Shopify Plus vs BigCommerce Enterprise.

Shopify Plus starts at $2,300 a month on a 3-year term or $2,500 a month on a 1-year term, or a variable platform fee for complex businesses. BigCommerce renamed its Enterprise plan to Performance on June 1, 2026, with custom pricing starting at $1,499 a month billed annually. Both prices move with volume, so ask each vendor for a written quote at your own GMV.

On the Performance plan under contract, BigCommerce lists its Open Payment Provider Fee at 0.0%. Self-service plans pay that fee on orders run through providers outside BigCommerce’s embedded list: 2.0% on Core, 1.0% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale. Orders through embedded providers, a list that includes Stripe, Adyen, PayPal Braintree and Worldpay, carry no BigCommerce fee on any plan.

Yes. Shopify lists a 0.2% third-party transaction fee on Plus. On $20M of annual sales through an outside gateway, that is $40,000 a year (0.2% of $20M), on top of the processor’s own rate. BigCommerce Performance under contract charges 0.0% for the same setup. If you switch to Shopify Payments, Plus online card rates start at 2.25% + 30¢ and the 0.2% fee does not apply.

BigCommerce lists Scale at $299 a month billed annually ($399 month to month) with a GMV cap of $33,333 a month and 0.9% charged on GMV above the cap. BigCommerce counts GMV as gross order value minus 10%, on a trailing 12-month basis. It describes Performance as the plan for businesses with $1M+ in annual sales, which is where most Shopify Plus shoppers land too.

Plus pays off when you use what only Plus includes. Shopify’s pricing page lists unlimited B2B catalogs (3 on other plans), 200 inventory locations (10 on other plans), POS Pro for 20 locations, unlimited staff accounts, and up to 500% higher API call limits. If you need none of those, Advanced at $359 a month billed yearly covers a single large DTC store.

For quote-heavy wholesale, often yes. BigCommerce’s B2B page lists quotes for B2B and B2C buyers, logging in on behalf of a company, company credit management, buyer tiers with role-based access, net terms per account, and shared shopping lists. Shopify covers companies, catalogs and net payment terms on every plan, with unlimited catalogs on Plus, but quote negotiation usually needs an app or custom build.

BigCommerce Price Lists set SKU-level prices for customer groups, and its pricing table shows them on the Performance plan only. Shopify uses B2B catalogs assigned to company locations: Basic, Grow and Advanced allow 3 active catalogs across all B2B markets, while Plus allows unlimited catalogs. If you have dozens of price tiers, both work, but on Shopify it has to be Plus.

Yes on both, in different ways. BigCommerce lists the ability to log in on behalf of a company, so a rep sees exactly what the buyer sees. On Shopify, staff build draft orders for a company location and send the buyer a checkout link, and Shopify’s B2B features table lists checkout to draft on every plan. Reps who quote by phone usually prefer the BigCommerce flow.

Both offer net payment terms. BigCommerce goes further on its B2B page by listing company account credit management. Shopify’s B2B plan page lists net payment terms and vaulted cards but does not list credit limits, so on Shopify we usually hold credit limits in the ERP and block orders through a sync rule. If credit control is daily work for your team, weigh this row heavily.

It depends on how dealers buy. If they reorder from price sheets and saved lists, both platforms fit. If they need negotiated quotes for configured products, BigCommerce B2B has more of that built in. If you also run a consumer brand, Shopify Plus lets one admin serve DTC shoppers and dealers, with POS for showrooms. See our Shopify Plus B2B page for the dealer setup we build.

BigCommerce publishes 20k requests an hour (150 per 30 seconds) on Core and Growth and 60k an hour (450 per 30 seconds) on Scale. Performance limits are set by plan and resource, and some Performance clients get an Unlimited Rate Plan with no request rate limits. Shopify’s GraphQL Admin API uses a calculated query cost by plan, and Plus lists up to 500% higher call limits.

