When Less is Less
October 14, 2019

When Less is Less

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with BigCommerce

We only use BigCommerce for our wholesale portion of our E-Commerce business. It is our website & store for wholesale customers only & it is how we track and process all wholesale orders.
  • Easy to use
  • Great, detailed invoice/order details
  • Awesome 24 hour customer service
  • Better search/CSV export of ALL data
  • Updated tools for basic website building
  • Positive overall dashboard with good data, we love that
  • We still enter most orders manually. Even though I have streamlined that process, it still takes quite a bit of time, even with a paid Zapier integration between Xero & BigCommerce & Stitchlabs & Shipstation. Most of our wholesale customers pay via terms so they order through email.
Because of limited search & export features, BigCommerce seems like an outdated storefront. We do so much work manually that even if our wholesale business did grow, we would use a lot of personnel hours to keep up.
We use few integrations because our wholesale customer base pays via terms and barely uses the site to browse products. About 10% will use the storefront to make a purchase. Our retail e-commerce site, Shopify, uses many of the integrations & we can't have multiple accounts.
BigCommerce is much like the first version of the wheel next to Shopify. Although I like the simplicity, when I think of opening up my own e-commerce site, I will not choose BigCommerce. I don't love Shopify, but next to Squarespace, it is probably the best option to have a prosperous e-commerce site.
Well suited for a smaller business with fewer customers & less inventory.

BigCommerce Feature Ratings

Product catalog & listings
5
Product management
5
Bulk product upload
5
Branding
3
Mobile storefront
1
Product variations
2
Website integration
2
Visual customization
2
CMS
3
Abandoned cart recovery
2
Checkout user experience
2
eCommerce security
5
Promotions & discounts
3
Personalized recommendations
3
SEO
2
Multi-site management
3
Order processing
3
Inventory management
3
Shipping
3
Custom functionality
3