Built by BigCommerce Elite Partner Groove Commerce, specialty ice cream retailer Dippin' Dots creates a powerful eCommerce platform to deliver temperature-sensitive products to its customers. The company packs and ships the products with dry ice to avoid melting during transit. Since the product expires in 24 hours, delivery time is paramount for the process. The company now relies on BigCommerce's customization and fulfillment capabilities to ensure timely delivery. Groove Commerce created a customized shipping calendar and delivery date picker and integrated them into the optimized BigCommerce one-page checkout offering. The enhancements help customers pick a delivery date, view costs, see shipping options, and avoid blackout dates. The user-friendly site has bespoke CSS animation and detailed product info.
BigCommerce Starts on Google Cloud Marketplace to Aid Enterprise Customers
October 12, 2022
BigCommerce launched on Google Cloud Marketplace to provide Global enterprise customers with enhanced audience reach and business growth within the existing cloud environment. It helps with scalable and customizable commerce architecture, prebuilt native integrations with cloud products, omnichannel solutions for Google, and a simplified billing structure to meet Google Cloud's committed spend. Enterprises get direct access to prebuilt integrations, essential Google cloud products, partner apps, and other series to create an omnichannel presence. It helps with quicker time-to-value and low TCO. Businesses can cater to unique requirements across B2C, B2B, Headless, and CaaS (Commerce-as-a-Service) solutions. The combination of SaaS and API creates flexibility with powerful APIs and SDKs, letting businesses customize platforms quickly.
BigCommerce Expands Crypto Ecosystem With BitPay and CoinPayments
September 27, 2022
With the business shifting towards digital currency, the famous Open SaaS ecommerce platform BigCommerce partners with cryptocurrency tech partners BitPay and CoinPayments to get a competitive edge in the crypto market. The strategic collab with the leading crypto payment gateways allows BigCommerce B2C and B2B merchants in select countries to deliver easy and secure cryptocurrency payment solutions and make the mode mainstream. It helps merchants open up more crypto methods as payment options alongside existing gateways to reach a broader market. It also reduces transaction fees, lower risks, supports innovative future payments and attracts new customer segments. BitPay lets businesses accept payments from a plethora of crypto wallets. Merchants can access over 100 cryptocurrencies through CoinPayments at a 0.5% processing fee.
The Beer Bat Picks BigCommerce to Power eCommerce Capabilities
September 13, 2022
The Beer Bat, the fast-growing, original, patented, and baseball bat-shaped drinks manufacturer in the U.S., chooses BigCommerce to power its eCommerce stores. The brand is riding on BigCommerce's B2C and B2B potential to boost a quick launch and fast growth of its products. With the launch of BigCommerce powered “The Beer Bat Stores,” the company has witnessed a 71% increase in orders, a 98% improvement in site visits, and a 115% jump in revenue. With BigCommerce's easy and detailed set-up process, the company was able to put together a soft launch in two months with all support features. The Beer Bat uses BigCommerce integrations like BundleB2B to simplify the store's ordering and operation processes. It also relies on Weglot and Doogma to translate the content to foreign languages and to add product personalization to each product, respectively.
BigCommerce Partners With UK Government for “Help to Grow: Digital” Scheme
August 29, 2022
BigCommerce announces partnership with the UK government to enhance digital transformation. BigCommerce is the approved eCommerce tech provider for Help to Grow: Digital scheme backed by the UK government. The venture focuses on boosting growth for millions of small and medium B2C and B2B business types in the UK. The Help to Grow: Digital scheme offers merchants with 1 to 249 employees a BigCommerce platform by covering up to 50% of the costs or £5000 in subsidized rates. The project aims to disrupt the barrier for small businesses to enter the eCommerce arena. The expanded requirements will increase the number of eligible companies to 1.24 million in the UK. It gives small businesses a chance to focus on transaction development, while BigCommerce takes care of the technical aspects like designing, hosting, securing, and updating bespoke websites.
BigCommerce and Affirm Strengthen Coalition to Offer Adaptive Checkout
August 15, 2022
BigCommerce and Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment platform Affirm expands their partnership to offer Affirm's Adaptive Checkout as the preferred pay-over-time solution for BigCommerce customers. This multi-year partnership allows BigCommerce merchants to offer Affirm's bi-weekly and monthly payment options to their customers. BigCommerce businesses can provide buyers with Affirm's Adaptive Checkout product that has the scalability, reliability, flexibility, and transparency that young consumers prefer. Merchants can display the pay-over-time solution from the BigCommerce Control Panel. The extended partnership offers buyers smart payment options and increases brand awareness through Affirm's 12.7 million shopper network. It also drives traffic and shows 26% improved cart conversions, 85% higher order values, and 20% repeat purchase rates.
