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The BigCommerce app marketplace is a treasure trove of goodies, with over 1,200 apps available to extend the functionality of your BigCommerce store. Naturally, trying to find the best apps in the BigCommerce marketplace is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Luckily, we’re here to help. We have compiled the 15 best apps in the BigCommerce marketplace just for you.
Top Free Apps
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a well-known and very popular email marketing platform, but they have expanded and are now considered more of an all-in-one marketing platform.
You can set up a range of automations to make business management easier. For example, you don’t have to worry about the dreaded abandoned cart situation costing you potential sales. You can also develop automations for things like a welcome email, a post-purchase follow-up, product recommendations, or inactive customer re-engagement.
Email marketing is a highly effective tool, and Mailchimp is easy to use, easy to integrate, and the app itself is free. Mailchimp’s free plan doesn’t include automation flows, though, so the automations above need a paid plan.
QuickBooks Online
Bookkeeping and accounting are massively time-consuming parts of owning a business, but QuickBooks Online makes this easy. All your orders, refunds, taxes, discounts, and shipping charges are synced across different platforms, automatically processed, and added to QuickBooks. In addition, all your sales receipts are created automatically.
It’s a powerful and incredibly helpful app to integrate with your BigCommerce store, and the connector app is free. You’ll need a paid QuickBooks Online plan, since QuickBooks Free doesn’t support third-party integrations.
Google Analytics
When it comes to site analytics, you can’t really pass up Google Analytics. It’s the tried and tested favorite that wins the popularity vote time and time again. In the case of BigCommerce, it works very effectively, it’s easy to set up, and it’s completely free to use.
With Google Analytics, you’ll get a thorough understanding of your advertising ROI, and you can set up customized reporting to gain insights into other areas of your business and progress.
Dreamship
Dreamship is a reliable printing and dropshipping provider. All products are high-quality, and you avoid the hassle of managing vendors and the cost of storing products.
Dreamship prints and ships most products in 1–2 days, there’s no minimum order amount, and you only pay when you have an order, so there’s no risk of overspending. What’s really amazing is that the Dreamship app is entirely free.
Top Paid Apps
ConnectPOS
For an e-commerce store, accepting payments is crucial. ConnectPOS allows you to do everything related to payments. All your systems are synced in real time, and you can accept various payment methods.
Within the app, you can manage order history to improve order tracking. On the Advanced plan, you can also accept partial payments and manage quotes.
You can also control which staff members have access to the POS system. Plans start at $49/month per register.
ShipStation
ShipStation is a convenient way to connect and manage all your shipping providers, including USPS, UPS, Royal Mail, DHL Express, and more. This app allows you to process orders swiftly and select the best price carrier, and you can also easily populate postage rates and manage returns from your own portal.
ShipStation offers a 60-day free trial through its BigCommerce listing. For current plans, check ShipStation’s pricing page.
BigCommerce Insights
If you’re not a fan of Google Analytics, it can sometimes be worthwhile to simply go with the company's own native tools, namely BigCommerce. BigCommerce Insights allows you to track trends in purchases, like average order value and best-selling products.
You can identify which marketing channels bring in your highest-spending customers and where to invest less time and effort. Unfortunately, it isn’t free and starts at $49/month – with no free trial period that we can see.
B2B Ninja
B2B Ninja (formerly Quote Ninja), which BigCommerce acquired in 2022, allows your customers to easily build quotes within your site. The app has been specifically built with B2B in mind and benefits both customers and sellers. All it takes is a single click for the seller to convert a quote into an order.
Quotes can be saved and emailed in PDF format for accounting, and you can see if quotes have been opened and read or left unopened. B2B Ninja is more than just a great idea – it actually works. However, pricing plans start at $75/month, which is fairly high-end for a BigCommerce marketplace integration.
