BigCommerce Ecommerce
BigCommerce Ecommerce
BigCommerce is a leading SAAS platform for B2B, B2C and D2C commerce. Our team of BigCommerce developers have put together a comprehensive overview of functionality, capability, and top business-cases for BigCommerce.
BigCommerce Key Industries:
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
Target Customer Size:
- Small
- Medium
- Large
Solution Types: B2C, B2B, D2C
Business Cases:
- Total Cost of Ownership Reduction
- Large Catalogs (2 Million Products)
- Complex Logistics
- Turn-Key Commerce
Time to Go Live: 1-3 Months
BigCommerce is a best in class solution for medium to large organizations that are considering marketplace commerce. Their platform includes out of the box OMS, CMS, Logistics, Search, Catalog, Promotions and Pricing functionality. In addition to these items, the app marketplace provides connectors, integrations and features developed for many popular capabilities.
See our in-depth feature review from our BigCommerce development team below.
| Section | Features | VTEX |
|---|---|---|
| OMS | Order API (Ease of ERP Integration) | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | Custom order fields | Minimal Features |
| OMS | User Interface for order changes | Features Available |
| OMS | Transactional emails | Features Availbile |
| OMS | Lead time orders / Flexible order types | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | Cancellation, returns, Refunds | Features Available |
| OMS | Payment gateways | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | gift cards | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | Customer credit (payment terms) | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | Installments | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | Subscriptions | Highly Flexible |
| OMS | Multi seller order splitting | Features Available |
| OMS | Customizable OMS interface | Minimal Features |
| OMS | Approval workflows | Features Available |
| Pricing management | User specific pricing | Features Availbile (limit) |
| Pricing management | External pricing | Features Availbile with Customization |
| Pricing management | Regional pricing | Highly Flexible |
| Pricing management | Tiered pricing | Highly Flexible |
| Pricing management | Price management UI (import/export, single and bulk) | Highly Flexible |
| Pricing management | Pricing API | Highly Flexible |
| Pricing management | Multi-seller pricing | Features Availbile with Customization |
| Pricing management | Bid pricing | Unavailable |
| Pricing management | Price optimization engine | Unavailable |
| CPQ | Quote Requests | Features Availbile with Customization |
| CPQ | Product Configuration | Features Availbile with Customization |
| Promotions | Coupons | Highly Flexible |
| Promotions | Discounts | Highly Flexible |
| Promotions | Buy X get Y | Highly Flexible |
| Promotions | Loyalty Programs | Highly Flexible |
| Promotions | Bundled Coupons | Highly Flexible |
| Promotions | Personalized Discounts/Coupons | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Multiple warehouse model | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Infinite inventory | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Back ordered inventory | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Shipping carrier integrations (UPS, Fedex, DHL and custom carrier implementation) | Minimal Features |
| Logistics | Logistics selection engine (simplification feature) | Features Availbile |
| Logistics | In store pickup/ Pickup points | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Multi-package shipments - Split Order Shipments | Features Availbile |
| Logistics | Loading dock lead time | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Pre-order inventory | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Lead time inventory | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Order status UX and messaging | Features Availbile |
| Logistics | Multi seller order assignment | Features Availbile with Customization |
| Logistics | Delivery time estimation (front-end component) | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Inventory management (upload, export, API, UI) | Highly Flexible |
| Logistics | Inventory optimization recommendations | Unavailable |
| Logistics | Product manager roles and access profiles | Minimal Features |
| Logistics | Seller inventory integration | Highly Flexible |
| CMS | Site editor (CSS/HTMl Editor) / GUI page editor | Features Availbile |
| CMS | URL Path Rules | Minimal Features |
| CMS | Templated Pages | Features Availbile |
| CMS | Dynamic SEO meta data | Minimal Features |
| CMS | Personalized content (behavior-based content) | Unavailable |
| CMS | Multi-Site/Store | Highly Flexible |
| CMS | Global Styling (Fonts, Colors) | Highly Flexible |
| CMS | Version Control and Deployment | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Product bundles / kitted products | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Associated items | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Bundle products | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Product recommendations | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Product types (simple, digital, configurable, bundle) | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Specification / Attributes | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Hierarchy levels | Limited 3 |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Catalog integration (API, import, export) | Minimal Features for attribute import |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Brands | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Suppliers / Seller integration | Features Availbile with Customization |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Rich product content (unstructured product information including videos, images and conent) | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | FAQ | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Downloadable product literature | Features Availbile with Customization |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Reviews and ratings | Feature available in app store |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Product attachments | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Category gallery | Minimal Features |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Catalog size (Products, SKUs, attributes and configuration limitations) | Attribute size limited |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | SEO (on-Page meta data, URL, Sitemapping) | Features Availbile |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Multi-dimensional categories (shared products) | |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Persona-based catalogs | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Regional catalogs | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Product collections (set rules) | Highly Flexible |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Custom product fields | |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Multi language support | Features Availbile |
| PIM/Catalog/DAM | Versioning and Deployment | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Promoted Search Results | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Configurable Search | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Synonyms and Search Redirecting | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Faceted Search Options | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Suggested Search Results | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Visual Search | Feature available in app store |
| Search | Search Technology | Elasticsearch |
| Search | Search Merchandising | Highly Flexible |
| Search | Pagination | Minimal Features |
| Tax | Avalara Integration | Highly Flexible |
| Tax | Tax Rule Module | Highly Flexible |
| Technical | Deployment | Highly Flexible |
| Technical | Data Versioning (CMS, Templates, Catalog, Pricing, Logistics) | Minimal Features |
| Technical | Test Harnesses | Minimal Features |
| Technical | Caching and CDN Support | Features Availbile |
| Technical | High Availability Resources | Yes |
| Technical | Horizontal Scalability on Demand | Yes |
| Technical | Microservices Architecture | Yes |
| Technical | Session Externalization | Yes |
| Technical | SAML | Yes |
| Technical | Externalized Authentication | Yes |
| Technical | Page Load Speed | ? |
| Technical | Lighthouse Score | ? |
| Technical | Development Stack | ReactJS, GraphQL |
| Security & Policies | PCI/DSS Compliance | Yes |
| Security & Policies | User Permissions | |
| Security & Policies | Admin User Permissions | |
| Security & Policies | SSL TLS support | Yes |
| Security & Policies | Firewall | Yes - CloudFront |
| Security & Policies | Bot DDOS Protection | No |
| Security & Policies | GDPR Compliance | Feature available in app store |
| Security & Policies | AODA / ADA Compliance | Feature available in app store |
