The news of the year is out as the Alibaba group makes the boldest possible mover on collaborating with a leading eCommerce platform. The global wholesaler in Alibaba.com pairs up with Bigcommerce, introducing a brand new application for a revamped shopping scenario. This revolutionary move is meant to gauge Alibaba’s extensive Chinese connections and reaching out to those wholesale suppliers over the proposed interface. Instead of a bartered layout, Bigcommerce will now have a direct access to most of the supplies, beefing up options and certainly slashing down the rates.
The movement has taken a pretty big form as of now with over 70,000 Bigcommerce stores already making use of this rejuvenated flexibility. Even the online merchants have featured in this elite list as the customers now have access to over 30,000 products, once elusive to only Alibaba.com.
As per estimations, the repertoire might soon cross the 3 million mark—allowing bigger opportunities for growth.
The customized application looks quite competent, featuring a unique catalogue. Mostly dealing with the wholesale offerings, the interface adopted is pretty safe and well versed with the online innovations. What it actually allows is the hassle-free sighting of online products!
As per Michael Lee, Marketing Director, Alibaba.com
“Small businesses are the backbone of the global economy and it’s important that we help them to grow and stay competitive. This new application provides Bigcommerce merchants with direct access to Alibaba.com wholesale suppliers, offering competitive prices to realize better profit margins”
As per the purported claims made my Alibaba.com, the Bigcommerce users are certainly in for some bigger benefits, in days to come. Besides the widest range of value added services, Alibaba.com shares the following perks at the biggest eCommerce platform:
- Customized searching schemes for the merchants: Bigcommerce merchants now have it easy in locating the needed products pertaining to a specific customer need. Integrated semantics and categorization facilities the tailored experience.
- Purchasing turns transparent: Product details are easy to look at besides the contact information pertaining to the supplier. At the start, the 70,000 Bigcommerce stores will have inline access to the gold suppliers, propagating a sense of transparency in addition to the strictest possible quality. Standards will be met as Alibaba.com believes in perfection.
- Order Minimums make an appearance: Wholesale pricing option can be selected on demand, mostly subjected to the faster deliveries and lowest rates. This approach will certainly save the day for service oriented coupons like freecharge offers with third-party organizations getting a kick start of sorts.
- Safer payment gateways: Once a major cause for concern, payment gateways have certainly gone safer as the wholesale app is backed up by Alibaba’s sense of innovation. Risk free transactions are now guaranteed.
If business priorities are concerned, sourcing supplies is a pertinent factor for growth. Risk-free tapping into the resources of Alibaba.com is certainly a lucrative situation for the Bigcommerce and more start-ups can expect similar levels of leniency in near future.