Articles for merchants and customers covering how to posts, product updates, and general announcements.
Version 3.5.0 of WooCommerce PDF Product Vouchers is here in time for holiday sales, and it brings one of our top feature requests! You can now add QR codes to your vouchers and scan them for quick redemption. Voucher templates can generate a code for a new voucher if you add a barcode field to the template. Notice that several types of barcodes can be generated. However, the plugin only supports scanning QR codes at…
The holiday season has already started at SkyVerge with WooCommerce Memberships v1.12 hitting WordPress updates worldwide this week. 🌍 It’s been 2 months since version 1.11 was released, and we’re releasing some small improvements as our last feature release this year. (We freeze releases over the holidays so only critical bug patches are deployed during your busiest sales season.) Let’s go ahead with the unboxing! 🎁 Inheriting restriction rules Some content in WordPress (like pages)…
Today’s Ask SkyVerge question comes from Nikki about Teams for WooCommerce Memberships: Is there any way to display messages for people who are team owners? I’d like to add some messages specifically for team owners to our dashboard to help them get set up with their teams. This is doable! Teams comes with a bunch of global and helper functions that you can find in the developer documentation — in particular, we’ll want to use…
Who doesn’t love taking new orders in their online store? 💸 Payment processing is a huge part of the order lifecycle, and today I’d love to share how we’re making that process a lot better for WooCommerce stores using USA ePay. We’ve re-built this plugin from the ground-up — let’s dive into some of the newest changes and features! Improved setup Our setup process for WooCommerce USA ePay was not great: showing accepted card types…
We’re no strangers to working with WooCommerce Subscriptions at SkyVerge. We’ve built about a dozen payment gateways that support Subscriptions, and WooCommerce Memberships has a close integration with Subscriptions to control membership access. Given this experience, it was a no-brainer for us to build an integration between Jilt and WooCommerce Subscriptions to send automated subscriber emails. Automated subscriber emails We’ve been spending a lot of time rearchitecting Jilt to send non-order emails, starting with our…
WooCommerce Memberships 1.11.0 is here! The new version is packed with important features both above and under the hood. This release of Memberships represents an important milestone in the evolution of this extension, and we’re very excited to see what it brings next. We have a really cool new integration, tools developers will love, and better guidance for new users. Let’s dive in! 🌊 PHP 5.3 is now required Starting from this version, Memberships will…
WooCommerce Product Reviews Pro is handy for gathering more feedback from customers as they review your products, which can help future purchasers learn more about items. Was the item too small or too big? Was the color as expected? What were you using the item for? In Product Reviews Pro, you can add these questions as review qualifiers. They’re added as dropdown questions in your review form. One question our support team got recently was:…
About 5 years ago, I started SkyVerge with my cofounder Justin. We had humble goals: build great software for eCommerce stores and build the kind of company that we’d want to work for. From the beginning, we’ve been bootstrapped & profitable, which helps us to build a culture that aligns and reinforces our core values. As we near 2 dozen team members, we couldn’t be more proud of our wonderful team of engineers, support specialists,…
I’m excited to share the all new WooCommerce Bambora with you today! 🎉 The WooCommerce Bambora plugin was originally our Beanstream integration. When Beanstream was folded into Bambora last year after being acquired, all merchant accounts were carried over seamlessly. However, merchants using our integration could not take advantage of all of the new technologies offered by Bambora. We’ve completely rebuilt the plugin to support Bambora’s newer API, along with loads of useful new features….
One of the most requested features for PDF Product Vouchers has been the ability to redeem vouchers online, similar to coupons. Well, ask and ye shall receive — we’re excited to share an update for online redemptions today! PDF Product Vouchers has always worked well for printable vouchers, which could only be redeemed at location. These are most often used for in-person store events, such as redeeming a free gift, a seat at a course…