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• 14 Technology & Electronics Brands Amping Up Online Sales - Retail revenue from consumer electronics/technology sales in the U.S. is projected to top $350 billion in 2018. If you’re like…
  Topics: products, ecommerce, companys, gadgets, bigcommerce, site, customer, online, product, electronics, websites, technology, electronic.
• 2021 Cyber Week Trends Report: BigCommerce Merchants Achieve Record Ecommerce Sales - Following a record-setting 2020 holiday season, the retail industry has been eagerly waiting to see how 2021 holiday ecommerce sales…
  Topics: ecommerce, cyber, trends, holiday, achieve, record, shopping, customers, merchants, gmv, season, sales, bigcommerce, week, report.
• 6 Best Shopify Alternatives for Your Online Store - Shopify has almost become synonymous with ecommerce. For good reason. It’s one of the most popular ecommerce platforms on the…
  Topics: ecommerce, shopify, business, consider, platform, need, alternatives, features, youre, website, payment, bigcommerce.
• 6 Magento Alternatives That May Be a Better Fit for Your Business (and Cost Less) - Magento, an open-source platform, is a longstanding giant in the ecommerce space. In fact, according to one source, the word…
  Topics: business, youre, alternatives, ecommerce, site, need, consider, platform, bigcommerce, saas, support, magento.
• A Decade of Growth, Strategy, and Innovation: Celebrating 10 Years of BigCommerce - After meeting in a chatroom six years prior, Eddie Machalaani and Mitch Harper founded a company in 2009 with one…
  Topics: strategy, success, solutions, saas, small, growth, celebrating, shipping, partner, bigcommerce, ecommerce, decade, innovation, platform.
• An In-depth Rewind Review – Everything You Need to Know - Welcome to our in-depth Rewind review. Have you ever thought about what you would do in the event that your store data, blog posts, and product listings were accidentally or maliciously deleted at this moment? While this may look like… Continue reading An In-depth Rewind Review – Everything You Need to Know
  Topics: rewind, need, shopify, backups, know, month, indepth, data, backup, online, bigcommerce, store, review, plan.
• Announcing BigCommerce + Bolt One-Click Checkout - Consumer expectations aren’t what they used to be. The last two years have accelerated changes in what consumers expect to…
  Topics: checkout, network, experience, payment, ecommerce, ready, customers, oneclick, announcing, bigcommerce, bolt, merchants.
• Announcing Early Access Beta BigCommerce for WordPress: Marrying Scalable Content and Commerce - Today, we are excited to announce our early access developer beta BigCommerce for WordPress plugin. The app foundation, built by…
  Topics: ecommerce, build, access, early, merchants, wordpress, commerce, bigcommerce, beta, catalog, plugin, integration.
• Announcing the 2021 BigCommerce Partner Awards Winners - At BigCommerce, we provide the platform for brands to build, innovate and grow their businesses. Additionally, when they need help…
  Topics: announcing, partners, experience, agency, solutions, technology, bigcommerce, winners, winner, partner, merchants, platform, awards, ecommerce.
• BigCommerce 2021 Annual Report: Another Year of Digital Growth and Disruptive Innovation - As the pandemic-accelerated growth of ecommerce continued into 2021, the world experienced yet another transformational year of digital growth, and…
  Topics: download, innovation, ecommerce, pdf, sent, info, bigcommerce, worlds, growth, disruptive, report, annual, digital.
• BigCommerce Annual Report: A Letter From CEO Brent Bellm - BigCommerce was founded to help merchants sell online. We seek to lead a new era of commerce by offering a…
  Topics: bigcommerce, bellm, report, businesses, growth, annual, ecommerce, letter, invest, ceo, customers, platform, saas, merchants, brent.
• BigCommerce Brings Flair to NRF 2022 and Commerce After Dark - To say the BigCommerce team was excited about NRF 2022 would be putting it lightly. Our first booth presence at…
  Topics: texas, commerce, great, happened, nyc, joined, recap, nrf, team, natori, event, talk, bigcommerce, wait, say, brings, dark, flair.
• BigCommerce Doubles Down on Headless Commerce with BloomReach, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal and More - Today, we are excited to announce additional headless heads for ecommerce brands of all sizes as a front-end-agnostic headless checkout…
  Topics: aem, content, commerce, experience, platform, bloomreach, frontend, experiences, wordpress, brands, bigcommerce, headless, sitecore.
• BigCommerce Enterprise Review and Everything You Need to Know - It's a very exciting time at present for BigCommerce. In the summer of this year, they expanded their offices into Europe after successfully raising $64 million. Additionally, they've joined the Amazon Marketplace Developer council to aid Amazon Pro Sellers, as… Continue reading BigCommerce Enterprise Review and Everything You Need to Know
  Topics: need, store, know, bigcommerce, issues, enterprise, integrations, onpremise, ensure, help, review, integrate.
• BigCommerce IPO: Ecommerce for a New Era - On behalf of BigCommerce, I am delighted to share an exciting milestone. Today, BigCommerce joins the Nasdaq family to become…
  Topics: ipo, ecommerce, public, online, bigcommerce, thank, platform, innovate, company, customers.
• BigCommerce Launches Amazon Product Catalog Import Support, Reducing Manual Error and Saving Sellers Hours of Work - There’s no denying that Amazon represents a massive opportunity for ecommerce brands to reach customers at scale. However, selling on…
  Topics: storefront, merchants, link, catalog, manage, product, listings, import, bigcommerce, amazon, products, catalogs.
