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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

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

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)
    6.9
    69%

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
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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

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Reviews

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a manufacturer and direct seller of automatic pet feeders for small indoor and outdoor pets including fish, we have been using BigCommerce for direct sales to customers with good results, although our site is not really being found as it should in searches without using Google Ads. That is the only and main serious drawback. That issue was not existent years back when switching to BigCommerce. Tech service, however, has been excellent.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using BigCommerce to launch our new website. Our current website is out of date and we like the framework of BigCommerce. The website is a much needed asset for our company and we are working to get more of our customers using the new website. We will be marketing it once we launch the website in January.
February 14, 2020

Good product overall

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by all departments. It helps with inventory management, merchandising, and marketing. It has really great features related to managing promotions, discounting items, featuring products on home page and creating seasonal banners.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using BigCommerce to sell products and to educate consumers about our products. Images and product info play a big role in consumer education. BigCommerce helps us get our word across and has strong reliability. We use it to monitor our inventory. We use it to check to prices. We send customers to the website to check everything I just mentioned.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigCommerce to run our e-commerce department. It helps streamline communication across all of our product departments as well as keep us organized between our brick and mortar and online sales. BigCommerce's customizable templates have also helped give our website a newer, refreshed look. Our e-commerce is running at a much higher capacity thanks to BigCommerce.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BigCommerce is our primary interface for interacting with our customers. Everyone uses the platform to look at analytics, sales, orders, and to plan pricing strategies, etc. As a small company--but true for companies of any size--it’s crucial that we are able to be efficient and effective in dealing with customer orders and planning sales.
Jack Bendrihem | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Big Commerce to sell our broad range of customer print products that are primarily paper-based; brochures, posters, postcards, etc. We use it as an extension of our business, and it is not our primary income generator. The biggest advantage of having BigCommerce is that when customers need pricing on a range of various products, we simply direct them to our site. For example, if a customer needs a brochure/pamphlet printed and they require folding, the system will illustrate the fold based on their choice. It's very cool.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BC for multiple stores—from basic for online catalog listing only (no prices), startup stores and pro stores. It handles product options exceptionally well, good for configuring various systems. Customers require the ability to select their equipment options and accessories.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigCommerce for our online store. We process all of our direct to consumer orders. We have attached it to many forms of online payment, and utilize for inventory as well. BigCommerce has given us a one-stop solution for many of our online activities, most of all the sales, but also as a base for our other resellers to get product information and photos of the current product line.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigCommerce for our e-commerce store. It forms an integral part of our business, as our longer-term plans are to use our BigCommerce listings to launch on new marketplaces. BigCommerce is currently used by our sales, marketing and customer service teams.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BigCommerce is currently being used to handle our entire eCommerce platform; therefore, our entire company utilizes this service throughout our organization. As a product/service, BigCommerce allows us to handle the eCommerce aspects of our business with a simple and effective solution. BigCommerce also allows us to easily expand our operation whenever needed with many available integration options.
January 22, 2020

Working on it....

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigCommerce as our eCommerce and shipping platform. We use it across the whole organization, in that everyone is versed on how to complete an order that has been processed by BigCommerce. It solves our eCommerce interaction with customers, processing of orders online and shipping process.
Christi Jensen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BigCommerce is being used across the whole operation - meaning this is our main online POS system. We use it to connect our Square in-store POS to our online presence wich is solely hosted by BigCommerce. This is the best solution we've found.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigCommerce to maintain our customer database, fulfill orders, as a product catalog, front-end to our back-end payment systems, and for some marketing. BigCommerce meets a majority of our needs with two exceptions: 1) multi-channel inventory control and 2) shipping. We use BigCommerce across the whole organization.
January 17, 2020

BigCommerce is fine.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are utilizing BigCommerce for our e-commerce websites. We have 4 in total, including our company website as well as a few we manage for customers. The main business problem it addresses is our ability to sell our products online and streamline our order taking process. It also allows customers to view all the products we offer.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use BigCommerce for our eCommerce website. It is not being used across the whole organization. It is managed separately from our brick and mortar store and our other online marketplaces. With online shopping growing every year, BigCommerce allows us to adapt to the times and offer the same products to our customers wherever they choose to shop.
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