BigCommerce Scale
Growth’s cap passed, so Scale.
- Plan, billed yearly$299 a month at $1.32 to the pound
- £226.52
- Card feesStripe 1.5% + 20p on 400 orders
- £267.50
Total a month
£494.02
A BigCommerce
alternative
in pounds,
no sales caps.
A BigCommerce alternative in pounds: BigCommerce bills UK shops in dollars and moves you up a plan when trailing-year sales pass $30,000 and then $100,000. Orbit’s plans are in pounds with no sales caps, so a £500,000 year on Team is still £85 a month for the plan.
Team is £85 a month (£64 billed yearly), ex VAT. You change plan for features, never for sales. How switching works
Your monthly platform bill as sales grow
£85
a month on Team, whether the year is £50,000 or £500,000
BigCommerce prices and sales thresholds from bigcommerce.co.uk, checked 24 September 2026, at $1.32 to the pound, billed monthly. Scale also charges 0.9% on sales above $33,333 a month, beyond this chart. Orbit prices ex VAT. Card fees are in neither line.
| Sales in the last twelve months | BigCommerce a month | Orbit Team a month |
|---|---|---|
| £0 to £22,700 | Core, $39 a month (about £30) | £85 |
| £22,700 to £75,800 | Growth, $105 a month (about £80) | £85 |
| Over £75,800 | Scale, $399 a month (about £302) | £85 |
Every plan billed in pounds
No sales cap, the same every month
- Billed in pounds
- No sales caps on any plan
- CSV or Excel via the column mapper
- 14 days free, no card
Import from CSV or Excel
Up to 100MB, through the column mapper
A spreadsheet pass first, then the column mapper.
BigCommerce exports products, customers and orders as CSV. The product file gets a spreadsheet pass before you upload it, then the column mapper matches the columns it recognises, you set the rest, and your first product shows before anything is written.
Four columns to add
BigCommerce’s export has no Handle, Status, Is Physical or Is Taxable column, and Orbit needs all four to create a product. Add them in the spreadsheet (a product’s handle is its BigCommerce URL without the slashes) and clear the Tax Class column, so each product takes your store’s default tax class.
Variants in their own columns
BigCommerce puts each variant on a row of its own, with its options written into one cell. Orbit reads option names and values from their own columns, with the product’s handle on every variant row, so split that cell first. The sample CSV in the import dialog shows the layout.
The column mapper
Upload the CSV or Excel file, up to 100MB. Name, SKU, Price and Description match on their own; pick a field for the rest from a list and check what it guessed. It names any required field still missing, and shows your first product before anything is written.
Customers, orders and old URLs
Customers and past orders import from CSV through column mappers of their own, and each past order joins the customer with the same email address. Load your old addresses into the redirect importer before you move the domain.
Six steps, and your first bill after them is in pounds.
The product file takes the most care: shape it in a spreadsheet, import a copy on the trial and check it. Your BigCommerce store keeps trading until you move the domain.
1. Start the trial
14 days, no card. Your BigCommerce store keeps trading while you test.
2. Prepare and import products
Export products from BigCommerce as CSV, add Handle, Status, Is Physical and Is Taxable, clear the Tax Class column, and put variants in Orbit’s option columns. Upload it, check the mapped columns and the first product, then import.
3. Import customers and orders
Upload the customer and order exports and line up their columns in the mapper. Each order joins the customer with the same email address.
4. Build your pages
Pick one of our free or premium themes and shape it in the page builder, or paste your current homepage address into Nebula and it drafts sections in your colours and fonts.
5. Payments and delivery
Switch on Orbit Payments, connect PayPal if you use it, set your currencies, and print labels through Orbit Shipping or your own carrier account.
6. Redirects, then the domain
Load your old URLs into the redirect importer, point the domain in a quiet hour, and keep the BigCommerce store open for a fortnight as a reference.
Every number, next to BigCommerce’s.
BigCommerce’s figures are its own published prices, in the currency it bills in. Pound equivalents are at $1.32 to the pound on the date below.
