BigCommerce – The Easiest Way to Sell Online!
For your e-commerce needs, we recommend BigCommerce, an all-in-one, feature rich e-commerce platform that allows you to enjoy fully a functional online store for both physical and digital products.
Utilizing an easy to use interface, you can publish your products in seconds, accept credit cards, use multiple shipping methods, run effective marketing campaigns and more. Built from the ground up to support search engine optimization features such as search engine friendly links, effective use of heading tags, alt tags and per product and per page title tags.
BigCommerce also features a built in content management system to allow easy publishing of website content including web pages, news items, blogs, promotional banners and coupon codes.
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BigCommerce Feature List
BigCommerce has built-in search engine optimization features which help your online store rank at the top of all major search engines including Google and Yahoo. Below is a partial list of BigCommerce features:
Hosting & Security
- Premium hosting for all stores
- Daily offsite backups
- 99.99% uptime track record
- Create unlimited email accounts
- Complete disaster and recovery support
- 128 bit SSL certificate support
- Hacker deterrent security provisioning
- Free regular software updates
Search Engine Optimization
- Fully SEO optimized HTML
- Per-page optimization (title, etc)
- Search engine friendly links
- Alt tags on product images
- Automatic sitemap XML file
Storefront
- Full product catalog
- Online checkout system
- “Call for pricing” option
- One click add to cart
- Optimized for usability
- Product comparisons
- Order status updates
- Live order tracking
- Email/print invoices
- Customer address book
- Wish lists
- Related products
- Suggestive cart
Marketing and Promotions
- Trackable coupon codes
- Google Analytics integration
- Online certificate use
- Promotional banners
- Discount rules system
- Free shipping over $x
- $x on orders over $y
- Newsletter subscriptions
- Affiliate tracking system
- Gift certificates
- Google AdWords export
- Yahoo Search Marketing export
- Popular products list
- New products list
- Top sellers list
- Integrates with any live chat software
Payment & Shipping
- Accept credit cards online
- Support for 50+ gateways
- PayPal, Google Checkout, etc
- Support for secure checkout
- Support for “offline” payments
- COD, pay in store, check, etc
- Take orders over the phone
- Sell in multiple currencies
- Real time conversion rate updates
- Auto-detect location for currency
- Real time shipping quotes
- UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, etc
- Define your own shipping rates
- Limit shipping methods by country
- Limit shipping methods by state
- Limit shipping methods by zipcode
- Various free shipping options
- Add handling cost to orders
Order & Checkout Features
- Single page checkout
- Shipping quote estimates
- Guest checkout option
- Refunds and store credits
- Custom checkout form fields
- Delivery/event dates
- Shipping tracking numbers
- Email order confirmation
- Agree to terms before ordering
- Add multiple items to cart
- Create order shipments
- Order messaging system
- One click re-order
Technical Support and Training
- Unlimited free email & phone support
- Comprehensive user guide & “how to” articles
- Dozens of training videos
- Weekly training Webinars
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Design and Customization
- Easily integrate your existing design
- Upload a logo or use the logo editor
- Change website text using your mouse
- Edit email templates from control panel
- Works in all popular web browsers
- Web-based control panel
Tax
- State-based taxes
- Country-based taxes
- Unlimited tax rates
- Prices inc/ex tax
- Flat tax option
- Tax rate display in store
Content Management Features
- Full CMS functionality
- 100% browser based
- Display returns policies, etc
- Easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor
- Contact forms on pages
- Responses sent via email
- Banners and promotions
Search Features
- Search suggest
- “Did you mean?” suggestions
- Related searches list
- Advanced search options
- Fiter by price
- Filter by availability
- Filter by free shipping
- Search tips and advice
- Shop by brand
- Shop by price
- Saved searches and views
- Advanced order/product search
- Search and export results (admin)
- Search customers by name, email, etc
- Quick Search popup in store
- Search query reporting
Import/Export Features
- Import existing products easily
- Extremely flexible import system
- Export products to CSV/XML
- Sync to Intuit Quickbooks
- Export to MYOB, Peachtree
- Export to StoneEdge
- Export in custom formats
Customer Features
- Customer groups
- Wholesale/retail pricing
- Per-group pricing
- Per-group discounts
- Category level discounts
- Product level discounts
- Storewide group discounts
- Move customers between groups
- Add new customers to group
- Filter customers by group
- Export customers by group
Reporting Features
- 25+ performance reports
- Daily conversion rate
- Top 20 customers
- Best selling products
- Order locations (Google maps)
- Orders by item sold
- Orders by revenue
- Popular products
- Inventory report
- Customers by date
- Revenue per customer
- Best performing keywords
- Worst performing keywords
- Search term corrections
Product & Inventory Features
- Per-product inventory levels
- Automatic inventory control
- Inventory reminder indicators
- Product variations (size, color, etc)
- Per-product gift wrapping
- Product reviews & comments
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* Feature list correct as of September 2009. Features are constantly updated, the latest feature list can be found on the BigCommerce website.