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BigCommerce Vs WooCommerce - Which One is Great for your Business

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<strong>BigCommerce</strong> <strong>Vs</strong> <strong>WooCommerce</strong> - <strong>Which</strong> <strong>One</strong> Is<br />

<strong>Great</strong> For Your <strong>Business</strong>?<br />

Planning to launch an online store? Looking <strong>for</strong> a plat<strong>for</strong>m that offers awesome plugins and would trans<strong>for</strong>m<br />

<strong>your</strong> website into a feature-rich store? In th<strong>is</strong> write-up, we will be comparing Bigcommerce and<br />

<strong>WooCommerce</strong> to see which one <strong>is</strong> better of the two.<br />

Bigcommerce<br />

Bigcommerce <strong>Vs</strong> <strong>WooCommerce</strong> - Pricing<br />

• The Standard Plan: Available <strong>for</strong> $29.95 per month, th<strong>is</strong> plan comes with a number of inbuilt features<br />

including unlimited products, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, 1.5% transaction fee and<br />

powerful reporting tools. It also supports PayPal and credit cards as modes of payment.<br />

• The Plus Plan: The most popular plan, it <strong>is</strong> available <strong>for</strong> $79.95 per month. Th<strong>is</strong> plan covers all the<br />

transaction fees along with access to all the standard features like Omnichannel sales tools, advanced<br />

customer segmentation, real-time carrier shipping and abandoned cart saver.<br />

• The Enterpr<strong>is</strong>e Plan: Th<strong>is</strong> plan allows custom pricing that will meet <strong>your</strong> requirements. It provides all<br />

the features you get in the plus plan such as dedicated IP and SSL, site wide HTTPS, data and set-up<br />

migration, product filtering and uptime SLA.


<strong>WooCommerce</strong><br />

<strong>WooCommerce</strong> <strong>is</strong> practically free of cost. An open-source plugin, you don’t have to pay anything to install it<br />

on <strong>your</strong> website. In terms of pricing, it <strong>is</strong> undoubtedly the best in compar<strong>is</strong>on to Bigcommerce.<br />

Bigcommerce <strong>Vs</strong> <strong>WooCommerce</strong> - Theme Pricing<br />

Bigcommerce<br />

Bigcommerce offers free as well as paid themes. It has 16 pretty themes, available free of cost, however, you<br />

will probably have to buy a theme that would meet <strong>your</strong> requirements. There are 41 premium themes<br />

available from $120 to $250. You can also get a design coding service by paying $1000.<br />

<strong>WooCommerce</strong><br />

<strong>WooCommerce</strong> has the largest collection of free as well as paid themes than any other plat<strong>for</strong>m available in<br />

the market. You can either use a free theme or buy one that suits <strong>your</strong> requirements. It also has the best<br />

collection of paid themes that can be easily found online. You can search <strong>for</strong> the themes at Elegant Themes,<br />

Genes<strong>is</strong> and Mojo-Themes.<br />

Bigcommerce <strong>Vs</strong> <strong>WooCommerce</strong>: Blogging<br />

Blogs play an important role in attracting more traffic to <strong>your</strong> store and to help <strong>your</strong> store rank better on the<br />

popular search engines. Bigcommerce offers a blog with a subdomain that goes like th<strong>is</strong>- blog.mysite.com.<br />

Th<strong>is</strong> doesn’t per<strong>for</strong>m well in SEO. Further, Google doesn’t require such sub-domain. Th<strong>is</strong> rather adversely<br />

affects <strong>your</strong> ranking. <strong>WooCommerce</strong>, on the contrary, offers good blogging capabilities which will really


augment <strong>your</strong> SEO campaign.<br />

Bigcommerce <strong>Vs</strong> <strong>WooCommerce</strong> - Plugins<br />

<strong>WooCommerce</strong><br />

Woo offers a vast number of plugins free of cost, thereby making it the most preferred plat<strong>for</strong>m <strong>for</strong> an<br />

online store. Plugins improve the look and functionality of a website and with <strong>WooCommerce</strong> you don’t<br />

really have to worry about it. You can simply choose the plugins you require from the wide number of<br />

options it offers and you might not have to pay <strong>for</strong> every plugin you add to <strong>your</strong> website.<br />

<strong>BigCommerce</strong><br />

Bigcommerce offers many free plugins, but it doesn’t compare to <strong>WooCommerce</strong> in any way. The premium<br />

plugins offered by it are available from $15 to $50 per month.<br />

Bigcommerce <strong>Vs</strong> <strong>WooCommerce</strong>: Community<br />

<strong>WooCommerce</strong><br />

With a large community you not only get help and support from Woo users but also the entire WordPress<br />

community that will be there <strong>for</strong> <strong>your</strong> ass<strong>is</strong>tance.<br />

Bigcommerce


Bigcommerce provides live chat support that <strong>WooCommerce</strong> doesn’t have. Both the plat<strong>for</strong>ms come with<br />

proper documentation, have guides, <strong>for</strong>ums, and ticket support. Woo, however, has a large community to<br />

support the users.<br />

Wrap Up<br />

Comparing the two, <strong>WooCommerce</strong> wins hands down in all the aspects. If you’re looking <strong>for</strong> a feature-rich<br />

online store then <strong>WooCommerce</strong> <strong>is</strong> undoubtedly the best of the two. With a large number of plugins and<br />

extensions, it will trans<strong>for</strong>m <strong>your</strong> website into a high-end online store.<br />

That’s all you need to know about both <strong>WooCommerce</strong> and <strong>BigCommerce</strong>. Still not sure? Why not get a<br />

consultation from the experts? Contact TheWPexperts <strong>for</strong> a free consultation. <strong>One</strong> of the best in the industry,<br />

TheWPexperts have delivered hundreds of project across a variety of business niches. V<strong>is</strong>it:<br />

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