Hi friends! It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update.

Here’s what we’ve finished and what we are still working on:

1. I believe we fixed the main issue with the site speed. Everything seems to be loading much faster! This alone makes the entire site feel much more useable and like you want to be here all the time.

2. The Community Partners affiliate program is now live! You can now earn money for sharing Spirit Collective, and we can all grow together!

3. We’ve updated the homepage and moved the fundraiser to it’s own dedicated page. The homepage is now much closer to how we ultimately want it to be, emphasizing the marketplace, and our community of amazing people, and all that each of us has to offer.

4. We’ve been fixing other little issues here and there as well. The activity feed is no longer polluted with “User and user are now connected” posts. We’re about to have some issues with the vendor dashboard setup to do list fixed (it kept hiding or showing when it’s not supposed to).

5. We’re working on the shop page. We’re completely rebuilding it so it looks beautiful and runs fast.

6. We’re about to finish connecting PayPal to the marketplace so customers can purchase with PayPal and vendors can receive payouts with PayPal. Hoping to finish by next week.

I’ve also finally got some help developing everything! Ginny’s son Liam is helping me fix things and develop new features, so we should be able to roll things out much faster now.

It’s all coming along. Thank you all for your patience while we’ve been fixing things! It’s becoming the platform we’ve dreamed it would be!