks, roles, audit).</li>\n</ol>",
    "changelog": "<p><strong>0.22.2</strong><br />\n* Update-details sections now come from readme.txt (WP-native); base/config renamed to .mu-manifest.yaml + .mu-release.yaml. No functional change.</p>\n<p><strong>0.22.1</strong><br />\n* Release now flows through the shared manifest pipeline; the \"View details\" modal carries a description, changelog, and tags. No functional change to the plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>0.22.0</strong><br />\n* Added a color-coded plugin icon (delivered through the update channel) and declared WordPress 7.0 compatibility. No functional change.</p>\n<p>The full history is in <strong>CHANGELOG.md</strong> bundled with the plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>0.21.2</strong><br />\n* Updates are now handled by the Manifest Updater plugin (via the standard \"Update URI\" header) instead of a bundled updater. No change to how Front of House works; this lets it run on a single site instead of network-wide. Requires the Manifest Updater plugin to be network-activated to receive update notifications.</p>\n<p><strong>0.21.1</strong><br />\n* Fixed for real (multisite): the \"payment method Return/Settlement was automatically deactivated\" admin notice that kept coming back. Root cause was that Front of House auto-activated its internal Return/Settlement methods on every site in the network and then kept reactivating them, which Event Espresso re-deactivated in a loop. Those methods are now created only on the site that actually records a return/settlement (the desk site), and the stale notice is cleared in every admin context. No effect on how returns/settlements work.</p>\n<p><strong>0.21.0</strong><br />\n* Per-method payment options. Settings ▸ Payment Methods now lets you set, per method, a custom button label, whether a check number is required, and (for card) a surcharge. A card surcharge is added to the sale as a real fee line item — it raises the total, prints on the receipt, and is recorded in Event Espresso — so the customer is actually charged it. Card payments include the surcharge in the amount charged on the reader.<br />\n* Card is now provided through the Collect for Stripe add-on's registration with Front of House, and Front of House owns enabling/disabling and labelling every method (including card) in one place. Update the Collect add-on to 0.2.0 alongside this release.<br />\n* The old \"Allow cash refunds\" setting is carried forward into the new Payment Methods section automatically; no reconfiguration needed.</p>\n<p><strong>0.20.1</strong><br />\n* Fixed a \"payment method was automatically deactivated\" admin notice that kept reappearing for the Return and Settlement payment methods. The methods themselves were working; the stale warning is now cleared properly (the previous fix was being undone by Event Espresso's own notice save).</p>\n<p><strong>0.20.0</strong><br />\n* Per-device payment hardware. Each device now has a \"Hardware\" block (card reader, cash drawer); unchecking one hides that payment method on that station's point of sale — card needs a card reader, cash needs a cash drawer. Visibility only: it never changes who may take payment, and nothing changes on existing devices (every device is treated as fully equipped until you say otherwise).</p>\n<p><strong>0.19.0</strong><br />\n* A single home for payment methods. A new \"Payment Methods\" settings section turns cash, check, and card on or off and sets cash-refund policy in one place; an access profile can restrict which methods a given station offers. Nothing changes on an existing install — every method stays enabled exactly as before until you adjust it. Under the hood the method set is now data-driven (a registry) so future methods can plug in cleanly.</p>\n<p><strong>0.18.1</strong><br />\n* Check payments at the desk (activates Event Espresso's Check method in the admin scope). Server-side event-scope enforcement on every payment/return endpoint (a clerk can only act on their own event's transactions). Clerk/manager codes widened to 10 digits with a per-device brute-force lockout, plus a remote \"Clear lockout\" admin action.</p>\n<p><strong>0.18.0</strong><br />\n* Card-present payments are verified against Stripe before approval (no more trusting the return URL). Every first-touch money write (sales, exchanges, cash, credit, settlements) is now idempotent against a lost-response retry. Audit-log failures are no longer silent.</p>\n<p><strong>0.17.2</strong><br />\n* The Return and Settlement payment methods now reactivate themselves automatically after a plugin update — no manual step on the Payment Methods screen, ever.</p>\n<p><strong>0.17.1</strong><br />\n* Walk-up Return (card-less return/exchange). Sales and returns now verify the transaction's true status in Event Espresso before completing — no more false \"Sale Complete\" on an unpaid exit.</p>\n<p><strong>0.17.0</strong><br />\n* Admin-configurable branding (receipt logo, app icon, splash, background) and Bluetooth badge printing in wp-admin (one badge at a time, tear between).</p>\n<p><strong>0.16.2</strong><br />\n* Service worker REST namespace fix (eea-checkin/v1 -&gt; eea-foh/v1); no behavior change.</p>\n<p><strong>0.16.1</strong><br />\n* Update channel + repository URLs moved to the ee-extensions org. Removed a hard-coded external domain from the receipt printer's barcode/QR test page.</p>\n<p><strong>0.16.0</strong><br />\n* Taking payment is now a lookup filter (All / Needs check-in / Needs payment), not a separate mode. Sell remains its own mode. No schema or server change.</p>\n<p><strong>0.15.0</strong><br />\n* Printable clerk badges plus camera and hardware-wedge scan-to-login, with per-device camera configuration.</p>\n<p><strong>0.14.x</strong><br />\n* Bluetooth thermal receipt printing with templated header/footer, itemized line items, and configurable tear feed; a dedicated receipt-printer configuration modal with on-device test buttons; loud \"charged but unrecorded\" incident handling for the card-present path.</p>\n<p><strong>0.13.0</strong><br />\n* Returns, exchanges, refunds, and customer credit settled as real Event Espresso transactions, with cash-refund/forfeit/store-credit settlement and exchange tax suppression.</p>\n<p><strong>0.12.0</strong><br />\n* Card-present payments via a pluggable, provider-agnostic descriptor model; cash tender with change; on-demand emailed receipts.</p>\n<p><strong>0.11.0</strong><br />\n* Sell / POS mode — front-desk sales through a category grid and persistent cart, building real Event Espresso transactions with automatic tax and full rollback.</p>\n<p><strong>0.9.0 - 0.10.0</strong><br />\n* Station modes, pluggable in-person payments, the corrected visibility-vs-action check-in model, assistive (stacked) manager login, per-device themes, and a Q&amp;A + payments details modal.</p>\n<p><strong>0.5.0 - 0.7.x</strong><br />\n* Device-secret authentication and nonce-sealed enrollment, first-class enrollment links, configurable clerk roles and stateful sessions, clerk-to-station scoping, linked-registration reverse lookup, and a role-gated registration details modal.</p>\n<p><strong>0.1.0 - 0.4.0</strong><br />\n* Foundation: profiles/devices/clerks/audit data model, REST layer, ranked search, check-in over Event Espresso models, the device approval handshake, and the station PWA.</p>"
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