KitCommerce vs BigCommerce

BigCommerce alternative: GoCommerce vs BigCommerce

BigCommerce’s plan rises with your sales. GoCommerce has no plan.

Since 1 June 2026, BigCommerce sets your plan from your last twelve months of sales, moves you up when you cross a threshold, and charges a fee on orders taken through any payment provider not on its embedded list. GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce are MIT source with no plan to outgrow. Run them yourself and there is no fee on any gateway, and no one else running the servers; or host a store on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order.

2% BigCommerce’s fee on Core for orders through a provider off its embedded list
US$30,000 a year in sales before BigCommerce moves a Core store up to Growth
0.9% of sales above US$33,333 a month on BigCommerce’s Scale plan

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KitCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform. Its packages are GoCommerce, the backend and admin, and Svelte Commerce, the storefront — MIT licensed, used together or either one on its own. Run them yourself for free, or start a store hosted on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order, plus 18% GST on the fee. On this page, each claim names the package it is about.

BigCommerce and GoCommerce, side by side

BigCommerce’s side comes from its pricing page and its note on the June 2026 changes, linked at the foot of this page; ours from the GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce pages on this site. BigCommerce prices in US dollars, so its figures here are in dollars too.

BigCommerce compared with GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce, checked 26 October 2026
Aspect	BigCommerce	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
What it is	A hosted platform. BigCommerce runs the software, the servers and the upgrades.	An open-source platform you run, in two MIT packages: a Go backend with its admin compiled in, and a SvelteKit storefront.
Software price	Core US$29, Growth US$79 and Scale US$299 a month billed yearly (US$39, US$105 and US$399 monthly); Performance from US$1,499 a month by contract. In US dollars, before tax such as GST; the India site offers a demo, not a price list.	Nothing. Both packages are MIT licensed.
How your plan is set	By trailing twelve-month GMV — gross order value less 10%. Pass US$30,000 on Core or US$100,000 on Growth and BigCommerce notifies you, then moves you up.	It isn’t: there is no plan. Run it yourself and sales volume changes nothing you pay; a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Above the cap	Scale covers US$33,333 of GMV a month and takes 0.9% of the excess. At US$2,000,000 a year the account moves to Performance.	No cap.
Fee on each order	2.0% on Core, 1.0% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale for orders through Open Payment Providers — any provider not on its embedded list. None through embedded providers.	None when you run it yourself, on any gateway. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Payments in India	Its India page lists Adyen, BlueSnap, CCAvenue, Paymetric, NMI and Stripe. CCAvenue, Paymetric and NMI are not on the embedded list, so on self-serve plans they carry the fee.	Razorpay, Stripe, Cashfree, Adyen, Hyperswitch and six more as modules; cash on delivery built in. No CCAvenue module.
B2B	Customer groups from Growth; price lists only on Performance.	Customer groups, price lists and quantity breaks in core, and company accounts, credit on account, approvals and quotes in the b2b module.
Inventory locations	Up to 4, 5 or 8 by plan; custom on Performance.	Stock per location in core, on hand and reserved, with no plan limit.
More storefronts	US$30, US$50 or US$100 a month each, up to 3, 5 or 8 by plan.	Channels, each with its own published catalogue and price lists, at no charge.
Extensions	An app marketplace of over 1,200 apps; Amazon, eBay and Walmart channels on every plan.	54 modules — payments, shipping, messaging, search, feeds, MCP — each compiled in when you import it. No marketplace channels.
Code	Catalyst, its Next.js storefront, is MIT on GitHub. The backend it runs against is closed.	Both halves open: the GoCommerce backend and admin, and the Svelte Commerce storefront.
Your data	Products, customers (not passwords) and orders export to CSV; themes download as a zip. Orders cannot be imported back by CSV.	Rows in your own PostgreSQL, which you can query, back up and move.

What each side costs

On BigCommerce, the plan is the part you choose and the fees are the part your sales choose. Here is where the money goes on each side, in BigCommerce’s US dollars.

