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Multi-Channel Retailing and the Buyer’s Journey: Opportunities and Challenges

BigCommerce

Most online sellers begin their journey from one sales channel, setting up shop through a website or marketplace. Multi-channel retailing is the practice of selling merchandise on more than one sales channel. A report by BigCommerce confirms that buyers across several age groups are shopping from multiple sales channels.

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The State of Ecommerce Platforms in 2018: Cloud Commerce, Open SaaS and The API Economy

BigCommerce

The following ecommerce platform comparison and explanations will help you evaluate the key criteria and make an honest assessment of which solution best suits the needs of your business. How do you support real-time Inventory sync within multiple channels? Does the platform support multi-level category navigation?

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How 3 Global Brands Scaled Using a Product Information Management (PIM) Solution

BigCommerce

Mid-market and enterprise organizations with large, complex product catalogs often suffer the most as they add and edit volumes of products at a rapid pace across multiple channels. Increased customer dissatisfaction due to incomplete, out-of-date, or inconsistent data across channels. Multi-channel automation.