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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...

GoDaddy Gives Merchants Online Boost With WooCommerce Integration
eCommerce // October 22, 2019

To further support its WordPress users by providing them with tools for building their online presence, GoDaddy Inc. has unveiled an integration with the popular as well as powerful eCommerce engine WooCommerce. The offering reduces the usual four-step setup process into one step so that GoDaddy WordPress...

Subscription Startup Prospress Sold To Automattic
Partnerships / Acquisitions // May 24, 2019

Automattic announced that it has acquired startup Prospress. The company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and more has bought Prospress, which developed WooCommerce Subscriptions, a recurring payment solution designed for WooCommerce. Automattic added that it will support the continued development of Prospress’s other products, and...

Clearent, WordPress Pair On Payments Plug-In
News // December 09, 2015

Payment processing company Clearent announced the release of its WordPress plug-in for developers on Tuesday (Dec. 8). The plug-in is designed to allow website developers to securely integrate payment buttons directly into their WordPress sites, without the traditional difficulties of dealing with outdated code, complicated...

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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...

GoDaddy Gives Merchants Online Boost With WooCommerce Integration

October 22, 2019
To further support its WordPress users by providing them with tools for building their online presence, GoDaddy Inc. has unveiled an integration with the popular as well as powerful eCommerce engine WooCommerce....

Subscription Startup Prospress Sold To Automattic

May 24, 2019
Automattic announced that it has acquired startup Prospress. The company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and more has bought Prospress, which developed WooCommerce Subscriptions, a recurring payment solution designed for...