BigCommerce Platform Overview

(01:48) BigCommerce is an eCommerce solution that's been around since 2009. It currently supports more than 90,000 stores in 120 countries. It allows customers to build their online stores right from their web browser. There's no software to purchase or downloads, and there's no web hosting to have to worry about. So that makes it a SaaS, which is known as Software as a Service.

(05:05) Shopify and BigCommerce are fairly similar, and they get compared a lot, but they do have a number of differences. I do feel like BigCommerce comes out on top in a lot of different ways. Here are a few key differences:

(05:16) The first way is with the APIs. Shopify has a limit on how fast you can access the APIs with 2-per-second, and BigCommerce allows for 400-per-second.

(05:49) Another place that BigCommerce stands out is with product options. With Shopify, you can only have three product options and a hundred SKUs Options meaning color, size, and things like that. But if you've got a lot of variations with your products, BigCommerce lets you have 250 different options with 600 SKUs each.

(06:23) Shopify does have slightly lower rates than BigCommerce. However, they get you with the payments. With payment gateways, if you don't use the Shopify payments, you tend to get dinged with transaction fees that aren't quite as high with BigCommerce. 

(06:52) Shopify doesn't have as many features out-of-the-box. With Shopify, you have to get a lot of apps to get the features that BigCommerce already has right on the dashboard. So you might be paying for monthly fees with these apps.

In this episode, we discuss the following topics: BigCommerce, BigCommerce Development, Shopify, SaaS, WooCommerce, WordPress, website themes, eCommerce, eCommerce development, website development, and eCommerce platforms.
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