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Ecommerce flexibility starts here. Use off-the-shelf features bundled with any BigCommerce plan or compose a custom stack that fits the needs of your company and customers.
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Announcement
New Developer Portal is LIVE!
We've updated our Developer Portal to dramatically improve the experience of building, managing, and merchandising your applications! The new portal is in beta, but fully integrated and ready for you to use. Look out for a future update when we officially replace the existing portal, and let us know what you think!
Documentation and APIs
Catalyst for headless Commerce
A developer-first approach to ecommerce: fully customizable UI kit, comprehensive GraphQL API client, all optimized for Next.js and React Server Components.
Build an app
Using BigCommerce's powerful APIs, SDKs, and toolkits, developers can build apps that are installable on BigCommerce stores.
Configure a store
Manage products, customers, inventory, location, pricing, currencies, orders, tax, shipping, and store settings within the BigCommerce platform.
Our APIs
Simplify integrations and increase performance by leveraging the power of GraphQL.
GraphQL Storefront APIExplore our API Reference. Harness the full power of our APIs. Discover the endpoints you can use to build innovative commerce solutions.
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Tools and Resources
Looking for inspiration? Check out our directory of open source projects from the BigCommerce team and our active community. Discover sample apps, theme resources, API clients, SDKs and more.
Let's develop together
Join our Community from around the world who are building solutions that bring the BigCommerce platform to life.
Explore the BigCommerce CommunityBigDesign
Our design system and React component library were built to enable designers and developers to build experiences that seamlessly integrate with the BigCommerce product.
Developer Blog
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Andrea Dao
Stop Juggling Terminals — Run Your Laravel React App with Tmux
In this blog, we’re going to show you how to use Tmux to simplify your Laravel React development workflow by running multiple processes in one terminal with a single command. This post was inspired by Alex Six’s Laracon talk, Turbocharging Your Laravel Development with the Terminal.
Andrea Dao
Proxying GraphQL Requests to API Route Handlers in Catalyst/Next.js
In this blog, we’re going to show you how we built an API Route Handler in Catalyst to proxy requests from client-side Makeswift components. You’ll see how you can fetch dynamic backend data from BigCommerce when building your own components in Makeswift.
Paige Locke
Scaling Promotions on BigCommerce: Introducing the Promotion Code Manager App
Billions of promotional codes are redeemed every day in eCommerce. From seasonal sales and new-user offers to influencer drops and one-off discounts, customers expect coupons to be part of their shopping experience.
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BC Partner Program
Our BigCommerce Partner Program empowers you with the best resources, sales enablement, training, and referral network to get more clients and build better commerce experiences.
Referrals
Refer visitors to BigCommerce and earn 200% of the customer's first monthly payment or $1,500 per enterprise customer. Join our Affiliate Program to grow your revenue with the leading ecommerce platform.