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…
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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…
SkyVerge in 2019
As another year (and a pretty rad decade) comes to a close, we’re taking some time to reflect on what happened at SkyVerge in 2019. It’s been a year of incredible growth for our company and our products. We love that our job is helping stores grow and…
Schedule pickup appointment times with Local Pickup Plus
One of our most requested features is now part of Local Pickup Plus – you can now ask customers to choose a date and time for their pickup appointments! 🎉 This change makes it easier for store owners to plan and prepare to ensure orders are ready (and…
A unified Customer / Order / Coupon Export plugin
One export to rule them all, one export to find them, One export to bring them all, and in a file bind them. While conquering Middle Earth has never been on our agenda, it is our quest to make extensions easier for us to manage while providing greater…
Introducing CyberSource 2.0
Last week, we introduced an upgraded CyberSource version 2.0. With this new version, we’re taking advantage of CyberSource’s updated API to introduce new features and security improvements. We’re also merging our CyberSource SOP plugin with this updated version! Similar to the recent updates to our Authorize.Net plugins, …
SkyVerge named to the 2019 Inc 5000 list
We joined the Inc 5000 list last year as one of the fastest-growing, privately-held companies in America, and we’re thrilled to be back on the list this year. A lot has changed over the past year, in which we saw tremendous growth and welcomed a number of new…
How can I require customers apply for a membership and approve their access?
While WooCommerce Memberships is flexible in how your customers can become members, it’s useful for some sites to let customers apply for a membership and then accept or reject their membership. This is desirable for merchants who want a great deal of control over who gets access to…
SkyTrip 2019 Recap
Remote work has been in our DNA at SkyVerge since day one. Being a fully distributed company means we make sure our team members feel they can fit work into their lives, and not the other way around. It also means, however, that we can get a…
How to personalize WooCommerce order emails
One of the most frustrating things about WooCommerce is the inability to change your order emails to fit your brand or voice. While you can completely change the way your storefront looks using a new theme to represent your brand, the order emails in WooCommerce are generic and…
A new Authorize.Net experience
The Authorize.Net integrations for WooCommerce were among some of the earliest plugins we built at SkyVerge. At that time, Authorize.Net had several different APIs that allowed you to do different things: the AIM API handled directly processing payments, the CIM API handled securely tokenizing saved methods, the DPM…
WooCommerce Global Payments version 2.0
Who loves shiny new payment integrations for WooCommerce? 🙋♀️ We’ve completely rebuilt the WooCommerce Global Payments integration, and version 2.0 adds some of the most advanced payment capabilities for WooCommerce. This streamlined integration now supports the latest that Global Payments has to offer. Improved setup Getting started with…
Send SMS reminders for WooCommerce Bookings
Selling bookable products in your WooCommerce store? You can now send SMS reminders for appointments via Twilio for WooCommerce ! 📱 Version 1.12.0 of Twilio for WooCommerce adds a WooCommerce Bookings integration to configure SMS reminders for your bookings. When both plugins are active on your WooCommerce site, …
WooCommerce Checkout Add-ons version 2.0
Hello, interwebs! 👋 What’s fresh with an entirely different user experience? WooCommerce Checkout Add-ons version 2.0! 🍏 Let’s take a look through some of the changes in this major upgrade, and how it changes managing add-ons in your store. Version 2.0 doesn’t change much of what your customers…
SkyVerge in 2018
The week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is a great time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished a as a company over the past year. The post-holiday lull provides some much-needed time to step back and get a bird’s-eye view of the past year before setting goals…
Better extension support using the WooCommerce REST API
As many of you know, our team started to handle all plugin support from WooCommerce.com last year. This was an interesting change for us, as our team had previously been involved in second-tier support, with the WooCommerce team responding to incoming questions and working with our team as…
