Prodigy Commerce

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.

Links

• Prodigy Commerce
• Create an account
• Become a Prodigy Partner
• Documentation
• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 3 blocks.

• Prodigy Products
• Prodigy Categories
• Prodigy Category

Installation

Minimum Requirements

• PHP 7.0 or greater is recommended
• MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended

From your WordPress dashboard (recommended)

1. Navigate to Plugins > Add New from your WordPress dashboard.
2. Search for Prodigy Commerce.
3. Click the Install button.
4. Click the Activate button.

Manual installation

1. Download the plugin zip file and unzip.
2. Upload the prodigy-commerce folder to the /wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen from your WordPress dashboard.

After installation

After activating the plugin, you will be directed to the Prodigy Setup Wizard. The first step of the wizard will prompt you to connect a Store on the Prodigy Cloud Platform.

If you do not have a Prodigy Cloud Platform account, you will have the opportunity to create a free account during this process. After creating your account, or logging in to an existing account, you can select an existing Store or create a new Store to connect.

The next step in the Prodigy Setup Wizard will give you the opportunity to install our demo store data. If you are trying our plugin and platform for the first time, this is a great way to experience a basic working example.

FAQ

Where can I find Prodigy Commerce documentation and user guides?

Please visit our Help Center. If you have any questions, please contact us via phone, email, or initiate an online chat.

Does Prodigy Commerce use or sell store owner or their customer’s data in any way?

No.

Does Prodigy Commerce compete with WordPress developers, designers, or agencies?

No, we provide software, not services. The only way to build a store with Prodigy is to connect our platform to WordPress with this plugin; we do not have a DIY portal with storefront themes. We only interact with your clients to help them set up their merchant accounts and answer any questions they may have about the day-to-day management of their stores. If one of your clients asks us about website development, design, or digital marketing, we refer them back to you.

Do WordPress developers, designers, and agencies have an ongoing role after a store is up-and-running on Prodigy?

Yes, WordPress needs to be hosted, maintained, and updated just like any website. In addition, as we add more features and functionality to our platform and plugin, store owners may need your development and/or design assistance with activation, setup, and implementation.

Why does Prodigy Commerce focus exclusively on WordPress?

Because over 40% of all websites run on WordPress. Entrepreneurs love using it for blogging and content creation and the WordPress community love helping them develop/design custom marketing and eCommerce sites.

What sets Prodigy apart from WooCommerce?

There are three main things that set Prodigy apart from WooCommerce. You only need ONE free open-source plugin to build beautiful, secure, fully functional stores. Prodigy’s hosted platform is free at any scale and provides your store owner clients with a Shopify-like experience. Prodigy provides free multi-channel customer support (phone, email, and online chat) from California for the WordPress community of developers, designer, and agencies and their store owner clients.

Reviews

Great alternative to WooCommerce

Glen January 28, 2024

In terms of set up, it was straight forward. It’s short on features but it’s great for a starter online store

Don’t Bother

joelgw August 4, 2022 1 reply

What is it they say about things that seem to be good to be true? Yeah, that was pretty much my experience with this plugin. No monthly fees? No additional fee on top of the payment processor fee? No charge for the plugin? Sounds good, but here is what happened when I tried to use it: Prodigy will make you go through a very in-depth application process, where you will provide all kinds of information on your business to certify it is legit. Once you get through that, they will make you go through an application process with a payment processor that is even more in-depth (they don’t tell you that upfront – its the surprise that’s waiting for you.) In our case, even though we have been in business for 10+ years, regularly do business with the US government and Fortune 500, have Stripe and PayPal Pro accounts and have $1M+ in revenue, we were declined. Why? The payment processor won’t tell you. But I got an email from a Vice President at Prodigy who “felt” that it was because we provided information on our application that wasn’t “accurate” or verifiable. He wanted us to apply again with a different payment processor and this time make sure that all of our information was “accurate” and “verifiable.” Bottom line: they have no idea why your application wasn’t approved, but will assume you fudged something somewhere, I guess? Anyway, don’t bother wasting your time, I say. If we couldn’t get approved being the size business we are, I can’t imagine Mom and Pop shops faring any better. And who needs the added aggravation of the Plugin maker telling you it’s your fault? The problem is their business process which, while a great idea, isn’t ready for prime-time – it’s long, tedious and, in the end, completely opaque – even to them.

