Switching to a new ecommerce platform is an important step in growing your business and promoting your brand. BigCommerce can help to reduce the total cost of ownership for your ecommerce operation, which isn't just relegated to subscription and license fees, but also includes the time and cost involved in setting up, supporting, and maintaining your online store.
BigCommerce for WordPress (BC4WP) allows you to continue to tap into WordPress’ deep customization while adding a scalable SaaS ecommerce solution that adjusts for your business needs. It adjusts to complex catalogs and site traffic peaks and offers key ecommerce features such as comprehensive analytics and real-time shipping rates.
A Great Value: BigCommerce versus WooCommerce
WooCommerce is hosted using an all-in-one solution, with your store’s resources split between the storefront and the backend. This means that storefront performance can suffer when you’re performing essential maintenance backups, or you may experience slowdowns in your control panel during traffic peaks. Since BC4WP handles all of the backend ecommerce resources outside of WordPress as a comprehensive package, performance issues due to resource management can be minimized. Plus you will have the additional benefit of using less plugins overall in WordPress.
There’s also the cost in time and human resources. Ensuring that all of your plug-ins in WordPress are up to date and working correctly, and researching and implementing solutions when you encounter issues can take up more resources than expected. These costs only multiply as additional apps and plug-ins become required for your storefront to stay current and attractive to shoppers.
BigCommerce 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 manual sales tax settings, which can be applied to products in bulk
- Comprehensive list of Automatic Promotions and coupons for promotions
- Support for an ever-growing list of leading payment gateways, including Authorize.net, Stripe, Amazon Pay, Google Pay, and Square
- Built-in abandoned cart saver on select plans
As BigCommerce is already built for mid-market and enterprise use cases, you can natively connect to your existing ERP suites, PIM software, OMS solutions, POS systems, and marketing automation tools.
With WooCommerce, you are responsible for ensuring the security and safety of sensitive customer data as part of PCI compliance. Maintaining PCI compliance requires both time and effort, and taking on a huge amount of liability and risk onto your business. As a PCI certified Level 1 Service Provider, BigCommerce provides a secure checkout and manages your customer data, such as logins and accounts. When BigCommerce powers your checkout, we assume the burden of PCI compliance for you, giving your customers peace of mind with their sensitive information, and allowing you to focus on growing your business.
With all of the built-in value of BigCommerce's features, let's take look at the various methods you can use to migrate your data from WooCommerce.
