Category: <span>Important Announcements</span>

Register Now for the BigCommerce December 2021 Town Hall

It’s time to register for the next BigCommerce Town Hall scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 2021, at 4 pm ET. These monthly virtual get-togethers give merchants, developers, and partners the opportunity to learn about the latest platform updates, a sneak peek at what’s coming, and a live question and answer session with senior leadership. In […]

Magic Sorter Feature Update – December 2021

Magic Sorter has recently been updated in order to accommodate a change with the BigCommerce Sort API which powers our app.  This update specifically corrects behavior on items if you use “Sort Order” to determine their placement on a category page: The BigCommerce Sort API has been updated so that when a category page is sorted […]

TikTok for Business Now Integrated into BigCommerce

If you’re a BigCommerce merchant and are looking to expand your advertising reach and get your message in front of more than 600 million monthly users worldwide, we’ve got some exciting news for you! BigCommerce has partnered with TikTok, the most downloaded app in 2020, to offer merchants their business-focused platform, “TikTok for Business” to […]

Yahoo! Store Update: September 2021

As previously announced, Verizon sold its media assets Yahoo! and AOL to private equity. The SMB division, which includes Yahoo! Store, was not part of the sale. Over the next several months, Verizon will be introducing new branding and some small changes to the Yahoo! Store platform. The changes are necessary in order to facilitate […]

Search Magic August 2021 Update

Search Magic, our flagship advanced search application for BigCommerce, Shopify, and Yahoo! Store, is under constant development based on store owner feedback and improvements in search technology.  Our latest update to the application is one many have asked for based on shopper feedback. Previously, when a search results page was loaded and a shopper browsed […]

Yahoo! Business Mail Access Following a Site Migration

With more and more Yahoo! Store owners coming to us to migrate them to another eCommerce platform, such as BigCommerce or Shopify, we occasionally run across some unique situations that need to be mitigated before launch. One of the more common ones has to do with Yahoo! Business Mail. While the majority of Yahoo! Store […]

Yahoo! Store Credit Card Number Display Update – May 2021

Next time you log into your Yahoo! Store manager, you will be presented with a pop-up displaying information about an update to the way credit card numbers are displayed within your store’s Order Manager. Previously, only the last 4 digits of credit card numbers were displayed on the detailed order information page for individual orders.  […]

For Sale: Yahoo? Our Thoughts on the future of Yahoo! Store

You may have seen or read an April 28, 2021 report in the news speculating that Verizon may sell some of its media assets, one being Yahoo!. Verizon purchased Yahoo!, including Yahoo! Small Business which powers several thousand eCommerce stores, in 2017.  Since then, many in the eCommerce space wondered what the fate of the old, […]

Search Magic Now Available for BigCommerce, Shopify, and Yahoo! Store

As many of you know, our flagship app, Search Magic, has been the go-to advanced search product for scores of Yahoo! Stores for nearly a decade.  Built with features found in search apps that cost 25% or more per month, Search Magic not only adds benefits for shoppers but for businesses’ bottom lines. Two years […]

Important Message for Solid Cactus Customers: Resolving Yahoo! Store Errors

Over the past few months, we have updated our Yahoo! Store clients about several changes and updates in regards site security. We’ve also communicated the importance of making sure all files, scripts, images, etc. are called via HTTPS to ensure your site is not loading mixed content and sending security messages to your visitors. Over […]