Getting started with metafields
Metafields are a powerful way to enrich your BigCommerce store with content.
They’re most commonly used on products as they can fit more characters than custom fields. However, metafields are available on a wide range of resources: product variants, brands, categories, customers, orders, channels and locations.
Create simple to use workflows with shared metafields
It can be a pain to go through the process of creating a metafield on every product so we created shared metafields.
With shared metafields, you can define all fields and their type in advance, e.g. product relations, back-in-stock date or USP content block.
This means you can hide away the complexity of metafields and focus on managing your store.
Deep dive into our developer content
We know BigCommerce inside and out and enjoy sharing different development techniques on using metafields. You can read up on our guides on how to:
Use custom resources to create your own CMS
With custom resources, you can create your own content types and their fields. This is great for managing shared content.
Use it to create size guides, write them once, and then assign them to products with a new Size Guide shared metafield.
Pricing
Basic
- View, create and edit metafields
Premium
- View, create and edit metafields
- Shared metafields
- Import/export
- Priority support
Enterprise
- View, create and edit metafields
- Shared metafields
- Custom resources
- Import/Export
- Multi-storefront support
- Priority support
Basic
- View, create and edit metafields
Premium
- View, create and edit metafields
- Shared metafields
- Import/export
- Priority support
Enterprise
- View, create and edit metafields
- Shared metafields
- Custom resources
- Import/Export
- Multi-storefront support
- Priority support