Articles for merchants and customers covering how to posts, product updates, and general announcements.
Spring is here, and with it, a shiny new Memberships release! This WooCommerce Memberships release cycle focused on two main components: free shipping for members and batch processing. It also comes with a number of new improvements and lots of tweaks under the hood we hope you’ll love. Create your own “prime” shipping for store members! The first major feature we’ve added is just as exciting as it sounds, so I’ll cover it first. 🙂…
WooCommerce Memberships has the ability to provide discounts for members. This is a popular way to provide perks or wholesale pricing for certain groups of customers. However, Memberships does not have complex sets of rules for for pricing, such as the ability to set discounts at tiers for membership products. You can use Dynamic Pricing for this sort of set up, as it lets you add pricing rules based on role, quantity tiers, and more….
WooCommerce Memberships has been one of our flagship products at SkyVerge for a couple years, and today we’re very excited for the next evolution of the Memberships ecosystem. When we originally built Memberships, our main goals were to provide a robust integration with Subscriptions for content protection, while also ensuring that sites could offer store perks to certain groups of customers (such as discounts or exclusive products). Over time, we’ve seen Memberships grow from a…
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…
Time to start with our first Ask SkyVerge question of 2018 🙂 This question is from Houdayer: Is there a way to add shipping information in the table at MyAccount > Orders? Sure thing! We’re looking at the “Orders” menu in the my account page currently, which shows order number, date, status, total, and actions by default: The woocommerce_my_account_my_orders_columns filter lets us add or adjust the columns included in this list, so we can add…
👋 Hey there! I’m the new guy around here. I’m super excited to be joining the SkyVerge team, and to be wrapping up my first project — check it out! -Jared Good things come in… Return packages! Our latest release of Shipwire is all about convenience. We wanted to make your lives as merchants easier, so in 2.3.0 we have made it easier than ever to manage return shipments and handle canceled orders without ever…
This year was one of the busiest ever for the SkyVerge crew. Yeah, we know, that’s what startups say about every year. But we really mean it! This year we grew our team, launched new products, made existing products better, and most importantly, helped over 50,000 shops using WooCommerce, Shopify, and Easy Digital Downloads to make more money and provide better experiences for their customers. Here’s what went down in 2017…
As a WooCommerce merchant seeking to expand your business, one option is going international. A world of opportunity awaits merchants who can tap overseas markets, and that opportunity is only growing. Global retail ecommerce sales are expected to total more than $4 trillion by 2020. Great news! WooCommerce merchants can now automatically estimate and optionally charge landed cost fees using WooCommerce AvaTax. Selling internationally can not only vastly increase the numbers of your potential customers,…
As you’re getting ramped up for holiday sales, you’re likely looking for ways to maximize conversion on your store to make the most of the increased traffic. To do so, reducing your cart abandonment is going to be key: be sure to show shipping rates up front, offer free shipping (at least as an incentive for minimum order values), and be sure your checkout process is well-tested. There is one leading cause of abandonment that…
WooCommerce Memberships version 1.9 is being released today! Exactly one year after 1.7, our biggest feature-packed release since the plugin inception. In between there have been 15 releases, 1 minor and 14 patch releases (according to semantic versioning terms). That’s more than one plugin update per month! Version 1.8 was too an important release: it had to account for WooCommerce 3.0 compatibility, an important milestone for the world’s largest eCommerce platform. For this reason, though,…