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Our BigCommerce Tooling & Methods for Scalable, High-Performance Solutions
We use cutting-edge tools and methods to deliver powerful, scalable BigCommerce solutions. From Stencil CLI for safe theme development to GraphQL for headless storefronts, our proven processes ensure fast, efficient, and future-proof solutions.
Why
Why Choose Codinative’s BigCommerce Tooling & Methods?
At Codinative, we utilize the best tools and industry-standard methods to develop, optimize, and scale your BigCommerce store. Our approach ensures high-quality, efficient solutions with minimal risk and maximum flexibility.
Efficiency and Flexibility
Using Stencil CLI, GraphQL, and REST v3, we ensure efficient development workflows and flexible solutions that scale with your business.
Safe, Secure Development
Tools like Stencil CLI allow us to preview and test changes locally without affecting your live store, ensuring security and stability.
Channel-Aware Architecture
We build multi-storefront solutions that are optimized for multiple channels and regions, ensuring consistency across your stores.
Automation
With REST v3 and Webhooks, we automate critical tasks like inventory updates, order management, and customer data synchronization, reducing manual work.
Services
Our BigCommerce Tooling & Methods
Stencil CLI for Local Theme Development & Safe Previews
The Stencil CLI allows us to build and preview themes locally, ensuring a seamless development experience without disrupting your live store. By working with the Stencil theme engine, we can safely implement customizations and changes before they go live.
- Local Theme Development: Build and test BigCommerce themes on your local machine, speeding up development cycles.
- Safe Previews: Preview theme changes and test them in a controlled environment before pushing to production.
- Efficient Workflow: Streamline the development process with fast, iterative testing and deployment.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
Cornerstone/Open Checkout as Reference Implementations
We use Cornerstone and Open Checkout as reference implementations for our projects, ensuring solid, well-optimized foundations for BigCommerce stores. Where necessary, we customize and extend these implementations to meet specific business needs.
- Cornerstone Theme: Leverage the official Cornerstone theme as a starting point for clean, well-structured, and mobile-optimized designs.
- Open Checkout: Use the Open Checkout solution as a reference for building custom checkout flows with flexibility and speed.
- Best Practices: Ensure implementation follows BigCommerce’s best practices for optimal performance and scalability.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
GraphQL Storefront for Headless Data (Products, Carts, Checkout)
For clients who need advanced headless solutions, we use GraphQL Storefront to fetch data for products, carts, and checkout. This gives you a modern, flexible approach to storefront development, enabling fast, efficient data retrieval with minimal overhead.
- Headless Architecture: Build dynamic, fast-loading storefronts using Next.js or React, powered by GraphQL for data fetching.
- Optimized Data Queries: Use GraphQL to retrieve only the data needed, improving performance by reducing unnecessary API calls.
- Seamless Checkout Integration: Fetch checkout data using GraphQL for a smooth, headless checkout experience.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
REST v3 + Webhooks for Admin & Operational Automations
With REST v3 and Webhooks, we build powerful automation tools to streamline your operations. From order management and inventory syncing to customer data and marketing automations, we use REST API and Webhooks to make your store run more efficiently.
- REST API Integration: Automate backend processes, including inventory management, customer data updates, and more, with the REST v3 API.
- Staging Environments: Set up real-time notifications and automated workflows for events like new orders, customer registrations, or inventory updates.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduce manual intervention and improve accuracy with automated systems that keep your store’s data synced across platforms.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
Multi-Storefront Patterns for Channel-Aware Builds
For businesses that need to manage multiple storefronts, we implement multi-storefront (MSF) patterns that allow you to manage different storefronts, regions, and channels from one central backend. This allows you to efficiently scale your business while maintaining consistency across multiple locations.
- Multi-Storefront Setup: Manage multiple brands, regions, and languages with a single backend, ensuring easy updates and consistency.
- Channel-Aware Apps: Build apps and integrations that are aware of each storefront, ensuring each storefront operates independently while still sharing core functionalities.
- Scalable Architecture: Design systems that can scale as you add more stores or expand into new markets.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
Stencil Theming (Front-End Development)
Our Stencil theme development ensures your store’s UI is fast, clean, and fully responsive. Using Handlebars, SCSS, and JavaScript, we craft custom templates, regions, partials, and helpers to provide maximum flexibility and performance.
- Custom Templates & Partials: Hand-tailored templates for your store, designed for ease of maintenance and scalability.
- Performance by Default: All themes come pre-optimized for Core Web Vitals, ensuring your site meets Google’s performance standards.
- Page Builder-Friendly Components: We integrate easily customizable components and widgets, so you can manage content with ease.
- Local Development via Stencil CLI: Our developers work locally on your store using Stencil CLI for safe previews and rapid iteration, without ever touching the live store.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
Stencil Theming (Front-End Development)
Our Stencil theme development ensures your store’s UI is fast, clean, and fully responsive. Using Handlebars, SCSS, and JavaScript, we craft custom templates, regions, partials, and helpers to provide maximum flexibility and performance.
- Custom Templates & Partials: Hand-tailored templates for your store, designed for ease of maintenance and scalability.
- Performance by Default: All themes come pre-optimized for Core Web Vitals, ensuring your site meets Google’s performance standards.
- Page Builder-Friendly Components: We integrate easily customizable components and widgets, so you can manage content with ease.
- Local Development via Stencil CLI: Our developers work locally on your store using Stencil CLI for safe previews and rapid iteration, without ever touching the live store.
Why this matters: Using Stencil ensures a stable, customizable solution that integrates seamlessly with BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theme engine, allowing for fast, secure updates. The Stencil CLI further enables a safe development environment with live previews, speeding up the entire build process.
Process
Our BigCommerce Tooling & Methods Deliverables
Each project comes with clear, comprehensive deliverables to ensure your success. We provide full documentation and support for every tool and integration we implement.
Tool Setup & Configuration
Full setup of Stencil CLI, Cornerstone/Open Checkout, GraphQL Storefront, and other tools.
STEP 1
Documentation
Detailed guides on API integration, webhooks, and multi-storefront patterns.
STEP 2
Monitoring & Support
Ongoing support for tooling configurations, including bug fixes, feature updates, and performance monitoring.
STEP 3
Ready to Leverage Our BigCommerce Tooling & Methods?
Let Codinative help you implement the best tools and methods for your BigCommerce store. Book a discovery call today to discuss your needs.
Unlock Growth with Codinative’s BigCommerce Tooling & Multi-Storefront Expertise
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BigCommerce-Only Experts
With years of experience in BigCommerce, we specialize in using the right tools to deliver custom, scalable solutions.
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Efficient, Scalable Solutions
We build solutions that grow with your business, ensuring flexibility and scalability as your store expands.
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Channel-Aware & Multi-Storefront Architecture
Our solutions are optimized for managing multiple storefronts and channels, giving you control over your global eCommerce strategy.
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Continuous Support
We provide ongoing support for tooling configurations, updates, and optimizations.
Feedback
Testimonials
We reached out to Codinative to create a few page redesign mockups for our BigCommerce website. They were very professional and understood exactly what we were looking for without needing too much back and forth. The turn around time was quick, and the finished deliverable was of excellent quality and did not require any significant design revisions from us at all. I would definitely reach out to them again for future projects.
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Very happy with codinative's work was a very challenging build for three new sites . I was that happy that i cancelled the third site through no fault of anybody’s so i offered to pay for the site as a bonus for them both . They worked very hard we all did to keep working through the issues any site brings when migrating from another provider . Over happy with there hard work and effort they put in for me at a reasonable price so i felt paying the full amount was only fair .Thanks again to you and look forward in starting the seo work with you next .
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