1. Complex Data Management: As your product catalog grows, organizing and managing products within BigCommerce becomes increasingly complex. Without advanced data management features, it gets challenging to maintain accurate and consistent product information, handle product variations, or manage bulk updates efficiently.

2. Cumbersome Manual Operations: For managing product data with BigCommerce’s dashboard, you may rely on manual input or editing, or Excel uploads, which are time-consuming and error-prone tasks. For example, updating prices, inventory levels, or adding new product images individually can be a lot to take on and hence leading to human error, especially when dealing with large product catalogs.

3. Risk of Data Loss: Storing all your product data exclusively within your BigCommerce store poses a risk of losing data. Accidental updates/deletions, technical glitches, security breaches, and server issues can potentially wipe out your valuable product data without the ability to recover it easily. Without a centralized system for your product data and regular backups, your business is exposed to the consequences of losing the lifeblood of your online store.

 4. Data Centralization & Enrichment Limitations: While BigCommerce provides basic data enrichment capabilities, it may not offer the extensive functionalities required for optimizing product data across various sales channels and marketplaces. To effectively market your products, reach a wider audience, and deliver an omnichannel experience, you need a single source of truth for your products, categories, brands, pricing, digital assets, etc., and the ability to enrich your product data with additional attributes, descriptions, images, documents, and videos. By solely relying on BigCommerce, you might miss out on opportunities to effectively showcase your products and maximize your online visibility across channels.

5. Limited Collaboration and Data Quality Control: BigCommerce provides the basic control over the visibility of your products but may lack collaborative features and quality control for your products making it challenging to streamline teamwork and ensure data accuracy. If you have a team responsible for managing product data, coordinating tasks, approvals, and maintaining visibility across different phases of data management then it gets crucial without a comprehensive platform that gives you the ability to avoid inconsistent data entry, inaccurate product details, or non-compliance with industry standards ensure customer trust, search engine visibility, and overall business credibility is intact.