BigCommerce Agency
At DeeperThanBlue, we’ve partnered with the world’s leading cloud eCommerce platform. Grow your business with an open SaaS eCommerce platform that enables you to increase sales with 80% less cost, time and complexity than on-premise software.
Your New BigCommerce Partners
As a BigCommerce agency partner, we help our merchant customers tackle a variety of challenges. Whether you want to fully re-platform onto BigCommerce, re-theme, or improve and enhance UX and conversion, our expert team is on hand to help you realise your goals.
Our BigCommerce developers can seamlessly integrate your back office system to streamline your business processes and connect with third-party applications. You’ll also get access to our service desk 24/7 if you have any queries.
Transform Your Business
Take your business into the big leagues with the UK’s best eCommerce platform and DeeperThanBlue. Let us accelerate your time to market and enhance your business with BigCommerce.
BigCommerce is the UK’s leading eCommerce platform, offering extreme scalability for online stores. With more built-in sales tools than any of its competitors, combined with advanced SEO and multi-channel integration, it’s essential for large and fast-growing businesses with an eye on breaking into the big leagues.
As a specialist BigCommerce partner, DeeperThanBlue can help your business realise the benefits of BigCommerce today.
Why Choose DeeperThanBlue as your Trusted BigCommerce Agency?
At DeeperThanBlue we’ve worked with BigCommerce as a technology since it launched in Europe in 2018. As a specialist BigCommerce agency, we deliver high-profile brand success in both bespoke and large-scale eCommerce solutions.
Our consultancy and BigCommerce development services cover:
- User experience design
- Application development and integration
- Licence management
- After-care support
What are the benefits of BigCommerce?
Superior Performance
BigCommerce storefronts are always open for business thanks to one of the best uptimes in the industry – including 100% during the past 3 Cyber Weeks, maintaining a 145 ms response time to ensure a conversion rate higher than any other eCommerce solution in the market.
Secure & Stable
BigCommerce delivers secure website hosting with unmatched performance through multiple layers. Customers benefit from managed PCI compliance and DDOS protection as standard.
Scalable
A SaaS platform built for hyper-growth for larger enterprises without the need to manage costly and cumbersome on-premise technology. The platform can grow with your business at a rate that supports your business models.
Key Features of BigCommerce
Customisable Framework
Build extraordinary shopping experiences that engage shoppers and drive more sales
Multi-storefront
Create and manage multiple, unique storefronts within your BigCommerce dashboard
B2B Edition
Optimised B2B storefront and portal to ensure a superior user experience and self service for business to business customers
Superior SEO
Drive more traffic with built-in marketing and customisable SEO
Faceted Search
Faceted search built off of Elasticsearch, including custom field support for refined searching
Social Commerce
Sell directly to billions of social media users
Marketplaces
Sell where your customers are shopping by integrating with top marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon and Google Shopping
Abandoned Cart Saver
Recover lost sales by sending emails to customers who leave without purchasing
Optimised Checkout
Fast and simple shopping cart incorporates every checkout best practice to increase conversion
Integrated Analytics
Measure and improve online business with enterprise-grade analytics
Bricks and Mortar
Keep in-store sales automatically updated with native POS systems, including Teamwork Commerce and more
Strategic Value
Gartner believe that the 3 key factors to digital success are:
Continuous Innovation
A roadmap of future product development is key to ensure that new features / benefits are available when required
Continuous Integration (CI)
Smaller, more frequent releases that contribute less individually but together over time, create more long term value
Scale-Flexible
Always being available when your customer wants to visit is key, especially during peak periods each and every year
Your BigCommerce B2B Specialised Agency
Big Commerce B2B Specialised Partner DeeperThanBlue
With the rapid rise in demand for B2B eCommerce, there’s a surge in the need for system integrators and agency services. This is primarily fuelled by the increasing expectations of manufacturers and distributors who are striving to create immersive online buying experiences.
In response to this growing trend, BigCommerce has introduced its B2B Specialisation program. This initiative empowers eCommerce agencies to showcase their outstanding B2B expertise and a proven track record of successful ventures.
DeeperThanBlue has achieved recognition as a BigCommerce B2B Specialised agency
Read more about this specification in our blog here.
Our work with Big Commerce
BigCommerce FAQs
Can you support with BigCommerce site customisation?
