BigCommerce features: tier-by-tier list (2026)
BigCommerce plans are monthly store plans, but revenue thresholds and enterprise features are the real comparison points.
Core capabilities (42)
Storefront Design
Makeswift Easily launch and edit site pages with a drag-and-drop solution, no coding required. Theme Customization Get fully-customizable themes with built-in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Source · core
Catalyst Storefront
High-Performance Seamlessly integrates with BigCommerce’s APIs and composable ecosystem to scale with your business needs. Innovative Visual Builder Catalyst empowers marketers and developers to easily create visually stunning customer experiences.
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Fully customize your checkout
Now 37% faster optimized one-page checkout, designed to convert Choose your preferred payment partner to get the best possible rate — without penalties Digital wallets and buy now, pay later solutions Passwordless one-click checkout options learn more Coupons
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Expand your brand
Sell B2B and wholesale with features like customer groups Manage multiple sites with Multi-Storefront Connect offline and online with Buy Online, Pick Up in Store Quickly spin up a new brand with the same back-end learn more
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Build a bigger customer base
Sell on social media channels, like Meta and TikTok Advertise on platforms like Google Shopping Place products on marketplaces, like Amazon and Walmart Maximize site traffic with powerful SEO tools learn more
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International
Multi-Currency Meet the needs of your global shoppers by accepting payments in over 100+ currencies and offering local payment methods through the gateway of your choice.
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Sell your way. Get paid your way
Your business has its own rules. Your platform should work around them — not the other way around. 130+ payment providers. Regulated and restricted selling.
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Embedded Payment Providers
130+ payment providers 130+ payment providers — including no fees for 20+ Embedded Payment Providers your customers already trust. One control panel One control panel for end-to-end payment management with BigCommerce Payments.
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Questions about how we can help your business
Our sales and support teams are available via phone, live-chat and email. Contact Us
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For B2C brands, that means beautiful storefronts that
For B2C brands, that means beautiful storefronts that convert. For B2B, it means buyer portals that feel like they were built for your customers.
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Easily launch and edit site pages with a
Easily launch and edit site pages with a drag-and-drop solution, no coding required.
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Make your site mobile-responsive from homepage to checkout
Make your site mobile-responsive from homepage to checkout with any BigCommerce theme.
Source · core
Use the Stencil CLI tool to develop, test
Use the Stencil CLI tool to develop, test and push changes in a local environment without downtime.
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Build your site on WordPress with full back-end
Build your site on WordPress with full back-end platform enablement from BigCommerce for WordPress.
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Catalyst empowers marketers and developers to easily create
Catalyst empowers marketers and developers to easily create visually stunning customer experiences.
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Launch a fully-optimized storefront in just one click
Launch a fully-optimized storefront in just one click, boosting team efficiency and speeding up time to market.
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Quickly deploy a Next.js storefront using the Command
Quickly deploy a Next.js storefront using the Command Line Interface (CLI), streamlining workflows for rapid deployment.
Source · core automation
BigCommerce remains at the core of Catalyst, handling
BigCommerce remains at the core of Catalyst, handling data management with powerful back-end systems right out of the box.
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Give your store blazing-fast speed around the world
Give your store blazing-fast speed around the world with a platform built on Google Cloud Platform & supported by Cloudflare s global network.
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Make it easier for your customers to pay
Make it easier for your customers to pay with dozens of digital wallets like Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, PayPal One Touch and more.
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Faceted search built off of Elasticsearch, including custom
Faceted search built off of Elasticsearch, including custom field support for refined searching.
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Maintain full control of your site with Catalyst
Maintain full control of your site with Catalyst as the storefront and BigCommerce providing the administration and checkout for a native app experience.
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Easily discover, test, and onboard headless solutions from
Easily discover, test, and onboard headless solutions from right within the BigCommerce control panel, saving significant developer resources.
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Merchants using Feedonomics Surface saw +24% YoY GMV
Merchants using Feedonomics Surface saw +24% YoY GMV growth in November 2025, compared to peers not using Surface.
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Segment your customers for pricing, product access and
Segment your customers for pricing, product access and promotions without having to maintain a second site.
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Give B2B customers a B2C-level experience with custom
Give B2B customers a B2C-level experience with custom pricing at the SKU level for customer groups.
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Take control of bulk pricing with customization down
Take control of bulk pricing with customization down to the SKU level for individual customers or customer groups.
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Offer approved customers payment by purchase order via
Offer approved customers payment by purchase order via BigCommerce solution tech partners.
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Customize BigCommerce to your ERP punch out solution
Customize BigCommerce to your ERP punch out solution via framing and sequence. Or, use our best-in-breed partner PunchOut2Go.
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Manage quotes with native CSR generated quote management
Manage quotes with native CSR generated quote management and third-party tools, such as B2B Ninja.
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Power your store with faceted search built with
Power your store with faceted search built with Elasticsearch, or integrate with best-in-breed solutions for complex search criteria.
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Use the industry s fastest APIs to automatically
Use the industry s fastest APIs to automatically sync data from 3rd party systems (such as ERPs ) seamlessly into BigCommerce.
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Localize the BigCommerce frontend in any language, with
Localize the BigCommerce frontend in any language, with translation available through apps and APIs for third-party translation services.
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Natively integrate with ShipperHQ to enable accurate quoting
Natively integrate with ShipperHQ to enable accurate quoting for cross-border shipping.
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130+ payment providers — including no fees for
130+ payment providers — including no fees for 20+ Embedded Payment Providers your customers already trust.
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Automate your sales taxes with Avalara Avatax built-in
Automate your sales taxes with Avalara Avatax built-in, or use our custom tax tables.
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Develop, test and push changes without downtime in
Develop, test and push changes without downtime in a local environment using the Stencil CLI tool.
