Overview
What is BigCommerce?
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.
Great Platform for the Price.
Perfect or international shipping options
BigCommerce is a well rounded great e-commerce platform
BigCommerce delivers
Helped Take My Small Company to the Next Level
BigCommerce is worth it!
Big Commerce has helped me affordably grow my online business
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BigCommerce is there for my company.
BigCommerce Added a Second Income Stream To Our Business
BigCommerce, Big Results!
BigCommerce: a strong-hosted eCommerce platform
BigCommerce Enterprise Edition. Ticks most of the boxes but improvements needed.
How BigCommerce Differs From Its Competitors
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-Shipping Easy (which has been fabulous with everything other than their inventory management system)
-Facebook (this one never works correctly)
-Google Ad Words/Analytics
-Braintree, Paypal, Apple Pay
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- ShipperHQ for hosting our shipping options for customers to choose from - Great option to provide the different choices of shipping we offer to customers all in one place.
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- The new BigCommerce App with WordPress integration has opened multiple possibilities for growth opportunities. It is very easy and cost effective to create addition content sites and have BC power the back end. We can create offerings to a very narrow group of customers and target our marketing to …
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- We've connected with email service providers.
- We've connected with a third-party data company.
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Popular Features
- Product catalog & listings (413)7.878%
- Visual customization (403)7.474%
- Mobile storefront (401)7.373%
- Product management (410)6.868%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
Standard
$29.95
Plus
$79.95
Pro
$299.95
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $29.95 per month
Features
Online Storefront
Features for creating an online storefront with a browse-able product catalog.
- 7.8Product catalog & listings(413) Ratings
Products are easy to browse; listings include descriptions, photos, 360-degree views, and/or videos.
- 6.8Product management(410) Ratings
Product catalog can be easily updated.
- 7.4Bulk product upload(310) Ratings
Admins can upload products in bulk using spreadsheets.
- 7Branding(361) Ratings
Storefront is part of a unified customer experience of the brand across channels (social media, physical store, website, etc.)
- 7.3Mobile storefront(401) Ratings
Customers can easily shop on mobile devices; storefront is responsive or mobile optimized.
- 7.3Product variations(387) Ratings
Products with variations or configurable options are easy to list and easy to browse.
- 7.6Website integration(341) Ratings
Integrates with an existing company website or blog.
- 7.4Visual customization(403) Ratings
Users can customize the look & feel of the storefront; storefront is visually attractive.
- 7CMS(296) Ratings
Beyond product catalog, includes basic content creation and management features such as blogging capabilities.
Online Shopping Cart
Features that facilitate the collection of items so that customers can purchase them as a group.
- 7.5Abandoned cart recovery(361) Ratings
Saves contents of abandoned carts and allows customers to purchase on a future visit; may send a reminder email to the customer and/or a report to the merchant to help convert abandoned carts into sales.
- 7.4Checkout user experience(398) Ratings
Easy for customers to view shopping cart and checkout; maintains a consistent, trusted look & feel.
Online Payment System
Features related to processing online payment for eCommerce purchases.
- 7.7eCommerce security(399) Ratings
Security measures are in place to prevent a breach of sensitive payment information.
eCommerce Marketing
Features related to marketing for eCommerce websites
- 7.2Promotions & discounts(380) Ratings
Includes tools for offering and redeeming coupons, promotional codes, and time-based discounts.
- 6.8Personalized recommendations(316) Ratings
Display or recommend certain products depending on the customer’s identity or shopping/browsing history.
- 7.3SEO(375) Ratings
The platform & templates help users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
eCommerce Business Management
Features related to business management and administration of eCommerce operations
- 7.5Multi-site management(185) Ratings
Administrators can manage multiple storefronts or websites under one umbrella.
- 7.1Order processing(388) Ratings
Includes tools or integrations for order processing.
- 7.1Inventory management(344) Ratings
Includes tools or integrations for managing inventory.
- 6.9Shipping(349) Ratings
Includes tools or integrations for order fulfillment of physical products.
- 7.4Custom functionality(344) Ratings
Users are able to customize the functionality of their eCommerce operation with custom code or add-ons.
Product Details
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What is BigCommerce?
