Acoustic Content (formerly Watson Content Hub) gives business owners the power to create, robust and consistent brand experiences using cloud-based, cognitive content management capabilities. Marketing and merchandising professionals can quickly select content to create relevant offers delivered across multiple channels, such as mobile, web-based or email. Acoustic is an independent spun off from IBM Watson Marketing in 2019.
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BigCommerce
Score7.5 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
BigCommerce is a SaaS platform that allows SMBs to develop eCommerce sites. Features include the capabilities to design the storefront, configure products, manage payments, generate traffic, and optimize conversion.
$39
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WooCommerce
Score8.5 out of 10
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WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, developed by WooThemes (recently acquired by Automattic). Like WordPress, it is designed to be an extendable, adaptable, open-sourced platform. WooCommerce allows merchants to sell physical products, downloadables, or services.
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WooCommerce is a free and open-source plugin for WordPress. Merchants can host their WooCommerce store on any private hosting service, or with Automattic directly via WordPress.com. Some added features or services from the WooCommerce Official Marketplace may have one time or subscription pricing.
BigCommerce is fully hosted SaaS product which handles the security, performance and upgrades whereas others need my intervention. It has strong built in B2B features that may be lacked in other platforms such as WooCommerce. It has strong APIs and ecosystem of integration …
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Head of Digital Strategy Web in Marketing at Pharma Supply Inc. (Medical Device, 11-50 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
When you look at the landscape of e-commerce platforms, BigCommerce really sets itself apart by being built for serious growth from day one. While Wix is great for simple drag-and-drop projects and Shopify excels at getting a basic shop live in an hour, they both often hit a …
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E-commerce Manager in Marketing at Philip Morris & Son (Retail, 11-50 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
When we compared BigCommerce to Shopify Plus, we found that BigCommerce had better SEO benefits available without needing an additional paid app to control it. We were also able to manage listings and orders more efficiently with better value for money. Shopify Plus offered …
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Digital Strategist in Marketing at Best Price Nutrition (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
We switched from Shopify due to the restrictions they implemented on our industry. While we spent tens of thousands of dollars investing in our Shopify store, we can't have them cutting us off anytime they want. We reviewed WooCommerce, but didn't like the storefront or …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce has a good balance between being "all done for you" and mega easy to use (like Shopify), and being a developer yourself and having endless capabilities at your disposal if you know how to use them (WooCommerce). BigCommerce has a ton of capabilities (not everything …
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Owner/President at 420EDC (Consumer Electronics, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
We sell high-risk items as far as the banks are concerned. BigCommerce allows me to make the changes I need to make myself without having to rely on a web designer to assist me. Squarespace and Stripe dropped us for selling "drug paraphernalia" so we needed a solution quickly …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Each platform has its pros and cons. However, overall, BigCommerce is the most challenging to work with from a developer's perspective. Simply finding files and locating the code in the theme editor takes too much time.
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Owner in Sales at Eagle Armorment (Sporting Goods, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
I find BigCommerce easy to use from a non computer person stand point. It was easy to quickly get adjusted to and what they charge for building and running a website far surpassed there competitors.
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Team Leader Customer Support in Customer Service at Kapiva (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce is quick, easy to setup with tons of features, easy to integrate with other applications. All of these great features are available for very less as compared to other application. We have tried multiple application but BigCommerce is one of those who never …
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Head of Customer Acquisition in Marketing at MitoQ (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
Every criterion we evaluated against BigCommerce either won outright or held its own. What got us over the line was the incredible personal support at every step of the way from onboarding and implementation through to BAU. I had a support ticket this morning which I resolved …
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N/A in Corporate at Dist 12 (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce gave us room to grow. It seemed to offer options further than we would have had [an] interest in going. The list/choices of apps were great. I do not know if the individuals who wrote the 3rd party apps were vetted, it really felt like they were. They know …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Of all the eCommerce platforms we evaluated, only Shopify would compete. Shopify is a better bet with smaller catalogs and less custom business requirements in our experience. While the app store in Shopify is robust, BigCommerce has better native features that were important …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
The ability to have a product catalog and shop pulling from the same place isn't available with Woo and Shopify. We can have everything in one place. The CMS is far superior to other e-comm platforms. Developers will be happy with the capability to create anything they need or …
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Owner in Marketing at Backcountry Digital (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
WooCommmerce and Magento are great, provided you have a consistent developer team that can constantly manage it and clients have the budget for that. But most times, the amount of money spent on developer managed sites is better spent on growing the company instead of custom …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce seemed to have all the features I needed, at the price I needed, and had a free trial I could access
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce had the most robust offerings for the price. It also came very highly recommended by the developer we hired to help us.