As a BigCommerce agency partner, we help our merchant customers with a variety of challenges, from re-platforming onto BigCommerce, re-theming a site, or improving and enhancing UX and conversion. Our BigCommerce developers can seamlessly integrate your back office system to streamline your business processes and connect with third-party applications and extend API integrations where simple BigCommerce plugins to third party services don’t suffice.
How Easy Is BigCommerce To Use?
BigCommerce has made significant strides in enhancing its platform’s usability in recent years. As a leading BigCommerce agency, DeeperThanBlue has observed firsthand how the platform has evolved to provide a seamless and intuitive experience for store owners while offering robust enterprise-level capabilities. It balances simplicity and power, making it accessible for businesses of all sizes.
How Secure Is BigCommerce?
On their website BigCommerce states that they operate on a High Availability (HA) infrastructure allowing them to deliver 99.99% uptime, resiliency and performance for their merchants. They have two data centres and a third back-up data centre to mitigate potential failure. The BigCommerce platform is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified and PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) 3.1, Level 1 certified as both a Merchant and Service Provider. You can access their compliance article here.
How much does BigCommerce cost?
To find out about BigCommerce Pricing, you can speak with our specialised BigCommerce team who can assist you in identifying the correct plan. You can of course speak to BigCommerce directly but it’s only once all required meets are understood that an accurate price can be quoted. BigCommerce have a number of plans which you can review below Some their Essential packages are geared to small to medium and a business starting up with an eCommerce channel for the first time. For those in mid-market (medium) to large enterprise their Enterprise package offers an even richer set of capabilities to trade your business from £1 million to £100’s of millions through digital channels:
- BigCommerce Standard plan starts at $29.95/month
- BigCommerce Plus plan is $79.95/month
- BigCommerce Pro plan is $299.95/month
- BigCommerce Enterprise & B2B Edition has custom pricing – this is based on a number of factors, Order Volume, Average Order Value, Conversion rate, and future growth plan:
To see how this compares to other platforms, take a look at our comparison blog article. (still to be published)
Does BigCommerce have a specific B2B solution?
BigCommerce’s B2B platform is relatively new, having launched in 2019,. It’s roadmap has gone through consistent improvement with regular updates to the offering. The user experience has been optimised to meet business to business customer needs which fit within a market, sell and service capability to going beyond the initial sell and reducing customer service and management costs at scale. It is proving popular amongst merchants who are seeking an integration-friendly solution. The platform enables merchants to offer B2B buyers custom shipping rates and sync their data across their CRM, ERP, OMS amongst others. BigCommerce also allows merchants to add multiple storefronts, regions and channels to help them tailor their offering to target customer groups.
Payment options
BigCommerce allows merchants to choose from 65 pre-integrated online payment solutions, serving 230 countries and over 140 currencies. Some of the more well-known payment options are:
- Amazon Pay
- Apple Pay
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Barclaycard
- Authorise.net
- Checkout.com
You can find further details here: https://www.bigcommerce.co.uk/payments/
How easy is it to integrate BigCommerce?
BigCommerce has a very user-friendly interface and integration doesn’t always require highly skilled developers as there are plug-ins that you can use for a wide variety of requirements. This makes it accessible for small businesses and those with limited technical expertise. For the ultimate in integration and more complex requirements, we’d recommend that you look at DeeperThanBlue’s CXOne and CXOne Storefront to give your customers the best all round experience.
Is BigCommerce considered to be an Enterprise eCommerce Platform?
BigCommerce is a very versatile eCommerce platform and is certainly scalable, and making a push into the Enterprise space. A combination of a robust roadmap, regular releases and the platform having lightning fast response time with a robust SLA and uptime guarantee. Couple this with a very affordable commercials (in terms of SaaS operating cost) compared to other platforms makes it a stand out option for many.
How does BigCommerce compare to other eCommerce platforms like Adobe Commerce (Magento) or Shopify.
BigCommerce offers a good balance of features and is a cost-effective and user-friendly option for small to medium-sized businesses. For our comparison between BigCommerce, Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Shopify, read our blog. (still to be published).
What industries and sectors is BigCommerce used in?
BigCommerce can be found in businesses from a variety of industry sectors. Their references customers can be found in industry sectors from Fashion & Apparel, Health & Beauty, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Construction, Automotive, Components and Home & Garden. In addition their case studies include Travel & Entertainment, Toys & Games, Education & Publishing, Electronics and Sports & Outdoors.