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The Kibo team recently hosted its annual Kibo Client Summit – Kibo CONNECT – in Dallas, Texas to bring together clients, partners, and team members. Traveling from all over the world, we’re grateful to connect…

What are the advantages of unified commerce? How does it compare to omnichannel? And how can a unified platform help you succeed in 2021?

Every interaction customers have with your business throughout the buyer’s journey counts. From the moment they discover your service or products, you have an opportunity to create brand champions that drive meaningful success for your…

Retailers have been undergoing, or talking about undergoing, a digital transformation for the past 5-7 years. The continued rise in online sales has heightened consumer expectations around what interacting with a retailer can and should…

We recently hosted our Kibo Client Summit in LA to connect with our customers and team members. In the world we currently live in, we’re grateful for the opportunity to bring together retail leaders from…

BOPIS and curbside pickup have come from virtually nowhere to become a mainstay of modern retail fulfillment. And what might have been seen as a temporary reaction on the part of consumers to pandemic-era conditions…

The consumer path to purchase increasingly involves social platforms, according to recent research from Gartner. In fact, over the next five years, about 60% of younger consumers—Gen Z and Millennials—will choose to make a purchase…

This post was recently updated. Originally published on September 26, 2017. Replatforming horror stories abound. It takes too long, it’s too much money, sites crash, sales plummet; it’s an eCommerce bloodbath. While these failures may…

According to research from IDC, 62% of organizations surveyed said that 40-79% of their sales occur on digital commerce platforms. In addition, 45% of organizations need a digital commerce platform that is oriented to both B2C…

The direct-to-consumer (D2C) retail model is in trouble. D2C retailers differ from traditional retailers by removing middlemen in favor of producing their own products and selling them directly to end consumers. D2C businesses are facing…

As I shared in my previous blog posts, the team at Kibo is very excited about being named the sole Leader in The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022. If you want to learn…

As I shared in my previous blog post, the team at Kibo is so excited about being named the sole Leader in The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022. In this report, Kibo Headless…

Recently, Kibo was named as the Leader in the latest edition of The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022 report. In fact, Kibo was named as the sole leader among the nine other vendors…

The past two years have demonstrated that consumers are ready and willing to change their behavior to find and purchase the things they need. Shoppers migrated online in droves in 2020, with eCommerce sales up…

This post was recently updated. Originally published on December 17, 2019. Kibo Unified Commerce platform, with a microservices framework, offers commerce and store operations professionals a wide array of tools to get their work done…

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) retail is a selling approach that bypasses the use of traditional middlemen and third-party suppliers. D2C businesses like Warby Parker, Allbirds, and Birchbox are manufacturers and retailers rolled into one. They create (or…

In September 2020, about six months after the pandemic drove people into their homes and forced mandatory shutdowns across the globe, Whole Foods opened its first online-only store. The store was created to keep up…

In case you missed the news, here’s a quick look at our top product releases from Q1 2022:  PERSONALIZATION Enhanced Product Finder Features for Customization and Boost & Bury Capabilities  PRODUCT FINDER   Improved Out-Of-The-Box…

Earlier this week, several of our Kibonauts attended Shoptalk US 2022 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Our team was excited to engage with Shoptalk US attendees, including many of our customers, in person again…

A look at our top 9 product updates and releases from the last year for each Kibo product, and our favorite for each.  Let’s take a look at our favorite 2021 releases: PERSONALIZATION SOCIAL PROOF We released Social Proof in February, with key updates enabling inventory-based (scarcity) messaging…

By now, most retailers understand that customer experience (CX) is a priority when it comes to ecommerce. Providing an excellent online shopping experience is even more important than the quality of the product or service,…

As part of Kibo’s ongoing effort to enhance our developer resources, we have updated and improved our API documentation, making API integration simpler and faster. The Kibo Unified Commerce Platform REST APIs provide excellent performance,…

Kibo Commerce has been ranked #1 in Core Commerce in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Digital Commerce 2021 report. Core commerce is defined as “quality, sophistication and ease of use of the core commerce functions…

How do you build a customer-centric holiday shopping season strategy following an uncertain 2020? It starts with understanding the latest ecommerce trends and shifts in customer shopping habits. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the…

Companies with unified commerce were 600% more likely to see higher revenue than their peers during pandemic.