You can mention detailed information about your products in Akeneo. But first, you need to do the mapping of Akeneo attributes with BigCommerce product fields. So that all the product information is synchronized accurately.

• Sync BigCommerce product fields with Akeneo attributes
• You can mention any fixed value for the exported products
• Mention Akeneo attributes for images
• Mention Akeneo attributes for custom fields

Categories allow you group products that are similar to each other. While running product export job, the categories are automatically created in BigCommerce. Also, the products are auto-assigned to their categories, if any category is already available in BigCommerce.

• Auto export categories
• Auto-assign categories to product
• Works with sub-categories as well

Upload high-resolution product images and export them to your BigCommerce store. All the product images are exported with product export data. Please make sure you have mentioned image attribute codes in configuration.

• Send high-resolution images
• Works with various extensions
• Model image becomes thumbnail image

Export SEO related information for your product pages. Optimize the SEO content for the search engine listing and get user traffic. The following SEO data can be sent from Akeneo to BigCommece:-

• Page Title
• Meta Keywords
• Meta Description

Using various built-in filters in Akeneo you can decide which products will be exported to BigCommerce store. You don't have export all the catalog to your store, you can send products according to category, status, family, completeness, or time condition.

• Export specific products using SKU
• Export products according to the category selected
• Select default channel, locale, and currency
• Select which attributes will be exported to BigCommerce

Custom fields allow you to mention additional information that will appear on the products page, such as a book's ISBN or a DVD's release date or detailed specifications. The location of these fields on your product page may differ depending on your theme. Custom fields appear automatically in the product's details if they are defined on the product.

• Map custom fields in Akeneo configuration
• Custom fields are automatically sent via. export product job

Brand Lighting (United States) - Brand Lighting is a showroom full of branded chandeliers, pendants, and other lighting equipment decorates Brand Lighting. The website consists of over 1000 pages and has over 5000 products on their website.

The company was finding difficulties to manage and enrichment of the products on the website. Finally, they found their solution as Akeneo Bigcommerce connector. With this connector, now they can easily connect the store, enrich the product and upload it to the store in less time.

To read more about Brand Lighting success story, please click here.

Akeneo 3.0 (Akeneo 3.1) is Long Term Supported (LTS) version which includes three main terms:

• Managing reference entities,
• Support for Single Sign-On, and
• Performance improvements.

Akeneo has done some technical improvements like:

• Elasticsearch 6.5.4 Support,
• PHP 7.2 Support, and
• MySQL Encoding (Utf8mb4) Support.

Now it is easy to load 1,000,000 products and 20,000 categories in two seconds in Akeneo grid. Also, export 100 products in 10 min (with images + reindexing) for two store views.

We have made all our Akeneo modules compatible with Akeneo 3.0 & 3.1. And implemented RabbitMQ to make the export process faster.

We have added Automated Process to export products using automate CSV upload and made it work with Akeneo Community and Enterprise editions with latest features.