Great news for US-based sellers! Your customers can now pay with Venmo during checkout. No extra setup needed if you're already using PayPal—it's automatically enabled for your US shoppers.

Why this matters:

• Boost your checkout conversion with one of the most popular payment methods

• Automatically shows up for US-based customers

• All PayPal payments (including Venmo) are still received in your PayPal account

Already using PayPal? You're all set! Venmo will automatically appear as a payment option for eligible US customers.

Want to add Venmo to your shop? Simply connect PayPal as a payment processor in your account settings, and you'll get Venmo support included!

The 2024 Holiday Selling Tool Kit is here — we've pulled together the best tips and resources so you can make the most of the biggest shopping time of the year!

What’s in the toolkit?

• A rundown of new and existing features you can use to boost sales, improve your customer service, and streamline your shop management 

• Holiday calendar with key shopping dates and shipping deadlines

• Webinar to get your shop holiday-ready

• Downloadable hero banner templates for your shop

Plus so much more — here’s to your best season yet!

Bring a little extra fun to your shop with our newest FREE shop enhancement, Shop Sprinkles! This setting in the shop designer lets you select the emoji of your choice to sprinkle gently down the screen on your shop.

Perfect for adding a festive or personalized touch that delights customers and makes your site stand out. Whether it’s snowflakes, stars, or seasonal emojis, sprinkles are here to make your shop more playful and engaging!

We added a new App Center to showcase all of our apps and integrations available to Big Cartel sellers. Each app includes a dedicated page that helps walk through setup and key features. Many apps now offer simple one-click installations, making it easier than ever to get started!

We’ve also added new apps for DropInBlog, Chatway, Common Ninja for our sellers on paid plans.

We released a new enhanced product table view for all sellers. This table view gives you the ability to sort, filter, and directly edit product details without having to navigate to each individual product.

Talk about a glow up! We’ve redesigned all of the email templates used for our seller's shops — including order receipts and shipping notifications. These new designs are clean, modern, friendlier on mobile devices, and provides more information to your customers about their orders. All shops immediately benefit from this with no opt-in or change required.

We've improved the order shipment process for manually added shipping details, including notifications to customers with tracking information. This update especially benefits our international sellers. Improvements include:

• Added 18 new carriers

• Based on your shop’s account country, we recommend certain carriers as "top" carriers which will more commonly match what they are looking for. Previously we were always recommending USPS, UPS and Fedex only.

• Optimized the workflow to make it faster and less error-prone

We’ve added express checkout for shops using Stripe as their payment processor. Express checkout allows your customers to quickly complete their purchase by skipping billing and shipping information, leading to higher conversion rates and increased sales. Express checkout works with Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe Link.

We’ve added our first new shop template in 4 years! Introducing Cosmos, our latest template that is available for sellers on both free and paid plans.

It’s a theme that is suitable for both beginners and experienced sellers who want a flexible and visually appealing template that can be easily customized to meet their specific needs. Whether you are just getting started or looking to change things up, Cosmos has you covered.

For all templates, we’ve also introduced a new Style Picker which makes it easier to pick visually appealing combinations of colors and fonts. The style picker gives you single click presets for each theme that can get you and running more quickly.