When I sat down to chat with Arpit G Shah, I wasn’t expecting to get a crash course in how a client request turned into a thriving WordPress plugin business. But that’s exactly what I got.
Arpit started out building custom websites in India after graduating in Information Technology. Like many of us, his early experience was hands-on: working in PHP, customizing themes, tweaking plugins, and delivering websites for a wide range of clients.
But it didn’t take long for the realities of agency life to set in.
“We needed to offer service during the day and also stay up late to support overseas clients,” Arpit told me. “It became hard to manage. That’s when I started looking for something more scalable.”
That “something” turned into WPSyncSheets, a plugin business born out of a real-world problem: a client needed to manage data between Gravity Forms and Google Sheets in real time. So Arpit built the integration, and then realized it wasn’t just a one-off. There was real product-market fit.
He launched the first plugin in 2018 and hasn’t looked back. Today, WPSyncSheets includes integrations for Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, and more, with features like syncing coupons, inventory, and pricing directly from Google Sheets.
It’s the kind of plugin that scratches a real itch for agencies and store owners alike.
What’s next? AI.
Arpit’s team is working on WPSyncSheets AI, a new version designed to help manage massive inventories, think 50,000 products, while detecting duplicates and mismatches between data fields automatically. It’s not just about automation; it’s about insight.
“The AI will clean and map the data for you,” Arpit said. “It’s about making things easier before import.”
On top of that, Arpit’s deeply involved in the WordPress scene in India, co-organizing his local meetup and encouraging global folks to come to WordCamp Asia in 2026.
“We had 2,000 people at just one local meetup,” he said. “Imagine what WordCamp Asia will be like!”
If you’re building plugins, managing clients, or just thinking about how to shift from service to product, Arpit’s story is worth following. It’s proof that you can go from solving one client’s problem… to helping thousands of others solve theirs too.
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