BigCommerce

BigCommerce is a hosted storefront whose tiers are drawn around sales volume rather than around features, so the question at signup is what a shop turns over rather than which capabilities it needs. Crossing a tier's ceiling moves the account up on its own, which is worth knowing before the first busy quarter. The platform adds no transaction fee of its own on top of the payment provider's. Anybody below the first threshold is paying for headroom they will not use for a while.

Core is $29 a month billed annually and covers up to $30,000 in trailing annual sales, after which the plan moves to Growth on its own. Growth is $79 up to $100,000, and Scale is $299 with a $33,333 monthly ceiling and 0.9 percent charged on sales above it. Enterprise starts from $1,499 a month billed annually. A free trial is offered on the page without a stated length.