PingBell for WooCommerce — Live Sales Board, Order Bell & Shop TV
| 开发者 | pingbell |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年11月5日 12:57 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
Every order, on the wall.
PingBell turns your WooCommerce sales into a live board: today's revenue and how the day is shaping up hour by hour, orders and new customers against yesterday, a goal bar, your top products, and the latest orders as they land. Put it on a TV in the shop, the office or the warehouse, and everyone sees the day happen. Every order rings a bell — confetti, fireworks, hearts or your own emoji, a sound you pick, and a message in your own words.
Two minutes to set up.
Install it, open WooCommerce → PingBell, and your board is there. Pick the colours, set today's goal, choose the sound and the celebration, and watch the preview change as you click. When it looks right, sign in with PingBell and your real numbers take over. Your last 30 days come along, so the board never starts at zero.
Any screen you like.
A TV, a tablet, a spare monitor: open the pairing page on it, type the six letters it shows, and your board is up. The PingBell apps run it on Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku and Android TV, and the phone app rings in your pocket on every order.
What's on the board
- Revenue today, with the day's shape hour by hour and how it compares to yesterday.
- Orders today and new customers today, each against yesterday.
- Today vs goal — set the number, watch the bar fill.
- Top products over the last 7 days.
- Live orders — the last few, as they come in.
- The totals strip — revenue, orders and new customers for the last 30 days, or for all time. Your choice.
- New orders (
order.created) — the order count and the revenue. - New customers (
action.wc_pingbell_new_customer_order) — an order from someone who had not bought before. WooCommerce has no event for this, so the plugin works it out in the background, while WooCommerce is sending the order to PingBell: it checks whether that billing email has ordered before, and if not, tells PingBell. This carries the order's id and nothing else. - Completed orders (
action.woocommerce_order_status_completed).
action.woocommerce_add_to_cart.
External service
This plugin talks to the PingBell service (https://pingbell.io — terms, privacy). What goes where:
- Nothing, until you connect. Before you sign in or enter an API key, your server makes no request to PingBell and reads none of your orders. The board in your admin shows sample numbers.
- Signing in: your browser goes to https://my.pingbell.io to sign in and approve the store. Your server then exchanges a one-time code for a credential it keeps; that credential never reaches your browser.
- Connecting: your server sends your store name, currency and timezone, the design you made, and — once — a summary of your history up to that moment: the last 30 days as daily totals, the last 72 hours as hourly totals, your lifetime totals, up to 50 top products by name with their order count and revenue, and how many customers you have had, in total and by day and hour for the recent days. These are counts and sums only. No customer's name, email or address is in them.
- Afterwards: WooCommerce sends each new order to https://hooks.pingbell.io over HTTPS, signed (
X-WC-Webhook-Signature), through its own webhook mechanism. This is WooCommerce's standard order webhook, and WooCommerce puts the whole order in it — including the customer's name, email and billing and shipping addresses. The plugin does not choose or trim that content. The new-customer and completed-order webhooks carry only the order's id. Older manual API-key connections send to https://app.pingbell.io. While the PingBell page is open in your admin, your server asks https://my.pingbell.io for the board and its numbers, and pairs or unpairs a screen when you ask it to. - Celebration sounds: when the board rings, or you press Play on the Design tab, your browser streams an audio file from https://my.pingbell.io/sounds/. Nothing about your store goes with it.
- Deleting the plugin removes every WooCommerce webhook in your store that delivers to PingBell and tells PingBell the store is gone.
安装:
- Install the plugin from Plugins → Add New, or upload the ZIP, and activate it.
- Open WooCommerce → PingBell. Your board is there with sample numbers.
- Open Design: name the board, pick the colours, set today's goal, and choose what happens when an order lands.
- To bring your real numbers in, open Screens & connect and click Sign in with PingBell. Signing in creates a free account if you don't have one.
- To put it on a TV, open the pairing page on the TV (the address is on the same tab), type the six letters it shows into Screens, and you're done.
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常见问题:
Do I need a PingBell account?
Not to design your board: that works the moment you activate the plugin, with sample numbers. Signing in, which creates a free account for you, is what brings your real numbers in and rings your phone. Putting the board on a TV, or sharing it by link, takes a plan.
Is it free?
