BigCommerce

So we have had a Volusion Store for just under 8 years now and do a sizeable business there. As they are losing market share we were worried they may go under and we would lose our site at some point. BigCommerce REALLY pumped up night/day difference and so did web reviews. Our REALITY is, in my experience, their customer support is about 12 levels below Volusion's "standard" support. In my opinion, the inventory control on BigCommerce can not even be called inventory control when compared to Volusion. We have added HOURS each week to our everyday tasks with inventory and categories. In my opinion, the owner/operator experience is not even comparable to Volusion. I STILL feel Volusion is not a viable choice for us anymore due to the scare factor BUT I just want to caution any other looking to move from Volusion to BigCommerce, DO NOT DO IT - DO NOT EVEN START IT. We are in firearms so our choices are limited. We paid a data company to move and match all our data, they did very well in that BUT as we got to using BigCommerce, we realized this was a huge mistake. By that time we had too much time and money into the move. All we accomplished is losing fear of Volusion going black.

It's a great e-commerce store that integrates well with our fulfillment platform. Its API also is able to interact with other data sources/data warehouses so we can analyze performance. The options/features within the platform make the product flexible for our 3 business needs (we own 3 different storefronts with BigCommerce).

We use BigCommerce to run our e-commerce web site selling luxury skincare products direct to consumer. It's an easy to use platform. You can run a website without knowing how to code if you need to. Of course the internet marketing department has no problem using the platform but it is also easy to use for our customer service department to manage consumer orders.

I switched to BigCommerce awhile ago now after attempting to use some other shopping cart sites along with trying to run my own webstore software with not the best results.
One of the things I like about BigCommerce was the fact they have fantastic customer service and were able to walk me through making changes to my domain name and other settings I was not sure on. They also make it really easy to build your site and list products which has made for a nice looking website, but has made the shopping on my site a lot easier for customers which has also helped increase sales which has made a huge difference!

It is used by the entire organization and one person runs it. Since we are a one-person operation, there are no logistical problems. It gives us the online sales presence we want and need. Because it’s only the me person, bigcommerce makes it easier for me to get everything done without having to outsource.

We use Big Commerce for online selling (retail and wholesale orders).

BigCommerce is our eCommerce platform. We migrated to there from our own proprietary platform after realizing how much easier it was to work with a third party system than trying to maintain our own in-house system. It is our only eCommerce platform, and we use it for all of our websites.

Used BigCommerce as a platform for an online store

I'm a web developer that specializes in e-commerce. I regularly help clients open new stores on BigCommerce or migrate their stores from other platforms to BigCommerce. It's especially good for B2B businesses and those that need multiple storefronts. The headless option makes a great pairing with WordPress, which gives customers more design control over the informational aspects of their e-commerce stores.

We need a flexible e-commerce solution that's easy for our internal users to manage, integrates with a wide range of 3rd party apps, and most importantly can provide a fantastic experience for our customers. We sell in multiple regions around the globe and need the flexibility to manage and serve our stores to different regions, currencies, customer groups, and product portfolios.

Our eCommerce website platform needs to be willing to work with hemp-derived products, and BigCommerce is one of the more well-known platforms in that arena. Honestly, in the last couple of years, BigCommerce hasn't really been my first choice, but again, when you're working with products derived from federally legal hemp, your choices are very limited. Having said that, I've been very surprised with how far BigCommerce has come in the last couple of years, specifically the Page Builder, which essentially allows you to select a free template, and customize it in a drag-and-drop environment, and if you have the time and ability to do that, Page Builder essentially negates the need for a paid, premium template. I would also say adding and editing products, and building out promotions, and customer groups are very easy in BigCommerce, and more robust than the other platforms I previously preferred to work with.

The BigCommerce website platform hosts all of our products and processes all sales. Prior to changing to BC, I maintained my own website code and was responsible for all web-hosting. The old site/code was hacked more than once and managing security was becoming a liability. Furthermore, the old site was not responsive and became outdated for smartphones. BigCommerce fixed all of that, and I was up and running much quicker than expected. The templates are highly professional and feature-rich.

