YouGiveGoods
YouGiveGoods Launches Unique Donation-Based Platform on BigCommerce B2B Edition
Distributed Ecommerce Hub Admin Portal for Drive Management
Headless Storefront with Makeswift + Vercel
Eliminated PCI Compliance Overhead
Scalable Solution for High-Volume Seasonal Traffic
YouGiveGoods (YGG) is an innovative charitable giving platform that connects corporations with charities through organized donation drives. As the premier goods donation platform, YGG empowers donors to choose new goods to donate to those in need, while also ensuring individuals will receive quality items.
THE CHALLENGE
Security, Costs, and Complexity Holding Back Growth
YGG’s previous system was built entirely in-house with significant operational overhead and technical debt. The legacy platform required custom coding, ongoing maintenance, and quarterly PCI audits that drained resources and created liability risks. High hosting costs and managing payment security independently limited YGG’s ability to scale and focus on its mission of facilitating charitable giving.
Additionally, YGG needed a solution that could handle its unique dual-user workflow: corporate users who create and manage donation drives, and guest users who donate through shared links without creating accounts. The seasonal nature of its business, with major traffic spikes during back-to-school and holiday periods, required a platform that could scale reliably during peak donation seasons. YGG needed a modern platform that could handle these complexities, reduce ongoing maintenance, and offer a better user experience.
THE SOLUTION
Empowering Scalable Giving with a Modern Headless Architecture
YGG partnered with Silk Commerce to develop a custom charitable giving site powered by BigCommerce B2B Edition and a sophisticated headless architecture. The new site features Silk Commerce’s Distributed Ecommerce Hub Admin Portal that enables corporate users to manage complex donation drives and campaigns with full control over customer selection, product curation, and drive customization. YGG’s new site also features a headless storefront, built on Makeswift and hosted on Vercel, ensuring high performance and flexibility in both frontend and backend operations. In addition, YGG has significantly reduced PCI compliance burdens with their new site on BigCommerce B2B Edition. This scalable foundation supports multiple donation drives while delivering improved experiences for both corporate administrators and end users, positioning YGG for sustained growth in the charitable giving space..
KEY FEATURES
Distributed Ecommerce Hub’s Admin Portal now gives YGG and corporate users control over donation drives and campaigns. Users can now manage product catalogs, assign products to causes, and ensure that each drive is tailored to the charity’s needs.
YGG’s new site utilizes a headless storefront with Makeswift and Vercel, delivering faster performance, seamless scalability, and a flexible front-end that operates independently from the back-end.
By using BigCommerce’s secure checkout, YGG’s new site now removes the liability and manual effort associated with maintaining strict PCI compliance.
YGG’s new site can now scale automatically, supporting thousands of simultaneous users and large order volumes without sacrificing the performances that comes with high-volume demand.
