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Featured Store: Sing Statistics

by Matt on October 28th, 2009

Big Cartel - Sing Statistics

Featured Store: Present Joys

by Matt on October 19th, 2009

Big Cartel - Present Joys

Big Cartel turns 4

by Matt on October 4th, 2009

Today is Big Cartel’s 4th birthday!

Without getting too sappy, on behalf of all five of us here at Indie Labs (our new support guru Karen isn’t listed yet), I’d just like to thank all of you for creating such awesome stores, selling so many cool products, recommending us to your friends, and just making Big Cartel so much fun.

Cheers!

Featured Store: 410 BC

by Matt on September 23rd, 2009

Big Cartel - 410 BC

Upcoming changes to tax settings

by Matt on September 17th, 2009

On Tuesday, September 29th, we’ll be changing the way we handle taxes. Currently Big Cartel allows you to assign tax settings to each product, now however, taxes will be applied store-wide in your Store > Settings section. This makes it easier to have consistent tax settings across your store, without needing to hassle with each product individually.

Along with this change, we’ll be removing the field to charge a flat tax amount through Big Cartel, and you can instead use PayPal’s extensive tax features.

What does this mean for me?

If you don’t currently charge tax, or you’re already using PayPal’s tax features, then you don’t need to do anything! Everything will work exactly like it does already. If you currently charge a flat tax rate using Big Cartel, then you’ll just want to setup your PayPal tax settings to match those rates.

Lastly, if you’ve made changes to your cart page HTML or have a totally custom theme, you’ll want to make note of the changes to tax related variables in our HTML API.

As always, let us know if you have any questions.

Update: this change has now been made. You can learn more in the help area »

Featured Store: Ugmonk V2

by Matt on September 9th, 2009

Big Cartel - Ugmonk V2

Featured Store: Crispy Tees

by Matt on September 2nd, 2009

Big Cartel - Crispy Tees

Featured Store: Mewie

by Matt on September 1st, 2009

Big Cartel - Mewie

Featured Store: Kitchen.webshop

by Matt on August 25th, 2009

View Kitchen.webshop on Big Cartel

New Site and Directory

by Eric on June 23rd, 2009

New Big Cartel Site and Directory

With the dawn comes the rise of a new Big Cartel site. Last night we launched some updates to our main site and store directory that we hope will explain Big Cartel more clearly and make things easier to use. In addition to revamping the design, we’ve changed the organization of the site to provide more upfront information and examples, the ability to sign up for any plan right from the start, and a bunch of other little bits and pieces.

We’ve also given the store directory its own space now and added in a highly-requested search feature. While our aim continues to be to provide simple, individual stores, as opposed to becoming a community marketplace, these changes to the directory should expose more of the awesome stores using Big Cartel.