{
 "categories": [
  "commerce",
  "retail",
  "saas-platform"
 ],
 "deployment": "saas",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "BigCommerce presents an open hosted commerce platform for B2C and B2B, with full API and code access and a claim of 600-plus integrations. Feedonomics and the visual editor are named as related tools.",
   "source": "https://www.bigcommerce.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "Paid Core, Growth, Scale, and Performance plans start at $29, $79, $299, and $1,499 USD per month on annual billing, with a 15-day trial. This is commercial SaaS, not a permanent free production plan.",
   "source": "https://www.bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "The product is a hosted storefront and control panel. Trial stores are real stores. This record does not treat self-hosted Catalyst as a separate identity.",
   "source": "https://www.bigcommerce.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "BigCommerce documents REST Store Management, REST Storefront, GraphQL Storefront, GraphQL Admin, GraphQL Account, Payments, Customer Login, and Current Customer APIs for apps and automation.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "REST Store Management APIs create and update products, orders, coupons, and customer accounts. REST Storefront manages carts and checkouts in the shopper session.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[1]",
   "note": "OAuth API-account tables list GraphQL Admin, GraphQL Storefront, and GraphQL Account as supported APIs beside REST. GraphQL Admin uses the same X-Auth-Token as REST management.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "App-level API accounts created in the Developer Portal use a BigCommerce-initiated grant-code OAuth flow. Each store install yields a dedicated access token from client_id, client_secret, and a temporary grant code.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "Most REST and GraphQL Admin requests authenticate with a stable access token in the X-Auth-Token header. Store-level API accounts created in Settings > Store-level API accounts include a static access_token. Legacy basic-auth API accounts are no longer issued to new stores.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Documented OAuth scopes cover carts, channels, checkouts, content, customers, fulfillment, marketing, orders, products, inventory, locations, payments, themes, translations, and B2B Edition, each with modify and read-only variants. Account-level scopes cover users and subscriptions.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "The Catalog API manages products, categories, brands, bulk pricing, brand images, and metafields over REST.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/rest-catalog",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Opened as BigCommerce's current API Accounts and authentication guide (store-level, app-level, and account-level OAuth, scopes, and X-Auth-Token examples).",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.exists",
   "note": "The authentication guide tells implementers who use official client libraries to follow that library's OAuth configuration. Legacy basic auth is contrasted with OAuth.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[0]",
   "note": "The vendor repository bigcommerce/bigcommerce-api-python is a Python client for the BigCommerce API under the BigCommerce GitHub organization.",
   "source": "https://github.com/bigcommerce/bigcommerce-api-python",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "BigCommerce documents a first-party MCP server so agents can search products, manage a shopping cart, and hand off to checkout. A store owner enables MCP Integration under Settings > Early access.",
   "source": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/api-reference/mcp/overview",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.verdict",
   "note": "B2C Storefront MCP is beta and uses a guest shopping flow; logged-in shopper auth is listed as coming soon. B2B Storefront MCP is coming soon. The server is storefront-oriented, not a merchant-admin MCP.",
   "source": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/api-reference/mcp/overview",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.third_party",
   "note": "Bounded official-registry search for bigcommerce returned zero servers on 2026-09-09. That does not prove absence of a vendor server; vendor docs separately declare the storefront MCP.",
   "source": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=bigcommerce",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.cli.exists",
   "note": "The Catalyst CLI is generally available. Commands include create, auth login, projects, channels, domains, and logs, using store hash and access token. Native Hosting remains closed beta.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/storefront/catalyst/reference/cli",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[0]",
   "note": "The API overview frames the suite as a way to create apps, automate store processes, and build headless storefronts, and points developers at the App Marketplace.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.webhooks",
   "note": "Webhooks are created at POST /v3/hooks with X-Auth-Token. Destinations are HTTPS (port 443), Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or Amazon EventBridge. Scopes include store/order/updated and catalog events. Failed destinations retry for about 48 hours.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/integrations/webhooks",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "REST and GraphQL management APIs return store data such as products, orders, and customers as JSON to authenticated API accounts.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "REST Store Management examples include adding and updating products, changing order status, creating coupons, and managing customer accounts.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "BigCommerce publishes a genuine Developer Hub llms.txt. It also points AI clients at a docs MCP at https://docs.bigcommerce.com/_mcp/server, which is documentation search, not the storefront commerce MCP.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "REST plus GraphQL, OAuth API accounts, scoped tokens, and webhooks are a broad, maintained production path. Plan GMV caps, B2B Edition entitlement, and the remaining legacy-token migration keep it at 8 rather than 9.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "The official server is a store-owner-enabled storefront beta for guest product search, cart, and checkout. That is a limited vendor preview, not merchant-admin coverage.",
   "source": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/api-reference/mcp/overview",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
   "note": "Catalyst CLI is official and generally available but scoped to Catalyst storefront projects, channels, and hosting, not arbitrary Admin REST or GraphQL execution.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/storefront/catalyst/reference/cli",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current API Accounts and authentication page.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current webhook overview, including HTTPS, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, and retry behaviour.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/integrations/webhooks",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as BigCommerce's current first-party storefront MCP overview, still labelled beta.",
   "source": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/api-reference/mcp/overview",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-09",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current About Our APIs index for REST and GraphQL families.",
   "source": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
 "freshness": {
  "last_verified": "2026-09-09",
  "volatility": "high",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/integrations/webhooks"
   },
   {
    "type": "mcp",
    "url": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/api-reference/mcp/overview"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://www.bigcommerce.com/",
 "id": "bigcommerce",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": true
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "oauth2",
    "access-token"
   ],
   "coverage": "full",
   "docs": "https://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/about",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest",
    "graphql"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": true
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "api-json"
   ],
   "import": [
    "api-json"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [
    "apps"
   ],
   "webhooks": true
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": true,
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "official"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. BigCommerce REST and GraphQL APIs, OAuth API accounts, webhooks, the official Python client, Catalyst CLI, and the storefront MCP beta cover store automation without browser control. Shopify, WooCommerce, and Adobe Commerce are outside this identity. Feedonomics and the visual editor named on the marketing homepage are related products, not this record.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": true,
   "languages": [
    "python"
   ],
   "official": true
  }
 },
 "name": "BigCommerce",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "shopify",
   "woocommerce",
   "adobe-commerce"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "BigCommerce",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 8,
   "cli": 4,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 5,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "BigCommerce is automatable today through documented REST and GraphQL APIs. This record is BigCommerce, not Shopify, WooCommerce, or Adobe Commerce. Store-level, app-level, and account-level OAuth API accounts issue client_id, client_secret, and access tokens. Most management calls use https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/{store_hash}/ with the X-Auth-Token header. App installs use a grant-code OAuth flow. REST Store Management covers catalog, orders, customers, carts, inventory, and related admin resources. GraphQL Admin and GraphQL Storefront add typed queries and mutations. OAuth scopes are granular and include read-only variants. Signed webhooks deliver HTTPS, Google Pub/Sub, or Amazon EventBridge events. BigCommerce publishes an official Python client and a Catalyst CLI for Next.js storefront projects; the CLI is not a general Admin API shell. A first-party storefront MCP server is in beta: a store owner enables it under Settings > Early access, and agents can search products, manage a guest cart, and hand off to checkout. It does not replace merchant-admin APIs. B2B storefront MCP is listed as coming soon. A bounded official-registry search for bigcommerce returned no third-party servers. Connector catalogues were not opened. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API scores 8 and is the best path. MCP scores 5 as a limited official storefront preview. CLI scores 4.\n"
 }
}