Months (and months and months ago), when it was still "experimental", I spun up a .com Business Plan site.

Now, I know from history that folks seem to get a good deal of keyboard courage when they belly up to the Tavern, but here's a few thoughts (and, please folks: Try to stay focused) ;-)

All my sites are running WooCommerce. So, I was additionally thrilled to see that one could install WooCommerce Extensions as well. Not just WooCommerce core, but also Memberships, Variation Swatches, Social Login, and more......

Awesome, right? So, Business Plan users are getting to completely and totally extend WooCommerce!?!?! Now we can get into some real functionality, better conversions, and higher sales via additional WooCommerce Extensions! Note, I did not use or test any extensions found in a canyon. Only official WooCommerce Extensions.

So SkyVerge doesn't have to really worry about support requests which are derived from or as a result of sh!tty hosting companies. Same with Brent and the folks at Prospress!

The good thing about a standardized hosting environment is that the support tickets now have the "potential" of being decreased (to what degree is to-be-determined, but it's still "one less" line item - hopefully) & we all know how costly support staff can be.

So, that's a plus!

What stunk was when I tried to find, test, switch, and change themes.

Over in the ".org world", I'm up to child theme #5 for Storefront. It works. It's ugly. It's raw. However, it's incredibly easy to add styles & re-prioritize the functions. Most importantly though, WooCommerce Extensions are tested against Storefront compatibility to make sure they all (pretty much) play quite efficiently together.

Now, let's forget about the (somewhat) longstanding {cough} "concerns" about navigating and maneuvering around the .com dashboard. What I found was a much more concerning problem was the lack of WooCommerce compatible themes in the .com arena.

I'm not just talking about "yeah, we declared support for WooCommerce" (....so that we can tout that it's WooCommerce compatible) type of sub-par themes. We're looking at themes which have accounted for Memberships CSS, Variation Swatches, ....things like that!

What they need are themes which have the similar capacity and longevity of Storefront and it's integrations with WooCommerce Extensions.

This news might be awesome for the crunchy mom blogger, the affiliate marketer, or someone looking for a lead generation type of site.

When the word "Business" is used to describe a "Plan", then ....rock on! Let's conduct some business!

Does tapping into the "third party ecosystem" really do much for WooCommerce Business Owners: The people who make something, ship things, rely on financial transactions, process customer service for orders, need reviews as ranking factors, product layout extensions as sales boosters, and/ or tight order integration with customer's social accounts....?

It does no Business owner any good to have only one (or a substantially minimal number) of WooCommerce compatible themes to {drum roll} conduct Business!