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21 Sessions, Presentations and Workshops You Can’t Miss at IRCE 2018

BigCommerce

Don Davis , Editor at Large, Internet Retailer. Looked at from a distance, the Top 1000 online retailers in North America had a terrific year in 2017. Their online sales collectively increased 18.5% and ecommerce accounted for 49% of retail industry growth. Here are the industry biggest trends.

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

BigCommerce

According to the survey of American shoppers: 74% shopped at large retailers. 36% shopped at category-specific online retailers. Similarly, fulfillment options such as Amazon FBA, drop shipping, and third-party logistics (3PLs) help accelerate growth. 54% shopped at ecommerce marketplaces.

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

BigCommerce

The cart or the SaaS platform manages PCI compliance for the brand, as well as checkout best practices, and pulls on APIs or EDIs to sync with other decoupled solutions to ensure brand data is updated across the board. Other decoupled solutions a CaaS provider works with include: CMS.