BigCommerce Essential Training

Course details

BigCommerce is the ecommerce platform of choice for brands like PayPal, Toyota, GE, and Ben & Jerry's. It's a hosted platform that can handle large catalogs and integrate with marketplaces like Amazon and eBay—without a single line of code. This course explains how to use BigCommerce to get your store online and ready to start accepting orders. Learn how to upload products, add images and product details, and customize the look and feel of your site with BigCommerce themes. Instructor Patrick Rauland also shows how to set up shipping, payments, and taxes, and manage your store from the BigCommerce dashboards. Plus, learn how to develop an omni-channel strategy that integrates social media and physical point-of-sale (POS) systems into BigCommerce, so your customer's experience is consistent and on brand, however they choose to shop.

Learning objectives
Why choose BigCommerce?
Adding products
Importing products
Selecting a theme
Editing product pages and menus
Setting up shipping
Setting up payments and taxes
Viewing sales on the BigCommerce dashboard
Omni-channel commerce and BigCommerce

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Introduction to BigCommerce

02 - Why BigCommerce
03 - Example BigCommerce sites
04 - Create an account

2. Products

05 - Create categories
06 - Add a product
07 - Add images and videos
08 - Add inventory data
09 - Add options to a product
10 - Add final details
11 - Importing products

3. Select a Theme

12 - What you want in a theme
13 - Making changes to a theme
14 - Editing the home page
15 - Editing product page and product grid
16 - Editing the menu

4. Shipping

17 - Determine shipping needs
18 - Set up free shipping
19 - Set up live shipping rates
20 - Fulfillment and shipping labels

5. Payment and Taxes

21 - Determine payment needs
22 - Set up Stripe
23 - Sales tax primer
24 - Add tax rates

6. BigCommerce Dashboard

25 - Overview of the dashboard
26 - Viewing sales reports
27 - Creating pages
28 - Creating privacy and refund policies
29 - Installing apps

7. Omni-Channel Commerce

30 - Understanding omni-commerce
31 - Social integrations
32 - Point of sale (POS) integrations

Conclusion

33 - Next steps