{"id":535337,"date":"2014-05-15T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=535337"},"modified":"2014-05-16T06:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:46:54","slug":"frustration-led-to-foxycart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/frustration-led-to-foxycart\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor Post: Frustration led FoxyCart founders to build flexible shopping cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s lesson in perseverance comes from WordCamp Nashville Gold Sponsor <a title=\"FoxyCart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxycart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FoxyCart<\/a>. Founders Brett Florio and Luke Stokes hated &#8211; hated &#8211; the ecommerce carts available to developers. They were rigid, or ugly, or both.<\/p>\n<p>So they built one they like. It gives developers all the power and customizing options they\u2019ll ever need and gives merchants faster check-out and higher conversion rates.<br \/>\nTo date, FoxyCart has processed more than $500 million in transactions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-522134\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/04\/foxy-cart.png\" alt=\"FoxyCart\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/>With FoxyCart, developers create flexible, powerful custom e-commerce in less time. Merchants see more sales with high conversions and lightning fast checkout.<\/p>\n<p>Basic HTML knowledge to create a link or a form gets you started &#8211; even with no prior experience building an an ecommerce site. FoxyCart can be integrated into anything, whether hardcoded HTML, a dynamic CMS, or a custom framework.<\/p>\n<p>On the design side, styling stores, carts and checkouts creates a seamless experience for shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>FoxyCart is a frequent WordCamp sponsor. FoxyShop and FoxyPress, plugins developed by WordPress community members, integrate the platform with our favorite open-source content management system. Both have been very successful.<\/p>\n<p>A developer, Luke considers himself somewhat of a WordPress \u201cnewbie,\u201d though recently worked on <a title=\"Hackathon Project\" href=\"http:\/\/donationgandhi.com\" target=\"_blank\">a WordPress site<\/a> at a 2-day Hack-a-thon event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWordPress makes complicated things easy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>So does FoxyCart.<\/p>\n<p>It allows sale of physical goods, downloads, subscriptions, one-offs, products with dizzying options \u2013 and donations &#8211; all in the same cart during the same transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Curious? <strong><a title=\"FoxyCart free signup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxycart.com\/pricing-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Take FoxyCart for a test drive.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s lesson in perseverance comes from WordCamp Nashville Gold Sponsor FoxyCart. Founders Brett Florio and Luke Stokes hated &#8211; hated &#8211; the ecommerce carts available to developers. They were rigid, or ugly, or both. So they built one they like. It gives developers all the power and customizing options they\u2019ll ever need and gives merchants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11776381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[294992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-sponsor-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11776381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535339,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535337\/revisions\/535339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}