Do not install! Wipe out all my products!

internetico December 27, 2021 1 reply

(December 2021) This plugin DELETED all my store! STAY AWAY from it! Instead of being added as a second option to use instead of Woocommerce, after installation to try out, WIPEOUT all my products of the Woocommerce store and changed my theme to another that does not show my store products already listed. I have to do again each product in Woocommerce. My products were gone! And also, there is no way to delete a store in their service! And no way to delete your account also! So it will not exist and send you promo emails! If I can give a 0, will do! System only allowed a minimum 1!

Headless E-Commerce Made Simple

monolith920 May 10, 2021

Prodigy Commerce platform and its WordPress plugin allow for developers to provide customers a custom frontend experience for users while keeping things simple for store admins to update products with no fear of breaking their site. Prodigy’s use of custom attributes can provide very unique product detail pages without relying on changes to be made in WordPress frontend. The Prodigy Commerce WordPress plugin give developers the ability to customize product templates with enough easy to ensure no two Prodigy store look the same. This platform and plugin is truly a delight for an ecommerce developer.

Promising platform

dhlassociates January 16, 2020

I’m impressed with the out of the box features provided by Prodigy Platform. It will reduce a lot of time to bring to market new products and e-commerce websites.

E-commerce security–FINALLY

zenkutsu April 20, 2021

I heard about Prodigy Commerce’s upcoming product about 6 months ago and I’ve been waiting… At first use, it looks as strong as hoped. WP e-commerce can be particularly insecure if close attention isn’t paid. Prodigy is the real deal here. Can’t wait to implement a solution for a customer now…

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.0.8 – 2024-10-29

• Add redemption store logic

3.0.7 – 2024-10-22

• Update SSO logic

3.0.6 – 2024-10-04

• Support bulk ddd to cart for products with logo
• Add hidden variants implementation
• Add default enable multiple quantity adjustment for elementor
• Fix elementor conditions fo specific categories

3.0.5 – 2024-09-16

• Add product personalization feature
• Fix product variants selection
• Fix product tabs for mobile version
• Close cart widget error
• Fix pagination for shop page

3.0.4 – 2024-08-27

• Add personalization feature
• Add setup charge feature
• Add templates refactoring

3.0.3 – 2024-07-03

• Support zero prices
• Add buy button feature

3.0.2 – 2024-06-20

• Make refactoring
• Fix search action in admin part
• Shop page refactoring
• Logo feature bugfix

3.0.1 – 2024-05-27

• Logo management bugfix
• Add default logo
• Add logo for related products

3.0.0 – 2024-05-15

• Add logo management feature

2.9.3 – 2024-05-10

• Fix products widget error

2.9.2 – 2024-03-29

• Fix attribute name showing on Product page

2.9.1 – 2024-03-19

• Improve filter behavior on Shop page
• Fix product inventory info showing
• Fix elementor Product page preview for admin side

2.9.0 – 2024-03-04

• Show inventory count on Product page
• Update login process for checkout

2.8.9 – 2024-02-21

• Update Thank you page for approved orders
• Add support for Plain permalinks structure
• Improve performance for Shop page
• Improve supporting of Divi theme
• Add min quantity of items with tiered prices for Product page
• Fix for shop sidebar widget disappearing
• Fix pagination for Shop page

