Move Beyond Woocommerce to BigCommerce
Unlock scalable ecommerce growth with BigCommerce’s Open SaaS platform. Learn how our proven migration process helps ambitious brands scale faster and operate smarter.
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Is Your Woocommerce Store Holding You Back?
If you’re feeling friction such as sluggish site speed, plugin chaos, rising dev costs, or checkout struggles, you’re not alone. Many ecommerce brands hit a wall on WooCommerce that slows growth and drains resources. But few act before those issues affect revenue.
We help ambitious DTC and B2B ecommerce brands make a strategic leap forward with BigCommerce. It’s not just a platform swap it’s a move toward scale, flexibility, and focus.
Recent Migration Highlight:
Sunnyland Farms was struggling with a confusing checkout process for gift shipments, that needed to go to multiple addresses. With BigCommerce’s native multi shipment functionality, they were able to greatly streamline the process for end users.
Why Growth-Minded Brands Choose BigCommerce
BigCommerce is built to support modern commerce without forcing your team into technical debt. Unlike Woocommerce, which requires manual maintenance and plugin patches, BigCommerce provides a scalable SaaS foundation that blends flexibility with stability.
Unrestricted Scalability
Handle traffic surges and international sales without slowdown
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Reduce dev reliance and plugin costs
Built in PCI Compliance
BigCommerce assumes the compliance burden, not you
Native Multi-Storefront
Manage multiple brands, regions, or languages from a single backend
Robust Ecosystem
65+ payment gateways, 70+ native promo combinations, advanced shipping & tax logic
Superior Conversion Rate
Exceed the industry avg with one-page checkout and payment options
Signs It’s Time to Migrate
If you’re experiencing any of the following, BigCommerce may be the right next step:
- Plugin conflicts are disrupting performance
- Slow load times, especially during sales or promos
- Rising dev and hosting costs
- Difficulty supporting complex catalogs
- Security or PCI compliance headaches
- Barriers to international expansion
- Inconsistent checkout or low mobile conversions
The BigCommerce Platform Advantage
BigCommerce gives you enterprise level capabilities—without enterprise bloat.
It’s a platform that works harder, scales smarter, and simplifies operations for growing brands. Core ecommerce features like real-time shipping, tax compliance, and advanced discounts come built in. PCI compliance and automatic security updates? Covered.
What That Means in Practice:
- One-Page, Lightning Fast Checkout
BigCommerce merchants who enable both PayPal Wallet and Apple Pay see a 17% higher checkout conversion rate compared to those who don’t. - Higher Overall Conversion Rates
BigCommerce’s native checkout flow delivers a 20% higher visit to purchase rate than the industry average. - Lower TCO
With fewer plugins to manage and less custom dev required, you spend more time growing and less time patching.
Our Proven 5-Step Migration Process
We’ve refined our approach through dozens of successful platform migrations. It’s built to protect your brand, preserve your SEO, and optimize for long term performance, not just a quick lift and shift.
1. Strategic Planning
We audit your current Woocommerce site, including all custom workflows, plugins, and business logic. Then we build a migration roadmap that aligns tech needs with your growth goals.
2. Design & UX
We redesign your store for performance and conversion, optimizing for mobile, speed, and ease of navigation, all while maintaining your brand integrity.
3. Technical Migration
We transfer product data, customer records, order history, and SEO equity. We stage and QA every component to avoid breakage or downtime.
4. QA & Testing
From cross-device functionality to payment and tax flow, we run rigorous testing protocols so you launch with confidence.
5. Launch & Optimize
We monitor performance from day one, resolve any hiccups, and optimize key flows based on early user behavior and analytics.
What You’ll Gain
Performance That Drives Revenue
Faster load times. Streamlined checkout. Fewer abandoned carts. Real results that hit the bottom line.
Peace of Mind with Security & Compliance
BigCommerce is a PCI Level 1 Certified Provider. No more patchwork security responsibilities.
Infrastructure That Scales
Built for multi-brand, multi-currency, and multi-channel, without slowing down or requiring extra ops overhead.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Woocommerce’s “free” model quickly becomes expensive. With BigCommerce, core features come standard, reducing the need for custom plugins, patches, and developer hours.
Enterprise Features, Out of the Box
- Native abandoned cart recovery
- Advanced promotions and customer segmentation
- Real-time tax & shipping
- 24/7 support with over 90% first call resolution
“I’m beyond impressed with this solution. Any other agency that I could think of would have said this is how the platform works, tough. I’m beyond impressed.”
Adam Walker
Sunnyland Farms
Conversion Wins with BigCommerce
Ready to Future Proof Your Ecommerce?
Your next phase of growth shouldn’t be held back by outdated tech or plugin clutter. BigCommerce positions your brand to scale with confidence, speed, and support.
Let’s talk about migrating your Woocommerce store the right way with a team that understands ecommerce inside and out.
Schedule a free consultation with LimeLight Marketing
We’ll build a migration roadmap tailored to your business, your goals, and your future.
