BigCommerce’s parent company is changing its name from BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. to Commerce.com, Inc., but the BigCommerce brand will remain in place for its ecommerce platform. According to the company, the move reflects a major shift in how ecommerce platforms Read more
Merchants who use BigCommerce to power their online stores will be able to add a marketplace component thanks to a strategic partnership between BigCommerce and Marketplacer. The feature allows merchants to diversify their offerings by opening up to other third-party Read more
Store-hosting platform BigCommerce acknowledged the outage that hit its platform on March 17, 2023. In short, it said in a post on Twitter, “there was an unexpected load on a globally-used component, which lead to degraded performance across the platform Read more
BigCommerce is making it easier for sellers to run multiple storefronts, opening up its Multi-Storefront to small and medium sellers. The feature was previously available only to enterprise merchants. The ecommerce platform company explained, “By expanding accessibility of MSF, BigCommerce Read more
Amazon is making its ‘Buy with Prime’ payments offering available to all US sellers by January 31st, saying in an announcement this week that offering the service can boost conversion rates for merchants by an average of 25%. It derived Read more
BigCommerce is laying off workers and cutting costs as it pushes to reach breakeven by the end of 2023. The ecommerce platform will reduce its workforce by approximately 13% across employees and contractors, it announced on Thursday. BigCommerce rival Shopify Read more
Shopify and BigCommerce reported on sales trends over the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Both companies provide a platform for sellers to operate their own online stores, so their reports may give greater insight into how smaller merchants performed compared to Read more
When briefing Wall Street analysts on Thursday about Etsy’s fourth-quarter financials, CEO Josh Silverman took a moment to acknowledge Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that day, which he said weighed heavily on all of them. “I wanted to acknowledge our hearts Read more
BigCommerce CEO Brent Bellm published a letter on Monday sharing the company’s priorities for 2022 as well as sharing some highlights from 2021, which he called “the best year in our history.” Bellm described BigCommerce’s plans for 2022 in the Read more
The Thanksgiving holiday kicks off a big weekend of holiday shopping, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But the National Retail Federation (NRF) said that while Thanksgiving weekend remains an extremely important milestone for retail sales, it does not necessarily Read more
