Why I Prefer BigCommerce Over Shopify & Magento
February 04, 2021
Why I Prefer BigCommerce Over Shopify & Magento
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with BigCommerce
We're using BigCommerce for our brands after migrating from Magento 2. We evaluated several SaaS ecommerce platforms and landed on BigCommerce (Enterprise plan) as the one that would give us the most features and flexibility, yet still having the lowest total cost of ownership (at least in our case).
- Features (less reliance on 3rd party plugins)
- Price (almost half the price of Shopify Plus in our case)
- Community Resources (e.g. forums, monthly townhalls, private Facebook group, etc.)
- Apps/Plugins (they have most all the popular ones)
- Theme customizations should be easier to migrate when updating a theme (currently have to manually note all of your changes to code files and copy/paste them over if you ever decide to update a theme)
- They're continually releasing new features or enhancements, but they could better prioritize their product roadmap based on the top voted customer ideas
- I wish they had a customer accessible site/area where you could see a list of any known platform issues and workarounds
- A few plugins/apps that we would have liked to try don't currently support BigCommerce (e.g. CartHook, PageFly)
- The included page builder tool is still pretty basic, but you can get Shogun Page Builder if you need something more
- Reduced total cost of ownership
- Quicker page load times
- Easier to maintain and rollout new features/integrations (at least compared to Magento)
$1 to $10 million
All the pre-built integrations that we've used have worked well and have allowed us to customize the online experience for our audience. We did have to utilize their API to create a custom integration to hook into our ERP system.