commercetools vs. BigCommerce

How commercetools outperforms BigCommerce

The main difference between BigCommerce and commercetools lies in their underlying architectures. While BigCommerce offers an SaaS all-in-one platform that limits the ability to handle complex use cases, commercetools embraces a composable approach. With an enterprise-grade eCommerce platform, commercetools enables businesses to tailor their technology stacks with ease and confidence.

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Why choose commercetools over BigCommerce?

Fed up with the restrictions that result in generic customer experiences with BigCommerce? Make the switch to commercetools for commerce experiences that stand out from the competition.

Composability at its best

With commercetools leading the composable commerce era, your brand is in good hands. Now you can create tailor-made shopping experiences by picking and choosing the best components for their unique needs.

Omnichannel excellence

Seamlessly orchestrate a unified and cohesive customer journey across all your sales channels, ensuring that your brand shines in every offline and online interaction with customers to ensure their loyalty.

Risk-free scalability

Never outgrow your platform again. Being cloud-native and versionless, commercetools allows you to scale your eCommerce capacity seamlessly as your business evolves, without the anxiety of potential bottlenecks or disruptions.

Why you should pick commercetools over BigCommerce

What's the best enterprise eCommerce platform? In our white paper, we provide an in-depth examination between commercetools Composable Commerce and BigCommerce. In doing so, we define composable commerce and outline how a composable environment delivers technical, operational and financial benefits for all (especially enterprise) companies.

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How does BigCommerce compare to commercetools Composable Commerce?

Discover the strengths of commercetools in direct comparison to BigCommerce challenges in key aspects such as cost efficiency, migration speed, best-of-breed approach and uptime.

TCO

commercetools ensures low TCO thanks to minimal licensing, customization and maintenance expenses. BigCommerce can offer low TCO at first, but lead to increased maintenance and ongoing expenses as businesses scale up.

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Time to market

commercetools' Accelerator program ensures an MVP in weeks, flexibly tailored to your business. BigCommerce's inflexible deployment path may be fast, but lacks true enterprise customizability.

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Best-of-breed

Because commercetools is composable, you can assemble a tech stack that fits your business' unique needs — and swap out components depending on market shifts. BigCommerce works with a closed ecosystem, so the vendor lock-in factor is high.

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Uptime

commercetools has an uptime of 99.999%, so your webshop won't crash or slow down during a sudden traffic spike or peak shopping days. BigCommerce can be unreliable due to its sluggish performance which led to a global outage.

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