Good news, Memberships fans! 🗞️ In Memberships version 1.19, we added profile fields, which let you collect information about your members beyond the built-in basics. With customized profile fields, you’ll learn more about your members, which will make it easier to support and retain your existing members, …
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We’re joining GoDaddy
I’m excited to announce that SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy. Seven years ago, when Justin and I founded SkyVerge, we had two goals: to build software that would help eCommerce companies of all sizes run their businesses and delight their customers, and to create the kind of company…
Grant members early access to content with WooCommerce Memberships
Memberships makes it easy to restrict site content to members and to drip content based on how long someone has been a member. However, sometimes you may want to temporarily give early access to content to members, only making that content publicly available to non-members after some amount…
SkyVerge makes the 2020 Inc 5000 list
I am excited to announced that SkyVerge has been named to the Inc 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America for the third year in a row! When I cofounded SkyVerge seven years ago with my friend and business partner Justin Stern, we set out to…
Facebook for WooCommerce 2.0: Improved performance and reliability
Facebook for WooCommerce users, this is a big one! We’ve been working hard with the Facebook team to introduce this major update to the Facebook for WooCommerce plugin, focused on improving the onboarding / connection experience, product sync performance, and pixel tracking stability. Let’s get to it! Easier…
Introducing the SkyVerge Dashboard for messaging and support
Today, we’re beginning to roll out the SkyVerge Dashboard, which will soon be available across all SkyVerge plugins. This is a project that we’ve been working on for some time, and it started with a pretty simple dream—we wanted to make it easier for merchants using our…
How to translate WooCommerce Memberships
The default language for WooCommerce Memberships is English. As of November 2019, we also began shipping a Japanese translation. So what happens when your shop is en français or in italiano or auf Deutsch? Don’t worry: we’ve got a solution for you too. Here’s how to get…
Set up a Memberships welcome series with Jilt
Here’s an Ask SkyVerge question we’ve heard from lots of users: How can I welcome my new members and send them information regarding their membership? In this article, we’ll walk you through: How to set up a “new membership welcome” automation—including how to segment based on a specific…
Why you shouldn’t rely on WooCommerce to send emails
WocCommerce is an amazing platform for building an eCommerce store, but it’s much less amazing for handling your email marketing. It’s possible to send some emails through WooCommerce… but it’s certainly not recommended. WooCommerce is (of course) an extension of WordPress, so its emails are sent using WordPress’s…
Rename teams to better match your memberships
When we released Teams for Memberships, we knew that there was a need to sell membership access to large organizations. Since then, we’ve heard from many merchants who sell team memberships to all sorts of groups where the term “team” doesn’t quite apply, such as schools, families, …
Show pre-expiration messages for members on your site
This post is inspired by a neat question we got from a Memberships user recently: How can I share messages on-site when a membership is about to expire? Typically our member content blocks or member shortcodes can be used with a “delay” attribute to achieve this, as you…
Using Local Pickup Plus to support curbside / takeout orders
During the COVID-19 pandemic, stay-at-home orders and social distancing are part of our new way of life. Many small businesses are working hard to find new and creative ways to do business, despite these unusual conditions. In addition to gift cards, supporting curbside / takeout orders is…
Sell printable gift cards in your WooCommerce store
Let’s face it, y’all: life is sort of weird right now in the midst of a global pandemic. Different days no longer exist, pets are our new coworkers, and avoiding your friends and loved ones is now how you show that you care. On top of the material…
Working from home with kids: Advice on the “new normal” from the parents of SkyVerge
We’re a fully-remote team at SkyVerge, so working from home isn’t new to us. But… working from home during a global pandemic is. The “new normal” has been an especially big change for all the parents on our team, who now find their kids home with them…
16 tips for working from home from the fully-remote team at SkyVerge
Whenever there’s a survey on the perks people want the most at their job, “the ability to work from home” is always at or near the top. Well… now, suddenly, that scenario is a reality. Although we’d imagine most people didn’t foresee a global pandemic as the impetus…
Improvements to Facebook for WooCommerce’s settings and product sync
We recently took over the support and development of the Facebook for WooCommerce plugin, an extension that lets you sell and advertise products and communicate with customers on Facebook. With over 600, 000 active installations, this is one of the biggest projects we’ve worked on, so we’re very excited…
Moneris: Multicurrency support for the United States and Canada
Good news, Moneris merchants! We’ve released an update to route payments to different Moneris accounts based on their currency. This update makes it easier for you to support customers in the United States and Canada without needing to manually sort out transactions in different currencies within one merchant…
Promote memberships by applying discounts when purchasing the plan’s product
We know how important a quick and easy checkout is for driving conversions, so we’re excited to share a small but powerful update to Memberships: you can now apply membership discounts to eligible products when the cart contains a membership-granting product. When enabled, your customers will immediately receive…
How to properly secure and backup your WooCommerce store
This is a guest post from Akshat Choudhary, the founder of BlogVault, a secure WordPress backup plugin used by more than 400, 000 sites. All eCommerce businesses deal with personal information, from names and addresses to payment details—whether they’re global giants like Amazon or a home-based online…
Create a member home page with Memberships blocks
Here’s an Ask SkyVerge question we’ve heard from lots of Memberships users: When a member logs in, how can I redirect them to a custom member home page instead of the WooCommerce account page? This has been a popular request for some time, but wasn’t feasible for us…
