Pier #121 - How To Effectively Recovery Abandoned Carts in WooCommerce Using Emails, SMS & WhatsApp

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #121 | October 10, 2025

Welcome to the 121st issue of The Pier. This week, Gleap announced support for Claude Sonnet 4.5 for its customer support platform, making its AI chatbot smarter and more capable than ever. You can now benefit from enhanced reasoning and problem-solving capabilities, superior coding skills, and stronger domain knowledge across finance, law, medicine, and STEM topics.

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Milestone: Etch 1.0 Alpha is here! Get your licence before the Etch LTD disappears or prices increase.

Milestone: One year after its launch, Bit Social has reached more than 4,000 active installations.

Milestone: WP Umbrella has officially surpassed $100k in MRR.

Tutorial: Learn the basics of Breakcold CRM and discover how to use AI to save time moving leads through your pipeline.

Acquisition: WPExperts has acquired the Gutena Forms plugin from Vikas Singhal, the founder of InstaWP.

Acquisition: WPCenter has acquired eRoom, the Zoom Meetings & Webinars plugin for WordPress, from Stylemix.

Exciting: Jose from Next Bricks, Dancepad, Oxyfolio and Widgets Supply has just announced his upcoming project. Trustwards — the ultimate consent management platform!

Here is a selection of the latest and greatest blog posts we published this week on Ahoi.dev. You will also find some interesting industry news, the latest directory listings on The Port, job openings, and deals. Enjoy!

👋 Cart Abandonment Recovery Pro

Cart Abandonment Recovery Pro for WooCommerce by CartFlows is now available and includes follow-up emails, product reports, email insights, a smart rule engine, advanced dynamic coupons, early cart tracking, real-time alerts, an OttoKit integration and more.

Follow-ups using SMS and WhatsApp are coming soon. A discounted lifetime plan (this week only) and a free version are also available!

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Following the success of its reorder posts feature, Meta Box AIO 3.2.0 introduces the same feature for taxonomies. You can now reorder Meta Box terms, including hierarchical structures, via drag-and-drop.

Amelia announces the release of version 9.0 alpha of the popular appointment booking plugin, which features a complete redesign. New features include light and dark modes, one-click scheduling, an improved UX, flexible tables, more filters, an all-in-one customer view, and much more.

Newsletter Glue 4.0.3.3 introduces new Constant Contact integration, allowing you to seamlessly design and publish your email newsletters inside WordPress and send them through your Constant Contact account. Also new: RSS feed support for the Latest Posts block, which enables you to pull in content from any RSS feed dynamically and mix it with your own posts to create more flexible newsletters.

With the new Plugin Action History feature, you can see every plugin change, whether it was done in WP Umbrella or directly in the WordPress backend.

Bricksforge 3.1.4 now allows Pro Forms to be used inside Bricks Components. There is also a new form submission log system with email alerts for failed entries and webhook integration, as well as a country selector with flags for Pro Forms select fields, stronger file upload validation and more.

Sidebar Navigation Builder 3.0 for Breakdance introduces full RTL support and per-URL configuration, as well as a new ‘Reinitialize on AJAX or URL change’ option. There are also new collapsible sidebar refinements, such as versatile usage, tooltips, the ability to restore the active panel and a new overlap mode.

WPCafe 3.0 Beta 1 represents a complete rebuild of the restaurant management plugin for WordPress. It introduces a redesigned onboarding process, a lightning-fast React dashboard, an intuitive menu builder, real-time order tracking, smart discounts and multi-location support.

Kinsta launches a new Agency Partner Program aimed at digital agencies.

FuseWP 2.1.23.0 adds support for FluentCommunity, WS Form, SureForms, AffiliateWP and SliceWP.

E-Commerce

Bricksfusion adds various SureCart components, such as product page layouts, stock indicators, price toggles, and sticky product sections.

AB Split Test 2.1.2 enables you to export individual visit data if advanced tracking mode is enabled in the settings.

SureCart announces its upcoming Presto Player integration, which will allow you to use Presto Popups for the new product media gallery video feature. Coming soon to video media: Autoplay and loops, with an external video source to follow shortly.

Inspiro Premium 9.4.0 is the biggest WooCommerce update yet. It introduces enhanced shop customization options, a new Quick View Products feature and flexible product display options.

Mamba is a new speed optimization plugin for WooCommerce stores. It features full-page caching, store API caching and object cache integration, among other things.

WC Vendors introduces a new custom registration form to make vendor onboarding easier. Vendor registration and login pages are generated automatically.

Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce 9.19.0 adds a new WhatsApp integration, enabling you to send cart recovery reminders directly to customers with valid phone numbers. Support for double opt-in with Klaviyo has also been added, ensuring that only confirmed subscribers are added.

Flexi BOGO for WooCommerce 1.6.0 enables you to create urgency with a countdown timer on product, cart and checkout pages. You can also share your BOGO offers more easily with direct shareable URLs.

With Product Delivery Date Pro for WooCommerce 5.2.0, you can set different maximum delivery limits for each weekday or specific date, giving you control over your order limits.

ThriveCart introduces coupons for order bumps, enabling you to apply percentage discounts to specific bumps and pricing options, allowing you to run targeted promotions without discounting everything. With discounts for bumps only, you can run percentage discounts exclusively on bumps while keeping your main product and upsells at full price. This feature is available to Pro+ users with Stripe Connect+.

