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A New Back In Stock Wizard Is Here for BigCommerce and Shopify

An out-of-stock product doesn’t necessarily mean a lost sale, but if a shopper lands on a product they want and the only option is to leave and check back later, there’s a pretty good chance you’re never going to see them again. That’s the whole reason we created Back In Stock Wizard. Instead of turning […]
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Custom Field Populator for BigCommerce Gets a Major Update

Custom fields are one of those BigCommerce features that can be incredibly useful right up until you have hundreds or thousands of products using them in all kinds of different ways. Maybe one product uses a field called “Color,” another uses “color,” and somebody else imported a batch using “COLOR.” Maybe you have duplicate fields, […]

eCommerce Product Merchandising: Why Product Order Matters

When you walk into a well-merchandised retail store, there’s a reason certain products are at eye level, some get an endcap, seasonal items move to the front, and things that are no longer available don’t stay mixed in with everything else. Retailers spend a lot of time thinking about product placement because where something appears […]

Why Your eCommerce Store Needs an llms.txt File

For years, eCommerce store owners have spent a lot of time worrying about how Google sees their websites. We’ve optimized product titles, rewritten descriptions, added structured data, created XML sitemaps and spent more hours than we would like to admit debating meta descriptions. Now there’s someone else looking at your store: AI. Customers are increasingly […]

LLMS.txt Generator for BigCommerce Stores

In case you haven’t noticed, online search is changing faster than anyone could have ever imagined. Customers aren’t just heading to Google, typing in a few keywords, and scrolling through a page of links anymore. They’re asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Co-Pilot, and other AI-powered tools questions such as: “Where can I buy this product?” “Which […]

Import Store Data from Google Sheets with Your Store Tools

Keeping your store data updated should not require downloading files, uploading spreadsheets, setting reminders, and crossing your fingers that someone remembers to import those sale prices before your big email blast. That is why we are excited to introduce a new Your Store Tools feature that makes importing data even easier: Google Sheets import support. […]

What Is Agentic Commerce – And Why You Should Care

You’ve probably been hearing the phrase “agentic commerce” a lot lately. It gets thrown around at conferences, shows up in your inbox from platform vendors, and sounds important – but nobody ever just explains what it actually means in plain English. Let’s fix that. Here’s the Simple Version You already know how online shopping works: […]

Shopify’s New Shipping Options Increase AOV and Reduce Abandonment

Shopify just released some very useful updates to how you set up shipping (they’re calling them “shipping options” now instead of “rates,” by the way) why not). Now you’ve got more ways to tell customers exactly what they’re paying for, when they’ll get it, and how to unlock free shipping.  All of which can contribute […]

How to Manually Sort Products in Shopify?

If you’ve ever wanted more control over where products appear on your Shopify collection pages, you’ve probably asked the question: how do I manually sort products in Shopify? The good news is that yes, you can manually sort products in Shopify. The bad news is that if you have large collections, the process can get […]

Magic Sorter Is Now Available for Shopify!

For several years, Magic Sorter has been helping BigCommerce merchants take full control of how products appear on their category pages by simply dragging and dropping products exactly where they wanted them. Now we’re excited to announce that Magic Sorter is officially available for Shopify. This has been one of the most requested features we’ve […]