Hi there! đź‘‹ I’m Nik I’ve been around SkyVerge since JUST before our acquisition, and these days I have my hand in just about everything as I help our team maintain success here at GoDaddy. For the past few months I’ve been leading the product direction for all of our WooCommerce extensions, and the SV brand in general, including helping to revitalize this very blog! I’m also a Portland, Oregon local and full-time remote worker, so…
One question we’ve gotten a lot is how to give members or subscribers a periodic discount for products on your site, which is no easy feat to accomplish. Sites with subscriptions or memberships that entitle members to a set number of free or discounted products each month have difficulty creating this kind of system. WooCommerce Memberships can let you create “Member Discounts”, which essentially give your members a members-only price on your products. However, these…
Welcome back! đź‘‹ It’s been three years, nine months, and a handful of days (depending on when you’re reading this) since the SkyVerge team joined forces with GoDaddy. We’ve been quietly keeping up the good work but haven’t taken the time to talk about what we’re up to! As you might expect, some things have changed around the ol’ SkyVerge virtual office! Many of our teammates have moved on to new ventures (including our founders—go…
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 where we wanted to work. Fast forward seven years, and over 100,000 businesses rely on our WooCommerce plugins and our email marketing platform, Jilt, and we’ve assembled an…
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 succeed and we’re excited to take a trip down memory lane to recap how we did that in 2019! Even more exciting, though, is what we’ve got…
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 membership perks on their site. If you’re interested in setting up Memberships to require application and approval, please let us know! In the meantime, here are a…
Topping last year’s team retreat was going to be hard. This is the story of how we rented a castle and pretended to be in Downton Abbey for a week.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is a great time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished 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 for the next. We spent the past few days at SkyVerge reviewing everything we built, improved, worked on, and shipped. As a team, we’ve put more focus on…
SkyVerge is a remote company. That means we spend our days chatting with one another in Slack, waving from our respective tiny digital boxes on Zoom, and sending accolades or shout outs via Basecamp. We love working remotely, and are no strangers to the tools that allow us to bond in digital-land. But, we’re also all very aware of the fact that there is simply no replacement for in-person bonding. To that end, we recently…
Our support team often gets asked a variation of this question: How do I process an order on behalf of a customer? I took an order for a customer over the phone, can I run a transaction for it in WooCommerce? I just accepted an order for a product with a custom price, and I’d like to charge the customer manually. Can I do it? I’m going to be charging for expedited shipping, so I…