• BigCommerce Named a Strong Performer Among B2B and B2C Ecommerce Platforms by Industry Report - At BigCommerce, we strive to provide the best tools and resources to help merchants across the world make the most…
  Topics: strong, b2c, different, wave, ecommerce, named, industry, categories, b2b, tools, platforms, performer, trusted, report, forrester, bigcommerce.
• BigCommerce Shipping Achieves Best Rates in Industry for Merchants; Partnerships Expand for International & Third-Party Logistics - Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of BigCommerce Shipping for U.S.-based merchants. BigCommerce Shipping is powered by…
  Topics: amazon, bigcommerce, merchants, industry, states, shoppers, logistics, options, rates, thirdparty, partnerships, shipping, cities, operates, international, expand.
• BigCommerce Turns Up the Heat in Palm Springs at eTail West 2022 - On the heels of NRF, the BigCommerce team headed west to make its stake at eTail West 2022 in Palm…
  Topics: turns, team, etail, attendees, west, palm, heat, pdf, bigcommerce, springs, klevu, ecommerce.
• BigCommerce customers can now sell on Walmart’s online marketplace - BigCommerce has partnered with Walmart to allow its customers to sell on the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer’s e-commerce marketplace, it announced this morning. Shares of Austin-based BigCommerce rose sharply in pre-market trading after the news, gaining around 10% before the bell. Walmart, best-known for in-person shopping, has proven an e-commerce success story in recent years. For […]
  Topics: growth, walmart, shopify, company, ecommerce, sell, online, customers, bigcommerce, techcrunch, walmarts, wish, marketplace, announced.
• BigCommerce expands to France, Italy, and the Netherlands - BigCommerce has announced today it will expand to France, Italy, and the Netherlands. The expansion takes place in the form of a fully localized experience, letting merchants use the platform to manage their store in their locale language. Local payment methods and currencies are also included. BigCommerce offers merchants in… Continue reading
  Topics: expands, sales, netherlands, france, payment, platform, ecommerce, whitepaper, merchants, bigcommerce, italy, local.
• BigCommerce for B2B Businesses launches - BigCommerce has announced the roll out of BigCommerce for B2B. As the name suggests, it’s software suite that’s tailored for business-to-business retailers who want to sell their products online. BigCommerce for B2B is aimed at wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors. The new ecommerce software solution is the result of BigCommerce partnering… Continue reading
  Topics: payments, retail, software, purchases, launches, businesses, b2b, omnichannel, merchants, bigcommerce, punchout2go, shipping.
• BigCommerce launches multi-currency features - BigCommerce introduced a collection of multi-currency features, which enables merchants to present and process online purchases in over 100 foreign currencies. This should make it easier for online stores to sell cross-border to shoppers across Europe and beyond. For customers of ecommerce websites running on the BigCommerce software this news… Continue reading
  Topics: features, online, paypal, preferred, payment, multicurrency, local, bigcommerce, launches, pay, purchases, shoppers.
• BigCommerce raises $64 million to power e-commerce sites - Austin, Texas-based BigCommerce has completed a big round of funding. The growth-stage startup, which powers e-commerce sites for Sony, Toyota and 60,000 other merchants, has raised $64 million to accelerate its business. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from General Catalyst, GGV Capital and Tenaya Capital. And it brings BigCommerce’s total raised to […]
  Topics: capital, million, sites, bigcommerces, business, raises, targeting, power, bigcommerce, company, thats, bellm, ecommerce.
• Charging Forward into 2022 with BigCommerce CEO Brent Bellm - In 2021, ecommerce experienced another year of pandemic-accelerated growth. We hope your business has navigated the changes in our society…
  Topics: selling, templates, bigcommerce, letter, launched, product, including, ecommerce, recap, plans, capabilities, partnerships, brent, bellm, ceo.
• Choosing The Right Ecommerce Platform For Your Business - Now that you’ve done all the research, it’s time to choose your ecommerce platform, build your store, and launch your…
  Topics: solution, business, platform, ecommerce, bigcommerce, saas, platforms, features, choose, website, online, right.
• Debunking Myths of SaaS (+ Why Software-as-a-Service is a Viable Option for Enterprise Business) - Inside San Francisco’s largest convention center one March day in 2000, Siebel CRM Systems was hosting a huge conference. Outside,…
  Topics: solution, saas, debunking, bigcommerce, myths, software, enterprise, open, source, organizations, ecommerce, platforms.
• Drag-and-drop Ecommerce Tools Are on the Rise - For years, ecommerce platform providers have sought to make it easy for SMBs to present and sell products online. Current offerings from Shogun, BigCommerce, and Wix demonstrate that ease-of-use and lack of coding are still in demand.
  Topics: shogun, ecommerce, business, functionality, wix, rise, tools, builder, bigcommerce, draganddrop, page, visual.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: February 4, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-January from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping, social media, support for entrepreneurs, email marketing, credit automation, and virtual shopping.
  Topics: backup, platform, product, releases, female, business, businesses, automation, ecommerce, shipping, customers, bigcommerce.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: July 15, 2021 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-July from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on live-streaming marketplaces, payment services, social commerce, headless commerce, customer experience, multichannel fulfillment, and holiday marketing.
