Beka Rice

Wannabe retiree, pasta maker, 👦👧👶 mom, ecommerce specialist. Entrepreneur & product leader @kestrelwp / investor @medleyendeavors /1x exit (@skyverge).

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

We’re amassing some serious #WooCommerce talent, so excited for @Checkout_WC to join!

[Kestrel @KestrelWP]

Swooping in with big news today:
@Checkout_WC
is joining Kestrel! We're so excited to welcome them and work together to help #WooCommerce stores sell their way.

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

I hate when stores don’t use product reviews, excited to see Clif tackle this problem 🙌

[Clifton Griffin 🛒 @clifgriffin]

So excited to finally announce @reviewbirdapp - powerfully simple review collection and management for @WooCommerce

https://t.co/mzYh0a2CpU

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@jamesckemp @pmgarman lol it has gotten so bad

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

Had fun working with James and @pmgarman on much needed #Woo core improvements to fulfillment, excited for people to try it out

[James Kemp @jamesckemp]

Tonnes of work has gone into this, and it's shaping up really nicely! Big thanks to Beka from @KestrelWP and Patrick from @mindsizeme for the initial consultations on scoping this out. Plus HUGE thanks to @tpaksu for all his engineering work on this 🙌🏻

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@ianmisner @KatieKeithBarn2 And I still haven’t let him live that down, so Canadian to just let it go 😫

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@ianmisner @neke989 @jamesckemp SkyVerge has a free version with just sequential numbers. This is a legal requirement in some countries (eg Spain requires sequential invoice numbers). The pro version was built to add format when selling in multiple channels / req for syncing elsewhere + to skip free orders

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@clifgriffin @ianmisner

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@ianmisner @clifgriffin Y’all swifties need to calm down and realize when you’re wrong

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@neke989 @ianmisner @KatieKeithBarn2 @archieabrams @SRHDesign @WPProductTalk FWIW I think that’s very hard to do well, bc users will always question how price is determined and can see it as a tax on their earnings. Makes more sense if your app’s role is clearer, eg a post purchase upsell.

[Katie Keith @KatieKeithBarn2]

Just finished a fantastic episode of @WPProductTalk, in which special guest @Beka_Rice from @KestrelWP provided a huge wealth of actionable advice on creating the perfect pricing strategy for any WordPress or SaaS product. Lots of ideas I hadn't heard before 💡

https://t.co/UOy1RGKb7n

[Kestrel @KestrelWP]

Constellation (our new memberships solution for WooCommerce) made the Seshies nomination list, which means it's inarguably one of the five best plugins in the entire world. Go vote for whoever you want (but especially us): https://t.co/RgPfWNLonw

[Open Channels FM Podcast Network @OpenChannelsFM]

Hey, join us as @jamesckemp hosts his first Woo Product chat with @Beka_Rice and @pmgarman for a behind the scenes what they are working on @WooCommerce that the community doesn't get to generally hear about. You can expect this one every month :) https://t.co/Smh0wPSBGq

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@AlexStandiford @TacoVerdo Cube rule still applies, definitely sandwich. Canonically, hot dogs are tacos and thus cannot be their own category.

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@verygoodplugins @KatieKeithBarn2 lol those would be some impressive mental gymnastics given plugin devs never give any rights / licenses like that, and remember .org isn’t part of the foundation anyway

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@Rarst @ZillowFights it does change the experience, yes. Just clarifying it’s not like a transparent aff ID replacement, a lot of plugins and hosts used to do that

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@Rarst @ZillowFights It lets you use stripe’s hosted checkout page instead of the woo one (don’t know of a plugin that does). For a simple seller it prob converts better, it’s much nicer than the default, but haven’t used myself in prod

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@jason_coleman

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@dremeda @WordPress How many fingers is 8% of your body

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@JS_Zao @cdils @jkoussertari @pat_ramsey I get that there *might* have been ways for some of it we didn’t think of, we def tried very hard to create the most modern woo theme possible and it’s just not worth the effort

[Beka Rice @Beka_Rice]

@JS_Zao @cdils @jkoussertari @pat_ramsey But then doing things like more complex filtering of a query is straight up miserable. We found hard blockers just in how coupled data is to UI — it’s pretty much impossible to create some designs that are more dynamic than just rendering static blog content