The vendor says that the product provides the following benefits to customers:
Build in HTML, CSS, and Javascript
96% of brands relaunch in 2-4 months
Test and push changes without downtime in a local environment
Focus on generating sales, less on monitoring security & performance
PCI DSS 3.2 certified at Level 1
99.99% median uptime
Multiple layers of security through the Google Cloud Platform
Leverage your existing tech stack with flexible APIs
90% of platform data is exposed to APIs
400+ API calls per second
Headless commerce out-of-the-box, across any front-end
Solve your toughest challenges with SaaS
B2B, Wholesale
Headless Commerce, Wordpress
Multi-channel
International
BigCommerce Features
Online Storefront Features
- Supported: Product catalog & listings
- Supported: Product management
- Supported: Bulk product upload
- Supported: Branding
- Supported: Search & filter
- Supported: Mobile storefront
- Supported: Product variations
- Supported: Subscriptions & downloads
- Supported: Website integration
- Supported: Visual customization
- Supported: CMS
- Supported: Customer service tools
Online Shopping Cart Features
- Supported: Abandoned cart recovery
- Supported: Tax calculator
- Supported: Shipping calculator
- Supported: Integration with Amazon
- Supported: Integration with eBay
- Supported: Checkout user experience
Online Payment System Features
- Supported: PayPal integration
- Supported: Returns & refunds
- Supported: Single-click checkout
- Supported: eCommerce security
- Supported: B2B features
eCommerce Marketing Features
- Supported: Promotions & discounts
- Supported: Personalized recommendations
- Supported: SEO
- Supported: Product reviews
- Supported: Social commerce integration
- Supported: Customer registration
eCommerce Business Management Features
- Supported: Multi-site management
- Supported: Order processing
- Supported: Inventory management
- Supported: Accounting
- Supported: Shipping
- Supported: Custom functionality
Additional Features
- Supported: High Availability (HA) infrastructure that allows us to deliver 99.99% uptime
- Supported: Open Platform: 90% of the BigCommerce platform data is exposed to the API
- Supported: Server-to-server API functions enable a headless commerce on WordPress and more
- Supported: Develop, test and push changes without downtime in a local environment using the Stencil CLI tool.
- Supported: Omnichannel management (Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Instagram, POS)
- Supported: Global CDN, localized payments and multi-language support
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BigCommerce Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web |
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BigCommerce Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 60% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 30% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 10% |
Comparisons
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Reviews and Ratings
(662)Attribute Ratings
- 9.1Likelihood to Renew53 ratings
- 9.1Availability5 ratings
- 9.1Performance5 ratings
- 8.9Usability26 ratings
- 9.1Support Rating25 ratings
- 9.1Online Training2 ratings
- 9.1Implementation Rating13 ratings
- 9.1Configurability3 ratings
- 7.7Product Scalability342 ratings
- 9.1Ease of integration3 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 9.1Vendor post-sale2 ratings
Reviews
(251-275 of 436)BigCommerce is Home to Me
I use BigCommerce as my retail site, and prior to business model changes, I used it as my wholesale site as well. It provides the ability to have two separate pricing and tax structures, show some products to one user and not to another. If I was still wholesaling on my site, BigCommerce would still be my go-to.
- Inclusive pricing: basic and advanced apps are part of your plan rather than as add-ons.
- Ease of use. I can do technological tasks for the most part, but I don’t have time or energy, so BigCommerce’s user-friendliness is crucial to my business.
- Customer service! Customer service! Customer service! I have a few questions every so often (or user error) and I know I can get on chat and quickly have someone on the case. They’re friendly, empathetic, determined, thorough, and have never let me down!
- Their pricing is great, and especially since they include so many add-ons in their cost. The base cost is comparable to others, but the others require add-ons for additional costs.
- Did I mention customer service?? Yep! And I will do it again. If you asked me which companies give great customer service, I would answer BigCommerce and the big boy, Apple. BigCommerce is that good!
- Integrate with even more platforms. BigCommerce works with tons of companies, but there can always be more.
Running a wholesale and retail combo took a lot of set-up and they tirelessly walked me through each question. They have tutorials but are still happy to help any other way.
Great platform for E-commerce
- BigCommerce community and customer support is great. Always there to help you with any issues.
- Easy setup and easy to use dashboard.
- Stencil based theme gives us a great boost in speed.
