Today we are releasing Rewardify 2.0, a major version and a complete rebuild for Joomla 5 and 6. It turns what your members already do on your site into points, badges, levels, and rewards they can spend, all on rules you set yourself and all recorded in a permanent ledger you can audit.

The story: why we rebuilt Rewardify

Rewardify v1 did one thing: it kept a single points balance on each member and added to it. That worked, until you wanted to ask a harder question. Why does this member have the balance they have? What happened last March? Can I run a second currency, or a holiday boost, or a badge with real criteria behind it? With a single number on a row, those answers did not exist.

So we started again. Rewardify 2.0 is built around an append-only ledger: every grant, deduction, redemption, and expiry is one permanent row, and balances, levels, and badges are projections rebuilt from that record at any time. On top of the ledger sit the things v1 could never reach: multiple currencies, configurable rules, badges, levels, and a redemption store with real fulfilment. The important shift is that all of it is admin-configurable instead of fixed in code. You build the economy. Rewardify supplies the engine that ties it together.

What is new in 2.0

A no-code rules engine, with streaks and a Simulate tool

Most rewards plugins ship a fixed list of points you cannot change. Rewardify ships an empty rules engine instead. You pick a trigger (login, registration, article published, order completed, quiz passed), add optional conditions, choose what it awards and to whom, then set the limits that keep it honest: once ever, once per day, a per-day cap, a lifetime cap, or a cooldown. Streak rules reward a run of consecutive days and can pay again at each milestone, which turns "I logged in once" into a run nobody wants to break. Rules are versioned, and the Simulate tool lets you test a rule against a real payload before it ever goes live and pays a member.

Multiple currencies, starting with Community Points and Reputation

Community Points are earned and spent, and can expire or be kept for life, depending on how you configure them. Reputation is different: it is lifetime standing that only ever rises and is never spent, and it is what drives Levels. Keeping the two apart means a member's rank reflects everything they have ever contributed, even after they have spent their points down to nothing. Rewardify is multi-currency by design: these two come ready to use, and you can create your own currencies from the dashboard when your site needs more, like a seasonal credit or a store token.

Badges and Levels that mean something

Badges arrive both from a rule and from their own multi-step criteria (counts, time windows, streaks), and they support prerequisites, repeatable and secret badges, tiers, rarities, and Open Badges metadata. Levels rise from lifetime Reputation, each with a name, a colour, and a perk. Because a level can map to a Joomla user group, reaching one can unlock real access on your site, not just a label on a profile.

A redemption catalogue with real fulfilment

A currency that never buys anything is just a score. Rewardify gives points a destination: a catalogue with real fulfilment behind it. When a member redeems, their points are held in a reservation while the reward is delivered, and returned automatically if delivery fails, so nobody loses points to a redemption that did not complete. Fulfilment ships for EasyCommerce (a discount coupon, or a granted product) and for Community Quiz (access to a course, quiz, or exam), and you can build your own provider.

Campaigns

Campaigns are time-boxed seasons and boosts with their own start and end dates. A double-points week or a holiday push begins and ends on schedule, with no need to remember to switch a rule off afterwards.

The ledger, anti-abuse, and a trust model

The append-only ledger is the single source of truth, with a full audit trail. When a situation needs a person, you post a manual adjustment with a required reason recorded against the admin who made it, so corrections are accountable rather than invisible. Every reported action carries a trust level, so low-trust or client-reported actions can be held for approval before they pay out. A global daily points cap per member, a cooldown between identical actions, and self-vote and self-referral prevention close off the obvious ways an economy gets gamed.

A privacy-respecting leaderboard

Rewardify ranks your most active members by a currency you choose, shown both as a site module and as an in-app member tab. Privacy is the default: nobody appears unless they opt in, and anyone can stand behind an alias. Because the leaderboard runs on the same ledger as everything else, a position is always honest and never hand-edited.

Integrations across your stack

Your members do not live in one extension, so their rewards should not either. Adapters ship for Joomla core (logins, registrations, article publishing), Community Builder, Kunena, HikaShop, EasyCommerce, and Community Quiz, with no code needed to switch one on. The same rules, limits, and trust checks apply to every source, and new integrations arrive as plugins, so the set keeps growing without touching the core engine.