We use it to sell our product online, both wholesale and retail.

We are a 46-year old brick and mortar company in a niche industry whose primary customer base is large, multistate, and multilocation food, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and retail distribution companies with in-house maintenance departments. We had to integrate our product catalog with the purchasing and EAM systems of our large customers. That was our primary goal. We accomplished that, with the byproduct being an impressive online store that has brought in dozens of new customers. The BigCommerce platform is remarkably intuitive, and when support is needed (which is very infrequently), their response is exemplary.

BigCommerce acts as our online shopping cart. It replaced a previous product that had developed glaring security issues. BigCommerce provides a reliable, flexible solution for us. It allows us to manage a large variety of SKUs in our online marketplace. It has greatly streamlined online/mobile ordering for our customers. It has also greatly improved our annual pricing update process with its product import template.

Management of the entire multichain online commerce for retail/wholesale business. Use it to manage eBay, Amazon, and private site product listings, prices, updates, sales, and manage inventory as well. One change gets sent to all of the appropriate places without having to mess around with separate information silos. Wholistic picture of sales and revenue and dead inventory as well. We get to see product engagement and capture abandoned carts effectively. Great API tie-ins to other software like shipping management and advertising campaign management. At this point, I wouldn't use any other e-commerce platform or recommend anything else. Has a scalable robust feature set that allows for personalization within any business model.

Very easy to use systems. Lots of functionality is in-built without the need for external apps. Used it in the retail industry with 1000s of products. Easy to customize the functionality. Default UI is decent to begin with and we tailored it to our needs as time passed. Availability of sandbox is a good bonus.

It allowed us to operate on multi-channels. We were small. Here is what BigCommerce was to us: It gave us access to Facebook marketplace, business marketplace, and all social media platforms. For a while, this was special/privileged access BigCommerce negotiated for us. While I do know the total outcome I know we were to have an easy opportunity to apply for Facebook's Business Marketplace. Unlike other competitors, BigCommerce really did offer apps for any circumstance you could think of. The majority of people we dealt with who made their apps were industry leaders. Last I looked BigCommerce was smaller than Shopify and some others. However, this did not limit our options or opportunity. It did allow for some of the best customer service we've had in a long time. We felt like we were much more than just another number. The biggest complaint I remember. Before COVID and some issues, we were looking at working with a personal Magento consultant and interested in creating our own multivendor "mall" (shopping arena) from the ground up. We were interested in a fairly specific niche. Magento really rolled out the welcome mat with their Enterprise solutions. The price tag was well over $30,000 though. I recall when asking questions about enterprise solutions the public-facing associates did not know much about it. BigCommerce is not a consulting firm - noted. But their tech was techy and world-class. But at times felt to me as if reps lacked personal involvement. With other applications or companies when I call, they understand my goals, ask how I am doing, tell me things to buy and what not to purchase. I don't want my BigCommerce rep in a non-enterprise situation too involved. However, they did fell further removed. BC has everything you need and the support to back it up. You can go thin with a few bells and whistles and save money or run through a forest of needed and wanted options for that edge. The worst?... Have you looked at the tutorials? When I looked many were not there or have not been updated for months or longer. So, when you make the right choice and sign up for BigCommerce.

We are a wine retailer and use BigCommerce for our online sales. We use the BigCommerce API to tightly integrate the BigCommerce platform with our Retail Management System which runs our brick-and-mortar operations. We moved to BigCommerce nearly two years ago to address several needs including a robust API, optimized one-page checkout, site speed, access to integrated apps, an enterprise-level hosted environment, SaaS solution, headless commerce, highly flexible framework that is easy to modify, offloading of PCI compliance, 24/7/365 phone support in addition to email and ticket systems, professional services, solutions architects and a dedicated account manager. After years of owning source code and hosting our own site on our own servers, we were ready to accept the fact that we simply didn't have the internal resources to keep up with the evolving e-commerce landscape. We knew we needed to move to a hosted solution but still needed the flexibility of being able to develop and deploy customized solutions within our site. We looked at everything from Shopify+ to Magento to Oracle Commerce Cloud to BigCommerce. BigCommerce was the runaway winner as it addressed all of our requirements with ease.