  Topics: bigcommerce, customers, million, google, product, merchants, ecommerce, platform, shogun, releases, fulfillment.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: June 3, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-May from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on seven-day deliveries, B2B platforms, cross-channel marketing, subscription businesses, selling on Amazon, financial technology, and creative economic development.
  Topics: customer, marketing, bigcommerce, service, ecommerce, platform, woocommerce, product, releases, amazon, company, announced.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: March 2, 2022 - Our latest rundown of new services that could help ecommerce merchants includes mobile payments, product recommendations, fulfillment, and more.
  Topics: bigcommerce, announced, releases, monitoring, global, ecommerce, merchants, google, payments, commerce, checkout, product.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: May 4, 2020 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for early May from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on keyword research tools, bid optimization, product returns, video tools, payment platforms, Google Shopping, Etsy listings, and more.
  Topics: fedex, releases, ecommerce, keyword, announced, shipping, amazon, shopping, video, bigcommerce, product.
• Evaluating WordPress Ecommerce Websites: Why Use WordPress for Ecommerce Stores - Should you create a WordPress ecommerce website or should you build your online store on a managed ecommerce platform instead? This and more, answered here.
  Topics: platforms, free, bigcommerce, websites, wordpress, youre, woocommerce, plugin, managed, ecommerce, site.
• Expand Your Commerce Cross-Border in 2020: BigCommerce Multi-Currency Supports Your Global Growth - The world is getting smaller. Globalization means products that were once available to a select few can now zip across…
  Topics: payment, currency, merchants, local, global, grow, multicurrency, internationally, business, customers, offering, bigcommerce, shipping.
• Exploring Black Health, Wellness and Entrepreneurship with Muniq Founder and CEO Marc Washington - Black History Month is a dedicated time to remember, reflect and honor African-American history and achievements. At BigCommerce, we’re honored…
  Topics: business, history, washington, black, really, community, marc, qa, bigcommerce, brand, founder, look, muniq, health, ceo.
• Go public now while software valuations make no sense - Software valuations are bonkers, which means it’s a great time to go public. Asana, Monday.com, Wrike and every other gosh darn software company that is putting it off, pay attention. Heck, even service-y Palantir could excel in this market. Let me explain. Over the past few weeks, TechCrunch has tracked the filing, first pricing, rejiggered […]
  Topics: share, pricing, public, valuations, techcrunch, bigcommerce, range, trading, today, using, company, software, sense, revenue.
• Google Shares How to Harness the Power of AI at Make it Big 2021 - Data insights from artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help retailers learn more about their customers — and therefore make better…
  Topics: business, insights, think, youre, harness, shares, googles, ecommerce, power, google, products, ai, big, bigcommerce, merchants.
• Headless Commerce Success Stories: 4 Brands Solving Tough Challenges with Innovative Tech - Headless commerce is the talk of ecommerce at the moment, and for good reason. For brands facing a variety of…
  Topics: commerce, saas, headless, able, ecommerce, shopping, frontend, backend, success, platform, bigcommerce.
• How 5 Online Businesses Increased Revenue By Selling on eBay - eBay may not be the largest marketplace by gross merchandise value (GMV) — but it’s still pretty close.  With a $96…
  Topics: ebay, bigcommerce, increase, selling, sales, success, integration, started, store, revenue, awesome, sell.
• How I Migrated 11 Sites from Magento to BigCommerce, Saved $1,000,000 and Increased Conversions 312% – All in 90 Days - When a boat has a hole, the crew spends half its time rowing and the other half with buckets, frantically…
  Topics: magento, saved, speed, right, bigcommerce, sites, increased, conversions, recovery, days, store, site, data, migrated, migration, cart.
• How One PTA Meeting Turned Into a Thriving School Supplies Business with a Charitable Arm - “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, Co-founder…
  Topics: school, customers, supply, bigcommerce, support, using, start, trevor, supplies, business, thriving, sprout, issue.
• How Two Digital Brands Expanded Their Reach with Wish - Expanding your online presence can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. As more and more consumers expect little…
  Topics: products, gerard, expand, omnichannel, wishs, reach, cosmetics, brand, ecommerce, labs, brands, wish, bigcommerce.
• How to Sell More with Facebook for BigCommerce: Your Guide to Success - More than 3.4 billion people use Facebook every month to connect with friends and the brands they love. And as…
  Topics: shop, catalog, instagram, facebook, success, business, tag, tags, products, sell, bigcommerce, product, guide.
• How to Sell More with Google: Your Guide to Success - Since launching in 1998, Google has evolved from a leading search engine to a powerful sales and marketing channel that…
  Topics: product, shoppers, bigcommerce, listings, ads, free, guide, products, google, campaigns, success, sell, shopping.
• How to Sell More with Walmart Marketplace: Your Guide to Success - Walmart has grown into a globally recognized brand and dramatically changed the retail landscape since opening its first store in…
  Topics: marketplace, sellers, success, customer, walmart, merchants, fulfillment, products, sell, bigcommerce, product, guide.
• How to sell with BigCommerce in the UK - 2018 has been a very big year for BigCommerce in the UK. After a successful round of growth funding, which saw the company raise $64 million, BigCommerce decided their next expansion would be into the UK. It is the first time… Continue reading How to sell with BigCommerce in the UK
  Topics: uk, support, united, bigcommerce, partners, available, option, sell, retailers, rate, shipping.
