# BigCommerce

> Hosted ecommerce platform with plans set by yearly sales

BigCommerce is a hosted ecommerce platform for running an online store, with checkout, discounts, real-time shipping quotes, multiple inventory locations and links to marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay and Walmart. Plans are set by a store's sales over the past twelve months rather than by features alone, and a store moves up a plan when it passes its cap. Orders paid through BigCommerce's listed payment partners carry no extra fee.

- **Category:** Online Store Builders
- **Made by:** BigCommerce Pty. Ltd. (since 2009)
- **Website:** https://www.bigcommerce.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

BigCommerce is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 15-day free trial, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Core | $29 per month for up to $30K sales a year, billed annually ($39 monthly) | For new stores: up to 4 inventory locations and 24/7 chat and email support, with a 2% fee on orders through payment providers outside BigCommerce's list. |
| Growth | $79 per month for up to $100K sales a year, billed annually ($105 monthly) | Adds customer groups, abandoned-cart emails, stored cards and phone support, with 5 inventory locations and a 1% fee on orders through other providers. |
| Scale | $299 per month up to $33,333 sales a month, billed annually ($399 monthly) | Adds product filtering and 8 inventory locations, charges 0.9% on sales above the monthly cap and 0.6% on orders through other payment providers. |
| Performance | $1,499 per month and up, billed annually | Custom pricing for high-volume stores, sold through sales, with a dedicated customer success manager and no fee on other payment providers under contract. |

Read from https://www.bigcommerce.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with BigCommerce before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Pay annually to save 25%** (Annual discount): Core costs $29 a month billed annually against $39 billed monthly, Growth $79 against $105 and Scale $299 against $399. Source: https://www.bigcommerce.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Checkout and payment partners:** A single-page checkout with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Amazon Pay, and more than 100 currencies through the payment provider you choose, such as Stripe, PayPal, Adyen or Klarna.
- **Discounts and promotions:** More than 70 discount options, coupons and gift cards come built in on every plan, without a third-party app.
- **Shipping quotes and rules:** Real-time shipping rates from carriers such as UPS, USPS and FedEx, with the ShipperHQ shipping rules engine available as well.
- **Inventory across locations:** Track stock and fulfil orders from 4 locations on Core up to 8 on Scale, including in-store pickup and curbside collection.
- **Marketplaces, ads and point of sale:** Connect the store to Amazon, eBay and Walmart, send product feeds to Google, Meta and TikTok through Feedonomics Surface, and link POS systems such as Square or Clover.
- **Several storefronts in one account:** Run extra storefronts for other brands or regions from one dashboard, for $30 a month each on Core (up to 3) and more on higher plans.

## Good for

- Stores that want many built-in features without adding paid apps
- Sellers who list on Amazon, eBay and Walmart from one catalog
- Brands that run several storefronts from one account

## Worth knowing

- Each plan caps sales over the past twelve months (gross order value minus 10%); passing $30K on Core or $100K on Growth moves the store up a plan.
- Orders paid through providers outside BigCommerce's embedded list carry a fee of 2% on Core, 1% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale.
- Scale covers $33,333 of sales a month and charges 0.9% on sales above that.
- Customer groups, abandoned-cart emails and stored cards need Growth or higher, and product filtering needs Scale.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. BigCommerce packs a lot into every plan: more than 70 discount types, real-time shipping quotes, stock across several locations and links to Amazon, eBay and Walmart. Core is $29 a month on yearly billing. The thing to watch is the sales cap: pass $30K a year and you're moved up to Growth at $79.

- **Value for money: C.** Core is $29 a month on yearly billing ($39 monthly), the category's middle, and there's no extra fee when buyers pay through BigCommerce's listed partners. Use another provider and it's 2% a sale. Core only covers $30K of sales a year, mind.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 15-day trial with no card needed. That's long enough to set a store up and see if it suits you before paying anything.
- **Features: B.** It covers the whole job: one-page checkout, 70+ discount options built in, real-time carrier quotes, stock across 4 locations on Core, and marketplace, ad feed and POS links. Customer groups and abandoned-cart emails wait for Growth, but nothing core is missing.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.5 from 639 App Store ratings for its phone app, good if not top of the class. So much is built in that you won't be shopping for apps just to get the basics running.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Square, Clover, Stripe, PayPal and Klarna, plus an API. There's no desktop app, so not an A.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from BigCommerce's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Its pricing page would not load when we went back to check it. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among online store builders

- BigCommerce's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 6 of the 9 other online store builders we grade, and level with 1.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 6 of 9) and worst on value for money (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 3 of the 7 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/online-stores

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace BigCommerce you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 6 of the 9 other online store builders we grade. It costs $348 a year.

- You could make: Inventory and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Amazon, eBay and Walmart among them, and has an API.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.5 out of 5 from 639 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1418570678

## Works with

Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Square, Clover, Stripe, PayPal, Klarna

**Tags:** Online store, Inventory, Reports, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Shopify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shopify): Hosted commerce platform for online, in-person and social selling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-shopify)
- [WooCommerce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/woocommerce): Free, open-source store plugin for WordPress that you host yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-woocommerce)
- [SHOPLINE](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shopline): Ecommerce platform joining online, social and in-store selling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-shopline)
- [Wix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wix): Drag-and-drop website builder with an AI agent and business apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-wix)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.bigcommerce.com/pricing/
- https://www.bigcommerce.com/
- https://www.bigcommerce.com/about/
- https://www.bigcommerce.com/product/mobile-app/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigcommerce/id1418570678
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigcommerce.mobile&gl=US

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/bigcommerce
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