Common WordPress Errors and How to Avoid Them

WordPress powers over 40% of websites globally, making it a popular choice for ecommerce businesses thanks to its flexibility and robust plugin ecosystem. At SkyVerge, we help harness the power of platforms like WooCommerce to turn WordPress into a full-featured online store, enabling businesses to manage everything from inventory to payments. However, its flexibility also means encountering occasional errors, so we’ve provided a guide to some of the most common WordPress errors and effective strategies…

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How to: Import WooCommerce Memberships and Subscriptions

When transitioning memberships and subscriptions, following a structured process is essential to maintain proper functionality. While it’s not currently possible to import WooCommerce memberships and subscriptions simultaneously, this guide will walk you through the steps to complete the process effectively. To get started, we recommend installing the Import Export Suite for WooCommerce. This plugin simplifies importing critical data like Users, Products, Orders, Reviews, Coupons, and Subscriptions. For memberships, our Memberships plugin will allow you to import the Members to connect…

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Troubleshooting Common Elavon Converge Errors for WooCommerce

Resolving Common Elavon Converge Errors Managing payments is a crucial part of any online store. With the Elavon Converge gateway plugin for WooCommerce, merchants in the USA and Canada gain access to a feature-rich integration. However, like any system, issues may arise and with payments it is critical to resolve these as quickly as possible. Common Elavon Converge errors often stem from account configurations, permissions, or API settings, and the SkyVerge support team has outlined…

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Sell Your Membership Products with Payment Plans for Split Payments

When you set up a membership site, determining how you’ll price your membership and provide value is one of the toughest parts of set up. You can opt to ask for an up-front fee for a given membership length, which ensures that you don’t need to provide a certain amount of value consistently each month (it could be more sporadic), but this provides a large barrier to the customer making a purchasing decision, as the…

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Release Roundup – Summer 2024

Welcome back! 👋 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…

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New year

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…

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Ask SkyVerge

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…

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New year

SkyVerge in 2018

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…

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Manual payments

Processing WooCommerce payments for a customer

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…

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SkyTrip 2017

SkyTrip 2017 Recap

A few weeks ago, our team of 10 SkyVergers converged on Orlando, Florida for our 2nd annual company retreat, dubbed SkyTrip. It was an incredible 5 days of beautiful weather, sharing a few delicious meals together, a bit of work, and of course the ever-present ear-splitting 120 dB pool alarms found in Florida vacation homes. As a remote company, this co-located time with the entire team is really important to us, so we plan to…

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