How to properly secure and backup your WooCommerce store
WooCommerce store security is crucial, but neglected. Here’s how to set up some key security measures—and take backups to prevent downtime and data loss.
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 to address since members can belong to multiple plans. How would Memberships know which page to send a user to when they belonged to multiple plans? It’d…
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 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…
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 fresh, for all you bakers!) when customers arrive. Read on to learn more about how this update will improve your workflow! Setting appointment duration Selecting appointments at…
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 value to our customers. To that end, we’ve unified our XML and CSV Export plugins into the WooCommerce Customer / Order / Coupon Export plugin. Let’s embark on…
CyberSource 2.0: saved payment methods, refunds, and better security
CyberSource merchants, rejoice! 🎉 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, and we’ve added support for eCheck processing. We’re also merging our CyberSource SOP plugin into version 2.0! Similar to the recent updates to our Authorize.Net plugins, this will eliminate the confusion over choosing a plugin and will simplify development, since there will be no duplicated code…
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 team members (officially approaching 30 now!). When my cofounder Justin and I started SkyVerge in 2013, we not only wanted to build great software for eCommerce stores,…
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 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…
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 difficult to customize. For a newcomer to WooCommerce, this is often jarring: how can I adjust my WooCommerce receipt email to add new information or a thank…
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 API handled embedded payment forms, and the SIM API handled off-site transactions. As a result of all of this separation, there were 4 different extensions to do…