What’s New for Merchants in December

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 your chance to stay in the loop and learn what changes are happening to the BigCommerce platform.

Although 2020 held various challenges for our personal and professional lives, we saw that e-commerce grew and prospered over the year. That’s a huge win for us as well as all of our merchants, so cheers to that! We ended the year on a high note, seeing that our merchants were able to survive and thrive during the pandemic. This month saw slightly fewer updates than usual, due to our EOY release freeze. During this time, our engineering team puts the brakes on pushing changes and updates to the platform in order to maintain high performance during our merchants’ busiest time of the year. Check out our December feature releases and updates below.

BigCommerce Platform Updates, December 2020

• UK VAT Changes: If you have customers in the UK or Northern Ireland, this is for you! Starting January 1, 2021 (a few days ago) updates need to be made to your tax settings for UK orders under ￡135. Now that the UK is no longer under the EU, the EU tax policies no longer apply to them. Northern Ireland is taking on a dual status in this Brexit, so you may need to consider making updates to support that area as well. The steps you can consider to take are listed in the BigCommerce Product Blog. Learn More.
• Improvements to YouTube Product Videos: The UI for both v2 and v3 product uploader/editor has been updated for a better merchant-experience! The new layout transforms the process of uploading product videos into one of ease and information, including an alert feature which lets you know if the video url you pasted into the text-box is unavailable. Learn More