• IDC Technology Spotlight Highlights BigCommerce and Acumatica Partnership - As customer expectations rise around the entire shopping experience, from discovery to delivery, the competition has also closed in, making…
  Topics: b2c, spotlight, highlights, acumatica, systems, erp, organizations, partnership, legacy, technology, b2b, bigcommerce, idc, digital, commerce.
• Important Factors Your Ecommerce Business Should Consider Before Migrating To Magento - Magento has an outstanding reputation as an ecommerce platform. First released in 2007, it is a tried-and-true option for enterprise…
  Topics: ecommerce, important, consider, bigcommerce, migration, magento, team, development, platform, migrating, need, brands, business, factors.
• Improving the Customer Experience with Amazon MCF for BigCommerce: Q&A with Amazon’s Abhi Tiwari - As consumers increasingly expect fast shipping when purchasing online, it may come as no surprise that Amazon surpassed FedEx in…
  Topics: fulfillment, channels, qa, amazons, multichannel, orders, sales, mcf, amazon, bigcommerce, merchants, fulfill, tiwari, abhi.
• Introducing the BigCommerce 2021 Partner Awards Finalists - It’s time for the BigCommerce 2021 Partner Awards! Marking the fourth year of the program, the BigCommerce Partner Awards is…
  Topics: finalists, awards, solutions, bigcommerce, customer, design, clients, partner, ecommerce, online, introducing, experience, business, digital.
• Investment in BigCommerce, Our Customers and Our Partners - Today BigCommerce announced that Goldman Sachs has led a $64 million growth equity investment, with backing from current investors General…
  Topics: growth, service, investment, funding, merchants, market, partners, bigcommerce, company, platform, customers, saas.
• Is Magento Right For Your Business? Magento Features, Pricing, Security and More (Compared To BigCommerce) - Magento is an ecommerce platform built on open source technology. With its flexible shopping cart system, Magento has long been a heavy-hitter among enterprise brands selling online because it provides them total control of the look, feel, and functionality of their online stores. According to data from BuiltWith, there are over 230,000 live stores running on Magento. In terms of market share of the Alexa top 1 million (the one million websites with the most hits globally), Magento is used by 18%. In other words, there are over 14,000 Magento stores in the Alexa top 1 million. Magento was first released in 2007. In 2011, the company was acquired by eBay and then became an independent company again in 2015. The latest development occurred in May 2018, when Magento was acquired by Adobe. Speculation followed as to what that would mean for the company and businesses relying on it. In September 2018, Magento announced the end of life of Magento 1 as June 2020, meaning those software versions would no longer be supported. In March of 2019, Adobe announced their new Adobe Commerce Cloud which is essentially a fully managed cloud-based version of Magento that integrates with other Adobe tools. Magento is undeniably flexible and scalable but its long list of features comes at a cost. In order to unlock its potential, you will need a skilled developer/designer (or team of developers) to set up, maintain, and update your store. Depending on how you get the product delivered, you also may be on the hook for hosting and platform security costs. Let’s compare the Magento platform to the BigCommerce platform. Both offerings have a robust catalog of features for enterprise brands, but one of the biggest differences is the hosting setup. BigCommerce is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform. This means it provides an all-in-one package that includes a flexible shopping cart plus best-in-class security and DDoS protection with hosting on Google Cloud, the highest level of PCI compliance, and automatic updates. [quote] BigCommerce has a wide range of built-in features and is a great fit for large businesses who are ready to grow quickly. [/quote] Magento may be a good fit for businesses who require extreme flexibility in their platform and are willing to invest a lot of time and money to achieve that. We’ll delve more into the distinct differences between these two platforms below and determine which is right for your business. On-Premise vs SaaS vs Cloud One of the primary differences between Magento and BigCommerce is how they are hosted. Magento offers two main products. The first is its free-to-download option Magento Open Source. Anyone can download the software for use from Magento without cost. However, you will be responsible for hosting and development costs which can be steep, so “free” comes with a pretty big asterisk (more details on the Magento operating costs below). Magento’s second main offering is Magento Enterprise which comes with Magento support. The cost of running Magento Enterprise will be based on the business’s traffic and sales. Magento Enterprise can be hosted on-premise or cloud-hosted as a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solution. Both Magento Open Source and Magento Enterprise can be hosted on-premises on a company’s own servers or be cloud-hosted through Amazon Web Services. With Magento Open Source, a business would download the software for free and then seek out their own hosting solution. It is worth noting that, in addition to the above products, in 2019 the new Adobe Commerce Cloud was announced. This is a fully managed cloud service built on Magento Commerce and now part of the Adobe Experience Cloud. The difference between on-premise and cloud-based solutions are pretty clear: the former is on site and the latter is delivered over the internet. However, as we delve into the intricacies of cloud services, things can get murkier. Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition is a PaaS offering. BigCommerce is SaaS. And to complicate things further, there’s another cloud hosting model, IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Here’s a quick breakdown of the difference: IaaS: cloud-based, pay-as-you-go for services such as storage and networking. PaaS: hardware and software tools available over the internet. SaaS: third-party software available over the internet. Below is a great summary illustration as well:
  Topics: platform, businesses, enterprise, compared, cost, magento, business, right, features, pricing, saas, bigcommerce, security, costs.
• Is WooCommerce The Right Choice? WooCommerce Features, Pricing, Security and More (Compared To BigCommerce for WordPress) - From its launch in 2003, WordPress has risen from an obscure content management platform to the power behind 33% of…
  Topics: functionality, woocommerce, right, compared, site, bigcommerce, wordpress, need, choice, security, ecommerce, free, features, pricing, plugin.
