Compare BigCommerce vs. Intershop

BigCommerce is an ecommerce platform built for businesses that want flexibility across storefront design, checkout, payments, product management, channels, and integrations. The platform supports a wide range of business models, including B2C, B2B, wholesale, multi-storefront, omnichannel, international commerce, headless commerce, and composable commerce. Merchants can build visually with drag-and-drop tools or use full API and code access when they need deeper customization. BigCommerce includes a customizable one-page checkout with digital wallets, one-click payments, buy now pay later options, and access to many payment providers. The platform also supports complex product catalogs, variants, bundles, restricted selling, age verification, compliance flows, subscriptions, and hybrid selling models. Businesses can manage multiple brands, regions, channels, and storefronts from one system. BigCommerce also offers services for migration, launch, solution architecture, implementation, data migration, technical account management, customer success, and growth support. Its ecosystem includes Feedonomics for syncing and optimizing product data across marketplaces, social commerce, and advertising channels, plus Makeswift for building visual web experiences with custom components. By combining open commerce infrastructure, storefront tools, checkout, payments, integrations, services, and AI-oriented commerce capabilities, BigCommerce helps brands grow without limiting how they sell.

Intershop’s highly scalable cloud-based solutions empower businesses to significantly enhance their online presence, drive revenue growth and increase customer loyalty. Comprehensive out-of-the-box functionalities enable a quick go-to-market and to react flexibly to rapidly changing market conditions. The platform is ideal for high-performing businesses, such as manufacturers and wholesalers, whether they are local enterprises, seeking expansion into new markets or are already operating on a global scale. The headless modular solution stack comes with a Progressive Web App (PWA) and includes Commerce Management (Commerce), Search (and AI-based Recommendations), Integration Hub, Experience Management, Product Information Management (PIM), Order Management (OMS), Customer Engagement Center, and Business Intelligence (Analytics). Additionally, we provide tailored functionalities designed to optimize B2B e-commerce experiences, such as the display of customer-specific pricing and personalized dashboards, shared shopping carts and the management of users & organizational structures incl. budget rules and mechanism. Companies such as Dover Corporation, Miele, and KION North America use Intershop to provide seamless omnichannel commerce experiences, and achieve successful market expansion. Together, we can elevate your business to new heights as well. Benefit from our well-established yet flexible e-commerce platform, complete with cost control options via revenue or transaction-based billing models.