WPNYC Meetup - The WooCommerce Journey

Telling the story of WooThemes and how WooCommerce came about. I also shared some of the plans for the future.

Transcript

1. @Mark_Forrester Co-Founder of WooThemes.com “We want shop themes” The WooCommerce story
2. July 2008
7. September 2011 Democratising e-commerce
10. Publish your products
11. Publish your products
12. Shopping cart
13. Manage orders
14. Payments
15. Shipping
16. Reports
18. Sept 2011 Oct 2011 Jan 2012 Sept 2 14,000 downloads 10 x official themes 20 x official extensions WooCommerce 1.0 0 downloads 1 x free theme 6 x official themes 9 x official extensions WooCommerce 1.4 45,000 downloads 16 x official themes 52 x official extensions 14 3 30 Ma
19. 012 Sept 2012 June 2013 Dec 2013 Today WooCommerce 1.4 45,000 downloads 16 x official themes 52 x official extensions 310,000 downloads 24 x official themes 145 x official extensions 30+ 3rd party themes 30+ 3rd party extensions Major Revenue Increases 2,000,000 downloads 9% of all eCommerce sites WooCommerce 2.0 1,000,000 downloads 35 official themes 192 extensions WooCommerce 2.1 3,500,000+ downloads 259,386 site installations 13% of all eCommerce sites
22. Supporting WooCommerce
23. 3,300 tickets a month 10 WooCommerce support staff in 6 countries
24. 38 TEAM MEMBERS Spanning 19 cities in 12 countries
26. What’s Next?
27. Inviting contributions Third party developers & APIs
28. Enable others to make money
31. 1895 sites in South Africa 110 sites in Kenya
 70 sites in Nigeria
 100 sites in the Rest of Africa Opening doors
34. October 23rd, 2014
35. Any questions? @mark_forrester COUPON CODE: WOONY1 35% off all products