Storefront

Overview

Discover the full capabilities of BigCommerce's storefront platform. Whether you're using Stencil, our hosted storefront, going headless, or integrating into your CMS, we have jumping off points to streamline your development.

Kickstart your storefront build

Lower time-to-launch by by using storefront themes and starters we've built.

Move fast with a customized Stencil theme

Looking to launch quickly? Start by modifying Cornerstone, the default theme for our built-in storefront framework, Stencil.

Hosted by BigCommerce
Multi-storefront compatible

Go headless with our composable Catalyst framework

Fast track your build with Catalyst's fully customizable UI kit and comprehensive GraphQL Storefront API client, optimized for Next.js and React Server Components

Bring your own host
Headless

Scale your WordPress store with BigCommerce for WordPress

Already using WordPress? We built BC4WP to help brands selling on WordPress scale their ecomm sites by replacing performance hungry plugins with the advanced capabilities and security of BigCommerce.

Bring your own host
CMS integration
Multi-storefront compatible

Want to build a storefront with technologies you don't see here?

Check out the our tools and resources section for more options from BigCommerce, our partners, and our developer community.

View more headless storefront options

Extend a storefront

Leverage our APIs to craft unique experiences within any storefront tech stack.

GraphQL Storefront API

Use GraphQL for custom shopping experiences, efficiently querying all the data to render each part of the experience to effectively move shoppers through their journey, from cart to checkout.

Widgets

Create reusable content blocks for storefront pages, accessible for edits by non-technical users.

Multi-storefront

Maintain multiple sites while centrally configuring a distinct look, feel, and pricing configuration for each shopping experience.

Create a custom checkout experience with our APIs and SDKs

When you need to go beyond our standard cart and checkout settings, we give you the ability to build your own.

Cart and checkout overview

Build a custom storefront

Want to start from scratch? We'll show you how our platform can do that too.

Guide to Headless Commerce

Learn about which pieces of our platform will be used if you build a completely custom storefront from the ground up, along with examples and existing headless starters you can use as a reference.

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