About BigCommerce
The open SaaS platform for B2B, headless and multi-storefront brands.
BigCommerce started in 2009 in Sydney, founded by Eddie Machaalani and Mitchell Harper, and moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas. It went public on Nasdaq in August 2020 under the ticker BIGC and now serves mid-market and enterprise merchants around the world. The positioning has always been the alternative to Shopify for brands that want headless-first architecture, proper B2B features and multiple storefronts on one account, without paying a transaction fee on top of the platform bill.
The reason to pull BigCommerce into a warehouse is that the platform is usually chosen by the more complicated merchants. B2B Edition adds company accounts, quote workflows, shared catalogues and negotiated price lists on top of the standard catalog, customer and order objects. Multi-storefront puts several brands, regions or DTC-and-B2B splits on one BigCommerce install with their own channels. A headless storefront (Catalyst, a custom Next.js build or another framework) pushes the order and customer events through the API rather than a hosted theme. Each of those choices leaves data scattered across channels, storefronts and supporting systems, and the native reports were not built to stitch them back together.