- Product import is a great plus.
- Blog page without the search and without any categories makes it hard to search for particular blog.
- Limitations to access the one page checkout.
- BigCommerce has to include some of the apps as standard feature.
BigCommerce is great for online wholesale!
- Customer Service is fantastic. Their live chat function has helped in times of need!
- BigCommerce allows for easy integration with other software such as MailChimp, Shipworks and more!
- BigCommerce allows you to add notes to specific orders which is quite helpful when something is out of stock or refunded.
- I'd love for BigCommerce to allow for importing of orders via a CSV.
- I do wish BigCommerce could have more flexibility in the Bulk Edit function. Being able to adjust Minimums and options would be great.
- I feel the analytics portion of the Enterprise plan is a bit lacking. It seems that sometimes it's difficult to gain real product sales stats.
Excellent Customer Service & Top of the line tech
- Excellent customer service on phone and email
- Easy to use interface
- Fair pricing
- Top of the line integrations
- I’d like to see them add more direct email marketing features instead of going through a pricey third-party.
Great Shopping Cart! Needs more interactivity features.
- Shopping Cart works across other platforms so our website looks a lot better than other companies.
- It allows us to easily add content and educational pages which complement and help promote sales of our products.
- Easy to upload bulk data with Microsoft Excel.
- Products with multiple sizes and pictures are harder to import with Excel.
- An Affiliate option should come with the BigCommerce platform. By being part of your platform, it will work better. It also allows us to interact with our customers more.
- We should have a "Find a Distributor" built into the platform because many of our customers are looking for local distributors. This option should also have the ability to be modified to say Find a Physician, Find a Health Coach, or etc. Many e-commerce sites have distributor/partners in other states. This option allows us to be more interactive with our clients - it shows we care enough to help them find a local "expert", who is familiar with our products.
- It should have built-in interactive questionnaire functionality, so it can ask customers a number of questions, and then give them an answer (using basic IF - THEN logic). For example, it would ask a number of questions, and then the LOGIC could suggest which product would be best - based on their answers. It should have the capacity to use as few as two questions, as well as unlimited, and even sequential questions. Again - we need BigCommerce to help us be more interactive with our clients.
- We realize that the site is SSL secure. However, as more physicians get involved in e-commerce, we want platforms that are also HIPPA compliant so that if a patient wants to ask us a question, or download a copy of a lab test for us to review, we are using a HIPPA compliant platform.
Good Option for Price vs. Features
- Easy navigation of the backend.
- No coding experience necessary.
- Very customizable.
- We hit various limits on product options. These were not plan limits, but were limits that BigCommerce could not adjust for us.
- Customer support was a little bit on the slow side - nothing major though.
Over 10,000 products? BigCommerce can handle them with ease.
- Handles large numbers of products very well. I have over 10,000 individual SKUs in my store.
- They charge by sales volume. I have a large catalog but low sales volume so this works well for me.
- Integrate a Google Shopping feed tool. I use Sales and Orders to feed my products to Google now but it is not very good and does not include all BigCommerce fields.
- Add search by SKU number exact match in the product area.
- Add ability to customize search behavior in the website header search tool, such as exact matches, AND, OR, etc.
If you need a very large amount of customization of your website, BigCommerce is not for you. Their framework is great, but not every part has the ability to change.
It was a great start
- Easy to use
- Easy to update
- Easy to change
- It updates at odd times, which isn't good for business
- Has a tendency to lock up so it's hard to log in and see sales
- Customer service was sometimes hard to reach/understand
Great E-Commerce Option
- I like the home screen. It shows my products that are in low numbers, it shows any messages I have, and it gives great insight to our website traffic and sales.
- I like the easy to use side bar. It’s so easy to find what I am looking for.
- I love the customer support. I have called and used the online chat for when I have questions. The people have always been super helpful.
- I wish the social media could connect more.
Overall a positive experience
- Highly available support and quick feedback
- Excellent store layouts and platforms
- Good tutorials available for continued learning
- Would like to be able to set individual shipping preferences for each product (without having to update the system as a whole)
- Would like more options to include or exclude items during a sale (maybe by item vs category)
Looking to increase your sales?
