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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BigCommerce

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    BigCommerce is a SaaS platform that allows SMBs to develop eCommerce sites. Features include the capabilities to design the storefront, configure products, manage payments, generate traffic, and optimize conversion.

    $39

    per month

    inkFrog

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AinkFrog headquartered in Phoenix provides auction management and ecommerce listing software for vendors selling through major ecommerce platforms (e.g. Amazon, eBay, etc.).

    $11

    per month 300 listings

    Pricing
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $39
    per month
    Plus
    $105
    per month
    Pro
    $399
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per month
    Free
    $0
    10 listings
    Small
    $11
    per month 300 listings
    Basic
    $19
    per month 1500 listings
    Professional
    $29
    per month Unlimited listings
    Entrepreneur
    $49
    per month Unlimited listings
    Premium
    $79
    per month Unlimited listings
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Considered Both Products
    BigCommerce
    No answer on this topic
    inkFrog
    Chose inkFrog
    We looked at Sellbrite. We really liked Sellbrite in view of its glowing reviews and integration with Etsy. However we didn't fully trial the program so I am not able to comment here more than to say that Inkfrog is by far the most economical option. We currently pay around $10 …
    Incentivized
    Chose inkFrog
    We used to use the eBay store and turbolister in the past for our eBay listings. InkFrog stacks much better than just the basic eBay store, which opened up our business to save a large amount of time as our eBay store keeps growing. We have also used quite a few other inventory …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    59 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    57 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of BigCommerce and inkFrog
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    7.9
    424 Ratings
    1% above category average
    inkFrog
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Product catalog & listings8.2420 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Product management8.2417 Ratings6.53 Ratings
    Bulk product upload7.4317 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Branding7.9368 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Mobile storefront8.1408 Ratings9.62 Ratings
    Product variations8.5394 Ratings5.53 Ratings
    Website integration8.4348 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Visual customization7.8410 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    CMS6.5302 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of BigCommerce and inkFrog
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    8.0
    410 Ratings
    4% above category average
    inkFrog
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery7.7368 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience8.3405 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of BigCommerce and inkFrog
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    8.3
    406 Ratings
    0% below category average
    inkFrog
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    eCommerce security8.3406 Ratings9.42 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of BigCommerce and inkFrog
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    7.9
    411 Ratings
    2% above category average
    inkFrog
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Promotions & discounts7.8387 Ratings5.42 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations7.4323 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO8.5382 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of BigCommerce and inkFrog
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    7.9
    416 Ratings
    1% below category average
    inkFrog
    6.4
    3 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Multi-site management8.3191 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Order processing7.9395 Ratings4.73 Ratings
    Inventory management7.9351 Ratings5.23 Ratings
    Shipping7.8356 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Custom functionality7.8351 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Small Businesses
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Shopify Plus
    Score9 out of 10
    Shopify Plus
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (443 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (53 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.7
    (349 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BigCommerceinkFrog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BigCommerce
    Big Commerce is great for managing our items for sale all while serving as a home base for our customers. - Whether they want to buy PPE, learn about PPE or have any questions or concerns, they know they can come to our site and get the service/product they need!
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    inkFrog
    Inkfrog is a useful upload tool for adding stock from your website to eBay and now also to Amazon, although we don't sell via the latter and we only list to eBay UK. I think it works better as an upload tool than an all-in-one eBay shop management tool and some tasks are easier to do directly on eBay itself. eBay also offers insights - such as offering trending prices - that Inkfrog doesn't. However it is useful in terms of being able to bulk adjust item pricing to include the cost of eBay selling fees. Inkfrog is probably ideal if you have a recognisable product to sell - with our offering it struggles with mapping shop categories (we use lots of sub and sub-sub-categories). Certain listing capabilities cannot be reproduced, such as quantity discounts, and I've never got to grips with mapping products with options and variations, so a lot is left out of our full inventory. Ultimately you will still need to find some time in your day to manage your eBay store - Inkfrog is not 100% reliable sometimes. Inkfrog will also take some of your time and a lot of patience, but ultimately is a huge timesaver for uploading products so it is worthwhile.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    BigCommerce
    • They are "SUPPOSEDLY" better for SEO but we have not gotten data on that yet
    • Sales guy was good at what he does (no value to our website though)
    • No fear they will go out of business anytime soon
    • Customer support is generally available, in my opinion, just not very helpful
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    inkFrog
    • inkFrog handles product variants really well. Their platform pulls the SKUs and information directly from BigCommerce and then lets me easily customize each variant with different pictures which is really helpful.
    • It also makes adding multiple listings very easy. Since it imports the item specifics and description directly from BigCommerce I don't have to go through each listing one by one and I can just bulk upload our products onto eBay.
    • inkFrog also lets me set different templates for shipping, or profiles from different items and then I can apply those in bulk to items which saves a huge amount of time since I don't have to go through every item and change specifics.
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    Cons
    BigCommerce
    • Better and easier localisation for stores outside the US
    • Speed - it is not the fastest
    • Make sure that third-party theme developers update regularly and use best practice
