The Church Studio Technology Stack

Shopify is a commerce platform to help you build a secure and customizable ecommerce website for your brand.

WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for Wordpress

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

Font Awesome makes it easy to add vector icons and social logos to their website.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

Perfect library for adding search, sort, filters and flexibility to tables, lists and various HTML elements. Built to be invisible and work on existing HTML.

Moment.js is a free and open source JavaScript library. The library is a wrapper for the object making the object a whole lot easier to work with. the problem with JavaScripts object isnt the functionality it brings; its just extremely cumbersome to use as a developer.

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

GoDaddy's website builder, formally called Websites+ Marketing, is an online editing and publishing tool that helps users make a responsive website with no technical knowledge required.

WP Rocket offers a caching plugin for Wordpress.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

MailChimp list management features help users organize and target their list for sending. They automatically remove bounce backs and unsubscribes from their list.

GoDaddy Inc. designs and develops cloud-based technology products for small businesses, Web design professionals, and individuals in the United States and internationally. It provides domain name registration product that enables to engage customers at the initial stage of establishing a digital identity; hosting products, such as shared Website hosting, Website hosting on virtual private servers and virtual dedicated servers, managed hosting, and security.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Google Calendar is an get a button on its browser toolbar that they can easily click to see upcoming events from google calendar, without ever leaving their page. And if they are on sites that have special events encoded, it can click the button to instantly add events to they calendar.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

Gravity Forms for WordPress is a full featured contact form plugin that features a drag and drop interface, advanced notification routing.

PayPal is a global eCommerce platform for buyers & sellers. PayPal allows payments & money transfers to be made securely via email, phone, text message or Skype.

GoPayment is a payment management and mobile payment gateway allowing vendors to process credit card transactions via mobile application. The mobile payment platform uses a credit card reader plugin enabling users to processGoPayment amounts and request customer electronic signatures via a touch sensitive screen.

Shopify Pay is a frictionless payment method to purchase goods online.

Stripe is an online payment processing tool for internet businesses. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to their bank account. Meticulously designed APIs and functionality help users create the best possible product for their users.

Stripe Connect provides a powerful API and other tools needed to accept payments, as well as onboard, verify, and pay sellers and service providers. Users can tailor integration in various ways.

Venmo is an online service owned by PayPal that allows you to quickly pay and request money from your friends.