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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…

Tips & How To December 17, 2024

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…

Tips & How To Tutorials December 9, 2024

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…

Tips & How To November 28, 2024

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…

News October 30, 2024

The Oregon Convention Center at night - the host venue for WordCamp US 2024

WordCamp US 2024 – The SkyVerge Experience

Hi there! 👋 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…

Company building October 4, 2024

Automate WooCommerce Member Coupons with AutomateWoo

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…

WooCommerce Development July 15, 2024

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…

Updates & New Releases July 1, 2024

We’re joining GoDaddy

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…

Company building September 14, 2020

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…

Company building News December 26, 2019

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…

Ask SkyVerge Tips & How To July 29, 2019