BigCommerce Lands 22 Medals at Paradigm B2B Combine Editions
August 3, 2022
BigCommerce has won a whopping twenty-two out of twenty-four awards at the 2022 Paradigm B2B Combine (Midmarket and Enterprise Edition). BigCommerce surpassed 2021 evaluations by six medals. The platform exceeded past-year evaluations for three consecutive years. With the recent acquisitions of BundleB2B and B2B Ninja, the company has raised its bar as a dynamic eCommerce platform for B2B merchants. The medals vouch for the platform’s expertise in midmarket and enterprise businesses and reflect substantial progress in their offering. The platform bagged 12 medals in the Paradigm B2B Midmarket Edition and ten medals in the Paradigm B2B Enterprise Edition. The awards include an exceptional Gold rating for the Total Cost of Ownership and Partner Ecosystem for three years. These medals are given out based on composite scores in 12 different categories.
BigCommerce Bags SOC 1 and SOC 2 Certification for Security and Privacy
July 25, 2022
BigCommerce completed the prestigious SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance audits and obtained the certification. The certification is given out to attest to a firm’s security, privacy, and compliance posture. The audit verifies data security practices and procedures and confirms a company’s commitment to sensitive data protection. The certification affirms that BigCommerce’s data and information security practices, policies, and strategies for handling financial and other data are fool-proof. A verified, independent third-party organization formally reviews the company’s security procedures. The process is officially approved to meet the SOC trust principles criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality. These terms are set by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
EVEC Launches BigCommerce Store to Drive D2C and B2B Sales
July 13, 2022
UK’s latest automotive merchant EVEC chooses BigCommerce to power its eCommerce platform to deliver a superior customer experience. The UK electric vehicle charging company picked BigCommerce as it is the industry's best Open SaaS ecommerce platform for scalable B2C and B2B brands. With the UK government’s plans to end fossil-fuel vehicle sales by 2030, the demand for electric vehicles and their charging stations is already rising in 2021 and 2022. EVEC picked BigCommerce and agency partner Frooition to build a slick, quick, and appealing website. EVEC sells directly to customers and homebuilders, installers and businesses via an online portal. With BigCommerce being highly customizable, Frooition integrated a plug-in to the website to match vehicle makes and models to compatible chargers for quick purchases and minimal complaints.
BigCommerce Widens Global Footprint to Austria, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
July 6, 2022
BigCommerce empowers merchants to scale and grow their businesses by broadening its footprints to DACH and the Nordic regions. This expansion with a fully localized tech and agency partner ecosystem enables companies of all sizes and complexities to build and scale online businesses. It lets them deliver seamless shopping experiences to local and cross-border customers while driving revenue. The merchants have disruptive tools and innovative functionalities to create engaging shopping experiences fortified by forward-looking tech stacks. The merchants are privy to features like native-language support, headless commerce, multi-storefront, and omnichannel B2B shopping experience. Notable Nordic brands like String Furniture, Food Locals, FirstVet, Greenworks, Neat, and Tell are already leveraging this to their advantage.
BigCommerce Launches Data Analysis Tools to Expand Scope
June 27, 2022
In a power move, BigCommerce launched Open Data Solutions, a product suite of native and outstanding partner data solutions. The tool enables BigCommerce retailers to segregate, analyze, and use online store data to study customer behavior. Big Open Data Solutions is accessible through the BigCommerce Control Panel, and lets retailers use pre-built integrations with Google BigQuery and Twilio Segment to transfer storefront data to a data warehouse or a Customer Data Platform (CDP). CDPs help retailers centralize the data and create a unified customer profile. The native integration to Google BigQuery data warehouse helps merchants consolidate all data into a single location for analytical insights and connect to business intelligence tools to generate customized reporting across customer, order, and product catalog data.
BigCommerce Invests in the British Fashion Council Foundation
June 15, 2022
BigCommerce champions rising talent, sustainability, and ethical fashion through its latest investment in the British fashion industry by formalizing patronage for the British Fashion Council Foundation. British Fashion Council (BFC) is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1983 to strengthen British fashion in the global economy as a leader in responsible, creative businesses. The BFC is a leading name in guiding sustainability and circular fashion, funds emerging designers, and organizes London Fashion Week. The Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMEA at BigCommerce, Jim Herbert, joined BFC’s Industry Advisory Board to provide top-level guidance on industry best practices and key topics. BigCommerce looks to nurture future growth in British fashion by focusing on education, grant-giving, and business mentoring.
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