PlatformGold® for WooCommerce, by IgniteWoo, works by easily syncing the complete catalog of bullion product pricing and inventory levels from the PlatformGold® system and allowing you to maintain live retail prices for thousands of products almost effortlessly. This plugin will also enable you to seamlessly transmit sales orders to PlatformGold® for fast, third-party fulfillment. Manage your price risk, expand your inventory offering, and reduce business costs.
Expand your inventory by leveraging Upstate Coin & Gold’s stock and reduce your stock-outs.
PlatformGold® is a 24/7 online trading platform offered by Upstate Coin & Gold, a leading wholesale coin and bullion dealer that helps you buy and sell gold, platinum, silver, and palladium. They’re based in the United States and provide drop-ship bullion services to businesses in many countries worldwide.
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The plugin works for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, and can be used with any form of metal sales, including coins, bars, bullion, jewelery, plated items, and more.
Here’s how it works: You create products, choose your base price type (spot price or PlatformGold ask price), and set the markup amounts for each product. With that done, the plugin automatically sets your retail prices based on the markup amount you define.
For example, lets say you’re selling 1 ounce US Gold Eagles, and you want the price of each coin to be spot price plus 10% plus $5. Or maybe you want the price of each coin to be the PlatformGold “ask price” (the price you pay PlatformGold for the item) plus 10% plus $5. Simply choose your base price type for calculation, set your first markup amount to 10%, set your second markup amount to 5, and you’re done.
Have a look at the product settings below. One screenshot shows the settings if you choose to the PlatformGold product “ask price” as the base for your product price calculation, the other shows the settings if you choose to use the metal spot price as the base for your product price calculation.
Product settings using PlatformGold “ask price”
Product settings using metal spot price
And, when someone purchases your products you can automatically or manually transmit a sales order to PlatformGold to fulfill your customer’s purchase.
Powerful Features
Automatic spot price updates
Set the metal spot pricing update interval to any interval you prefer.
Set your markups as a percentage of spot price or a flat amount to be added to the base price for calculations.
Optionally add a second markup if you need to.
Set your metal weight in grams or a troy weight ( such ounces, pounds, or kilograms ), or as pennyweight.
Optionally define the metal purity in a product to help calculate prices.
Optionally set a minimum product price in case metal prices fall too low.
Supports simple products and variable products.
Display current metal spot prices in grams or ounces anywhere on your site using simple shortcodes.
Display your “buy” prices anywhere on your site using a shortcode. This is helpful if you buy precious metals or precious metal products.
Optionally transmit new sales orders into PlatformGold when a new order comes into your site.
Note that this plugin does not support sale prices for products.
Compatibility: WooCommerce 6.0 and newer
Latest version: 3.0
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If you don't see any recent changes below it's because none have become necessary!
Version 2.4 - February 25, 2025Version 3.0 - February 25, 2025
Enhancement: New import setting to skip importing products that do not have any images. As of February 2025 there are approximately 360 such products in the catalog.
Enhancement: Add new setting to enable product availability checking against the catalog. If products are no longer in the PlatformGold catalog they can be unpublished, deleted, or set to out of stock. Store manager will be notified.
Enhancement: Add filter to allow 3rd party code to determine if an item in an order should be skipped when sending sales orders to PlatformGold.
Enhancement: Add action hooks to the PlatformGold order data items table header and row data to help with custom code that adds info to the table.
Performance: Do not query for the product in WooCommerce when importing images if the product has no images.
Fix: Ensure correct PlatformGold product ID number is passed to the image import function, corrects a problem where sometimes the wrong images might be imported into the wrong products.
Fix: Reindex $items array before transmitting order to have a zero offset in case items were removed by custom code.
Fix: Updated image import to handle products that have no main image in the PlatformGold catalog but do have alternative images. First image in the list of images becomes the product featured image.
Version 2.3.3 - February 19, 2025
Fix: Ensure error message shows in orders when transmitting a sales order fails.
Enhancement: Add filter pg_metals_get_product_args to allow modifying query args used to get products that need to have their prices updated
Version 2.3.2 - February 5, 2025
Enhancement: Added warning message to the importer settings that images might not be imported unless using production mode.
Enhancement: In function maybe_process_order adjusted filter in function platformgold_items_for_order to send order object
Enhancement: When getting products from order in the function maybe_process_order now sets flag to also return product objects.
