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Episode 43: BigCommerce vs Shopify

The EcomCrew Ecommerce Podcast · September 1, 2016 · 40 min

Summary

During today's episode we talk about the common debate e-commerce founders have: Shopify or BigCommerce. In recent developments BigCommerce has made some polarizing changes to their services. The changes have alienated theme developers and price changes have alienated users. This has caused many users to move their business to Shopify. We discuss this shift and compare Shopify and BigCommerce. We have both had experience with both sites so our conversation is more of a pro and con list. The questions we answer today are: Which site has the most capacity for products that require lots of options (ex: color choice). Which site is most common (thus easier to work with for others)? Which site makes managing orders easier. Which site allows the best customer follow-up process. Which site offers the best coupon or sale options to a customer. Other topics we cover are: What happened to BigCommerce's business. Why Shopify is so much bigger than BigCommerce. Why check out conversation is a big plus for these sites. BigCommerce's theme changes and why it's causing problems. <span style="font-weig

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