Kestrel Acquires Seven Barn2 Plugins – WP Tavern

Katie Keith, CEO of Barn2, announced that Kestrel has acquired seven plugins from her firm for an undisclosed quantity. She had tweeted about her plans to promote the plugins again in January to concentrate on the extra worthwhile plugins. 

That is Kestrel’s first acquisition. Kestrel is a brand new enterprise by the previous co-founders of SkyVerge (creator of over 60 WooCommerce add-ons and bought by GoDaddy in 2020). Their web site describes the crew as “a small however mighty crew of seasoned WooCommerce professionals — we’re a number of the high non-Automattic contributors to the open supply WooCommerce challenge.”

The acquisition encompasses 5 premium plugins and two free plugins, together with WooCommerce Variation Prices, WooCommerce Express Shop Page, WooCommerce Shipping Calculator, WooCommerce Product Sample, WooCommerce Discontinued Products, and the free plugins WooCommerce Custom Add to Cart Button and Better Recent Comments.

Katie defined, “it is sensible to place essentially the most assets into the plugins which have the largest consumer base and which match finest with our different plugins. Because of this, in early 2024 we made a crew resolution that we must always promote a few of our plugins to an organization who will give them the eye they deserve in order that we are able to focus our efforts on offering even higher worth and assist for our remaining suite of plugins.”

Below the acquisition phrases, the present annual and lifelong prospects will proceed to obtain full assist, updates and upkeep from the Kestral crew. Barn2 has plans in place for patrons who bought the acquired plugins by bundle plans and the All Entry Move plan. 

Max Rice, Founding Engineer of Kestrel instructed us, “We’re very excited to leap again into the Woo area with the launch of Kestrel! We’ve labored with WooCommerce since 2012, and have been acquainted with Barn2’s work for a while — we’re excited to kickstart our new enterprise with a gaggle of high-quality plugins from a crew we respect.”