Excellent Choice for Non-profits
August 07, 2019

Excellent Choice for Non-profits

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Software Version

Plus

Overall Satisfaction with BigCommerce

Our organization uses BigCommerce to promote products and services used within our organization, as well as provide easy donation accessibility across our entire organization. Because our non-profit organization has chapters in various states, with products being drop-shipped to each location, it provides an easy way for us to track inventory and sales.

Pros

  • Extremely easy to custom the templates with lots of options.
  • Provides tremendous amount of "how to" help in the knowledge base, guides, and community.
  • Customer service is very responsive, knowledgeable and helpful. Solves the problem the first time, every time.
  • Company responds to needs and wants of its users. They provide a place to request needs/wants with the ability for other users to read and respond. Company responds to those issues which of most concern.
  • Monthly updates with improvements to the platform.

Cons

  • No mobile app.
  • Ease of use, need to be somewhat tech-savvy.
  • Editing interface can be difficult to navigate but that is due to the wide range of options available.
  • Streamlined operations.
  • Reduced accounting expenses.
  • Increased donation amount per donor.
BigCommerce provides a wide range of options to grow as sales, products and customer base increase. It provides a few plan levels with meaningful and useful options for the next level of growth. The developer section provides unlimited flexibility if the size and scale of the business grow beyond the "do it yourself" web building option.
Our non-profit organization has the need to integrate with Quickbooks. Four years ago BigCommerce was the only platform available with this option. The integration with Mail Chimp is excellent. Because of the specific way in which we promote within the organization, we are not using social media integration options at this time.
BigCommerce is well suited for organizations with a wide range of products or a broad customer base that needs flexible sales options. Since it has a broad platform with numerous options, it many not be the best option for a start-up. It is not well suited for those who are not tech-savvy and need to do their own website building.

BigCommerce Feature Ratings

Product catalog & listings
9
Product management
10
Bulk product upload
9
Branding
10
Mobile storefront
9
Product variations
10
Website integration
10
Visual customization
10
CMS
9
Abandoned cart recovery
10
Checkout user experience
10
eCommerce security
10
Promotions & discounts
10
Personalized recommendations
10
SEO
10
Multi-site management
10
Order processing
10
Inventory management
10
Shipping
10
Custom functionality
10

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