myCred Pending Points

Take full control of your loyalty program by introducing a layer of verification before points are finalized. myCred Pending Points is a powerful extension for the myCred ecosystem that allows you to place earned points into a “pending” state. This ensures that points are only fully credited to a user’s balance once specific conditions are met, protecting your business from fraud, cancellations, or premature reward usage.

Key Features

• Automated Pending Status: Automatically hold points in a pending state when specific triggers occur, preventing instant balance updates.
• Admin Approval Workflow: Review pending points manually and choose to approve, reject, or delete individual entries based on your business requirements.
• Customizable Holding Periods: Define how long points remain in a pending state, allowing you to align point maturation with your return or refund policies.
• Seamless Integration: Works directly within the existing myCred framework, ensuring that pending point logs are visible in the user’s history and the admin dashboard.
• Fraud Prevention: Reduce the risk of users exploiting point-earning actions‚Äîsuch as purchases or referrals‚Äîbefore a transaction is finalized or verified.
• Improved User Transparency: Keep users informed about their point status by displaying pending balances, managing expectations regarding when their rewards will become available for use.

Use Cases / Who It’s For

myCred Pending Points is essential for any site owner who wants to maintain the integrity of their loyalty program. If you run an e-commerce store using WooCommerce, this plugin is vital for preventing customers from spending points earned on an order that might later be returned or cancelled. By holding those points in a pending state until the return window has closed, you protect your revenue and your point economy.

Beyond e-commerce, this plugin is ideal for community managers and content platforms. If you reward users for submitting content, participating in forums, or completing tasks, you can use the pending points system to verify the quality of submissions before officially granting the reward. It acts as a necessary buffer, giving you the time to moderate contributions and ensure that only legitimate, high-quality actions result in permanent point gains.

Setup / How It Works

1. Installation: Install and activate the myCred Pending Points extension alongside the core myCred plugin.
2. Configuration: Navigate to the myCred settings area to enable the pending points functionality for your specific point types.
3. Define Triggers: Select which point-earning hooks should trigger the pending status. You can apply this to purchases, form submissions, or custom actions.
4. Management: Once active, points earned through these triggers will appear in the pending log. Administrators can view these entries in the myCred dashboard.
5. Finalization: Depending on your settings, points will either automatically transition to “approved” after a set duration or remain in the queue until an administrator manually approves or rejects the transaction.

Similar Plugins

While myCred offers a comprehensive suite of official extensions, users looking for alternative ways to manage point delays or verification often look at:

• myCred WooCommerce Plus: Offers deeper integration with WooCommerce, including advanced settings for how points are handled during order status changes.
• myCred Hooks: While not a direct replacement, various myCred hooks can be configured to delay point awarding, though they lack the dedicated “pending/approval” workflow provided by this extension.