When you have completed your domain registration you will need to ‘point’ it to the BigCommerce servers. This will allow customers to find your store on BigCommerce’s platform, but using your own custom Domain Name. ‘Pointing’ your customers in the right direction means logging into your own domain Registrar and changing a minimum of 2 [...]
How to Register Your Store’s Domain Name
A domain name is the online version of your address used by customers to find your store location on the Internet. For example, CampingCentral.com.au and GazebosAustralia.com.au are both domain names. You buy domain names from companies called Registrars. A domain name is a powerful asset. You need to be aware of other similar domains that [...]
Setting up Your Email Account in BigCommerce
Like every other form of business, your online store has to provide customers with a way of direct contact. So, it’s essential you set up an e-mail account with your store’s domain name in it. BigCommerce makes the whole process pretty straightforward and easy, so there is little you need to worry about if your [...]
How to Setup a New BigCommerce Account
Setting up a BigCommerce Account is a very quick, easy and straightforward process – quite the opposite to what many people have experienced before when setting up an online eCommerce solution. As soon as you have finished the setup process you will essentially have a ‘complete’ store that is nearly ready to push live. To complete [...]
BigCommerce is not perfect
Like most things in life the BigCommerce software is not a perfect product. Mitchell Harper, owner of BigCommerce, has a vision to create a software tool that is easy to use, accessible and works for nearly everyone. His vision results in a good tool for sellers and merchants to run a simple, reasonably straightforward online [...]
Choosing BigCommerce for selling online
Over the last 15 years we have worked with Shopify, WP-eCommerce, X-cart, Magento, Adobe Business Catalyst, BigCommerce, Paypal Carts, V-ASP Cart, Websphere and have even built our own in-house eCommerce software. We’ve switched eCommerce solutions many times. Why? Because you don’t really know how the software works until you actually try to work with it [...]
Getting Started Building Your First Online Store
Sometimes the biggest struggle for a project is just getting started. Where to start, when you’re building an eCommerce site for the first time? First you need to make a choice as to whether you are going to truly go solo and build an online store completely by yourself, commando DIY style, or whether you’d [...]
Why BigCommerce?
BigCommerce is a relatively new, but very promising do-it-yourself eCommerce platform. Since the McKinnon Group first started developing eCommerce software in the late 1990s the industry has evolved and matured considerably. In the beginning an eCommerce license from IBM’s WebSphere would set you back US$100,000 per year, and that was just the license, not the [...]