Recurring costs, BigCommerce against GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce
Cost	BigCommerce	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
Software	US$29 to US$299 a month, billed yearly, on self-serve plans; Performance from US$1,499 a month	Nothing
Plan upgrades	Automatic, as twelve-month GMV passes US$30,000 and then US$100,000	None
Fee per order	0.6% to 2% of GMV through a provider off the embedded list	None when you run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
Sales above the cap	0.9% of monthly GMV above US$33,333 on Scale	None
Extra storefronts	US$30 to US$100 a month each	None — channels on the same backend
Hosting and people	Hosting included; nobody needed to launch	Run yourself: a server and PostgreSQL, and a developer to run and extend them. Or a store hosted on kitcommerce.store

A worked example in US dollars, BigCommerce’s only currency: a new store selling US$10,000 a month on Core through a provider off the embedded list has US$9,000 of GMV, so pays BigCommerce US$180 a month in fees on top of the US$29 plan. In its fourth month its twelve-month GMV passes US$30,000 and it moves to Growth: US$79 a month, and 1.0% — US$90 — in fees. The same sales on a GoCommerce store you run yourself pay the gateway alone; the server and the developer are the costs that replace those fees. Hosted on kitcommerce.store, the store pays 1% of every successful order instead.

Which one fits

Choose BigCommerce when

You want a hosted platform with an app marketplace, marketplace channels and 24/7 support.
Your payments run through an embedded provider such as Stripe or Adyen, so the new fee does not apply.
You want an open-source storefront in Catalyst, with a backend someone else runs.
There is no developer on the team to run servers, backups and upgrades.

Choose GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce when

Your gateway is not on BigCommerce’s embedded list, and 0.6–2% of sales costs more than running GoCommerce yourself on a server, with a developer.
You don’t want a plan that moves you up on its own as sales grow.
You need B2B price lists without a contract that starts at US$1,499 a month.
You want the backend’s code, not only the storefront’s.

What you take on

Run it yourself and you host it: a server, a PostgreSQL database, backups and upgrades are yours, or a developer’s you pay. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order instead.
No app store. What a module does not cover, somebody writes.
GoCommerce has over 2,000 tests, but no store we know of runs it in production yet.
Svelte Commerce reaches GoCommerce through an early connector, version 0.16.0: catalogue, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout and order lookup work; shopper sign-in, the address book and order history need GoCommerce’s identity module.
No Amazon, eBay or Walmart selling channels. The feeds module covers Google Merchant Center and Meta catalogues only.
No CCAvenue module. If CCAvenue is your gateway, the integration is yours to write.

Moving from BigCommerce

There is no importer for BigCommerce, and no storefront-only halfway house.

BigCommerce exports products, customers — without passwords — and orders to CSV, and its API can export the same. The move is a script that reads those and writes through GoCommerce’s 550 documented REST operations. Customers will need to set new passwords.

Svelte Commerce has no BigCommerce connector among its 26 backends, so, unlike Shopify, you cannot keep BigCommerce and swap only the storefront. If that is what you want, Catalyst is BigCommerce’s own answer.

FAQ

Questions about BigCommerce and GoCommerce

What is BigCommerce’s Open Payment Provider Fee?

A fee BigCommerce added on 1 June 2026 to its self-serve plans: 2.0% on Core, 1.0% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale, charged on GMV from orders processed by any provider not on its embedded list. It is billed to you monthly, separately from your provider’s own fees, and must not be passed on to shoppers.

Does BigCommerce sell to merchants in India, and in what currency?

It has an India page, which leads to a demo request, and a page of payment gateways for Indian merchants. Its plans are priced in US dollars, excluding taxes such as GST; there is no rupee price list.

What happens when my sales pass my BigCommerce plan’s limit?

BigCommerce measures twelve months of GMV — gross order value less 10%. Past US$30,000 on Core or US$100,000 on Growth, it notifies you and moves you up a plan. Scale instead charges 0.9% on monthly GMV above US$33,333, and at US$2,000,000 a year the account moves to Performance.

BigCommerce’s India page says it charges no penalty for your own gateway. Which is right?

Its India gateways page does say so. Its pricing page, which sets the bill, charges 0.6–2% on orders through providers off the embedded list on self-serve plans — and CCAvenue, Paymetric and NMI from that India page are off the list. The pricing page is the one that describes what you pay.

BigCommerce’s Catalyst storefront is MIT too. Isn’t that the same?

Half of it. Catalyst is an MIT Next.js storefront, but it runs against BigCommerce’s closed backend through its GraphQL Storefront API, so the plans and fees still apply. GoCommerce opens the backend as well.

Can I move from BigCommerce to GoCommerce?

Yes, with a script. Export products, customers and orders from BigCommerce as CSV or through its API, and write them in through GoCommerce’s documented REST API. There is no ready-made importer, and passwords do not come across.

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Sources

BigCommerce’s prices and features were checked on 26 October 2026 against the pages below. Prices change; when one here disagrees with the source, the source is right and this page is out of date. BigCommerce is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare; no endorsement or affiliation is implied — see trademarks.

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