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Final Round of Beta Feedback Before BigCommerce 6 is Rolled Out to New Stores

Published on July 27th, 2010 by Mitchell Harper

A sample store running on the iPhone using BigCommerce 6

A sample store running on the iPhone using BigCommerce 6

We’re counting down the hours until BigCommerce 6 (along with our new website!) starts deploying on all new stores. Until then, here’s some feedback from our customers who helped with the final round of beta testing (a BIG thank you to all of you for your help!):

“This is absoulty Brilliant, the interface has been tweaked, the ability to run feeds to the shopping networks is a great add to a platform that is already very good. We belive this Ecommerce platform is the best money can buy in the UK” – Luke Hill, www.britanniainks.co.uk

“Just finished beta testing BigCommerce 6. The two most important components for us are the integration with ShipWorks for processing all of our FedEx shipments, and Mailchimp for our email marketing. Setting up both components couldn’t have been easier. MailChimp is a great partner and there are a ton of data that BigCommerce can pass through to MailChimp which make it an invaluable tool. The Shipworks integration took less than 10 minutes, but will save us hours of shipping processing time over the course of a year. Congrats to BigCommerce for choosing great partners to work with, and for making the whole process so easy. It’s becoming more and more obvious why BigCommerce is truly the leader in ecommerce hosted shopping carts. Great job lads.” – Iain Bluett, www.ticketprinting.biz

“I’m testing every new feature of BigCommerce 6 and so far I am loving it! BigCommerce seriously is at the top of the game and ahead of every single e-commerce platform I’ve known. The multi-channel retailing is easy and fast to implement. Ebay, Shopzilla, Pricegrabber, NextTag…all within a few minutes. This will not only raise my sales greatly but also provides more valuable organic links to boost my ranking on search engines, which in turn increases my sales too! I was thrilled to see most of the customers ideas and problems are addressed in this release. It proves that BigCommerce listens and does care about the user community. You can’t find this in any other e-commerce platform! Thank you BigCommerce, you guys rock and I believe you can deliver more great things in the future.” – Arielle Phan, www.e-panda.com

“This platform just gets better and better… I love the new features in Version 6… Returns Management System, Email Marketing with Mailchimp Integration, Selling on eBay, Facebook, Shopping Comparison Site & Google Product Feed Uploads, Shipping Manager, a multitude of payment gateways, Coupons, Gift Certificates, Wish Lists, Discount Rules, Simple WYSIWYG system with the option of modifying the code, and so much more… I think I’m running out of room to write them all down!… Seriously… what more can someone ask for? I’ve tried plenty of other carts, from the hosted ones, to the ones you host your self, and I can tell you, by far this has to be the best eCommerce Platform I’ve used… Finally I think I can see my business expanding… All thanks to BigCommerce! I’m already looking forward to Version 6.5 / 7… Can’t wait to see what they’ll think of next!” – Ray Frangie, www.rmftechnologies.com.au

“Mitch and company, WOW, WOW, WOW!!! So I’ve been playing around with the BC6 Beta and I am absolutely blown away with the product you have put together here! BC6 is the most exciting thing that has happened around our office in years. Everyone is so jazzed about the eBay integration and the multi-channel sales tools. I added it up and so far, BC6 will get rid of four different software packages, two backend website services and a clunky order processing operation. Bravo guys, BRAV-FREAKING-O!!!!! It’s like a bunch of kids on Christmas eve around this place!…… The anticipation is killing us!!!!” – Clint Wilder, www.buyairbrushes.com

“Not even 5 minutes into testing I wanted to say how GREAT the new tax code set up is, the development of this and the detail is a 500% improvement and is exactly what our store needs, as well as the options on what tax info to include in orders thank you! Been playing around with the mailchimp integration which allows for very targeted marketing if you set it up right. Not planning to sell on Ebay with our Softbots website, but will with another one of our stores, so will look forward to using the option towards the end of the year. Instructions so far, look very easy to follow to set this up.” – Sabina Borthwick, www.softbots.co.uk

BigCommerce 6 will be made available to existing customers shortly after it’s made available on new stores. We will of course email you with details when it’s ready to go.

