BigCommerce & platform news, tracked daily.
BigCommerce releases and broader ecommerce-platform changes that affect how stores are built and ranked.
What changed, as it happens.
Tracked daily from primary sources. The items below are what we're watching for clients right now.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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