BigCommerce has it all at a great price.
August 01, 2019

BigCommerce has it all at a great price.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Software Version

Pro

Overall Satisfaction with BigCommerce

Big Commerce host our on-line religious goods store, Truedevotionasl.com which would be considered a department of our organization. The store extends our physical store here in Massachusetts and allows our most popular store items to be available throughout the United States. It also has the advantage of being open 24/7.
  • Everything needed to run an online store is contained in one package.
  • All aspects of selling and buying work flawlessly and maintained. I have never experienced downtime.
  • The help department is knowledgeable and eager to help.
  • Big Commerce supports Mail Chimp which handles mail campaigns with built in automation.
  • The only thing I can think of would be to make overseas shipping easier but I see that as a problem with the post office. Rates for insured delivery are too high; some are willing to pay but it takes time to give the customer an exact price. We discourage out of the country sales—too much hassle.
  • It has definitely streamlined operations. The store with all its aspects can be accessed from any computer at any location allowing for multiple operators to do a specific job such as fulfilling orders, keeping inventory, adding products, enhancing visuals, managing the customer base.
  • The increase of sales in one year has easily doubled.
We went from $60,000 last year to $120,000 this year with little added effort. On our end, the increase of work was the shipping. However, one of the big factors is the implementation of online advertising.
Integrating with USPS and UPS is a great feature. Integrating with MailChimp is another. Google statistics is also very helpful. I believe that is all we use for integrations I should add that through Big Commerce we used an outside company to update our store and give it a new look. It was smooth and there was no downtime.
The other companies, which I don't want to mention, were too cumbersome, more expensive and there were too many add-ons that came with a price for each.
Basically, you can set up your store and walk away except for checking on the orders daily, print postal labels that have correct and discounted postage. Notifications appear on your dashboard for various maintenance such as the number of products in inventory and email messages. The statics are easily available for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activity. You can also see where your traffic originates, such as social media, advertisement, or search engine.

BigCommerce Feature Ratings

Product catalog & listings
10
Product management
10
Bulk product upload
Not Rated
Branding
10
Mobile storefront
10
Product variations
10
Website integration
10
Visual customization
10
CMS
Not Rated
Abandoned cart recovery
10
Checkout user experience
10
eCommerce security
10
Promotions & discounts
10
Personalized recommendations
10
SEO
10
Multi-site management
Not Rated
Order processing
10
Inventory management
10
Shipping
10
Custom functionality
8