What’s New for Merchants in August?

Welcome to the monthly recap of BigCommerce product news and updates. Each month, we’re sharing all the changes and updates available to merchant’s stores on BigCommerce. Whether you’re an agency partner building and managing an e-commerce site, a freelance developer customizing the BigCommerce storefront, or an app developer wanting to keep on top of natively built features, this is your chance to stay in the loop and learn what changes are happening to the BigCommerce platform.

At BigCommerce, August brought in two new beta opportunities in addition to platform updates and free apps that can help your clients be more prepared for the holiday season! See the details and supporting links below.

BigCommerce Platform Updates, August 2021

• PayPal Improvements: Added support for Venmo in PayPal for US merchants & Pay in 4 for AU merchants. US merchants will be able to add a digital wallet to checkout with strong brand recognition for shoppers.
• 9 Free BigCommerce Apps for Every Merchant: We’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite free apps (or apps with awesome free plans) that help our merchants grow their business to strengthen brand loyalty and support their favorite charities through social giving.
• Auto Migration to Transactional Emails: On September 9th, we will start migrating stores from our legacy Blueprint Email Templates to Transactional Emails. The first group will consist of stores where no changes have been made to their email templates. No action is required on your end.
• Manage Your Store Status from Channel Manager: Merchants and store admin are now able to manage their store status from the Channel Manager area of the control panel rather than store settings.

BigCommerce Beta Opportunities, August 2021

• Bolt One Click Checkout: Be the first to access an embedded version of Bolt One Click, a checkout solution that enables shoppers to speed through checkout with a single click. Installation is seamless and there’s no need to completely replace your existing BigCommerce checkout. Beta participants will have access to Bolt One Click at no additional cost during the beta period.
• Customer Data Platform Segment.com (Open Beta): Segment.com is a Customer Data Platform (CDP) that provides the customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first. Using Segment, companies can collect, unify and connect their first-party data to over 200 marketing, analytics, and data warehouse tools.