• Launch a Store with BigCommerce: The Ultimate BigCommerce Tutorial - Choosing an ecommerce platform is far from an easy decision. Some of them offer better pricing, while others are known for beautiful templates. From Shopify to WooCommerce and Squarespace to BigCommerce, they all have pros and cons. But if you'd… Continue reading Launch a Store with BigCommerce: The Ultimate BigCommerce Tutorial
  Topics: online, themes, website, ultimate, launch, click, products, theme, bigcommerce, product, tutorial, store.
• Leverage Headless Commerce To Transform Your User Experience with Drupal Ecommerce - Drupal is among the most widely used open source content management systems around, hanging out with the likes of WordPress…
  Topics: business, drupal, initiative, content, transform, platform, bigcommerce, leverage, software, ecommerce, security, headless, commerce, experience, user.
• Magento Community vs Enterprise vs BigCommerce: What’s the Right Choice for Your Business? - For many, the name Magento goes hand in hand with ecommerce. The open-source platform, now owned by Adobe, is written…
  Topics: bigcommerce, enterprise, source, need, vs, magento, community, commerce, open, platform, security.
• Make it Big 2020 Spotlight: Sell Where Your Customers Are With a Social Commerce Strategy with Nathan Lam - Social media has transformed the marketing space over the last decade, and now social commerce follows a similar narrative. In…
  Topics: bigcommerce, session, lam, products, commerce, think, ecommerce, way, big, work, social, nathan, facebook.
• Make it Big Podcast: Optimizing the Checkout Experience with Bolt - Welcome to The Make it Big Podcast, a bi-weekly audio series about all things ecommerce by BigCommerce. In this episode,…
  Topics: checkout, merchant, optimizing, network, experience, big, oneclick, site, bigcommerce, podcast, bolt.
• Managing Custom Prices in BigCommerce - Not every customer pays the same price. Online merchants sometimes offer different prices to different sorts of customers. Businesses on BigCommerce's Enterprise plan can assign prices to customer groups, such as wholesalers or retailers.
  Topics: products, managing, price, customer, custom, wholesale, pricing, group, lists, list, bigcommerce, retail, prices.
• Moving Offline to Online: Advice from Four Businesses Taking on Digital Transformation - It’s no secret that running a retail business can be a challenging endeavor. There’s no shortage of decisions to make…
  Topics: transformation, sales, businesses, local, taking, customer, bigcommerce, customers, business, digital, offline, site, store, kintec, online.
• Q&A: Bringing Data Innovation to Merchants with Google BigQuery - Effective decision making starts with data. However, before you can start making decisions, you need the right technology solutions in…
  Topics: reports, bigquery, studio, google, merchants, bigcommerce, using, solutions, business, data.
• Shoptalk 2022: BigCommerce Joins the Year’s Biggest Retail Reunion - In late March 2022, more than 10,000 retail thought leaders, branded manufacturers, startups, investors, media and analysts descended into the…
  Topics: sessions, bigcommerce, speakers, retail, thrilled, team, learn, ecommerce, reunion, shoptalk, pdf, joins, biggest.
• Supporting the Rise of Consumer Data Privacy Regulations: The Current and Future State of Ecommerce Security - Trends come and go in ecommerce. Customer expectations expand as quickly as online stores strive to meet them. However, one…
  Topics: consumer, security, standards, privacy, gdpr, ecommerce, data, regulations, merchants, bigcommerce, compliance.
• The 19 Most Technically Innovative Ecommerce Brands of 2018 - In ecommerce, glitz and glam matter – a lot. In fact, brands that focus on the look & feel of…
  Topics: companies, products, online, customers, able, site, ecommerce, bigcommerce, product, innovative, customer, innovation, experience.
• The 2020 BigCommerce Holiday Gift Guide - The holiday season is underway which means it’s time to start shopping for your friends and families. Regardless of which…
  Topics: perfect, bigcommerce, guide, present, holiday, online, ideas, brand, shopping, gift, shop, season, post, products.
• The Buyer’s Journey Doesn’t Stop at Checkout: Understanding the Five Steps to Creating Frictionless Purchase - There’s a reason that ecommerce has become a multi-trillion dollar industry — to the tune of a projected $6.5 trillion…
  Topics: checkout, experience, shipping, purchases, creating, store, customers, holidays, site, bigcommerce, shoppers, frictionless, help, customer.
• The Closed Beta for Checkout on Instagram is Here for Select U.S. BigCommerce Merchants - In March, Instagram publicly announced their beta for checkout on Instagram in partnership with select ecommerce platforms including BigCommerce.  For…
  Topics: shopping, product, bigcommerce, brands, select, pdf, products, beta, merchants, test, features, checkout, instagram, customers.
• The Complete Handbook to Sales Tax, Business Tax and Amazon FBA Tax (+92 Ways to Save) - Paying your taxes isn’t what any entrepreneur dreams of when starting a business. You don’t think about the spreadsheets and…
  Topics: need, avalara, guide, ways, charge, tax, ecommerce, resale, save, sales, file, state, bigcommerce, business.
