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Plugin Description
Prodigy Commerce is the only hosted eCommerce platform for WordPress that’s free at any scale. Prodigy’s unique solution seamlessly blends WordPress’s superior CMS with a powerful platform to create an alternative to WooCommerce. Prodigy was built specifically for the WordPress community of developers, designers, and agencies so that they can more easily build beautiful, secure, fully functional stores for their clients. Store owners gain access to a Shopify-like platform from which to manage their products and orders.
The key benefits of Prodigy’s solution include:
- Requires only ONE free open-source plugin
- Hosted platform is free at any scale
- Solid infrastructure and security
- Complete storefront design flexibility
- Shopify-like backend experience
- Multi-channel customer support
HOW CAN FULLY FUNCTIONAL STORES BE BUILT WITH ONLY ONE FREE PLUGIN?
Prodigy’s solution eliminates the complexity, security risks, and costs of WooCommerce’s plugin and extension architecture by tightly integrating all essential functionality, and natively building premium features, into the platform. Integration partners include ShipEngine, TaxJar, MaxMind minFraud, a handful of high-quality payment processors, Google Analytics, and Facebook Pixel. Natively built premium features currently include abandoned cart recovery and the ability to sell products and services on a subscription basis. No third-party services are needed to build fully functional stores.
WHY IS THE HOSTED PLATFORM FREE AT ANY SCALE?
Prodigy’s business model is based solely upon revenue sharing agreements with the payment processors integrated into its platform, similar to Shopify’s exclusive relationship with payments’ facilitator Stripe. Prodigy, however, does not charge a subscription or app fees; it really is free for the professionals who build stores and their store owner clients. There are no limits on the number of products, orders processed, sales generated, bandwidth or storage used, staff seats, or API requests. Payment processing rates start at the standard 2.9% + $0.30. For high-volume stores, Prodigy helps store owners negotiate lower rates and fees. Prodigy is perfectly aligned with a store owner’s primary goal, generating sales.
SOLID INFRASTRUCTURE AND SECURITY
Prodigy’s platform is hosted on AWS and the checkout is PCI-compliant. WordPress is self-hosted; however, Prodigy provides every store with a free SSL/TLS certificate. The combination of one plugin and a hosted platform not only reduces the complexity of building stores and their ongoing maintenance but also maximizes site speed and security.
COMPLETE STOREFRONT DESIGN FLEXIBILITY
Prodigy’s plugin was built using WordPress conventions and standards. The templates can be overridden to create unique designs or popular themes and page builders, like Elementor Pro, can be used.
SHOPIFY-LIKE BACKEND EXPERIENCE
Store owners manage their product catalog and daily orders on the platform, which is beautifully designed, intuitive, and easy to work with. WordPress is only used for its strengths: managing content and creating the storefront.
MULTI-CHANNEL CUSTOMER SUPPORT
Prodigy provides free phone, email, and online chat support from California for the WordPress community of developers, designers, and agencies and their store owner clients. Prodigy is the opposite of WooCommerce, never hiding behind a support forum and pretending that’s customer service. The Prodigy team wants to communicate with, and proactively respond to any feedback received from, the members of the WordPress community and their store owner clients so that the solution can be continuously improved. Of course, a support forum is available via this plugin page and DIY support can be found via the help center documentation on Prodigy’s website.
A CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE TO SHOPIFY AND BIGCOMMERCE TOO
The WordPress community of developers, designers, and agencies now have a credible alternative to Shopify and BigCommerce since Prodigy is also a hosted solution but with a unique business model (free). Prodigy’s platform is entirely merchant branded as soon as a store logo is uploaded, providing full control over the look-and-feel so that your store owner clients’ customers have a seamless shopping experience from start to finish. Prodigy always prioritize the store owner’s brand over its own.
YOUR CLIENTS OWN AND CONTROL THEIR STORE DATA
It should go without saying, but a store owner’s data is their property. If a store owner wishes to migrate to a different platform, they can use the Prodigy product export tool and the Prodigy team will help them export all of their other content free-of-charge.
PARTNER WITH PRODIGY
Become a Prodigy partner so that you can influence our development roadmap, share your client’ pain points, and learn about financial incentives.
PRODIGY’S PLUGIN FEATURES IN A NUTSHELL
Prodigy’s plugin allows you to synchronize the product catalog from the Prodigy platform to the WordPress frontend and customize the storefront using WordPress conventions and standards.
- Synchronizes an unlimited number of products from the Prodigy platform as a custom post type
- Synchronizes product categories and tags from the Prodigy platform as custom taxonomies
- New and updated products are automatically synchronized when the site is on an accessible production server (manual sync available for development environments)
- Templates for catalog pages, product detail pages, and cart page that you can easily override and customize to meet your client’s needs
- Use popular page builders, like Elementor Pro. Prodigy’s Elementor Pro integration contains a myriad of powerful Elementor widgets, and Elementor page templates, with conditions for displaying them in specific places. It has more features and widgets than what’s offered in the WooCommerce Elementor plugin.
- Utilize powerful product search and attribute filter widgets in the store sidebar
- Products and Categories shortcodes allow you to create custom lists of products or categories on any page
- Customizer options available to help with simple customizations of the Catalog and Product detail pages
- Optional product ratings and reviews that can be moderated through the standard WordPress comments functionality
PRODIGY’S PLATFORM FUNCTIONALITY IN A NUTSHELL
Prodigy’s platform allows you to create a free developer account, build an unlimited number of stores for your clients, and manage them all in one place. You can work on stores in test mode and then seamlessly transfer ownership to your store owner clients when they are ready.
- Secure hosted checkout that can be customized to match the website’s design
- One-click express checkout for customers who wish to use Apple Pay or Google Pay
- Simplified checkout for all logged in customers
- Merchant-branded customer account portal for customers to manage orders, track shipments, etc.
- Import a product catalog of any size using our simple CSV import tool
- Manage the product catalog, attributes, and categories; including inventory management
- Use our drag-and-drop feature to change the ordering of categories
- Manage the SEO metadata for products and categories
- Sell subscriptions for products and/or services
- Create and manage coupon codes that can be applied during checkout
- Use cross-sell and up-sell functionality to increase average order value
- Manage abandoned checkouts and send automated recovery emails to capture sales
- Free shipping calculations from the major carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL)
- Free global tax calculations that can be configured with multiple nexus addresses
- Securely accept credit card payments (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover)
- Manage payment statuses (configure to authorize only or immediately capture upon order completion)
- Manage returns, refunds, and order cancellations
- Comprehensive order fulfillment process that includes free printing of shipping labels
- Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA used on checkout pages to protect against fraud while not adding any friction to the checkout process for legitimate customers
- Free fraud analysis on every order to protect from losses
We currently only support store owners located in the United States that transact in USD.
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Screenshots
Prodigy combined with the Astra theme
Prodigy product gallery on the Astra theme
A Prodigy product page on the Astra theme
Prodigy checkout page on the frontend of the Astra theme
Product list on the WordPress backend
Launch the setup wizard from the WordPress backend
The main Prodigy dashboard with onboarding steps
Product list on the Prodigy dashboard
Product details on the Prodigy dashboard
Additional product details on the Prodigy dashboard
Product attributes on the Prodigy backend
Prodigy settings for products, shipping, taxes, and more
