Subin Paul

The curious case of Category Management in BigCommerce​

Anyone who worked with a BigCommerce catalog in the modern experience(v3) knows that BigCommerce takes only category ID while creating a product either using the CSV or API. As the category ID is a system generated id, one needs to create categories in advance and obtain their IDs beforehand and populate it in the CSVor API payload whenever you work on products in bulk.

We are working on BigCommerce stores of multiple types(Stencil storefront, headless, multichannel, multicurrency, multilingual BigCommerce stores) for the past 4+ years and we faced this difficulty every time we handled a complex catalog. Especially when you are migrating to BigCommerce from another platform, sometmes you come with a large set of SKUs mapped into a complex tree of categories with parent child branches.

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The Challenge of Category Management in BigCommerce​

BigCommerce is a powerful e-commerce platform, but it lacks a native feature for creating categories in bulk. This can be a major pain point for merchants with large catalogs, especially when migrating from other platforms.

Our Experience: Migrating from Hybris​

We recently encountered this challenge when migrating a store from Hybris to BigCommerce. The store had around 2000 categories, organized in a tree structure with up to 6 levels of parent-child relationships. Manually creating these categories in BigCommerce would have been incredibly time-consuming.

Solving the BigCommerce Blog Migration Challenge​

For many BigCommerce merchants, migrating existing blog content can be a major headache. While BigCommerce offers a native blogging solution, there's no built-in way to import content in bulk.

The two body Problem: WordPress for blogs and BigCommerce for ecommerce​

Embarking on a Journey to Empower BigCommerce Merchants​

We're excited to announce the start of our project: building API-based tools to help BigCommerce store owners thrive. (We're yet to name our app. Will announce it here in a later post)

The Vision​

Our goal is simple: to create practical, cloud-based solutions for common challenges faced by BigCommerce merchants. We believe that by leveraging the power of APIs, we can unlock new levels of efficiency and control.