BigCommerce Reviews 2023 | Everything You Need to Know
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Products and Inventory Management
We’ve already touched on how our users didn’t find BigCommerce the easiest platform when it came to designing and setting up their website. But let’s take a closer look under the hood – what types of products can you sell with BigCommerce? How easy is it to upload them? And can you sell through other channels?
Product Types
BigCommerce is the only ecommerce builder on the market which lets you sell physical, digital, and service-based products without having to use an app (often at an extra cost). All of these sales types are already built into the editor. This means less hassle and less cost, because you don’t have to worry about using third party apps.
One thing that does require an app, however, is subscriptions/recurring billing. There’s a choice of free and paid apps to add this functionality.
Payment Processing Fees
The longer you stay with BigCommerce and upgrade through its price plans, the lower your rates will go – in fact, they can drop from 2.9% all the way down to 2.2%, or sometimes even lower:
BigCommerce Standard plan: 2.9% + 30c
BigCommerce Plus: 2.5% + 30c
BigCommerce Pro: 2.2% + 30c
BigCommerce Enterprise: >2.2% + 30c (negotiable)
Shopify’s payment processing fees line up pretty evenly with BigCommerce’s, ranging from 2.9% + 30c to 2.4% + 30c. BigCommerce has a slight edge for high-volume merchants.
Optional Extra Costs
Theme: Free – $295 (one-off payment)
Apps: Free – ~$350/month (most paid ones in the $3 – $20/month bracket)
We’ll expand on both themes and apps in the sections below, but just wanted to give you a heads up about the cost early on.
