ebay announces it will close its magento go and prostores Small Business ecommerce products

Absrtact: July 2, electric business giant EBay announced in Tuesday that the company will close its magento go and prostores Small Business e-commerce products in early 2015, confirming the Technology web site Re/code last week's report. An ebay executive said the move to close the product would be about

July 2, electric business giant ebay announced in Tuesday that the company will close its magento go and prostores Small Business e-commerce products in early 2015, confirmed the technology website Re/code last week's report.

An ebay executive said the move to close the products would have an impact on some 10,000 small business customers who are currently using Magento go and prostores services to support their online stores.

Craig Peasley, marketing director for Magento Services, said in an interview that ebay's decision to close these products was intended to focus on two Magento e-business software products that have been successful, They are enterprise-class services Magento Enterprise and Community Edition (Community Edition), where online merchant customers have a larger scale than Magento go and prostores service customers.

Previously, the Magento department had cut dozens of employees to refocus its operations. Pisli said ebay is not expected to take further redundancy measures as a result of the closure of the service.

ebay says Small business customers can use other services to support their online stores before February 1, 2015. "We want to make sure that these customers are able to plan before the holidays arrive," Pisli said. ”

Ebay has provided a variety of resources over the network to help its customers decide what to do next. Magento's hope is that some customers will opt to upgrade to use enterprise-or community-level products, but for businesses that do not need to use these levels of service, ebay recommends switching to a former competitor Bigcommerce service, a proposal that re/ Code was previously reported to match the content.

Pisli pointed out that Magento to recommend Bigcommerce services, because the latter has successfully transferred from other services online store history. In addition, Bigcommerce's existing products are also integrated with ebay and PayPal's other services. Steven Power, Bigcommerce's president, said the company had previously dealt with 12,000 companies that had switched to its services from other E-commerce platforms, including 6,000 former customers of Prostores services.

Of the 10,000 Magento customers who will be affected, if Bigcommerce can take over a large part of the client, it will be a big deal for the company. For now, the total number of Bigcommerce customers is around 50,000, Powell said.

Bigcommerce has raised 75 million of dollars in wind investments. Now, the company is offering special discounts to Magento customers who use their services instead. Snow）