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Easy to use and it feels like it’s mine and not being hosted by some other company.
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Founder in Corporate at Raw Athletics (Sports, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce offers so much more features and capabilities out-of-the-box than all the other options combined. Sure the other options have a large marketplace of apps and add-ons, but things tends to break when a platform relies on their 3rd party apps to provide basic …
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CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) in Marketing at Print.Save.Repeat. (Business Supplies and Equipment, 11-50 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
The main reason we chose BigCommerce was it came with more basic features out of the box. WooCommcerce requires adding plugs for every feature you want and manually keeping them up-to-date. It's completely customizable but at the risk everything playing nice together. Shopify …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
My business previously used Big Cartel which was perfect for a small artsy business. However when we grew, Big Cartel did not have all the functionality that we needed - such as subcategories and sub-subcategories. Wix was attractive but it felt a little like an instagram …
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CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Sales at KiltedBros (Retail, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce beat every one of the products that we tested in functionality, ease of use, and cost for value received. What really impressed us what how willing the customer service team at Big Commerce was willing to help us during the set up/trial period. Despite us not having …
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Director at Bolt Bikes (Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
I had used BigCommerce for a few years previously, so I was familiar with the platform. Shopify is the main rival for BigCommerce, but I preferred how BigCommerce worked. Magento, I would say, has the ability to be a better platform, but also has the cost to go with it if you …
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Automattic
Verified User
Chose WooCommerce
WooCommerce is cheaper and more customizable, making it easy to create a great-looking product and a polished purchasing and checkout experience. Our BigCommerce site required significant custom coding to get the desired functionality. That said, BigCommerce has been a very …
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Verified User
Chose WooCommerce
We were pretty sure we wanted a WordPress site so that we had more control over the site itself, having been burned by third-party vendor sites before. The fact that WooCommerce integrates so well with WordPress was a big selling point for us. Magento would have been too heavy …
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Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer in Information Technology at Programmer Jen (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Chose WooCommerce
WooCommerce is just simply quicker to get an e-commerce website built and up and running than either OpenCart or X-Cart....overall administration is easier for website owners as well. WooCommerce allows much better customization as a self-hosted option to BigCommerce. I …
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Especialista en Marketing Digital y Comercio Electrónico in Marketing at @luisescoffie (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose WooCommerce
I like WooCommerce because it can be optimized, customized and adapted to every business needs. That's because it's WordPress core, it helps us customize stores in ways we can only imagine and also we can implement Google AMP and PWA easier and faster than with other platforms. …
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Owner in Information Technology at wporbit.net (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Chose WooCommerce
Shopify is a premium e commerce platform tailored just for online shops. While WooCommerce is a plugin which has main platform as WordPress. Shopify is costly to have. Most of the basic shop functions that are offered in Shopify can be achieved using WordPress + WooCommerce …
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WordPress/WooCommerce Developer in Information Technology at RayFlores.com (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose WooCommerce
Since WooCommerce has merged with WordPress, the integration has become even more seamless than ever before. The fact that the database space has been reduced because of the integration, has lightened the load on servers. The additional overhaul of variations has also taken a …
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We can organize all our content easily by uploading content files and other digital assets. CMS smart AI generates metadata by tagging them automatically which helps us to sort our content into different categories. CMS content modeling feature helps us to visualize our content structure, assemble them in an intelligent manner and reuse the content whenever we want to for different purposes.
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BigCommerce is really well suited for someone who wants to get selling quickly, but may not have endless developer experience, or even web design experience for that matter. Their templates, even the free ones, are very attractive and supported by tons of third party apps. I think the only times it is not a slam dunk recommendation would be if someone is dead set on using another solution like Shopify, or if they are not looking for an ecommerce site and more of a flat website, this would be overkill.
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WooCommerce is best suited to customers whose website is built on the WordPress platform, and whose development team has a good understanding of plug-in implementation. If your website is not built on WordPress, but on Laravel or React (or any other non WordPress technology), then WooCommerce is not for you. WooCommerce is also great for customers who just need a simple online shopping experience. If your needs involve more complex or immersive features such as timed discounts, pick up locations, delivery reminders, or post shopping feedback surveys, know that you will need to purchase additional add-ons to make to get these features using WooCommerce set up on WordPress.
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In my experience, customer support FAILS terribly in knowledge of getting a BC site live
In my experience, the back side/ dashboard is very archaic compared to Volusion, will add hours of work to your week.