    • Consider EU and country-specific rules and legal obligations and make customers aware of whether BC is actually fully compliant
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    inkFrog
    • The pre-built themes are really bad. Thankfully we don't have to use them and created our own.
    • The other issue regarding these themes is that they are locked behind a paywall and are a premium feature; subpar themes should not be charged to consumers.
    • InkFrog also connects with other marketplaces that we also sell on, such as Amazon. Unfortunately, it does not work as well with other marketplaces as it does with eBay, which is a shame since we would prefer to have it all in one place.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BigCommerce
    I personally would not even consider another e-commerce website platform.
    Bigcommerce may have the same (or close to the same) functionality and integrations as other SaaS platforms but they excel at customer service and tech support. At the end of the day you need a company that will answer the phone in less than a minute especially if you're having a 5 alarm issue. That said, we hardly ever have any issues. The site was down for a few minutes one time 5 years ago. Sometimes we have issues with coding or apps and they help me with that too. They even walked me through installing our new theme when the contracted developers told me that wasn't included in the development of our new website.
    Bigcommerce comes out with new innovations every year, not including apps that other people write for the platform, and there are a lot of those and new ones all the time. And there are a LOT of awesome themes to choose from (Halothemes are the best).
    And the price is reasonable!
    I'd give Bigcommerce my business any time and recommend them to anyone looking to run an e-commerce website. You could even use them for a non-shopping site, we have one of those too!
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    inkFrog
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    Usability
    BigCommerce
    I think that overall it has a great front end for the customer. On the back end, it takes a little spin-up time, but in just a couple of hours you can really have your head wrapped around everything you're going to need 99% of the time. It takes me about 5 minutes to train a new user on how to interact with customer orders.
    Incentivized
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    inkFrog
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    Reliability and Availability
    BigCommerce
    So far in my time with BigCommerce I have not had any down time when it comes to my webstore or accessing it at any time I need to. Knowing that they have such a good uptime, it makes me feel comfortable that my customers can access things anytime, but also keep sales going 24/7
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    inkFrog
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    Performance
    BigCommerce
    I have not had any issues with pages loading slow or any real other issues, not that I have encountered so far. Speed of the site and images loading are fantastic and everything just seems to work nicely, which may seem like a simple thing to say about things, but when something just WORKS! Its rather nice vs fighting with things to work right.
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    inkFrog
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    Support Rating
    BigCommerce
    Because they are always there no matter how simple or complex the question is, if they don't know the answer they don't fake it and just make you go away feeling frustrated.. they get you to someone that does know the answer. I always appreciate their help and their honesty!
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    inkFrog
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    Online Training
    BigCommerce
    They have a comprehensive online help file system that makes it easy to do almost anything. They cover just about everything you'd want to do with your online store with images, clear descriptions and in some cases video. I will, however, say the videos should be a little more professorially done and not sound like the employees are doing it in their cubical.
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    inkFrog
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    Implementation Rating
    BigCommerce
    A certified BigCommerce design and solution partner will usually comprise a team of highly experienced designers, developers and marketers. It is our view that in the vast majority of cases, this will pay dividends in the long-term - especially for those teams that could use the extra support.
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    inkFrog
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    Alternatives Considered
    BigCommerce
    We switched from Shopify due to the restrictions they implemented on our industry. While we spent tens of thousands of dollars investing in our Shopify store, we can't have them cutting us off anytime they want. We reviewed WooCommerce, but didn't like the storefront or backend. Plus it seems like Wordpress/WooCommerce runs into tons of hacking issues and bugs.
    Incentivized
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    inkFrog
    We looked at Sellbrite. We really liked Sellbrite in view of its glowing reviews and integration with Etsy. However we didn't fully trial the program so I am not able to comment here more than to say that Inkfrog is by far the most economical option. We currently pay around $10 per month, whereas Sellbrite is nearly $50.
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    Scalability
    BigCommerce
    I believe after seeing all of the parts of this platform, one is able to develop the business and keep adding on select features for the business. There are multiple options for purchase with the various platforms once the business grows more. The different features being offered by the platform can lead us to scalability.
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    inkFrog
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    Return on Investment
    BigCommerce
    • Provides a robust platform to sell a high-risk product.
    • Page Builder saves you time and money by negating the need to buy a template.
    • Includes robust promotion settings that allow for codes and automatic discounts, bulk discounts, and customer groups (i.e. military discount), all native options.
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    inkFrog
    • Overall inkFrog has had a positive impact. It has really freed up huge amounts of time that would be normally spent manually managing eBay listings one by one.
    • It also has had a very positive impact by using the inventory management which again frees up huge amounts of time since I don't have to go through and manually manage all of our listings. We also do not oversell items anymore which is a giant plus.
    • inkFrog's template customization has also really really helped by making our listings much more aesthetically pleasing and more professional looking which builds a lot of trust with our eBay customers.
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    ScreenShots

    BigCommerce Screenshots

    Screenshot of enterprise ecommerce for high-volume brands like Skullcandy.Screenshot of the integration that lets you list products on Amazon directly from the BigCommerce control panel, with centralized inventory and order processing and fulfillment.Screenshot of where to customize the look and feel of a storefront.