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Shopify vs Bigcommerce? Start your Business with the Best Shopping Cart!

Published on June 1, 2015 • by Rohit Kumar

Updated on December 9, 2023 •

9 min Read

To run a good online store, when selecting between ‘Shopify’ and ‘Bigcommerce’, you may need some fundamental e-commerce tools, i.e. the ability to manage inventory, showcase products, set prices, taxes, configure shipping details, tracking orders, setting up payment gateways, etc.

Both ‘Shopify’ and ‘Big commerce’ shopping carts compete head to head for what they actually cater to different classes of customers.

Both platforms are some of the best e-commerce shop builders in the e-commerce industry having their own pros and cons.

Go through the important things to consider in this Shopify vs Bigcommerce platforms, to appreciate and understand, your important decision to spend time with one of them to start your business or you may have to switch to another e-commerce builder.

In our view, the following 12 features are some of the most important considerations to choose the best shopping cart.

Below Table Showing Summarized Comparison between Shopify and Bigcommerce Features :

S.No.	Features	Shopify	BigCommerce
1	Functionality of Basic online store	You can easily get your store up, without knowledge of any coding like HTML or CSS. Moreover, one need not to have any technical skills to use it.	It is the right choice, if you want a fully featured cart and don’t mind messing around with the HTML/CSS a bit.
2	Economical	Starter plan costs $14/month, restricts to a maximum of 25 store items.	All plans allow an unlimited number of items to be added to and sold via your store. Starter plan though may costs $29.95/month.
3	Shipping charges Calculation	Allow flexible, powerful and the most essential aspects of selling physical goods for calculation of shipping charges via an online store front.	Also allow flexible, powerful and the most essential aspects of selling physical goods for calculation of shipping charges via an online store front.
4	Offer for coupons and discount codes	Shopify does not offer this feature on their starter plan.	All plans at BigCommerce allow discount code creation and calculation functionalities.
5	Payment gateway	Shopify has a slight edge here, with support for 70 payment gateways	BigCommerce clocks-in with a slightly lower count of 60+ gateways.
6	Themes and Templates	a) Shopify offers a large number of themes and templates to give ecommerce store a look and feel of your choice. Free Shopify themes are generally more modern. Paid/Premium themes costs start at $80.	Offers a large number of themes and templates to give ecommerce store a look and feel of your choice. Free Shopify themes are generally less modern. The minimum cost of premium themes is $120.
		b) Store templates just look better and more polished.	Templates don’t look as good, you likely have to dabble a little bit more with HTML or CSS or hire a designer to create an equivalent looking shop as Shopify’s.
7	Apps and Add-ons	Over 100 apps and add-ons are available to enhance and expand the functionality of your online store in various ways, a mix of free as well as paid apps/add-ons are also available.	Over 100 apps and add-ons are available to enhance and expand the functionality of your online store in various ways, a mix of free as well as paid apps/add-ons are also available.
8	Multi-lingual capabilities	Does not offer full multi-lingual capabilities directly in free and basic plan. Shopify offers multi-lingual capability on the checkout pages as an in-built feature.	Does not offer full multi-lingual capabilities directly in free plan. For creating fully multi-lingual stores, third-party/paid apps are available.
9	Marketing features	Offer more powerful feature for extensive SEO capabilities in order to help you drive more organic traffic to your store via search engines.	Offer less powerful feature showing SEO capabilities than Shopify.
10	Customization capabilities	Offer robust customization capabilities, via simple menu-driven interface to quickly and easily customize basic features i.e. (fonts, colours etc.) and also offers an advanced interface that allows you to edit the raw HTML/CSS code directly for total control over the design and the look-and-feel of your store.	Also, offer robust customization capabilities, via simple menu-driven interface to quickly and easily customize basic features i.e. (fonts, colours etc.) and also offers an advanced interface that allows you to edit the raw HTML/CSS code directly for total control over the design and the look-and-feel of your store.
11	Blogging functionality	Shopify has been offering integrated blogging functionality for a long time.	BigCommerce has recently introduced this feature.
12	Technical Support and Assistance	To handle its customer’s queries, customer support is available round the clock.	Ensures international shipping support.

Both of the above mentioned platforms are fairly powerful and easy to use.

Many users who have tried both these platforms have reported that the ‘Shopify’ system is at least slightly easier to use as compared to BigCommerce.

So, you can choose to reach our team for further help and recommendations regarding e-store development. We expertise in Shopify Store development services including PSD to Shopify Conversion, Shopify Theme Development, Shopify App Development and 3rd Party API integration.

Moving further with comparison between Shopify and Bigcommerce:

Plan Packages

No setup/installation fee charged by both platforms. Both offer a 14-day free trial with which you can test and evaluate the functionality and features offered by their ecommerce hosting platforms.

Shopify offers four different plans with monthly fees shown as follows:

Starter Plan : $ 14
Basic Plan : $ 29
Professional Plan : $79
Unlimited Plan : $179

So, using ‘Shopify’, with the expense of increased costs, you can get a more “Apple” like experience. But if you can deal with a slightly steeper learning and value out of the box features, then ‘Big Commerce’ is probably the obvious choice.

So, carefully browse through Shopify and Bigcommerce’s sites, and sign up to their free trials to see for yourself what they offer.

Especially if you are serious about your business, you have to get your hands dirty and invest a few hours with each of plateform to know which one fits you better.

You can try both services as a free trial. Sign up and select the best shopping cart for your business.!

Click Here To Take A Free Trial Of Shopify

Click Here To Take A Free Trial Of Big Commerce

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