We use BigCommerce as a way to reach customers across the USA. We are using it to offer all our brands to customers. We have other brand-specific websites, but we use BigCommerce to offer our whole [catalog] of products for purchase online. Most of our customers are based out of state so BigCommerce was an easy solution to bridge the gap between our company and our customers.

BigCommerce helped us build pages and display our products on the web easily. It builds a website very quickly and easily.

We use BigCommerce to power our online store presence and it's custom integrated with WordPress. It powers all online purchasing, pricing, and backend order fulfillment. We are able to lead our space with the customization options that BigCommerce offers, and its ease of use allows our small marketing team to offer a robust and quality online presence. It’s easy to upload products, maintain and fulfill them properly in addition to doing proper automatic email correspondence such as automated order confirmation emails and more. It's also easy to train the rest of the staff on how to use it and when needed, we have it support to make backend coding changes cost-effectively.

We are using BigCommerce to launch a new small business site featuring custom innovations and 3D printed designs.

We came from Shopify, hoping to get a little bit more baked in from the start. [I believe] this was a big mistake. Analytics, shipping policies, and theme editing are all handled by third-party integrations, with two of those being an additional cost per month. [In my experience] some of the free templates seem a little nicer and more professional than Shopify, however, they are mostly not customizable without additional software, which means another monthly charge or going into the code. We also liked the way MSRP and Sale prices work. Additionally, importing/exporting is handled much easier and I like the Products editing screen, although some settings are hidden. Templates allow some minor edits and appearance choices but are mostly non-editable. The Menu Bar is completely non-editable. The footer is just a mirror of the main menu bar, which again is very limited. It is also basically non-editable as well, without going into the code or paying additional monthly fees for additional software for the rest of time, as any edits made by the software erases if you stop paying. BigCommerce is touting a new template drop and drag feature they are rolling out and [I feel] it is very bad. Also, support told me there was no way to move sections around after you create them, therefore the only way was to delete and start from scratch. [I believe] this is not true. The first thing you'll see when you sign into the admin is the dashboard, which [I feel] is basically non-existent. It has some minor specks of info and that's it. We also came to find out that BigCommerce does not consider an order placed until payment is made, so if you authorize only and then charge at shipping, your sales figures for the day are basically useless. [In my experience] you have to use Google Analytics for the simplest snippet of useful metrics. [I believe] the orders screen is a mess of accordion-style views. It doesn't show any fraud details or acquisition info. Also, [in my experience] checkout registration kicks the user back to the homepage and even the checkout fields are in a strange sequence. There was a hard pitch to get on the $1,500 enterprise plan and pay $3,000 to migrate data that we did ourselves in minutes. [I believe] sales is sales, it's understandable, but I'm reading that other users fall for this and [BigCommerce] charges cancellation fees. [I feel] the worst thing of all about BigCommerce is the 24/7 phone and chat support. It is 24/7, which is nice to have, but [in my experience] no one knows anything except for one person, who we have started asking for. Otherwise, [in my experience] every answer is "I think", "I think", and usually wrong, or just plain wrong right away. [I believe] you can hear the reps clicking through the admin trying to find an answer that ends up being incorrect, as you find the solution, or menu, or feature on your own a day or two later. [I feel] you should not expect any guidance at all with anything theme-related. [I feel] BigCommerce kind of laughs at Shopify for being basic and needing add-ons for simple things, but those things are typically minor tweaks for a few dollars. With BigCommerce, you cannot even work well without several integrations.

BigCommerce is Lindsey's primary sheet music store. She offers every type of sheet music she owns and her fans can purchase her sheet music directly from the BigCommerce website. Originally, she was using her own website, LindseyStirling.com, to list her products but after multiple management changes, keeping that website updated and running smoothly was a problem. With her new sheet music site, we can keep her sheet music updated as much as needed without the worry of having anyone else take the site down due to technical issues or management changes. It has been the perfect solution.