News / Amazon fulfilment tie-up for BigCommerce merchants puts heat on integrators

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Amazon is offering fulfilment to merchants selling on the BigCommerce platform – a move that signals a growing appetite for third-party delivery businesses and increasing competition for UPS and FedEx.

BigCommerce, a competitor of Shopify, is integrating Amazon’s Multi-Channel Fulfilment (MCF) service into its platform for its US clients, giving them the same service options as users of the Fulfilment By Amazon (FBA) service.

They send the goods to Amazon fulfilment centres for delivery on one- to five-day services.

“Amazon MCF will help ...