Introduction

BigCommerce pays close attention to the trends of today: mobile e-commerce, social media integration, and major marketing initiatives. They’ll give you the tools to attract customers to your e-commerce site … and everything you need to create a professional store filled with impossible-to-resist displays.

Design & Customization

Product Management

• Sell physical & digital products
• Sell products with options (size, color, etc.)
• Custom fields (i.e. text to print on a T-shirt)
• Product bundles with item-level inventory automation and custom rules
• Rules to adjust price, weight, photo and stock such as "Size L or XXL, Add $5 to price"
• Set a unique SKU and image for each product/product option
• Embed videos in product description
• Product reviews & comments
• Automatic inventory control
• Set low stock level warning for each product
• Track inventory at a product or option level
• Disable purchasing when no stock
• Bulk update inventory levels

Order Management & Admin

• InstantAdd suggestive cart popup
• Add multiple items to cart
• Accept pre-orders
• One-click re-order
• Guest checkout option
• Custom checkout form fields
• Email order confirmation with order tracking
• Create order shipments
• Wholesale/retail pricing
• 25+ performance reports, including best-selling products, customer locations, popular products and many more.
• Best performing keywords

Customer Management

• Flexible customer groups
• Set a default group for new customers
• Move customers between groups
• Storewide group discounts
• Create unlimited customer groups
• Import customers from CSV file

Payment Options & Checkout

• Accept credit cards online
• Support for 50+ gateways, including PayPal, Google Checkout, etc.
• Single-page checkout
• Support for secure checkout
• Support for "offline" payments
• COD, pay in store, cheque, etc.
• Take orders over the phone
• Auto-detect location for currency

Shipping Options

• Integrates with UPS, USPS, FedEx, Aus Post, etc.
• UPS, USPS, FedEx address label printing via Shipworks integration
• Real-time shipping quotes
• Define your own shipping rates
• Limit shipping methods by country, state or zip code
• Various free shipping options
• Add handling cost to orders
• Drop shipping by Ordoro integration
• Warehousing & inventory by Shipwire
• Email invoices to multiple suppliers
• CSV order export in custom formats

Social Media & Mobile

• Sell on Facebook with SocialShop2
• Facebook "Like" buttons on product pages
• Facebook OpenGraph META support
• IntenseDebate and Disqus comment/reviews integration and sharing on Facebook/Twitter
• Share products on 20+ social media sites via AddThis button
• iPad-Native Shopping Experience
• Optimize for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc.

Marketing & Promotion

• Custom URLs for product, category, webpage, news items
• Free access to SEO training blog + videos
• XML sitemap for Google Webmaster Tools
• SEO-friendly product, category, brand, search, page, news links
• Integration with iContact and MailChimp email marketing solutions
• Integration to 7 shopping comparison sites
• Coupon and gift certificate systems
• Promotional banners
• “Customers who viewed this product also viewed" panel
• Affiliate tracking system
• Google AdWords export
• Popular products, new products, top sellers lists
• Integrates with any live chat software
• Category and product level discounts

Expansion and Integration

• Integrates with over 110 third-party payment gateways, shipping services, order management tools, marketing suites, email marketing platforms, live chat offerings, analytics platforms and mobile devices. All integrations are point-and-click
• Build widgets, browser extensions, desktop, mobile and web apps effortlessly
• Bulk export/re-import thousands of items at once
• Two-way sync with Intuit Quickbooks
• Order export to Shipworks
• Export to MYOB, Peachtree
• Two-way sync with StoneEdge