BigCommerce Implementation
twentysix has significant expertise implementing Commerce sites rapidly and to a very high standard. We are a certified BigCommerce partner.
Features
- Integrated Marketing and Commerce
- SAAS fully managed ecommerce platform with five 9s uptime
- Integration into numerous payment providers
- Extensive plugin marketplace and API integrations with third party providers
- Comprehensive APIs for headless commerce and multi-channel delivery
- Hosted on Google Cloud for high quality network performance
- Multi-lingual and multi-locale support
- Flexible themes on configurable framework designed for mobile first
- Safe, secure and robust
- Designed from the ground up for rapid, cost-effective delivery
Benefits
- Create ecommerce websites with great customer experiences quickly and cost-effectively
- Manage promotions and offers with out of the box campaigns
- Connect and push payment to multiple payment providers
- Choose from a wide selection for PIM, CRM and more
- Integrate seamlessly with your existing systems using the comprehensive API
- Scale effortlessly to your traffic and transaction requirements automatically
- Deliver global experiences with different languages and currencies
- Rest assured that security and privacy controls are built in
- Manage orders, transactions and customers within the platform
- Manage your full product catalogue directly or using a PIM
Pricing
£350 to £875 a person a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 11
Service ID
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Contact
twentysix Limited
Lorna Foott
Telephone: 0800 320 2626
Email: Lorna.Foott@twentysixdigital.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
- Twentysix provides bespoke development services which either sit alongside or integrate into BigCommerce developments. These include complex integrations into third party systems and delivery of standalone applications to meet client requirements.
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- Generally there are no service constraints, though this may change dependent on requirements
- System requirements
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- Core platform costs scale with transaction levels
- Plugin cost models vary by provider
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
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We respond inline with our SLA’s as the minimum for all tickets.
Weekend coverage only covers P1 tickets (should this coverage have been selected), this is via a direct out of hours phone number, which is then supplemented by a ticket in the service desk. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/a - this is something that we are happy to offer if a client requires it but we have not provided any to date.
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Twentysix provides two core support levels and can also work to create bespoke support packages around our client’s needs.
For in-hours coverage you receive coverage within twentysix’s UK Office hours (9AM to 5:30PM, Monday to Friday).
For 24/7 support you will receive coverage within twentysix’s UK Office hours (9AM to 5:30PM, Monday to Friday) plus 24 hours support coverage - consisting of 15 and a half hours, out of hours coverage (17:30 to 09:00 the following day, Monday to Friday). In addition, you receive 24 hours support coverage on bank holidays and weekends.
SLAs govern guaranteed response times.
We can provide bespoke support packages to fit your needs.
Cost is dependent on the coverage and amount of hours support required. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- We can offer full on-boarding sessions with training on the platform, as required. BigCommerce also provide extensive service documentation, from how-to videos through to technical API documentation, to suit users of all levels.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- Other
- Other documentation formats
- Video
- End-of-contract data extraction
- We have a full off-boarding process for the purposes of handing over data and other assets at the end of a contract. BigCommerce provides data export facilities for transaction, product catalogue and customer data, with controls to define the export format. Additionally we can provide bespoke export facilities using the BigCommerce API.
- End-of-contract process
- We have a full off-boarding process for the purposes of handing over data and other assets at the end of a contract, as well as closing off the contract formally and ensuring that all contractual requirements have been met in relation to the closure of work. This is all done as either project cost or T&M depending on agreement.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- No
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- The service is fully responsive and works across mobiles, desktop and other devices (TV, etc) with the same interface.
- Service interface
- No
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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BigCommerce operates by default as a full ecommerce system, incorporating backend services as well as a mobile first responsive presentation layer.
All core functions are also available via the API to allow the platform to operate as a headless commerce system. Endpoints include:
- Product catalogue
- Pricing
- Customer tiered pricing lists
- Shipping
- Customer login
- Customer information
- Shopping basket
- Checkout
- Payments
- Orders
Each API endpoint allows for the creation of new records as well as reading existing records, and thus allows for the creation of separate presentation layers, seamless integration into apps and external websites, and integration with backend systems and services such as product information management, bookkeeping, warehouse management, customer relationship management and other services.
Performance constraints are significantly higher than competitors, with up to 400 transactions per second allowed by default.
System administrators manage access to the APIs via the platform interface to specified accounts with access level controls, ensuring that only the exact privileges required for each type of integration needs to be granted. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
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Users can customise almost all aspects of operation, from appearance through to product catalogue structure, from customer checkout process to order fulfilment and tracking.
If using BigCommerce in as a traditional ecommerce website, all controls are made through the web administration interface. In a headless capacity or if integrating with external services, the API can be used for data and record creation and consumption whilst the web administration interface is used for policy level controls.
Administration permissions are managed within the web interface and full access level controls are implemented, meaning that each user can be enabled to customise the elements within their responsibilities without granting access to elements outside of their responsibilities.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- A fully scalable service which is set to automatically increase either individual resources or servers as is needed in relation to service demand.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- TBC
- Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- BigCommerce
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- EU-US Privacy Shield agreement locations
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- We have a full off-boarding process for the purposes of handing over data and other assets at the end of a contract. BigCommerce provides data export facilities for transaction, product catalogue and customer data, with controls to define the export format. Additionally we can provide bespoke export facilities using the BigCommerce API.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- XML
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- XML
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- As a fully ISO 27001 certified development partner we ensure at the start of any project that mechanisms are agreed for the transfer of data between parties - this is hugely dependent on the buyers requirements and twentysix can usually find a way to deliver against any requirement that the buyer may have.
- Data protection within supplier network
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- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- BigCommerce consistently averages 99.99% uptime each year, including during high traffic periods such as Cyber Week. SLAs and remedies vary by contract level, determined by the transaction volume and value.
- Approach to resilience
- Information relating to our service resilience is available on request.
- Outage reporting
- Outage reporting is delivered via public dashboard.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Restriction can take place using a number of different mechanisms from IP restriction through to locked out accounts.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- MQA, certificate 0549
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 18/07/16
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Our entire Leeds organisation is covered by our ISO 27001 certification.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Cyber Essentials Plus
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Information relating to our security policies is available upon request.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- As part of our ISO 27001 certification, change control and configuration management is vitally important to twentysix. We have a change management process which we are happy to supply upon request.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
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As part of our ISO 27001 certification, vulnerability management is vitally important to twentysix. We run a risk identificiation & management based model for any identified vulnerability.
Threats are generally identified through subscription to a number of services, including manufacturer/developer websites and email lists.
Any fix is generally audited by our IT/IS team against the types of systems we are running internally.
Depending on the findings of the IT/IS team then fixes are rolled out ASAP in line with internal and client requriements.
We have a full vulnerability management process which we are happy to supply upon request. - Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- As part of our ISO 27001 certification, monitoring is vitally important to twentysix. We have a full monitoring process & procedure which we are happy to supply upon request.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- As part of our ISO 27001 certification, incident management is vitally important to twentysix. We have a full incident management plan which we are happy to supply upon request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £350 to £875 a person a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
Service documents
Request an accessible format
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