BigCommerce vs Liferay Commerce

BigCommerce is a hosted ecommerce platform for building and managing online stores. Store design tools include templates, drag-and-drop editing, real-time collaboration, and storefront customization. Merchants can manage multiple brands, regions, and customer segments from one backend, and synchronize products across channels such as Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and eBay. The platform supports digital products, abandoned-cart recovery, and eight inventory locations. Payment support includes more than 250 local methods across over 100 countries and more than 65 providers. B2B features include customer-specific pricing, quotes, purchase orders, invoicing, net terms, buyer accounts, and company hierarchies. Other offerings include AI product-content generation, AI discovery across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot, and Catalyst, a composable storefront framework built on Next.js and React. BigCommerce advertises over 1,200 apps and integrations. Plans start at $29 a month when billed annually, and a 15-day trial is available. If users do not upgrade, store data is kept for 90 days after the trial before deletion.

Liferay Commerce is software for building, managing, and scaling online stores for B2B and B2C sales. It supports multichannel selling and digital products, with an app marketplace available. For B2B buying, it can handle multiple buyers on an account, negotiated prices, custom catalogs, approval workflows, and ERP and CRM integration. Catalog tools support account-specific prices, tiers, promotions, and discounts; product information can include descriptions, images, videos, attributes, hierarchies, and relationships. The product page describes recommendations based on users’ roles, histories, and previous purchases. APIs and connectors link with ERP, CRM, procurement, order management, shipping, and accounting systems. Headless commerce can extend catalog, pricing, order, and inventory functions into existing portals, apps, and dealer experiences. Liferay DXP is available as SaaS, PaaS, or self-hosted, including on-premises and customer-cloud deployment. A free tier is available for exploration, development, and pre-production. Enterprise subscription pricing depends on deployment model and implementation scope; pricing is available on request.