DRdragonsh·Jul 14, 2020
The main issue with BigCommerce is that they do not offer any compelling advantage over existing open source system. Moreover being a loss making entity like Shopify without any sticky system like marketplace which drives traffic, I doubt there is much value in it except that investors wants to cash-out given the current unrealistic stock market.
In case a company use magento [1], Saleor [2], Sylius [3], Shuup [4], Solidus [5], Spree [6] combined with vue-storefront [7], storefront UI [8] and openflutttercommerce app [9] the amount of efforts to build a highly resilient and functional system is cheaper with complete control over customer, supply chain, pricing, product, marketing, sales and promotion data. Also the efforts will be similar to using shopify, bigcommerce with more cost-savings. Indeed shopify itself use many components from
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rails eco-system built by Spree and Solidus community.
Its very easy to build a highly customized and resilient system using cloud offering combined with these open source systems. So I do not see why a mid-size business will choose shopify or bigcommerce. They are good for mom-pop shops and simple commerce, but for unique shopping experience they fall short and better to build customized one with complete control.
[1] https://github.com/magento/magento2
[2] https://github.com/mirumee/saleor
[3] https://github.com/Sylius/Sylius
[4] https://github.com/shuup/shuup
[5] https://github.com/solidusio/solidus
[6] https://github.com/spree/spree
[7] https://github.com/vuestorefront/vue-storefront
[8] https://github.com/Divanteltd/storefront-ui
[9] https://github.com/4seer/openflutterecommerceapp