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Get to know all the latest happenings from the eCommerce industry right here. From upgrades and partnerships to new developments, we deliver the insights as soon as they happen.

  • BigCommerce News

    BigCommerce Expands to More Countries to Widen International Presence

    With the global increase in ecommerce sales, BigCommerce extends its partner ecosystem and engineering team to more countries. They set up an engineering team in Poland and extended their presence to India, the UAE, and South Africa, with the BigCommerce EMEA in London managing the markets. They have a new country lead in South Asia and initiated two partner-based outfits, CustomSoft and Snowdog, in Eastern and Central Europe. With the expansion, the company intends to build local partnerships that will nurture businesses of all sizes to create a digital footprint, drive sales, and grow revenue. The move will help BigCommerce become a force to reckon with in the international eCommerce landscape. Their trusted country partners will lead the expansion and platform management while firms can concentrate on core business growth.

  • BigCommerce News

    THG Ingenuity Begins Digital Transformation With BigCommerce Partnership

    To offer their customers a seamless digital journey and accelerate business growth, THG Ingenuity, the complete commerce division of THG plc, has decided to affiliate with BigCommerce. Through the new strategic commercial alliance, the two renowned brands aim to develop a comprehensive and scalable solution that will help merchants create seamless customer experiences. The union will bank on the enterprise ecommerce platform from BigCommerce. Meanwhile, THG Ingenuity offers extensive back-end commerce capabilities. They have a faultless order management system and smart fraud and customer support solutions. Additionally, the firm has automation options like Autostore and a global courier platform. Leveraging on both their capabilities, the brands could bring seamless feature-rich solutions with international reach.

  • BigCommerce News

    BigCommerce Launches BOPIS for Seamless Buying Experience

    The flexible order fulfillment option Buy Online Pick Up In Store (BOPIS), also called Click & Collect, has a 10% per year growth trend. In an attempt to tap this opportunity, BigCommerce has announced the tool's launch through its platform as a multi-location inventory functionality for enterprise merchants. Current shoppers do not wait for delivery or want to incur shipping costs and prefer this option. The function seamlessly connects online and physical stores for merchants who have both options. The tool includes upgraded APIs that help sellers create custom BOPIS resources for buyers. The release has new Inventory and Pickup Methods APIs to handle inventory and pickup strategies. Upgraded APIs for Checkout SDK, Checkout S2S API, Storefront GraphQL, Orders API, and Catalog API supports BOPIS across locations.

  • BigCommerce News

    BigCommerce Partners with WPP to Provide Omnichannel Solutions

    WPP is the world’s largest advertising agency. They have allied with BigCommerce, delivering omnichannel solutions to WPP clients. The move permits WPP to access valuable tools on BigCommerce and the leading data feed management platform, Feedonomics. It also allows their shared customers to utilize the platforms to create futuristic solutions and drive growth. WPP also gains access to integrate with platforms like Amazon, Meta, Google, and TikTok to provide omnichannel sales in the B2B and B2C sectors. The firm can also utilize the alpha and beta versions of BigCommerce products. WPP plans to upskill 150 commerce specialists by placing them on BigCommerce’s product and partner councils and letting them avail the platform’s training program and certification pathways. WPP will help BigCommerce in shaping product development and innovations.

  • BigCommerce News

    Direct Sales Companies Access Best Commissions Management System With InfoTrax -BigCommerce Alliance

    InfoTrax Systems, a leading commissions software and distributor tools provider for direct sales companies, partnered with BigCommerce to give direct sellers access to modern enterprise ecommerce capabilities. Direct Sellers use tools to track orders and referrals for sales representatives and customers, called genealogy tracking. They need specialized features like InfoTrax FlexCloud for genealogy tracking, calculating commissions, and payment dispatch. The sellers had been compromising eCommerce capabilities to cope with the steep commission costs. Infotrax has been originally providing sellers with in-house shopping cart facilities. But by joining with BigCommerce, the firm can now offer its customers the capability to use Feedonomics to start omnichannel sales strategies and utilize more complex and innovative eCommerce potential.

  • BigCommerce News

    BNZ and BigCommerce Collaborates to Expand Online Presence for Local Businesses

    Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) and BigCommerce decide to team up to help BNZ customers extend their online reach. BNZ intends to leverage the expected eCommerce market expansion to help its customers increase customer reach, push sales, and limit costs. The integration offers BNZ customers keen on launching online businesses a 15-day free trial of the BigCommerce platform. Once they complete the trial period, BNZ patrons can pick a BigCommerce subscription plan, access the secure payment gateway Cybersource, accept NZD transactions, and start actively selling online. By launching a BigCommerce platform, customers can enjoy 24/7 consumer support, enterprise-grade functionalities, personalized store designs, and global fraud monitoring services. They also get lower service fees for merchants and cross-channel commerce via MSFs.

