What exactly do you mean with freebie items?
Sorry for a late answer, I don't habitually look at the forum (I = Anthony's partner)
Freebies are simple free items, some are physical gifts (a small or larger sample up to a real gift), there's also the question if people want a printed package insert (instructions how to use) as well as a question whether they want to subscribe to our newsletter.
The free items were and are confusing to customers who see their cart being filled all of a sudden with extra items and unfortunately we can only conclude it led to lower conversion rather than better conversion .
We decided enough was enough when one such suspicious person called us angrily and then exclaimed that he couldn't get rid of them even when he had clicked on 'nothing' .. not understanding that while NOTHING (0 zip zilch) still is 1 item.
The final straw that broke the camel's back was and is that auto-recalculate does NOT work on free items. So if someone says : yes great, I'll subscribe to the newsletter and it is NO by default, that YES won't register if they do NOT actively click on 'recalculate'.
Vice versa, when we have a YES by default (we had this until the new privacy law was enforced at the end of May) they will be mad as hell if they said NO and then.. the no didn't register.
Will look into the two issues you note. Neither should be happening.
The language should track the language you are set to in the admin panel. I.e. if you change a value from "yes" to "si" and you are in the 'es' language, then it should remain 'yes' in 'en' and 'si' in 'es'.
For the second I'm assuming you mean the info that is optionally displayed in the 'user notes' area that describes what was selected. They should be visible when editing an order and subsequently saved.
If you want to have Lewis contact me with portable changes that need to be made to work in his 1step checkout, I'd be happy to add then at the same time.
I found and fixed the issue with the language update.
However, in using 4.8.1 I can't reproduce the issue with not retaining the notes.
Can you contact me via email at support at ez-ms.com so I can duplicate the issue?
If the addon has the 'add to notes field' setting checked, then the info related to the summary fields should show on the packing slip within the notes field.
Glad you found the error, I did however just add a little something to the field where I offer a free sample (adding a third choice) and still had to change the word sample into proefmonster .. or do I need to go to both sides?
Mind you, I chose to use 2 languages for the content of the fields, it is only the field name that I wanted to change on the Dutch side, that is the Dutch word for sample, newsletter and package insert!
As for your last remark, I will look into that as I don't exactly remember where I can check or uncheck that box.