News Archives - SkyVerge

GoDaddy Payments: Benefits & Free WooCommerce Plugin

In today’s evolving e-commerce world, choosing the right payment processor isn’t just about accepting money—it’s about creating a smooth, secure, and cost-effective experience for both you and your customers. If you’re running an online store, especially on WooCommerce, you’ve likely encountered a range of options. It’s time to take a closer look at GoDaddy Payments. At SkyVerge, we’re always looking for ways to empower our users with the best tools. That’s why we’re not only…

News May 29, 2025

WooCommerce Subscription Switching: What you Need to Know

If you’re using WooCommerce Memberships, Teams for WooCommerce Memberships, and WooCommerce Subscriptions together, it’s important to understand how WooCommerce Teams subscription switching can affect your store’s memberships. When you or a team owner upgrades or downgrades a subscription, a new team is created instead of updating the existing team. This can cause frustration—especially when managing hundreds or even thousands of team members. Let’s walk through why this happens and what you can do about it….

News May 14, 2025

WooCommerce SMS Notifications by SkyVerge

Keeping customers updated about their orders is essential for a great shopping experience. At SkyVerge, we built the Twilio SMS Notifications plugin for WooCommerce to help you send automated SMS updates when an order status changes. Plus, you’ll receive a text whenever a customer places a new order. What is Twilio? Twilio is a cloud-based communication platform that allows businesses to send SMS, make calls, and integrate messaging services into their applications. It’s widely used…

News April 9, 2025

WooCommerce Payment Gateway Troubleshooting: A Guide

A payment gateway is essential for processing transactions in your online store, ensuring payments are securely handled between your customers and your business. When a gateway isn’t functioning properly, it can disrupt sales and lead to frustration. This guide covers key troubleshooting steps to help resolve common payment gateway issues in your WooCommerce shop. SkyVerge provides several WooCommerce gateway plugins, and we’ve included links to the plugin documentation for common gateway errors and solutions. SkyVerge…

News March 12, 2025

Why You Should Be Using Tab Manager for WooCommerce

Running a WooCommerce store means sharing detailed product information to keep your customers informed. But organizing all this data in a clean, professional format can be tricky. Enter the SkyVerge WooCommerce Tab Manager—a tool that helps you create polished, user-friendly product pages with customizable tabs. Simplify navigation, boost engagement, and make your products shine. What Can You Do with Tab Manager? Why Use WooCommerce Tab Manager? How to Get Started With WooCommerce Tab Manager, you…

News January 14, 2025

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

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

SkyVerge in 2018

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is a great time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished as a company over the past year. The post-holiday lull provides some much-needed time to step back and get a bird’s-eye view of the past year before setting goals for the next. We spent the past few days at SkyVerge reviewing everything we built, improved, worked on, and shipped. As a team, we’ve put more focus on…

Company building News January 2, 2019

SkyTrip 2017 Recap

A few weeks ago, our team of 10 SkyVergers converged on Orlando, Florida for our 2nd annual company retreat, dubbed SkyTrip. It was an incredible 5 days of beautiful weather, sharing a few delicious meals together, a bit of work, and of course the ever-present ear-splitting 120 dB pool alarms found in Florida vacation homes. As a remote company, this co-located time with the entire team is really important to us, so we plan to…

Company building News April 4, 2017

2016: Year in Review

Every year I find it super interesting to go back through an entire year’s worth of work to see what our team has accomplished, as you tend to forget some pretty big achievements as the year has gone on. It’s a great reminder of what you can get done in a year, along with seeing whether your longer term goals were realized or reinvented. 2016 saw a fair bit of growth and expansion for the…

Company building News January 26, 2017