{"id":3143,"date":"2026-10-16T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:08:53","slug":"ax-easy-2026-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/ax-easy-2026-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ax-Easy in 2026: A Fresh Website, New Apps and Smarter Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"Some years are about steady work. Others are about stepping back, looking at everything you have built and asking how it can be better. For Ax-Easy, 2026 was both. Since Vangelis Makridakis founded the company in Heraklion, Crete, in October 2007, our work has grown from websites and e-shops into a full family of software products: WordPress and WooCommerce plugins, desktop applications and complete business platforms. This year we decided our own home on the web should reflect that.<\/p>\n<h2>A website rewritten from the ground up, in two languages<\/h2>\n<p>In 2026 we rewrote and refreshed the entire ax-easy.com website, in both Greek and English. Every key page received new, clearer copy: About, Home, Services, Support, FAQ, Estimation, Payments, Security, the Portfolio and the 3D Earth pages. On top of that, all 43 published portfolio projects and all 16 products in our shop now have updated descriptions in both languages.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was simple: say what we do more precisely, more professionally and with the same warmth our clients know from working with us. Whether you read the site in Greek or in English, you should get the same clear picture of who we are and how we can help.<\/p>\n<h2>Our own apps: Hear-O and Hear-OZ, now on Windows and macOS<\/h2>\n<p>Desktop software has become an important part of what we create. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/hear-o\/\">Hear-O<\/a> is a music player for audiophiles with a unique design: you spin a virtual vinyl and enjoy your digital music collection. Its sibling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/hear-oz\/\">Hear-OZ<\/a>, is built for parties and DJs and looks as good as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Both players support all popular audio formats, including MP3, FLAC, WAV and AAC, and their LCD-style display shows each track&#8217;s bitrate, so you always know the quality you are listening to. Both are now available for Windows 10+ and macOS, as a Universal build for Intel and Apple silicon. You can try either one free for 14 days with every feature unlocked, then buy a lifetime licence: one computer for Hear-O, and for Hear-OZ either an Individual\/Party licence for one computer or a Professional DJ licence for two.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside them sits our free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/3d-earth\/\">3D Earth Wallpaper<\/a>, a live 3D Earth for your desktop on macOS 13+ and Windows 10\/11, with real-time day and night, live clouds and an interactive globe. It collects no personal data, and it is a good example of how we now use AI-assisted development to bring new ideas to life faster.<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress and WooCommerce plugins that solve real problems<\/h2>\n<p>Many of our products began as answers to problems our clients faced every day. In 2026 we gave each of them a clearer presentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/ax-easy-newsletter-wordpress\/\">Ax-Easy Newsletter for WordPress<\/a> turns your site into a complete email marketing platform. You design newsletters with the WPBakery tools you already know, send them from your own server with no subscriptions or per-subscriber pricing, and set sending limits per minute, hour and day so you stay within your hosting&#8217;s rules.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/ax-easy-b2b-manager\/\">Ax-Easy B2B Manager for WooCommerce<\/a> lets you run a wholesale store with full control over business customers, prices and discounts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/discogs-integration-for-woocommerce\/\">Discogs Integration for WooCommerce<\/a> imports and syncs your Discogs inventory and orders with WooCommerce, with unlimited records, no monthly limits and automatic stock reconciliation.<\/li>\n<li>Ax-Easy XML\/API Bridge keeps your e-shop in sync with your suppliers via XML feeds or REST API.<\/li>\n<li>Ax-Easy Performance Monitor shows which plugins and WordPress features slow down your site, so you can safely tune autoloaded options, cron jobs, Heartbeat and transients.<\/li>\n<li>PWA Notifications turns an existing website into an installable Progressive Web App and sends targeted or grouped notifications to users on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.<\/li>\n<li>Custom Scrollbar Styler matches your site&#8217;s scrollbar to your brand, site-wide or per page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>WMS and storage platforms: the EasyStorage Platform (ESP) editions<\/h2>\n<p>For businesses that manage physical space, our warehouse management (WMS) tools have grown into a small family. The EasyStorage Platform (ESP) comes in three editions, each customisable to your needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/easystorage-platform-warehouse\/\">ESP \u2013 Warehouse Edition<\/a>: everything you need to manage a warehouse, with multiple storage levels such as floors, positions and aisles, across one or more buildings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/easystorage-platform-parking\/\">ESP \u2013 Parking Edition<\/a>: everything you need to manage parking facilities, with multiple levels such as floors, across one or more buildings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/ax-easy-estorage-full\/\">ESP \u2013 Full Edition<\/a>: the complete edition, with everything in Parking and Warehouse, multiple storage levels (floors, shelves and pallet positions) and support for several warehouses (buildings).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/product\/ax-easy-quick-storage-list\/\">Ax-Easy Quick Storage List<\/a>: a WordPress plugin that shows your storage locations as columns in the dashboard and on the front end, ideal for warehouses with many pallet positions or aisles. It includes backup\/restore and bulk import from Excel, with Personal, Business and Developer licences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Clearer services, from first estimate to payment<\/h2>\n<p>Our services remain at the heart of Ax-Easy. The refreshed pages now explain our web development, e-shops, hosting and support more clearly, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/estimation-form\/\">online estimation form<\/a> helps you get a sense of your project&#8217;s scope before we speak. Our Web Development Options product lets you work out the cost of a new website by choosing the three essentials every site needs, and our turnkey e-shop solution brings together domain, hosting, a multilingual store, WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility, SEO tools, barcode stock management and training. When we have agreed on a service, you can pay for it securely online.<\/p>\n<h2>A portfolio that tells the story<\/h2>\n<p>Since 2013 we have been proud to work with the University of Crete on websites for regions, municipalities, ministries and museums across Greece, and we work with businesses across Crete, the rest of Greece, Europe and the USA. All 43 projects in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ax-easy.com\/en\/portfolio\/\">portfolio<\/a> now have refreshed descriptions, so you can see more clearly what we built and why.<\/p>\n<h2>Looking ahead<\/h2>\n<p>We keep moving into new and promising fields, follow new technologies closely and adopt the ones that genuinely benefit our clients. Our vision has not changed: create things that are useful and beautiful at the same time. It is worth it (\u201cax\u00edzei\u201d in Greek, the idea behind our name) to get in touch. Thank you to every client and partner who walked with us through 2026. 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