Create unique commerce experiences without the complexity and risk. See the differences between Elastic Path and BigCommerce.
Elastic Path and BigCommerce are both popular commerce providers. But retailers, manufacturers, and distributors should know the differences between Elastic Path and BigCommerce.
Elastic Path’s modular, API-first approach enables incremental migration from monoliths. BigCommerce, as a traditional SaaS platform, requires full replatforming with more risk and disruption.
Elastic Path offers business-friendly tools like Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, and Studio, for easy storefront control. BigCommerce lacks Elastic Path’s catalog flexibility.
Elastic Path Integrations Hub offers pre-built integrations for payments, search, and personalization. BigCommerce often needs extra setup and lacks the flexibility of API-first connections.
Elastic Path offers unmatched catalog flexibility with multiple catalogs, unique pricing, and merchandising. BigCommerce’s rigid catalog setup makes complex strategies harder to execute.
Elastic Path’s Pre-Composed Solutions enable fast launches with pre-integrated components. BigCommerce offers themes and plug-ins but lacks the composable depth for tailored experiences.
Elastic Path supports native bundling and subscriptions for flexible product offerings without extra tools. BigCommerce relies on third-party apps, adding complexity to setup and management.
Elastic Path is fully headless, easily connecting to any front-end. BigCommerce supports headless, but many rely on its theme-based system, limiting customization vs. a true API-first approach.
Elastic Path lets brands future-proof commerce by swapping in new components as needs evolve. BigCommerce’s rigid architecture makes it less adaptable for businesses needing full composability.
Elastic Path supports multiple storefronts from one backend with flexible catalog and pricing across regions, brands, and business models. BigCommerce’s setup makes scaling complex models harder.
We want to give customers digital experiences they didn’t expect and delight them in ways they didn’t expect to be delighted. In order to do that, we need flexibility, we need good partnership, and we need the technology infrastructure to constantly evolve. We get that with Elastic Path.Velinda Cox Senior Vice President, eCommerce
We want to give customers digital experiences they didn’t expect and delight them in ways they didn’t expect to be delighted. In order to do that, we need flexibility, we need good partnership, and we need the technology infrastructure to constantly evolve. We get that with Elastic Path.
Learn about the differences between Elastic Path and BigCommerce.
Yes, Elastic Path is built for scaling innovative brands. Our 20 years of enterprise experience and flexible, modular architecture makes us uniquely positioned in the market to support brands with differentiated strategies such as multiple brands, multiple geographies, and multiple business models. With BigCommerce, a unique instance is needed for every region, etc. meaning data needs to be managed in many places.
Yes, with Elastic Path we don’t want brands to ever have to replatform again. Instead Unplatform™ with Elastic Path by leveraging initiative-specific products to meet specific business needs. For example, if your digital vision is to optimize cart and checkout, then you can start utilizing our Payments product.
Elastic Path has three options for building frontends:
With BigCommerce, it is simply a solution for frontend. It is not a full end-to-end solution (backend & frontend) and does not feature the organization management capability in the backend OR the robust data capabilities of CX Studio.
Composer is a commerce-intelligent iPaas and the only commerce product in the market that reduces your resources and costs by offering no-code and low-code integration orchestration, deployment, hosting, and monitoring. Composer is comprised of three critical capabilities:
All Integrations orchestrated by Composer are hosted by Elastic Path, reducing your hosting costs.
Managing product data in Elastic Path is simpler. With Elastic Path Product Experience Manager, you can change product data once centrally in Product Experience Manager and the data is dispersed to all of the products, variations, etc across all catalogs. With BigCommerce, you would have to replicate product data updates across all individual catalogs. In addition, in order to execute a multi-brand, multi-business model strategy, you need multiple instances with BigCommerce which leads to data in multiple places. You only need one instance with Elastic Path.
Elastic Path has built-in bundle support, can handle a large number of pricing options, and allows for easy catalog publishing. Dynamic bundles enable merchandisers to quickly and easily create bundles that allow customers to pick and choose the items to be included in their bundle, along with specific bundle pricing that does not require a new pricebook. BigCommerce does not offer the robust merchandising capabilities that Elastic Path has.
Power multiple storefronts from a single instance of Elastic Path to ensure the right customer sees the right product in context.
Localize your customer experiences across geographies with support for language translation, currencies, & payments.
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