Total Cost of Ownership

Open Source

Item

BigCommerce

Cloud Hosting

Platform

licenses, patches, upgrades, etc.

Maintenance & Hosting

You'll need to pay for licenses, patches, and upgrades.

You'll need to pay for security, PCI, CNDs, and DDOs.

Your cost for these items are significantly less with cloud hosting.

Your cost for these items are significantly less with cloud hosting.

BigCommerce has vetted over 300 apps, such as ERP apps. Install app. No dev costs*.

You may need to pay a developer to develop, test, and install apps. Ups your cost.

You may need to pay a developer to develop features for your store.

You may need to pay a developer to develop features for your store.

BigCommerce is feature-rich. Less custom development = lower costs for you.

Application support

Development

Front end \ Revenue Generating