The eCommerce landscape is evolving. Quickly! For businesses looking to stay ahead of their competition and capturing as many sales as possible, having your store on the right platform is critical. Shopify’s Summer 2025 Edition, announced in May, introduces over 150 updates that make it the most logical choice for online retailers. With the holiday shopping season approaching, now is the perfect time to consider migrating from BigCommerce to Shopify in order to take advantage of all these new features.
While BigCommerce is a solid platform, Shopify’s latest release, which includes an all new Horizon theme, enhanced AI capabilities, and even more integrations, make it the logical choice for growing your business. Of course, partnering with Your Store Wizards can ensure a smooth, worry-free transition.
Shopify’s Summer 2025 Edition: A Game-Changer for eCommerce
Shopify’s Summer 2025 Edition, dubbed “Horizon,” introduces features designed to simplify operations, enhance customer experiences, and boost conversions. Here are our top 3 highlights that make migrating to Shopify a no-brainer:
- Horizon Theme Foundation: Shopify’s new Horizon theme offers ten conversion-optimized designs tailored for various industries, from fashion to electronics. With modular Theme Blocks, merchants can drag, drop, and customize storefronts without coding. You can start with a preset design or use Shopify’s AI to generate a unique theme based on your brand description. This flexibility ensures your store looks professional and aligns with your vision, all while maintaining fast load times for high conversion rates.
- Advanced AI with Sidekick: Shopify’s AI-powered assistant, Sidekick, has been upgraded with multi-step reasoning, enabling it to analyze complex business data like inventory, marketing campaigns, and sales trends. It now supports 20 languages, voice chat, and even screen-sharing on the Shopify mobile app. Sidekick can generate images, create customer segments, and even set up discount codes, giving you insights to optimize your store.
- Enhanced Checkout: Shopify’s Checkout Blocks app enables customizations like minimum/maximum order values and gift card integrations without coding. These features enhance the shopping experience, reduce cart abandonment, and cater to both retail and B2B customers, and are perfect for rolling out ahead of the holiday season.
BigCommerce: A Strong Platform, But Lagging Behind
BigCommerce remains a reliable eCommerce platform and is a great choice for businesses with complex product catalogs or those needing B2B functionality. However, BigCommerce’s updates are less frequent and less substantial than Shopify’s Summer 2025 Edition. While BigCommerce offers customization, its theme editor is not as intuitive or advanced as Shopify’s Horizon theme and Sidekick.
Shopify powers over 1.7 million businesses worldwide, making it the leading eCommerce platform. Unlike BigCommerce, Shopify’s frequent updates ensure merchants stay ahead of industry trends, making it the ideal platform for growth-oriented businesses. Not to mention, their app store offers thousands more apps for just about anything you can dream of for your Shopify store.
Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Switch
The 2025 holiday shopping season is fast approaching, and consumer spend is expected to be higher than ever. Migrating now allows you to implement these new Shopify features before the holiday rush, ensuring your store is optimized for conversions and ready to handle increased traffic. Waiting risks missing out on peak sales opportunities and falling behind competitors already leveraging Shopify’s innovations – aka, your competition.
Migrating to a new platform can feel daunting, but Your Store Wizards specializes in seamless migrations from BigCommerce to Shopify. Our expert team can handle every aspect of the process, including:
- Data Migration: We ensure your products, customer data, and order history are transferred accurately and securely, minimizing downtime.
- Horizon Theme Integration: Choose from Shopify’s ten new Horizon themes or let us customize one to match your brand’s unique look, ensuring a professional, conversion-focused storefront.
- Custom Design: For a truly unique look, we can create a bespoke Shopify store tailored to your business, leveraging the latest Theme Blocks and AI tools for a standout design.
With Your Store Wizards, you’ll have a partner to guide you through the migration process, ensuring your store is ready for the holiday season and beyond. Let us handle the heavy lifting, from data migration to custom design, so you can focus on growing your brand. If you’re ready to make the switch and unlock the full potential of your eCommerce store with Shopify, simply email us at support@yourstorewizards.com to set up a time to chat. We’ll go over everything you should consider during a migration and even set you up with a Shopify trial store, that’s free to use unless you take it live, that you can use to kick the tires and see how it compares to BigCommerce.
The holidays are right around the corner, contact us today!
Scott Sanfilippo began his eCommerce journey in 1994 by co-founding one of the Internet’s first online retailers, TheFerretStore.com, which was acquired by PetCo in 2006. In 2001, he co-founded the eCommerce design and marketing firm Solid Cactus, which was acquired by web.com in 2009. Today, Scott is the General Manager of Your Store Wizards and lives in Delray Beach, FL. Scott can be contacted at scott@yourstorewizards.com.