Ryan Breen
COO
BigCommerce Partner
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Anchor Group is a U.S.-based ecommerce development agency and BigCommerce Certified Partner with experienced ecommerce consultants and full-stack BigCommerce developers. We help businesses implement, develop, integrate, and improve BigCommerce websites, from new storefronts and migrations to custom functionality, NetSuite integrations, and ongoing support.
What Does a BigCommerce Partner Do?
BigCommerce Partner Types, Services, and Expertise
BigCommerce partners can play different roles depending on what a business needs, whether you're launching a new ecommerce store or improving an existing one. That can include ecommerce consulting, implementation, development, customization, integrations, migrations, SEO, and ongoing support. In this video, we break down the different types of BigCommerce partners, the services they typically provide, and where the right partner can help when your requirements go beyond what your team wants to handle internally.
What Is a BigCommerce Partner?
A BigCommerce partner is a company recognized by BigCommerce for its experience helping businesses implement, customize, develop, and support the BigCommerce platform. Depending on the partner, those services may include website development, ecommerce consulting, integrations, migrations, SEO, custom application development, and ongoing support.
Working with an experienced BigCommerce partner can be especially useful when your requirements go beyond standard platform configuration. A partner can help determine what BigCommerce already handles well, where an existing app makes sense, and when a requirement actually calls for custom development or an integration.
As a BigCommerce Certified Partner, Anchor Group works across both the storefront and the systems behind it, helping businesses build BigCommerce environments around the way they actually sell and operate.
Why Work With a BigCommerce Certified Partner?
BigCommerce gives businesses a lot of flexibility, but that also means there are plenty of decisions to make around storefront architecture, themes, apps, integrations, B2B functionality, APIs, and custom development.
A BigCommerce Certified Partner brings platform-specific experience to those decisions. That matters when you're trying to determine what BigCommerce can already handle, where an existing app makes sense, and when a requirement actually calls for custom development.
Depending on your project, that experience may include:
- BigCommerce platform consulting
- Certified development expertise
- Storefront and theme development
- B2B ecommerce
- Custom apps and APIs
- ERP and third-party integrations
- Ecommerce migrations
- Implementation support
- Ongoing support after go-live
The goal isn't to customize BigCommerce simply because you can. It's to make the platform fit the business without creating more technology for your team to maintain than the requirement actually calls for.
A BigCommerce Partner With the Heart of a Teacher
We want clients to understand the systems we're helping them build. That means explaining why we're recommending something, being clear about the tradeoffs, and telling you when the simpler option is probably the better one.
The goal isn't to make your team dependent on ours. It's to leave you with a BigCommerce environment you understand and can actually live with after the project is finished.
And when you do need us again, we'll be here.
What Our Customers Say
Why Choose Anchor Group as Your BigCommerce Partner?
BigCommerce Certified Partner
Our team works directly in the BigCommerce ecosystem across implementation, development, B2B ecommerce, integrations, apps, SEO, and ongoing support.-
BIGDEV Certified Developers
Our BigCommerce developers have completed platform-specific developer training in addition to their hands-on development experience. -
U.S.-Based, Onshore Team
Work directly with BigCommerce developers, consultants, and project managers based in the United States. -
Full-Stack BigCommerce Developers
Our team works across front-end and back-end requirements, including storefront development, themes, APIs, apps, integrations, and custom functionality. -
BigCommerce + NetSuite Expertise
Anchor Group works with both BigCommerce and NetSuite ERP, which becomes particularly useful when ecommerce requirements touch inventory, customers, pricing, fulfillment, accounting, or other operational data. -
BigCommerce SEO Services
Our ecommerce work doesn't have to stop when the website launches. We also help businesses improve the technical and content foundations that affect how their BigCommerce storefront performs in search.
Meet Some BigCommerce Team Faces
Our BigCommerce Services
BigCommerce projects rarely stay confined to the storefront. A new website may also involve a migration, ERP integration, custom functionality, B2B requirements, SEO, or systems that need to keep working long after the new site goes live. Anchor Group brings BigCommerce developers, ecommerce consultants, integration specialists, and NetSuite expertise together so those requirements can be handled by one team. We've worked with businesses across manufacturing, food, automotive, construction, sporting goods retail, and other industries where the ecommerce website is closely connected to the way the rest of the business operates.
BigCommerce Development Services
Our team at Anchor Group includes skilled, experienced BigCommerce developers who can build successful websites. Additionally, Anchor Group’s status as a BigCommerce Certified Partner and BigCommerce BIGDEV Certified demonstrates its commitment to its capabilities.
BigCommerce Migration Services
Are you considering a BigCommerce implementation? At Anchor Group, we specialize in guiding clients just like you through the ecommerce platform selection & migration process. Need help migrating your ecommerce data to a BigCommerce site? We're here to support.
BigCommerce Implementation and Customization
Anchor Group will get your BigCommerce site up and running, helping you achieve a beautiful web presence with powerful ecommerce functionality. Once your site is live, our team can help you maintain and customize it.
