Smart Cash on Delivery Fraud Blocker & OTP Verification for WooCommerce

Fake COD orders costing your store money? Returned shipments, wasted delivery costs, inventory stuck in transit — this plugin stops fraud at checkout before a single penny is spent on shipping. Built by The Plugin Forge. What It Does Visual Rule Builder — Create rules to block or allow COD based on conditions like cart value, country, state, postal code, schedule, user role, product, category, coupon, or weight. No code needed. OTP Phone Verification — Customers verify their phone number via SMS before placing a COD order. Supports Twilio, Vonage, and custom webhooks. Auto-Blacklist — Automatically blocks customers who exceed a set number of failed deliveries or cancellations. Manual Blacklist — Block any email or phone number with one click. Fraud Logs — Every blocked attempt is logged with full detail — who, what, where, and why. Test Simulator — Test your rules against any scenario before going live. Admin Approval — Hold suspicious orders for manual review. Fraud Heatmap — See where COD fraud is coming from geographically. How Rules Work Go to WooCommerce → Smart COD Control → COD Rules.

1. Click Add New Rule (or pick a quick-start preset)
2. Choose action: Block COD when conditions match, or Allow COD only when conditions match
3. Choose match mode: All conditions must match (AND), or any one condition (OR)
4. Add conditions and save

Rules are evaluated at checkout in order. If no rules exist, COD is available to everyone. Built and maintained by The Plugin Forge.

1.4.1 - 2026-04-22

• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.9 and WooCommerce 10.6.0

1.4.0 - 2026-03-26

• NEW: COD Rules tab split into two sections — Simple Settings (quick toggles) and Custom Rules (rule builder)
• NEW: Simple Settings — one-click rules for block above $X, block below $X, and allow only one country; all disabled by default
• NEW: Custom Rules take priority over Simple Settings — allow_only rules act as explicit exceptions that bypass simple settings
• NEW: Condition picker redesigned as a card panel grouped by category (Cart, Location, Customer, Product, Time) with icons and descriptions
• NEW: General Settings tab now shows the COD enable/disable toggle and blocked message settings (previously on COD Rules tab)
• FIX: Hide message toggle alignment — was broken by a conflicting label CSS rule inside the message bar
• FIX: Add Condition dropdown (now picker panel) click not working — was using prop(hidden) instead of show/hide

1.3.3 - 2026-03-22

• FIX: Quick Start presets and template cards now correctly open the rule editor — a deployment error in 1.3.2 had shipped an older rule-builder.js missing the preset functionality

1.3.2 - 2026-03-22

• FIX: General, Location, and Advanced tab settings (min/max cart, schedule, countries, states, postcodes, roles, products, categories, coupons, weight) were silently ignored at checkout since 1.3.0 — all now enforced correctly
• FIX: Weight rule condition was inverted — was matching orders above the max weight instead of within range
• FIX: OTP "please verify" error no longer appears alongside "no payment methods" when COD is blocked by a rule
• FIX: Plugin toggle (enable/disable) no longer resets blocked message, colors, and cart limits to defaults
• FIX: Color/message Save button no longer disables the plugin

1.3.1 - 2026-03-22

• FIX: First rule now appears immediately after saving without requiring a page refresh

1.3.0 - 2026-03-22

• NEW: Visual COD Rule Builder with block and allow-only rule groups
• NEW: 11 condition types — cart, location, schedule, role, product, category, coupon, weight
• NEW: AND/OR logic with live connector badges between conditions
• NEW: Quick-start preset templates and empty-state preset cards
• NEW: Rule test simulator rewritten to evaluate actual saved rules
• NEW: OTP verification widget live preview in admin settings
• FIX: Blocked message text and colors now correctly applied on frontend
• FIX: Ajax COD check uses rule-resolved message

1.2.0 - 2026-03-21

• NEW: OTP phone verification (Twilio, Vonage, custom webhook)
• NEW: Configurable OTP expiry, max attempts, message template
• NEW: 60-second resend cooldown

1.1.0 - 2025-12-07

• NEW: Schedule, user role, product, category, coupon, weight rules
• NEW: Behavior risk scoring, admin approval, auto-blacklist
• NEW: Test simulator and fraud heatmap

1.0.0 - 2025-01-01

• Initial release — location rules, cart value limits, COD fee, blacklist, fraud logs