A modern member and admin experience

Members get a self-service area that shows their balances and activity, badges and level, campaigns, the catalogue, the leaderboard, a how-to-earn guide, and their own privacy controls. Admins get a modern single-page console: a reward-economy dashboard, rule and badge builders, the ledger, the member directory, themes, and branded email notifications for points earned, a badge unlocked, a level up, points expiring, and more.

A developer SDK

Underneath the screens is a clean SDK and adapter model. Any extension can report events to be rewarded under the same rules as everything else, or act as a fulfilment provider for the catalogue with the same reservation and refund safety as the built-in providers. Because the engine is event-sourced and replay-safe, awards are idempotent and auditable, so the record that makes it extensible is the same record that makes it trustworthy.

Upgrading from v1

Moving from v1 is supported. A one-time tool imports each member's old balance as an opening grant on the new ledger, so people keep what they earned, and the points migration is documented step by step: read Upgrading from v1 before you go live.

One honest note on expectations. Because 2.0 is a ground-up rebuild, your rules are built fresh in the new engine rather than carried across. That is the point at which you get to decide what every action on your site is really worth, this time with currencies, limits, streaks, and a Simulate tool to back you up.

Get Rewardify 2.0

Rewardify 2.0 (version 2.0.0) runs on Joomla 5 and 6, and needs PHP 8.1 or higher with MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later, and is sold and supported by Shondalai (BulaSikku Technologies Pvt. Ltd.).

• Buy or upgrade: https://shondalai.com/products/rewardify
• Documentation: https://docs.shondalai.com/rewardify/overview
• Changelog: https://docs.shondalai.com/rewardify/rewardify-changelog

We have wanted to build this version of Rewardify for a long time. If you run a Joomla community, a shop, or a learning site, we think it will give your members a reason to come back tomorrow. Tell us what you build with it.

The all-new Community Quiz is here

Community Quiz has been completely rebuilt for Joomla 6. This is not an update to the old component. It is a new architecture, a reimagined experience for both administrators and learners, and a large set of features that turn Community Quiz from a quiz tool into a full assessment, certification, and online-course platform.

If you have used Community Quiz before, the change will be obvious the moment you open it. If you are new, this is the best time to start.

Why we rebuilt it

The previous Community Quiz served thousands of sites well, but it grew over many years on top of an older approach. To deliver the things our users kept asking for, full courses, proper grading workflows, trustworthy certificates, and selling, we needed a modern foundation rather than another layer on the old one.

So we started again. The result is faster, cleaner, and far more capable, and it is built to keep growing.

A new architecture

The new Community Quiz is a single-page application. The administrator and the learner experience are both built with React, talking to a service-layer PHP backend designed for Joomla 6 and PHP 8.1.

What that means in practice:

• It feels like an app. Authoring, grading, and learning happen without constant page reloads.
• It is consistent. One dashboard covers quizzes, courses, grading, certificates, commerce, and reports.
• It is fair by design. Every attempt is snapshotted, so editing a quiz or its scoring never changes results that learners have already taken.
• It is responsive. The learner player works on phones, tablets, and desktops.

What is new

This release is large. Here are the highlights.

32 question types

Choose from 32 question types across eight groups: choice, text, matching, interactive, numeric, code, media, and specialised. That includes hotspot, cloze, drag-and-drop, numeric and calculated answers, code and SQL, confidence-based marking, observation, and OSCE stations.

A real exam builder

Organise an exam into sections, each with its own rules, timing, and navigation. Draw randomised question sets from question banks so no two sittings are the same. Plan balanced coverage with a blueprint. Choose an integrity level that ranges from open practice quizzes up to locked-down, proctored exams.

Automatic scoring and human grading

Objective questions are scored instantly, with partial credit, negative marking, grade bands, and section weighting. Written work flows into a grading queue with rubric marking, blind grading, and a regrade engine for when an answer key needs fixing. Automatic and manual marks combine into one final result.

Online courses

Community Quiz is now a learning platform. Build courses from modules and lessons, including video, reading, quizzes, assignments, and resources. Manage enrolment with capacity, waitlists, self-paced or cohort pacing, and scheduled content drip. Track progress, enforce completion rules, and award a certificate when a learner finishes.

