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  1. BigCommerce · Pricing

    BigCommerce moves cascading price lists to open beta

    BigCommerce moved cascading price lists from closed to open beta, letting more stores layer price lists so a shopper’s price falls back to another list when a specific record is missing. A new “layer fallback pricing” field defines which list resolves the fallback — useful for B2B, tiered, and wholesale pricing setups.BigCommerce →

  2. BigCommerce · Themes

    BigCommerce ships Cornerstone theme 6.20.0 with expanded backorder messaging

    Cornerstone 6.20.0 expands backorder and stock-availability messaging across product, cart, and account-order pages, and adds inventory support for bundled (picklist) items, alongside cart refinements. A merchant-facing upgrade for stores that sell pre-orders or kitted products.BigCommerce →

  3. BigCommerce · Dev

    BigCommerce Catalyst 1.8.0 adds Tax Display support and a channel-link CLI

    Catalyst v1.8.0 now renders product prices as Inc. Tax, Ex. Tax, or Both based on the store’s Tax Display setting, closing a long-standing gap for EU/UK Catalyst storefronts. A new `channel link` CLI command connects a Catalyst project to a storefront channel and writes credentials to .env.local automatically.BigCommerce →

  4. Merchant Center · Feeds

    Merchant Center: how to control or remove “Found by Google” products

    Google documented two ways to control “Found by Google” items — products it discovers by crawling your site rather than from a submitted feed. Apply a Pause attribute rule to auto-archive them after 14 days, or add the `data-nosnippet` attribute to product pages to stop Google discovering them via crawl.Search Engine Roundtable →

  5. BigCommerce · Agentic Commerce

    BigCommerce introduces PayPal StoreSync for agentic commerce

    BigCommerce announced PayPal StoreSync, an agentic-commerce integration that syncs BigCommerce store data with PayPal. Full feature details are still rolling out from the announcement post.BigCommerce →

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New · June 2026

BigCommerce 2026 Pricing Changes

Plans renamed, an Open Payment Provider fee added, GMV thresholds moved. What changed June 1, who pays more, and the four things to check on your account.

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Stencil themes and design

BigCommerce Design & Themes

How custom Stencil themes are built, what makes a BC theme fast, and when to consider headless. The design layer explained for non-developers.

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Stencil and v3 API

BigCommerce Development

Stencil CLI, v3 API, webhooks, B2B Edition engineering, and how to evaluate a BC development quote. What to ask your agency before you hire them.

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New · July 2026

Faceted Navigation SEO

How BigCommerce handles filter URLs and canonicals by default, when to leave that alone, and how to build indexable landing pages for the filter combos people actually search.

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New · July 2026

B2B Edition, Explained

What B2B Edition actually includes — Buyer Portal, company accounts, price lists, quotes, NET terms — and the honest line where built-in features stop and custom development starts.

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New · July 2026

Migration SEO Checklist

Everything that can go wrong in a Shopify, Magento, or WooCommerce migration — and the before/during/after checklist that prevents it. URL preservation, 301 maps, the 90-day watch.

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Evaluating the app marketplace

BigCommerce App Ecosystem

Which apps are worth installing, which ones kill your Lighthouse score, and when custom development beats the marketplace. An honest evaluation framework.

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BigCommerce SEO

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BC-specific SEO quirks: faceted navigation, Stencil rendering and CWV, canonical behavior, and the schema layer that most BC stores are missing.

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