- Support
- Templates
- Ease of Use
- Plan listings. We recently were bumped up into a plan that doesn't do anything for us. Only because we generated too many sales. We would like to go back to our old plan however it does not allow us to.
- Third Party Website "skins" are difficult to deal with. BigCommerce needs to make a better effort to communicate needs to them.
An honest review from a current customer
- Easy to use
- Full featured
- Always innovating and staying up to date with the latest trends
- They need a mobile app for iOS and Android where a user can manage their website. I know that this is currently in process though.
Big Commerce is the Best E-Commerce Platform for In-House Business Website Management!
- BigCommerce is easy to set up and use.
- BigCommerce has excellent customer support.
- BigCommerce integrates well with many apps.
- BigCommerce offers many payment options.
- BigCommerce integrates well with other sales channels.
- I have issues with the blog commenting and page commenting that have never been resolved. I'd like to see that done better. That's my biggest complaint.
- Analytics are a little creaky. It's a little hard to access and interpret some statistics, and I don't find the admin interface to it particularly easy to view/use.
- Having my business email hosted at Big Commerce would be a really nice addition.
- Being able to do all my accounting through BC would be great too, so I wouldn't have to pay for additional software to handle my business.
- Tpet.com products are mostly downloads and it works really well for that—for individual kinds of downloads and making bundles. It's excellent. It works well for shipped products, too.
- Tpet offers backup CDs or printed copy options for the downloadable products, which makes a mixed product. There's no way to charge shipping on the shippable portion of the mixed product, so free shipping for that is the only way to handle it that I know of. It would be great if there were a mixed product option for items or bundles that are both downloadable and shippable.
- File uploading (via DAV) and file management could be better; I sometimes have a problem getting files where I want them to be and seeing where they are with Cyberduck.
Love my BigCommerce!
- Very intuitive dashboard
- I love the easy access to support, they've always been extremely helpful.
- Quick loading times, and easy to make changes (even for an html newbie).
- A list of preferred programmers would be great for us to access to get updates done—kind of like Fiverr. We're a small business and are handling all updates ourselves (which is really out of our wheelhouse as biologists).
- We're very happy with bigcommerce!
- Can't think of much else we would change!
Small Store, but BigCommerce is big for us
- Flexibility: It seems like the options with BigCommerce are almost limitless.
- Affordability: I like the fixed costs and what we get for the money.
- Reliability: My store hasn't gone down yet.
- Clunky: There are things I can't do. I have multiple classes of customers, but they all see the same shipping options.
- Clunky: I cannot apply discounts to groupings of different product options.
- Clunky: There are multiple places and ways to modify the site template, and many options are buried several submenus deep.
- Great support
- Reliable
- Easy to use
- The promised ability for UK users to create/manage listings on Amazon and eBay. This has yet to arrive but we still pay the same as US customers which I believe has this.
- Ability to set exceptions to free postage with shipping by location on a specific item e.g. set free courier for UK but have different courier rates for non-UK.
- Integration with Royal Mail OBA for postage.
It works for where we are currently.
- Ease of use for page modification without much HTML experience needed
- Relatively quick navigation
- Good template selection
- A bit constrained on modification within a template
- Was difficult to set up different client e-commerce pages
- Be able to add a product multiple times for different customers without changing the model number would be nice.
Key to Our Growth Strategy!
- BigCommerce is quite customizable, especially with a third-party developer.
- BigCommerce is powerful as a database.
- BigCommerce is convenient to use with bulk-edits.
- BigCommerce does require users to be more sophisticated with computers.
- BigCommerce does not have a "drag-and-drop" design feature for the front-end.
- BigCommerce can be intimidating if you have lots of products.
With only two of us who really create and manage products within BigCommerce, it allows our little company to appear as big and as professional as any of my competitors. Honestly? I think our site looks and operates easier because of BigCommerce. We use BC in every aspect: site development, SEO, customer orders, and fulfillment.
While I started using BigCommerce for my own company, I quickly chose BC as my choice when clients asked me to build eCommerce sites for them. The ability to include video and customer reviews made "selling" the product to clients incredibly easy.
- The new version of BigCommerce presents a single page product solution - from naming the product to photos to the description: the workflow is easy enough where most employees should be able to understand how to use the product with little training.
