WooCommerce in 2024 and beyond: Roadmap update

Welcome to a particular version publish, delivered to you by Beau Lebens, Head of Engineering for Woo.

Final week on our Developer Weblog, I shared an updated roadmap and vision for the future of WooCommerce, and I wished to share it right here, too. That publish will get a bit technical, so I assumed I’d provide a fast synopsis for what it means for WooCommerce retailers. 

We’re excited to deliver you this subsequent section of WooCommerce. It aligns with our open supply roots, bringing in additional options and extensibility to the core WooCommerce product, and it focuses on block-based web page constructing and website customization to supply a greater person expertise.

If in case you have questions, please drop them within the feedback and our crew will get again to you. Right here’s what I feel is most related for retailer homeowners and workers.

Empowering you to edit your retailer

Block-based web page constructing is the way forward for WordPress and WooCommerce, and we’re persevering with to lean into it. Blocks make it easy for non-coders to construct and edit pages, which means you’ll management your individual future in terms of managing content material, format, and merchandising in your website. 

Not like many cloud-based ecommerce platforms, WooCommerce even enables you to intuitively edit your procuring cart and checkout pages utilizing Cart and Checkout blocks. 

We’re engaged on much more enhancements to blocks that may make it easier to handle your website, and we’re additionally asking builders to make sure that no matter they work on is appropriate with blocks. 

Bettering your person expertise

We’ve not too long ago launched numerous initiatives and options to assist enhance the best way you utilize WooCommerce, from beginning up a brand new retailer, to day-to-day administration, to measuring your success. 

• Streamlined onboarding: We’ve considerably diminished the variety of steps it takes to begin a retailer on WooCommerce. In the event you’re trying to create a brand new retailer, you’ll have the ability to do it rapidly and extra effectively. 
• Improved retailer customization: We’re persevering with to higher combine WordPress’s native site customization tools to make it simpler than ever to adapt your retailer to suit your model, edit web page layouts, and extra. Whereas that is an ongoing course of, you’ll be able to try our new built-in retailer designer by going to WooCommerce > House and clicking the “Begin customizing” button.
• Higher product administration: Our new product editor is quicker and extra intuitive, which means it’ll take you fewer clicks and fewer time to add and edit products.  
• Revamped analytics: We’re rethinking how that will help you perceive what’s occurring in your retailer and the right way to make your corporation extra profitable. We’re beginning with enhancements to the essential analytics features out there in WooCommerce. Long run, we’re the right way to construct a extra sturdy answer.

We’re additionally arduous at work making WooCommerce higher for customers. These enhancements are supposed that will help you improve your conversion by providing the absolute best expertise to your website guests. 

• Extra accessible shops: We’re investing in enhancing WooCommerce’s storefront accessibility, guaranteeing your retailer is usable by as many individuals as doable.
• An unbeatable checkout: We’re persevering with to evolve our block-based checkout to scale back cart abandonment, enhance cellular conversion, and simplify the general expertise. We’ve particularly emphasised enhancing efficiency, and to date the brand new checkout has a conversion price that’s a couple of factors above the basic one. We’re hoping to maneuver that even greater with upcoming options and enhancements.
• Higher checkout choices: We’ve mixed and simplified native pickup choices, improved the consumer account creation choices, and created an integration permitting for customized checkout fields for extra advanced wants.
• Improved order affirmation: The order affirmation display screen now has an improved design for displaying the transport particulars and order abstract, in addition to an possibility for customers to create an account after paying for an order. 

We’re excited to deliver this subsequent section of WooCommerce to you and your customers. Please check out the full post on the developer blog for particulars, and keep tuned for extra updates within the coming months.