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

BigCommerce

IRCE – the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition – is an annual event held in June in Chicago, Illinois. Traditionally B2B retailers are going direct to consumer. On the flip side, brands that have excelled at direct to consumer are looking at the wholesale model to see where they can increase revenue.

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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. While this route makes sense for some extremely complex businesses, it usually results in higher expenses and lower revenues.