woocommerce
When you use the Woo Subscriptions add-on for WooCommerce, subscriptions are handled very differently compared to most other competitors. This can lead to unexpected surprises for admins who expect to see subscription objects in the Stripe or Paypal dashboard. In this article we’ll explain what WooCommerce does differently compared to other plugins and services. The primary difference between WooCommerce and…
Read MoreIf you’re thinking about building a SaaS on WordPress you should check out the MVP (minimum viable product) for our new video course. The course is free. But, since it’s an MVP, it’s by no means polished and not all the videos are ready – only about 16 are available right now. But, those 16 videos gets you to a…
Read MoreVersion 3.3 of our WooCommerce integration will include a major new feature we’re calling “Product Packages”. Product Packages allow you to automatically activate plugins and themes on a per-product basis, configure memory usage per product and inject the product id, product categories and custom values into the tenant wp-config.php file on a per-product basis. It even allows you to configure…
Read MoreWhen you’re building a SaaS on WordPress that is not based on WordPress multisite, you typically want to push data into the wp-config.php file of each site. You do this because you would want to access the data in a custom plugin on the tenant site. This plugin allows you to control the user experience and features available in the…
Read MoreWith WPCD 5.0 on the horizon we have added a lot of goodies to our WooCommerce modules that take advantage of all that WPCD 5.0 has to offer. If you’re building WaaS products and services you’ll love some of the stuff we’ve introduced here. New: Combined Plugin We used to have two WooCommerce add-ons – one for selling site subscriptions…
Read MoreRecently we were contacted by a prospect who wanted to know if they could use our product to build a service similar to Cloudways. We took that as challenge – how long would it take us to set up a full site that could do something similar to Cloudways – with the limitation that it would just be for WordPress…
Read MoreWhen WPCloudDeploy V 4.6 is released it will include support for a few new features in our Sell Server Subscriptions With WooCommerce add-on. New: Choose Server Sizes Directly The current version of our WooCommerce integration require that you create aliases such as “Small”, “Medium” and “Large” for server sizes. With this version we allow for the option to bypass that…
Read MoreLast year we introduced a feature where admins could setup subscriptions for cloud servers using WooCommerce. Now we’ve taken that concept one step further – admins can now set up subscriptions for WordPress sites…
Read MoreWay way back in September 2020 (2020 already feels like a lifetime ago..), we released a new feature that allowed admins to sell recurring subscriptions to cloud servers using WooCommerce. But, we made a tactical error back then by including the feature in the core plugin. It was a tactical error for two reasons: It meant that every time we…
Read MoreThe next version of WPCloudDeploy will include the ability for end users to purchase cloud servers using WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions. We suspect that agencies might find some very creative ways to use this feature and we’re excited to see where it goes.
Read More