RocketXRocketX vs BigCommerce B2B Edition
BigCommerce is a capable hosted platform and its B2B Edition adds real wholesale machinery. The thing to understand before you commit is that the plan is tiered by how much you sell, and that crossing a threshold moves you whether you wanted the features or not.
What BigCommerce B2B Edition genuinely does well
A strong hosted platform with no transaction fees of its own, a large app ecosystem, and B2B Edition bringing genuine wholesale features — company accounts, quoting, net terms, purchase orders, a buyer portal and multi-tier pricing — as native functionality rather than bolted-on apps. It stands up quickly and it is well supported.
The documented edges
- Your plan is tiered by annual online sales. The published tiers carry sales thresholds — roughly $50k, $180k and $400k before Enterprise — and crossing yours moves you to a costlier tier automatically, whether or not you need anything it adds. Growth itself triggers the increase.Source: Folio3 — BigCommerce pricing and plan thresholds
- Enterprise is quote-only and scales with you. Above those tiers the price is negotiated, and it scales with GMV, storefront count and complexity rather than sitting still.Source: Costbench — BigCommerce Enterprise pricing
- The wholesale tools are a separate purchase. B2B Edition is an add-on bought on top of the platform, so the quoting and net-terms machinery a wholesaler actually needs is a second line item, not part of the plan you were quoted.Source: WizCommerce — BigCommerce pricing and the B2B add-on
- Implementation is the number that moves. B2B Edition builds are commonly quoted in the $150k–$400k range once integration and front-end work are included — several times the platform fee in year one.Source: Costbench — BigCommerce implementation cost
Take these three questions to their demo
- What is our annual sales threshold, and what does the bill become the month we cross it?
- What does B2B Edition cost on top of the platform, and is that price fixed for the term?
- What is the all-in implementation quote, including the ERP integration?
The two shapes, side by side
| BigCommerce B2B Edition | RocketX | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence basis | Tiered by annual online sales; crossing a threshold moves the tier | Flat monthly fee, published, never a percentage of revenue |
| Buyer mobile | Web buyer portal | Web app in any browser plus native iOS & Android, catalogue cached offline |
| Wholesale features | B2B Edition, bought on top of the platform | Unlimited seats on every plan — staff, reps, and your customers’ people |
| Your web shop | Is the platform — it replaces it | Your web shop keeps running — RocketX goes live beside it |
| Trying it | A quote, then an implementation project | 4–6 week pilot with agreed measures — miss them, walk away owing nothing |
Where RocketX pulls ahead
- A true native app experience: iOS and Android apps built for B2B ordering — not a website wrapped in a shell.
- One cart on every surface: a full web app in any browser on any computer or device, plus the native apps — the same server-side cart everywhere, cached on the device and synced back the moment the connection returns.
- Rich media where the order happens: print brochures as PDFs and product video live beside the catalogue — and still open with no signal.
- Barcode scanning into the cart: point at the shelf or the box and the line is in the order.
- Quality checks before the order leaves: the cart flags recent duplicates and attributes every change to a name and a timestamp.
- Implemented by the people who built it: RocketX sets the platform up for you directly — no agency in between, no agency fees, no hand-offs where quality slips, and support from the team that knows the code.
- Orders come together faster: search answers under a second at your real catalogue size, and the whole team builds one cart at once — the pilot measures the difference on your own numbers.
Where they are the right choice
Choose BigCommerce B2B Edition if you want one hosted platform for retail and wholesale together, you are comfortable with a tier that follows your sales, and you have budget for the implementation. Plenty of businesses fit that — and they are not the ones we are built for.
The way to settle it is not a comparison page — ours included. It is a 4–6 week pilot against your own catalogue, with measures agreed up front. If the pilot misses them, you walk away owing nothing.
Get My Custom Quote See the flat pricing Business case (PDF)Competitor information verified against the linked sources in August 2026; platforms change, and if anything here has gone stale, tell us and we will correct it. Also compared: Shopify B2B · Pepperi · Sana Commerce · B2B Wave · OroCommerce · Adobe Commerce B2B · StoreHippo.