BigCommerce

BigCommerce is a hosted ecommerce platform aimed at growing and mid-market merchants, with a strong presence in B2B and multi-channel selling. Compared with Shopify it ships more capabilities natively, such as multi-currency, customer groups, faceted search and unlimited staff accounts, and it charges no platform transaction fees on any plan regardless of the payment gateway you choose.

It supports more than 65 payment gateways, sells through Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Google and marketplaces from the channel manager, and offers a first-party WordPress plugin for headless storefronts alongside its Catalyst framework for developers. APIs and webhooks are a strength, which is why agencies pick it for custom builds.

Pricing is Core at $29 per month billed annually, Growth at $79, Scale at $299 and Performance from $1,499, each quoting a 25 percent saving against monthly billing. Each plan is capped by trailing-twelve-month sales — $30,000 on Core and $100,000 on Growth — and a store that outgrows its cap is moved up automatically; Scale charges 0.9 percent on GMV above its own threshold. A 15-day free trial is available; there is no free plan. The theme and app ecosystem is smaller than Shopify's, the admin has more settings to learn, and design changes beyond the Page Builder mean editing Stencil themes.