BigCommerce
noun · SaaS e-commerce platform · element 25 of 117
A hosted e-commerce platform for growing and enterprise stores, with Stencil themes and GraphQL and REST APIs.
- Projects
- 2
- Earliest project
- 2024
- Family
- Commerce
What is BigCommerce?
BigCommerce is a software-as-a-service commerce platform. Hosting, checkout, payments and security are handled for you; the store is customised through Stencil themes and extended through REST and GraphQL APIs.
It suits catalogues that have outgrown a starter platform and teams that want an open, API-first setup without running their own servers.
How I use BigCommerce
I ran Atlas Tools & Machinery's BigCommerce store: more than 20,000 SKUs, three people in-house and two agencies. I moved it to an API-first setup on GraphQL for real-time inventory sync, connected Amazon for shared fulfilment, built a promotions rules engine so marketing could launch offers without development, and set up Klaviyo flows for abandoned carts.
The hammer builder, a product configurator customers use to spec and buy a custom hammer in one flow, is the piece I point to when people ask what e-commerce UX is for. Conversion rose 20% and cart abandonment fell 18% while I ran the store.
- Atlas Tools & Machinery2 projectsAtlas Tools & Machinery · 2024 to 2026