Verifiable certificates

Design credentials in a visual template designer, then issue them automatically on a pass or a course completion. Every certificate has a unique ID, a public verification page, and a QR code, so anyone can confirm it is genuine. Open Badge support, CPD hours, expiry, renewal, and revocation are all built in.

Sell quizzes and courses

Community Quiz connects to our EasyCommerce component so you can charge for your content. Use one-time, subscription, or membership pricing; add bundles and coupons; offer free previews; and grant access automatically the moment payment clears.

Reports, modules, and integrations

Track attempts, results, enrolments, and revenue with built-in dashboards and reports. Place site modules for featured quizzes, a leaderboard, and a learner's own progress. And because it is built for Joomla, it works with categories, access levels, privacy tools, Smart Search, and your gamification extensions, and it sends branded, fully editable email notifications.

A reimagined experience

For administrators, everything lives in one place, grouped by what you are doing: author, learn, deliver, and organise. Settings are clear and centralised. The builder guides you from structure to publication.

For learners, the player is focused and fast. Exams are distraction-free, courses are easy to navigate, and certificates are a click away.

Moving from an earlier version

The new Community Quiz uses a new data model built for everything above. If you are coming from an earlier version, the component includes migration tooling to migrate your existing content. Always back up your site first, and test on a staging copy before going live. See the documentation for the current migration steps.

Get it today

Community Quiz is available now.

• Product page: https://shondalai.com/products/community-quiz
• Documentation: https://docs.shondalai.com/community-quiz/overview
• Support: https://shondalai.com/contact-us

If you run training, certification, education, or membership content on Joomla, the new Community Quiz gives you the whole pipeline, from the first question to a verified credential and a paid enrolment, in one component. We cannot wait to see what you build with it.

Community Answers 7 is now available.

This is the biggest update to Community Answers in years. It is a full rewrite for Joomla 6, with a new frontend, cleaner administration, better moderation, bounties, notifications, profiles, and a more polished user experience.

The goal was simple: keep the Joomla foundation that site owners already trust, and build a modern Q&A experience on top of it.

Community Answers still works the Joomla way. It uses Joomla categories, Joomla tags, Joomla editors, Joomla permissions, Joomla menus, and Joomla SEF URLs. Existing communities can move forward without losing the structure that already works for them.

What is new

Community Answers 7 includes a new question feed with filters for newest, active, bountied, unanswered, and most-voted questions.

The question detail page has been rebuilt with better answer cards, comments, voting, accepted answers, follow, bookmark, share, flag, edit, and delete actions.

The ask question form now supports Joomla categories, the Joomla editor, Joomla core tags, attachments, and duplicate question suggestions. This helps users ask better questions and reduces repeated topics.

The bounty system is now a complete workflow. Users can start bounties, see their available balance, track active bounties, and award points when an answer is accepted.

There are also new user pages, profile pages, and a leaderboard. These help bring attention to useful members and make the community feel more active.

Notifications are now part of the component. Community Answers supports in-app notifications, notification preferences, and editable email templates.

Moderation is stronger too. Version 7 includes a flag queue, audit logs, review actions, and permission checks for moderators.

Built for Joomla 6

Community Answers 7 is built for Joomla 6 and PHP 8.2 or later.

The frontend uses a modern React app, but the component still respects Joomla routing, Joomla ACL, Joomla categories, Joomla tags, and Joomla menu items.

This means your Q&A pages can look and feel modern while still fitting into a Joomla site properly.

Designed for real communities

Community Answers can be used for:

• Product support communities
• Public knowledge bases
• Education Q&A sites
• Expert communities
• Internal team help desks
• Reward-based communities with points and bounties

The component also integrates with Shondalai Core services for points, activity streams, profile links, avatars, and external badge providers such as Rewardify.

Better customization

Version 7 includes built-in themes, density settings, layout controls, and answer card styling options.

Site owners can show or hide the top toolbar, left menu, and right sidebar blocks. The frontend also includes semantic ca-* CSS classes so templates can override styles without depending on long utility class names.

For developers

Community Answers 7 includes modern Joomla plugin events with clear event contracts. Legacy Community Answers event aliases are also supported where needed.

This gives third-party developers a safer way to integrate with questions, answers, comments, votes, bounties, notifications, and moderation.

