When selecting an ecommerce platform for your business, it’s important to identify the features you need in order for your store to be successful. By including many key ecommerce features natively, BigCommerce can save merchants from relying on apps that often come with monthly subscription fees, leading to the base cost of running your store to increase.
With the freedom to use your preferred payment gateways, shipping and POS integrations, and email marketing apps without paying any extra fees, BigCommerce allows you to simplify the day-to-day management of your store while keeping the essential features you rely on for your business.
BigCommerce versus Shopify
The BigCommerce platform supports several advanced ecommerce features, such as:
- Real-time shipping rates from leading carriers such as UPS, Fedex, and USPS
- Easy to set up automatic sales tax and basic sales tax settings, which can be applied to products in bulk
- Comprehensive list of discounts, automatic promotions, and coupons that don’t require a script editor to set up, and can be scheduled in advance
- Advanced wholesale functionality through customer groups and price lists
- Support for an ever-growing list of leading payment gateways, including Authorize.net, Stripe, Amazon Pay, Google Pay, Adyen, and Square, with no transaction fees from BigCommerce
- Built-in abandoned cart saver on select plans
- Robust API for custom solutions
- Support for multicurrency transactions on multiple payment gateways
- Storefront theme customization without coding through Page Builder
- Sell from multiple storefronts while managing your catalog, content, and orders from a single control panel
Many ecommerce businesses rely on features that are already built into the BigCommerce platform and available on all store plans, including:
- Easy to set up bulk pricing and custom fields for products
- Up to 600 SKUs per product
- Comprehensive product filtering (also known as faceted search) on category and search pages
- Image and mobile web page optimization through responsive images to provide an improved shopping experience and site speed across desktop and mobile devices
- Fully customizable default URLs for products, categories, and web pages, using a best-in-class format
- Assigning store credit to customers
- Bulk importing 301 redirects for optimizing SEO
- Customizable gift wrapping options
- Support for BOPIS (buy online, pickup in store, also known as “Click & Collect”)
As BigCommerce is already built for mid-market and enterprise use cases, you can connect to your existing ERP suites, PIM software, OMS solutions, POS systems, and marketing automation tools. With your store’s data living in a central location, this can reduce potential complications when you need to access your data and update software.
With all of the built-in value of BigCommerce's features, let's take a look at the various methods you can use to migrate your data from Shopify.
