BigCommerce vs. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BigCommerce
Score 7.8 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
per month
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Bloomreach is presented as an agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses can use Bloomreach to create experiences that drive growth and loyalty. Bloomreach states that they currently drive personalization for 1,400+…N/A
Pricing
BigCommerceBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Editions & Modules
Standard
$39
per month
Plus
$105
per month
Pro
$399
per month
Enterprise
Custom
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BigCommerceBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing.Bloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.
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Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
When it comes to these platforms, sometimes it would be super useful to have much more control over them. For example, with BigCommerce integration, we wanted to disable the cart_update event from that integration, and we came up with supper difficult and not common for …
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach is the first true CDP that integrates all customer data that I have used, but previously I have used other CRM/email marketing tools as outlined above. We chose Bloomreach because of its ability to work with so much complex offline data, and the ability to create …
Features
BigCommerceBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
7.1
445 Ratings
9% below category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Ratings
Product catalog & listings7.8441 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management7.6438 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload7.2337 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding6.9387 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront7.5427 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations6.9414 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration7.5367 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization6.6430 Ratings00 Ratings
CMS6.4320 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
7.5
430 Ratings
2% below category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Abandoned cart recovery7.4387 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.5425 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
7.8
426 Ratings
7% below category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Ratings
eCommerce security7.8426 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
7.1
431 Ratings
8% below category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Promotions & discounts7.2407 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations6.6338 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO7.4401 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
7.4
436 Ratings
8% below category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
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Ratings
Multi-site management8.0207 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing8.1415 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management7.8368 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping6.7376 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality6.6371 Ratings00 Ratings
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
-
Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
96 Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.483 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings8.392 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.791 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings6.853 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings8.592 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.883 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.894 Ratings
List management00 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.069 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
-
Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
77 Ratings
0% below category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.166 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings8.172 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.041 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
-
Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.3
71 Ratings
2% below category average
Calendaring00 Ratings7.165 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.550 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
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Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.4
52 Ratings
0% above category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.145 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
-
Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.9
94 Ratings
7% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.194 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.490 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.190 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
BigCommerce
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Ratings
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
121 Ratings
8% above category average
API00 Ratings8.2115 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.775 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings8.384 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.411 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.812 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Third-party software integrations00 Ratings7.859 Ratings
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BigCommerceBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Small Businesses
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
BigCommerceBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(458 ratings)
9.1
(177 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(54 ratings)
9.1
(10 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(28 ratings)
8.6
(54 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(6 ratings)
8.4
(18 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(6 ratings)
8.1
(17 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(28 ratings)
8.0
(143 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(3 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.2
(15 ratings)
7.2
(4 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(4 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(4 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.9
(362 ratings)
8.4
(18 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(3 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(3 ratings)
7.9
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
One scenario Bloomreach is particularly suited for is omnichannel abandonment campaigns. We have scenarios that look whether a customer has been into one of our stores, and then if they are subscribed, we can send them more information about the products they have viewed. That wouldn't be possible without Bloomreach. Another scenario that Bloomreach is well suited for is price drop - we can alert users that an item they've viewed has dropped in price, and this has been a really successful campaign for us.
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Pros
Commerce.com
  • We really appreciate how easy it is to add products, and variants of products.
  • The integrated site analytics is pretty slick and tells us how our customers are utilizing our site/allows us to recognize trends.
  • Adding sales badges is a breeze and allows us to target specific items for sale to market!
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Bloomreach
  • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
  • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
  • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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Cons
Commerce.com
  • 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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Bloomreach
  • Could improve some of the dashboarding to make reporting on emails more time efficient
  • Could offer a way to easily combine email templates if they already exist separately
  • A way to allow multiple people to work in a scenario at the same time and all saves be registered
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Likelihood to Renew
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
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Usability
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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Reliability and Availability
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
The platform is generally reliable - major outages are rare and most day-to-day campaign operations run without interruption. Where it dips: occasional slowdowns in the analytics dashboard during peak loads, and sometimes scenario executions get delayed without clear explanation. The real-time event processing is mostly solids. Overall uptime is strong - it is not something that keeps me up at night, but it is not flawless either.
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Performance
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
Performance in Bloomreach Content is quite good but you need to be ready. Your implementation should follow all the good practices (avoid crazy patterns) and the environment setup should be the right one. With all that, Bloomreach's performance is quite solid. Our usage makes use of complex queries and most of them are really quick. Only when you need something really complex and you aggregate queries that should be separated you would get slower results (but then again, that is not a good practice for any platform).
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Support Rating
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
The project team consistently delivers excellent collaboration and is always available whenever assistance is needed. Their responsiveness and commitment make working together smooth and efficient. Bloomreach support, which is included for free in the platform, can also be quite useful, especially for quick clarifications. However, the quality and speed of their responses can sometimes vary, depending on the issue.
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In-Person Training
Commerce.com
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Bloomreach
The Training was awesome
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Online Training
Commerce.com
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.
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Bloomreach
very informative and patient
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Implementation Rating
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
All the deployments were done on time
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Alternatives Considered
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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Scalability
Commerce.com
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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Bloomreach
there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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Return on Investment
Commerce.com
  • 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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Bloomreach
  • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
  • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
  • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
  • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
  • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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ScreenShots

BigCommerce Screenshots

Screenshot of enterprise ecommerce for high-volume brands like Skullcandy.Screenshot of the integration that lets you list products on Amazon directly from the BigCommerce control panel, with centralized inventory and order processing and fulfillment.Screenshot of where to customize the look and feel of a storefront.

Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization Screenshots

Screenshot of funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of web layers with A/B testingScreenshot of the drag and drop campaign editorScreenshot of the WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templatesScreenshot of the CRM with 360° customer behaviour history