The Affiliate Alternative to BigCommerce
Affiliate Commerce Without BigCommerce Pricing
BigCommerce charges by tier and your plan auto-upgrades as your revenue grows. FreshStore is flat-price, built for affiliate storefronts, and ignores how much commission you earn.
- Pricing model
- Flat
- Scales with revenue
- Affiliate-first
- Yes
- No
- Marketplaces
- 5 built-in
- Manual
The short version
BigCommerce is enterprise retail: inventory, shipping carriers and revenue-tiered pricing. None of that applies to an affiliate store. FreshStore is flat-priced and affiliate-first.
How We Stack Up
Everything included. One flat price.
No monthly app fees. No hosting bill. No hiring a content writer. Every tool you need to launch an affiliate site, bundled together.
| FreshStore | BigCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | from $30/mo, all in | $39 to $399/mo + add-ons |
| Built for affiliate stores | no (inventory retail) | |
| Marketplace product feeds | 5 built-in | no (manual) |
| AI writes your content | ||
| Annual revenue limit before plan upgrade | None | Yes (triggers forced upgrades) |
| Setup time | ~10 min | Hours + store build |
- FreshStore
- from $30/mo, all in
- BigCommerce
- $39 to $399/mo + add-ons
- FreshStore
- ✓
- BigCommerce
- no (inventory retail)
- FreshStore
- 5 built-in
- BigCommerce
- no (manual)
- FreshStore
- ✓
- BigCommerce
- ✗
- FreshStore
- None
- BigCommerce
- Yes (triggers forced upgrades)
- FreshStore
- ~10 min
- BigCommerce
- Hours + store build
Why Switch
Why choose FreshStore over BigCommerce
- Flat pricing. Your plan does not auto-upgrade when commissions grow.
- Built for affiliate income, not for managing a warehouse and shipping carriers.
- Five marketplace feeds work out of the box. No building custom integrations.
- AI content writer included. BigCommerce leaves this to you or to paid apps.
When BigCommerce is the better pick
Different tools fit different businesses. Stay with BigCommerce if any of these describe you.
- You hold inventory and need enterprise ecommerce features
- Your team builds on its APIs and multi-channel tooling
- Retail selling, not affiliate commissions, is your core business
What members say, and the year they said it
What FreshStore users say
"I've now built more than 30 sites with FreshStore. It's the only product I've tried that actually works for building affiliate stores. I even list my own products alongside Amazon's, so I get paid twice. Once for the sale, then again as an affiliate."
"I have been with Fresh Labs almost from the beginning, 12 years I think. Carey Baird is one of very few netpreneurs who have developed software and continuously updated it and kept up with the times. Especially now with the advent of AI. Absolutely wonderful product."
"Business in a box with so many features. Newbies can build a store in 1 day easily."
Common questions about BigCommerce vs FreshStore
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