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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BigCommerce

    Score8.3 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

    Sana Commerce Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Sana Commerce is an eCommerce platform that provides an integrated shopping cart software for both Microsoft Dynamics and SAP.N/A
    Pricing
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $39
    per month
    Plus
    $105
    per month
    Pro
    $399
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per month
    Essential
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    per year per installation
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    Advanced
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing.Sana's pricing model is made up of two parts. It includes: •A one-time setup fee •A monthly subscription fee, including hosting and services Sana also offers add-ons to supplement customers’ web stores, an enterprise license, or the possibility to add additional web stores (subject to pricing adjustments as needed).
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    Community Pulse
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    BigCommerce
    Chose BigCommerce
    Every criterion we evaluated against BigCommerce either won outright or held its own. What got us over the line was the incredible personal support at every step of the way from onboarding and implementation through to BAU. I had a support ticket this morning which I resolved …
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    Sana Commerce
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    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
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
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    Features
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of BigCommerce and Sana Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    7.9
    424 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Sana Commerce Cloud
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Product catalog & listings8.3420 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Product management8.2417 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Bulk product upload7.5317 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Branding8.0368 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile storefront8.1408 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Product variations8.6394 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration8.4348 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Visual customization7.8410 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    CMS6.5302 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of BigCommerce and Sana Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    8.0
    410 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Sana Commerce Cloud
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Abandoned cart recovery7.7368 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience8.3405 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of BigCommerce and Sana Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    8.3
    406 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Sana Commerce Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    eCommerce security8.3406 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of BigCommerce and Sana Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    7.9
    411 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Sana Commerce Cloud
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Promotions & discounts7.8387 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations7.5323 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    SEO8.5382 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of BigCommerce and Sana Commerce Cloud
    Feature
    BigCommerce
    8.0
    416 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Sana Commerce Cloud
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-site management8.3191 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing7.9395 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Inventory management7.9351 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Shipping7.8356 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom functionality7.9351 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    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
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (443 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 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
    BigCommerceSana Commerce Cloud
    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!
    Incentivized
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    Sana Commerce
    Its suited more for B2B-focused or mid-size companies that want to have a more robust platform for their eCommerce and don't want to invest that much (like the case of Magento and other big names). If you want to make constant UX and design enhancements and tests, you'll have a couple of headaches. It's not that bad but; you wont be able to do it all without customizing and spending good money on it.
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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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    Sana Commerce
    • Quote Workflow--pretty simple and easy to understand and implement
    • Easy-to-learn admin tools
    • Very flexible/customizable initial configuration
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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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    Sana Commerce
    • The service could be much better. It's expensive and hard to monitor because they only check cases twice a week (if you don't have a pre-plan).
    • The language and different time schedules have been an issue for tech problems. They're in Holland and Ukraine and we're in Mexico, and is really hard to find developers who know the platform to hire as an extra resource.
    • You can't import SKUS to populate a landing page programmatically.
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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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    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.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.
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    Sana Commerce
    Sana Commerce is not as robust, flexible (or expensive) as Magento but is better (and more expensive) than Shopify. It is well balanced and you can customize according to your clients' needs. They are constantly upgrading their platform so you can keep your eCommerce up to date, but you must consider an extra cost to adapt it to the latest version.
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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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    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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    Sana Commerce
    • The ROI was 18% more than expected
    • Our traffic has increased by 250%
    • Some of our clients think our site is too complex
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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.

    Sana Commerce Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of The redesigned Sana Admin's fresh new look, to make it more user-friendly.Screenshot of Customers segmentation in Sana Commerce. Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves dividing a target market into subsets of customers that are similar in specific ways, for example, customers from a certain country or those customers who are essential for the business's prosperity.Screenshot of A personalized storefront with products and content tailored to the customer.Screenshot of Related products are used by Sana to add similar or substitute products like accessories or spare parts and build relationships between the related products and the original product. These product relations can be built in ERP and are used for cross- and up-selling, or they can be also used to provide alternatives in case any of these products are out of stock.Screenshot of Sana Commerce Insights (SCI) is a Sana product providing commercial insights, with extensive options and services. It is an add-on to Sana Commerce Cloud that offers a holistic overview of commercial data.Screenshot of Locations provide customers with an alternative delivery location where they can collect their orders. Instead of delivering a package to the customer’s home or business address, the customer can select a location and collect his or her order at a time that is convenient for him or her. The location can be a physical store, a warehouse, a pickup location of delivery service or any other place specified.