BigCommerce Developers

Excited to share our latest technical deep dive on building flexible, data-aware components in Catalyst: 💥 Flexible Components in Catalyst with <Stream> 💥written by Chris Nanninga, Lead Enterprise Training Engineer at Commerce. Chris breaks down the <Stream> component pattern - a thoughtful abstraction that transforms how developers work with React's <Suspense>. By handling fallbacks internally and supporting both synchronous and asynchronous data, <Stream> enables truly reusable components that work seamlessly in server and client contexts alike. Whether you're optimizing for Next.js's Partial Prerendering or just want cleaner component architecture, this pattern delivers on both fronts. Check out the full article where we walk through real examples and design principles 👇 https://lnkd.in/g3rcayG3 #ReactJS #NextJS #Catalyst #Stream #Suspense

Ever heard of c15t? It's a new standard for consent management in modern apps. In the latest Catalyst 1.3 release, we use c15t for managing user consent! We've just published a blog post by Andrea Dao that showcases what c15t offers out of the box and what we've implemented in Catalyst. Check out the blog post: 👉  https://lnkd.in/guR7jVVF This blog post was inspired by the 2025 Next Conference talk, Why Your Consent Banner Should be in Your Bundle, presented by Christopher Burns. If you missed it, tune into the conference recording: 👉 https://lnkd.in/geFnh_B6 #NextJS #NextJSDevelopers Commerce #BigCommerce #BigCommerceDevelopers BigCommerce #Catalyst

Catalyst v1.3 is here 🚀🚀🚀🚀 This is a major update to Catalyst that brings critical compliance and commerce features to your storefronts, including: 🍪 Cookie Consent Manager Built-in privacy compliance for GDPR, CCPA, and beyond. Our new consent manager integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Script Manager, ensuring analytics and marketing scripts respect shopper preferences automatically. 🎁 Gift Certificate Functionality Complete gift cert support now available for purchase, preview, redemption, and balance checking. We're also introducing foundational GraphQL Storefront API operations for gift certificates to support future extensibility. 🌍 Translation Updates Improved accuracy and completeness across multiple language files for better international shopper experiences. For more details & docs, check out the full Release Notes below! 👇 https://lnkd.in/gf6dSASb Commerce BigCommerce #BigCommerceDevelopers #Catalyst

Hearing a lot about AI, MCP, ACP, etc... and not sure how to get started learning about the practical applications of AI within commerce? 🕵️♀️ Look no further! Watch & follow along with James Q Quick's webinar: Build an E-Commerce AI Chatbot with the Commerce MCP, Next.js + Vercel's AI SDK! https://lnkd.in/gG65tuCS 💥 Which AI topics would you like to see a video about next? 🤔

When AI is the shopper… what happens to the store? In Episode 3 of Keeping Commerce Weird, I sit down with Sharon Gee to talk AI, agentic commerce, and what happens when the internet stops working the way we expect. We’re not just talking about what’s possible now. We’re looking years out. The future of commerce is weird. And that’s a good thing. Listen here → https://lnkd.in/gV5CwY3i

The AI Commerce team are in NYC this week (Wed - Fri) talking Agentic Commerce with merchants and partners! Mike Edmonds from PayPal and Byron Sorrells from Microsoft Copilot are joining us for an exciting couple days of discussion on how Commerce merchants can take advantage of these new exciting agentic commerce programs. It's exciting to have Al Williams Keith Karlick Nathan Booker Amera K. Thom Armstrong in the house for these workshops covering both the commercial and technical aspects of launching agentic search and checkout programs. The partner day (Wed) is full, but I think there are still a few last minute spots available for merchant/brands on Thursday. 👇🏼the link is below to register -- or dm me for an invite (We will be coming to LA next for our west coast friends. So stay tuned.) https://lnkd.in/g7GMmsND

