WPManageNinja March 2026 Roundup: Momentum, Milestones & What’s Next

March was one of the most meaningful months of this year. There were a lot of major milestones earned, some biggest updates and beautiful celebrations.

We launched the biggest update in FluentCRM’s history. We started rolling out a brand new product. And we celebrated our team and our culture in the best ways.

Here is the full picture.

Product Releases & Milestones

FluentCRM 3.0 Beta is Live

This is the one we have been building toward.

FluentCRM started as a self-hosted email automation tool. Over the years it has become something much larger, a full marketing CRM for WordPress businesses.

Thousands of sites run their entire customer communication system through it. And every feature request, every real-world workflow, and every community discussion has shaped what 3.0 looks like.

The headline: SMS marketing is now inside FluentCRM.

Until now, you needed a separate SMS platform to send text messages to your contacts. That meant splitting your audience data, your automations, and your messaging across multiple tools. With 3.0, email and SMS live in the same place — inside your WordPress dashboard.

What makes this genuinely different is that SMS is not treated as a one-way broadcast tool. FluentCRM 3.0 supports two-way SMS conversations. Customers can reply to your messages. Those replies attach to the contact profile, keeping all communication history in one view.

Beyond SMS, here is what else landed in the 3.0 Beta:

• Redesigned interface: cleaner, more modern, aligned with the Fluent ecosystem
• Gutenberg-native email builder: build email campaigns directly in the block editor
• Vue 3 upgrade: a faster, more scalable foundation under the hood
• FluentCart abandoned cart recovery: connect your store’s cart behavior to FluentCRM automations
• Better automation reporting: clearer visibility into what your automations are doing
• Manual automation progression: move contacts through automation steps manually when needed
• Privacy-first email tracking: improved compliance with modern tracking standards

The beta is publicly available now. If you are a FluentCRM user, this is worth testing.

Read the full announcement →

700,000+ Small Businesses Trust Fluent Forms to Power Their Websites

Fluent Forms crossed 700,000 active installs this month. We got 100k new users in just 8 months.

That is a milestone worth pausing on. Seven hundred thousand WordPress sites are running their forms with Fluent Forms. Contact forms, payment forms, surveys, quizzes, multi-step flows all of it, on more than 700,000 active websites.

We are grateful to every single user who chose Fluent Forms and stuck with it.

FluentCart Empowering 5,000+ eCommerce Stores

FluentCart is now empowering 5000+ eCommerce stores all over the world. The product launched nearly six months ago. 

In that time it has become the eCommerce solution for thousands of WordPress stores selling digital products, physical goods, subscriptions, and licenses. And it is just getting started.

FluentBooking Reaches 20,000+ Active Installations

FluentBooking crossed 20,000 active installs this month.

That puts it solidly in the growing range for our newer products. Twenty thousand WordPress sites use FluentBooking for appointments, meetings, and scheduling and the product keeps improving with every release.

FluentPlayer is Ready to Launch

The FluentPlayer waitlist is open, and the product is ready.

FluentPlayer is our video player for WordPress — built for speed, reliability, and meaningful analytics. It is not just about how the video looks. The focus is on performance, glitch-free playback, and the kind of engagement data that actually helps you understand your audience.

If video is a serious part of your site, now is the time to get in line.

Join the Waitlist →

Product Updates

FluentCRM 3.0 Beta

The full feature breakdown is covered above in the milestone section. In short: SMS marketing, two-way conversations, redesigned UI, Gutenberg email builder, Vue 3, and FluentCart integration.

Full details →

FluentCart 1.3.14

FluentCart 1.3.14 brought three notable additions:

• Bulk product import: import your product catalog in bulk instead of one at a time
• Custom shortcodes:  more flexibility for embedding store elements anywhere on your site
• Flutterwave integration: payment support for merchants in Africa and beyond

Full details →

FluentCart 1.3.15

FluentCart kept moving with another update just weeks later.

• Gutenberg Email Editor: design and customize your store’s transactional emails using the block editor
• Extended email notifications: more triggers and customization options for order-related emails
• Additional stability and UI improvements

Full details →

FluentCommunity 2.3.0

FluentCommunity 2.3.0 focused on giving community owners more control and members a richer profile experience.

