Ecwid by Lightspeedis an amazing eCommerce platform! It is a Software as a Services service that allows you to place your shop on any other Internet site, and not only this! This is the reason the motto of the company is "Sell anywhere".
The Ecwid by Lightspeed store can in fact be inserted into any website using widgets, but also in specific content management systems such as WordPress, Wix, Weebly, Joomla, RapidWeaver, and Squarespace. It is also possible to use it without a support CMS (Instant site). There are also native integrations with Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Facebook Messenger, and Google Shopping. The diffusion of your store on mobile devices is possible thanks to ShopApp®, an App that reflects your store on Android and Apple devices, which can be published on Google Play and App Store.
After activating the integration with the external CMS, it is possible to customize the appearance of the elements that make up the eCommerce in various ways: vary the size of the images and the proportion between width and height, decide which elements to display on the product page (name, subtitle, SKU, etc ..) and with which layout to arrange them, define the style of the categories, etc ...
Many payment methods are accepted, and no commissions are charged on sales.
The elements that define the data sheet of each product are the following:
- Name (multilingual)
- SKU
- Weight
- Request for shipment or collection (for physical goods)
- Availability of stock (with various options to manage cases in which the products are not available)
- Description HTML (multilingual)
- One or more categories to which it belongs (managed at several levels, even in multilingual)
- Attributes (multilingual), thanks to which any accompanying information can be managed: barcode, brand, material, color, etc.
- Options (without stock control) and variations (with stock control)
- Attached files, such as technical sheets
- Shipping methods and costs (general for the shop or specific for the product)
- Sale price and any reference price (crossed-out price)
- Taxes applied (e.g. VAT) with the possibility of automatic calculation based on the destination of the goods
- Metadata for SEO positioning
- Related products
Browsing the catalog and searching of the products is facilitated by appropriate filters, which can concern:
- the discounted products
- the price range
- the categories
- any attribute inserted to describe the product
- and free search
The integration (through a special App) allows you to populate the catalog Ecwid by Lightspeed starting from the data already present in the bindCommerce catalog and subsequently keeping it updated. The next immediate developments will concern the acquisition of orders and their status update.
The development of the reverse processes will follow: allowing the population of bindCommerce to start from the catalog already published on Ecwid by Lightspeed and acquiring the orders present on other online channels on Ecwid by Lightspeed , so as to be able to use the eCommerce site as a "command center" for its own activities sale for different marketplaces.
Note that the care with which the attribute management (classified using Product Types) has been designed makes Ecwid by Lightspeed suitable to perform the function of PIM (Product Information Management).
The initial configuration of the integration between bindCommerce and Ecwid by Lightspeed can be performed independently by following the instructions available on this site.
Ecwid by Lightspeed integration technical tutorial
You can still request that the initial configuration service be carried out on a project basis by the bindCommerce team. We invite you to contact us to find out more about your needs.
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