ebay announces shutdown of small business software

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time July 2 morning, ebay announced in Tuesday, will close the Magento go and prostores Small enterprise electrical products in early 2015. Re/code, an American technology blogger, reported the news last week, which, according to ebay executives, would affect about 10,000 small business customers.

Small businesses that use these services can turn their online stores to other services by February 1, 2015. "We want to make sure that customers can schedule their plans before the holiday season," says Pisri. The

Ebay has released a variety of online resources to help customers decide what to do next. Magento hopes that some customers can upgrade to their corporate or community editions. But if customers are unwilling to do so, ebay advises them to turn to the company's previous rival, Bigcommerce.

Pisri said that Magento recommended customers to use Bigcommerce because the platform had previously successfully operated an online store that had migrated from other services, and that the platform had been integrated with other ebay businesses and PayPal. Steve Power, Bigcommerce's president, said the company had handled the transfer of online stores to 12,000 companies, including 6,000 former customers of Prostores.

The affected Magento customers are about 10,000, and if you can attract most of them, it will be a big deal for Bigcommerce. At present, Bigcommerce has about 50,000 customers. The company has received 75 million of dollars in venture capital and will offer special discounts to merchants who migrate from Magento. (d-Gold)