diff --git a/inc/ui/class-tours.php b/inc/ui/class-tours.php
index 29ac7f888..dda3a5043 100644
--- a/inc/ui/class-tours.php
+++ b/inc/ui/class-tours.php
@@ -90,6 +90,68 @@ protected function get_meta_key($id) {
 		return 'wu_tour_finished_' . str_replace('-', '_', $id);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Returns legacy user-settings keys that may hold a finished tour flag.
+	 *
+	 * Older tour persistence used WordPress user settings directly. Depending
+	 * on the WordPress version and whether the value travelled through the
+	 * wp-settings-* cookie sanitizer, hyphenated tour IDs may have been stored
+	 * either with underscores or with hyphens stripped entirely. Check both
+	 * shapes so users who already dismissed those tours do not see them again.
+	 *
+	 * @since 2.5.2
+	 *
+	 * @param string $id The tour ID.
+	 * @return array
+	 */
+	protected function get_legacy_setting_keys($id) {
+
+		return array_values(
+			array_unique(
+				[
+					$this->get_setting_key($id),
+					'wu_tour_' . preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9_]/', '', $id),
+				]
+			)
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Whether a legacy user-settings value marks the tour as finished.
+	 *
+	 * @since 2.5.2
+	 *
+	 * @param string $id      The tour ID.
+	 * @param int    $user_id User ID.
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	protected function is_legacy_tour_finished($id, $user_id) {
+
+		foreach ($this->get_legacy_setting_keys($id) as $setting_key) {
+			if (get_user_setting($setting_key, false)) {
+				return true;
+			}
+		}
+
+		$stored_settings = get_user_option('user-settings', $user_id);
+
+		if ( ! is_string($stored_settings) || '' === $stored_settings) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		$parsed_settings = [];
+
+		parse_str($stored_settings, $parsed_settings);
+
+		foreach ($this->get_legacy_setting_keys($id) as $setting_key) {
+			if ( ! empty($parsed_settings[ $setting_key ])) {
+				return true;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Whether the tour has been finished for the current user.
 	 *
@@ -117,7 +179,13 @@ protected function is_tour_finished($id, $user_id = 0) {
 			return true;
 		}
 
-		return (bool) get_user_setting($this->get_setting_key($id), false);
+		$legacy_finished = $this->is_legacy_tour_finished($id, $user_id);
+
+		if ($legacy_finished) {
+			update_user_meta($user_id, $this->get_meta_key($id), 1);
+		}
+
+		return $legacy_finished;
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/tests/WP_Ultimo/UI/Tours_Test.php b/tests/WP_Ultimo/UI/Tours_Test.php
index b015d5e75..d6ccdd7eb 100644
--- a/tests/WP_Ultimo/UI/Tours_Test.php
+++ b/tests/WP_Ultimo/UI/Tours_Test.php
@@ -321,6 +321,41 @@ public function test_is_tour_finished_falls_back_to_legacy_user_setting(): void
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Test is_tour_finished reads legacy stripped keys from user settings meta.
+	 *
+	 * Regression test for users who dismissed hyphenated tours before the tour ID
+	 * normalisation fix. WordPress could persist keys with hyphens stripped (for
+	 * example, wu_tour_checkoutformlist), while newer code looks for the
+	 * underscore-normalised key (wu_tour_checkout_form_list). The meta fallback
+	 * must recognise the stripped legacy shape and backfill the new user meta flag.
+	 */
+	public function test_is_tour_finished_reads_stripped_legacy_user_settings_meta(): void {
+
+		$instance = $this->get_instance();
+
+		$user_id = self::factory()->user->create(['role' => 'administrator']);
+		wp_set_current_user($user_id);
+
+		$reflection  = new \ReflectionClass($instance);
+		$is_finished = $reflection->getMethod('is_tour_finished');
+		$is_finished->setAccessible(true);
+		$get_meta_key = $reflection->getMethod('get_meta_key');
+		$get_meta_key->setAccessible(true);
+		$get_legacy_keys = $reflection->getMethod('get_legacy_setting_keys');
+		$get_legacy_keys->setAccessible(true);
+
+		$meta_key = $get_meta_key->invoke($instance, 'checkout-form-list');
+
+		update_user_option($user_id, 'user-settings', 'wu_tour_checkoutformlist=1', false);
+
+		$this->assertSame('wu_tour_checkoutformlist=1', get_user_option('user-settings', $user_id));
+		$this->assertContains('wu_tour_checkoutformlist', $get_legacy_keys->invoke($instance, 'checkout-form-list'));
+
+		$this->assertTrue($is_finished->invoke($instance, 'checkout-form-list', $user_id));
+		$this->assertSame('1', get_user_meta($user_id, $meta_key, true));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Test enqueue_scripts uses wp_add_inline_script on 'underscore', not wu-admin.
 	 *