I swear, each month I feel like I just wrote a month recap, and then I’m immediately writing another! Our April in Review covered some payment gateway rewrites, while May was a pretty intensive month devoted to WooCommerce 2.6 compatibility. For each major WooCommerce release, every plugin gets audited and updated (which is over 60 plugins in total, both free and paid). Support for new WooCommerce features, hooks, and methods are added, while support for…
We’re happy to announce the release of our WooCommerce Authorize.net SIM extension! This plugin provides a new, PCI-compliant payment method via Authorize.net. Customers are taken off-site to a hosted payment page to complete a transaction (similar to PayPal Standard). The plugin also supports eChecks, letting you securely process ACH transactions. The old “SIM”, a bundled AIM gateway Previously, a very old SIM / Authorize.net emulation protocol was bundled into our WooCommerce Authorize.net AIM extension. This…
Version 3.0 of our WooCommerce Customer / Coupon / Order CSV Import suite was released last week. While this adds necessary upgrades like WooCommerce 2.6 compatibility, it also provides a complete rewrite and tons of new features! Let’s take a look at the changes. Background Import Process One of the problems we saw frequently with order imports was timeouts on shared hosts. For some stores, this limited the number of orders you could import at…
When our Print Invoices & Packing Lists rewrite was released, we talked about how customizing templates was modified. The goal of these changes was to make it far easier to modify templates in an upgrade-safe way so that they didn’t have to be overridden for changes to take effect. To that end, a more modular template approach was taken, along with the addition of ample WordPress hooks to allow changes changes as needed. (Our developer…
Another month, another review! Unlike our March in Review, April has a pretty specific focus: payment gateways. We pushed out a lot of gateway updates in April, and our entire WooCommerce development team attended WooConf. We’ve also got a lot of exciting stuff in progress already for May, check it out 🙂 General Updates WooConf Paytrail v2.0.0 First Data v4.0.0 Payment Gateway Features In progress General Updates As our team was traveling for and attending…
A frequent question I get from developers using our Measurement Price Calculator plugin is along these lines: Can I set minimum and maximum input values for measurements? At present, this isn’t possible because (1) a UI for measurement attributes would be a bit tough to do on the current product page without being confusing, and (2) the inputs for measurements are currently text fields, not number inputs. The reason for this was to maintain the…
We’ve just released the newest version of WooCommerce Paytrail payment gateway! The newest version is a significant rewrite and is chock full of under-the-hood improvements. Improved Performance and Set Up Many of our most trusted payment gateways utilize a common, battle-tested codebase and you can now add WooCommerce Paytrail to that list. We’ve rewritten the gateway from the ground up to leverage all of the reliability and performance improvements our codebase has to offer. This…
We’ve got several exciting updates coming to WooCommerce First Data to share with you, which should be available via your WooCommerce dashboard by tomorrow 🙂 Version 4.0.0 refactors large parts of the plugin to make use of some common code we have for payment gateways, improving the performance and reliability of First Data, along with the addition of a new gateway mode. This also gives First Data some useful new features, such as capturing payments…
After spending last week in beautiful Austin, Texas for WooConf, our team is catching up and we’re taking some time to reflect on the past week. The first WooConf was hard to top, but the second WooConf definitely stepped up to the plate! Thanks so much to Maria, Joel, and all conference organizers for putting on a great event, and thanks to Dre Armeda for being a top-notch MC. As our resident photography enthusiast, thanks…
It feels like I just wrote our February in Review, and here we are with another post! Our team was elbow deep into some large projects this month, along with preparations for WooConf (hope we’ll see you there today!), so it’s been a crazy 31 days. Here’s a look at what we were up to in March, along with what we’re doing now. General Updates WooConf AvaTax v1.1.0! Beanstream v1.9.0 Cost of Goods v2.1.0 New…