Everything you wanted to know about Acumatica Commerce edition, fully integrated with eCommerce platform allowing you to scale your e-business. In this article we will reveal the top 3 shopping cart platforms for your business, we will review the best integrated features of Acumatica Cloud ERP, what shopping cart works the best for your business, videos and articles to keep you intrigued.
We are Acumatica Certified partners and ISV technology solution provider, well versed with eCommerce solution. Harsha Sarjapur, built his first integrated shopping cart application for Everest Software ERP back in 1998-2004, and over the last decade I have seen the e-commerce industry exploding with new shopping cart vendors and the increasing expansion of this market space, but moving fwd into 2020 we are going to see consolidation to top 5 or 10 eCommerce vendors and Acumatica has chosen to partner with top 3 for a reason.
Why Choose Acumatica Cloud ERP for Your eCommerce Business?
Acumatica Commerce edition is geared towards eCommerce business, helping you manage your eCommerce website and scale your e-business in various ways; such as fulfillment or distribution of orders, managing of inventory, pick-pack-ship, RMA, customer support, and tightly integrated with your back-end accounting.
Acumatica’s eCommerce solution tightly integrates with Financials, Sales, Inventory, CRM, and Fulfillment systems with popular eCommerce platforms, including native integration to BigCommerce web stores. (See BIG commerce video review below)
In 2019 R2 and 2020 R1 you can now connect your storefront with a flexible back-office system that grows with your company, provides valuable insights into your business, and offer unique customer experience.
Acumatica Commerce Edition offers native support for customer specific pricing, products with variants, multiple warehouses, discounts, promotions, shipment tracking, and more.
Over the years, many businesses have gone online and started offering their own multi-channel shopping experience. With increasing number of shopping carts to compare we narrowed it down to the top 3 shopping carts available in the market right now.
Magento (Magento Community and Enterprise)
Shopify (Shopify and Shopify Plus)
BIG Commerce (BIG Commerce and BIG Commerce Enterprise)
Note: Acumatica has connectors to these 3 shopping carts offered in the Commerce edition, the new versions are much better than the previous connectors from Kensium which now is taken over by Acumatica product development team.
How do we choose which platform works the best for your business?
One size doesn’t fit all, one has to review their business proposition as to what they are offering to consumers in terms of products and services, which shopping carts provide the bang for bucks, and identify how much revenue your new/existing website is making and you will be categorized into this 3 buckets.
Small Business Ecommerce Business (Less than $1 Million in revenue)
Mid-market Ecommerce Business ($1M to $10 Million)
Enterprise Ecommerce Business ($10M to $50 Million)
Compare Magento Vs Shopify Vs BIG Commerce based on your revenue and industry, features, pricing, a great article from Coalition Technologies that we thought of sharing which explains in detail the Pros and Cons of each of these shopping cart giants and what best suits for your business.
Summary: Before we dive into the longer review, our current rankings have BigCommerce on top for merchants selling between $1M and $5M online each year, with Shopify leading in the under-$1M category.
BigCommerce Enterprise and Shopify Plus compete about equally between $5M and $10M annually with unique business-type challenges for each.
Magento Community makes its entrance around $5M+ in annual revenue since it’s more flexible and scalable than the SaaS contenders, but it also has drawbacks. Past $10M and we start to see the playing field become cloudier based on particular business types.
Magento Enterprise moves to the top for merchants selling over $15M, although features are in beta for Shopify Plus and BigCommerce that may help close that gap. Read More on this comparison
Acumatica Commerce in 2020 R1
The new version 2020 R1 released at the Acumatica Summit in Las Vegas has the very best integration with BIG Commerce, true leader in cloud
New Commerce Features in 2020 R1
Fully integrated with BIG Commerce Shopping cart
Multi-store deployment of websites and management
Item matrix template and matrix items
Synchronize your products, customers, shipments uni-direction or bi-directional
Acumatica BIG Commerce Integration – Demo
A quick overview of Commerce edition (20 minutes video) showcasing the integration touch points between Acumatica Cloud ERP and BIG Commerce, the commerce connector works similar with Shopify and Magento as well, we will post those video shortly as well.
The video highlights
How to create BIG Commerce website?
How to configure Acumatica Commerce edition?
How to sync products, customers and orders?
How to ship and process web orders and sync back to website?
In summary, customers have a choice to run their e business with any of the 3 eCommerce shopping platform, launch a single branded website or multi-store satellite websites to manage your customers fulfillment orders.
Acumatica makes it easy to use, fully integrated with back-end ERP solution, letting customers to scale their e-business in the cloud. Want to learn more about integration with BIG Commerce and Acumatica reach out to our product experts with 25+ yrs of eCommerce experience, let us help you scale your e Business.
Note: 3D Cart Integration – InfoSourcing has natively built-in integrated solution with 3D Cart shopping platform, our clients use them with single and multi-store capabilities.
Acumatica Commerce edition is geared towards eCommerce business, helping you manage your eCommerce website and scale your e-business in various ways; such as fulfillment or distribution of orders, managing of inventory, pick-pack-ship, RMA, customer support, and tightly integrated with your back-end accounting.
