Howdy folks! We’re going over the version 2.0 update for WooCommerce Shipwire today, which adds a few handy new features, and paves the way for some others. This update is awaiting deploy, so you should see it available in your dashboards soon! API Update First and most importantly, the plugin has been updated to the latest API version used by Shipwire. This improves reliability and maintenance for the plugin, while also making it easier for…
Our WooCommerce Customer / Order CSV Export plugin has undergone some massive changes recently, and version 4.0 is now available to download for active license holders! This release includes a lot of refactoring and internal improvements for the plugin. It follows on the heels of our Customer / Coupon / Order CSV Import Rewrite, leveraging what we’d learned about batch processing and parsing for export files to make exporting thousands of records a breeze. While…
Payment processing is the cornerstone of any eCommerce store. However, it can be one of the biggest pain points for an eCommerce merchant due to the security processes needed around handling sensitive customer data. Historically, merchants have had to choose between offloading security to the processor via an off-site payment method (like PayPal Standard), or building a seamless checkout that puts more security burden on the merchant (like Authorize.Net AIM or CIM). Over the past…
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…
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…
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…