Which e-commerce platform is right for your organization?
Considering BigCommerce or Commercetools? The choice mainly depends on what your organization needs. Which solution fits your operation, technical environment and growth plans?
New Orange helps organizations make that decision with confidence. Sometimes BigCommerce is the better fit, sometimes Commercetools is the more sensible choice. It depends on factors such as your IT landscape, desired implementation speed and the complexity of your e-commerce processes.
BigCommerce is a SaaS e-commerce platform for organizations that want to launch a professional webshop or e-commerce environment quickly. Many features are available out of the box, including product management, checkout, payments, promotions and international sales.
This makes BigCommerce especially relevant for organizations that need speed, clarity and manageability. The platform provides a solid foundation for further e-commerce growth, without requiring a fully custom-built landscape from the start.
Commercetools is a composable commerce platform for organizations that need a high degree of freedom in their digital architecture. The platform is API-first and headless, which means commerce functionality can be flexibly connected to other systems, channels and frontends.
Commercetools is especially suited to organizations with more complex processes, multiple brands, markets or sales channels. It offers a high level of flexibility, but also requires clear technical choices and strong architectural direction.
The biggest difference lies in the balance between standardization and flexibility. BigCommerce offers a complete e-commerce platform that allows organizations to go live relatively quickly. The platform provides structure and manageability, making it well suited to organizations that value speed and operational control.
Commercetools offers more freedom to build commerce around the specific needs of the organization within a broader digital ecosystem. This makes it a strong fit for organizations where standard platform logic does not fully align with existing processes, integrations or scalability requirements.
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BigCommerce usually has a shorter time to market. Much of the functionality is available out of the box, so you can start and optimise sooner. Commercetools often requires more design and development work, because you make more deliberate choices around architecture, frontend, integrations and business logic.
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Commercetools offers more flexibility. You decide how commerce functionality is combined with other systems and channels. BigCommerce also allows for customization and integrations, but more within the boundaries of the platform.
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BigCommerce is often easier for commerce and marketing teams to manage. The admin environment is centralised and many components are available out of the box. With Commercetools, the management experience depends more heavily on the chosen setup and the systems built around it.
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Commercetools is strong when e-commerce needs to work closely with ERP, PIM, CRM, CMS, order management or custom software. BigCommerce also supports integrations, but is often a better fit when the complexity of the system landscape remains manageable.
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Both platforms are scalable, but in different ways. BigCommerce scales well within a SaaS model with a lot of standard functionality. Commercetools scales particularly well for organizations with multiple brands, countries, channels and complex commerce processes.
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BigCommerce is suitable when customization is limited to integrations, frontend choices and optimizations within the platform. Commercetools is stronger when custom development is part of the core commerce architecture.
At New Orange, platform selection does not start with a list of features or licence costs. We first look at the context in which the platform needs to operate: the organization, the operation, the existing system landscape and the ambitions for growth.
We assess factors such as the complexity of the e-commerce environment, how many countries, brands or channels need to be supported, and which integrations are required with systems such as ERP, PIM, CRM, CMS or order management. We also look at the desired implementation speed, the scope for further development and the balance between standardization and customization.
A platform choice affects more than technology alone. It influences processes, teams, integrations and growth potential. New Orange helps organizations with platform selection, digital architecture and translating ambition into a commerce approach that works in practice.
Want to know which platform best fits your organization? We would be happy to think it through with you.