BigCommerce

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BigCommerce is a hosted ecommerce platform for fast-growing and mid-market online retailers, merchants and businesses.

About this App

Enterprise ecommerce, simplified.

Learn how BigCommerce leads for five ecommerce imperatives.

BigCommerce is the only ecommerce solution that gives you the choice of using our native low/no code tools, your own frontend solution in headless design, or both in a Multi-Storefront ecosystem.

Simplified custom low/no code design.

Create exceptionally beautiful, fully hosted, low/no code sites with market leading theme and page customisation using our Stencil framework, which offers the latest best practices in technology, design standards, and conversion.

Headless design, without the headaches.

We are considered a leader in composable/headless commerce, allowing you to connect to any frontend network and compose your way. Keep the CMS or DXP you love, let us drive the backend, and see how intuitive we make this powerful design approach.

More freedom to differentiate.

Whether designing with hosted low/no code, headlessly, or both in Multi-Storefront — BigCommerce enables you to build anything, stand out, and edit effortlessly to deliver the differentiated digital experiences your customers demand.

Native SEO and CRO and future facing.

Our platform natively delivers search engine and conversion rate optimisation which are critical for ranking visibility, site engagement, and qualified lead generation. And as a MACH Alliance certified solution provider, there’s no question about our future-ready composability.

Ecommerce, your way.

BigCommerce believe a modern SaaS platform should fit your business, not the other way around.

Our Open SaaS solution combines the best of SaaS and API enabled openness and flexibility, giving you the enterprise integrations and tools you need to customize faster.

  • Flexibility you demand (or haven’t thought of yet)

  • Scalability for the global shift to online purchasing

  • Speed and agility to protect and grow more sales

  • Essential back office integrations

  • No proprietary blockers, friction or limitations

Leading brands have seen significantly lower TCO with BigCommerce.

Cost (from)

US$29/month

Free Practice Subscription

Trial

15 day free trial, fully functional, no credit/debit card required

Partner Program

BigCommerce partners with the best ecommerce designers, developers and marketers in the world to help brands innovate and succeed.

Support Channels

  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Online Help
  • Phone
  • Web Form

Mobile Platforms

  • Android
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  • iOS
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Accounting Platforms

Integrations

  • akeneo

  • algolia

  • Amazon Pay

  • Avalara AvaTax

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  • dotdigital

  • feedonomics

  • fluentcommerce

  • HubSpot

  • Klevu

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Geographies Served

  • Australia

  • Hong Kong

  • Indonesia

  • Ireland

  • Malaysia

  • New Zealand

  • Philippines

  • Singapore

  • South Africa

  • United Kingdom

  • USA

Categories

App features per category

Deliver Differentiated Commerce Experiences

  • Storefront Design

    • Page Builder Visual Editor: Easily launch and edit site pages with a drag-and-drop solution, no coding required.

    • Theme Customization: Get fully-customizable themes with built-in HTML, CSS and Javascript.

    • Checkout Customization: Customize every inch of the checkout experience with a server-to-server checkout API and SDK.

    • Mobile Optimization: Make your site mobile-responsive from homepage to checkout with any BigCommerce theme.

    • Preview Before Publishing: Use the Stencil CLI tool to develop, test and push changes in a local environment without downtime.

    • WordPress Integration: Build your site on WordPress with full back-end platform enablement from BigCommerce for WordPress.

  • Storefront Conversion

    • Coupons & Discounts: Create over 70+ native discount and promotions — no scripting required.

    • Site Speed: Give your store blazing-fast speed around the world with a platform built on Google Cloud Platform & supported by Cloudflare's global network.

    • Merchandising: Use drag-and-drop functionality, custom product recommendations and headless commerce APIs to customize your merchandising.

    • Digital Wallets: Make it easier for your customers to pay with dozens of digital wallets like Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, PayPal One Touch and more.

    • SEO: :Get more traffic with customizable, SEO-friendly URLS, and out-of-the-box Metadata and robots.txt editing.

    • Faceted Search: Faceted search built off of Elasticsearch, including custom field support for refined searching. We also partner with best-in-breed 3rd party tools.

API-Driven Commerce

  • Headless Commerce

    • BigCommerce for WordPress: Connect your WordPress site to BigCommerce's powerful commerce engine with a pre-built plugin for brands with an editorial or content focus.

    • Acquia Digital Experience Integration: Merge headless commerce with sophisticated enterprise content management through BigCommerce’s Acquia Digital Experience integration.

    • Headless Commerce in React.js/Vue.js (F/E Framework): Maintain full control of your site while BigCommerce provides the administration and checkout for a native app experience.

    • Channels Toolkit: Easily discover, test, and onboard headless solutions from right within the BigCommerce control panel, saving significant developer resources.

Sell Everywhere, With One Platform

  • Cross-Channel Ecommerce

    • Multi-Storefront: Create and manage multiple, unique storefronts within your BigCommerce dashboard. Whether you manage multiple brands, sell across customer segments or build across different regions — streamline your operations from one single account.

