BigCommerce website maintenance and store management
BigCommerce website maintenance is the ongoing work of keeping a BigCommerce store fast, secure, and revenue ready: Stencil theme updates staged in a preview channel, app and API health checks, checkout and payment gateway monitoring, script manager audits, and same day product and category edits. Our BigCommerce care starts at $149 a month because a store losing checkout for an hour loses more than a year of maintenance costs.
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What we do every month on your BigCommerce site
Runs whether you asked for anything or not. Reported back to you in plain language.
- Stencil theme updates built locally, pushed to a preview channel, then applied live after your sign off
- Checkout, payment gateway, and webhook monitoring with a human on the alert
- Script Manager audit so tracking tags stop dragging your storefront speed down
- Product, category, variant, and modifier setup, plus bulk imports when a catalogue changes
- Catalog and Storefront API health checks for headless and integrated builds
- Weekly reporting through November and December instead of monthly
How we work inside BigCommerce
- •We work from a limited permission user account. You own the store, we do the work.
- •Every theme change lands on a preview channel URL you can click before anything goes live.
- •For headless stores we cover the WordPress or Next front end and the BigCommerce API layer together, so nobody gets to blame the other side.
- •We track BigCommerce API deprecation notices and migrate your integrations before the old endpoints are switched off.
What counts as an "edit" on BigCommerce
Edits are what you request. Management is what we run in the background. Here's what a typical edit looks like on this platform.
- New products, variants, modifiers, and categories
- Landing pages built from your existing Stencil sections
- Header, footer, and navigation changes
- Promotion, coupon, and banner setup
- Page Builder widget additions from your style guide
- Customer group and price list adjustments for B2B stores
BigCommerce care plans
Market benchmark: $250 to $600 a month for base upkeep, $600 to $2,000 a month with edits, hourly work at $95 to $200 an hour. BigCommerce partner agencies price higher than the Shopify market because Stencil and API work needs a developer, not a theme editor. Most quote a five hour monthly minimum.
Store Care
$149 /mo
- Stencil theme and app updates in a preview channel
- Checkout and payment gateway monitoring
- Monthly speed and conversion report
Store Care + Edits
$299 /mo
- Everything in Store Care
- 3 hours of edits a month
- New product, category, and variant setup
Commerce Scale
$599 /mo
- Everything in Store Care + Edits
- 8 hours of edits plus landing pages
- Priority one hour emergency response
30 day money back. Month to month. Cancel anytime.
BigCommerce maintenance FAQ
How much do BigCommerce website maintenance services cost?+
The honest market range is $250 to $600 a month for base store care and $600 to $2,000 a month once a monthly edit block is included. Our Store Care plan starts at $149 a month because we run a managed fleet rather than one off retainers. Hourly BigCommerce developers run $95 to $200 an hour, which gets expensive the moment you need more than one change a month.
Do you work with Stencil themes and custom code?+
Yes. We build Stencil changes locally with the CLI, push them to a preview channel, and only apply them to the live channel after you approve. Custom handlebars templates and front matter changes are covered from Store Care upward.
Can you support a headless BigCommerce store?+
Yes, and it is the setup we see most often with WordPress. We look after the storefront, the Catalog and Storefront API calls, the caching layer, and the checkout redirect as one system, so a broken product feed does not turn into a two vendor argument.
What happens if checkout breaks?+
Checkout is monitored every five minutes with a real cart and a real gateway response check. When it fails, an engineer is paged, not a ticket queue. Commerce Scale carries a one hour response target, and every plan includes a written root cause note after the fix.
Can you migrate us from BigCommerce to WooCommerce, or the other way?+
Yes. We migrate catalogues, customers, orders, and URLs with a one to one redirect map so search rankings survive the move. It is quoted per project, and we will tell you honestly when staying put is the cheaper answer.
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