Aeion Commerce vs BigCommerce Enterprise
BigCommerce Enterprise charges $1,000-$3,000+/month on minimum 2-year contracts, plus 0.5%-1.5% transaction fees, plus app marketplace subscriptions ($500-2,000/mo for serious deployments). Aeion Commerce ships the same enterprise capabilities — B2B price lists, headless API, multi-store, multi-currency, abandoned-cart automation — as part of an operating system. No transaction fees, no app tax, 9 AI agents included, 20 payment-provider adapters built in.
The BigCommerce Pricing Reality
BigCommerce Enterprise (the tier serious deployments need) has three cost layers:
Where BigCommerce Wins
Be honest about BigCommerce's strengths:
Why "9 AI Agents Included" Matters
Each of the 9 Aeion AI agents replaces a paid BigCommerce app:
Migration FAQ
Aeion's data import tool includes a BigCommerce connector — products + orders + customers + abandoned carts pull cleanly. Plan to migrate inventory + 30 days of historical orders before cutover; older orders import on a follow-up sweep.
Inventory the apps you use; we'll map each to Aeion's native equivalent (most are covered by the 9 AI agents above + the 20 payment adapters). For genuinely niche integrations, our API surface makes a custom integration feasible.
Catalyst's API contract differs from Aeion's, but the Next.js component code is reusable. Plan ~2 sprints to retarget Catalyst components against Aeion's REST API.
Aeion has the primitives (price lists, company accounts, B2B-specific access control). The workflow UI for B2B quote-request → approval flows is less mature than BigCommerce B2B Edition. If B2B quoting is critical, evaluate the gap; if standard B2B catalog with custom pricing is sufficient, Aeion covers it.
Native multi-storefront with per-store theme + per-store domain mapping. Cross-store catalog sharing is configurable per-product. Similar UX to BigCommerce multi-storefront, no separate add-on.