Quotilio
A cheaper option for quote building and management is Quotilio. Quotilio prices start at $15/month, and there’s a free seven-day trial available to give it a test drive. The app allows you to place a “Request Quote” button on your site, where your customers can request a custom quote. It also automatically creates a draft quote when a customer requests one. Your sales team can modify these and then send customers a direct link to the checkout.
The app also works in multiple currencies, allows you to factor the shipping method and costs into the quote, and gives the option to add discount coupon codes.
InStockNotify
InStockNotify is a very simple but effective app. When supply has run out of a particular product, the app will provide a form to the customer to enter their contact details. When the product is back in stock, the customer is emailed to alert them that it’s available for purchase once again.
The email is customizable to suit your needs, and you can monitor the performance of your emails. You’ll be able to see when emails have been sent and when they are read. You can test the app out for free for 15 days, and after that it’ll cost $18/month.
LiveChat
LiveChat is a very popular app in the BigCommerce marketplace. It gives you the ability to instantly chat with customers. Having a live chat feature is something that is highly regarded by customers – people simply don’t like making phone calls for support anymore, and email is too slow.
It may be something as simple as a question about a product, but being able to answer that instantly can mean the difference between a purchase and the customer opting out.
The app also works in reverse, with you being able to reach out to customers to make product suggestions or engage them when they first visit your site. You’ll be able to trial LiveChat for free for 14 days. After that, you pay per agent. See LiveChat’s pricing page for current plans.
DropInBlog
SEO is an important part of content marketing. Without good SEO, your store simply won’t be found, and you can’t make the sales you’re aiming for. DropInBlog allows you to manage all your content, as well as optimize for search engines far better than the native BigCommerce blogging tool.
The app has a text editor similar to WordPress, and it allows you to easily edit the meta title and meta description, as well as add alt tags to images and change the layout of your blog. In addition, it includes an automated schema markup to enhance your ranking on SERPs, and its lightweight structure means it won’t slow down your site.
Probably one of the best features of DropInBlog is the SEO Analyzer tool. This tool is built-in and assesses your content as you type. You’ll get a content score out of 100 and tips to improve your content for search engine success. It’s super easy to get started and use, and there’s a free trial. You can install it from the BigCommerce app marketplace and compare plans on our pricing page.
Shogun Page Builder
BigCommerce gives you the tools you need to build your storefront, but many simply don’t like the feel of it. The Shogun Page Builder offers a more convenient drag-and-drop page builder that requires no knowledge of code to use.
Build your entire store or use the app to quickly build landing pages and new product pages as required. There’s a range of predesigned templates to work with, and you can include a ton of elements like videos, sliders, carousels, and FAQ accordions.
The Shogun Page Builder starts at $39/month, but there’s a 10-day free trial to make the most of before you commit to paying for the app.
Rewind Backups
It’s really important to keep your store secure and all your content recoverable should the worst happen and your site is hacked and damaged. Rewind Backups automatically backs up product details, product images, themes, customer accounts, order history, and other valuable information.
Downtime as a result of a breach of security or damage to your site can cost you not only financially but also in terms of reputation. Customers are likely to be deterred by a site that’s not working or feels like it’s not secure enough to safely make payments.
With Rewind Backups, you can quickly restore your site and get back to business with minimal downtime. Pricing starts at $45/month, but you can trial the app for free for seven days.
Weglot
If you’re doing business internationally, Weglot is simply an essential app to have. Weglot will translate your entire store into over 110 languages, depending on where you do business. Translations are automated using advanced machine learning, but you can also order translations completed by a vetted professional linguist.
Translations don’t negatively affect site SEO, and you can include a language button so customers can select their desired language and switch between translations. Weglot has a limited free plan and a 14-day free trial on paid plans. See Weglot’s pricing page for current prices.
Finding the Right BigCommerce Apps for Your Store
These 15 apps are merely a drop in the ocean when it comes to what’s available in the BigCommerce marketplace. However, they’re all tried and tested. Hopefully, one or more of these will be the BigCommerce app you’re looking for.