What shipped:

• Custom Profile Fields (Pro): create additional profile fields (text, select, radio, date, URL) with visibility controls. Collect what matters: company, portfolio, country, date of birth, anything relevant to your community.
• CSV export for Course Members and Quiz Results: pull member and quiz data into a spreadsheet for analysis or reporting
• Search and Filter for Followers/Following: find specific people in your network without endless scrolling
• FluentCRM: Send Message action, trigger a FluentCommunity message from inside a FluentCRM automation
• Time format sync with WordPress settings: messaging timestamps now follow your WordPress time format exactly
• Multiple bug fixes including BuddyBoss migration, FluentPlayer YouTube Shorts and Vimeo URL handling, cart checkout, and login redirects

Full details →

Fluent Forms 6.1.20 & 6.1.21

Two Fluent Forms updates shipped in March, both with a strong security focus.

v6.1.20 (March 4)

• Fixed Stripe coupon discount rounding that was losing cents on multi-quantity line items
• Fixed step form save and resume

v6.1.21 (March 17)

• Hardened Stripe SCA payment confirmation endpoints against fraud and DoS attacks
• Fixed spoofable form_id in SCA payment confirmation
• Added transaction status validation to prevent unauthorized payment confirmations
• Added payment amount verification after Stripe confirms payment
• Fixed missing capability check on MailChimp interest groups endpoint
• Fixed unsanitized sort_by parameter in Logger and Submission queries
• Added subscription end date support for auto-calculating bill_times

These are the kind of updates that matter the most to sites handling real money. If you are using Stripe with Fluent Forms, updating is not optional.

FluentSupport 2.0.5 & 2.0.6

Two focused updates landed for FluentSupport in March.

v2.0.5 (March 2)

• Admin Dashboard Dark Mode: for teams spending long hours in the support panel
• OpenAI GPT-5.2 support: the latest models now work across AI ticket reply, sentiment analysis, ticket summary, and fine-tune
• View Tickets (Read-Only) permission: let managers or observers see tickets without the ability to edit or reply
• Faster ticket list loading for large datasets
• Optimized large-scale Zendesk migrations
• Multiple bug fixes

v2.0.6 (March 5)

• Zendesk migration improvement: now collects archived tickets and supports resuming previous migrations
• Bug fixes, including bulk checkbox visibility, ticket list refresh after bulk actions, and file upload limit validation

Full details →

Ninja Charts 3.4.0

Ninja Charts, the free charting plugin in our ecosystem got its biggest update yet: native Gutenberg block support.

You can now add charts directly inside the WordPress block editor. No shortcodes. No switching screens. The full chart creation and configuration experience lives in the block sidebar with a live preview.

Every chart type is supported: Bar, Line, Area, Pie, Doughnut, Polar Area, Radar, Scatter, Bubble, Funnel, and more. If you are already using Ninja Charts, this is a meaningful quality-of-life upgrade.

Full details →

Paymattic 4.6.18

Paymattic 4.6.18 focused on subscriptions, self-service, and gateway expansion.

• Xendit subscriptions: Xendit now supports recurring payments and donations, not just one-time transactions
• Invoice downloads from Customer/Donor Dashboard: users can now download their own invoices directly
• Subscription cancellations from the dashboard: customers can cancel their own subscriptions without contacting you
• Stripe bank transfer support: a new payment method for Stripe
• Authorize.net dashboard cancellations: cancel Authorize.net subscriptions from inside the dashboard
• Conditional rendering for Donation Progress Item: show or hide donation progress fields based on conditions
• UI improvements including cleaner field states and dynamic currency positioning

Full details →

AzonPress 2.2.4

AzonPress 2.2.4 brought important improvements for serious Amazon affiliate marketers.

• Creators API support: you can now use Amazon’s Creators API as an alternative to the Classic Product Advertising API, giving more flexibility and future-readiness
• Multisite license management: properly handles license activation and management across WordPress multisite networks
• ASIN-based data fetching: more reliable product data retrieval
• Accurate pricing display and improved click tracking fixes

Full details →

Knowledge & Resources: March in Numbers

March was a full month beyond just product shipping. 100+ resources published across our domains, docs, guides, and reference pages.

FluentCart’s documentation is growing fast. FluentPlayer’s docs are being built in parallel with the product, so they will be ready at launch.

Newsletters went out from multiple product domains. The response has been good, people are finding the content useful and engaging with it.

15 videos published by our video team this month, each one carefully produced, not just filler content. Our WPManageNinja video library is closing in on 1,000 videos total. That is a real archive of product knowledge built over time.

Our social channels stayed active throughout March. The team published consistently across platforms, and traffic to our social handles reflected it.

The WPManageNinja Community kept moving on its own. Members are solving problems together, sharing workarounds, and building on each other’s knowledge, which is exactly what a healthy community looks like.

Our support team did not stop. Not even for Eid. While the rest of the company took time to celebrate, the support team stayed online for our customers. That kind of commitment does not go unnoticed and it should not go unmentioned.

Team Moments

International Women’s Day

We took a moment to celebrate the women on our team this month. Every one of our team members got recognized and received gifts. It was a small gesture, but one that felt worth doing.

Eid Celebration

March ended with Eid, and we celebrated it together as a team. Gifts, bonuses, and time with family. After a month of shipping, it was the right kind of reset.

What’s Next

April is going to be big.

FluentCRM 3.0 moves from beta toward stable. FluentPlayer moves from waitlist to launch. And across the ecosystem, the work we shipped in March becomes the foundation for what comes next.

We are building in public, one month at a time. Thank you for being part of it.