The board in your WordPress admin is free, with no time limit, and so is connecting your store. A free account holds one board and carries a small PingBell mark. Showing a board on a TV or any other screen takes a plan, and the first time you subscribe there is a 14-day free trial.
Will it slow down my store?
No. The plugin does nothing when an order is placed, paid or changed. WooCommerce sends the order to PingBell in the background, the way it sends any webhook, and PingBell does the counting. Your orders are read in two places, both in the background: when you connect, to send your last 30 days and your lifetime totals, in small batches, and when WooCommerce sends a new order to PingBell, to check whether that customer has ordered before. On a very large store the first takes a while, and the Screens & connect tab shows how far it has got.
What does the plugin send to PingBell?
Nothing until you sign in. Then your store name, currency and timezone, your design, and a one-time summary of your history as totals, with no customer's name, email or address in it. After that, WooCommerce sends each new order through its standard order webhook, which does carry the customer's details, as it does for any webhook. See External service above.
How are new customers counted?
A customer is a billing email. An order is a new customer's when no earlier order has that email, so someone who checks out with a different email counts again. Your customers so far are counted once, in the background, the first time you open your WordPress admin after connecting or updating, and each first order after that is counted as it comes in. Two kinds of store don't get these counts: a store that sends webhooks during checkout instead of in the background, a setting a few stores change with custom code, because the plugin does nothing at checkout; and a store with more than 300,000 orders on WooCommerce's older order storage, because the check would be too slow there. WooCommerce's current order storage has no such limit on the check, and past a million orders your total counts from the update on.
What happens if I disconnect?
PingBell stops trusting the store, the plugin removes the webhooks it created, and your boards, counters and history stay in your PingBell account. Reconnecting picks them back up.
What happens if I delete the plugin?
Every WooCommerce webhook in your store that delivers to PingBell is removed, even ones an older version made, and even if WooCommerce is deactivated at the time. Every setting the plugin stored goes with it. Nothing was ever written to your orders. Deactivating does nothing on purpose: a host deactivating plugins during an update is not a request to disconnect.
Which WooCommerce events are supported?
Signing in sets up New orders (order.created), New customers (action.wc_pingbell_new_customer_order) and Completed orders (action.woocommerce_order_status_completed). The manual API-key connection can point a counter at any WooCommerce topic, including action.woocommerce_add_to_cart.
Which URL do the webhooks use?
https://hooks.pingbell.io/log?id=PINGBELL_ID, signed with a secret (X-WC-Webhook-Signature) so a forged request cannot inflate your counters. Older manual API-key connections use https://app.pingbell.io/log?id=PINGBELL_ID.
更新日志:
2.1.3
- Fixed: New customers and Total customers read zero. These counters never filled. After you update, the plugin counts your customers so far once, in the background, the next time you open your WordPress admin, and each first order after that is added as it comes in. Nothing rings for the customers you already had. A customer is a billing email. Only counts and an order's id are sent, never anyone's name, email or address. Nothing runs at checkout.
- Fixed: the Design preview shows your goal and revenue in your store's currency, not dollars.
- Fixed: orders that never reached your board. For stores that signed in before October 28, 2026, new orders could miss the board until that day. After you update, the plugin sends those orders to PingBell once, in the background, a small batch at a time, and your board's totals, charts and top products catch up. Nothing rings for them: they're not new sales. It starts the next time you open your WordPress admin. Only each order's id, time, total, status, currency and first product are sent, never anything about the customer.
- Changed: the board on your Dashboard uses PingBell's latest board design.
- Fixed: the sound chip no longer covers a figure. The small "Sound on" control sat over the first tile of the totals strip on the new board; it now sits in the header strip, between the PingBell mark and the live badge. A board without a header strip keeps it in the corner it always had.
- Fixed: the sample board's hour-by-hour chart labelled every hour "12a"; the hours read as hours now.
- Fixed: a long value in the Your store card could break in the middle of a word.
- Changed: lighter on your store. 2.0.0 read your orders on every Dashboard load, thirty days of them each time. 2.1.0 reads them once, in the background, when you connect, keeps nothing of its own in your database, and does nothing at checkout.
- Changed: your history goes with the connect, read in the background. When you sign in, your last 30 days by day, the last 72 hours by hour, your top products and your lifetime totals are read a small batch at a time through WooCommerce's job runner and sent once — so the board on the wall starts from where your store already is, not from zero, and the totals strip can count all time.
