With the release of WooCommerce 3.6 – along with eight new WooCommerce product blocks and a ton of performance upgrades – we’re launching a new feature making it easier for you to find extensions that help grow your store.

Introducing Marketplace Suggestions

Talking to our customers, we know there are a lot of you that set up new stores yourselves and need guidance choosing extensions. There are over 400 extensions in the WooCommerce.com Marketplace, and digging through them all to find what you need can be daunting.

That’s why we’re including Suggestions directly in WooCommerce so you can easily find the extensions that would be helpful on your site.

You may need to have all your invoices and credit notes certified if you’re based in France and have an online store using WooCommerce.

You’re probably asking yourself:

• Why must invoices and credit notes be certified?
• Do these rules apply to me?
• How can I ensure I’m in good standing?

We have answers.

Earlier this year, as we were planning for the year and beyond, one thing became clear: we could up our game when it came to understanding who we serve.

While we were already talking to customers, using our Ideas Board for feedback, and working with our customer service teams to hear what customers were saying to them, we wanted to add another dimension to be even more customer-centric: quantitative data.

To get there, we dug into the usage data that users share with us and then ran a comprehensive survey to layer in additional detail. In the process, we learned many surprising things that shape how we make products today – these are the top nine.

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When WooCommerce launched in 2011, we launched something alongside it: an online marketplace where builders could buy extensions to customize their stores.

Over the years, the WooCommerce Marketplace grew from the original nine extensions to nearly 400 products, and from a few developers to nearly 40 companies actively creating, updating, and supporting extensions.

For the past few years, the WooCommerce Marketplace has been closed to new submissions and new developers. While the WooCommerce user base grew to 3 million active installs, the options available to store builders through our official marketplace stayed stagnant.

Now, we’re changing all of that and opening the doors to the WooCommerce Marketplace again in early 2018.

While you wait — and because the best extensions are built for real customers — we’ve put together some insights to help you get ready to build your next extension.

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