2023 Review, Stripe + Sales Tax and Figma to Bubble
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2023 Bubble Review
The Bubble team put together a nice blog post highlighting some of the key Bubble milestones of 2023. Some of the developments highlighted included:
New version control
The launch of Bubble Developer Certification
Bubble for Enterprise developments (a new plan, SOC 2 Type II Report)
Performance improvements
The Bubble community will be eagerly awaiting the release of AI tools and native mobile apps in 2024.
Also, some of the stats highlighted by Bubble 👇
The one that stood out to me the most was that the Bubble forum got an incredible 30.2 million page views in 2023.
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New Blog Post: Collecting Sales Tax with Stripe in Bubble
If you're building an eCommerce store with Bubble or selling products as part of your app, there's a very good chance you're using Stripe as your payment processor. There are a number of ways of accepting payments with Stripe in your Bubble app and a range of plugins available to help you.
However, incorporating sales tax (or VAT) can be a trickier task.
We recently released an article that shows how you can automatically calculate and collect sales tax using Stripe Tax and the Stripe Checkout (Shopping Cart) plugin.
Plugin Spotlight: A+ Product - Onboarding Tour
The A+ Product - Onboarding Tour plugin makes it easy to onboard users with a custom tour of your Bubble app. You can quickly design beautiful tours and introduce users to the key features of your app.
Other stuff we liked
A new SaaS that lets you convert Figma designs to Bubble apps
How much should you charge as a Bubble Developer
Building a SaaS in Bubble from $0 to $1000 MRR in 60 days
Have a great weekend!
The Cranford Tech team