  • BigCommerce News

    BigCommerce Extends MSF to All Merchants to Drive Global Growth

    BigCommerce has expanded the access for Multi-Storefront (MSF) to small and midsize business segments and is available within their BigCommerce store. The new self-service facility, previously only available to enterprise merchants, will help companies launch multiple storefronts from a single BigCommerce store. It opens up opportunities for enterprises to expand their reach to new regions, create a streamlined operation process for multiple brands and categorize customer segments to drive a global business. The new feature enables small and mid-range companies to manage multiple stores from a single dashboard with enterprise-grade tools, saving on implementation and maintenance costs. It comes at an affordable price and circumvents the need for cumbersome multiple back-ends that are difficult to manage and expensive.

  • Shopify News

    RFID Inventory for Shopify Launched by SimplyRFID at NRF Show

    SimplyRFiD launched Wave RFID Inventory for Shopify. The software is said to increase revenue by 10%, providing merchants with quick and accurate inventory access. The company demoed the latest version, Wave 3.3.9, launched on January 20th at the NRF Big Show last month. SimplyRFiD's Wave RAIN RFID system generates weekly or daily inventories within minutes with 100% accuracy as opposed to the manual barcode counts that took hours and only produced 75-85% correct data. Once merchants sync their product tables to the Wave global accurate inventory system, it assimilates the product table from Shopify in a single click. It also creates an RFID tag for each item and assigns a product name through the UPC. SimplyRFiD Wave App runs on Apple iOS 16 and newer versions, connecting the CSL CS108 S, the most potent retail RFID scanner.

  • BigCommerce News

    MKM Building Supplies Introduces New BigCommerce Website

    MKM, a hardware and commercial building supply firm in UK, re-platformed to a new BigCommerce storefront for increased scalability and flexibility. The shift helped to revamp the site functionality to manage larger SKUs and build personalized B2B, B2C, and B2B2C customer experiences. BigCommerce helped provide the company with transparent and secure transactions and increased market reach to the younger customer base for B2B and B2C deals. The platform also facilitated the specialized pricing system that the B2B market demands. Brave Bison was pivotal in the storefront integration process, while Vue Storefront managed the front end, and Bloomreach handled customization for MKM. The headless architecture, composable commerce technologies, and partner ecosystem provided by BigCommerce have helped MKM tackle its back-end issues.

  • Shopify News

    Littledata Platform Extends Complete Support for Shopify Checkout

    Littledata, an ecommerce data platform for modern DTC customers and an alpha tester for Google brands, has automated its GA4 tracking services. The company has moved its complete server-side GA4 tracking system out of beta, giving complete Shopify and Shopify Plus checkout support. Implementing this first-party tracking solution eliminates the need for manual integration, Google Tag Manager (GTM) or Universal Analytics. The feature automatically captures recurring order features like revenue, conversion, and subscriptions. It also compiles checkout steps and upsell orders after purchase, sending this information to data destinations like Google Analytics, Segment, and Facebook Ads. Brands like the skincare brand Geologie have started benefitting from the new move by saving 50 developer hours using the new product.

  • BigCommerce News

    Buy With Prime App from BigCommerce Launched for Seamless Integration

    BigCommerce has simplified integrating Amazon’s Buy With Prime tool to merchant websites with a new self-service integration app. U.S. businesses can display Buy With Prime on their storefront without any coding skills to target “high-intent” shoppers. By leveraging the benefits of the new app, merchants can extend their services to high-intent customers and boost average conversions by about 25%. It is a first-of-its-kind installation that will boost omnichannel growth.Buy With Prime, released in 2022, helps business owners sell products directly from their website while tapping on the fulfillment, payment, checkout, delivery, storage, and fast, free shipping processes. Moreover, the brand value of Amazon attached to the business enhances customer trust, and Amazon’s facilities provide a smooth customer experience.

  • Shopify News

    New Integration to Streamline NFT Processes for Shopify Merchants

    Shopify (SHOP) has a new integration that lets users design, mint, and sell Avalanche NFTs (non-fungible tokens). This integration helps Shopify merchants streamline their NFT processes. Retailers with minimal technical knowledge and no crypto wallet can sell their NFTs using the Venly Shopify Merchant App. The new NFTs turn into products automatically and can be displayed and sold on their storefronts. Instead of an existing crypto wallet, the merchants can access a new Blockchain wallet through an email link. The new integration simplifies Avalanche NFT sales from design to distribution. Shopify merchants also gain royalties on every secondary NFT transaction made via the Venly Market. With this venture, Shopify aims to nurture the expanding Blockchain ecosystem to promote direct NFT sales, increasing Web3 participation.