minimum product Requirements

Hey Daniel! I have good news for you. 🙂 To answer your questions directly:

1. Correct, only product data is stored in WP.
2. Correct, no customer or order data is stored in WP.
3. The plugin follows the normal WP template hierarchy and comes with a complete set of templates. Additionally, page builders like Elementor work great. Beaver Builder is in the process of building in custom support, so you can build and save templates.
4. The only part that you don’t have full control over is the embedded iframe of the checkout. Because it’s an iframe it’s harder to style. That said, as the developer you’re able to inject JS and CSS into the iframe, so you can do quite a bit. It’s just different.
5. Customer logins are synced between BC and WP. If a NEW customer creates an account then it’s created both in WP and BC. If an existing customer logs into WP for the first time, they auth against BC and a WP account is magically created for them. That said, the ONLY user data stored in WP is standard WP data, there aren’t any custom fields holding BC data.
6. Search is NOT done on BC, it’s in WP. I know the default search is miserable, so we’ve coordinated with SearchWP to have custom BC support, so you can get really solid BC support with weighted search, sort by relevance, etc.

Bonus info: We’ve worked with FacetWP for excellent faceted search and also WP Rocket for caching, both have built-in BC support.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

5. No special BC userdata is stored in WP. So there’d be an email address sync, but only because standard WP requires an email address for each user. A user can log into WordPress and go to an Account page and see their own BC data, but it’s pulled via API, so it’s still not stored in WP.

6. I did some general testing with SearchWP and was happy with the results, but it wasn’t a scientific test with benchmarks or anything. The developer of SearchWP is very responsive and could probably answer more questions.

We currently release a new version very 3 weeks, so there’s constant development with new features and bug fixes. The github repo is open, so you could check it out and watch how things progress. https://github.com/bigcommerce/bigcommerce-for-wordpress/

We’re also very open to feature requests, so if there’s something you need please let us know.

1. It should, but I need to research to be sure.
2. In WordPress, user groups aren’t functioning yet. It’s on our roadmap, and the user group data is exposed in the API, and even pulled into WordPress, so if you need something soon a developer could probably make things work great.
3. This would also need some custom work because the checkout is on a different domain. That said, it wouldn’t be that hard, the Cart API is quite powerful.
4. I know it works with Weglot, and it SHOULD work with WPML just fine.
5. My testing shows no, but it would be a good feature request.