Posts Tagged ‘BigCommerce store’

13 Stunning BigCommerce Apps to Boost Conversions and Sales

April 11th, 2018

BigCommerce provides a fantastic platform for you to build and run your e-commerce store, all thanks to its various features such as an easy-to-use dashboard, no transaction costs, round-the-clock customer support and much more. Apart from a solid build in marketing features, BigCommerce Web Design also provides tons of marketing apps and extensions to make the conversion and sales process much easier and streamlined. But before diving into that, let’s take a look at what BigCommerce apps can accomplish for you in the long run.

  • Most Affordable Platform for immediate and long-term goals.
  • Automated Accounting System that saves lots of your time.
  • Template Based Structure can be up and running in no time.
  • Gain more Insights into your customers’
  • Easy and User-Friendly for developers, retailers, and customers.
  • Improves Customer Service which helps repeat customers.

But with thousands of apps present in its app store, it can get both tricky and time-consuming choosing the right ones. So, on your behalf, I have taken the liberty of reviewing the BigCommerce App Store to present 13 amazing apps to help you smoothen out your e-commerce sales journey.

  1. Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth provides a loyalty-based solution for BigCommerce users by building a point-based loyalty program to reward points to customers based on their behavior (in this case, profitable actions). Apart from the multi-option loyalty program, it offers 6 themes and also helps in segmenting your customers based on their loyalty.

  1. ShipperHQ

Retailers mostly don’t pay much attention to shipping but if left unchecked, this is where you may lose a lot of your potential customers. Using ShipperHQ can help you calculate shipping costs globally (by using the IP address of customers), so your customers don’t have to pay any additional (and unexpected) shipping costs.

  1. Retail Tower

Retail Tower is another powerful app by BigCommerce that helps you make the advertising and promotion process a lot more simpler and easier by using just one interface to upload your product feed to multiple shopping comparison engines.

  1. JustUno

JustUno is all about free email marketing. It provides an email capturing system that allows you to capture email addresses (including discount codes, exit intents, welcome mats etc.) through pop-up messages. And that’s not all, you can even run A/B tests to help determine the effectiveness of your BigCommerce store.

  1. Sales Pop

Build from the concept of encouraging new customers to start buying from you, this BigCommerce app provides a great help in building trust and authenticity on your brand by showing recent sales notification popups (with flexible customization options) in order to create the sense of a busy store.

  1. Compass

We are all prone to making bad business decisions when we don’t have enough contextual data to work on. Compass helps you make sense of your data by incorporating a comprehensive report of all your analytics metrics such as Customer Acquisition Costs, Refunds, Repurchase Rates etc. into 1 dashboard for easy access.

  1. Boost Sales

Boost Sales is a great app that uses upselling and cross-selling (of relevant products one might be interested in) along with Sales Gamification feature to help increase the average order value, in order to earn more profit (by selling more) on each order. It even provides a large collection of themes esp. for the holidays season.

  1. AfterShip

AfterShip is another brilliant app that allows your customers to check in on their order status along with sending SMS and emails delivery updates to them. Your customers will also love you for keeping them updated as well as not sending them to 3rd party sites for payment or not letting them deal with couriers.

  1. Printful

Printful is an awesome dropshipping app that not only let anyone with the designing skills to upload his design and start printing on selective items be it pillows, mobile cases, t-shirts, coffee mugs or anything but also allow them to push these items directly to your BigCommerce store.

  1. Sellbrite

Sellbrite uses a single interface where you can simultaneously print discounted labels as well as ship all your orders. It also prevents overselling by automatically syncing the central inventory in real time. Plus, you can list your inventory by bulk from the central catalog to various other online markets.

  1. OneSaas

Any Web Development Company Los Angeles or elsewhere will claim that OneSaas is the best automation app when it comes to accounting, inventory management, marketing, fulfillment and shipping along with syncing data between sales and CRM. It even scales with your business and is compatible with the majority of software.

  1. The Cart Closer

This Cart Closer app provides a unique solution to the ‘cart abandonment’ problem faced by most e-commerce stores today. It tries to save the sale by offering a freebie or discount whenever a customer is about to leave your shopping cart page.

  1. PayWhirl

PayWhirl is everything that you can ever ask for in a recurring billing model be it wholesale programs or payment plans or layaway programs or subscriptions or pre-orders or literally anything. And that’s not all, this app even lets customers log in and manage their billing information and make changes accordingly.

Closing In:

And that’s our list of some of the best BigCommerce apps that we found in the App Store from our own research, hope you liked it. So, which of these apps are you planning to use? Do let us know in the comment section.

Top 10 BigCommerce Tips Everyone Should Know

November 9th, 2017

BigCommerce is a very popular platform for creating online stores. That is something that I am sure all the readers of this blog are well aware of. However, what you all may not be aware of are some killer hacks that you can use in BigCommerce that can make your life easier and increase the functionality of your e-commerce website.

Without further wait, let us jump right into our top 10 BigCommerce tips –

Tip 1. Displaying the “SOLD OUT” message

If you are out of stock for a particular product and want to display a “sold out” message, here is what to do. Simply go to Settings > Store Settings > Display and check ‘Show Inventory Levels’. Once the inventory of that particular product goes down to zero, it will display – ‘Current Stock: Sold Out’ on that product page.

Tip 2. Displaying the same logo on top of each page

This is a rather simple instruction to both impart and follow. If you want the same logo to be displayed on top of each page, you should select Design > Logo and upload your image. That is all.

Tip 3. Enabling purchase option without an account

If you want the visitors to your BigCommerce store to be able to make purchases even when they do not have an account created, this is how you can do it. Simply go to Settings > Checkout Settings and ensure ‘Yes, enable guest checkout’ is checked.

Tip 4. Hiding products from being displayed in your store

If you are out of inventory, you may want to temporarily hide products from your website’s visitors. Doing this is easy and here is how you do it –  Go to Products > View Products, select the product, click ‘Edit’, and on the ‘Details’ tab make sure that ‘This product cannot be purchased in my online store’ is selected.

Tip 5. Adding the free shipping option to products

Want to give your customers free shipping? That’s great. Here is how you go about doing it – go to Edit a Product > Details and check ‘Yes, this product has free shipping’.

Tip 6. Changing default product image size

When a customer clicks your product image, you can set the default image size when the product image opens up. If you want to change the default image size by going to > Settings > Store Settings > Images.

Tip 7. Adding new web pages

New pages to you BigCommerce site can be added in this manner. Go to Website Content > Create a Web Page. If you want the new page to be displayed in the store’s menu, just select –‘Yes, show this web page in the navigation menu’.

Tip 8. Know about all panels

If you want to know about all the panels of your site, then follow these steps – Go to Design > Template Files. If you see an orange arrow that means it has been edited by you. If you see a white arrow that means it has not been edited. A green arrow means that it has been recently created.

Tip 9. Removing panels

Removing panels from a page is not a difficult task. It can be done very quickly. There are majorly two ways that you can do it. The first is – Go to Design > Design Mode and clicking ‘Open My Store in Design Mode’. Right click on the panel you want to remove and select ‘Remove Panel’ from the popup menu. The second way is to directly edit the File in the HTML editor and uploading it to you sit using File Transfer Protocol.

Tip 10. Changing the footer of your email

By default, your emails will have an appealing footer that has a default message like “powered by BigCommerce”.  You can do by going to Design > Emails. Click ‘Snippets’. Then edit the file called EmailFooter.html.

By following these above tips, you can customize your BigCommerce site and improve its functionality according to your needs. If you need BigCommerce web design services by a team of professional BigCommerce web developers, contact Clap Creative today.