Woocommerce news and trends

Automattic Acquires Messaging App Beeper, Plans to Combine With Texts

April 09, 2024
WooCommerce and Veem Partner to Expand Global Commercial Payments
Commercial Payments // October 12, 2023

Open-source eCommerce platform WooCommerce has announced a partnership with Veem, a global payments provider, in a Thursday (Oct. 12) press release. This collaboration aims to extend business-to-business (B2B) payment capabilities to merchants using the WooCommerce platform. The partnership brings Veem’s B2B extension to the WooCommerce...

Sezzle and WooCommerce Expand BNPL Partnership
Buy Now Pay Later // September 19, 2023

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Sezzle and open-source eCommerce platform WooCommerce expanded their partnership. The collaboration aims to provide WooCommerce merchants with an easier integration process for Sezzle’s BNPL solution, offering customers more payment options, the companies said in a Tuesday (Sept. 19) press...

WooCommerce Merchants Can Now Accept Crypto Payments
eCommerce // November 21, 2022

In what could be seen as a contrarian move in light of the dramatic implosion and fraud surrounding the collapse of digital currency trading exchange FTX, WooCommerce and Coinbase have announced plans to expand their crypto payments partnership to more businesses. In a Monday (Nov....

sticky.io Appoints WooCommerce Veteran Spencer Watts as CFO 
Personnel // November 18, 2022

Subscription commerce platform provider sticky.io has appointed Spencer Watts as its new chief financial officer (CFO).  Watts moves to the company from WooCommerce, where he served as both CFO and chief operating officer (COO) and increased profitability, strengthened financial operations and helped raise investments, sticky.io said Tuesday (Nov. 15)...

Interviews & Exclusives
Social Commerce Takes a Giant Step as Entertainment Melds With Entrepreneurship

June 10, 2022
As social commerce evolves into a serious contender, eCommerce and social media platforms are partnering to create new online experiences where entertainment triggers a sale. It’s a natural alliance now as it was in the newspaper days, when perusing that day’s edition was an exercise in pre-digital discoverability, seeing ads for things we didn’t know […]

Quick Reads
Automattic Acquires Messaging App Beeper, Plans to Combine With Texts

April 09, 2024
Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce, has acquired Beeper, a “universal messaging app” that combines 14 chat networks in one inbox. The company will combine Beeper with Texts, a messaging app that Automattic acquired in 2023, Automattic said in a Tuesday (April 9) blog post. “We began investing in messaging last year when we acquired Texts.com,” the company said in […]

WooCommerce and Veem Partner to Expand Global Commercial Payments

October 12, 2023
Open-source eCommerce platform WooCommerce has announced a partnership with Veem, a global payments provider, in a Thursday (Oct. 12) press release. This collaboration aims to extend business-to-business (B2B) payment capabilities...

Sezzle and WooCommerce Expand BNPL Partnership

September 19, 2023
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Sezzle and open-source eCommerce platform WooCommerce expanded their partnership. The collaboration aims to provide WooCommerce merchants with an easier integration process for Sezzle’s BNPL...

WooCommerce Merchants Can Now Accept Crypto Payments

November 21, 2022
In what could be seen as a contrarian move in light of the dramatic implosion and fraud surrounding the collapse of digital currency trading exchange FTX, WooCommerce and Coinbase have...