- Following customer's orders is a breeze. We used to use a Kanban-style system to keep track of the customer's orders as we custom-built each product. Big Commerce allows us to communicate not only within our team but also with the customer, to keep everyone in the loop about the status of the order.
- The websites generated by the templates are bright and clean and keep wannabe designers from oversaturating a page with too much clutter.
- The new version makes adding variations (color, sizes) very simple. It is a chore in the early system. I can't wait for the old sites to be able to port over.
- The templates offered are limited. I understand the need to keep sites simple, but each site seems like a clone of the previous. Contract out a few designers to shake things up a bit.
- I wish I could generate purchase orders from BC. I would love to review the items I'm low on based on the vendor and then select which items I wish to reorder.
My only gripe is the templates. If you're selling car parts or tools or motorcycle gear, none of the templates don't have a strong, masculine vibe. If you sell African Kente cloth, your vibe gets whitewashed with the generic templates. Yes, I know you can tweak each template, but there should be a simpler solution.
Growing BIG with BigCommerce
- Connectivity! BigCommerce has a variety of partner apps that work together seamlessly. They really do a great job with integration.
- Simplicity! I am new to building a website and could not be happier with the amount of instruction given on how to complete all sorts of tasks. I love the WYSIWYG editors, constantly ensuring that my listing and emails appear exactly as I expect them to.
- Info! BigCommerce does a remarkable job at providing endless sources of support. There are documents and step by step instructions for virtually any feature available!
- Live Chat! BigCommerce offers a 24/7 live chat feature where support reps can help you to diagnose and fix any number of technical issues that may happen. They are knowledgeable, patient, and friendly!
- Transparency. BigCommerce has great connectivity and integrations, but connectivity with my Amber POS leaves me with many hiccups. I think BigCommerce should look into their 3rd party integrations and make sure to let customers know which features don't sync. I have two stores, but the connectivity between Amber and BigCommerce pools my two store's inventory into one inventory number causing some confusion as to which store to pull the item from, etc. I realize this has more to do with Amber POS than BigCommerce, but if I knew to connectivity was so limited, I might have looked for a different program.
- Training/Idea Sharing. BigCommerce reps on live chat are mostly very helpful. I have had an instance where a rep had no solution for my problem and recommended I get IT help, only for me to talk to another rep and get a fix for my issue within 5 minutes. Maybe some sort of database where reps can type in a brief description of the problem encountered and the fix found, that way if another rep encounters that issue, he/she will have some known fixes to try.
Good product at a reasonable price
- Unlimited number of part numbers and photos for inventory items
- Direct processing of credit cards
- Discreet customer information
- Security compliance included
- Inventory item entry is cumbersome and time consuming
- Integrated full website would be helpful ie like GoDaddy provides
Excellent Choice for Non-profits
- Extremely easy to custom the templates with lots of options.
- Provides tremendous amount of "how to" help in the knowledge base, guides, and community.
- Customer service is very responsive, knowledgeable and helpful. Solves the problem the first time, every time.
- Company responds to needs and wants of its users. They provide a place to request needs/wants with the ability for other users to read and respond. Company responds to those issues which of most concern.
- Monthly updates with improvements to the platform.
- No mobile app.
- Ease of use, need to be somewhat tech-savvy.
- Editing interface can be difficult to navigate but that is due to the wide range of options available.
BigCommerce review from a small retail company
- Ease of use.
- Reliability, as the website has never been down.
- Cost.
- For some features you need to be on higher plans, which are expensive for a small company.
- Coupon/discount codes are missing some simple features.
BigCommerce provides big value for small business
Big Commerce is a really important tool for our busi ness
- The Big Commerce Help Desk is fantastic. It doesn't matter what time I call from Australia, the team is always helpful and courteous. And they really try to help me as best as possible.
- Integration with eBay saves me heaps of time in having to relist products.
- I love the simplicity of adding products - within a few clicks I have added a new line and its live.
- The abandoned cart feature is well worth subscribing to - it's amazing how often I get a notification saying and abandoned cart has been converted.
- Integration with Amazon - we are expanding onto Amazon AU and integration would make this a lot easier.
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- Able to control the store in every way.
- Use for inventory.
- Stencils are good.
- Glitches in tracking inventory with multiple option sets example colored stones and sizes.