BigCommerce Has Helped Online Retailers Process Over $350M In Sales

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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Monday, November 14th, 2011
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BigCommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, is announcing a major milestone today. The SaaS powers over 20,000 online stores for retailers who have processed over $350 million in total sales.

Launched in 2009, BigCommerce provides a comprehensive SaaS for retailers and merchants to manage e-commerce online. BigCommerce helps small businesses power anything and everything related to an online storefront from search to inventory to online payments to marketing and SEO. And the price for the software is affordable for small businesses, with basic plans starting at $25 per month.

Features include multi-channel retailing, automated email marketing, inventory control, an online storefront, and more. The company, which is profitable and just raised $15 million in new funding, also launched an application for merchants to list inventory on Facebook.

Online stores powered by BigCommerce have sold over 30 million total items to over 230 million unique visitors, with the average number of items per transaction at 7.6 products. The company has also recently launched its new API and is working with developers to build integrations on top of the platform.


Company: Bigcommerce
Website: bigcommerce.com
Launch Date: 2009
Funding: $35M

Bigcommerce is an e-commerce platform that helps small to medium businesses sell more online. Its unique, all-in-one marketing and e-commerce platform boasts hardcore SEO, easy-to-use tools to create beautiful online stores and over 100 built-in marketing tools that make selling on iPhones, Facebook and eBay a cinch. With BigCommerce, nearly 30,000 businesses in 65 countries are spending less time working and more time selling, including Gibson Guitar, Pandora Jewelers and Willie Nelson’s shop.

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