Brian McGowan
CEO and Co-Founder at Prodigy Commerce, Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Prodigy Commerce, Inc.
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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CEO and Co-Founder
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Jan 2017 - Present
Prodigy Commerce is the only hosted eCommerce platform for WordPress that's free at any scale. Prodigy brings together the benefits of the world’s most popular content management system, WordPress, and a hosted eCommerce platform. Prodigy was built specifically for the WordPress community of developers, designers, and agencies so that they can more easily build beautiful, secure, fully functional stores for their clients. Store owners gain access to a Shopify-like platform from which to manage their products and orders. Prodigy’s founding vision was that the WordPress community should have more choices for their clients. The key benefits of Prodigy’s solution include: Requires only ONE free open-source plugin Hosted platform is free at any scale Solid infrastructure and security Complete storefront design flexibility Shopify-like backend experience Multi-channel customer service Prodigy’s solution eliminates the complexity, security risks, and costs of WooCommerce’s plugin and extension architecture by tightly integrating all essential functionality, and natively building premium features, into the platform. Integration partners include ShipEngine, TaxJar, MaxMind minFraud, high-quality payment processors, Google Analytics, and Facebook Pixel. Natively built premium features currently include abandoned cart recovery and the ability to sell products and services on a subscription basis. No third-party services are needed to build fully functional stores. Prodigy’s business model is based solely upon revenue sharing agreements with the payment processors integrated into its platform, similar to Shopify’s exclusive relationship with payments’ facilitator Stripe. Prodigy, however, does not charge a subscription or app fees; it really is free. Payment processing rates start at the standard 2.9% + $0.30. For high-volume stores, Prodigy helps store owners negotiate lower rates and fees. Prodigy is perfectly aligned with a store owner’s primary goal, generating sales. Show less
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Education
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Pepperdine University
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
California State University, Northridge
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration / Finance