The whole world is still in an indiscriminate situation for the outbreak of COVID-19. Every sector of the industry is trying to cope up with the circumstances.
In this pandemic, WordPress business owners have suffered. Especially, plugin and theme sellers (developers). Many of them have faced a big sales drop and they are still fighting with it.
To be on the field and support the developers, Appsero is a remarkable SaaS solution that provides industry-leading tools on the hands of WordPress developers, mostly for free.
Appsero was born to increase the productivity of WordPress developers, and save time and increase sales growth by offering a suite of tools.
In 2020, the new SaaS platform for WordPress developers has built a lot of new features for the WordPress devs Let's read the Appsero review year 2020.
Why Appsero?
The foremost purpose of this tool is to assist WordPress plugin and theme developers. If you are a developer who doesn't want to take hassles like License management or want an easy way for fast deployment along with a suite of data analytics features – Appsero is just the right solution for you.
Appsero offers a slew of features that helps WordPress theme and plugin developers
- Automatic and continuous deployment.
- Complete license management (Whether you're using EDD/WooCommerce/or payment gateways like FastSpring/Paddle/Envato)
- Getting deactivation data analytics
- Get a full picture of the current situation of your software.
- Integration with the most popular plugin selling platforms
- (EDD, WooCommerce, or Envato).
- Know the language preference of your clients.
- Server details
- Comparing data with previous range & more
In a nutshell, Appsero is built to eliminate the guesswork of WordPress developers and assist them in developing new features by focusing on what's really important. After using Appsero, a developer doesn't need to worry about other managerial works.
Now check out how we have passed the LONG 2020.
How 2020 Starts for Appsero
2020 is the starting year of Appsero 😄. We laid the foundation of Appsero (the server/architecture) in 2019 but 2020 is the year where things started coming together.
Collaboration without the Chaos
Managing license, checking the insightful data is much difficult for a single person. If you can collaborate with your team members the whole work will be much effortless.
Access management is at your fingertips. Need to just ensure the team is in sync with the perfect amount of information. You don't need to export certain information for a certain team member. You can set up your team as having a cup of tea. Just pick your team member and cast their roles.
As your team member's role, they will get access in Appsero, just the way you have set up. They can work collaboratively. Don't worry, you will have full control over your sensitive data. You will be in the driving seat of your developing product.
Challenges that Got into Our Way During COVID-19
The world will take years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretary-General, OECD
For the worldwide lockdowns, global economic crisis. Everything is getting limited as there is no way but to stay at your shed. Tech industries are trying to be activated through different meeting tools like- Slack, Zoom, or Google Meet, to communicate with their team members.
IMF announced that most of the global economies are going to reduce up to 5% in the upcoming year. According to a BBC report,
The US stock market suffered huge losses since the lockdown started. The first three months of the year have never been this worse since 1987.
Appsero couldn't save itself from this outbreak. The team members and the coordinators have to cope up with multiple challenges. One of them is managing the whole team remotely and merge the structural workflow. Let's see what more obstacles we have faced till now.
- Shortness of perfect communication software
- Hiring the perfect employees
- Tracking co-workers
- Specifying the tasks and setting work plans
- Feeling disconnected from the team
- Tracking the business milestones
- Getting the progress report, and more
Thus we have used some project management tools for keeping our work balance like before.
Depending on Project Management Tools
When most of the companies are working from home, they are depending on project management software and cloud-based open-source ERP plugin. These help to balance the remote work.
Why ERP software become more fit these days? Let's see the reasons-
- Easy to work with management, team lead, and employees.
- Keep things on a track
- Streamlined the workflow
- Managing all the departments is quite effortless
- Core financial and accounting tasks can also be done remotely
Upcoming Features in 2021
Appsero wants to do several breakthroughs in WordPress product selling. We're going to add a lot more cool stuff so that developers can start selling in seconds, not minutes. We worked hard to make the big data transition and we're using the industry-standard cutting edge technologies such as technologies we are utilizing for development:
- PHP, Laravel for most API development
- JavaScript, VueJs, Ant Design for Frontend (SPA)
- NodeJs (ExpressJs) for our build server.
- GoLang on tracking app for faster execution.
- Google Cloud Run and Cloud Functions (Serverless) for auto-scaling.
- Python, Apache Beam, Dataflow for Data Analysis and Data Pipeline
- Google Cloud Storage for storing raw data (JSON, CSV)
- MySQL is our primary database.
- MongoDB for storing unstructured data.
- BigQuery for the data warehouse.
- Redis for caching.
- WordPress Plugins for collecting data and user helper.
- Nginx for the webserver.
We'll be fine-tuning our big data transition and move all our existing data to BigData. That way, Appsero can scale infinitely with the help of cloud technologies.
Apart from that, we'll be adding new payment gateways. We are currently working with Gumroad and plan to introduce native Gumroad payment support in early 2021. Apart from that, one of our top requested features is allowing developers to sell via the Appsero payment gateway.
Final Thoughts on Appsero Review Year 2020
We're doing early-stage research and development for the Appsero payment gateway and plan to launch it by 2020. In the meantime, expect a lot more optimizations, bug fixes, and onboarding improvements.
We also plan to launch competitor analysis of other themes and plugins right from the Appsero dashboard so you can always stay one step ahead using keyword tracking, download tracking, a major shift in the growth of your competitors among other things.
Besides, all these – we want to listen more closely to our existing paid and free users. We'll prioritize their needs and reflect that into our agile development plan.
You can share your opinion on the Appsero review this year.