Fix: Change API actions hooks to queue on wp_loaded hook instead of init, might help avoid having scheduled actions enqueued more than once per desired interval.
Fix: Update transient value used for checking if it is time to download the product inventory catalog. Now set to a time stamp.
Version 2.3.1 - December 4, 2024
Enhancement: Add filter to allow 3rd party code to determine whether a shipping address should be sent with the order.
Fix: Ensure product catalog is present and is an array when editing a product setting to save its settings. Modified in the function get_pg_data_for_product.
Fix: Re-add the add_actio Ajax function for ajax_transmit_order
Version 2.3 - Otober 28, 2024
Tweak: Ensure first name and last name are not longer than 30 chars when transmitting orders
Enhancement: Added new development server environments to the settings
Version 2.2 - Otober 8, 2024
Tweak: Update messages displayed on the importer page for clarity
Tweak: Adjust error message processing for error code 400 in the API
Tweak: Adjust order processing for sites that only ship to the billing address, which leaves the shipping address empty in the order
Enhancement: Added new filters for adding custom plugin settings and controlling when orders are transmitted automatically
Version 2.1 - July 10, 2024
Enhancement: Added ability to import images from the PlatformGold API
Enhancement: Add new setting "Skip for sales orders" to products. When enabled the product will be excluded when transmitting a sales order to PlatformGold
Tweak: Allow license key check without required PlatformGold username and password to be configured first
Tweak: Do not try to process empty $data value if no spot prices are returned
Tweak: Adjust key check interval to every 2 weeks instead of once per day
Tweak: Added new filter pg_metals_get_product_args to allow modifying the query args used to find products for price updates
Tweak: Adjust market open time function to consider day light savings time
Tweak: Ensure address lines 1 and 2 are no longer than 30 characters when transmitting orders to PlatformGold. This condition results in an error until an admin adjusts the address to be 30 characters or less
Fix: Ensure table mapper has an array for pg_products and if not reset value to an empty array
Version 2.0.3 - January 5, 2024
Tweak: Adding "pending" status to the list when checking for existing products when performing an import
Version 2.0.2 - January 2, 2024
Tweak: Adjust math for progress bar percentage display
Version 2.0.1 - December 27, 2023
Tweak: Ensure classes for PG_Spot_Prices and PG_Product_Update_Scheduler are loaded before calling associated functions
Version 2.0 - December 18, 2023
New feature: Added a product importer that allows importing new products
Tweak: Enable stock management for each product when "Product Stock Quantity" is enabled in the plugin
Tweak: Ensure WooCommerce is active before loading class files
Tweak: Adjust transient value to use a timestamp for time comparison instead of 1 as a simple flag, avoids a rare edge case where transients are not removed correctly
Tweak: Add "Shipping Address 2" to the order when transmitting the order to PlatformGold
Tweak: Product update now updates metal products with a status of Draft and Private
Version 1.0.6 - November 9, 2023
Enhancement: New setting that allows adjusting the product stock quantity based on the available inventory quantity at PlatformGold
Markets close at 5pm EST on Fridays, allow the plugin to check for the latest spot prices up until 5:15pm EST on Friday
Version 1.0.5 - September 26, 2023
Fix: Correct the empty test on the data var in the calculate_pg_ask_price function
Version 1.0.4 - September 23, 2023
Enhancement: Add support for WooCommerce currencies
Enhancement: Add support for API V2 expanded order error response messages
Fix: Convert username to lowercase before saving settings
Fix: Ensure product exists and is loaded before trying to load meta data when displaying order information.
Fix: Ensure plugin settings are visible to the function set_additional_data()
Version 1.0.3 - July 26, 2023
Fixed settings initialization for PHP 8 and WC 7.9.0
Version 1.0.2 - July 21, 2023
Move metal_type detection in product price calculator so that it only checks that setting when calculating by spot price
Update inventory list every 2 hours instead of every 4 hours
Show calculated ask price, reverts change made in v1.0.1
Version 1.0.1 - July 18, 2023
Fix calculation formula for when "Ask price" is used as the product base price.
Version 1.0 - June 23, 2023
- Initial public release
From: 499.00 / year
Automatically adjust product prices based on the current spot price of of gold, silver, platinum or palladium.
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