BigCommerce Alternative

BigCommerce has a huge ecosystem with many apps. That's great, right? Maybe, but there's a dark side. (This applies to Shopify, WooCommerce, and even Magento.)

The problem is, after a certain point in your growth, you'll realize you've got a dozen or more different plugins all getting you one more tiny piece of functionality you want, but none of them quite work well together. You want some custom discounting logic, recurring billing, extra shipping calculations, and single sign-on? Maybe throw in some SMS automation?

At a certain point, you'll realize you need to just build things custom. Foxy provides a lot of the functionality you'd need apps for in other systems (like recurring billing), and makes customizations easier than most other systems. And if you do need to integrate with 3rd party systems, Foxy makes that easy, and has numerous apps to bridge gaps we don't support natively.

It bears repeating: BigCommerce requires 3rd party integrations to get you recurring billing. Foxy does it natively, often for a lower monthly fee than the 3rd party alone, let alone BigCommerce's monthly fees.

This is a more direct comparison to Foxy, as Foxy has been doing a headless e-commerce, checkout-as-a-service approach since 2007. BigCommerce offers solid functionality, but the above concerns still come into play.

On the "easy" end, BC's headless option requires 3rd party integrations, which are quite a bit different than Foxy's ability to easily add to any website. On the custom end of the spectrum, BigCommerce still operates more like a headless CMS, containing your product catalog. If you already have your products in your own database (be it a CMS, ERP, or other system), this would require an extra layer of syncing.