What’s New for Merchants in March

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.

At BigCommerce, March was a big month for new features and enhancements to the platform (especially checkout). If you happened to miss any of the announcements throughout the month, you can see all of the March feature releases and updates below.

BigCommerce Platform Updates, March 2021

• Accessibility Updates: BigCommerce has implemented several changes and improvements related to accessibility to the Cornerstone theme. Cornerstone is now WCAG 2.1 Level A compliant in many areas.
• New Transactional Email Templates: Merchants are now able to update phrases, send and view test emails all from the GUI. Developers may take advantage of this as well, however, this update was to also release new API endpoints to support this. Check out the API Docs and API Reference.
• UI & Setup Improvements to Square POS: Enhancing our integration with Square, you no longer risk data loss when importing and exporting products to and from Square!
• Alexa Delivery Notifications for Amazon Pay: This integration enables Alexa to proactively provide order delivery updates for customers who have ordered on BigCommerce stores using Amazon Pay. Check out the BigCommerce Product Blog for more information on how to get started!
• Advanced Editor for Promotions Manager Now Available: All Enterprise merchants now have the ability to use the new Promotions Manager via the control panel to create and manage automatic promotions.
• Multi-Currency on Apple Pay: Apple Pay now supports multi-currency for our payment integrations with Bolt, Stripe, Checkout.com, Authorize.net, Adyen, and PayPal powered by Braintree.
• New Themes Update: Five new themes have been released to the BigCommerce Theme Marketplace. Whether you are looking for design inspiration or you’re wanting to offer additional base options to your clients to offer customizations, these themes are here for it all!
• Storefront Admin Bar Moving to Page Builder: Page Builder is now compatible with any theme, rather than only Cornerstone. This enables merchants (and developers) to make quick fixes without having to modify template files!
• Multi-Shipping Checkout Improvements: Signed-in users are able to create multiple shipping addresses within checkout, no longer redirecting customers away from checkout to manage their addresses.
• Added Support for Braintree’s Account Updater Feature: Account Updater is now supported with our PayPal powered by Braintree integration! This paid feature automatically requests updates for payment methods that have been vaulted or replaced, helping you avoid failed transactions.