Platform · BigCommerce

BigCommerce, built fast and built right.

From hosted Stencil storefronts to fully headless builds on Catalyst and Next.js, ProjectThunder ships BigCommerce sites that load fast, convert hard, and integrate cleanly with the systems already running your business.

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BigCommerce Partner BigCommerce B2B Edition
Why BigCommerce

Open architecture, low total cost, real growth.

BigCommerce gives you the operational simplicity of a SaaS platform without the lock-in. We've helped brands grow on it for years: theme work, app development, headless rebuilds, and post-launch optimization. ERP-driven shop deciding between platforms? Read our Sana Commerce vs BigCommerce comparison.

01

Hosted or headless.

Stencil themes when speed-to-launch matters. Catalyst & Next.js when performance, custom UX, or omnichannel demands it.

02

B2B-ready.

Customer groups, price lists, quoting, multi-storefront, account hierarchies, and sales rep tools, all set up the way real wholesale teams work.

03

AI from day one.

We use AI for catalog enrichment, SEO copy, merchandising, and customer support, and we build storefront chatbots and shopping copilots that move the conversion needle.

Where We Help

BigCommerce, end to end.

Custom Stencil themes & component libraries
Headless on Catalyst, Next.js, or your framework of choice
B2B Edition: price lists, quoting, sales reps
Custom apps via the App Dev framework
ERP / PIM / OMS integrations: SAP, Business Central, NAV / AX, GP, NetSuite, Acumatica (all ERP guides)
Search & merchandising (built-in or Algolia / Searchspring)
Payment, tax, fraud (Stripe, Adyen, Avalara, Signifyd)
Storefront AI chatbot & shopping copilot
SEO & performance audits with measurable targets
Re-platform projects from Magento, WooCommerce, Shopify
Technical Brief

How we build on BigCommerce.

Architecture

  • Hosted: Stencil themes built on Handlebars + custom JS modules
  • Headless: BigCommerce Catalyst on Next.js 15, deployed to Vercel or self-hosted
  • Storefront APIs: GraphQL Storefront API for product/cart, REST for customer / order management
  • Custom apps in .NET 9 / Node.js, OAuth via App Dev framework
  • Edge: CDN, image transforms, edge functions for personalization

Integration patterns

  • Webhooks for order / customer events into your ERP / OMS
  • Catalog sync via the BigCommerce Catalog / Admin APIs and webhooks, orchestrated through iPaaS middleware (Jitterbit, Boomi, MuleSoft) or custom ETL into Snowflake for BI
  • SSO + customer impersonation for B2B sales reps
  • Multi-storefront for B2B / B2C / regional separation
  • Performance: prerendered Catalyst pages, partial hydration, image optimization

B2B Edition specifics

  • Company accounts with buyers in built-in roles (Admin, Senior Buyer, Junior Buyer) or custom roles, plus Account Hierarchy for parent and child companies up to five layers deep
  • Quotes & negotiated pricing: quote requests with file attachments, negotiation in the quote, and checkout with a PO number. Approval rules by amount or cost center are custom work we build.
  • Custom price lists and customer-group-aware catalog visibility
  • Multiple ship-tos per company, with a shared address book and default addresses. Routing each ship-to to the right warehouse runs through your ERP.
  • Quick order pad with SKU entry and CSV upload, reorder from past orders, and shared Shopping Lists for high-velocity SKUs. Scheduled orders come from an app or your ERP.
  • Net terms, credit limits, and credit holds kept in sync with your ERP, so PO checkout follows what the ERP says

AI & agentic workflows

  • PDP content generator using Claude / OpenAI with brand voice fine-tuning
  • Storefront chatbot with cart-aware actions (add to cart, find size, check stock)
  • SEO copy + meta-data generation across 10k+ SKU catalogs
  • Customer-support copilot fed by order history and policy docs (RAG)
  • Merchandising agent: surfacing under-performing PDPs and proposing fixes

Delivery & quality

  • Discovery → design → phased build with weekly demos
  • BigCommerce sandbox stores for preview & UAT
  • Lighthouse + Core Web Vitals targets enforced in CI
  • Accessibility tested to WCAG 2.1 AA
  • Post-launch CRO retainer with measurable conversion targets

Observability & ops

  • Structured logs with request IDs from edge → app → ERP webhooks
  • Synthetic monitoring on checkout, login, and ERP-bridge endpoints
  • Real User Monitoring (RUM) tied to Core Web Vitals dashboards
  • On-call runbook + paging via PagerDuty / Opsgenie for the bridge service
  • Quarterly load tests against staging at 2× peak holiday traffic
Go Deeper

Planning a B2B build? These go further: BigCommerce ERP integration with SAP and Dynamics, BigCommerce vs Shopify Plus for B2B, the Sana Commerce vs BigCommerce comparison, and our approach to B2B replatforming.

BigCommerce

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New build, replatform, headless rebuild, or just stuck on a theme: we're the team to call.

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