Why Choose ThirtyBees?
If you’ve outgrown the limitations of Big Cartel or need more advanced eCommerce tools, ThirtyBees offers a powerful, flexible, and open-source alternative. While Big Cartel is designed for small-scale sellers, ThirtyBees is built to grow with your business, offering customizable features, no transaction fees, and the freedom to scale as needed.
Whether you’re just starting or expanding, ThirtyBees is the ideal platform for merchants looking to take control of their eCommerce journey.
Why is ThirtyBees Better?
Scalable Solution for Growing Businesses
Big Cartel is primarily designed for small businesses with limited scalability options. ThirtyBees is a full-featured, scalable platform designed to grow with your business, whether you’re starting small or already established.
Complete Customization and Control
Big Cartel offers limited customization options, restricting your ability to create a unique brand experience. ThirtyBees is an open-source platform, which gives you full access to the code, enabling complete control over design and functionality.
No Transaction Fees
Big Cartel charges transaction fees on all sales, which can quickly add up as you scale. ThirtyBees never charges transaction fees, meaning more of your hard-earned revenue stays in your pocket.
Feature-Rich Without Extra Costs
Big Cartel offers basic features with many limitations and additional costs for advanced functionality. Packed with powerful built-in features, ThirtyBees eliminates the need for costly third-party apps or integrations.
Transparent and Predictable Costs
Big Cartel’s monthly subscription plans can vary, and fees are added for higher-tier features. ThirtyBees offers transparent pricing with no hidden fees, allowing for easier budgeting and growth planning.
Optimized for Performance
Big Cartel may not offer the best performance for larger catalogs or high-volume traffic. ThirtyBees is optimized for speed and stability, ensuring your store performs well even as it scales.
Ownership and Data Control
As a cloud-based solution, you don’t have full ownership of your store’s data with Big Cartel. Being self-hosted, ThirtyBees gives you complete ownership of your data, ensuring it remains private and secure.
Merchant-Focused Support
Big Cartel’s support is basic and may not address all your eCommerce needs. ThirtyBees is backed by a dedicated, merchant-focused community offering real-time support and valuable resources.
Community-Driven Security Enhancements
Security updates and enhancements are solely managed by Big Cartels’s internal team, which may result in slower response times to emerging threats. The active community surrounding ThirtyBees contributes to rapid identification and resolution of security issues, ensuring timely updates and patches.
Features to empower your business
Responsive Design
thirty bees is built on bootstrap allowing it to work flawlessly on all devices.
One Page Checkout
Choose between a one step checkout and a five step checkout.
Security Minded
Secure out of the box to protect your customer’s data.
Speed Optimized
Optimized to be the fastest possible full featured ecommerce software.
Modular Design
Designed to use modules to quickly and easily to extend functionality
Quick Launcher
Launch thirty bees with just the click of a few buttons.
SEO Focused
thirty bees has everything needed to outrank your competition
Multiple Site Support
Run multiple web sites from the same admin panel
Multiple Currency Support
Support any currencies your business needs to use including crypto
Customer Service
Strong customer service manager to handle customer interactions
PDF Invoices
Beautiful PDF invoices, delivery slips, and other documents for your orders.
File Manager
Manage all of your uploaded files through the file manager.
Multiple Language Support
Great internationalization and language support to better localize.
Powerful Filtering
Filter from products, stock, attributes, or features to easily show products.
Clean Admin Interface
Clean and powerful administration panel to manage your site.