Vendure vs BigCommerce

B2B Edition approvals stop at a single step and there is no ERP call at checkout. Vendure fits when you need multi-step approvals, an ERP call at checkout built by your team, contract prices with validity dates, or the choice of region, cloud and infrastructure.

Company accounts, quotes, lists, quick order and store credit from Starter. Organization hierarchy, managed lists, packaging, gift cards and global search at Growth. Contract pricing, order approvals, the audit log, single sign-on, search analytics and the Next.js B2B storefront at Scale. Negotiation, access policy, advanced approvals, audit governance, Configurator and PunchOut at Enterprise. They are licensed capabilities rather than services you commission.

Vendure Framework is free under GPLv3. Four cumulative paid plans sit on top: Starter at €199, Growth at €599 and Scale at €2,499 a month on a 12-month term, with Enterprise from €60,000 a year. Each plan inherits the one below, and there is no GMV charge, per-order surcharge or per-user fee, so growing revenue does not reprice the platform.

Yes. Vendure Framework is a complete open-source commerce framework under GPLv3, written in TypeScript on Node.js with GraphQL Shop and Admin APIs. It is free to run and self-host, and the licence cannot be revoked or discontinued for you. The commercial B2B capabilities are separately licensed plugins layered on top of the Framework. Every paid plan also includes a commercial licence for Vendure Framework for your project, as an alternative to GPLv3.

Your team or an official Vendure partner self-hosts it on any cloud or on-premises, in any region, with your data in your own SQL database. That is what makes EU-mandated and otherwise regulated deployments possible today. Vendure Cloud, our managed hosting, opens as a closed beta for paid plans, with general availability planned for Q1 2027. Each paid plan will include a base set of Cloud resources, and usage above that is billed on top.

Yes. Contract pricing and standard approval policies (single-level) arrive with the Scale plan. Chains the standard policies cannot express use advanced approvals on Enterprise, with multiple levels, timeouts and delegation, alongside negotiation, access policy, Configurator and PunchOut (cXML). Contract prices carry the dates they start and stop applying.

On Vendure, nothing. The paid plans are a flat monthly fee, and Enterprise a flat annual one. There are no GMV allowances, no automatic upgrades when you cross a revenue band, no fee per order and no payment-provider fee, so the platform line in your budget does not move when trading volume does.