    • Marketplaces: Sell where your customers are shopping by integrating with top marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon and Google Shopping.

    • Social Commerce: Capture more customers on social channels with Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram integrations.

    • Brick & Mortar: Keep in-store sales automatically updated with native POS systems, including Teamwork Commerce and more.

  • B2B

    • Customer Groups: Segment your customers for pricing, product access and promotions without having to maintain a second site.

    • Price Lists: Give B2B customers a B2C-level experience with custom pricing at the SKU level for customer groups.

    • Bulk Pricing: Take control of bulk pricing with customization down to the SKU level for individual customers or customer groups.

    • Purchase Orders: Offer approved customers payment by purchase order via BigCommerce solution tech partners.

    • Punch Out: Customize BigCommerce to your ERP punch out solution via framing and sequence. Or, use our best-in-breed partner PunchOut2Go.

    • Quote Management: Manage quotes with native CSR generated quote management and third-party tools, such as B2B Ninja.

    • B2B Payment: Make it easier for your customers to pay with a broad spectrum of flexible payment methods and credit authorization.

    • Advanced Search: Power your store with faceted search built with Elasticsearch, or integrate with best-in-breed solutions for complex search criteria.

    • APIs: Use the industry's fastest APIs to automatically sync data from 3rd party systems (such as ERPs) seamlessly into BigCommerce.

  • International

    • Multi-Currency: Meet the needs of your global shoppers by accepting payments in over 100+ currencies and offering local payment methods through the gateway of your choice.

    • Multi-Language: Localize the BigCommerce frontend in any language, with translation available through apps and APIs for third-party translation services.

    • Cross-Border Fulfillment: Natively integrate with ShipperHQ to enable accurate quoting for cross-border shipping.

    • Global CDN: With our powerful CDN, your site loads quickly — anywhere in the world.

    • Offices Around the World: We’re never far away with offices in the UK, AU and US.

Smart Ops, Smart Scaling

  • Core Commerce Features

    • Scalable Catalog: Manage your entire product catalog within the BigCommerce control panel or push from an external system through the Catalog API.

    • Shipping: BigCommerce offers industry-leading rates, while a broad portfolio of partners are available to address any nuance of your shipping and fulfillment needs.

    • Tax: Automate your sales taxes with Avalara Avatax built-in, or use our custom tax tables.

    • Staging Environment: Develop, test and push changes without downtime in a local environment using the Stencil CLI tool.

    • Vaulting: BigCommerce provides native credit card vaulting for multiple gateways.

    • Refunds & Returns: Enable your customers to initiate refunds or partial refunds through their account.

    • Customer Groups: Create definable customer segments and corresponding site experiences out-of-the-box via custom pricing.

    • Reporting & Analytics: Drive real-time business impact with critical metrics for orders, customer data, marketing and more through the BigCommerce Analytics Dashboard.

    • SSO: Leverage our customer login API for custom single sign-on (SSO) or plug-and-play partner solutions like LoginRadius or Okta.

  • Open Platform

    • API Breadth: More than 90% of the BigCommerce platform data is exposed to the API.

    • API Performance: BigCommerce supports over 400 calls per second, making it possible to perform 24,000 product updates in under a minute.

    • CP & Storefront SSO: Utilize our login API for custom backend SSO, or opt for a best-of-breed partner solution like LoginRadius, Okta or OneLogin.

    • Headless Commerce: Server-to-server API functions enable a complete headless commerce experience.

    • SEO: Get more traffic with customizable, SEO-friendly URLs, and out-of-the-box Metadata and robots.txt editing.

    • Faceted Search: Faceted search built off of Elasticsearch, including custom field support for refined searching. We also partner with best-in-breed 3rd party tools.

Security & Confidence

  • Reliability & Security

    • World-Class Uptime: BigCommerce operates on a High Availability (HA) infrastructure that allows us to deliver 99.99% uptime, resiliency and performance for our merchants.

    • Certified Secure: The BigCommerce platform is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified and PCI DSS 3.1, Level 1 certified as both a Merchant and Service Provider.

    • Backup and Restore: Reinforce your store’s data with two data centers, and a third, back-up data center spatially separated to mitigate potential failure.

Ecommerce Expertise

  • Services: Launch quickly with the help of in-house experts, there to leverage a deep understanding of your business, KPIs and goals.

  • Support: BigCommerce offers 24/7 technical support, with supplemental Account Management, Solution Architecting, Technical Account Management, Implementation Project Management and in-house Catalog Transfer Services.

  • Documentation: Find the answers you need with relevant documentation and resources for BigCommerce merchants.

  • APIs: Harmonize the BigCommerce platform with the rest of your ecosystem through APIs and superior data orchestration.

  • Ecosystem: Get access to hundreds of apps to expand your functionality, in addition to APIs that seamlessly integrate with your infrastructure.

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