A major step forward

Community Answers 7 is more than a visual update. It is a new foundation for the component.

It is easier to use, easier to moderate, easier to customize, and better prepared for the future of Joomla.

If you already use Community Answers, this release brings your Q&A community into the Joomla 6 era.

After a lot of late nights, more coffee than I want to admit, and a long list of "wouldn’t it be nice if Joomla just had this," I’m really happy to share that EasyCommerce 1.0 is out.

This isn’t another shopping cart plugin. It’s the full commerce stack I kept wishing existed every time I tried to build a real store on Joomla and hit the same walls. So I built the thing I needed, and now you can use it too.

Here’s what’s actually in the box. No marketing fluff, no roadmap promises pretending to be features. Just the stuff that works today, in the version you can install right now.

One catalog, every kind of product

Most Joomla stores start simple and then run into a wall the moment they want to sell something that isn’t a t-shirt. EasyCommerce treats that as a first-class problem.

In the same catalog you can sell:

• Simple products, the basics.
• Variable products with a proper variation matrix, per-SKU prices, stock, and images.
• Grouped products for selling related items together.
• Bundle products for "buy these three and save."
• Digital downloads with secure, expiring download URLs.
• Subscription products with trials, fixed terms, or evergreen renewals.

There’s no separate "subscription extension" or "digital downloads extension" fighting your main catalog. They’re all the same product table, the same editor, the same admin flow.

Payments that don’t feel like duct tape

The Stripe and PayPal integrations are first-party plugins, not afterthoughts.

• Stripe runs on a proper PaymentIntent flow with signed webhooks, refunds (full and partial), and captures.
• PayPal v2 supports one-time orders and recurring subscriptions, with authorise-then-capture and signature verification on webhook delivery.
• Manual / offline payments for invoiced sales, bank transfers, or "pay at pickup" workflows, with a full audit trail on each transaction.

Webhooks are idempotent, which is a small word that saves you when your gateway delivers the same event twice (and it will). Duplicate notifications can’t double-charge a customer or double-credit a refund.

Refunds, payment captures, and renewal recording all happen through native gateway webhooks, not a polling cron job that fires every fifteen minutes and hopes nothing went wrong in between.

Shipping that talks to actual carriers

EasyCommerce ships with four shipping plugins out of the box:

• DHL
• UPS
• FedEx
• Manual shipping (flat rate, table rate, free shipping, custom rules)

Rates are calculated at checkout. Zone fallbacks and weight-based fallbacks are built in for when the carrier API is having a bad day. You can manage shipments, mark fulfilment, and update tracking from the admin.

Subscriptions that don’t leak

This is the part I’m most proud of. If you’ve ever tried to run a real subscription business on Joomla, you know what a swamp this can be. EasyCommerce handles:

• Trial periods, fixed-term contracts, and evergreen renewals.
• Customer self-service: pause, resume, cancel, switch plan, update payment method, all from the front-end account area.
• Dunning: configurable retry schedules, dunning emails, and a clean "subscription went past due" flow.
• Renewal recording from native gateway webhooks, so renewals land in your store within seconds of the actual charge, not whenever cron next decides to run.

Project & milestone billing is built in too. If you sell services, retainers, or custom development work, you can lock a contract total, plan milestones, add ad-hoc invoices, and your customer gets a "My Projects" dashboard with secure payment links per milestone. It’s the kind of thing you usually have to wire together by hand. Here it’s just a product type.

Software licensing, included

If you’re selling Joomla extensions, themes, plugins, or any other software, the Downloads & Licensing plugin ships with EasyCommerce and gives you:

• License key generation per product, per order, or per variation.
• Domain activation limits, with self-deactivate for end customers.
• A Joomla update server XML feed, so the software you sell can update through Joomla’s normal extension manager, just like any official Joomla extension.
• A customer-side licence manager: "show my keys," "deactivate a site," "renew my license."

You can run your own miniature extension storefront with the same flow the big marketplaces use, on your own domain, on your own terms.

A modern React admin that actually feels modern

The admin is a single-page React 19 application with Tailwind, built fresh for this release.