Implementing BigCommerce BigCommerce SEO Services
Search engine optimization (SEO) is critical to ecommerce today. At Anchor Group, we take pride in our team of trained and skilled BigCommerce consultants who specialize in creating strategic SEO plans to capitalize on your website’s SEO opportunity.
BigCommerce NetSuite Integration
By integrating BigCommerce with NetSuite, you get a beautiful ecommerce platform powered by a single source of data truth in NetSuite that supports all your business operations. Our team here at Anchor Group is ready to support you.
Full NetSuite ERP Implementations
Implementing NetSuite is a big project, and early decisions tend to stick around. Our NetSuite ERP implementation services combine experienced consultants and developers with a practical approach to configuration, data migration, customization, training, and go-live, helping you build an ERP around the way your business actually operates.
BigCommerce Integration Partners
Most ecommerce businesses don't run on BigCommerce alone. Orders, customers, inventory, payments, shipping, and other data usually need to move between several systems, and problems tend to show up when those systems disagree about what happened.
As a BigCommerce integration partner, Anchor Group helps connect BigCommerce with systems including:
- NetSuite ERP
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Shipping platforms
- Payment gateways
- Inventory management systems
- Marketing automation tools
The right integration depends on which system should own the data, where it needs to go, and how quickly it needs to get there. We help businesses work through those decisions before reaching for custom development, then build or configure the connection that makes sense for the requirement.
USA-Based BigCommerce Partner
Looking for a USA-based BigCommerce partner? Anchor Group's BigCommerce developers and consultants are based in the United States, with our headquarters in Wisconsin. Your project isn't handed off to an outsourced development team after the sales process.
The people you meet are the people doing the work. That makes it considerably easier to talk through requirements, solve problems, and make decisions when something doesn't fit neatly into the original plan.
Keeping the work onshore doesn't mean adding unnecessary hours to the project. We've built our delivery processes around doing the work efficiently, using existing BigCommerce functionality where it makes sense, and reserving custom development for requirements that actually need it.
As a U.S.-based BigCommerce partner agency, we give clients direct access to the consultants and developers working on their BigCommerce environment.
BigCommerce Certified Partner + NetSuite Alliance Partner
Anchor Group works on both sides of the ecommerce and ERP relationship. We're a BigCommerce Certified Partner and a NetSuite Alliance Partner, with experience across BigCommerce storefronts, NetSuite ERP, SuiteCommerce, integrations, implementations, and post-go-live development.
That becomes particularly useful when a BigCommerce project reaches into inventory, customers, pricing, fulfillment, accounting, or other NetSuite data. Instead of having a BigCommerce team and a NetSuite team point at opposite sides of the integration, our developers and consultants can follow the requirement across both systems.
If you're connecting BigCommerce with NetSuite—or trying to fix a connection that's already there—you can bring us the whole problem.
Ready to work with a BigCommerce Partner?
Tell us where things stand with BigCommerce.
You might be planning a new project, improving an existing storefront, sorting out an integration, or looking for a team that can stick around as things change. Tell us what's happening today, and we'll take it from there.
What happens after you submit?
1. Terry will reach out. Usually in about an hour... except on weekends, when he'll be on lake time.
2. We'll talk through your ecommerce operation. We'll ask what's working, where you're running into trouble, and what you're trying to accomplish.
3. We'll figure out the right next step. We'll bring in the BigCommerce consultants, developers, or other experts who make sense for the situation.
BigCommerce Partner FAQs
There are different kinds of BigCommerce partners. There are tech partners and agency partners. The tech partners specialize in a specific app or software integration within the BigCommerce ecosystem. BigCommerce agency partners focus time and energy on BigCommerce website development (front end and/or back end). You need to determine which type of BigCommerce partner you need to work with that best fits your needs.
The cost of working with a BigCommerce partner will depend on the type of partner you’re working with and the tasks. Most BigCommerce partners will charge either a time and material (fixed hourly rate) or through a fixed-bid.
There are two types of BigCommerce partners.
BigCommerce tech partners own a piece of software (app, external software, integration) that can be used on your BigCommerce website. These tech partners generally have teams of employees who update, manage, and, sometimes, help implement the tech onto your BigCommerce account.
BigCommerce Agency partners help develop or optimize the front end and/or back end of your BigCommerce ecommerce website. This includes tasks like theme development, custom features development, operational optimization, software integrations, etc.
The length of the project is dependent on the required tasks. Some projects can take a couple of weeks to upwards of nine months. It all depends on the complexity of your project.
Yes. Migrating a website from your current ecommerce hosting platform to BigCommerce is a very common project for most BigCommerce Agencies, like Anchor Group. This usually entails defining the requirements, developing a custom BigCommerce theme, establishing BigCommerce integrations to external software, downloading BigCommerce apps, optimizing the back end of BigCommerce, and creating an order flow process. Most BigCommerce agency partners, like Anchor Group, can help with all of this and more!
