Posts by Brian Antczak
How To Beat The Ecommerce Summer Slump
June 19, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Development
Managing Your BigCommerce Store During The Slow Season Does business seem slower for your ecommerce store in summer? It’s not just your imagination. Sales really do go down in summer for both ecommerce and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. On average, ecommerce retailers sell 30% less during the summer months than they do in autumn and winter….
BigCommerce UX Tweak: Product Option Dropdowns on Android
June 5, 2018 | Brian Antczak | User-Experience
Simple Fix For Android FastClick Issues Have you checked your BigCommerce site on an Android lately? Some merchants on the BigCommerce Stencil framework have noticed an issue with Product Option Dropdowns not working properly on Android phones. This is caused by an issue with an outdated Android library called FastClick. If you notice this problem…
Case Study: Budget Stencil Move and Redesign For XtremeHelmets
May 29, 2018 | Brian Antczak | BigCommerce Case Studies
Moving to Stencil On A Budget XtremeHelmets is a BigCommerce site that sells motorcycle helmets and other motorcycle gear. Like many BigCommerce merchants, they wanted to move their Blueprint site to Stencil, so they reached out to us. We moved XtremeHelmets to Stencil with our Stencil Upgrade package. It’s a budget-friendly way to get onn…
The Best BigCommerce Add-Ons For Any Site
May 15, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Add-Ons
UX Hacks To Help You Sell More One of the great things about the BigCommerce platform is how easy it is for developers to add custom features to a website. A great code base means that you can leverage and extend your website to do pretty much anything you want. At IntuitSolutions, we take advantage…
BigCommerce Customization: Live Preview For Personalized Products
May 8, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Development
Creating A Better B2B User Experience Want an example of how custom development work can make managing your business easier? Check out this feature we recently built for a client – a product personalization live preview designed for their specific merchandising needs. We were challenged by our client, an industrial distribution company, to create a…
One Simple Trick For Ecommerce Checkout Page Design
May 1, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Development
Enclose The Checkout to Reduce Checkout Abandonment Struggling to get customers to complete checkout? You’re not alone. Checkout abandonment is one of the most persistent problems for ecommerce merchants across industries. In fact, studies have shown that most ecommerce sites experience a checkout abandonment rate between 40-60 percent – meaning roughly half of all customers…
Benefits of Switching To BigCommerce
April 24, 2018 | Brian Antczak | BigCommerce News
Migrate To BigCommerce To Get Ahead In ecommerce, you need to be be moving forward to get ahead. Whether it’s a Google algorithm update or the latest user experience research, you need an innovative mindset to stay competitive. A big part of this is picking the right platform. Merchants on self-hosted platforms like Magento are…
BigCommerce Quick Fix: Update Your Site’s ReCAPTCHA
| Brian Antczak | BigCommerce News
BigCommerce Support For ReCAPTCHA v1 Ends BigCommerce has announced they are ending support for version 1 of reCAPTCHA, the spam deterrent filter that appears on certain pages on your BigCommerce site. In order to keep using the reCAPTCHA services, merchants will have to manually upgrade their reCAPTCHA to version 2. If that sounds overwhelming to…
The Supreme Court Case With Big Implications For Ecommerce
April 17, 2018 | Brian Antczak | Ecommerce Industry News
What BigCommerce Merchants Need To Know About South Dakota V. Wayfair This week, the Supreme Court will hear South Dakota v. Wayfair, a case about how ecommerce businesses collect sales tax that could radically disrupt the industry. Read on for an explainer about what’s happening and how it could affect your business. What’s Happening In…
When Should You Get Custom Development Work?
Why You Should Hire A BigCommerce Developer for Custom Development Work As a full service digital agency, we believe strongly in the importance of custom solutions – particularly custom web development work. But when working with clients, we often get questions about its true value. Here’s why – and when – we recommend it. BigCommerce…