BigCommerce, fastest and easiest way to set up an E-Commerce site
March 21, 2014
BigCommerce, fastest and easiest way to set up an E-Commerce site
Score 10 out of 10
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BigCommerce was used by my previous company as a major platform for building e-commerce websites for smaller boutique online store, with a small to moderate inventory of products. BigCommerce addressed an issue we had with other platforms in that it allowed us a lot more customization options as far as design and themes go.
- Being able to create custom themes, and layouts while maintaining it's core e-commerce functionality.
- The admin panel is easy to use to set up payment, and shipment options
- Having file access to template files greatly improves the development experience.
- At the time of writing this, the lack of responsive themes, was an area of weakness, however I hear they are implementing a responsive theme soon
- Not having a blank theme to start with, before I would have to take a theme, and comment out all the styles and code to have a clean start when making client sites.
- Some of the Product options sets can be clunky to use, but overall they are a great asset
- BigCommerce greatly reduces the headache of setting up an e-commerce site, by streamlining payment, shipping, and SSL certificate options, and having all of those options in one place increases productivity as a developer.
- BigCommerce automates a lot of functions and features that would otherwise cause me to spend more time trying to develop and that increases productivity.
- Having options in the admin panel for SEO options greatly improves productivity, of only having to install google analytics once in the admin panel and have it reflect on all the pages.
BigCommerce was chosen over other similar products because of the its ability to create custom themes, and tweak the design as the designer and developers see needs. Another plus over other options was that it was a hosted solution so it did not need to be set up on the clients own hosting account. It also gave us file access to quickly uploading and downloading files.