2.8.8 – 2024-01-09

• Add loaders for shop, product pages
• Update shop page filters

2.8.7 – 2023-12-29

• Add user groups
• Add loader for shop page
• Upgrade search widget

2.8.6 – 2023-12-11

• Update product page images gallery
• Fix shop page pagination links

2.8.5 – 2023-11-30

• Fix Shop page

2.8.4 – 2023-11-27

• Add My Account Divi widget
• Update customer balance info

2.8.3 – 2023-11-14

• Added SSO login process
• Added my account widget
• Update showing images

2.8.2 – 2023-10-03

• Added ‘bulk add to cart’ process
• Added tiered prices for products entity
• Added cart page redesign
• Updated elementor templates

2.8.1 – 2023-08-13

• Added fix for support nested directory

2.8.0 – 2023-07-18

• Added swatches functionality
• Added ajax filters

2.7.0 – 2023-05-22

• Created Divi Thank You page widget
• Created Divi Cart widget
• Created Divi Cart Page widget
• Created Divi My Account widget
• Created Divi Related Products widget
• Updated styles for support Neve theme

2.6.3 – 2023-04-12

• Fixed cache for cart widget dropdown
• Updated pages creating process

2.6.2 – 2023-03-27

• Fixed SQL error after sync process

2.6.1 – 2023-03-22

• Fixed subscriptions

2.6.0 – 2023-02-14

• Refactored builders widgets
• Redesign product page for mobile view

2.5.0 – 2023-01-19

• Created Divi Category, Categories, Products widgets

2.4.1 – 2023-01-02

• Fixed cart item price bug

2.4.0 – 2022-11-21

• Adding settings for subscription new design in Elementor.
• Added attribute settings to cart widget.
• Updated UI subscriptions on product page.
• Active filters new design and update the setting in Elementor.
• Upgrading customizer settings.
• Made one font-size for sort, active filters and search placeholder on Shop page.

2.3.0 – 2022-10-26

• Updated elementor templates logic
• Updated shop page design
• Refactoring css styles
• Moved filter sidebar
• Moved search and sort bars

2.2.1 – 2022-09-26

• Added “number items per page” option for elementor and customizer

2.2.0 – 2022-09-14

• Added redesign for cart page
• Added refactoring for templates
• Updated security for admin part
• Updated cart page widget for elementor
• Updated related-products widget

2.1.2 – 2022-08-25

• Fixed layout loading

2.1.1 – 2022-08-03

• Updated google analytics
• Updated elementor functionality
• Added auto sync process
• Added templates refactoring
• Added container width customizer control

2.1.0 – 2022-05-04

• Added elementor functionality

2.0.7 – 2022-02-01

• Added product subscriptions functionality

2.0.6 – 2021-09-10

• Updated upgrade plugin process
• Changed assets structure
• Added cache on cart page

2.0.5 – 2021-07-28

• Added cache for storefront
• Updated Google Analytics
• Updated customizer default settings

2.0.4 – 2021-05-27

• Added new options for Prodigy customizer

2.0.3 – 2021-05-19

• Added support Twenty Nineteen, Twenty Twenty-One, Twenty Twenty, OceanWP, Flatsome, Divi, Hello Elementor themes

2.0.2 – 2021-04-21

• Updated prodigy_attributes_filter shortcode
• Updated prodigy_price_filter shortcode
• Updated prodigy_categories_filter shortcode
• Changed template directory of plugin
• Fixed bugs after plugin update

2.0.1 – 2021-03-26

• Updated prodigy_products shortcode
• Updated prodigy_categories shortcode
• Updated prodigy_related_products shortcode
• Updated prodigy_product_search shortcode
• Updated demo content
• Fixed product list sorting on admin part
• Adapted styles for astra theme
• Added the ability to position shop page on others pages

2.0.0 – 2021-02-17

• Product management moved to the Prodigy Cloud Platform side
• Updated WordPress admin panel after moving product management to the Prodigy Cloud Platform side
• Updated logic of displaying store data on Storefront after moving product management to the Prodigy Cloud Platform side
• Implemented product synchronisation process between WordPress Prodigy plugin and Prodigy Cloud Platform
• Adjusted Prodigy plugin to Astra theme

