Third Party Integrations

Third party integrations

Social integration

You can encourage social media sharing within your community and raise the visibility of site content across the web by adding Social media modules to your site.

You can display the social media features on web pages and templates as well as within modules such as Blogs, Web Apps and Bookings.

Social media sharing modules (Like button, Comments, Activity Feed, Send button and a Twitter Tweet button.) are available with all BC site plans and starting with the webCommerce 1-user plan, you will also have the option to integrate Facebook and Twitter accounts by inserting a Facebook/Twitter login area.

Mobile support

All BC site plans cover mobile support.

Using BC, you can build sites (e.g. which work properly on all smartphones and tablets. These will not work on non-smartphone devices.

While BC offers the tools for you to accomplish this, you will have to build all the content by yourself. Here's how:

The BC Admin Console (e.g. is not supported on phones.

API frameworks

This system has an extensive API (application programming interface) framework which you can use to communicate, synchronize, or undertake an action with your own external application. For example if you are an online shop and you want to adjust inventory levels in real-time as shoppers buy from you, then you can simply utilize this API. Other uses of the API include the ability to synchronize your entire customer database on this system with that located at your office. The API framework will in fact give you the freedom to undertake all sorts of tasks that are specific to the success of your business.

There are 2 API frameworks.

1) The Notification API

2) The Web Services API

Notification API

This is a simple framework that you can setup so this system pings your external application when certain events happen. Events include an online shop purchase, a request for quote via your online shop, a new customer enquiry via one of your web forms and so forth.

The Web Services API

The web services API is an XML based framework that allows you to query the system and retrieve almost any type of data stored in your database. For example, using web services you can retrieve details about your customers, you can retrieve details for purchases including products purchased, payments received and their status.

SEO

Improving your website's ranking in search engine results is critical to making the web an effective part of your business.

Business Catalyst automatically generates a sitemap that Google, Yahoo!, and Bing can use, helping to ensure that your website gets maximum visibility through these popular search engines.

More than that, BC delivers complex tools to help you customize SEO friendly URLs.

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