The unique What’s New with Woo (WNWW) is a month-to-month e-newsletter from the Woo staff that options plenty of quick updates on the WooCommerce product and ecosystem. 

To assist unfold the phrase, we’re launching a brand new weblog sequence that expands on the e-newsletter content material, giving readers extra data and context on the shared updates. 

The month-to-month e-newsletter isn’t going anyplace, so if you happen to’d wish to obtain updates in your inbox, you may subscribe to What’s New With Woo right here.

On this first publish, we’ll do a recap of the highlights from the previous a number of months. 

So, what’s new with Woo?

WooCommerce Funds is now WooPayments

WooPayments continues to be the identical seamless funds expertise, with a brand new identify as a part of latest model updates — and with the newest enlargement it’s now out there to shops in 38 international locations. 

Woo Specific

In Could, we launched Woo Specific, a quick-to-launch model of WooCommerce that bundles must-have extensions and consists of internet hosting from WordPress. Woo launched this providing as a result of it gives the most effective mixture of what’s usually an A or B alternative: software program as a service (SaaS) or standalone open supply. SaaS choices are your subscription web sites, like Shopify or Wix. Open-source choices, like WordPress with WooCommerce, are free to make use of and yours to personal.

Woo Specific is a subscription model of the WooCommerce you understand and love — however not like conventional SaaS choices, it’s simply as versatile and customizable because the open-source unique. To simplify the shop startup course of, Woo Specific comes bundled with a set of extensions that can assist you publish merchandise and make your first sale, all included within the subscription value.

With Woo Specific, you even have the choice of take a look at driving software program with a 14-day free trial. To study extra about what’s completely different with Woo Specific, learn by way of this weblog publish. To get began at this time, join a Woo Specific free trial.

Meet the Woo AI Product Assistant

New in Woo Specific is the Woo AI Product Assistant. This synthetic intelligence device helps you create skilled product titles and descriptions rapidly by producing choices from your individual prompts. 

The aim of the Woo AI Product Assistant is to take away obstacles for everybody that wishes to begin and run a enterprise — and AI does that by making it doable for everybody to put in writing crisp product copy rapidly at no further value. 

As an open-source firm that offers you essentially the most freedom and possession of your small business, we additionally imagine retailers belong within the driver’s seat — all the time. An AI device may also help you generate copy, however it will probably’t change your experience, and also you’ll all the time personal what’s written in your web site.

WooExpert Awards, Europe and Americas 2023

At WordCamp Europe and WordCamp U.S. 2023, Woo introduced awards to excellent WooExperts in plenty of classes. WooExperts are a vetted and verified group of full-service businesses that help Woo retailers by way of web site improvement, administration, and general WooCommerce optimization.

European award winners:

Award winners from the Americas:

You’ll be able to learn extra in regards to the award-winning businesses on this weblog publish. Or, if you happen to’re on the lookout for assist with constructing or customizing your retailer, you may rent one in all our trusted WooExpert businesses to finish your undertaking.

Meet Zao, a Silver licensed WooExpert company

Zao has labored with open-source ecommerce platforms since 2005 and gives intensive technical providers to all ranges of Woo retailers. Whether or not you’re migrating to WooCommerce, launching a brand new retailer, enhancing your web site efficiency, or operating a technical audit, Zao has the experience to attain your imaginative and prescient. 

Zao’s clientele are different, with featured tasks together with:

Be taught extra about Zao’s providers and clients from their WooExpert profile.

WordCamp Europe and U.S. 2023

In June, the WordPress neighborhood got here collectively in Athens, Greece, for one of many three flagship WordCamp occasions (the opposite two flagship occasions are in Asia and the U.S.). The U.S. occasion was held on the finish of August in Nationwide Harbor, Maryland.

WordCamps are casual, community-organized occasions that includes a number of displays, workshops, and alternatives to attach with individuals from all corners of the WordPress ecosystem.

Woo hosted a sales space on days one and two of WordCamps Europe and U.S. for attendees to expertise. At each WordCamps, guests had been in a position to demo Woo In-Particular person Funds or Faucet to Pay on iPhone as a solution to get hold of swag from the sales space. 

Accomplice Spotlight: TikTok Shoppable Posts

New from the TikTok for WooCommerce extension comes the power to attach shoppable posts to your Woo retailer to sync your product catalog, arrange TikTok Pixel monitoring, and construct advert campaigns proper out of your Woo dashboard.