Comments

  1. 1.

    Andrew (July 27th, 2010, 9:33 am)

    Did back-order / pre-order support make it in?

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    July 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    Hi Andrew. Pre-order did, yes. Back order unfortunately did not. We didn’t have time to implement it in a way we feel would be intuitive for our clients so we’ll attack it in a future release.

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    Andrew Reply:
    July 28th, 2010 at 12:34 am

    Great, would rather have it done right than slapped in. Looking forward to running 6.

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    Bill (July 27th, 2010, 3:05 pm)

    I look forward to the new features- especially the shipping integration! We recently launched our new site on the current BC platform and entire process was very smooth. I’m holding back from making any new modifications until BC6 is released.

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    Callie (July 28th, 2010, 5:15 am)

    I’ve been beta testing the system and have to say I particularly love the Mail Chimp integration – will make newsletters so much easier and I already have an MC account anyway. ALso love the ebay and comparison site integration.

    All in all, a good product keeps getting better :-)

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    Njeru Nthigah (July 28th, 2010, 6:05 am)

    Big Commerce you have done it once again. I have spent quite sometime really looking at the features that BC6 brings and I must say I am excited. As a business owner it confirms to me that BC is certainly the right choice for us. The features like the multi-channel would have cost us hundreds of dollars by using a different vendor, the shipping manager-as one who has used shipworks before I know what a valuable tool it is. The ebay feature, the email integration and the list goes on..BC is an affordable platform for anybody who is serious about being successful online. I look forward to continue growing my business and congratulations on BC6!…Njeru Nthigah

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    Mike B. Jackson (July 29th, 2010, 4:45 pm)

    Congratulations on BC6. I am getting ready to really put some muscle into marketing my store, and the new features seem geared toward my success. I also really enjoy your blog and have recommended it to several friends. Are there any plans to incorporate a “true” blog into our stores instead of just pages or sections that pick up RSS feed. I would even be happy with some sort of WordPress integration. Your blog is half the reason I chose BC over the competition, and I’m sure customers that I am after feel the same way. Do this for us, and you will make a very good product perfect as far as I am concerned. Thanks for listening….MikeJ

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    July 30th, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    Hi Mike. Thanks for the feedback. We’re not planning a complete blog feature because you can already integrate WordPress through a sub domain such as http://blog.yourstore.com – you just need to sign up at WordPress.com then in BigCommerce go to Tools -> DNS Records and setup one to point to your WordPress.com blog. That’s all there is to it!

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    Tim (July 29th, 2010, 6:25 pm)

    Looking forward to it, especially for pre-orders. Will there be a way to have a page that will list all of our pre-orders, like a “coming soon” page for our customers?

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    July 30th, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    Hi Tim. There’s nothing for customers but there is a page in the control panel so you can see all orders containing pre-ordered items. Definitely a good idea though. Feel free to submit it and vote for it here: http://community.bigcommerce.com

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    Steve (July 30th, 2010, 5:52 am)

    Did a multiple ship to feature make it into this version? If it did, when do you expect this version to be available for new customers?

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    July 30th, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Hi Steve. It sure did. You can expect the release to be rolled out to existing customers next week.

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    Les (September 1st, 2010, 11:51 pm)

    Hi.

    It was great to see the eBay listing feature although in its current state it is only partially useful. It is limited to handling up to 10 day auction listings, whilst eBay allows 30 days and Good-til-Cancelled in eBay shops. The listing utility should be able to do this so website items can be duplicated in eBay shops easily without having to be manually edited on eBay. This is extremely time consuming and sadly this forces us to stay with eBays Turbo-Lister. Almost brilliant.

    Regards

    Les

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    September 5th, 2010 at 10:00 pm

    Hi Les. It appears to be a limit on eBay’s API, not something we’ve actually imposed – we simply pull whichever options their API provides and make them available for yourself and other clients.

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