What is Big Commerce?
Big Commerce is an E-Commerce Solution that allows you to easily set up an online store and sell products to the general public. It's designed to be easy enough for your grandmother to use, but flexible enough for programmers to customise to their hearts delight.
10 Reasons to Use Big Commerce
1. eCommerce is Growing
The Wall Street Journal reported eCommerce in the U.S. is beating the negative effect of the 2009 recession that is dousing the rest of the retail industry. Not only did the online retail not shrink, it grew 11% to $155.2 billion.
According to ABI Research, eCommerce is growing rapidly and sales across the mobile platform have increased 143 percent in the last year, with $3.4 billion in 2010.
How can you take advantage of this?
Well, BigCommerce provides a mobile-optimized version of the merchant’s store right out of the box. Not only does the platform provide mobile integration, it allows the merchant to integrate social commerce into the online and mobile stores, which is just one of the many unique features offered by BigCommerce.
2. Increasing Visibility Increases Sales
With features such as multi-channel retailing, social commerce, mobile optimization, Search Engine Optimization and integrated email marketing keeping your BigCommerce store in front of customers is easy and intuitive. BigCommerce also handles coupon codes intelligently; coupons are tracked and integrated with Google Analytics.
BigCommerce allows you to build a community for your customers, complete with ongoing communications from you, discount offerings and social media accessible both online and through their mobile platform. This increases sales, as most advertising and promotions reach consumers at Consider and Buy phases but they are typically more open to influence at the time of Evaluation and Advocacy.
3. Look Good and Sell More
BigCommerce provides almost 100 clean, vibrant and professional templates for your store that are W3C/XHTML compliant. They are fully customizable using a user friendly Design Wizard and the ease of drag and drop for those who don’t work in code. However, the templates easily integrate a previous design and HTML and CSS can be edited in a browser or by FTP.
4. An eCommerce Solution thats Works With You
BigCommerce has an unmatched reputation for excellent communication and award winning customer service. The company is easily reachable by phone, live chat, email and a self-help portal. Their E-Commerce University has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs learn to grow their business using social media and guerilla marketing tactics. The merchant that chooses BigCommerce chooses a partner in their business that is looking out for their best and most profitable interest.
5. An Easy to Use Shopping Cart
All the features in the world are futile if you can’t access or use them. BigCommerce was named a finalist for a "Best Software-as-a-Service" CODiE award, a prestigious award issued by the Software and Information Industry Association for excellence in software development, and was recently voted the #1 ecommerce platform by the software review Website TopTenReviews.
6. Managing Inventory Manages Costs
Each of your products is a unique offering. You want to be sure to correctly configure inventory, product details and the way that they connect to or are used with other products. This ensures you are ready for expansion, that you are able to quickly determine what is and isn’t selling, what should be discounted, etc. BigCommerce’s Content Management System allows for product variations, new product updates and incorporates a low stock alert.
7. Convert More Sales With Payment Options
Microsoft and Cybersource are reporting that since 1994 research indicates sites offering four payment types have a higher conversion rate than those with only one. BigCommerce has support for more than 50 gateways, credit card acceptance with support for secure checkout and offline payments. Your store can sell in multiple currencies with real-time conversion rates and tax rates and settings.
8. Enter Your Company into the Global Marketplace
Online stores are not limited by the boundaries of localities, regions or countries. With International Shipping Options built into BigCommerce you can auto-dected the currency, open and limit shipping methods by country, state or zip code. There are also various free shipping methods the merchant can set up while adding handling fees to the transaction.
9. Value You Won’t Find Elsewhere
Simply put, BigCommerce allows for 100 products and a full 2 Gigabytes of data in comparison to competitors that generally offer space for 25 products and 50% less data space at the same cost.
10. Safety and Security for Your Store
Your store will be hosted on amazingly fast SAS 70 type II certified servers. BigCommerce’s data center utilizes security provisioning, triple redundancy and our company boasts a record of 99.9% uptime so your will be open for business, making money whether you’re awake or fast sleep.
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