| Orbit Commerce | BigCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing currency | Pounds | US dollars, on the UK site too |
| Entry plan | Solo £25 a month (£19 billed yearly) | Core $39 a month ($29 billed yearly), about £30 |
| Mid plan | Team £85 a month (£64 billed yearly) | Growth $105 a month ($79 billed yearly), about £80 |
| Top plan | Pro £249 a month (£187 billed yearly) | Scale $399 a month ($299 billed yearly), about £302 |
| Sales caps | None on any plan | $30,000 a year on Core and $100,000 on Growth, then an automatic upgrade; 0.9% above $33,333 a month on Scale |
| Staff accounts | 10 on Team, 40 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise, owner included | On every plan; no cap published |
| UK personal cards | 2% / 1.7% / 1.5% + 25p | Stripe’s 1.5% + 20p on standard UK cards, no BigCommerce fee |
| Payment fees | Published card rates; no surcharge; Orbit Payments (Stripe) or PayPal | $0 on embedded providers; 2% / 1% / 0.6% on other gateways |
| Segmentation | Customer segments from orders and spend, every plan | Customer groups and segmentation, Growth and above |
| Price lists | Per-company price lists on Enterprise, £999 a month | Performance plan only, from $1,499 a month |
| Extra storefronts | Several shops on one login, each on its own plan | $30 / $50 / $100 a month each, up to 3 / 5 / 8 |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 15 days |
BigCommerce prices and features checked 24 September 2026 against bigcommerce.co.uk/essentials/pricing (opens in a new tab), support.bigcommerce.com and stripe.com/gb/pricing. BigCommerce bills UK merchants in US dollars. BigCommerce is a trademark of its owner. Figures exclude VAT unless stated. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
What a good year costs on each.
A shop well past Growth’s $100,000 cap, beside the same shop on Orbit Team. Both card-fee lines are in the sum.
The sum assumes £12,500 of sales a month (about $198,000 a year at $1.32), about 400 orders, UK personal cards, yearly billing, prices ex VAT.
- BigCommerce Scale
- £494.02a month
- Orbit Team
- £376.50a month
Orbit Team
The same shop, the same cards.
- Plan, billed yearlyPriced in pounds
- £64.00
- Card feesOrbit Payments 1.7% + 25p on 400 orders
- £312.50
Total a month
£376.50
£117.52 a month less, with both card-fee lines counted.
On Orbit Pro (£187 billed yearly), UK personal cards are 1.5% + 25p and the same month totals about £475. At monthly billing Scale is $399, about £302. The rates for every other card type are on the payments page.
Plans in pounds. Change plan for features, never for sales.
No plan has a sales cap. Plans differ by seats, storage, card rates and the Enterprise extras.
Solo
Included from here£19
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Prices and checkout in more than one currency
14 days free, no card
Team
£64
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Prices and checkout in more than one currency
14 days free, no card
Pro
£187
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Prices and checkout in more than one currency
14 days free, no card
Enterprise
£749
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Prices and checkout in more than one currency
14 days free, no card
The depth BigCommerce buyers ask about.
Each card carries the exact facts, and its chips name the plans that include it.
B2B
Company accounts and per-company price lists, on Enterprise
Trade customers log in to a company account and see their own prices from a price list assigned to the company. Enterprise £999 a month (£749 billed yearly).
- Company accounts
- Per-company price lists
- Enterprise £999 a month
Pages
A page builder, with no theme framework to learn
Pages are built by dragging elements onto a theme’s templates, and a Code element takes custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Drag and drop
- Theme templates
- Code element
- Every plan
API
API keys and outbound webhooks
Store API keys and outbound webhooks for your own integrations, on every plan.
- API keys
- Outbound webhooks
- Every plan
Stock
Stock across more than one location
Inventory by location, with transfers between locations, on every plan.
- Multiple locations
- Transfers
- Every plan
Seats
10, 40 or unlimited seats
Team seats ten people, Pro 40 and Enterprise as many as you need, owner included.
- Team 10
- Pro 40
- Enterprise unlimited
Three things to know before you switch.
Enterprise
B2B
Company accounts and per-company price lists come with Enterprise at £999 a month, alongside checkout customisation, the Operations suite and a dedicated account manager.
Stripe or PayPal
Payment providers
Cards run on Orbit Payments, powered by Stripe, with PayPal alongside, and the card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included.
Several shops
One login
One login holds several shops, each on its own plan, and you switch between them from the store picker.
Pick the one that sounds like you.
Leaving BigCommerce, answered.
Dollars, caps, fees, B2B, storefronts, staff, cards, the move and how to leave again.
Three more useful pages.
B2B
Company accounts and price lists
Trade customers with their own logins and prices, on Enterprise.
See B2BInternational
More than one currency
Prices and checkout in the currencies you sell in, with a storefront switcher.
See international sellingPricing
Every plan in pounds
Solo, Team, Pro and Enterprise, monthly or yearly, and what each one includes.
See the pricing
Import your catalogue. Pay in pounds from then on.
Shape your BigCommerce export, import a copy on the trial and click round the result. Point the domain when it is right; no sales cap waits at the other end.