What’s Trending in the Dev Community

Welcome to a recap of what’s trending in the BigCommerce Developer Community. Every other week, we’ll take a look at the discussions happening. You’ll see our most popular and insightful conversations, along with questions that could use your expertise or helpful advice.

This week, the BigCommerce Developer Community discussed building a custom payment gateway and the challenges that will bring, factors for choosing an eCommerce platform, and getting started with localizing a product catalog. We also saw requests for recommendations on working with customer form fields via API and Payment API errors.

Can’t Miss Conversations

• Arjit De is beginning development on a custom payment gateway and isn’t sure where to start. Read more about this in the Community.
• JJ Steadman is new to eCommerce and comparing platforms, are there any reasons you chose to go with BigCommerce as a developer that you can share? Read more about this on our Facebook Community group.
• Laura Switten is interested in localizing their business product catalog and needs an elegant solution for handling these translations consistently. We discover more in the Community.

Share a Solution

• User JJS is trying to create blank values in a customer form field via API but has seen errors each way they turn. Join the conversation and share your solution on StackOverflow.
• User Sardar has been seeing errors when trying to use the Payments API for the first time, and despite necessary changes is still receiving a new error. Join the conversation and share your solution on StackOverflow.