In my experience, pretty much anything you NEED is done with an "app" at additional cost. I think we have a few hundred dollars in apps already on top of cost of BigCommerce.
I feel coming from Volusion to BigCommerce was so depressing but we do feel secure that the company will remain in business. We are looking for something else already.
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I personally would not even consider another e-commerce website platform.
Bigcommerce may have the same (or close to the same) functionality and integrations as other SaaS platforms but they excel at customer service and tech support. At the end of the day you need a company that will answer the phone in less than a minute especially if you're having a 5 alarm issue. That said, we hardly ever have any issues. The site was down for a few minutes one time 5 years ago. Sometimes we have issues with coding or apps and they help me with that too. They even walked me through installing our new theme when the contracted developers told me that wasn't included in the development of our new website.
Bigcommerce comes out with new innovations every year, not including apps that other people write for the platform, and there are a lot of those and new ones all the time. And there are a LOT of awesome themes to choose from (Halothemes are the best).
And the price is reasonable!
I'd give Bigcommerce my business any time and recommend them to anyone looking to run an e-commerce website. You could even use them for a non-shopping site, we have one of those too!
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Despite very rare glitches, more connected to an excessive number of plugins, that affect the speed of the site, we are extremely satisfied with the platform, the ability to import and export products, even though we just export them, as we have our proprietary system for updating inventories. We love the ease of upgrading, enhancing, innovating, and the freedom we have to do whatever we want, which is a plus, when you consider Shopify can take down your whole store as they please, if they think you aren't abiding to their TOS or their ever changing set of rules.
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I think that overall it has a great front end for the customer. On the back end, it takes a little spin-up time, but in just a couple of hours you can really have your head wrapped around everything you're going to need 99% of the time. It takes me about 5 minutes to train a new user on how to interact with customer orders.
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It is built on the Wordpress platform, so there are some quirks compared to a dedicated e-commerce product, but it is very intuitive and easy to use, especially for anyone with Wordpress experience. There are numerous great support articles and learning resources available. Significant customization can be achieved with plugins vs other eCommerce platforms, which may require more custom code and have fewer plugin options.
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So far in my time with BigCommerce I have not had any down time when it comes to my webstore or accessing it at any time I need to. Knowing that they have such a good uptime, it makes me feel comfortable that my customers can access things anytime, but also keep sales going 24/7
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I have not had any issues with pages loading slow or any real other issues, not that I have encountered so far. Speed of the site and images loading are fantastic and everything just seems to work nicely, which may seem like a simple thing to say about things, but when something just WORKS! Its rather nice vs fighting with things to work right.
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Because they are always there no matter how simple or complex the question is, if they don't know the answer they don't fake it and just make you go away feeling frustrated.. they get you to someone that does know the answer. I always appreciate their help and their honesty!
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They have a comprehensive online help file system that makes it easy to do almost anything. They cover just about everything you'd want to do with your online store with images, clear descriptions and in some cases video. I will, however, say the videos should be a little more professorially done and not sound like the employees are doing it in their cubical.
A certified BigCommerce design and solution partner will usually comprise a team of highly experienced designers, developers and marketers. It is our view that in the vast majority of cases, this will pay dividends in the long-term - especially for those teams that could use the extra support.
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BigCommerce even with add-ons such as a PIM and B2B functionality wins for small businesses on affordability and ease of use. No servers or updates to worry about and no expensive agencies to pay. This being said, if the budget were no issue, for larger organisations Magento is perhaps a better option.
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We were pretty sure we wanted a WordPress site so that we had more control over the site itself, having been burned by third-party vendor sites before. The fact that WooCommerce integrates so well with WordPress was a big selling point for us. Magento would have been too heavy of a lift for our small dev team and we didn't want to rely on Shopify or BigCommerce (though all of those products could have their merits for other projects or clients).
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I believe after seeing all of the parts of this platform, one is able to develop the business and keep adding on select features for the business. There are multiple options for purchase with the various platforms once the business grows more. The different features being offered by the platform can lead us to scalability.
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With the AI based content organizer in place, we can focus more on the content creation.
Acoustic Content makes sure your content is safe and secure with its Content Delivery Networks and we can easily pull out the right content into our channels with the help of its REST APIs.
With their rich Digital Asset Management capabilities, we can find most suitable images to go with your content
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Provides a robust platform to sell a high-risk product.
Page Builder saves you time and money by negating the need to buy a template.
Includes robust promotion settings that allow for codes and automatic discounts, bulk discounts, and customer groups (i.e. military discount), all native options.
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