1.2.1 – 2020-10-15

• Updated sale price default value for draft orders
• Fixed cart page style
• Add check param nonce in wp_ajax
• Add check for actions performed by roles

1.2.0 – 2020-08-19

• Create related products shortcode
• Create feature products shortcode
• Add prodigy_categories shortcode
• Update shop page hooks
• Added demo content products
• Added demo content variants
• Added demo content menu
• Added demo content with astra theme
• Refactoring templates and hooks

1.1.1 – 2020-06-26

• Add Google Analytics
• Add multiple choice categories in admin product part
• Add setting link to plugin details
• Rename cart shortcodes
• Remove description filed validate in product
• Update tabs anchor in product page
• Fixed upload images for categories in admin part
• Fixed datapicker behavior in admin product part
• Fixed page and post creation in admin part
• Fixed image uploader for category in admin part
• Fixed product description in admin part
• Fixed notices

1.1.0 – 2020-04-24

• Add shop filters for mobile devices
• Update install wizard
• Change “thank you” page
• Fixed db migrations
• Show message after delete order item
• Adding product removal notification

1.0.10 – 2020-04-10

• Add migration for new version

1.0.9 – 2020-04-10

• Fixed shop page error

1.0.8 – 2020-04-07

• Added delete product logic for cart
• Improvements for logic with deleted products for products with variants
• Update migration logic
• Fixed featured products widget
• Fixed product validation on admin part
• Fixed comments review logic on product page
• Fixed generate variants logic
• Fixed product page for mobile devices
• Fixed cart items amount
• Fixed 404 page
• Fixed slug for tags

1.0.7 – 2020-02-19

• Fixed update version logic
• Fixed update data products after content synchronize
• Added reset permalinks after update plugin
• Update DB migration logic

1.0.6 – 2019-12-04

• Added sending product on json format
• Added sending content to API
• Added DB migrations mechanism in plugin
• Added validation for unique product sku
• Added SEO friendly URLs
• Added cart page shortcode
• Added creating default slugs for category/tag/product
• Update store info
• Updated store connection
• Update widget settings
• Update product review
• Update product comments behavior
• Update creating order behavior
• Fixed product page
• Fixed SKU validation
• Fixed cart widget behavior

1.0.5 – 2019-12-04

• Cart errors improvements.
• Add mysql check version notification
• Added notification for check db version.
• Updated scripts for latest wp version.
• Add mysql check version notification.

1.0.4 – 2019-11-21

• Adding shortcode templates.
• Added showing categories tree structure.
• Set default weight “lbs”.
• Fixed validation field “price” by create product.
• Fixed retry link for synchronize product.
• Fixed shipping data by create variant.
• Fixed work with gallery for product and variant.

1.0.3 – 2019-11-04

• Fixed showing title My Account widget.
• Fixed showing screen option on menus.
• Fixed show range price widget.
• Added new logic showing (creating, deleting) attributes in widget filter.
• Fixed showing url setting prodigy
• Fixed showing drafts prodigy products
• Fixed the work of multi attributes AND, OR.
• Fixed variants images update.

1.0.2 – 2019-10-23

• Fixed product synchronization.
• Fixed wizard steps.
• Fixed opening product on checkout.
• Fixed variants selecting on storefront.
• Fixed Prodigy Product Filter widget query condition.
• Fixed My Account widget.
• Fixed Active filter widget.
• Changed creating category entity.
• Changed product comment review behavior.
• Changed price format.
• Added new product tax category on admin part.
• Added related products on the “Thank you for your order” page
• Updated Product Categories widget.
• Updated breadcrumbs behavior.
• Updated up-sells cross-sells widget functionality.
• Updated gallery on product page.

1.0.1 – 2019-10-09

• Fixed bug causing timeout errors on product update.
• Fixed bug causing retry synchronize product to fail.

1.0 – 2019-09-10

• Initial commit.