Hi
BigCommerce is a hosted solution where you create your front store but it's hosted with them and the scripting access is limited somehow. However, they do have an API that allows developers to push or pull different pieces of data in/out, and that includes updating products. That's where I'm heading ... I'd like to discuss with you building a web app (can be hosted anywhere) where you will upload your suppliers' xml files and they'll be processed and info updated into your bigcommerce shop. Could you please provide a sample of your xml file including the necessary documentation (explaining all the xml values). Also, if your supplier(s) have any other format available (xls, csv) that'd be good to know. One other thing, if your supplier has some automated tools where data can be pulled from (such as an API or FTP account to download the xml from) that'd be even better, because then it could be easier for you, as you won't have to deal with any manual uploads, but I could build the functionality directly into my web app, it'll just connect to supplier, fetch the xml, parse it and in the end update bigcommerce :) What do you think of it ? Sounds feasable ?
Regards
Dragos