SkyTrip 2019 Recap

…pes of pasta, played a hilarious dinner game that had us all acting extremely silly, had cocktails in the drawing room one last time, and headed to bed early. The only miss in terms of food, based on our post-SkyTrip team survey, were the snack options. After planning out the menu with Anne, I truly thought we’d be so stuffed from all our amazing meals that we wouldn’t even be looking for snacks at any point. False! Never skimp on the snacks. Whil…

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New year

Four Years of WooCommerce

…hanges to WooCommerce was the inclusion of the v1 REST API, which was (mostly) read-only. However, this allowed external applications (such as the iPhone app) to GET store information. PUT / POST / DELETE was supported for order statuses only. Version 2.1 had a few more additional changes, including: An option to limit product reviews to verified owners Link previous orders to a customer’s account based on email Moving “integrations” (such as Goog…

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SkyTrip 2017

SkyTrip 2017 Recap

…was our first year doing presentations and they went really well, especially with the lively Q&A during each one. This is definitely an activity that’s challenging to do with a remote team so it’s a great time to do them during a retreat. Another activity that we experimented this year (coming off a similar exercise at our earlier leadership meet-up in January) was to chat about our core values and purpose. Developing and documenting your company…

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SkyTrip 2018 Recap

…ne of the casinos just over the border in Nevada. Since some of us had really early morning departures, we all came together for one final team meal at Ten Crows BBQ. We had a private, outdoor area for the team, and the casual, buffet-style meal was the perfect way to mix and mingle before saying our farewells. Every farewell dinner should have a fire pit Costs This year, we spent a grand total of $63,003 on our retreat, so around $3,300 per perso…

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8 Lessons Learned by building the WooCommerce iPhone App

…even longer. We beta tested the app in different environments, and purposely only gave beta testers a bit of documentation to see what questions they would ask. If you’re looking at your own roadmap, know that the last step isn’t the last step; by the time you get there, it will actually be the last 10 steps. Plan accordingly. Lesson 5: Worst Case scenario? Nope, there’s worse. Sometimes you don’t realize that the assumptions you’re making are as…

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WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

Building Your First WooCommerce Extension

…te me, the version with it hasn’t been released yet). I’ve simplified it a bit for use here: <img src=”‘ . apply_filters( ‘rp4wp_theme_icon’, plugins_url( ‘assets/images/themes/’ . $theme->get_id() . ‘.png’ ), $theme->get_id() ) . ‘” /> So what’s this doing? The plugin looks for an image with a url like ‘3.png’ in one of the plugin’s folders, and assigns this icon to theme number 3. If we simplify this a bit further so we can see what’s going on,…

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month in review

September in Review

…p development this month to begin the testing phase. WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro Integration Our Google Analytics Pro integration was held from release, as we decided to add a couple additional features before release to make authenticating with Google Analytics and Enhanced eCommerce tracking set up easier. We’re wrapping up these feature additions and finishing testing, so we’ll be re-submitting it soon. WooCommerce Braintree Update Our Woo…

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SkyVerge WooCommerce Extensions

Setting minimum and maximum input values with Measurement Price Calculator

…need to play with this data a bit to have it in this form, but it’s probably more user-friendly to set up your products this way. Set up Custom Fields We’ll use this format for every custom field: Name => mpc_{measurementName} Value => min=$min, max = $max, step = $step You can set the minimum, maximum, and step to whatever values you’d like. The possible field names would be: mpc_width, mpc_length, mpc_height, mpc_area, mpc_volume, and mpc_weigh…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

New WooCommerce Plug-in: Authorize.net Reporting

…he WooCommerce Authorize.net Reporting extension. Here at SkyVerge, we really love to automate things. Sometimes we all do things that take up all these little bits of time in our day that we could be saving or putting to a more productive use. Why not automate those little things and save yourself the trouble? Feel the same way? Great. That was the number one concept we had in mind when we wrote this extension for you. When you install and config…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

Improvements to WooCommerce CSV Export for Customers / Orders

…ommerce > CSV Export: Built-in Export Tool This tool was available previously, but was a bit difficult to use. We’ve simplified the tool by requiring a CSV format to be selected under “Settings”, then you simply select the order statuses you wish to export, and the date range for customer or order exports, and that’s it. Exporting Options We’re really excited to share the new features we’ve added to the export settings, and think you’ll love them….

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