• It loads instantly after the first paint.
• It works on a phone. You can mark an order paid from a coffee shop, check stock from the warehouse floor, or refund a customer from the bus.
• It’s keyboard-friendly, so power users aren’t hunting for the mouse on every screen.
• Editing a product, fulfilling an order, finding a customer, all take roughly two or three interactions instead of seven.

There’s a real dashboard behind it, not a row of decorative widgets. Live sales by period, top products, recent orders, low-stock alerts, refund tracking, and an action-center inbox that shows you what actually needs you today.

The reports are the kind you can build a business on:

• Sales overview with period-over-period deltas and sparklines.
• Top products, top customers, payment-method breakdown, sales by category.
• Inventory health with low-stock alerts and turnover.
• Coupon usage, discount usage, refund history.
• CSV export on every report, because eventually you’re going to want the raw data in a spreadsheet.

AI translation for email templates

I added one small feature in 1.0 that I think people are going to like more than they expect. The transactional email templates (order confirmation, shipping notification, refund notice, subscription renewal, the whole set) can be translated by the built-in AI translation service, language by language, from the admin. You write the template once in English, then translate it into whatever languages your customers actually use. It uses the Shondalai AICore credits model so you pay only for what you actually translate.

WooCommerce migration, if that’s where you’re coming from

If you’re already running on WooCommerce and you want to move to Joomla without losing your order history, EasyCommerce has a built-in WooCommerce migration adapter that pulls:

• Products (with variations)
• Customers
• Orders (with full historical state)
• Subscriptions (with subscription state preserved)
• Coupons
• Reviews
• Licenses (if you’re using a license plugin on the WordPress side)

No manual CSV re-import, no order-history loss, no "we’re live on the new platform but customers can’t see anything they bought before Tuesday."

Joomla-native, all the way down

This was a hard rule for me. EasyCommerce isn’t a parallel universe sitting on top of Joomla. It uses:

• Joomla’s categories (real Joomla categories, with the full hierarchy).
• Joomla’s tags.
• Joomla’s ACL, with proper core.create, core.edit, core.edit.own, core.edit.state, and core.delete actions.
• Joomla users, with the standard user table. Your customers are Joomla users.
• Joomla language strings. Nothing is hard-coded.
• Joomla routing, sessions, email, and the standard update server pipeline.

If you’re a Joomla developer, every part of this is going to feel familiar. Controllers extend the standard base classes, models are ListModel / AdminModel, services live behind interfaces and are registered in provider.php, and database access goes through QueryInterface with parameterised binding. No raw SQL strings, no surprises.

Security I sleep well over

A few things I made non-negotiable from day one:

• Server-authoritative pricing. Totals, tax, shipping, and discounts are recomputed on the server at every step. A tampered checkout payload can’t sell something for zero dollars.
• CSRF on every mutation. Every POST goes through Joomla’s token check.
• Idempotent webhooks, as mentioned above.
• Encrypted payment credentials. API keys and secrets are encrypted at rest, not sitting in plain text in your database.
• Path-confined media handling. No path-traversal surprises on uploads.

What’s honestly not in 1.0

I want to be straight about this. A first release has limits, and pretending otherwise is how trust gets burned later.

• The customer storefront ships with one well-designed default theme. If you want a radically different look, you’ll customise it.
• The migration adapter today covers WooCommerce. Other platforms (Magento, Shopify, the various other Joomla carts) are on the list but not in 1.0.
• We’re Joomla 5 and Joomla 6 ready, on PHP 8.1+. If you’re still on Joomla 3, this isn’t your release.

That’s the honest list. Everything else above is shipping, not coming-soon.

Try it

If you’ve been waiting for a commerce extension on Joomla that you can actually grow into instead of out of, EasyCommerce 1.0 is for you. Catalog, subscriptions, downloads, licensing, projects, payments, shipping, reports, and a React admin that doesn’t feel like a museum exhibit, all in one package.

I’ve put a lot of myself into this one. I’d genuinely love for you to try it, kick the tyres, and tell me what works and what doesn’t.

Get it, install it, sell something with it.

And if you find a rough edge, please tell me. That’s how 1.1 gets better.

Welcome to EasyCommerce.

Maverick

EasyCommerce is published by BulaSikku Technologies (Shondalai). Support, documentation, and the live demo are at shondalai.com.