Three. Shopify allows 2,048 variants and three options per product. Once a store passes 500,000 variants, Shopify throttles new variants to 10,000 a day, though that throttle does not apply on Plus. And any API input array tops out at 250 items, so bulk jobs must be batched. BigCommerce imports rarely hit these, so test your biggest product and your nightly ERP job first.

Both are strong. BigCommerce backs Catalyst, which it describes as a UI kit and GraphQL Storefront API client optimized for Next.js and React Server Components. Shopify offers the Storefront API, where real buyer traffic is not rate-limited, and says Plus stores can deploy its React-based headless stack at no extra cost. Choose on the back office you prefer, since either front end works.

Shopify Plus customizes checkout through checkout UI extensions and Shopify Functions, which run inside Shopify’s hosted checkout. BigCommerce publishes its one-page checkout on GitHub and documents how to fork it and install it as a custom checkout. That gives BigCommerce developers more direct control of checkout markup. Shopify’s approach means fewer upgrade risks, since Shopify maintains the checkout itself.

BigCommerce sells Multi-Storefront, which runs several storefronts from one control panel. Shopify Plus handles the same need with expansion stores, up to ten on one Plus contract at no added cost, plus Shopify Markets and Managed Markets for selling across countries from a single store. If your brands share one catalog and one team, BigCommerce Multi-Storefront is simpler. Separate brands with separate teams often suit Shopify expansion stores.

Shopify. Its pricing page lists POS Pro with 20 locations included on Plus, and up to 200 with Shopify Payments, all sharing one stock pool with the online store. BigCommerce lists inventory locations on each plan (4 on Core, 5 on Growth, 8 on Scale, custom on Performance) and connects to outside POS systems through apps. Retail-heavy brands usually lean to Shopify for this reason.

For some stores, yes. BigCommerce wins when you process through your own gateway, need built-in B2B quoting, or want direct control of checkout code. Shopify Plus wins when you sell mostly to consumers, run retail stores, want Shop Pay at checkout, or need its larger app ecosystem. Neither is better across the board. List your top five must-haves and score both against them.

For stores past $1M a year, buyers usually shortlist Shopify Plus against BigCommerce, Adobe Commerce (Magento), Salesforce Commerce Cloud and WooCommerce. BigCommerce is the closest like-for-like match, because both are hosted services with monthly fees. Adobe Commerce and WooCommerce give you code you host yourself. Our other comparison pages cover Shopify Plus vs Magento and Shopify vs WooCommerce in the same format.

For most consumer brands, yes. Shopify says it has shipped over 100 product updates every 6 months since 2020 and reports 99.99% average uptime during the biggest sales events of the year. Those are Shopify’s own claims on its Plus pricing page. The case weakens if you sell mostly through your own gateway, where the 0.2% third-party fee adds up.

Choose Shopify Plus if most revenue comes from consumers, you sell in physical stores, you want Shop Pay at checkout, or you plan to sell across many countries with Managed Markets. Plus also suits teams that want one admin for DTC and a modest wholesale channel. If you would accept Shopify Payments as your processor, the gateway-fee gap with BigCommerce disappears.

Choose BigCommerce if you must keep a specific processor contract, your wholesale buyers negotiate quotes, reps need to log in as a buyer, or you run several storefronts off one catalog with Multi-Storefront. It also suits teams whose ERP sync is heavy, if your Performance contract includes the Unlimited Rate Plan. Confirm that in writing, because BigCommerce offers it to some Performance clients, not all.

Yes. We move products, customers, order history and URLs, and every old URL gets a one-to-one 301 redirect in a single hop. Advanced builds that include a migration take 5 to 8 weeks. You see a working demo on your own data before you sign, and the price is fixed per phase. FactoryJet is a registered Shopify Partner, and you own all code we write.

Book a 30-minute scoping call with founder Bhavesh Barot. Send your catalog size, ERP, payment processor and B2B rules beforehand. We score both platforms against those inputs and tell you which one we would pick and why, including when the answer is to stay where you are. FactoryJet quotes a fixed price in writing after a short scoping call.