Online selling platform Bigcommerce said its small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a 34% average increase in sales in the fourth quarter. Its core clients include early-stage growing brands, and key categories that saw breakout performance included Consumer Electronics, Beauty, Read more
Bigcommerce raised $50 million in funding, attracting new investors SoftBank Capital, American Express, and Telstra Ventures as well as existing investors General Catalyst and Revolution Growth. The company will use the funds to invest in product development, aggressively grow sales Read more
Smaller merchants who run their own online stores saw high growth in July, August and September compared to the same period a year ago, according to an analysis conducted by Bigcommerce. Growth was aided by back-to-school shoppers, the company found. Read more
Sellers who host their online stores via Bigcommerce will find it easier to source products thanks to a new partnership with Alibaba, which will integrate its buyer and supplier network with the ecommerce platform. Bigcommerce President Steven Power told EcommerceBytes Read more
Though free options for analytics for ecommerce pros and others have been available for a while, those choices may be less feature-rich than what a potential customer needs. With a newly released Analytics service the company is promoting as “enterprise-grade Read more
EcommerceBytes announced the top-five services in the Sellers Choice for “Storefronts & Shopping Carts” in Sunday’s issue of the EcommerceBytes Update newsletter. BigCommerce came in as the most highly rated by readers, followed by Amazon Webstore. Rounding out the top Read more
Online sellers using eBay’s store-hosting platforms must make some tough decisions after learning on Tuesday that the company would be closing ProStores and Magento Go. eBay is giving them 7 months before shutting down the services for good on February Read more
The expansion of the Google Trusted Storesprogram makes more online sellers potentially eligible to include its features on their ecommerce sites. For those ecommerce pros on the Bigcommerce platform who also have Google’s Trusted Stores certification, adding those extras recently became a less Read more
Online sellers should look to four categories for growth in the New Year, according to Bigcommerce. The ecommerce platform analyzed nearly 50,000 of its clients’ stores over the past year and predicted that Auto, Jewelry, Toys & Games and Pet Read more
Mitchell Harper is co-CEO of Bigcommerce. In today’s guest column, he provides tips on putting the human element back into online commerce, a strategy he calls Personal Commerce. Has ecommerce gone too far in eliminating the middleman? The recent trend Read more