• The Four Pillars of Omnichannel Strategy for 2021 and Beyond - In October 2020, eMarketer increased their 2020 ecommerce retail sales forecast from 20% growth to 30%, making an omnichannel approach…
  Topics: retailers, advertising, pillars, strategy, approach, channels, omnichannel, sales, bigcommerce, success, shipping, need, platform.
• The Headless Commerce Showdown: The Unseen Strategy Retailers Use to Win Ecommerce Market Share - Ecommerce businesses today are facing many of the same hurdles. Customer expectations are rising. Online competition for their eyes and…
  Topics: ecommerce, platform, commerce, content, experience, bigcommerce, brands, wordpress, learn, headless, changing, cms.
• The Impact of The Supreme Court’s Ruling in South Dakota v Wayfair - This week, the Supreme Court issued a long-awaiting ruling in South Dakota v Wayfair, Inc. Given the interest in this…
  Topics: bigcommerce, supreme, impact, court, internet, ruling, states, south, dakota, state, sales, online, courts, tax.
• The Ultimate Guide to Google’s 2021 Core Web Vitals - Google’s latest algorithm updates for page experience — primarily the much-talked about Core Web Vitals — will go into effect…
  Topics: bigcommerce, ultimate, seo, web, googles, page, core, website, guide, content, experience, google, vitals.
• The WONE Backstory: How GRAYBOX Delivered a Unique Shopping Experience For High-End Fashion - In business today, there are two essential choices. At GRAYBOX, the clients we work with typically fall into the latter.…
  Topics: platform, highend, bigcommerce, graybox, shopping, wones, wone, fashion, experience, fit, delivering, unique, ecommerce, strategy, products.
• Today, BigCommerce becomes a 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Digital Commerce - Now more than ever, enterprise buyers have access to an abundance of information to help them throughout the buying process.…
  Topics: аnd, thе, а, gartner, today, ecommerce, commerce, оf, bigcommerce, insights, customers, peer, choice, reviews, digital, іs.
• Using BigCommerce and eBay Integration for Cross-Channel Management - The eBay marketplace has been changing; no longer is it an auction-only site for consumer-to-consumer trading. Here’s the new normal…
  Topics: ebay, bigcommerce, selling, shipping, merchants, reach, listings, retailers, using, products, brands, pdf.
• Volusion Alternatives That May Be a Better Fit for Your Business - Is it time to find an alternative to Volusion? If you’re asking yourself that question, you’ve come to the right…
  Topics: youre, online, website, customer, bigcommerce, volusion, platform, alternatives, support, business, ecommerce, consider.
• What Agencies Need to Know About Commerce-as-a-Service - Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) allows your customers to avoid having to choose between their rich content and a robust ecommerce platform. This…
  Topics: know, commerceasaservice, platform, customers, wordpress, bigcommerce, need, agencies, commerce, content, caas, ecommerce, clients.
• What I’ve Learned about Ecommerce Platforms - Contributor Christopher Dobroth has spent 16 years in ecommerce. He has used many ecommerce platforms. Here's what he's learned to date.
  Topics: ive, ecommerce, worked, need, features, resources, business, bigcommerce, platforms, budget, learned, platform, needed.
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• eCommerce Platform TCO Comparison: BigCommerce, Magento, Commercetools & Elastic Path -   This post was originally published on June 30, 2019 and has been updated for accuracy and extended context surrounding the topic. When it’s time to choose an eCommerce platform, everyone wants to know which solution will be the best one for their business. But more often than not, the next question is “How much does it cost?” Ideally, we all want the best bang for our buck, but it’s easy to get distracted by the displayed pricing on a website, or the lack thereof. Sometimes we end up jumping for a cheaper priced solution and shying away from those vendors that don’t display their pricing on the website, because we think it’ll be too costly. Only to find out, your “cheaper” solution is more expensive, because you were unaware of all of the additional cost you would incur.   At Elastic Path, we happen to be one of the vendors without upfront pricing because our pricing is truly customized to a business’ needs. However, to help you understand how your total cost of ownership would compare to other vendors on the market, we will outline all the factors that you should be taking into consideration when evaluating your eCommerce solution. We’ll also make reference to some of the the top eCommerce vendors on the market such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Big Commerce, Magento and Commercetools to give you a better idea of where Elastic Path is positioned in comparison.    To get a true understanding of your total cost of ownership you will need to take into account both your first year costs as well as your future costs. These costs include but aren’t limited to:  Base software fee / Licensing fee Hosting cost Implementation cost Third party integrations cost Cost of changes   In this article, we will first dissect each category of cost you should be considering followed by a breakdown of the total cost you can expect over a typical contract period for the aforementioned vendors.     Base Software Fee/ Licensing Fee The base software fee or licensing fee is what we like to refer to as the “upfront” pricing. These fees tend to reflect either monthly or yearly licensing fees, which can be: Tier based, continuous revenue based or percent of sales based.    Tier-based means that there is a predefined price that your company will get locked into based on your current and expected revenue. Elastic Path and Commercetools are examples of vendors that do tier pricing by revenue. The Elastic Path model is based on your transaction volume, which can be structured by Gross Merchandise Volume(GMV) or by the number of orders processed(used more regularly for B2B companies).  For example our pricing starts at $50,000 for companies who are just getting started and have revenue under $10 Million. Our pricing strategy allows you to plan your estimated growth over the next three years, lock in pricing, and allow you to plan for your spend in the future. This promises guaranteed pricing and clarity year over year so you can make plans for the future.   By continuous revenue, we mean the strategy by which vendors price their customers based on the revenue tier that they’re in, but automatically bump them up to the next pricing tier as soon as they go over. We’ve seen vendors such as BigCommerce and Magento use this type of strategy. For Magento customers with revenue between $5-$10 Million, you can expect a licensing fee of about $50K for Magento Enterprise Edition and $80K for Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition.    