E-Commerce Software for Web Designers
Your Clients Will Become Infatuated With You.
BigCommerce lets you create enterprise-grade, fully customized online stores in record time. You'll attract more clients, finish projects faster, regain your sanity and we'll handle the support. Join our reseller program and we'll send you design leads absolutely free. You're welcome.
Unlimited Design Flexibility
You'll never feel trapped into a cookie cutter design with BigCommerce. You can completely customize every aspect of your client's online store and have full access to edit HTML and CSS via our online QuickEditTM tool or FTP. Our template guide includes everything you need to get stated. Watch a video.
Integrates With Everything
Because we know your online store is just one part of your client's business, we make BigCommerce compatible with all major accounting and order management applications, shipping and payment providers. With just a few clicks you can integrate with all of the services you client relies on to do business. Learn more.
We Manage Absolutely Everything For You
Sick of spending hours each day maintaining your client's online store, backups, web hosting, email servers, etc? Relax! We'll handle everything so you can focus on growing your business. We're real e-commerce experts, having sold tens of millions of dollars worth of products online, so rest assured: you're in the right hands.
Hardcore Search Engine Optimization
We're SEO fanatics and understand what it takes to rank in the number one spot for very competitive keywords. With BigCommerce you have SEO friendly links, per product and per web page title and META data, proper use of H1 tags, tableless and W3C valid templates, HTML/XML sitemaps as well as full control over image alt text. Watch a video.
Multi-Channel Retailing
As well as selling through your own BigCommerce-powered store, you can list your products for sale or auction on eBay in front of millions of people. Export your products to seven shopping comparison sites and even setup your own store on Facebook — all in just a few clicks and everything is managed from BigCommerce.
Automated Email Marketing
Define rules to add customers and newsletter subscribers to your MailChimp email lists based on the product, category or brand they've purchased. You can sync their contact and billing details and then setup autoresponders to send special offers or coupons and watch your lifetime customer value go through the roof. Watch a video.
Mobile Commerce
Customers can browse and buy on their iPad, iPhone, Andriod, Palm Pre and Blackberry devices using beautifully crafted shopping experiences created just for these mobile devices. And best of all, mobile commerce is built right into BigCommerce and is enabled automatically. Watch a video.
Upgrade Plans at Any Time
We offer plans for online stores of all sizes. Your client can start with our bronze or silver plan and then upgrade to more products, bandwidth or storage space at any time from their store's control panel. There are no contracts, pricing is month-by-month, they can cancel any time and we offer a fully functional free trial.
Unlimited Free Phone & Email Support
With BigCommerce you and your clients get more than an award-winning ecommerce platform. We're with you every step of the way via our free phone and email-based support systems, based right here in our Austin, Texas office. You can also browse our knowledge base, user guide and dozens of training videos at our support portal.
Unmatched Ease Of Use
BigCommerce was designed to adhere to the principles listed in Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability handbook, which is considered the gold standard for usability when designing web applications. This means next to no training for your clients because everything includes clear step-by-step instructions and popup help.
Premium, Secure, Rock Solid Hosting
Your client's store will be hosted on our lightning fast SAS 70 type II certified servers. Our data center employs hacker deterrent security provisioning, three redundant network architectures, hardware firewalls and has a 99.9% uptime track record so their store will always be available and ready to take orders.
Multiple Permission-Based User Accounts
With multiple user accounts - each with their own permissions and roles - you have full control over what your clients can and can't do. You can choose one of the built-in roles or set permissions at the granular level. You can even see details of login attempts and a complete activity log for each user.
Configurable Bulk Product Import & Export
It's easy to import your client's existing products into BigCommerce using our point-and-click import wizards. You can import orders, products, categories, variations, images, category relationships and more from an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file. You can also batch export for bulk updates in Excel or integration with other applications.
Google Website Optimizer Support
Changing your checkout button can give you a 10% increase in sales? But which button works best? Google Website Optimizer can tell you, and it's integrated into BigCommerce. Test site-wide changes as well as per product/web page/category changes such as different images and "Add to Cart" buttons. Watch a video.
Sell Products With Different Options
Easily sell products with different options such as t-shirts or computers. You can create an unlimited number of product combinations and they don't count towards your product limit. You can also create custom fields which a shopper must fill in during purchase, such as text to print on a t-shirt or text to engrave on an iPod. Watch a video.
Free Software Updates for Life
We regularly release new software updates which include features and improvements based on your feedback. These updates are made available to you automatically and free of charge every 2-3 months when they are released. We guarantee to provide you with innovative features that keep you miles ahead of your competitors.
Painless Software Updates
When we release a software update your design changes won't ever break. You can use our web-based template comparison (diff) tool to easily merge changes, plus you can schedule the upgrade to take place at a time that suits you. Unlike our competitors, your template changes aren't overwritten when we release an update.