E-Learning

Product Management for Designers is a new online course from Uxcel. You will get hands-on experience with PM frameworks such as OKRs, RICE prioritisation and product discovery. These tools will help you identify the right problems, prioritise effectively, and make design decisions that have a measurable impact on the business.

Klasio introduces a new Razorpay integration, as well as new options to delete student enrolments and suspend students temporarily. The lesson editor now supports video embedding and custom HTML, too.

Multi-Currency Bank Accounts

You can now create invoices in 23 languages and share them directly with clients around the world – all from your Wise Business account.

Laravel

Spatie introduces its new Flare MCP server, which allows you to integrate Flare’s error-tracking capabilities directly into your AI-powered development workflows. The new Laravel URL AI Transformer package enables you to transform URLs and their content using AI. Finally, the Ray v3 beta is set to be released by mid-November and launched in Q1 of 2026.

The next generation of Laravel Forge introduces Laravel VPS, instant server provisioning, zero-downtime deployments, a redesigned UI, improved SSL/domain management and built-in monitoring.

Craft CMS announces at Dot All conference that they will be switching to Laravel for Craft 6.

Customer Support

Chative 2.3.5 introduces AI instructions, enabling you to control how your AI speaks, refuses and supports, just as a top-performing team member would.

Social Media

Publer launches three new free tools. Background lets you add coloured backgrounds to your screenshots. Screenshoter lets you convert tweets and threads into images and carousels. Quote lets you turn quotes into images — ideal for Instagram!

Like Publer, the new ContentStudio API enables you to build your own automations and connect the social media management platform with third-party tools (video). ContentStudio now also integrates with Zapier and Make.

Publer releases its most significant Publer AI update to date. You can now use Publer AI to set up “Brand Voices” and create tailored AI “personalities” for each client, workspace or social account. You can also connect your social analytics directly to Publer AI, which will then provide answers based on your actual numbers. For example, if you ask “Which post performed best this week?”, Publer AI will provide an answer based on your analytics. Finally, you can now save and name your AI conversations.

Social Monitoring

Remention enhances automations of its AI-powered social monitoring platform by enabling keyword triggers to work across all supported social platforms, including Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook & Threads. Also new: smarter validation and better error messages with clear, actionable feedback (video).

SaaS

Job Boardly introduces a new setting that enables you to specify the default expiry time for jobs on your job board. You can now specify the number of days before a job expires after being imported, for all job imports. As well as setting a board-wide default, you can manually override it when adding a new import and specify a different expiry time for different import sources. Finally, job seekers can now apply multiple job type or category filters at once.

Heartbeat unveils Pulse, its new AI community companion, which will be soon available in beta. Pulse understands your goals, proposes solutions and turns ideas into real offers, courses or access groups instantly (video).

Partnership Management

With Partnero, you can now expand your payout options by sending partner payouts directly to Venmo via PayPal automation. You can also embed your partner approval form directly on the sign-up page to create a seamless experience.

CDN

Bunny.net introduces hop.js, a free CDN for open-source projects, as well as Prerender for Bunny Optimizer and WebSockets support for Bunny CDN.

Web & Product Analytics

Usermaven rolls out advanced retention analysis, CSV export of attribution data, instant report sending and flexible AND/OR logic for conversion goals.

Automation

OttoKit now supports Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian! Also new: OttoKit Learn, a free automation course.

Pabbly Connect introduces a new Unlimited Tasks plan, priced at $79 per month.

LinkedIn Automation

HeyReach releases a new n8n integration, covering everything from campaign and inbox actions to lead and list triggers.

AI Audio, Music & Video

Suno v5 introduces immersive sound and more authentic vocals, laying the foundation for its most impressive features yet. Available with Pro & Premier plans. Suno Studio unlocks professional multitrack tools for editing, layering, and generating new stems, all in one place. Available with a Premier plan.
Also new: Hooks. Create short-form music videos, share your sound and connect with others.

Descript is rolling out new pricing plans that give you expanded access to editing tools and AI features. These plans come with two meters: Media minutes track files uploaded or recorded in Descript. The other meter, AI credits, tracks usage of tools such as Underlord, Studio Sound, Green Screen, AI-generated media and avatars. Also new are flexible top-ups.

ElevenLabs introduces Agent Workflows, which allow you to design complex conversation flows for your voice agents, route calls to specialized agents and hand them off to humans, all while optimizing for cost and accuracy (video).

Managed Cloud Hosting

Cloudways introduces Cross-Series Vertical Scaling for Vultr servers, enabling you to effortlessly transition between General Purpose and CPU Optimized servers. No cloning required. No IP changes. No downtime.

Final Cut Pro

mKeynote 2 with Apple Explained is now available in MotionVFX DesignStudio. Edit smarter, deliver faster and stay at the forefront of design with over 100 versatile and easy-to-use tools, developed in collaboration with Greg Wyatt from the Apple Explained YouTube channel.

Testimonial Collection

Feedspace announces that its Pabbly Connect integration is in the approval phase and will be released soon. There is also a new preview design feature for review forms, pages, and widgets on mobile devices, and you can now add custom CSS to review forms. For GDRP-compliance, you can now also add T&C or privacy policy links in the consent message.

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