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BigCommerce

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.

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Recent Reviews

Last resort letdown...

1 out of 10
March 07, 2024
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 …
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BigCommerce Success!!

9 out of 10
January 26, 2024
Incentivized
We have utilized Big Commerce in the development and execution of our website. The SEO and store creation have been simple and easy, and …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Product catalog & listings (413)
    7.8
    78%
  • Visual customization (403)
    7.4
    74%
  • Mobile storefront (401)
    7.3
    73%
  • Product management (410)
    6.8
    68%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

3 videos

User Review: BigCommerce Takes Sales Online For Sellers With Ease
02:35
User Review: Business Depends on BigCommerce With Easy-To-Use Platform & Great Customer Service
02:54
User Review: BigCommerce Keeps Focus On Product For Business While They Handle The Software
04:25
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Pricing

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Standard

$29.95

Cloud
per month

Plus

$79.95

Cloud
per month*

Pro

$299.95

Cloud
per month*

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.bigcommerce.com/essentials/…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $29.95 per month
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Features

Online Storefront

Features for creating an online storefront with a browse-able product catalog.

7.3
Avg 7.7

Online Shopping Cart

Features that facilitate the collection of items so that customers can purchase them as a group.

7.4
Avg 7.6

Online Payment System

Features related to processing online payment for eCommerce purchases.

7.7
Avg 8.3

eCommerce Marketing

Features related to marketing for eCommerce websites

7.1
Avg 7.5

eCommerce Business Management

Features related to business management and administration of eCommerce operations

7.2
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is BigCommerce?

According to the vendor, BigCommerce is one of the leading cloud ecommerce platforms for established and rapidly-growing businesses. Combining enterprise functionality, an open architecture and app ecosystem, and market-leading performance, BigCommerce aims to help businesses to grow online sales with less cost, time, and complexity than on-premise software. BigCommerce powers B2B and B2C ecommerce for more than 60,000 brands, 2,000+ mid-market businesses, 30 Fortune 1000 companies, and industry-leading brands, including Assurant, Ben & Jerry’s, Paul Mitchell, Skullcandy, Sony, and Toyota.

The vendor says that the product provides the following benefits to customers:

Customize and innovate at a lower total cost of ownership
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

BigCommerce Screenshots

Screenshot of Enterprise ecommerce for high-volume brands like Skullcandy.Screenshot of Our industry-leading integration will let you list your products on Amazon directly from the BigCommerce control panel, with centralized inventory and order processing and fulfillment.Screenshot of Easily customize the look and feel of your storefront.

BigCommerce Videos

Create differentiated commerce experiences on the industry’s most versatile enterprise solution.
BigCommerce Company Values
Scale your business with WordPress on the front-end and free up server resources from things like catalog management, processing payments, and managing fulfillment logistics, with BigCommerce on the back end.

BigCommerce Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

BigCommerce starts at $29.95.

Shopify, Shopify Plus, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud are common alternatives for BigCommerce.

Reviewers rate Product catalog & listings highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of BigCommerce are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

BigCommerce Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)60%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)30%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)10%
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

(662)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(26-50 of 434)
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Keith Whitt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Users like the professional look and navigation of the site, which increased orders.
  • Processing and fulfilling orders is much faster than with my previous system (osCommerce).
  • BigCommerces manages all backend codes, which includes security. That alone has been a great investment.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our web revenue has increased by about 500% over the last 3-4 years and BigCommerce was able to handle easily the higher traffic and order volume.
  • Our BigCommerce plan if quite affordable, so our ROI is exceptional.
  • BigCommerce is intuitive and easy to use, so we do not need IT specialists to maintain our website. This has saved us tens of thousands in consulting and outsourcing fees.
Jim Lopardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We booked our first international large multi-pallet order in our history to a British corporation. In another first, we shipped the order direct to Ghana.
  • We added 70 first-time customers since launch. Over half have ordered more than once.
  • Integrating with two of our largest national customers' EAM systems has reduced the costs - and time - involved with order processing, including eliminating paper invoices. This has sped up our cash receipts from customers with payment terms.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We've seen a dramatic reduction in abandoned online orders, due to cart recovery, and the improved UX for the customer, somewhere to the tune of a 60% reduction.
  • Our online sales numbers, not just individual sales, but total revenue, have increased as a result of more customers moving away from phone orders due to the ease of the system. This has in turn allowed our call staff to put more of their attention to other specialist tasks in the company.
  • It has reduced the time it takes annually to handle and audit our price changes. The process has dropped by about 2 full days, with a significant minimization in the rate of errors.
  • Our shipping quotes for online orders are significantly more accurate, a difference of up to $20 per order for some customers, at huge savings to them. This is because it can interact so closely with our FedEx and UPS negotiated rates.
  • There has been a tremendous relief among the company and the customers related to confidence in the system after the previous solution proved to be unreliable.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Organic traffic has increased by 40% / Organic revenue is up 34% since moving to BigCommerce.
  • AOV is up 15% since moving to BigCommerce.
  • Sales are up 80% since moving to BigCommerce.
  • BigCommerce has allowed us to streamline our operations and we are now doing twice as much business without having had to hire any additional staff.
October 18, 2021

A Review of BigCommerce

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • BigCommerce is really helping me streamline my business with the ability to connect multiple sales channels to my store.
  • BigCommerce has been a great all-in-one solution for my e-commerce business. I used another shopping cart company in the past and BigCommerce is ten times better.
  • More than anything, I love the ability to customize my store exactly the way I want it with only a few clicks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Since the shutdowns in 2020, BigCommerce has been an invaluable lifeline for me to make some money when other avenues of revenue were not available. I could not have made it through the past 18 months without my BigCommerce storefront. - Thank you
  • Honestly, because I wasn't able to operate my crafting business as usual since the Covid-19 lockdowns, by having the BigCommerce storefront, I actually was able to see that maybe other avenues might not have been as cost-effective as I had believed them to be. Therefore, I have learned a lot over the past 18 months that I had not learned in the 7 years prior.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Connecting Paypal/Braintree to BigCommerce has given us some pretty good rates we otherwise wouldn't have gotten.
  • BigCommerce makes it easy to print labels and connect to our customers and refund from the control panel.
  • BigCommerce is good for our Marketing team as it is SEO friendly.
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