- Fixed: orders sent to PingBell carried an error instead of the order. The webhooks this plugin created (in 1.1 and 2.0.0) were saved without a WordPress user, and WooCommerce builds each order it sends as that user — so an order could arrive as "Sorry, you cannot view this resource" rather than its total and items. New webhooks are created as the store manager who connected, and the first time you open wp-admin after updating, every existing PingBell webhook without a user is given one. Nothing to do on your side.
- New: a board worth putting on the wall. The board is rebuilt to a new design — a header strip with a live indicator and the time, today's revenue as a chart beside a goal bar, a row of stat tiles with icons, your top products, and a live-orders strip along the foot. Your colours now reach the whole board rather than some of the text.
- New: New customers takes the place of Completed orders on the board, and the totals strip calls the same figure Total customers. The counter is created when you sign in and fills as PingBell learns to tell a first order from a repeat one on its side; until then it reads zero. Stores that signed in with 2.0.0 keep the counters they have.
- New: the totals strip counts what you choose — the last 30 days, or every order your store has ever taken — and says which. The Design preview follows the choice as you click it.
- Changed: the Dashboard's refresh waits for the last one to answer, shares one answer between every open tab, and backs off when PingBell is slow, instead of asking again every 15 seconds regardless.
- Changed: the number-style choice is gone and every board draws plain digits. The split-flap style did not fit the new layout; it comes back with the older board styles in a later release.
- New: the Design tab stays after you connect. Colours, name, goal and what happens when an order lands are still yours to change here; Save builds your board on PingBell from them, and every screen follows. The board editor on PingBell is there beside it, for a plan.
- Fixed: the connected card says the right places — a link to my.pingbell.io/pair for pairing a screen, "no plan yet" in words, and what Finish setup did; the accent colour reaches every tile's icon and the numbers colour every figure, the leaderboard, the ticker and the chart included.
- Changed: a store gets a workspace of its own on PingBell when you sign in — never one another marketplace app set up, never one another store of yours already lives in. A store you connected before this release keeps its workspace; Disconnect and sign in again to move it.
- New: the board lives in your admin, free, before any account — drawn from your own WooCommerce orders (this week, today against a goal, top products), in your store's timezone. Nothing leaves your site.
- New: Design tab — name, number style, colours, daily goal, and what happens when an order lands: confetti, fireworks, hearts or your own emoji, a sound from PingBell's catalogue, your own message. Preview it without waiting for a sale.
- New: Sign in with PingBell — bind the store to your account in one round trip. Your board and design move to PingBell, your last 30 days go with them, and every order after that arrives through signed WooCommerce webhooks. The credential stays on your server.
- New: Screens tab — pair a TV, tablet or browser with a six-letter code, see what is paired, unpair it.
- New: Disconnect, and a real uninstall — PingBell forgets the store, and deleting the plugin removes every WooCommerce webhook that delivers to PingBell (even with WooCommerce deactivated, and on every site of a network) along with every option and cached value. Your counters and history stay in your workspace.
- Fixed: a completed-orders webhook that never delivered anything. WooCommerce does not accept
order.status_completedas a webhook topic — it stores an empty one and saves without complaint — so that connection was silent. The plugin now uses the matching action hook (action.woocommerce_order_status_completed) and refuses any topic WooCommerce would not accept instead of creating a webhook that cannot work. Reconnect to replace an affected webhook. - The six-letter connect code and the manual API key remain, under "Other ways to connect".
- New: Connect with PingBell — 1-click connect flow. Sign in (or create an account), pick which store events ring the bell, and the plugin creates counters and webhooks for you automatically.
- New: guided setup (connect → events → screen) with your live styled board embedded right on the settings page.
- New: per-connection deep links into PingBell's board editor and the live board view.
- New: 1-click connections deliver to PingBell's hardened ingest endpoint and are cryptographically signed (X-WC-Webhook-Signature), so counters can't be inflated by forged requests.
- Declared WooCommerce HPOS (custom order tables) compatibility.
- The manual API-key flow is unchanged and remains fully supported (now under "Advanced").
- Existing connections keep working exactly as before.
- Initial release of PingBell for WooCommerce.
- Fetch PingBells via API key and create basic event-to-counter connections.