By percent of sales based pricing, we mean the strategy by which vendors take a small percentage of your Gross Merchandise Volume. Salesforce Commerce is an example of a vendor that uses this type of model. For example, Salesforce Commerce Cloud takes 1-2% of your GMV annually. So at $10 Million in revenue, you can expect to pay around $100K to $200K. This type of model can be quite attractive because there’s no immediate upfront cost and it scales based on how your business performs. However, there is also an additional annual fee of $150K that is mandatory to begin. This is a great example of hidden costs that you may not be aware of upfront.    Implementation Cost Implementation costs are usually the most feared by businesses as it is perceived as the highest costs they will incur. These will usually be dependent on the cost of your developer and the time it takes to build the frontend and backend of your system. However, if you’re in the market for an out-of-the-box solution, the majority of your cost will be dependent on the changes and customizations you will need to alter your pre-built solution. For brands with a unique brand vision and requirements, there will most likely always be customizations needed, and therefore, we recommend working with an agency or systems integrator. Here are a few of the tasks you can expect an agency to complete, that will determine your implementation costs:  Frontend development  Backend development  UI/UX design  Software systems integrations Omnichannel design    Hosting Cost Hosting costs are typically overlooked by teams when planning their yearly budget, but happens to be one of the most important costs you want to consider. Not because it’s overly expensive, but because the hosting provider you choose will determine the performance of your website. Some platforms offer hosting on premise or in the cloud within their platform, while others allow you to choose an outside hosting vendor to be integrated with their solution.  Elastic Path allows you to choose from a variety of hosting vendors that will best fit your business such as Netflify and Amazon AWS. Your hosting cost is commonly determined by the bandwidth and the seats you require. For example, for a mid-sized company with $10 Million in revenue, you can expect to pay around $1000/month for Netlify.  Platforms like Magento also utilize outside vendors such as Nexcess to provide dedicated hosting. For one dedicated server it says you could pay between $700 and  $800/month. However, due to Magento’s large code base, many customers have informed us that they have had to opt in for higher end hosting options in order to not compromise on speed. On average they have spent around $2000/ month on hosting. Other out-of-the-box platforms such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Big Commerce will typically have hosting included in their licensing cost.   Third Party Cost Third party costs are a little bit more intricate. When we think about this cost, we think about either plugins that are supplied by your platform as an application, or api integrations from third party vendors. The purpose of these integrations are to essentially extend your existing platform with other functionality. Some of the core third-party integrations include: content infrastructure, search engines, sales tax management, product information management, and shipping solutions. These costs will differ from vendor to vendor depending on if you leverage the third party as a plugin to your out-of-the-box solution, or buy a specific vendor solution for your Composable Commerce solution.   Cost of Changes One of the most important costs that are often neglected or forgotten are the costs associated with making changes to your solution. Most times we tend to plan and make decisions for “now,” but when the time comes and you are faced with costly changes that you weren’t prepared for, it can be very detrimental to your fiscal budget planning. In addition, if you’re the type of brand that wants to keep up with the ever changing times, updates and changes are inevitable and therefore it is imperative you understand what those costs will look like in the future.    Typical changes you will need to prepare for include:  Upgrades to your commerce software Maintenance of your system Upgrades or changes to your third party technology partners Changes in the backend functionality to fit your business requirements Addition of new user experiences to keep up with customer expectations These changes can become costly very quickly with traditional legacy platforms, as their rigid structure makes changes more difficult, thus driving up developer costs. Composable Commerce solutions on the other hand are more flexible by nature and therefore will end up lowering your overall total cost of changes in the future. As each business’ requirements will be different, we will not be able to provide an estimate of these costs across each vendor. However, from feedback from past customers, on average, Composable Commerce solutions like Elastic Path and Commercetools, lower cost of changes by 40% when compared to rigid legacy platforms like Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Magento.    Now that we've dissected the various cost categories, we have provided an overview of the total costs you can expect either on a monthly or annual basis for a few of the top legacy and Composable Commerce solutions on the market.      BigCommerce BigCommerce positions itself as an eCommerce platform for high volume brands, with  two main payment plans: Essentials Plan and Enterprise Plan.    BigCommerce Essentials  Plan BigCommerce Standard BigCommerce  Plus BigCommerce  Pro Yearly Sales $50,000 $150,000 $400,000 Monthly Pricing $29.95 $79.95 $299.95 The pricing represents their upfront license fee. At these rates, you get your average out-of-the-box store with zero customization, providing you with all the features you need to get a basic store up-and-running. Two additional costs you may not be considering when choosing BigCommerce: They automatically bump you to the next tier if your actual sales exceed the threshold. You spend an additional $150 per $200k sales increase if you go  higher than the BigCommerce Pro Sales Threshold’ e.g. 800k+ Sales = $700+/month.  In addition to these hidden fees, there are also costs associated with plug-in applications for advanced services, as well as a list of 80 themes that range from $145 - $235.   