Trade Dispatch

Trade Dispatch turns a WordPress site into an office dispatch hub. Create customers, schedule jobs, and assign work to crew members (WordPress users) without sending business data to a third-party SaaS. The free plugin is a complete web/office tool. There are no crew caps and no license checks. Roles (in addition to Administrator):

• Customer — created when the office confirms a booking (if that email is new), so the visitor can log in to the portal. An existing WordPress user with the same email is reused (including a Subscriber). The public form does not create an account.
• Employee — sees assigned jobs only.
• Dispatcher — runs the office (jobs, customers, estimates) without editing pages, themes, or plugins.

Shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks:

• [trdsp_booking] or the Trade Dispatch Booking block — public booking request form
• [trdsp_portal] or the Trade Dispatch Portal block — customer portal for logged-in visitors (matched by email)

A public booking stores a customer record and a requested job. A Customer-role WordPress account is created only after the office confirms the visit (if that email is new), so the public form cannot create users or send new-account emails. Estimates are office records only and do not process payments. Assigned crew members may receive a next-day job list by email (title, time, and address) at their WordPress user email. Trade Dispatch → Emails lets you edit every plugin message (plain text, placeholders). Leave a field blank to use the default. Plugin home: https://tradedispatch.app Unminified source: https://github.com/brelandr/trade-dispatch

0.3.54

• Fix: Extra Trade Dispatch roles cannot be changed on your own profile. The role checkboxes are hidden for the current user, and profile save refuses self-edits.

0.3.53

• Fix: Job and estimate list queries splat prepare() replacements. Latest-note lookup uses a two-placeholder join so Plugin Check can count replacements.

0.3.52

• Fix: Settings portal page dropdown is escaped at output. List queries pass prepare() without an intermediate SQL variable so Plugin Check stops flagging them.

0.3.51

• Docs: Collapse 0.3.42 through 0.1.0 into an Earlier releases note so the WordPress.org changelog stays under the size guideline.

0.3.50

• Docs: Portal REST class and permission callback document that these routes are web-only (not field-tech).

0.3.49

• Fix: Test-email sample name, address, and crew digest line are translatable.
• Fix: Portal loads the same localized booking script as the public form.
• Fix: Requests menu badge caches the inbox count for one minute and clears it when jobs, preferred times, or estimate requests change.

0.3.48

• Fix: Delete, decline, and restore-template confirms use an enqueued admin script and data attributes instead of inline onclick.

0.3.47

• Fix: Custom-table SELECT, COUNT, and uninstall DROP queries pass the table name through $wpdb->prepare() %i (WordPress 6.2+). dbDelta schema statements are unchanged.

0.3.46

• Fix: Portal and admin-post handlers verify the nonce before reading record IDs and require current_user_can on portal writes.
• Fix: Service default amount is sanitized before cast. Customer count and service list queries use $wpdb->prepare().

0.3.45

• Add: Create booking and portal pages from Settings (separate from the options form).
• Add: Jobs list customer filter and an Add estimate link on job edit.
• Fix: Deleting a customer deletes that customer’s jobs (and notes) first.
• Fix: GDPR export and erase paginate jobs so large accounts finish.
• Fix: Portal REST requires a logged-in user with portal or office access.

0.3.44

• Add: TRDSP_Requests::decide() so the companion office app can approve or decline booking, time, and estimate requests with the same customer emails as wp-admin.

0.3.43

• Fix: Public booking no longer creates a WordPress user or sends a new-account email. The Customer-role portal account is created when the office confirms the visit. Booking submissions are rate-limited by IP and email.
• Add: .distignore and create-plugin-zip.sh so Cursor files, deploy-to-hub.sh, and README.md stay out of the WordPress.org package.
• Fix: Services Default minutes uses a number input. Uninstall checkbox text matches the opt-in (tables, templates, settings, and roles).

Earlier releases 0.3.42 through 0.1.0 added customers, jobs, estimates, notes, booking and portal shortcodes/blocks, Customer/Employee/Dispatcher roles, the Requests inbox, the Emails screen, services, suggested visit times, recurring jobs, printed work orders, crew tomorrow emails, GDPR export/erase, and extension hooks (including email placeholders) so add-ons can show invoices, photos, time, and checklists without changing free records.