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99 eCommerce Acronyms

GetElastic

3PL 3rd Party Logistics AOV Average Order Value API Application Programming Interface B2B Business-to-Business B2C Business-to-Consumer B2E Business-to-Employee BOM Bill of Materials BPA Business Process Automation BPM Business Process Management CDN Content Delivery Network CMS Content Management System COD Cash on Delivery CPA Cost Per Action CPC (..)

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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.