Big News for Commerce + PayPal customers today. (PR in the comments) THE SITUATION: Shoppers (all of us!) want easy answers on AI Apps regarding which products we should consider / buy. >> Consumer eyeballs are shifting to AI powered channels. THE PROBLEM: Merchants need their products to be discoverable and purchasable on these new channels. And making sure all the catalog, inventory, pricing, payments and order data is synced between ecommerce, payments, and AI channels is hard -- and it needs to be integrated into the tools they already use. THE SOLUTION: PayPal + Commerce for Agentic Discovery and Checkout - Feedonomics prepares quality data, optimized for the AI Channel schema to drive seamless discovery on AI Channels. - PayPal is able to surface and sync the relevant data needed for seamless seamless checkout within these key AI Channels. - Commerce is able to surface the relevant data for transaction to PayPal (tax / shipping promise/fulfillment info) and receive the order and trigger the relevant merchant-of-record experiences needed to support the flow (nurture / loyalty / returns support etc.) - FeedAMP is able to route the order to various downstream OMS / ERP systems. 🎉 Congrats to the team that have been working to bring such a seamless experience to our merchants and their shoppers. Couldn't be more excited for this launch with our partners at PayPal and the value this will unlock in the AI era for all Commerce customers leveraging the Feedonomics BigCommerce and Makeswift platforms. Thanks to Mike Edmonds Ryan Pritchard, Ryan Kelly, Nixon Dinh and the whole PayPal team to bring this partnership to life to unlock this one-to-many solution for agentic checkout for Commerce customers. Well done: Keith Karlick Nathan Booker Jordan Sim Nick Kostohryz Michaela Weber Matt Crawford Halie Adams Michael Scholz Al Williams Adam W. Gamble Nelkin, PMP Miranda Goins, MBA, PMP, CSM, Vipul Shah Travis Hess Lauryn Spence Lance Owide If you want to learn more, the PR is in the comments as well as the link to apply to the Beta.

PayPal + Commerce: Powering the Next Era of Agentic Commerce Big moment today as PayPal announced its new Agentic Commerce Services, and we’re proud that Commerce was named as a strategic partner, alongside Wix, Shopware, and Cymbio. In the same breath, PayPal also unveiled its partnership with OpenAI — a signal that the future of payments, AI, and commerce is converging faster than anyone imagined. A Shift from Search to Transaction At the center of PayPal’s announcement are two innovations that redefine how merchants will show up — and sell — in the AI era: Agent Ready — a new capability that enables merchants to accept payments instantly across AI-powered surfaces. Store Sync — a bridge that makes any merchant’s product data discoverable across leading AI channels, while connecting orders back to their existing fulfillment and management systems. These are foundational moves — because agentic commerce isn’t just about automation, it’s about accessibility, discoverability, interoperability, and intent-to-transaction velocity. And maybe a few more -ity's... More to come as we are making more announcements over the coming days and weeks... #Commerce #PayPal #agenticcommerce #payments #productdata Read more in the official press release https://lnkd.in/gQiXfRiu

🚨🚨 Next.js 16 is here!! 🚨🚨 Last week at Next.js Conf, we got our first look at what might be the most significant update since the App Router launched. The highlights: 🚀 Turbopack is now default - 2-5x faster builds, 10x faster Fast Refresh 🚀 Cache Components & "use cache" - Explicit control over caching at component, page, or function level 🚀 DevTools MCP - AI-assisted debugging that understands your app 🚀 proxy.js replaces middleware.ts - Clearer network boundaries (middleware.ts still works) 🚀 New caching APIs - `updateTag()`, `refresh()`, and improved `revalidateTag()` For apps mixing static catalogs with dynamic pricing and personalization, these updates are huge. More predictable performance, faster feedback loops, clearer debugging. We wrote a breakdown covering all the key features and what this means for commerce developers! Check it out and let us know what you think 👇 https://lnkd.in/g8BUaegk Also, if you missed the conference and want to hear about all of this firsthand, check out the session recordings here! 👉 https://nextjs.org/conf #NextJS #Ecommerce Commerce Vercel BigCommerce #Next16 #Catalyst #BigCommerceDevelopers

Hey Next.js developers!   We're excited to share a new tutorial by Andrea Dao that will walk you through the basics of Server Components and Suspense in Next.js. Similar streaming and loading patterns are built into Catalyst with Next.js. If you want to dive deeper into the intricacies of streaming and data loading in Next.js, check out the Vercel Ship 2025 Workshop material, led by James Q Quick earlier this year. Check out the blog here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gkVZPeS5 Dive deeper with the Vercel Ship Workshop  👉https://lnkd.in/gReahEWs #BigCommerce #NextJS BigCommerce #NextJSDevelopers #Catalyst