Social commerce is the fastest-growing pattern in ecommerce and might introduce your model to tons of latest clients. Creating shoppable posts — the place clients can purchase from you on their social platform of alternative — present a better path to buy. Social commerce additionally builds model recognition, fosters belief, and supplies further information in your viewers’s pursuits and shopping for behaviors. 

Be taught extra about advertising and marketing on TikTok.

New on the weblog: Guides and finest practices for brand new retailer homeowners

You might need observed that we’ve been publishing a number of in-depth articles targeted on beginning a brand new enterprise with WooCommerce. This content material is in information format and is written to assist new retailer homeowners launch their companies confidently with WooCommerce or Woo Specific.

Should you’ve signed up for a Woo Specific free trial however aren’t certain about the next move, take a look at a few of our latest posts, together with:

Be taught much more from the Promote On-line part of the WooCommerce Weblog.

New within the Market

In-Particular person Funds within the U.S., U.Ok., and Canada with WooPayments

Faucet to Pay on WooPayments is now out there on iPhone and Android within the U.S.! We’re additionally increasing the places wherein WooPayments card readers can be found, with the WisePad 3 out there in Canada and the U.Ok. To make use of Woo In-Particular person Funds, you’ll want WooPayments and the Woo Cell App. 

Promoting in particular person is turning into more and more hybrid with ecommerce. Having an omnichannel presence and providing patrons a seamless expertise between on-line and offline channels is essential on this new hybrid age. As well as, even conventional in-person verticals, similar to eating places, are beginning to promote merchandise on-line. 

WooCommerce is staying forward of those retail traits by increasing our In-Particular person Funds choices and transferring into new geographic places. To make our In-Particular person Funds even higher, we just lately launched barcode scanning, a characteristic extremely requested by our sellers who use In-Particular person Funds.

Purchase now, pay later characteristic built-in with WooPayments

Now, main purchase now, pay later (BNPL) suppliers Affirm and Afterpay are built-in immediately into WooPayments, so retailers can rapidly add these providers to their retailer. Added in WooPayments model 6.1, this characteristic permits your clients to pay for orders over time, utilizing a sequence of funds. For instance, a buyer might pay for a $2,000 USD product in 4 installments of $500. You, the service provider, would nonetheless obtain the complete quantity instantly, minus charges in fact.

BNPL providers are utilized by quite a lot of companies to extend conversion, improve common order worth, and attain new clients. The BNPL suppliers underwrite clients, handle the installments, and acquire funds, so you may focus by yourself enterprise.

Be taught extra about WooPayments with purchase now, pay later right here.

Chew-sized updates

Final on our record, a speedround overview of different product updates and media mentions:

• MailPoet: Measuring marketing campaign efficiency can increase the worth of your emails and enable you to ship efficient campaigns. MailPoet has added detailed analytics to its e-mail automations, so you may consider what’s working and produce in additional income.
• SearchEngineJournal: “With WooCommerce, you may promote something.” Our CEO, Paul Maiorana, stopped by SearchEngineJournal to speak about upcoming advances and share insights on how retailer homeowners can reliably scale with Woo.
• Customized Pricing: Promote by way of outdated stock and uncover how a lot buyers wish to pay by permitting clients to identify their very own worth. Customized Pricing makes it easy to conduct analysis — and acquire donations with no need a separate fundraising system. 
• YouTube Playlists and Product Gallery Movies: Trying to benefit from your product movies? Put your demos entrance and heart with featured movies on product pages and the power to add full YouTube playlists to your galleries.
• TikTok Store: In July, we launched TikTok Store, a brand new in-app procuring expertise open to Woo retailers. Combine your retailer with TikTok and make merchandise out there for TikTok customers to buy with out leaving the app.
• Zapier: New in June, Zapier’s Replace Product Inventory Amount motion permits customers to edit the variety of present merchandise or variations by SKU or ID. There are improved Authentication Dialogue directions and dependencies too. Pace up your processes — let Zapier do the give you the results you want.
• Zendesk: Additionally new in June, you may join your retailer to Zendesk and permit clients to create help requests and work together – with out leaving your web site. Admins can examine tickets and assign orders from their Woo dashboard. Up your help recreation at this time.

Till subsequent time

Thanks for studying this primary iteration of the What’s New with Woo weblog sequence! We’ll be again earlier than you understand it with the following spherical of updates. Do you could have any questions in regards to the highlighted updates? Tell us within the feedback.