Waise vs BigCommerce
BigCommerce is built for stores growing into large operations, and its plans move up with yearly sales caps. Waise is for small and mid-size stores: one flat plan from $29 a month, 0% of your sales, and your plan doesn’t rise because you sold more. Choose BigCommerce for enterprise needs, and Waise for a flat price.
BigCommerce is built for stores growing into big operations. On Waise, your plan doesn’t go up because you sold more.
Where BigCommerce is better
- Large operations BigCommerce offers a Performance plan for enterprise, from $1,499 a month billed yearly, with custom integrations and dedicated success managers.
- No fee with embedded providers With its embedded payment providers there is no BigCommerce fee, on any plan.
- Channels and feeds BigCommerce has its own tools for feeds and sales channels, like Feedonomics.
- Track record Waise is new and small. If years of track record, an agency network and a huge app market matter most to you, they are ahead of us.
Where Waise is better
- Your plan isn’t tied to your sales On BigCommerce, Core fits up to $30K in yearly sales and auto-upgrades to Growth, and Growth to $100K. Scale has a cap of $33,333 a month, with 0.9% on sales above it. On Waise, plans differ by monthly quotas of Pulse, shopper chats and email, and a sale is never blocked.
- Any processor, no fee On BigCommerce, orders through an “open” payment provider carry a monthly fee that varies by plan. On Waise there is no fee, with your own Stripe or PayPal.
- What others sell as apps is included Reviews, bundles, cart upsell, abandoned carts, a customer club and email, in the plan: what you would otherwise buy as Judge.me, Kaching Bundles and the like.
- Pulse acts end to end Pulse acts inside your store, with a preview and undo, and every tool is included in the price.
- Leave with everything Cancel anytime, and take your products, customers and orders with you in files.
The prices, side by side
On Waise: Basic $29 · Growth $59 · Pro $129 · Company $299 a month. 0% fees and no per-order fee, on every plan. Your plan is never tied to your sales.
- Core $39 a month billed monthly ($29 billed yearly). Up to $30K in yearly sales, then the plan moves up.
- Growth $105 a month billed monthly ($79 billed yearly). Up to $100K in yearly sales, then the plan moves up.
- Scale $399 a month billed monthly ($299 billed yearly). Up to $33,333 a month in sales, then 0.9% on sales above that.
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Card processing through PayPal Braintree on BigCommerce starts at 2.89% + $0.29 per transaction, on every plan. Sales are counted over the trailing 12 months.
Sources
- bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing Official price list, including the sales caps and fees. Checked on Nov 8, 2026.
The online store that runs itself, with brakes
- AI that acts, with brakes. Pulse changes orders, prices, discounts and content from one conversation. A sensitive change first shows a before-and-after card and waits for your approval, and almost any change can be undone.
- Your money is protected on the server, not by a promise. Anything touching money needs a confirmation tied to the exact values you saw, and the margin guard blocks a price below your minimum, even when an outside AI asks for it.
- Profit, not just sales. An order counts only once your payment provider confirms the money, and profit is worked out after fees, shipping, cost of goods and refunds.
- Open to your own AI. Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini connect to your store over MCP and pass through exactly the same brakes.
- Five ways to build, one system behind them. A ready theme, designing by chat with Pulse, your own code, outside builders like Lovable or Webflow, or your own AI. Checkout, orders, customers and money stay in one place.
- 0% of your sales. One flat monthly plan. When your store grows, our cut doesn’t, because there isn’t one.
- Built by someone who sold. Or Avrahami, a practical electronics and computer engineer, ran an online store on Shopify and built what that store needed. That became Waise.
Updated
Written and checked by Or Avrahami, Founder of Waise ·
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