BigCommerce (Commerce, with Feedonomics): what it does and what it costs
In short
BigCommerce's parent company, Commerce, distributes merchants' product data to ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity through Feedonomics, and announced agentic commerce features, including agent-enabled checkout, on 30 April 2026. Merchants keep the customer relationship. The announcement names no checkout protocol and gives no prices for the agentic features.
At a glance
- What it is
- The commerce platform whose parent company distributes merchants' product data to ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity through Feedonomics and adds agent-enabled checkout.
- Type
- Web platform
- Operator
- Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC)
- Homepage
- bigcommerce.com
- Homepage check
- HTTP 200 on 5 November 2026
- Last read
- 5 November 2026
What it does for your business
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce, the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics and Makeswift, announced agentic commerce capabilities at Commerce Live 2026 on 30 April 2026.
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce said on 30 April 2026 that it distributes merchants' products across AI discovery surfaces including ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, PayPal and Stripe.
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce said it offers enriched, agent-ready product data through Feedonomics.
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce described agent-enabled checkout experiences in which merchants keep control of the customer relationship.
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce said it adds conversational search and AI-assisted shopping on the merchant's own storefront, and a merchant assistant called BigCommerce Companion.
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce said Feedonomics Surface, its self-service feed tool, now covers Microsoft Ads, TikTok and Pinterest in addition to Google and Meta.
- 30 Apr 2026
Commerce said Native Hosting for Catalyst, hosting on Cloudflare for headless storefronts, would reach open beta in summer 2026 at no additional cost.
Products and plans
| Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feedonomics | Product feed management and distribution, including to AI discovery surfaces. | No price recorded | 5 Nov 2026 | None |
| BigCommerce Companion | AI assistant for merchants' daily operations. | No price recorded | 5 Nov 2026 | None |
The site's own checks
| Check | Domain | Result | Date | Method | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare isitagentready.com keyless scan | bigcommerce.com | 20 of 100, L1 Basic Web Presence, 3 of 15 counted checks passed | Run 5 Nov 2026 | POST https://isitagentready.com/api/scan, default All Checks profile, score = passed / counted x 100 | Source |
| Ora cached score | bigcommerce.com | 71 of 100, grade B | Scanned 5 Nov 2026, read 5 Nov 2026 | GET /api/score (cached) | Source |
What it does not do
- Commerce's announcement does not name a checkout protocol such as ACP or UCP for its agent-enabled checkout.
- The announcement does not give prices for the agentic features.
Related pages on this site
Sources
- Commerce Introduces New Product Innovations Across Storefronts, B2B, Payments and AI-Driven Commerce at Commerce Live 2026 (Commerce investor news) (investors.commerce.com/news-releases/news-release-details/commerce-introduces-new-product-innovations-across-storefronts), read 5 Nov 2026.
- Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (Cloudflare, isitagentready.com) (isitagentready.com), read 5 Nov 2026.
- Ora cached score for bigcommerce.com (ora.ai/api/score/bigcommerce.com), read 5 Nov 2026.
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