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Enable your customers to initiate refunds or partial
Enable your customers to initiate refunds or partial refunds through their account.
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BigCommerce supports over 400 calls per second, making
BigCommerce supports over 400 calls per second, making it possible to perform 24,000 product updates in under a minute.
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Get more traffic with customizable, SEO-friendly URLs, and
Get more traffic with customizable, SEO-friendly URLs, and out-of-the-box Metadata and robots.txt editing.
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Reinforce your store’s data with two data centers
Reinforce your store’s data with two data centers, and a third, back-up data center spatially separated to mitigate potential failure.
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BigCommerce Inc. is a NASDAQ -listed ecommerce platform
BigCommerce Inc. is a NASDAQ -listed ecommerce platform that provides software as a service services to retailers.
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AI features (6)
Sell everywhere, with one platform
Become more discoverable and sell seamlessly across every channel — Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Walmart, and wherever AI is recommending products. Every ad channel, automatically synced through Feedonomics Surface. Free with every plan.
Source · ai
Be found in the era of AI shopping
Shoppers are asking AI what to buy, and purchasing without ever visiting a store. BigCommerce is built to win those moments — discoverable, trustworthy, and transactable wherever the journey begins. Make your catalog AI-ready.
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Get found — by search engines and AI
Get found — by search engines and AI. Customizable SEO-friendly URLs, metadata, and robots.txt editing built in.
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Give agents the context they need to answer
Give agents the context they need to answer real shopper questions in natural language.
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Shoppers check out without leaving the chat —
Shoppers check out without leaving the chat — and you stay merchant of record throughout.
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Build agents trained on your catalog, customer data
Build agents trained on your catalog, customer data, and policies, live on your storefront and beyond.
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Integrations (8)
Headless Commerce
BigCommerce for WordPress Connect your WordPress site to BigCommerce's powerful commerce engine with a pre-built plugin for brands with an editorial or content focus.
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Core Commerce Features
Scalable Catalog Manage your entire product catalog within the BigCommerce control panel or push from an external system through the Catalog API .
Source · integrations api
Open Platform
API Breadth More than 90% of the BigCommerce platform data is exposed to the API . API Performance BigCommerce supports over 400 calls per second, making it possible to perform 24,000 product updates in under a minute.
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Customize every inch of the checkout experience with
Customize every inch of the checkout experience with a server-to-server checkout API and SDK.
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Connect your WordPress site to BigCommerce s powerful
Connect your WordPress site to BigCommerce s powerful commerce engine with a pre-built plugin for brands with an editorial or content focus.
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Manage your entire product catalog within the BigCommerce
Manage your entire product catalog within the BigCommerce control panel or push from an external system through the Catalog API .
Source · integrations api
Leverage our customer login API for custom single
Leverage our customer login API for custom single sign-on (SSO) or plug-and-play partner solutions like LoginRadius or Okta.
Source · integrations sso api
Utilize our login API for custom backend SSO
Utilize our login API for custom backend SSO, or opt for a best-of-breed partner solution like LoginRadius, Okta or OneLogin.
Source · integrations sso api
Collaboration (4)
We help brands become more discoverable and sell
We help brands become more discoverable and sell seamlessly across every channel. Whether you re a B2C brand, a B2B operation, or both — BigCommerce gives you the tools to sell your way. Open by design.
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Sell where your customers are shopping by integrating
Sell where your customers are shopping by integrating with top marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon and Google Shopping.
Source · collab
Capture more customers on social channels with Facebook
Capture more customers on social channels with Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram integrations.
Source · collab integrations
Keep in-store sales automatically updated with native POS
Keep in-store sales automatically updated with native POS systems, including Teamwork Commerce and more.
Source · collab
Reporting and analytics (4)
Cross-Channel Ecommerce
Multi-Storefront Create and manage multiple, unique storefronts within your BigCommerce dashboard. Whether you manage multiple brands, sell across customer segments or build across different regions — streamline your operations from one single account.
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Give your business buyers what they need
Business as usual shouldn't mean business with workarounds. B2B is not an afterthought on BigCommerce. #1 Ranked B2B Platform — Paradigm's 2025 Mid-Market Report. 391% three-year ROI with B2B Edition.
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Create and manage multiple, unique storefronts within your
Create and manage multiple, unique storefronts within your BigCommerce dashboard.
Source · reporting dashboard
Drive real-time business impact with critical metrics for
Drive real-time business impact with critical metrics for orders, customer data, marketing and more through the BigCommerce Analytics Dashboard.
Source · reporting real-time dashboard
Security and compliance (1)
PCI DSS 4.1 Level 1 Attestation of Compliance
PCI DSS 4.1 Level 1 Attestation of Compliance, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, ISO 22301:2019, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019
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See BigCommerce pricing in detail
This page lists what BigCommerce does. For per-seat math, tier comparison, and the full hidden-fee list, see the BigCommerce pricing breakdown.
Closest alternatives
Other ecommerce platform tools buyers shortlist when they evaluate BigCommerce.
Sources
- https://www.bigcommerce.com/features
- https://www.bigcommerce.com/product
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigCommerce
Features evolve. Confirm directly with the vendor before purchase decisions. This list was last refreshed on 2026-05-27.
Frequently asked questions
What features does BigCommerce include?
This page tracks 65 verified BigCommerce features across 6 categories, sourced from BigCommerce's official site and Wikipedia.
Which tier do I need for BigCommerce?
BigCommerce's feature availability varies by plan. Compare the public BigCommerce tiers, calculator, and hidden fees on the BigCommerce pricing page.
How does BigCommerce compare on features to alternatives?
Buyers commonly compare BigCommerce against Shopify, WooCommerce, Adobe Commerce. Each alternative's feature page is linked below where we cover it.