Benzinga | Mar 11, 2021 08:39AM EST

BigCommerce Reports Partnerships With Fast Simon, Vertex

InstantSearch+ by Fast Simon, a leader in shopping optimization for merchants, today announced it has expanded its partnership with BigCommerce, a leading Open SaaS eCommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands. With the new agreement, InstantSearch+ is a Preferred Technology Partner, providing BigCommerce customers with InstantSearch+ AI-powered merchandising, search, and personalization, fueled by data on shopper behavior, store inventory, and visual signals.

Fast Simon's shopping optimization suite supports BigCommerce merchants, including B2B, B2C, and headless commerce, increasing conversion rates and average order value (AOV) by automatically matching shoppers' purchasing intent with merchandising priorities. According to a current InstantSearch+ merchant, adopting the powerful search platform led it to experience growth of up to 40% year over year.

"The fiercely competitive nature of the retail industry combined with today's COVID-induced challenges requires merchants to delight shoppers while maximizing value to merchants," said Zohar Gilad, co-founder and CEO at Fast Simon's InstantSearch+. "We're thrilled to expand our partnership with BigCommerce and provide its thousands of merchants with a platform to optimize the entire shopping experience and accelerate their growth."

Fast Simon's InstantSearch+ is revolutionizing AI retail by integrating shopper behavioral signals, store signals, and visual signals to automatically deliver search, merchandising, and personalization. The combination of multiple signals with collaborative AI engines results in an improved experience for shoppers and much higher conversion and AOV for merchants.

"Our partnership with Fast Simon further illustrates our commitment to providing merchants access to the highest-caliber technologies and service providers available in the industry," said Russell Klein, chief commercial officer for BigCommerce. "Fast Simon shares our desire to help merchants sell more and grow faster to maximize success, and we look forward to working together to mutually support customers."

BigCommerce Preferred Technology Partners are selected for offering best-in-class technologies, value, and superior customer service. BigCommerce customers can integrate InstantSearch+ through the BigCommerce App Marketplace.

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Vertex, Inc. (NASDAQ:VERX) ("Vertex" or the "Company"), a global provider of tax technology solutions, announced a partnership with BigCommerce, a proven e-commerce leader, to deliver sales and use tax automation to the BigCommerce Apps Marketplace. The partnership further expands the network of Vertex integrations connecting tax to ERP, procurement, billing and e-commerce systems, enabling retailers to seamlessly calculate tax for every transaction.

BigCommerce is an open SaaS cloud e-commerce platform that combines enterprise functionality with open-architecture and a broad application ecosystem. The integration with Vertex will empower thousands of B2B and B2C retailers across 150 countries and numerous industries who use BigCommerce with a robust sales and use tax solution, simplifying calculations, reporting and compliance.

"Transaction tax is an integral part of e-commerce; however, it can be difficult to manage because of frequently changing and complex requirements," said Chris Jones, chief revenue officer at Vertex. "With the Vertex tax solution, BigCommerce retailers gain access to powerful technology for calculations and reporting, as well as the most up-to-date tax data, enabling them to scale global operations with confidence."

In addition to streamlining compliance, Vertex also connects tax data to other business functions, such as procurement and the supply chain, optimizing resources and enabling strategic growth.

"Our partnership with Vertex further illustrates our commitment to providing merchants access to the highest-caliber technologies available in the industry," said Russell Klein, chief commercial officer for BigCommerce. "Vertex shares our desire to help merchants sell more products in more jurisdictions and easily scale to maximize success. We look forward to working together to mutually support our customers as tax complexity continues to become more complex across the globe."

The Vertex sales and use tax solution streamlines tax compliance as retailers add functions, locations and channels and provides continuously updated tax content across more than 19,000 global sales tax jurisdictions to ensure more accurate results. Vertex solutions connect to multiple business systems and provide a consistent view of tax across an organization.

To learn more about the Vertex and BigCommerce partnership, click here: http://vrtx.tax/GGhV30rsojf