BigCommerce - Best eCommerce solution for beginners and experts
March 19, 2014
BigCommerce - Best eCommerce solution for beginners and experts
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Software Version
SIlver
Modules Used
- ShipStation
Overall Satisfaction
As a web designer/developer I recommend BigCommerce to my clients as the preferred eCommerce option. As a store owner I use it with my other business as a retail store.
- Easy to get started. The admin dashboard is extremely easy to use.
- It's possible to customize just about anything. After using other shopping cart services this is by far the easiest to design a custom site down to the last detail. Very easy to overwrite template and CSS files.
- Trying to create a eCommerce site from other platforms while being PCI compliant can be a huge headache. Knowing that the right security is in place is one less thing to deal with and worry about.
- When I started using BigCommerce you could use FTP to manage files, now you can only use WebDAV. Which is only a minor inconvenience.
- The Options and Options Sets interworkings can be cumbersome with lots of products that need a variety of different options. Having to create an individual option set for a single product that offers different combinations of sizes (like newborn-kids clothes) is not fun.
- It's made store operation run more smoothly. Our store hasn't been open for a year yet so it's difficult to provide any numbers, but it's definitely saved us time compared to other shopping cart services we've used.
- The inventory tracking is great because we can see what stock is on hand without having to use another service.
- With the combination of the ShipStation add-on it's made shipping orders a breeze. No more standing in line at the post office.
Coming from being a Volusion user, I prefer BigCommerce. If you're a site designer it's a no brainer. Volusion uses tables for everything and many elements without IDs and Classes. All elements in BigCommerce are named and easy to manipulate using CSS. And all parts of the template are directly editable using WebDAV or their browser editor.