BigCommerce Enterprise BigCommerce Enterprise offers all the core features, along with the addition of some premium features including hosting, security, and support. Their pricing widely varies based on the average order value and the average number of orders processed per month. Based on conversations from some of their sales representatives, the pricing plan ranges anywhere between $400 and $20,000 monthly.  For some additional context, their TCO Calculator shows that based on a $250,000 yearly revenue you will incur:    Infrastructure cost →  $38000+ Site launch cost →  Design, QA Build: $30,000+  Integrations: $3000  Managed support costs→ $5000   Shopify  Shopify is the market leader for SMB customers looking for an out of the box eCommerce website. Shopify customers give up flexibility, meaning that they'll need to be comfortable running their eCommerce website according to Shopify's templates and structures - but for many companies, that is fine because they're just looking for a standard website. Shopify has 5 primary offerings: Lite starts at $9/month Basic starts at $29/month Standard starts at $79/month Advanced starts at $299/month Shopify+ starts at $2,000/month There are also gateway fees, which range from 2.15-3% + $.30 per transaction.    Magento  Magento Community Edition positions themselves as an Open Source eCommerce platform that provides businesses with a flexible, digital commerce solution to successfully sell online. We’ve already written a more detailed post on our blog  that digs into Magento’s TCO. To give you a brief overview of their pricing structure, we’ll focus on Magento’s two main plans: Magento Open Source and Magento Enterprise.   Magento Open Source Magento’s “FREE” Open Source plan proves to be a more customizable option when compared to BigCommerce. Be careful - the only thing free about this option is their licensing fee/download. There are few costs hidden in the background:  Implementation → $30,000 - $100,000+ Hosting → $1000+ Themes → $29-499 Maintenance and Support → $30,000+ Extensions → $0 - $10,000 Third Party Integrations → $6,000 I know what you’re thinking, those added up pretty quickly! To be upfront, the price for a more customized store than BigCommerce is going to start somewhere between $30,000 and $100,000 upwards.     Discover our eCommerce Platform Buyer's Guide See The 7 Considerations when Choosing the best eCommerce Platform in our comprehensive buyer's guide. There is no "best" and therefore, when choosing an eCommerce solution, you should focus on matching your company's specific requirements to each vendor's offering. Go to Buyer's Guide   Magento Enterprise  Magento Enterprise is the premium paid version of Magento, designed for those stores that need more than the community edition offers, based on the size of their company, and the level of customization they’re looking for. However, with this option, you have to empty your pockets for a much higher licensing fee. Based on your revenue, Magento displays their upfront price between  $22,000/year and $125,000/year. Of course this also includes access to more advanced features such as security, mobile commerce, and free professional customer support. However, in addition to including all the core features that the open source version consists of, the same features tend to come at a higher price for this plan. Some of these higher feature costs include:  Implementation → $60,000+ Hosting → $7000+ Themes → $29-499 Magento Certified Gold Partner - $10,000 Extensions → $0 - $10,000 Third Party Integrations → $6,000+   Overall, this comes with more customization, but still lacks complete control over your content. The price for this package starts between $100,000 and $250,000  Overall, Magento Enterprise comes with more customization, but still lacks complete control over your content. The price for this package starts between $100,000 and $250,000 upwards! These are high costs and to make it even worse, Magento’s performance has not been up to standard either. We have evaluated over 1,000 websites running on a range of eCommerce platforms and Magento came close bottom for website performance as a whole. You may want to consider the costs associated with their slow performing stores when considering your total cost of ownership as well. Commercetools Commercetools is a Headless Commerce Platform. To be completely frank, there are no signs of Commercetools’ pricing anywhere! They seem to be a bit secretive, but we have done our best to provide you with the most accurate information based on feedback from our customers, who shared what Commercetools has proposed to them. These costs include:  Implementation →  $300,000 - $1 Million License Fees →  $200,000/year  - $500,000/year Specialized resources→ $150,000/year   Elastic Path  Elastic Path offers Composable Commerce-as-a-Service, an API-First headless commerce microservices solution. Composable Commerce is a modern approach to eCommerce that is built on the concept of composability, where core commerce functionality and partner integrations can be selected and assembled in various combinations to satisfy specific business requirements, at the speed digitally driven brands need to succeed. Composable Commerce were built on three main tenets: Modular architecture  Open Ecosystem  Business Centric Solutions  And it’s with these tenets that Elastic Path has been able to reduce business’ overall total cost of ownership by 25%. As mentioned before, Elastic Path provides a tier based pricing based on Gross Merchandise Revenue. Overall based on a 10 Million revenue, pricing would be around $50K for Elastic Path.  Elastic Path also offers Composable Commerce Experience Assurance that de-risks the management of multi-vendor solutions by providing an expert 24x7 global support team for all issues. This cost of the feature will be 25% of your annual contract value and capped at $25,000 USD/ year. Additional costs will include: implementation costs, hosting costs and third party costs which will lie in the same range of costs for Magento. Where you will end up seeing the greatest cost savings are in the phases of customizations and changes. To get a better understanding of how cost of changes will compare across traditional legacy platforms and Composable Commerce solutions visit our Total Cost of Ownership Guide. If you have more specific questions regarding Elastic Path costs, please refer to the pricing page here.  Summary  Understanding your total cost of ownership is not straight forward and often times we prioritize certain categories of costs and lose overall sight on our expected total cost in the future. As each vendor has different offerings, it will never be easy to compare them across the board. However, if you follow the guide of assessing each category of cost, this will give you and your team a good understanding to make an informed decision. 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