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WordPress & SaaS Stack
Our WordPress, SaaS & PHP Stack
For sites built with WordPress, Laravel, Vue.js and Tailwind CSS, we have put together our tech stack
that we use or have used in the past for our various projects. More categories are added over time.
Newsletter, Email & CRM
Plugins and tools we use to create and send beautiful marketing emails aka newsletters like The Pier and transactional emails.
Newsletter Glue is a WordPress plugin that seamlessly integrates with popular email marketing platforms, allowing users to create and send newsletters directly from their WordPress dashboard.
MailerLite is an email marketing platform that enables users to create, send, and track email campaigns, with a focus on simplicity and user-friendly features.
FluentCRM is an email marketing automation plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage contacts, leads and marketing campaigns. It comes with 360° contact overview, segmentation, email sequencing and more.
Postmark is an email delivery service focused on providing reliable and fast transactional email delivery for businesses.
FluentSMTP is a free WordPress plugin that enhances email deliverability by allowing users to send emails via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) with ease.
Hosting & Server Management
Hosting providers and server management tool we use to keep our websites up and running.
Ploi.io is an easy-to-use platform that simplifies website and server management through automated deployment, scaling and monitoring tools. In the past, we have used Forge.
Hetzner is a Germany-based hosting and cloud computing provider known for its reliable and cost-effective solutions. Ahoi.dev runs on Shared vCPU (Arm64). Fancy a free €20 worth of cloud credits?
DigitalOcean Spaces is a scalable and easy-to-use object storage service that enables users to store and serve large amounts of data, such as images and video, in the cloud.
eCommerce
Plugins and tools we use to create online stores and accept payments.
SureCart is a relatively new yet powerful ecommerce platform for WordPress that comes with a growing set of high converting features, including carts, (instant) checkouts, order bumps, upsells, cart abandonment recovery, tax calculations and much more.
Woo (formerly WooCommerce) is a customizable, free e-commerce plugin for WordPress that allows users to create and manage online stores with ease. It can be extended through a huge ecosystem.
Stripe is a financial technology company that provides online payment processing solutions for businesses in 25+ countries.
Forms, Popups & CRO
Plugins and tools we use to create online forms such as contact forms, newsletter subscription forms, popups and more.
Gravity Forms is a WordPress forms plugin that allows you to easily create and manage customizable forms. It’s our default form builder plugin and can also be extended using various add-ons such as the Jetsloth Image Choices add-on or the Gravity Wiz GP Nested Forms add-on.
ConvertBox is a versatile and easy-to-use lead generation tool that allows you to create and display targeted opt-in forms to capture visitor information and increase conversions. Curious about what it looks like? Wait 45 seconds for The Pier popup to appear.
Fluent Forms is an alternative WordPress forms plugin that we use for specific use cases. It integrates seamlessly with FluentCRM, Fluent Support, Ninja Tables and more.
The order in which the tools appear is random.
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